Regan Noodles in Wuhan, risotto in Shanghai, mutton steamed dumplings in Inner Mongolia, fried noodles in inby in Beijing, Gaba dishes and pancakes in Tianjin, as long as you see the names of these ingredients, your brain will undoubtedly automatically associate them with breakfast. And the breakfast I'm going to recommend next is very interesting. It's called the brain. From the perspective of Shanxi people, it should be a very complementary breakfast.
Why should the "brain" be supplemented? It's just raw materials. You can think of it as cooking mutton soup in advance. Fresh mutton, yam and lotus root are cooked in a pot until crisp and rotten, and eight kinds of Chinese herbal medicines are added to make the whole breakfast smell a shallow bouquet. In Shanxi, this is definitely a very famous healthy medicated breakfast. Because a lot of health-preserving medicated diet, beef and rice wine are added to breakfast, and the name "brain" is added, many people think that they can grow smart after eating it this morning.
In fact, why this famous breakfast in Shanxi is called "brain" is also because the inventor played a little joke. It is said that the name of the person who invented health-preserving medicated diet is Fu Shan. At that time, Fu Shan just wanted to make some ingredients to make up for her old mother. Later, Fu Shan met a friend, and it happened that business was difficult and his wallet was empty. Fu Shan informed his friends about his prescription of health-preserving medicated diet, and asked them to call the restaurant "Qinghe Garden" if they opened a restaurant.
Qingyuan, near righteousness, clear. Fu Shan doesn't like these two issues very much and feels unstable. At the same time, Fu Shan himself wrote a reminder that "miscellaneous brain cutting is a peaceful garden", in which "miscellaneous brain cutting" refers to mutton offal soup and "brain" refers to health-preserving medicated diet. Because there are eight kinds of Chinese herbal medicines in the soup, it is named "Bazhen Decoction". The conclusion was passed around, and he found that the name "brain" was cute and memorable, which decided the name of this healthy medicated breakfast.
The original "brain" soup was not as abundant as it is now. It only uses beef, lotus root and yam. After stewing and steaming, pour a layer of soup with Chinese herbal medicine. This soup has been thickened with batter, white and thick. Put it on beef, it tastes mild, but it has a strong medicinal taste. Later, some changes were made to the tastes of modern people, such as the proportion of traditional Chinese medicine and the depth of seasoning.
In the case of drinking "brain-nourishing" soup, it should be accompanied by a dish of amaranth. Amaranth is not an empty stutter, because amaranth is sprinkled with a lot of salt and pepper. When eating breakfast, amaranth is selected into the pot, and the "brain" soup in the middle is dull and tasteless. The salt and pepper are mixed together twice, and the taste is just right. Amaranth, flavanol, traditional Chinese medicine, beef flavor. A whole bowl of pot is full of tonic ingredients, and it is full of hot air when you drink it. Do you think drinking is bad?
Therefore, many Shanxi people like to get up in the early morning of the cold winter, and when the store just opened at five or six o'clock, they rushed in to drink a steaming bowl of "brain" soup. While drinking soup, I said a few words to my neighbors, and the new day was opened by this bowl of medicinal soup.