TOP 01: An old-fashioned dessert, a non-meat meat dish
's "Sheep Tail" for family reunions, a vivid and sweet taste bud memory during the holidays!
In Deqing , in addition to meat and fish during the Spring Festival banquet, there are also many food lovers who always love to finish the desserts.
The most common desserts in Zhejiang that can be served on the banquet table are sweet and glutinous eight-treasure rice and rice cakes, but people in Deqing love to use the old-fashioned nostalgic sweet "Sheep Tail with Fine Sand" as a dessert when entertaining guests and hosting banquets during New Years and holidays. Dessert regular.
Perhaps, many people have this idea in their minds:
"Xisha Sheep Tail" is a dish related to mutton, thinking that it is a meat dish made with mutton as the main ingredient.
is actually not the case. This is a misunderstanding.
Sheep tail with fine sand is actually a local traditional sweet dish and has nothing to do with sheep.
Because its appearance looks similar to sheep's tail, it is called "fine sand sheep's tail".
Seeing this, are you surprised and surprised? It's obviously a food named after "sheep", but it has nothing to do with it? If it has nothing to do with sheep, how is it made?
Please read below, I will introduce to you in detail how to make the traditional sweet dish "Sheep Tail with Fine Sand".
Top 02: Jiangnan flavor that is not "sheep" but "foreign"
Most people must have this concept in their minds, and feel that the preparation of a main dish must be more complicated than the preparation of a traditional dessert.
In other words, the preparation of the "lamb tail with fine sand" that can easily be mistaken for a main dish should be relatively simple.
However, this is not the case.
Making lamb tail with fine sand can be roughly divided into four steps. Each step is very particular and tests the chef's cooking skills. Any wrong step will have an impact on the production of this traditional dessert that cannot be underestimated.
1, select materials
fine bean paste ( red bean ), cooked lard, sugar, egg white, starch, salad oil or cooking oil.
2, making
has the word "fine sand" in the name of the dish, so the first step is to use fine bean paste, not coarse.
Put the selected fine bean paste, which is often referred to as red beans, into a pot and cook until it becomes mushy, squeeze it into bean juice , add water, add lard, and white sugar and stir evenly for filling.
Prepare egg whites, which should not be mixed with egg yolks or eggshells. There should be no water in the basin containing the egg whites. Add an appropriate amount of starch, but not too much. The beaten egg foam should not be left for too long and should be used as soon as possible.
The oil used for frying should be white and clean, without other impurities or other colors.
You can choose a mild oil temperature when you first put it into the pot, and you can increase the oil temperature when you take it out of the pot.
Every step is very particular, which tests the chef's cooking skills. It tests their selection of ingredients, preparation of meat fillings, and control of oil temperature. They must be precise and meticulous in order to complete this dish. Traditional sweets are prepared.
Its product must not only look like "sheep tail", but also taste authentic, so that it can be regarded as a must-have traditional sweet at Huzhou banquets, and it is also the first choice dish to test the chef's cooking skills.
Top 03: Lamb tail, pig tail, crispy on the inside, smooth in the mouth
fine sand sheep tail shaped like puff , with a sweet and crispy outer shell, moist but not greasy inside. The sweet and nostalgic old-fashioned taste of
carries the beautiful expectations of people from all over the world for family reunion and sweet life.
Although lamb tail with fine sand is just a traditional dessert and not the main dish, its position in the hearts of local people cannot be underestimated. It is a must-have dessert at Huzhou banquets.
Because this dessert tastes sweet, most people will have a dessert at their banquets. It symbolizes the sweetness of life, and it is also the first choice dish to identify chefs with superb cooking skills.
Lamb tail with fine sand is not only a must-have dessert at the banquet, but also a local delicacy full of Chinese New Year flavor. It is also one of the special intangible cultural heritage delicacies. Many inheritors highly recommend this dessert.
So, can such a sweet dish that occupies an important position in the hearts of local people only be eaten in the south?
Actually, this is not the case. There is also such a sweet dish in the north.
However, its name is not Xisha Sheep Tail, but a more straightforward and popular name: Xueyi Bean Paste.
Whether it is the fine sandy sheep's tail in the south or the snowy bean paste in the north, they are all traditional sweets in my country. Their existence is indispensable and they are must-have delicacies on people's dining tables at a certain moment. .
