The ancients called it night? At night? And 15 is the first full moon night in a year, so the first month 15 is called the Lantern Festival. Do you know the food for the Lantern Festival dinner? The following small series will tell you about the food for the Lantern Festival dinner. Let's have a look!

First of all, the food for dinner

Tangyuan 1

On the Lantern Festival, southerners eat glutinous rice balls mainly to pray for the whole family to be round and round. The glutinous rice used to make glutinous rice balls is flat in nature and sweet in taste, and has the functions of tonifying deficiency, regulating blood, invigorating spleen and appetizing, benefiting qi and stopping diarrhea, warming middle warmer, promoting fluid production and moistening dryness. In addition, the conventional fillings of various glutinous rice balls are mainly fruits and dried fruits, including sesame seeds, walnuts and peanuts, plus vegetable oil. What is the nutritional value? By going up one flight of stairs? . Boiling jiaozi in water is the easiest way and the healthiest way to eat it.

2. Lantern Festival

On the Lantern Festival, northerners want to eat Yuanxiao. Speaking of Yuanxiao, many people think that glutinous rice balls are Yuanxiao. In fact, Yuanxiao and Tangyuan are actually two things, although there is little difference in raw materials and appearance. The most essential difference lies in the production process. It's easier to make dumplings. Generally, glutinous rice flour is mixed with water to make skin, and then stuffing is added. Bags? Good is good. Making Yuanxiao is much more complicated: first, you need to mix dough and cut the solidified stuffing into small pieces. After watering once, throw it into a basket filled with glutinous rice flour and knead it into a ball, while sprinkling water until the stuffing is covered with glutinous rice flour and knead it into a ball.

3. Lettuce; lettuce

Do Cantonese people like Lantern Festival? Steal? Picking lettuce and cooking with cake are said to represent good luck. Guangdong people are calm and down-to-earth, and have good intentions for festivals. Lettuce, which is most commonly used in festive occasions such as the opening of new stores, is also an essential holiday product for the Lantern Festival. Lettuce, which often becomes a common vegetable on the table in the south, is associated with? Make money? Homophonic, so it is also regarded as a symbol of wealth and good fortune.

4. Lantern Festival tea

There is a custom of eating Yuanxiao tea in Shaanxi and other places, that is, putting all kinds of vegetables and fruits in hot soup noodles, much like ancient times? Yuanxiao porridge? . This kind of tea increases the intake of cellulose, minerals and vitamins, and is not as greasy as ordinary Yuanxiao. It has a neutralizing effect on the acidic constitution caused by eating more animal food in festivals, and also makes Yuanxiao more comprehensive in nutrition.

5. Camellia oleifera

Have dinner on Lantern Festival night? Fifteen flat, sixteen yuan? Eat jiaozi one day and Yuanxiao one day; What about those mountains? Fifteen dozen camellia oleifera and sixteen pinch flat food? . What exactly is called? Different customs in ten miles? . Making tea is to stir tea noodles with chopsticks to make camellia oleifera, also called noodle tea.

6. Oil hammer

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, rice porridge or bean porridge was used as the festival food for the Lantern Festival. However, this kind of food is mainly used for sacrifice, not holiday food. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that Zheng's Record of Chefs recorded:? Go on a diet in the middle of the year and put on an oil hammer. ? According to the records in Tai Ping Guang Ji, Lu Shi Miscellaneous Notes and Guru Order, the method of making oil hammer is similar to that of frying Yuanxiao in later generations. Some people call it? Oil painting pearls? .

Second, the Lantern Festival dinner menu

Braised mushrooms with braised pork

Ingredients: 500g pork belly, 5 mushrooms, 1 star anise, 5 shallots, 3 slices of ginger and a little cooking wine.

Seasoning: soy sauce, soy sauce, salt, crystal sugar, chicken essence.

Exercise:

Wash pork belly, soak in a little cooking wine 10 to 20 minutes, and then cut into small pieces.

2, put a small amount of oil in the pot, stir-fry pork belly on low fire.

3. Fry both sides, stir-fry the fat, and pour out the fried fat.

4. Add ginger slices, stir fry, pour in appropriate amount of soy sauce to color, and season with a small amount of soy sauce.

