The eleventh dish of the Shao Tai Banquet: 24-flavored wontons with 24 different fillings.
A snack is wrapped in twenty-four different patterns and colors, and the fillings are prepared according to the vegetables corresponding to the solar terms.
If it weren't for the Chinese New Year, Yu Jian would really not want to make such a complicated snack.
Cabbage at the beginning of winter, tofu at the beginning of snow; eggplant at the beginning of autumn, lotus roots at the beginning of summer; wild rice at the beginning of spring, leeks at the awakening of insects; lettuce at the beginning of summer, cowpeas at the white dew...
The ancients were much more particular about food than modern people. Yu Jianyou remembers that in the early years of Kaiyuan, Guanglu Temple once held a luxurious banquet, and the dishes prepared even amazed foreign friends.
This Shengjin Twenty-Four Qi Wonton is one of them.
Yu Jian picked a few dark-colored vegetables, squeezed them into juice, added them to the flour, and kneaded them into dough. Then she kneaded different-colored doughs together to create new colors.
The people of the Tang Dynasty mastered colors just like their attainments in poetry, full of romance and fantasy. Vermilion, purple, bright yellow, ice orange, crystal white, jet black, verdant, fruit green, only you can't imagine it, but without them we can't do it
.
Approximately the gradient colors we have now could have been made at that time, Yu Jian thought to herself, the movements of her hands were not ambiguous at all.
After the doughs of different colors are rolled out, the main task is to adjust the fillings. The vegetables must be paired with meat, seafood, and seasonings to achieve a nourishing effect.
Yu Jian directed Yu Jianguo to chop the vegetables she had prepared into fine pieces, then grind the meat into minced meat, and began to mix them one by one.
During the rainy season, spring bamboo shoots are the freshest, mixed with diced bacon and wrapped in white dough into the shape of pear blossoms; Qingming spinach is the sweetest, mixed with clam meat and shaped into pink azaleas; Xiaoman's cucumber is the crispiest, with added
Add egg cubes to make purple iris...
"This is too troublesome..." Yu Jianguo sighed while chopping vegetables. Eating a meal is not an easy task.
"Don't be too tired. You'll know how good it is when it comes out of the pot." Suddenly, her mind flashed back to Da Shoutao from the past few days, and she looked at her father with a strange look in her eyes.
Maybe her father's aesthetic level is at that level and he can't appreciate the beauty of these wontons?
After thinking this, Yu Jian felt relieved.
"Hey, what are you two busy with?" Yu Jianping opened the door and came in. He looked at the colorful table set up and became interested.
"Jian is making wontons!" Yu Jianguo rubbed his wrists angrily, his hands were sore from cutting vegetables.
Yu Jianping picked up a pink wonton and observed it carefully. The color was tender and lovely, and it was also shaped into a flower. From a distance, it looked like a blooming peach blossom.
Could this be...
"Twenty-four solar terms wontons?" His eyes widened in disbelief.
"Yes! Uncle Jianping is knowledgeable! Dad, you should read more books when you have time..." Yu Jian nodded in surprise, there are still people who know about this dish. Then she began to dislike her dad...
"Stinky girl, you even arranged for your father to come here!" Yu Jianguo cursed in a low voice and threw a small carrot on her head, causing her to squeal.
With the addition of Yu Jianping, Yu Jian's movements became faster. After a while, she packed a basket full of bags. She stopped her movements and packed some of the more beautiful ones individually, preparing to send them to Huang Nuan and Chen Xinyi.
Their parents have also arrived home. During this period of time before the New Year, everyone was preparing various New Year dishes.
Yu Jian was given dozens of wontons by each family, and was forced to stuff a lot of ingredients as gifts in return. Chen's father went even more exaggerated and directly gave her a king crab, which scared her so much that she put down the wontons and ran away.
Is the world of rich people a scary place?
For dinner, Chef Yu Jianping tried his best to cook several large dishes, and the whole family had their mouths watering and said they were so satisfied.
"Sister, can I have some of the wontons you made today?" The little guy coveted the colorful wontons for a long time, and finally made a small request after the food was finished.
Yu's mother then said: "I want to eat it too." It's just that it's so beautiful. How can a woman withstand the temptation of beautiful things?
Grandma Yu also held out her chopsticks, saying don't forget her.
Now that's good, even though the table is already empty, the whole family still wants to try it at the risk of bursting their stomachs.
The soup used to cook the wontons is boiled chicken bone soup, with only a little salt added, and it is so fresh that it is so delicious. After three rounds of cold water are added to each wonton, they float to the surface of the soup invariably.
Yu Jian only gave three to each person, and they were only of different colors. There were too many fillings, and in the end even she didn’t know what was in them.
Just open the blind box and see what you get.
Mother Yu picked up the deepest purple wonton in the bowl and took a bite. The cucumber was sour and sweet, and the egg white was tender. Then there was a big red camellia, which was stuffed with bitter melon and meat. The meat was tender and smooth, embellished with a little bitterness, and was extremely refreshing. The last one was hers
My favorite color, pink, looks like a budding peach stamen, wrapped with spinach and clam meat, a perfect fusion of seafood and vegetables, and green and pink complement each other.
This is not a meal, this is simply a visual feast!
The child Yu Yuan was wandering in the ocean of bamboo shoots and bacon. He was so fascinated by the taste that he stuffed wontons into his mouth without even raising his head.
Grandma Yu had green daffodils, and the filling was beef cubes fried with coriander. A large piece of beef was wrapped in coriander leaves. Just the smell of it was so delicious.
The entire Yu family was silent at the moment, struggling hard with the wontons in their bowls, eating the wontons in their mouths, and wondering what the next one would taste like.
…
The Chen family almost quarreled over a wonton.
Taking advantage of the rare opportunity to come back, Chen Xinyi insisted on letting Chen Xinyi give him the last wonton in the pot.
As a result, Chen Xinyi sneered, scooped it directly into her bowl, stuffed it into her mouth in front of him, swallowed it wholeheartedly, chewed it twice, and then swallowed it into her stomach.
This completely angered Father Chen: "You are an unfilial daughter, do you have any respect for your elders?"
Chen Xinyi sneered again and looked into his eyes fearlessly: "The old one is behind you, and I respect him." Then she asked, "Do you have any love for children?" Even a wonton must come from your daughter.
Grab it with your mouth, it’s so cool~
These words made Father Chen choke and cough until he couldn't straighten up.
Chen Xinyi looked at it for a long time, thinking that her father would probably not be so boring, so she stepped forward and patted him on the back to cheer him up: "I'll just ask A-Jian for some tomorrow..."
"I've been waiting for your words!" Father Chen straightened up immediately and stopped coughing. Even his voice was the same as normal. He patted his daughter's head and said, "Go get it early tomorrow!"