On the winter solstice on December 22, no matter how busy you are, you must remember that "eat 5 things, 1 fruit" means peace and happiness, don't forget the old tradition!
Time flies, in a blink of an eye, the winter solstice solar term, and then two days is the annual winter solstice festival, the winter solstice is not only one of the 24 solar terms, but also an important traditional festival for us. Since ancient times, the common people have regarded the winter solstice as a relatively important festival, so there is also a saying that "the winter solstice is as big as the year, and the world is a small reunion". When the winter solstice festival arrives, there are many customs and Xi in various places, and there are various food customs. The Winter Solstice Festival is here, no matter how busy you are, remember to eat our traditional 5 kinds of food and 1 kind of auspicious fruit, which means a good picture and a good fortune, and don't forget the old tradition!
One: Eat bacon
Bacon is now not only southerners will eat northerners will also eat, the winter solstice festival in many places in the south have the custom of eating bacon, bacon, transparent and shiny after cooking, bright color, yellow and red, taste mellow and fragrant, fat not greasy, thin and not stuffed teeth. It is a very good flavor food, and the pot is very suitable for the solar terms during the winter solstice festival, which means that it is prosperous!
Recommended: Winter bamboo shoots and bacon pot
How to make a pot of bacon with winter bamboo shoots: Ingredients: a little bacon, an appropriate amount of winter bamboo shoots, green onions, ginger slices, a little salt, half a spoon of light soy sauce, a little peanut oil, a little light soy sauce.
1. Add peanut oil to the dry-burning casserole, add green onion and ginger slices and stir-fry until fragrant, pour in the cut bacon slices and stir-fry evenly, add a little light soy sauce and stir-fry well.
2. Pour in the chopped winter bamboo shoots and stir well, sprinkle in a little cold water, add half a spoon of light soy sauce and stir well, cover and simmer for 2 minutes, add salt to taste, and serve.
Two: Eat dumplings
In the north, there is an old Xi of eating dumplings during the winter solstice festival every year, and it is said that dumplings should be eaten on this day, because dumplings have the meaning of "cooling off", and there is still a folk proverb that "the winter solstice does not serve dumpling bowls, and no one cares if you freeze your ears". Dumplings also symbolize happiness and contentment, and they are also one of the must-eat delicacies during the festival. No matter how busy you are during the Winter Solstice Festival, remember to eat dumplings!
Recommended: Garlic pork dumplings
Preparation of garlic dumplings: Ingredients: 300 grams of flour, a little meat filling, a little garlic, a little soy sauce, a little ginger, a little salt, a little peanut oil.
1. Flour and dough let stand for a while, wash and chop the garlic, add soy sauce, minced ginger, salt and peanut oil to the meat filling and stir well, add minced garlic and stir well, and the filling is ready.
2. Take out the dough and knead it into a small agent, roll it into a thin dumpling skin, put the filling and pinch it tightly, the dumplings are ready, put them in boiling water and cook them out, and serve them while they are hot.
Three: Eat rice cakes
The food custom of eating rice cakes on the winter solstice festival has a long history, and there are also places called "nine-layer cakes", rice cakes are steamed cakes made of sticky glutinous rice or rice flour, and in the Spring Festival and winter solstice, many areas have paid attention to eating rice cakes. The meaning of rice cake is to rise every year, and it is a good luck!
Recommendation: Red bean rice cake
Preparation of red bean rice cake: Ingredients: appropriate amount of glutinous rice flour, appropriate amount of brown sugar, appropriate amount of red beans.
1. Add a little water to the glutinous rice flour and rub it into a loose state for later use, and cook the red beans to remove the dry water.
2. Spread a cage cloth in the cage drawer, spread a layer of processed glutinous rice flour, spread a layer of red beans, sprinkle with a little brown sugar, repeat twice, you can steam for 30 minutes, and slice it out of the pot when it is cooked.
Four: Eat mutton
The Winter Solstice Festival, from this day is called "Count Nine", in our local area will send mutton to the elders, and every family will drink mutton soup on the winter solstice. Drinking mutton soup can not only warm up the cold, but also imply joy!
Recommendation: Whole sheep soup
Preparation of whole sheep soup: Ingredients: lamb head meat, lamb liver, lamb lungs, lamb intestines, lamb tripe, sheep blood, lamb bone broth, coriander, green onions, salt, pepper.
1. Blanch the mutton bones and put them in a casserole, add boiling water to boil over high heat and slowly boil them over low heat to make mutton soup, and put in cooked mutton head meat, mutton liver, mutton lungs, mutton intestines, lamb tripe, and mutton blood.
2. Continue to simmer for about 10 minutes, add pepper, salt, coriander, and chopped green onion to taste, and drink hot from the pan to keep warm and cold!
Five: Eat glutinous rice balls
In the winter solstice festival to eat glutinous rice balls, eating glutinous rice balls means reunion, sweet and sweet, eating glutinous rice balls is also the old tradition of the winter solstice, "tangyuan" is made of glutinous rice flour, "round" means "reunion", "consummation", eating tangyuan on the winter solstice is also called eating "winter solstice group". The winter solstice group is also used to worship ancestors and worship the sky, implying auspicious consummation!
Recommendation: Brown sugar peanut dumplings
Preparation of brown sugar peanuts: Ingredients: appropriate amount of glutinous rice flour, a little brown sugar, a little peanut butter.
1. Drink the peanut butter and brown sugar, mix well, put it in the refrigerator and freeze it, cut it into pieces for later use, add an appropriate amount of water to the glutinous rice flour and form a dough.
2. Divide the glutinous rice dough into small agents, press a nest to put in the brown sugar peanut filling, close the mouth into a round ball, the rice balls are ready, put them in the pot and cook until they float, and then take them out.
Eat 1 fruit on the winter solstice festival: apples
Apple is the best fruit in winter, apple, also known as peace fruit, is a nutritious and auspicious fruit, in marriage, New Year's festival will be used, meaning peace and happiness, the winter solstice festival is coming, remember to eat a picture of a good color!
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