It is one of the staple foods of the Shanxi people, and there is still a proverb in the Datong area: "Thirty miles of noodles, forty miles of cake, twenty miles of soba noodles hungry waist." "It's about people eating soba noodles and can walk forty miles, while eating soba noodles can only walk twenty miles. The raw grain of the noodles is called "cherry", also known as "oats", "jade wheat", which has been cultivated for more than 2500 years. The method of making the noodles and the origin of the name can be traced back to the late Sui and early Tang dynasties 1400 years ago. According to folklore, Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang Dynasty, was demoted to Taiyuan to stay behind, and his family passed through the Pangu Temple of the Ancient Temple of Lingkong Mountain, and the old abbot specially made this noodle food for hospitality. Li Yuan asked, "What is in your hand?" The old abbot replied, "Chestnut." Quercus is a generic term for plants, and quercus refers to a container made of bamboo or wicker (Cihai). Tang Yin has a poetry cloud: "Pipa writes a grudge, and the amount of gold buys out the spring." It seems that the abbot answered with the small cage drawer in his hand. Later, when Li Yuan became emperor, he sent the old abbot to Wutai Mountain as an abbot. The old abbot led the monks to the post, passed through Jingle County, saw the first harvest of the wheat, and then passed on the method of making the noodles to the local area. Later, this folk noodle dish spread throughout Jin, Shaanxi, Mongolia, Hebei, Lu and other places, and became a home-cooked food of the people in the northern mountainous areas. There is also a folk saying that according to legend, Li Shimin's father and son raised an army in Taiyuan, using this kind of pasta to treat the three armies and establish the Tang Dynasty in one fell swoop. Although it is a folk legend, in addition to being a home-cooked food in Shanxi folk, it does have the meaning of treating relatives and friends. In Yanbei and the Lüliang Mountains, people give beautiful symbols such as "solidity" and "harmony" to the chestnuts that eat noodles. Whenever the elderly birthday, children have a full moon or festive hospitality, they are often eaten here. When some families in the mountainous areas are married and married, the bride and groom also have to eat, which means that the husband and wife are white and old. At the end of the year, it is even more necessary to eat to pray for the harmony of the whole family and the prosperity of the people.
The noodles are chestnut
To prepare the noodles:
1. Ingredient preparation: 400 grams of shinobi noodles, boiling water, 2 tomatoes, 2 eggs, garlic to taste; pour boiling water into the shinobi noodles; and form a dough.
Pour boiling water into the noodles
and into dough
2, divide into small agents; use the middle finger and index finger to pinch the dough, and roll it into the first product.
Divide into small doses
Pinch the dough with your middle and index fingers
Roll into the first product
3: Put in the steamer, make the sauce, tomatoes and eggs, put more water than usual, make a soup; pour on the steamed chestnut.
Place in a steamer
Make a sauce
Pour onto the steamed chestnut
4: Remove from the pot and plate.
Plating