It's the season of the community meal again, Ai Ye Qingqing, it is the time to make the community meal.
In the western Part of Hunan Province, there is a delicacy called "She rice", also known as Ai Ye rice. Social rice should be a unique food in Hunan Xiangxi, right? I haven't seen anyone outside making this delicacy anyway.
Every year during the Spring Festival, when the mugwort leaves grow, the people in the Xiangxi area will use a community meal, and when it is done, it will be sent to the tomb of the ancestors to worship, which is not only a remembrance of the ancestors, but also the hope that this year will be smooth and rainy, and the grain will be abundant.
Many times, after the worship, the community meal is not brought home, it is placed there, usually there are children or cows to eat. Most of the time, it is told in advance to those children or cattle herders, saying where there is a community meal to eat, and the community meal is finished, which means that there will be a good harvest this year and everything will go well.
This custom has developed to the present, and the social rice has evolved into a kind of food that many people like to eat, the social rice is soft and salty, and many rural people have to eat it several times a year.
So, how is authentic social rice cooked? Today I will explain in detail its practices and steps.
Ingredients: Mugwort leaves, glutinous rice, bacon, wild onion
The first step: prepare the mugwort leaf, this kind of mugwort leaf is the kind that grows in the ground, and the kind of mugwort made in the Mid-Autumn Festival is different, this kind of mugwort leaf is not only in Hunan, but also in Shenzhen, Guangdong, and we can pinch the tender part of it. Of course, there are also some for sale in the market now, and I am afraid of trouble and can go directly to the market to buy.
Wash the wormwood leaves
Bring the water to a boil in the pot, add a few drops of vegetable oil after the water is boiled, add vegetable oil to keep the mugwort leaves emerald green and not change color, and then put the mugwort leaves down to blanch the water for 30 seconds
After 30 seconds, fish out the mugwort leaves, go through the cold water, wring out the water and set aside
Then chop the wormwood leaf with a knife
Wash the wild onion clean (no wild onion this step is omitted) chopped, wild onion has the effect of increasing fragrance, if there is no wild onion it does not matter
Prepare a piece of bacon and fry the skin of the bacon over a fire, because the skin of the bacon is very hard, and if it is not burned, it will not be eaten, and if there is no bacon, replace it with fat and lean front meat.
Cut the washed bacon (fresh meat) into slices and thinn them
Step 2: Heat the pot, turn on medium-low heat, put the wormwood leaves into the pot and stir-fry slowly, fry the water dry, stir-fry the aroma and you can, fish out and set aside.
Heat the oil and put the fat meat in another pot, stir-fry the fat leaves, cinnamon and star anise after the fat meat is fried, and fry the aroma
After frying out the aroma, fish out the large ingredients, put the lean meat in, fry until the color changes, put some ginger shreds, the right amount of cooking wine to fishy, add a little old soy sauce color, the right amount of soy sauce seasoning
Then put the mugwort leaves into the pot
Stir-fry evenly, add thirteen spices, put in the wild onions, stir-fry evenly over high heat, and set aside
Step 3: Boil water in the pot, add glutinous rice after the water is boiled (the amount of glutinous rice is determined according to the number of people in the family), cook on high heat until the glutinous rice is broken, and when cooking, use a spatula to turn it over to prevent the glutinous rice from sinking into the paste pot.
Boil until the glutinous rice is broken and drain it
Stir our sautéed filling and glutinous rice well, add sesame oil to add flavor, and stir again.
Community rice is delicious, must be enough oil, bacon we choose that kind of fat and lean, do not choose all lean meat, if all use lean meat, cooked out of the community rice is not soft, so the taste is not delicious.
After stirring well, we spread it inside the steamer basket and poked it with chopsticks, so that it is convenient to breathe, easier to cook, and the steamed community rice will not be sandwiched.
Note that because we are using bacon here, and the bacon is salty, we don't have to add salt to this.
If we use fresh meat, we need to add the right amount of salt, otherwise the rice will be tasteless.
Start steaming and steam for 30 minutes.
Turn off the heat after 30 minutes, do not open the lid first, let it simmer for another 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, open the lid, it is really too fragrant, the soft sticky and salty community rice is ready, smelling about to drool.
A bowl, plus bacon from Xiangxi, is really delicious
It is said that people who have eaten it say incense, and such a community meal is really evocative and unforgettable. Do you like to eat social meals? Have you ever eaten a community meal? Like also you can try, really very delicious.
To summarize:
1. First of all, we have to choose the right mugwort, the mugwort leaf is not selected correctly, the cooked rice is not delicious, some mugwort leaves are very bitter, only choose the right mugwort, the cooked social rice will be fragrant.
2. The mugwort leaves should be blanched in water and a few drops of vegetable oil should be added, so that the mugwort leaves will be emerald green and not discolored.
3. The core ingredients of the community rice are glutinous rice and mugwort leaves, and it is best to add bacon with bacon, and it is also possible to use fresh meat without bacon.