In traditional Chinese customs, the New Year Festival is an important activity day, the Annual Festival or regular or irregular, with its specific theme activities, conventions and generations of inheritance, these activities are inseparable from food. Spring Festival is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, popular throughout the country, the Spring Festival activities are rich and colorful, different from place to place, but the custom of Chinese New Year's Eve meal is indispensable for every household.
Chinese New Year's Eve meals, the most grand and complex activities of the Spring Festival. On the last day of each year, every household eats the New Year's dinner, and unlike usual, this meal is a reunion meal and a party meal. Needless to say, the dishes on the Chinese New Year's Eve rice are rich, and many people cannot fully grasp the various reasons, dumplings, rice cakes, fish, elbows, chicken, large meat, etc. can not be less.
Elbow is an indispensable ingredient in Chinese New Year's Eve meals, chicken and fish elbow meat is indispensable in the traditional Chinese festival menu, and the ancient pig has the meaning of symbolizing wealth. The front and back hooves of the pig, the front elbow meat is more and the back elbow tendon skin is more, cut off under the skeleton [jiè], the skin is thick and tendons, there is a cylindrical flesh inside, the quality is old and strong, and the glue juice is more. Elbows are suitable for brine, boiling, sauce, grilled, stewed, braised, white-boiled, etc. The elbow contains more protein, especially a lot of collagen, and the same as the meat skin, it is a good food treatment product that makes the skin plump, moisturizing, and fattening the body. Pork knuckle tastes sweet and salty, flat, has the effect of blood veins, moisturizing skin, filling kidney essence, and strengthening waist and feet.
Goji berries, black beans, red dates, lotus seeds, rock sugar, and cinnamon balls are mostly warm ingredients, and the design of the dishes should be more warm food. This dish is a famous dish in Henan, the color of the dish is rosy and beautiful, the taste is delicious and delicious, and the rosy color comes from the natural color of goji berries, black beans and red dates stewed for a long time. Dishes have the effect of tonifying the liver and kidneys, strengthening the muscles and bones, and prolonging life.
The dish is also related to the allusion of "Worrying about the Heavens", during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, when there was an old man in the Qiguo (present-day Qixian County, Henan), because he was worried that the sky would fall, so he was worried about eating all day long, and his body gradually weakened. His good friend Wang Liang was very anxious to see it, and in addition to telling the old man that the sky would not fall, he also made a special elbow. The old man saw the appetite and was greatly encouraged, and after eating it, he was happy and quickly recovered his health after eating.
Ingredients: 1 elbow (1500 g)
Ingredients: goji berries, cinnamon balls each 10 grams, rock sugar 50 grams, black beans, lotus seeds, red dates 50 grams each, green onion, ginger and garlic 30 grams each, vinegar 75 grams, soy sauce 100 grams, dark soy sauce 3 grams, salt 50 grams, large ingredients 10 grams, fragrant leaves 5 grams.
make:
1, elbow to clean the pig hair, clean, put into the pot of cold water to cook, beat the foam clean and continue to cook for about 10 minutes, fish out, scrape clean, put into the saucepan for later;
2: Wash the goji berries, black beans, red dates, lotus seeds and cinnamon balls, soak them in a bowl for 20 minutes, and pour the water into the saucepan.
3: Bring the saucepan to a boil, add the large ingredients, fragrant leaves, green onion, ginger and garlic, vinegar, soy sauce, rock sugar, soy sauce and bring to a boil, change the heat to simmer slowly, about 2 hours until the flesh is crispy.