Chapter XII Winter Solstice 1

December 22 is the winter solstice day of the 24 solar terms. In South Korea, the winter solstice is also a relatively important lunar festival. On the day of the winter solstice, there is a custom of eating red bean porridge in Korea. The ancients believed that eating red bean porridge on the winter solstice could grow one year old.

The ancients believed that the red color of red beans could drive away ghosts and gods, so in ancient times, in addition to placing red bean porridge in the ancestral hall to worship ancestors, a bowl of red bean porridge or sprinkled porridge was placed in every corner of the house to ward off evil spirits and pray for a safe new year. Although the winter solstice is not as grand as the Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival in South Korea, in order to pray for the peace and health of the family next year, drinking red bean porridge is indeed indispensable.

South Korea eats adzuki bean porridge on the winter solstice, but this porridge is not a porridge made of rice with a few adzuki beans, but a porridge made by boiling adzuki beans first, then peeling them into sand, and boiling them with the rice that has been soaked before, and small balls made of glutinous rice noodles are also put in it. When eating, according to personal taste, there are those with salt and some with sugar. [This is good, there is no salty and sweet dispute. 】

Yesterday, my mother-in-law called Xiaoli and asked her to go home with Li Shenxing for the winter solstice.

Fortunately, Xiaoli's itinerary is not much in the past few days, so he adjusted it with his agent, and after eating at noon, he drove back to his parents' house with Li Shenxing.

Uncle Lee's family runs a farm on Jeju Island, so there is no shortage of meat to eat here, and every week or two, his uncle will send beef, pork, and sometimes mutton from Jeju Island, as well as fresh and valuable seafood.

I just received fresh beef and pork yesterday, so I went to my parents-in-law's house today and brought a lot of them as holiday gifts.

Because dumplings are eaten on the winter solstice in northern China, when he passed by the vegetable market on his way to his parents-in-law's house, Li Shenxing asked Xiaoli to wait in the car, and he went to the vegetable market to buy the ingredients needed to make dumpling fillings.

He plans to make dumplings with two fillings, pork and mushroom filling and pork leek filling, and the dumpling skin has to be made by himself, and you can also dye the dumpling skin with some vegetable juice, which is delicious and beautiful.

By the time Li Shenxing came out of the vegetable market, half an hour had passed.

After putting the ingredients in the trunk, I opened the car door and sat in, and saw Hyo-ri making a phone call.

"Ne, Ne, he's back now, we'll be there later, so be it, okay, got it. ”

After Xiaoli hung up the phone, Li Shenxing asked, "Is it my mother calling?"

"Yes, seeing that we haven't been home for so long, call to ask, I told her that you went grocery shopping and made dumplings to eat today. ”

"Just drive over now. ”

Start the car and head to your parents-in-law's house

After parking the car, Li Shenxing and Xiaoli took their things and walked into the house, knowing that they were almost there, the door outside the house was just hidden and not closed tightly.

When I came to the living room, the eldest sister had already brought the child, and the father-in-law did not go out to find someone to chat, and the group of people in the family were chatting while rubbing the glutinous rice balls needed to cook red bean porridge.

"Ouch~!Our new son-in-law Shen Xing is here~!"

Facing the eldest sister sitting in the direction of the door, her sharp eyes saw Li Shenxing walking in for the first time.

"Hello eldest sister, it's been a long time, Yingshuo, Chanzhen, do you two miss me~!"

Li Shenxing stepped forward to say hello with a smile.

"Uncle, hello~!" the older Yingshuo greeted Li Shenxing loudly.

And the young Chan really followed behind shyly and whispered milkily, "Hello, uncle~!"

"That's good~!" Li Shenxing squatted down and took out two Transformers toys from the bag, "Look what this is?"

"Wow~!Transformers~!" Eishuo exclaimed excitedly.

Although Chan Zhen didn't scream, he also stared at the toy in Li Shenxing's hand with shining eyes.

"Now, this is a gift from your uncle, do you like it?" Li Shenxing handed the Transformers to them separately.

"I like it~!thank you, uncle!" Yingshuo took the gift and thanked him loudly.

"Thank you, uncle~!" may be due to the toy, Chan Zhen is not so shy now, and he also thanked Li Shenxing loudly.

Li Shenxing smiled and rubbed the hair of the two of them, "Let's go play!"

The two children happily ran to the side and played with the toys they had just arrived.

"Be careful, it's a waste of money to be given to them to buy toys again. The mother-in-law was happy to see that he was happily with the child, but still nagged him to spend money indiscriminately.

"It's okay to see them once. Li Shenxing smiled and didn't care.

