Chapter 522: Pea Yellow

Pea yellow, also known as pea yellow, is a traditional snack in Beijing and a seasonal delicacy in Beijing's spring. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe pea yellow of the Qing Palace, made of high-quality white peas, is famous for Cixi's favorite food; Folk brown pea yellow is a typical spring food, which is commonly found in spring temple fairs. Peas are usually made by grinding, peeling, washing, boiling, sugar-frying, curdling, and dicing. After the waste product, the appearance is light yellow, the taste is sweet, and it is cool and refreshing.

Pea Huanger was originally a folk snack of the Han nationality, usually made with small jujubes, commonly known as rough pea Huanger, in temple fairs and other places, placed in a wheelbarrow covered with a wet blue cloth to sell. Later, it was introduced into the court, improved by the Qing Palace's imperial dining room, commonly known as fine pea huanger, and kidney bean cake, Xiaowo No. 1 is the same as the palace snack.

To make pea yellow, you need to prepare 230g of peeled and boring yellow peas, 2g of baking soda, 65g of white sugar, and an appropriate amount of water. Wash and drain the peas first, mix well with baking soda, soak them in water, and let them stand for 5-6 hours. After soaking for 5-6 hours, pour off the soda, rinse with water 4-5 times, drain and put it in a pot, add water and boil, the amount of water should be 4-5 cm below the peas. During the boiling process, white foam will float and should be skimmed off. After the water is boiled, then reduce the heat to medium and continue to cook until most of the peas bloom and are crispy.

Stir in the once soft pea soup and try to break the peas as much as possible. Strain the pea paste through a strainer to turn the peas into a fine, thick paste. After adding sugar to the pea paste, mix well, put it back on the fire and continue to heat, simmer until thick, and remove the peas from the heat until the paste is semi-solid instead of liquid. Pour it into the mold, scrape the surface flat, place it at room temperature until the temperature is slightly lower, not hot, and then put it in the refrigerator. Refrigerate for more than 4 hours, remove from the mold, cut into pieces and serve.

Prepare white peas, alkali, sugar. Use the best white peas, grind and peel them slightly, and soak them in cold water 3 times. Boil the peeled peas into the pot with boiling water in a copper pot, add alkali, boil the peas into porridge, then take the original soup through the basket, put the pea porridge into the pot with sugar, and fry for 30 minutes. In the process of frying, you must use a wooden board to pick up the experiment at any time, such as the bean paste flowing down very slowly, the bean paste that flows down is not immediately blended with the bean paste in the pot, but gradually forms a pile, and then gradually blends with the bean paste in the pot, you can get out of the pot. After the pot of bean paste poured into the white iron mold, covered with lubricated tissue paper to avoid cracks, it can also be cleaned, and it becomes pea yellow after cooling.

It requires 500 grams of peeled dried pea paste and 350 grams of sugar. Soak the pea paste until soft, put water and alkaline noodles in a stainless steel plate, boil the beans, and then pass through the basket. If the beans are fried too tender and have too much moisture, it is not easy to cut into pieces when solidifying, and if they are too old, they will appear cracks after solidification, which will affect the appearance. In the process of frying, it is necessary to use a wooden board to scoop up the experiment, such as the bean paste flowing down very slowly, just pile it into a pile. Pour into a plate, let cool and cut into small pieces.

Prepare dried peas, sugar, sugar osmanthus or honey, agar. Wash the peeled dried peas and soak them in water for at least 4 hours. Put the soaked peas into a pot, add water 3 times the volume of the peas, and cook until the peas are soft and cool. Then put the boiled soft peas and an appropriate amount of water into a food processor and grind them finely, pour out the peas and sieve them, so that they can be more delicate. Soak the agar until soft, add a little water to a small pot and cook until it melts.

Put the filtered peas into a pan, add sugar and melted agar and stir-fry to remove excess water. Pour the pea puree into a flat-bottomed container, cover with a damp cloth and let it cool, then wrap it in plastic wrap, put it in the refrigerator and refrigerate it. The color of the waste product is light yellow, delicate, pure, melts in the mouth, the taste is sweet, cool and fast.

Peas contain substances such as canaic acid, gibberellin and phytolectin, which have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects; It also contains abundant lysine, which can stimulate the secretion of pepsin and gastric acid, improve the secretion of gastric juice, and play a role in promoting appetite. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it can help urination, quench thirst, and lower qi, detoxify sores, reduce inflammation, remove heat heat, and have the effect of lowering blood pressure, removing fat, and losing weight.

White sugar is a pure caloric substance, which is high in calories but lacks nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, and proteins. In addition to inducing obesity, it also stimulates the brain to release dopamine and is addictive. In addition, if you eat sweets regularly, your skin is prone to problems such as pimples and seborrheic dermatitis.

I heard that one day Cixi was sitting in Beihai and meditating on the cold side, when she suddenly heard the sound of gongs and shouts coming from the street, and she was puzzled and hurriedly asked what she was doing. Cixi was happy for a while, and ordered this person to be called into the garden. When the visitor saw Lafayette, he hurriedly knelt down, and held the kidney bean roll and pea yellow in both hands, and asked Lafayette to appreciate the light. Cixi tasted it, praised it, and left this person in the palace, and specially made pea yellow and kidney bean rolls for her.

Yam cake is a delicious Chinese pastry food, which is a traditional cake medicinal food with a sweet taste. It has the effect of strengthening the spleen and kidneys. Wash the yams, steam them in the upper drawer and let them cool. Steam the flour. Divide the sugar into two parts, one part with red pigment and mix it into pink powder, and the other part with green pigment and mix it into green sugar powder. Mix with powdered sugar with a little flavor.

Peel off the skin of the steamed yam, knead it into a puree, add 50 grams of cooked flour, knead it into a dough, and then divide it into two pieces. Take a small piece of yam dough, roll it into 13 cm square pieces, then roll out the Chengsha filling into pieces of the same size, and put it on top of the yam dough pieces. Cut the cake into 3 mm thick slices and spread it on top of the sand filling. Roll out another piece of yam dough into pieces of the same size and spread it flat on top of the cake slices. Then change the knife and cut it into two pieces of the same size. Sprinkle one of the pieces with pink powdered sugar and the other with light green powdered sugar. Assemble the red and green yam cakes, cut them into 4 strips, and then cut each into 5 pieces to put them in the drawer.

The flower color is beautiful, the fragrance is sweet, and it is rich in sugar and protein. The meat of yam is delicate and contains a lot of nutrients and health care substances. "Shennong's Materia Medica" is said to be "the main health in the deficiency, in addition to the cold and heat evil qi, in the replenishment of qi, in the muscles, long-term service ears and eyes smart"; ((Rihuazi Materia Medica" says that it "helps the five organs, invigorates the muscles and bones, soothes the nerves, and treats **forgetfulness"; The "Compendium of Materia Medica" believes that yam can "benefit the kidneys, strengthen the spleen and stomach, stop diarrhea and dysentery, dissolve paralysis and salivation, and moisten the fur". Recent studies have shown that yam has the effect of inducing the production of interferon and strengthening the body's immune function.

The choline and lecithin contained in it help to improve people's memory, and regular food can strengthen the body and delay aging, which is a good health care product that people like. Bionic food made of yam and konjac is a rare healthy and nutritious food with the effects of rich nutrition, nourishing fitness, and beauty and beauty.