Is there any traditional food in the slight cold season?

The slight cold to the severe cold coincides with March 9, which means that the day of going out and freezing into a dog is coming, so there is a saying that "the slight cold is frozen into a ball". Every solar term has certain customs, many of which are reflected in traditional food. So, do you know what traditional food Han Xiao should eat?

What are the traditional cuisines of Xiaohan?

polished glutinous rice

Cantonese people want to eat glutinous rice on a cold day. This is mainly because the slight cold is in the middle of winter, so it is necessary to eat some warm food to resist the cold, while glutinous rice is warm, which has the effect of tonifying the middle warmer, benefiting qi and nourishing the spleen and stomach, and has a good nourishing effect on spleen and stomach deficiency and cold. Eating glutinous rice in moderation in winter can keep out the cold and keep warm.

The practice of glutinous rice varies from place to place, salty and sweet. Cantonese people must have sausages and bacon when cooking glutinous rice. These two things are the soul of the whole pot of glutinous rice. Specific practices:

1. Wash glutinous rice and soak it in clear water for 2 hours. If you are in a hurry, you can soak in hot water.

2. Wash the sausage and bacon and cut them into dices. After the mushrooms are soaked, cut into pieces. Dice carrots and shred parsley.

3. Wash and soak the shrimp;

4. stir-fry dried peanuts;

5. Wash a proper amount of rice, mix it with the soaked glutinous rice, add fried peanuts, sausages, bacon, mushrooms, carrots and shrimps, add a proper amount of water, and cook with an electric cooker or electric pressure cooker.

6. After deflation, uncover the lid, put in the parsley section, stir all the ingredients evenly with a rice spoon, and a pot of fragrant glutinous rice will be ready.

Laba porridge

Generally speaking, slight cold is close to Laba Festival, so many places have the custom of eating Laba porridge on this day. Laba porridge has many ingredients, mainly glutinous rice, rice, black rice, red beans, peanuts, millet, chestnuts, raisins, longan, lotus seeds, brown sugar, broken nuts and so on. The ingredients used in the north and south are not the same. Eating a bowl of hot porridge rich in ingredients in the cold solar term of slight cold can not only increase appetite, but also warm the stomach and drive away cold, which has the effect of driving away cold.