"Doll Mom, I bought the filling to make dumplings, today I will make you authentic Chinese dumplings, most of the winter solstice in northern China is to eat dumplings for the festival, there are many types of fillings for dumplings, today I made pork shrimp mushroom filling and pork leek filling. ”

Seeing that the meatballs they made were almost finished, Li Shenxing said to the second sister: "Second sister, you and Xiaoli help me deal with the dishes, and I'll make the dough stuffing first." ”

"As soon as you came, you knew that you were calling me, so you came and pulled me up. The second sister stretched out her hand full of glutinous rice flour and gestured to Xiaoli.

Unexpectedly, Xiaoli turned around and pretended not to see it and walked into the kitchen following Li Shenxing's footsteps.

"Oba, I'll help you. ”

"Ah, you stinky girl. The second sister hurriedly got up and chased Xiaoli into the kitchen.

In the next second, the people in the living room heard the sound of bickering from the kitchen.

"Alas~!These two girls still love to talk so much, and they don't get tired of it after so many years. The eldest sister shook her head speechlessly.

"They're not tired, I'm tired of hearing them. The mother-in-law said disgustedly

"Wow~!!" Everyone was amazed by Li Shenxing's craftsmanship.

Li Shenxing first kneaded the awakened dough into strips, then cut them into small balls of about the same size, and then took the rolling pin and rolled out the two doughs at one time.

Take a dumpling wrapper, scoop a spoonful of filling and put it in the middle, only to see his hand closed, and when he opened it again, a wrapped dumpling appeared, not what everyone generally sees, round and very cute.

On a whim, Li Shenxing used all the tricks and wrapping methods he learned to make dumplings one by one.

Sunflower dumplings, triangular dumplings, four-cornered dumplings, ingots dumplings, crescent moon dumplings, fish-shaped dumplings, etc., and finally two rabbits were pinched out with dough.

"Shen Xing's hand is skillful, this rabbit is just like the real thing. The mother-in-law sighed.

After seeing the excitement, everyone started to make dumplings together.

Li Shenxing looked at the two kinds of dumplings that had been wrapped in two large trays, so he took them to the kitchen to cook them first, and asked everyone to eat some first to try the taste, and by the way, they got out the sauce for dipping the dumplings.

Boiled dumplings need to be rolled three times before they are fully cooked, and the water is boiled once to once in cold water, three times in a row, and when the dumplings are floated up, it means that they are fully cooked.

The sauce is not difficult to make, Li Shenxing first took out a soup bowl and put minced garlic, green onion foam, chili powder, sugar, and sesame seeds into it, and then poured in hot oil, soy sauce and some water were boiled in the pot and poured into the soup bowl, so that it was more fragrant and not too salty.

Li Shenxing didn't put vinegar in the sauce, and when he was waiting to eat, who wanted to eat it himself.

Use a colander to scoop up the dumplings and put them on a plate, put them on the table, and take out the bowls and set them up.

After finishing it, Li Shenxing shouted towards the living room: "Let's stop for a while, the dumplings are cooked, and the puppet parents will come and try the taste while they are hot." ”

"Oh~!oh~!eat dumplings~!" The first thing to compare was the two children.

The adults also put down their work and got up to wash their hands and eat dumplings.

Li Shenxing specially left a small bowl of sauce without chili pepper for the children in advance, and put them on small plates in front of them.

Hyo-ri was the first to wash his hands and run to the dining table, and directly reached out to pick up an orange dumpling and put it in his mouth.

"Ahh "It's delicious, the mushroom flavor is strong, and the filling is very full, juicy and fresh. ”

Li Shenxing added a cool green dumpling to her, "Try this pork and leek filling." ”

"Hmm~!" Xiaoli chewed heavily, and before he could swallow it, he commented: "The pork and leeks are also delicious, but I prefer the pork and shiitake mushroom filling." ”

At this time, the mother-in-law who came slapped her ass on the ass in her heart and reprimanded: "Don't talk when you eat, swallow it in your stomach and talk, otherwise it will be difficult to open." ”

"Inner, Araso~!" replied with a pout.

"Mom, sit down, it tastes better while it's hot. Li Shenxing pulled his mother-in-law to the seat and sat down, packed the spices and put them in front of her.

"Sit down and eat, don't patronize me. The mother-in-law said to Li Shenxing with a kind face.

"I'll be eating when they're all here. At this time, the father-in-law also came over, "Puppet father is next to puppet mother, I have prepared the sauce for you, do you want to add vinegar to it?"

"Add a little more!" said my father-in-law, sitting down.

After adding vinegar to his father-in-law, Li Shenxing asked his mother-in-law: "Add a little bit to your mother-in-law, jealousy can soften blood vessels." ”

"Okay, listen to the prudent ones, add some. ”

Whatever he said, my mother felt good. Hyo-ri muttered jealously.

After everyone arrived, they tasted the dumplings made by themselves.

"Oh~! ”

"The mushroom filling is very sweet. ”

"I think the leeks are more delicious. ”

"The taste of making it yourself is different, it's delicious. ”

Basically, the ratio of support for both fillings is split half, and although both flavors of dumplings are delicious, there is always a taste that I prefer.