Spring has really arrived, everything is revived, and all kinds of flowers are blooming. The green crops in the field are growing happily, and the soil next to the ground also drills out various wild vegetables such as gray ash, cabbage, and purslane, among which the cabbage is very popular with the people of Jinxiang.
At this time, young people who have worked in the city for a week, taking advantage of their weekend leisure, three or five people get into a car and run to the farmland, carrying baskets or convenience bags, and running toward the vast fields. Middle-aged and elderly women in the countryside carry a blue in their left hand and a shovel in their right hand also enter the field.
In the distance, the field is a festive and peaceful scene.
There are many ways to eat cabbage, such as dumplings, stew, batter, cold mix and so on. The shrimp batter of Qin pepper is more cumbersome in the "way to eat cabbage". And eating cabbage batter in this season will make me think of the taste of my mother and outline the feelings of homesickness.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the food of the rural people was very simple, but during the New Year's Festival, basically no one cooked on the table every day. When the farmers are busy in the spring, the adults who have been tired in the field for a morning of farm work come home and cook in a hurry, wash the cabbage cut during labor, live a little noodles, put in some ditches and ponds to fish out the small shrimp rice, this is the beginning of the pot - can also be used as a dish, can also be used as rice, that is, can suppress hunger, but also increase appetite.
With the improvement of life, the practice of small shrimp batter with chinese cabbage and qin pepper has gradually become more exquisite. The cabbage should first be picked and washed, and then water-controlled for later. Then catch some of the dried shrimp in the freshwater lake, soak it in boiling water, prepare two or two of the ground Qin pepper noodles, chop the green onion and ginger, cut the cooked pork belly into small pieces (there was no meat in the early days), half two peppercorns soaked in boiling water into pepper water for backup, and the flour was stirred into a paste, so that most of it was completed.
Then, turn on the heat and heat the oil, fry the shallots, ginger pork belly, lake shrimp, Qin pepper noodles, sauté until the red oil of the Qin pepper comes out, add water to boil, stir in the batter, add salt, cooking wine to taste, cut the cabbage into two pieces and put it into the pot for a while, turn off the heat, a little sesame oil - the fragrant Cabbage Qin Pepper Shrimp Batter is made!
Steamed hot steamed steamed buns dipped in batter, the fragrance of the cabbage, the taste of the paste shrimp and pepper stimulate the taste buds, let people appetite, a meal in the life of the people, in today's beautiful life under the improvement of the survival of the people still remain on people's tables .........
Photo: Zhao Bo