Pea yellow is a traditional snack in Beijing. According to Beijing customs, on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, you should eat pea yellow. Therefore, pea yellow is marketed every spring and supplied until late spring. Beijing's pea yellow is divided into two kinds: court and folk. Peas are best produced in Zhangjiakou. Pea yellow is a traditional Snack in Beijing, which was introduced to the Qing Palace along with kidney bean rolls.
The finished product is light yellow, delicate and pure, melts in the mouth, tastes sweet, and is cool and refreshing. Peas are good for urination, quenching thirst, and lower and middle gas, detoxifying sores, anti-inflammatory, removing heat, lowering blood pressure, removing fat, and losing weight. Originally a Hui folk snack, it was later introduced to the court. It is famous for cixi's love of food. The method of preparation is to grind the peas, peel them, wash them, cook them, fry them in sugar, coagulate them, and cut them into pieces. Traditionally, red date meat is embedded. It is most famous for its imitation restaurant.
There are two kinds of pea yellow in Beijing, one is the so-called court snack made by the imitation of food in Beihai Park. The other is the roughly made pea yellows sold by street vendors, both of which are called pea yellows, but the materials, craftsmanship and prices are very different.
First of all, let's talk about the court snack pea yellow. Select the best white peas, remove the impurities of the beans, wash and stew, over the fine basket, after precipitation, add sugar osmanthus flowers, cool and cut into pieces into exquisite gift boxes, each piece of pea yellow corner and then attach a few pieces of gold cake, red and yellow matching, gifts to relatives and friends is very appropriate. Especially this
Pea huang'er is a court snack, and said that the Western Empress dowager likes to eat it the most, so its value is even more invaluable. However, the color of the pea yellow is not exactly natural, and the pea is not so yellow when cooked. The price of this pea yellow is amazingly expensive, and who can afford it at that time! The pea yellows sold along the street are small foods for ordinary children to relieve their hunger.
After the pea is boiled with a sand drum (a thick flat round casserole), the peddler adds the cooked dates, solidifies and cools, knocks out the pot, and cuts it into pieces to sell. The vendor pushes the wheelbarrow, which holds a few pots of boiled pea yellow. Shout "Pea Yellow Erhey "This kind of pea yellow is thicker, and the pea skin on the whole pot of yellow is visible, and with the sweetness of the dates, the noodles are also delicious." For the children of the common people at that time, there was a lack of snacks, and if they could eat a piece of such pea yellow, it was quite delicious. It is also this practice that produces pea yellow that maintains the natural color of the pea and its original taste.
Preparation method
"Rough Pea Yellow":
It is to peel the white peas, with twice the water of the peas, the beans are stewed, and then put in sugar and stir-fry, then add gypsum water and cooked dates to stir evenly, put into a large casserole, cool it into a lump, buckle out, cut into diamond-shaped blocks like cut cakes, put on a small piece of gold cake for decoration, usually placed on a wheelbarrow covered with wet blue cloth to sell, most of the people who operate this industry are Jingdong Pinggu, Xianghe and Jingnan Caiyu and other places.
Pea yellow of the Qing Palace:
1． Use the finest white peas, peel them slightly and soak them in cool water 3 times.
2． Use a copper pot to boil water (can not use an iron pot) to put the peeled peas into the pot, add alkali, cook the peas into a porridge, and then bring the original soup over the basket, put the pea porridge into the pot with sugar, fry for 30 minutes, to master the heat, not too tender, not overheated. Too tender to solidify into pieces, too old to solidify there will be cracks.
3． In the process of frying, you must use a wooden board to fish up at any time to do experiments, such as the bean paste flowing down very slowly, the bean paste that flows down is not immediately fused with the bean paste in the pot, but gradually forms a pile, and then gradually fuses with the bean paste in the pot (commonly known as the pile of silk), you can start the pot.
4． After cooking, the bean puree is poured into a white iron mold, covered with smooth tissue paper to prevent cracks, and can also be cleaned, and when it is cooled, it becomes pea yellow.
1where to eat
1. Jinfang snacks
Address: Ciqikou Metropolis Street South On the first floor of the large and medium electrical appliances 1st floor
Cheap Shop's shop, mainly engaged in halal snacks, pea yellow 12 pounds, how big to buy, the color is relatively light, wet taste, sweetness is also just right, a bite down feels quite good
2. Man Heng Ji hot pot
Address: No. 14, West Avenue, Ping'anli (southwest of Zhao Dengyu road intersection)
Cow street made full of excellent old Beijing shabu-shabu, the price is relatively close to the people, do not agree in advance that there is always a need to queue, pea yellow homemade, the taste is soft, light and sweet, not greasy, very refreshing.
3. White Rice Cake
Address: Niu Street No. 5 Niu Street Halal Supermarket 1st Floor (near the input hutong)
The same is the old brand, just in the Cow Street halal supermarket inside a counter, the road is not easy to find the environment is really poor, but it is often a lot of people lined up in large groups, the popularity is high. Pea yellow is a big piece, rustling taste, not sweet and fragrant, very delicate, melting in the mouth feeling is really superb.
4. Imitation restaurant
Address: Jingshan West Street Beihai Park East Gate
The environment is tall, the price is equally tall, the court style is sufficient, and the Beijing flavor is relatively complete. Although many people say that the imitation is going downhill, the boxed pea yellow and kidney bean rolls are always of good quality and can't stop at all
5. Of course, there are also our affordable Gokokuji snacks!
Address: Multiple branches
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