What kind of food does Xiaohan eat?

Xiaohan’s delicacies include mutton hot pot, vegetable rice, sugar-fried chestnuts, etc.

1. Mutton hot pot:

In northern my country and most of the southern regions, there has always been a tradition of eating mutton hot pot in Xiaohan. This kind of cold weather is not a big deal. It’s something that a hot pot meal can’t cure, let alone a delicious mutton hot pot. Choose the front leg meat or hind leg meat of the goat and cut it into large "dice pieces" for easy ripening and flavor. If you can buy high-quality lamb rolls, they are also a good choice. Put the mutton pieces into enough water and soak them in the blood-removing water to remove the fishy smell. Put it in a pot under cold water and blanch it to remove the fishy smell. Pour water into the hot pot, add onions and ginger, and when the water is hot, add the blanched mutton pieces.

Add cooking wine and pepper, open the lid and bring to a boil. Then, cover and cook over medium heat for 20 minutes, then add salt for simple seasoning, and simmer until crispy. Put the stewed mutton into a bowl, and then add chopped green onion, pepper, cumin powder, small pieces of coriander, MSG or chicken powder, oily chili, etc. according to your personal preference. The soup base is rich in the delicious flavor of mutton. It is delicious no matter what you cook. After eating the mutton, you can add lettuce, chrysanthemum, fungus, spinach, Chinese cabbage, vermicelli, tofu and other hot-boiled vegetables and side dishes according to your personal preference. . Finally, don’t forget to cook a few bowls of fresh noodles, that’s called fresh noodles. After eating this mutton hotpot, I didn't feel cold all day long.

2. Vegetable rice:

In areas south of the Yangtze River such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai, especially Shanghai, there has always been a tradition of Xiaohan eating vegetable rice. It's okay to eat some white rice on a regular basis, but Xiaohan's rice can't be vague, so he needs something high in calories. 300 grams of rice or fragrant rice, washed and soaked for 1 hour. Cut 150 grams of sausage or sausage into small dices, and 150 grams of bacon or bacon into dices the size of soybeans. Drain the water from the soaked rice, put it into a rice steamer or rice cooker, and pour in water that covers the surface of the rice by 1 cm. Be sure to choose Shanghai green rapeseed, wash it and cut it into fine pieces, pour in an appropriate amount of vegetable oil, add 2 grams of salt and 3 grams of sugar, and stir-fry until the aroma is released. Add the fried minced rapeseed, diced sausage or sausage, bacon or bacon into the rice, stir evenly, and steam until cooked. Authentic Shanghainese vegetable rice requires a spoonful of pork or lard residue to be considered authentic.

3. Roasted chestnuts with sugar:

When it comes to Xiaohan’s delicacies, roasted chestnuts with sugar are definitely one of them. At this time of year, people will be attracted by this fragrance even if they are walking on the street. The air is filled with the aroma of chestnuts mixed with caramel aroma. Making sugar-roasted chestnuts at home is relatively simple, and an oven is enough to solve all problems. Be sure to choose "oiled chestnuts". Peeling and shelling are easy, just clean them and wipe away any moisture on the surface. Make a "cross" pattern on the surface of the chestnut shell, and mix the chestnuts with a small amount of corn oil to prevent the chestnuts from burning. Place in the middle rack of the oven, heat up and down to 200 degrees, and bake for 25 minutes. Prepare 30 grams of fine sugar or honey, add 10 grams of hot water to melt the fine sugar or mix the honey thoroughly. Use a small brush to evenly apply a layer of sugar water or honey water on the surface of the chestnuts, focusing on the openings. Return to the oven and bake for 5-10 minutes, and you can enjoy the sweet and fragrant sugar-roasted chestnuts.

4. Glutinous rice:

In the Guangdong and Guangxi regions, Xiaohan has always had the tradition of eating "glutinous rice". Generally, 60% of the glutinous rice is mixed with 40% of the fragrant rice and steamed. Chop the bacon and sausage into pieces and stir-fry them, add them to the steamed glutinous rice, add fried peanuts, sprinkle with chopped green onion, mix well and eat.

Xiaohan is the 23rd solar term among the twenty-four solar terms, the fifth solar term in winter, the end of the Zi month and the beginning of the Chou month. Douzhigui; the sun's yellow longitude is 285°; it is celebrated every year on January 5-7 of the Gregorian calendar. Cold air accumulates for a long time and becomes cold. Xiaohan means that the weather is cold but not yet extreme. Like the Great Cold, Minor Heat, Great Heat and End of Heat, it is a solar term that expresses changes in temperature. The characteristic of Xiaohan solar term is that it is cold, but it is not extremely cold.