Recently, the topic of #The only food that people in the north and south can reach a consensus on has been hotly searched.
Since ancient times, the sweet and salty dispute between the north and the south has been inseparable, and the difference in taste is even more different. Is there even a food that can capture both the north and the south at the same time?
Needless to say, it actually did.
That's right, fritters.
Every morning when I'm sleepy-eyed and don't want to go to work, I'm awakened by the smell of oil that runs around the streets:
On the street stalls, the coal stove with mars braving the sparks set up a large black oil pot, watching the stall owner lengthen the two doses of dough, and then around, the hemp slipped into the hot oil pot, and the dough slowly expanded into golden crispy fritters.
When the fritters are first cooked, they are the most fragrant and sought-after. At this time, if you can take a bite lightly, you will definitely leave a mouth full of oil.
The softness of the mouth made people swallow one bite, and they were busy trying to take a bite. Fragrant, the more people eat, the more they love to eat.
If you add another cup of hot soy milk, you can just neutralize the greasy fritters. After eating and drinking enough, and then filling up with a full belch, people can't help but sigh:
"It's worth it!"
Fritters can be accepted by both the north and the south, in addition to delicious, and its historical origin is also inseparable.
During the Southern Song Dynasty, Qin Juniper monopolized power for nineteen years, and on trumped-up charges, he killed the father and son of the anti-Jin general Yue Fei at the Lin'an Fengbo Pavilion, and the soldiers and people of the Southern Song Dynasty were indignant about this, and they were eager to slash him with a thousand knives.
At that time, there happened to be two vendors selling breakfast near the Fengbo Pavilion, who grabbed the dough, kneaded it into two noodles shaped like Qin Juniper and his wife Wang, twisted them together and fried them in a frying pan, shouting in their mouths:
"Eat fried Qin Juniper!"
Kneeling to "apologize" for the two Qin Juniper couple
As soon as the two vendors shouted, the people around them understood the meaning and rushed up together. While helping to do it, he also helped shouting. Other restaurants saw the situation and rushed to follow suit.
Who is not happy to be able to "hand blade" the traitor? As a result, the entire Lin'an City made "fried juniper", and soon spread throughout the country.
By now, "Fried Juniper" has been renamed "Fritters", and its shape has evolved from two noodles to a hollow strip. The method is naturally more refined:
First, mix and stir the flour, sugar, salt and fritters to make the noodles as soft as cotton;
Next, cover with plastic wrap and wait for it to ferment, and the pores in the dough will become larger and larger over time, to 2-2.5 times the beginning;
After fermentation, grease the board, arrange the dough into 0.5m thick slices, cut into two finger-wide strips, and serve for 15 minutes.
When the frying pan is heated, the two doughs overlap and lengthen, then fry in the pan and turn until golden brown.
In addition to being used as breakfast, there are also many ways to eat fritters.
The first is one of the "Four Heavenly Kings" of Shanghai Ning Breakfast - rice balls, commonly known as "glutinous rice wrapped fritters".
After the glutinous rice is steamed, sprinkle the fried black sesame seeds on a flat top, or add a layer of sautéed soybean flour to the inside and outside of the glutinous rice, and then place the fritters on top of the sticky rice.
The filling is also sweet or salty.
Sweet, sesame seeds mixed with sugar.
Salty, pickled meat pine salted egg yolk.
Whether sweet or salty, fritters are indispensable.
Rice balls must be eaten next to the fritter stalls. Hot glutinous rice wrapped in hot fritters, both chewy and sticky, fragrant and soft. It seems to be buried in the chest of the ancient Greek goddess, and the flavor is superb.
There is also an old fritter that is re-fried until it is brown and hard, and there is no white core. It is crushed and put into the rice balls, which are more crispy.
Rice balls also spread to Guangdong and Hong Kong over time, and Cantonese people called them "fried two". However, Cantonese people are not wrapped in glutinous rice, but intestinal powder.
Intestinal powder is preferably in chaoshan area, and the taste is elastic and transparent. When wrapped in fritters, it is like a girl shyly veiled, looking beautiful, and tasting is even more tender and smooth.
Dipping in soy sauce is the most common way for Cantonese to eat, and you can also add chili sauce or sweet sauce at will. One bite down, the spirit of the day will be there.
"Dumplings" is another name for fritters that Tianjin people call fritters.
Tianjin's famous snack "pancake dumplings" is wrapped in fritters in pancakes, and fritters are the soul and bones of pancake dumplings, which are crisp on the outside and fragrant on the inside, and cannot be put for a long time.
The pancakes are made of mung bean flour as the main ingredient, and after being mixed into a paste, they are spread into pancakes and eggs, shaped like lotus leaves, and soft as paper.
Then roll up the crispy fritters, spread the sauce and curd on top, sprinkle with green onions and fold them from them.
Pancake dumplings have the original meat aroma of mung bean noodles, and then spread eggs, roll fritters, and seasonings, the taste becomes stronger.
Don't say no laugh, don't be lively, lively and lively time. In the early morning of the day, eating a rich pancake dumpling is another expression of Tianjin people's frankness and boldness.
Haiqing and Tao Hong eat pancake dumplings together
Of course, there are more ways to eat fritters than that.
In Henan, it is accompanied by churros with peppery soup. The spicy soup is paired with crispy fritters, and the two collide for a unique twist.
In small markets in Yunnan, locals will buy thin bean flour and fried fritters to eat. The pea noodles are made into a paste, sprinkled with chili noodles and peppercorn powder, and the burnt yellow fritters are mixed with the tender yellow dilute bean flour, and just smelling the taste makes people feel appetizing.
High-temperature fried foods such as fritters should naturally not be eaten more. Not only is the oil heated at high temperature harmful to the human body, but the aluminum element contained in the churros can also cause Alzheimer's disease.
However, this ancient Chinese cuisine, even if eaten once in a while, can be satisfied.
Go to a street stall and watch the fragrant fritters cook. That moment is the true meaning of life.
If you want to ask Xiao Wei, which place is the best place to eat fritters?
I'll tell you out loud:
"It's downstairs from your house!"
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