Chaoshan traditional food: red peach pattern

Japonica rice flour, glutinous rice, mushrooms, shrimps, chicken offal, peanuts, raw garlic.

condiments

Monosodium glutamate, pepper, fish sauce

working methods

Stir-fry glutinous rice, wet diced mushrooms, shrimps, diced chicken, fried peanuts and minced raw garlic in a frying pan, add monosodium glutamate, pepper and fish sauce, and make a heart filling.

Blanch glutinous rice flour with boiling water to make red peach skin. Rub the skin of hearts into long strips, knead it into a small piece, press it into a thin round skin, wrap it with stuffing, print it out with the skin, steam it in a steamer, or fry it in oil and eat it.

Famous comments

Chaozhou folk custom, on the eighth day of August, almost every family will make hearts, fermented peaches and white rice peaches. Heart and fermented grains should be placed in front of ancestors' graves to worship after eating, while white rice peaches are only used for eating. That's because chaozhou people thinks red is a symbol of good luck, and fermented grains need to be fermented in the production process, so it has a beautiful meaning of "fat".

The raw materials and making method of red peach skin are exactly the same as those of white rice peach, except that when boiled water is needed after rice noodles are steamed, a little rose food pigment is added to the boiled water to make the skin pink.

In the past, when chaozhou people cooked red hearts, he sometimes added a pigment called "safflower powder" to the boiled water. The chemical components contained in "safflower powder" are slightly harmful to the body after eating, so we advocate the use of food pigments and limit their use.

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Before boiling water, the glutinous rice flour must be steamed in a steamer, otherwise the skin of the red peach skin will be uncomfortable and stick to the teeth when eating.