Do you know that the seventh day of the first lunar month is the "day of people", and it is said that it is the day when the nuns and nuns cut the earth to create people, what did the ancients do on this day? They want to do some solemn celebrations, sacrifices and other activities, which continue to this day, and the villagers in some places want to eat the "seven kinds of silk", that is, the "ghost brain" custom. I am a native of Linyi Pingyi, and every year at the beginning of the first month of the New Year, every family here eats "ghost brains" in their hometown.
What is a "ghost brain"? It is a thin porridge made of seven kinds of vegetables, in addition to the necessary tofu, other ingredients can be arbitrarily matched, because tofu is the soul of the ghost brain, must have, if there is no tofu can be replaced by tofu skin, in order to get rid of evil qi, cure all diseases. The custom of "drinking ghost brains" in my hometown probably comes from this. Entering the countryside with the custom is to drink takejiro food "ghost brain" soup to go up ~ ~
Ingredients: Lean meat, spinach, tofu skin, mushrooms, fungus, tomatoes, cabbage, eggs, vermicelli, starch, green onion, ginger, peanut oil, soy sauce vinegar, chicken essence, pepper, salt
Process: 1. A handful of fungus is soaked in warm water, picked and washed, shredded and set aside. The mushrooms are picked and washed, then diced
2. Pick and wash two spinach trees and cut into sections. Cut a knife to the head of the cabbage and cut into strips. Beat two eggs, stir into egg mixture and set aside
3. 200g tofu diced, tofu skin 2 sheets shredded. One tomato, cut into pieces
4. A piece of lean meat, wash and chop. Dilute 5 scoops of starch with water and set aside
5. Peel the green onion and cut the green onion, the ginger lump piece washed and cut the ginger slices, the child does not eat ginger so cut the ginger slices
6. Heat the oil, pour the ginger slices and stir-fry the green onion
7. Stir-fry the minced meat, add cooking wine and continue to stir-fry until the meat is yellow and dry
8. Stir-fry the mushrooms, fungus, cabbage until hairy, then pour the tofu and tofu skin and tomatoes and stir-fry
9. Add an appropriate amount of water, put a small handful of vermicelli, add a spoonful of pepper noodles and bring to a boil over high heat
10. After opening the pot, put the starch in the water, stir it quickly, and then add the egg liquid from the outside to the inside, grunt ~ egg flower appears
11. Put spinach, add the right amount of salt, pour soy sauce vinegar, chicken essence, stir well to get out of the pot, look at the color, adults and children love to drink.
Taste it: Wow! Delicious, delicious soup, sour and spicy refreshing, nutritious appetizer, improve immunity, healthy and delicious delicious drink is not expensive! The vermicelli means that the money string is long and flowing, and the life is auspicious and happy. Some netizens will ask "ghost brain" is not "seven kinds of soup"? How do you put too many ingredients? Not bad! Innovative, considering the ingredients that children like, so put more.
I can't help but think back to when I was a child, when I was poor and often looked forward to the New Year, because there were new clothes to wear and good things to eat in the New Year. Every year on the seventh day of the first lunar month is our happiest day, I and my friends get up early, three groups of five people take the scoop to the left and right neighbors to the whole "small family meal" that is, "ghost brain", the big ladies and aunts see the ladies come to the door, hurry to the scoop to put corn flour white noodles or sorghum noodles or give a turnip cabbage a piece of tofu, etc., all the ingredients do not take their own home, put aside the sister-in-law's home, the eldest brother has already prepared a large pot waiting for us to return triumphantly.
All the ingredients will not have meat and eggs, nothing more than their own vegetables, radish cabbage noodles and so on washed, tofu cut into long pieces, burn a large pot of underwater noodles, boil the water under the tofu greens, and then go down to the whole of those miscellaneous noodles, stir the fire and roll open the salt, a big pot of colorful "ghost brain" is salty paste beans to get it right, the old and young of the family are gathered together, one person and two bowls have said that there is a smile and drink of relish, drink "ghost brain" eat money skewers roll up sleeves and dry up, earn a lot of money in the next year! Do you have the custom of drinking "ghost brains" on the seventh day of the Chinese New Year? Feel free to leave a message in the comment area.