Old people in rural areas like to mash garlic in a bowl and mix it with noodles. Is this delicious?

Mash garlic and pour it into a noodle bowl. It's not only delicious, but also very delicious. In our rural areas in southern Henan (including small cities), this cooking method is almost a traditional food, called "garlic noodles".

So a special tool called garlic paste was produced. Serious garlic mortar is usually made of stone, that is, the cow trough is made of reddish-brown stone, and Gu Zhuo is heavy; Matching it is the "garlic hammer", because it is slender and fragile, and its substitute is often long and straight pebbles picked up from the river. These two things, after years of running-in, get along more and more, just like an intimate old couple. Later, with the machine-made processed products, this thing became a rare thing with collection value.

Some people are too poor to buy mashed garlic, or they don't buy mashed garlic when it is broken, and they want to eat mashed garlic noodles temporarily. Put peeled garlic into a bowl and mash it with a rolling pin. However, this strength should be properly balanced, and there are often reckless children who will break the bowl.

Rural people who go only want to eat, pay little attention to taste and nutrition, and the garlic noodles are sloppy. Add water and salt to the mashed garlic, or add some ingredients, such as agastache and clove. If the conditions are good, a few drops of freshly squeezed rapeseed oil will make the yellow flower garlic sweat; The noodles in the boiling pot can't be cooked thoroughly, just 70% or 80% ripe, otherwise they will be green and soft soon after soaking in water. Take out the cooked noodles with cold well water, scoop up a bowl full, sprinkle with oily garlic sweat, and stir well in the bowl. It's indescribable to come to such a bowl on a hot day.

When it comes to exquisiteness, there are many tricks. In addition to salt, monosodium glutamate, agastache rugosa and stone incense, garlic juice is also poured with a spoonful of authentic sesame oil, which makes people feel greedy. Sesame salt, stir-fry sesame seeds in an iron pan, and mash them into powder with garlic, and dry them. If you don't like meat, cut the washed cucumber, pumpkin or carrot into filaments as a side dish; Like to eat meat, there are stewed chicken, pork, cabbage vermicelli and other "toppings". When eating, sprinkle with garlic juice, sprinkle with sesame salt, serve with fresh shredded melon, and then pour with thick chicken soup or pork and cabbage vermicelli for stew, which is full of color and flavor and makes people's index fingers move.

Those who really eat garlic noodles generally do not pursue "topping". They are often just garlic juice, sesame salt, and vegetables cut into thin lines, mixed into cold noodles, which are smooth and delicious and the most authentic.

Nowadays, there are many kinds of garlic noodles, not to mention all kinds of side dishes and ingredients. Even the noodles are rolled out smoothly and evenly by machines. In order to make them bright and strong, chemicals such as whitening agent and gluten are even added. If you can't eat them all night, they will turn black the next day. Although the cooking methods are getting more and more sophisticated, you can't find the feeling before.