In the northeast, there is no "chaotic stew"!
As a native of Northeast China, I have never eaten "chaotic stew" in this black land of Northeast China.
I remember the first time I heard about this dish, when I left Tohoku to go to college. I went out to dinner with my classmates, and in order to take care of me, a northeasterner who had left my hometown, I specially ordered a "chaotic stew".
At that time, I was confused! what? What's the stew? What's the stew? ......
At that time, I was despised by a table of "non-Northeasterners", why hasn't this northeasterner with a red seedling yet eaten a stew?
The so-called "messy stew"
I felt inexplicably wronged.
When the so-called "Northeast Stew" was served, ahhh! It's a pot of "smorgasbord", eggplant, potatoes, beans, green peppers, vermicelli, fungus, persimmons, as well as pork belly and pork ribs, filling a large pot.
Which ingredients are liked by northeasterners, but they can be stewed together, but they are a mess, saying that it is unpalatable and not difficult to eat where to go, saying that it is delicious and there is really nothing delicious.
The portion of a large basin full of "Northeast style" is very "Northeast Style", but how to look awkward, I only feel that there is a sense of "appearance and separation" with Northeast stew.
Chicken stew with mushrooms
Northeast cuisine stew is quite famous, seemingly rough, but in fact, it pays a lot of attention, is it comparable to what kind of chaotic stew?
It is the most representative of the Northeast stew.
There is an old saying in the northeast: "When the aunt comes to the door, the chicken will break the soul." Recruit the mother-in-law's rare aunt to the door, sit on the hot ass of the kang, eat a pot of fragrant chicken stewed mushrooms, and then drink a sip of shochu with the husband, that is called a enjoyment!
The stupid chicken that is killed now is fragrant!
Don't look at this stew, it is not a chicken stew, and if you put some noodles, it is a serious "chicken stewed mushroom"!
Chicken stew with mushrooms, to use freshly killed small stupid chicken (that is, chai chicken, walking chicken), frozen meat and broiler chicken are not advisable. If you take the chicken legs of two broilers, I advise you to stop cooking!
Little stupid chicken, to soak in blood water, do not blanch water! Blanched chicken becomes woody, loses its elasticity, and loses the smooth texture of the stupid chicken. The little stupid chicken should be fried raw, fried out of the chicken fat, stir-fried out of the aroma to have flavor.
Northeast hazel mushroom
And the mushroom inside the chicken stew mushroom must be "Northeast hazelnut mushroom"!
In the northeast, hazelnut mushrooms are currently the only wild mushrooms that are not farmed in captivity. And hazelnut mushrooms must be sun-dried, only sun-dried hazelnut mushrooms have the most flavor of the northeast mountain forest, that umami is not what MSG, chicken essence, beef powder can be compared.
Soak the hazelnut mushroom water, do not throw it! After filtering out the residue with a leak, it is best to stew the chicken to add freshness.
And voila! This seemingly simple chicken stew with mushrooms is actually strict and exquisite. Looking at the so-called "Northeast Chaos Stew", it is really tasteless.
One pot out
If it is said that in the northeast cuisine, the stew that is most similar to the so-called "northeast stew" should be "one pot out", and there is also a "big harvest".
One pot out, as the name suggests, staple food and side food out of one pot. The meaning of the great harvest lies in the abundance of varieties of vegetables.
Great harvest
There are many ingredients in "one pot out", but its system is not chaotic, among which the indispensable ones are: ribs, oil beans, potatoes, noodle melons, corn, and the side of the pot must be pasted with a circle of tortillas to comply with the rules.
Eat a pot out, it is best to be in summer and autumn, it is the time of the northeast agricultural harvest, it is best to produce from their own vegetable fields, green and organic, vegetables have a vegetable flavor, and the flavor is charming.
Oil beans stewed out of the fat and juicy, potatoes can not be cut, to use the root of the knife to break into large pieces, noodles to cut into large pieces, eat up choking throat is the most enjoyable, corn to use the season of sticky corn, stew out sticky and sweet, and that circle of half-steamed and half-burned stickers, with a caramelized gaga, eating that is called an incense.
Eat such a meal of "one pot out", comfortable ironing, but also double the relief! What's the stew? They all flew out of the cloud of nine...
Pork ribs stewed beans, fragrant!
Northeast stew, although there is no definite formula, but it is implicitly in line with the rules.
Many people say that you can eat 1,000 kinds of ingredients from 100 Northeastern stews. But the real Northeast stew actually has its right set of "opening methods".
For example, ribs must be stewed with beans! The best thing to eat is not the ribs, but the fat "Northeast oil beans"! And the second meal is the most delicious, only the northeast people understand the taste of "second meal of beans".
Oil bean carob, the love of Northeastern people!
Also, catfish must be stewed with eggplant!
When eggplant is produced in the summer in the northeast, it is also a good time to eat catfish. Eggplant is best made with purple pants eggplant from the northeast, and catfish are preferably wild catfish in the river.
It is strange to say that this fat and tender catfish stewed with eggplant, how can it be so matched? In the northeast, there is an old saying "catfish stew eggplant, support the old man", which shows that catfish and eggplant are so made in heaven!
Eggplant stew with catfish
Among the northeast stews, there is also a pair of "golden partners", sauerkraut and geese.
Big goose, a fighter among poultry. When I was a child, the watchdog could afford to provoke, and the housekeeper's goose was categorically provoked. In order to avenge the revenge of the big goose nagging me, every winter when the first snow falls, I will call three or five friends, Zhang Luo a big pot of "sauerkraut stewed goose".
The goose meat is fat and tender, and it is stewed with sauerkraut, which is the most delicious and degreasing.
A pot of sauerkraut stewed geese is grunting, the snow outside the window is full of snow, and the liquor is hot just right, which is the most delicious "opening way" of the first snow in winter.
Sauerkraut stewed goose
I am accustomed to eating the Northeast Stew of the Eight Classics of Zheng'er, and I do not like any "Northeast Stew".
There are no rules, no fun, and a scene without a protagonist and a supporting role is unattractive.
In the eyes of others, perhaps "chaotic stew" is a living fossil in the gastrointestinal tract of northeastern people, but this chaotic stew is like sichuan without spicy hot, Taiwan does not have hand-grabbed cakes...
Some people say that the chaotic stew in the northeast comes from the folded vegetables of the poor years.
Folding is an old term that refers to the leftovers at a feast. Folding the rice is to mix the leftovers from the feast in a pot of chowder.
If so, then for the stew, it is the back of those poor years left to today...
After all, whether it is delicious or not, compared to hunger, it seems so insignificant.
Which great god can tell me where the stew originated?
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