China traditional famous dish Sixi refers to.

The traditional New Year's Eve dinner is at least divided into appetizers, lunches and after meals. Appetizers usually start with chicken and fish, and several cold dishes are stir-fried. Lunch begins with big dishes, mainly slippery dishes, semi-soup dishes and hot dishes; After lunch, we will serve 1-2 dessert dishes, and then a few soup dishes to prepare for jiaozi. So, the highlight of the New Year's Eve dinner is lunch, so which dish does lunch start with? There is no doubt that it must be a "four happy encounters" and a traditional Shandong cuisine. Sixixiangxiang meatballs are mainly made of pork stuffing, diced water chestnuts and Xinyi granules, which are fried first and then cooked into dishes, implying four happy events: celebration, auspiciousness, longevity and happiness. It is a traditional famous dish, which means good luck and happiness. Sixi Meetballs, many people who have eaten it know the allusions, but not many people really know the allusions. On New Year's Eve, Fu Lushou went home happily.

Many people have eaten these four happy meatballs, most of them have, but not many people really know the historical allusions of this dish. According to legend, in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Zhang Jiuling High School, which ranked first in the country in the imperial examination and was poorly dressed, was recruited as Xu by Tang Gaozong. At that time, there was a flood in my hometown in Zhang Jiuling, and my parents ran away from home, and there was no news. They searched everywhere and finally found the whereabouts of their parents. Family reunion coincides with Zhang Jiuling's wedding, which is a double happiness. The chef specially made a dish, and after serving it, there were four big round balls, which said "four joys": one joy is the first; Hill just got married; Sanxi family reunion; Sixi is a son-in-law Since then, this kind of four-happiness ball has been popular all over the country and has become a necessary dish for wedding banquets, wedding banquets, birthday banquets and important family banquets.

In many people's eyes, it is a myth that the four joys meet, and the lion's head braised in brown sauce in Shandong cuisine and Huaiyang cuisine is the same dish, but it is recorded in different cuisines. There are many differences between Four Joy Meetballs and braised lion's head in making methods, details, ingredients selection, cooking methods and other details. Much like it, but smaller. These four happy meatballs are recorded in all major cuisines, and the production methods are also different, and there are many versions among the people. In short, what you like is the best, so you don't have to stick to it.

When making four-happiness meatballs, the ratio of fat to thin should be appropriate. Generally, fat meat accounts for 20-30% and lean meat accounts for 7-8 portions. Fine pork belly and fat on hind legs are ideal materials. Only by using the method of "finely cutting and roughly chopping" and chopping it into fine particles can we get the rich and soft texture of Sixi meet meatballs. If you want to save trouble, you can also use a meat grinder. You must grind it with a big board eye, and you must not grind it too finely, so it is not doing four happy parties.

Today, seasoning is carried out according to the proportion of "one catty of meat stuffing": soak a bowl of Jiang Shui with onion and ginger in advance, and put 500 grams of meat stuffing in a slightly larger dish basin for easy operation. Add 5g of salt, 2g of monosodium glutamate, 0.5g of pepper, 5g of soy sauce/kloc-0, 5 g of cooking wine, and egg white 1 block, and stir evenly by hand. Pay attention to stir the meat into a circle in one direction, while stirring, add a small amount of 100g onion Jiang Shui for many times, and beat the meat until the meat is pressed up.

The traditional four-party ball can not be separated from the "horseshoe", also known as "horseshoe". Peel after cleaning, about 100g. There is a trick for water chestnut: don't cut it, just pat it gently. First pat the side of the kitchen knife and pat it loose; Take another picture and take it away; For the last time, break it This can form uniform and delicate particles, and it tastes more textured.

Stir the minced meat evenly again, set aside for 1-2 hours, and then stir-fry Four Joy Meetballs: pour a lot of vegetable oil into the pot, at least not over Four Joy Meetballs. Such a catty of pure meat stuffing can fry about 6 standard Four Joy Meetballs. Divide the meat stuffing into six equal parts in advance, keep the oil temperature at least 60% hot, about 180 degrees, and heat it on medium heat. Take out a portion of meat stuffing, scrape it back and forth in the palms of your hands, reunite the meatballs, and then put them in the oil next to the oil surface. Don't turn it over at first, fry it until the surface of the meatballs is brownish red, and take out the oil control.

Put the wok on the stove, pour in 30 grams of base oil, add 2 star anise, 5 grams of cinnamon and 3 fragrant leaves, and stir-fry over low heat to give a fragrance. Add 30 grams of green onion and 20 grams of ginger slices, stir fry until fragrant, pour 30 grams of soy sauce, and pour enough boiling water after the sauce is fragrant. Add four fried Four Joy Meetballs, add 5g of salt, 5g of sugar, 2g of monosodium glutamate, 3g of soy sauce and 30g of cooking wine, and fire for15min, then cease fire.

Choose a suitable concave bowl, put the four cooked Joy Luck Club balls into the tray, blanch four rapeseed seeds in advance and let them cool, then decorate them with crosses or circles, and put a wolfberry on them, which means happiness and good luck. Filter four soup cooked by Joy Meetballs with a colander, remove the soup residue, and take two spoonfuls and pour them into the pot. After boiling again, hook in about 50 grams of water starch and make it into transparent juice. Pour 5g of frying oil and 3g of sesame oil to brighten it, then pour it on the four balls to form a base juice with even bottom, and serve the four wedding balls. Sixi Meetballs, many people who have eaten it know the origin, but not many people really know the origin. Fu Lushou, New Year's Eve, is happy to be served.

Try not to put chopped green onion and ginger into these four happy party balls. Chopped green onion is easy to fry, and ginger is absolutely taboo for people who don't eat ginger. Use Jiang Shui with chopped green onion. In traditional Four Joy Meetballs, magnolia granules are also used, that is, bamboo shoots are soaked and cut into small particles. In some areas, diced mushrooms can be added according to personal hobbies, but the total amount must be controlled. If water chestnut is out of season, it can also be replaced with crisp yam and lotus root, which is the second best remedy in the past.