5. Add star anise, onion and appropriate amount of rock sugar, pour in boiled water without meat, turn to low heat and stew slowly after boiling.

6. Wash the mushrooms and cut into pieces.

7. When the meat is stewed to 80% maturity, add mushrooms and stew all the time.

8. Stew until the meat is soft and rotten. When the soup is thick, add appropriate amount of salt and chicken essence to taste.

Drunk ribs

1. Chop pork chop into small pieces of about 1 inch, mix well with yellow wine and salt, then add proper amount of cornflour and water and mix well.

2. Mix soy sauce, sugar, vinegar, yellow wine, garlic and chopped green onion into juice for later use.

3. Heat the pan and oil it. When it is half cooked, put the pork chops into the oil pan one by one, fry until crusted, remove the adhesion and pick up the minced meat. When the oil temperature rises to 70%, put the pork chop in the pot again and fry it until the shell is crisp, take it out and put it in a slightly larger bowl (for mixing seasoning).

4. Quickly pour the prepared juice into the fried spareribs, and stir evenly to serve the cooked sesame seeds.

Cooking tips

The ribs should be fried and crisp, and it is not easy to soften after adding the marinade. It is not allowed to thicken the marinade with seasoning. Be sure to quickly mix the prepared juice into the fried ribs, so that it can be wrapped on the surface of the raw materials and tastes delicious. This is also a unique way of drunkenness in Fuzhou.

Third, the precautions for eating glutinous rice balls

1, Tangyuan is a refined white staple food.

Simply put, glutinous rice balls and yuanxiao are foods with glutinous rice and sugar as the main raw materials. Besides refined glutinous rice flour containing a lot of starch, the stuffing also contains a lot of sugar. Therefore, from the classification, it should be regarded as a staple food. The so-called staple food is food rich in carbohydrates, especially starch. This kind of food is made of glutinous rice, and it is very fine glutinous rice flour with very little fiber, which belongs to refined white staple food and does not belong to coarse grains.

Suggestion 1: If you eat glutinous rice balls and Yuanxiao, you must reduce the number of staple foods accordingly. Generally speaking, glutinous rice flour used for three Yuanxiao is equivalent to 1 meter of rice.

2. Tangyuan has high oil content.

The stuffing of glutinous rice balls and Yuanxiao not only contains sugar, but also contains quite a lot of solid oil. Rice and steamed bread contain almost no fat, but glutinous rice balls are not. There is even more oil in the stuffing than sugar. Traditionally, lard is used to wrap jiaozi. In the south, lard and meat are used to make salty jiaozi, and lard and various nuts are used to make sweet jiaozi. Later, products using butter were developed, but the content of saturated fat was even higher than that of lard. In recent years, the new fashion is to replace butter and lard with vegetable cream or hydrogenated vegetable oil products, but the health effects of this product are much worse than lard and butter.

Sesame, peanuts, nuts and chocolate are all high-fat raw materials. Plus the oil mixed with stuffing, the total amount is really considerable. At present, jiaozi with big stuffing tends to replace jiaozi with small stuffing, and the solid oil in jiaozi is more than the bean paste, hawthorn and five-kernel stuffing in the north. A bite of jiaozi is almost one-third to one-half oil. Eating three glutinous rice balls is equivalent to eating 1 plate of cooking oil.

Suggestion 2: If you eat glutinous rice balls, you must eat less oil at dinner or on the same day. Otherwise, too much fat and calories are inevitable.

3. The nutritional value of chocolate stuffing is low.

There are also some good things in the stuffing, namely sesame seeds, peanuts and various nuts, as well as red bean paste. Nut raw materials have high nutritional value, and soybean paste also contains a lot of protein and minerals. In contrast, chocolate stuffing has the lowest nutritional value. It is likely that cocoa butter and chocolate-flavored spices are put in it, and the so-called cream jiaozi has similar problems. As for the glutinous rice balls filled with salty meat, there is too much oil and there is nothing to recommend them.

Recommendation 3: jiaozi with nuts, sesame seeds, bean paste and other fillings should be preferred.