It is said that Shanghainese people love sweets the most, Shantou people are the first to disobey, Chaoshan area is not only sweet,but also good at cooking desserts.
Not to mention the sugar onion pancakes, duck mother twist, spring rolls, paste roasted white fruit, taro puree and other dessert snacks, that is, tofu flowers and grass kway, but also be sure to pour white sugar or ginger sugar juice, a mouthful into the throat, sweet and smooth.
There are also sweet noodles, fried noodles into sweet, I believe that many local foodies have never heard of it. Even the rice dumplings of the Shantou people are salty and sweet.
In the salty rice dumplings, sweet and sweet and fragrant with sweet and fragrant leaves are shiitake mushrooms, glutinous rice, meat, quail egg flavor, bean paste and the faint aroma of the leaves.
Among the many sweets in Shantou, the most popular is probably the anti-sand sweet potato taro, and even such a simple ingredient as sweet potato taro can turn decay into magic and become a must-have dessert for the feast on the tall.
Taro and sweet potato, two crops widely cultivated in the Chaoshan region, are both food crops of non-Chinese origin. With the change of times, the status of sweet potatoes and taro as a staple food has gradually degenerated into a daily cooking ingredient.
The Chaoshan people's love of taro and sweet potato is reflected in daily life, and many snacks and delicacies have these two figures. But if there is a dish that can perfectly combine the two, it is anti-sand sweet potato taro.
Legend has it that the origin of the potato is traced back to the Yuan Dynasty, when the Teochew people called the Yuan Bing Yuan Fan. After the Yuan soldiers invaded Chaozhou, in order to consolidate their rule, they implemented the joint household system, that is, three families and one guarantee, and every three families provided for one Yuanfan, allowing Yuanfan to sleep in which house at will.
What is even more intolerable is that whoever marries a daughter-in-law, the bride is only allowed to sleep with Yuan Bing the night before. The people could not bear it any longer and met to kill Yuan Fan on the night of August 15. As a result, overnight, the heinous Yuan soldiers were slaughtered.
The people were still angry, and they took the taro as the head of Yuan Fan, cut it into strips, put it into oil and fry it, after fishing it, add some sugar, and after using it to worship the moon lady, eat it! to relieve the hatred in the heart. This has become a common practice, and in modern times, it has become anti-sand potato.
Anti-sand yam is a traditional famous spot in the Chaoshan region and belongs to Teochew cuisine. Seemingly simple, it is actually a test of technology, the key point is the boiling of syrup, to determine whether it can be anti-sand.
The so-called anti-sand is to melt the white sugar into a syrup and put it into the fried ingredients, let it cool and solidify, and the syrup wrapped in the outer layer of the ingredients becomes white frost, in the Chaoshan snacks, the taro and sweet potato are often placed on the same plate, because of its gold and silver colors and the "golden pillar silver pillar" reputation.
Cut taro and sweet potatoes in cubes, fry in oil and set aside. Then make the "sugar mortar": add sugar, orange peel and green onion to the water to boil, you need to control the ratio of sugar to water, and then fry the syrup until it is full of foam.
Add the fried taro and stir-fry until both are covered with white frost and the syrup is gone, and then it can be served. Sweet taro and golden potatoes, wrapped in a slightly hard sugar sand shell, still have a slight orange aroma, and can be eaten while hot.
The surface of the anti-sand taro is hard, and when bitten in, it reveals the fragrant stickiness of the potato and taro, and the sugar-coated shell of these two gradually dissolves in the mouth, giving the taster another sweet taste. The proportion of anti-sand sweet potatoes generally controlling golden potatoes is greater than that of taro, more because sweet potatoes are more popular and not greasy than taro.
The sweet potatoes and taro that are deeply popular in Chaoshan can also be combined with other dishes to form other Chaoshan specialties such as sweet soup with golden potato taro and baked sweet potato taro, but remember that such matching dishes can be ordered on the table, because it is easy to eat greasy and full.