Chapter 321: Northeast Cuisine

"Now that the war on the Eastern Front and the Western Front has been resolved, there is only one Xue Yantuo left, and their solution is just around the corner. My Datang can have one more Anbei Protectorate to come out, and everyone can rest assured. ”

Whether it is Xue Rengui, or Xi Junmai or Wang Xuance, as well as Su Dingfang and Liu Renliang, these people are all generals left by Li Er to the new emperor, and now they are given to Li Ke.

Li Ke ran to Li Hao's side after getting off the court, and they came over with the old house. The purpose of their coming here is not only to do things in the court, but also to come to Li Hao's mansion to have a meal. This kind of habit is the atmosphere that Li Ke took the lead in getting it, and there was no such situation before.

Several dignitaries of the court sat together, drinking delicious food and wine, and then discussing some important matters. After forming a consensus first, we will go to the court to discuss it at that time. These things that were silent about what they had eaten before have long been thrown aside.

Because of the appearance of Li Hao, now the capital of the Tang Dynasty has appeared a lot in advance, and some changes have taken place. At present, there are four prefectures in four directions, which are responsible for the territory in each of the four directions, including future expansion.

"I always feel that these places are different from my Tang Gege, and I feel that I will wait for these places to calm down. Push the Duhu Mansion forward, and the original place will be included in the various roads of my Datang, and the ten roads of my Datang will also be changed. ”

In the early Tang Dynasty, the ten realms under its jurisdiction were too wide and not very convenient to manage. So Li Hao thinks that this can be changed, this model is too extensive.

"Zijia is right, it's time for these things to change. Now that the number of people in my Tang Dynasty is increasing day by day, and the income of the people is also increasing day by day, these things really need to change. Lao Fang groaned and replied.

Wei Zheng, who was kicked to Fusang by Li Er, was still on his way back to Chang'an, but Li Chengqian was not being recalled. Counting up, the three sons of Empress Changsun were all kicked out of Chang'an City, and only one princess of Jinyang remained. Li Ke, who was supposed to be cut in half, had a chance to win the championship, and I have to say that Li Hao has changed too many things.

"Huh? What kind of dish is Zijia serving today? Why haven't you seen it before? When chatting together, the banquet in the Li Mansion began at this time, but the dishes that came up were a little different from what Li Ke and they had seen before.

"Hehe, this is a new dish, a dish from the Northeast, Northeast cuisine." Li Hao smiled and introduced it to a few people, and the whole thing he made is really called Northeast cuisine, the Northeast cuisine of later generations.

The Northeast cuisine of later generations refers to the Northeast China, including the cooking dishes of Hei, Ji, Liao, Inner East, and Northeast Hebei. Due to the unique and unified human environment and natural environment in Northeast China, the food in Northeast China is highly similar, but there are also Ji cuisine, Liao cuisine, and Longjiang cuisine under the subdivision.

"Northeast cuisine? Is this a new dish created by Brother Hyun on the side of Tohoku Province? "Li Hao served as the governor of Northeast Province, so Li Ke said so. It's a fresh dish, and you have to try it.

"Why does this Northeast dish look like a stewed dish?" Li Jing glanced at the dishes on the table and asked a little curiously. Because of Li Er's sudden illness, the pressure on these people eased a lot. Li Ke was very tolerant of these old ministers who had made great contributions, and he didn't have any imperial tricks.

"Well, this dish is really called Northeast Stew." Li looked at the dishes and then replied with a smile.

Northeast stew, also known as the big harvest, is a traditional dish in the Northeast in later generations. Known as a "hodgepodge", it is a variety of vegetables such as beans, potatoes, eggplants, green peppers, tomatoes, and fungus, which are stewed together with meat until cooked. Northeast messy stew is simple and easy to cook, there are meat and vegetarian, nutritious, delicious and fragrant, it is a common Northeast home cooking.

The seasoning of this dish is only salt, allspice and pepper, but it can be varied and delicious. It is a delicacy that everyone in the Northeast can often eat, and when Li Hao went there to play in later generations, he never ate less. If you are particular about it, you can add Sichuan pepper and cinnamon to add color and fragrance.

Northeast stew does not require any cumbersome craftsmanship, the vegetables and meat are simply chopped, pushed into the pot, and the shelf is boiled on the fire. There is no need for delicate utensils to serve the dishes, and the stewed dishes are served in small iron pots, iron basins, or large bowls.

Looking at this stewing method, and then looking at the amount of dishes, all of them are full of the enthusiasm and affordability of the Northeast people, as well as a sense of boldness. You don't have to worry about not having enough dishes to eat Northeast stew, you can bring it up in a big bowl and use the Northeast dialect to make it.

Eating this Northeast stew, people's emotions are very important, and civilization and politeness are not touched. A table of people gathered around several large pots of steaming stews, chopsticks flying, laughing and scolding loudly. The wine glass was loud, his face was dripping with sweat, and when he was eating heartily, he was busy picking up vegetables with one hand, and laughed and cursed loudly in his mouth.

