The New Year's Eve dinner is the most important meal of the year. The whole family gathers together, watching TV, eating delicious food, and talking about the achievements of the past year and looking forward to the new year. When the family is together, everyone is happy. Now let's introduce a special dish from Henan for the New Year's Eve dinner, "Sour Soup and Pi Zha".
【Name】
Sour Soup and Pi Zha
【Ingredients】
Main ingredients: Pi Zha
Auxiliary ingredients: yellow flower vegetables, green onion, ginger, star anise, salt, cooking wine, pepper, soy sauce, vinegar, MSG
【Recipe】
1. Cut the Pi Zha into strips and add salt and soy sauce.
2. Heat a little oil in a pot, stir-fry the green onion, ginger, and star anise until fragrant. Add the cut Pi Zha, add broth, salt, cooking wine, pepper, and soy sauce. Bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 5 minutes.
3. Add cleaned and cut yellow flower vegetables and continue to simmer. Add vinegar and MSG to adjust the taste.
【Notes】
Add vinegar in two parts, half when the dish is half done, and the other half when it is served. Add the yellow flower vegetables at the beginning.
【Nutritional Value】
There is a story about Pi Zha: In the Ming and Qing dynasties, there was a poor family in the suburbs of Zhangde Prefecture. One day, guests came to their house, but the family was too poor to afford meat, so they fried some vegetables and eggs and served them with wine.
They were planning to make a large pot of dish using the leftover noodles and Pi Zha from their house, but the noodles were all used up, and only a pile of noodle crumbs and Pi Zha crumbs were left. The host had no choice but to put the two kinds of crumbs into a pot of boiling water. However, there was too much water and the mixture became too thin. So, the host decided to thicken it with some flour paste. As a result, the mixture in the pot became thicker.
After a while, the host returned to the kitchen and found that the mixture in the pot had cooled down, but to his surprise, the noodle crumbs and Pi Zha crumbs had solidified into a block, even harder than usual cold noodles. So, the host cut the solidified noodle and Pi Zha mixture into pieces and cooked it together with other vegetables and tofu to make a "large pot dish" that people often eat. When the guests tasted it, they found the texture chewy and the taste delicate, feeling that they had never eaten such delicious food before. They asked the host what this delicacy was called, and the host thought for a moment and told them it was called "Pi Zha", the abbreviation of noodle crumbs.