In the eyes of people in other places, this scene is simply a bandit, but this is the hearty embodiment of the Northeast people eating Northeast stew. Now such a situation is relatively rare in the city in later generations, but when you encounter big and small happy events in the countryside, you still often see it, and this is exactly the appetite of several people from the military, and the old house is no exception.

Among the "eight big" cuisines in later generations, Northeast cuisine was not ranked, but this did not hinder its business, and it was even called the "ninth major cuisine". Even in the south, far from its birthplace, Northeast cuisine can bloom like kapok, with enthusiasm and boldness.

The formation process of Northeast cuisine also incorporates some characteristics of other Eastern cuisines and Han Chinese cuisine. Northeast cuisine is characterized by a dish with multiple flavors, salty and sweet, a wide range of materials, sufficient heat, rich taste, strong color and umami, crispy and crispy, and the cooking method is longer than boiling, exploding, grilling, frying, burning, steaming, stewing, with slipping, frying, sauce, stewing as the main characteristics. Northeast cuisine pays attention to the boldness of eating and the enjoyment of eating, so the color in the color and fragrance is almost impossible to enter the hall, which is still different from other dishes.

Most people think that the representative dishes of Northeast cuisine are white meat and blood sausage, pork stewed vermicelli, pot wrapped meat, Northeast messy stew, chicken stewed hazel mushroom, slippery meat section, Di San Xian, grilled three white, bear paws, silk sweet potato, sauce skeleton, pig killing vegetables, etc., Northeast people like to eat sauerkraut and dipping pickles with vegetables dipped in soy sauce are also a major feature of Northeast diet that distinguishes it from other cuisines.

"It turns out that this is really called messy stew, you kid is not authentic, I will make this kind of dish. It's too unkind for you to deal with us with this kind of dish, isn't it? When the King of the River heard this, he laughed and scolded, this way seems so simple.

"That's different, you look at the side dishes of the dishes, many things are actually only available in the Northeast, naturally only the side dishes over there can stew this taste, so it's called Northeast Mess Stew!" Li Hao's Northeast stew will naturally not be a simple stew. Among all the dishes, there are many specialties from the Northeast.

Food raw materials and natural resources should be the decisive environmental factors of food culture, especially the food culture of human beings who rely more on nature itself. After a long period of great ecological changes, there are still 17 million hectares of natural forest area, accounting for 60% of the country's total forest resources.

Numerous species and abundance of animals inhabit the area, which, along with an abundance of plant-based mountain products, offer delicious food to the people here. The abundant waters provide humans with a wide variety and abundance of fish. The vast plains and grasslands are blessed with a paradise for animal husbandry.

According to the preliminary statistics of the food resources that were used as food in the Northeast in the 1419th century, the situation is roughly as follows: more than 70 species of poultry, more than 50 species of livestock and beasts, more than 100 species of fish, more than 60 species of fruits, more than 100 species of vegetables and vegetables, and more than 40 species of cereals.

Until the middle of the 20th century, most areas of Northeast China were still basically "beating roe deer and scooping fish, and pheasants flying to the rice pot are widely populated, which should be another very important cultural feature of the Northeast food culture circle that cannot be underestimated. The sparse population and vast living space in the Northeast region have determined the economic life of the simple "relying on the sky for food" model.

The pressure of the population on nature is so weak that it seems to be nothing, the ecological environment is almost in the state of the first text, and the consumption of the thin population is only a very small part of the countless natural products such as birds, animals, fish, fruits and vegetables. As a result, the Northeast region has maintained a state of basic equilibrium for a long time.

Until the beginning of this century, the food paradise of Northeast China was not seriously damaged by food stress. A reasonable coordination has been formed between the abundant food resources and the relatively scarce population, and in the process of the natural food chain cycle, there has not yet been the subversion and collapse of the trophic hierarchy caused by human insertion in many parts of the interior.

For a long time, the inhabitants of Northeast China have been animal husbandry, hunting, fishing, gathering, and planting in a rational order of production, and they are all based on meat (animals, poultry, fish, milk), supplemented by plant food (grains, vegetables and fruits) as a reasonable food structure.

The abundant winter storage is the clever creation of people's food culture in Northeast China. Due to the short frost-free period, people only eat local vegetables for about 6 months. In order to solve the need for vegetables in the long winter, the people of Northeast China, especially the people of the lower classes, have to dry a large number of dried vegetables in the summer when there are many varieties, large quantities and low prices.

In autumn, a large number of overwintering vegetables such as cabbage, radishes, and potatoes are stored in the kiln. At the same time, it is necessary to marinate a large number of sauerkraut and pickle various pickles with a variety of varieties. This is a historical tradition, and it is also a custom that has been preserved in the vast countryside until later generations.

"Well, then this chicken soup shouldn't be anything special, I have chickens all over the Tang Dynasty. Cook it in the pot and put some mushrooms, you can't say that this mushroom is also a specialty of the Northeast, right? A group of people listened to Li Hao's introduction of Northeast cuisine, and couldn't help but comment on the chicken soup that had just been served.