Chapter 5 【Tea dishes】

Chinese dishes are world-renowned and are another precious wealth of Chinese national culture. "Su Wen" in "Lu Shi Chun Qiu".The Discussion on the Method of Viscera states: the five grains are for nourishment, the five fruits are for assistance, the five animals are for benefit, and the five vegetables are for filling.Explain that medicine and food have the same origin, and the relationship between medicine and food tonic. Tea is rich in color, fragrance and shape. It can be drunk, can reconcile taste, increase color, and has pharmacological components. Therefore, tea dishes generally have dual effects, which can not only increase appetite, relieve hunger, but also prevent and treat certain diseases and strengthen the human body. healthy.

"1. Tea porridge" Ingredients: 10 grams of green tea flower, 50 grams of japonica rice, appropriate amount of sugar. Preparation method: Boil green tea into 100ml of strong tea juice and remove slag, wash the japonica rice, add 400ml of tea juice, sugar and water, simmer to thick porridge. How to eat: twice a day.Those who are excited and difficult to fall asleep should not take it with dinner.Tea porridge can adapt to acute and chronic dysentery, enteritis, acute gastroenteritis, amoebic dysentery, heart disease edema, pulmonary heart disease and fatigue. "Baosheng Jiyao" says: tea porridge, phlegm and food, thick fried into porridge.

"2. Chicken Tea Rice" Ingredients: eight small pieces of chicken breast, one egg, 100 grams of wheat flour, rice, salt, dried laver shreds, green tea powder, etc., 20 ml of wine. Preparation method: Cut the chicken breast lengthwise into shreds, beat it gently with the back of a knife, sprinkle with fine salt and rice wine, and let it stand for four to five minutes.Break the eggs into a bowl, add 150ml of cold water, add wheat flour, and stir vigorously quickly to form an egg paste.Dip shredded chicken in egg batter, deep-fry in hot oil, remove and place on rice, sprinkle with green tea powder, fine salt and shredded dried seaweed.

How to eat: Taking chicken tea and rice on holidays after work can increase appetite and help health. "3. Tea Eggs" Ingredients: some eggs, black tea powder, cinnamon, fennel, star anise, monosodium glutamate and red soy sauce Preparation method: Wash the eggs (preferably red-shelled eggs), boil them with water, remove them and beat them gently to make the eggshells crack and not break.Put black tea powder, cinnamon bark, star anise, fennel, red soy sauce and water into the pot, add boiled eggs, bring to a boil quickly, then simmer for half an hour, add monosodium glutamate and serve.The degree of saltiness can be adjusted by adding the amount of red soy sauce, and some salt can also be added.

How to eat: It can be used as a snack or as a dish on the table. It is suitable for home travel, men, women and children. "Four. Longjing Shrimp" Ingredients: 1 kg of fresh live river prawns (about 250 pieces, uniform in size), 1 gram of new Longjing tea (super grade) or about 5 grams of fresh tea leaves (one bud and two leaves), one egg, 2.5 grams of flavor accuracy , 15 grams of Shaoxing wine, 3 grams of refined salt, 40 grams of wet starch, and 1 kilogram of cooked lard (consumption about 75). Method: Peel the shrimp and extrude the shrimp meat. The method is to pinch the head of the shrimp with one hand and the tail of the shrimp with the other hand, squeeze the neck of the shrimp, and the shrimp will be reborn and peeled out of the shell.Put the shrimp meat into a small bamboo basket, wash it repeatedly with clean water until the shrimp is white, put it into a bowl, add refined salt and egg white, stir gently with chopsticks until it becomes sticky, add wet starch, add monosodium glutamate, mix well, and let it stand Let the seasoning soak into the shrimp for an hour and set aside.

Brew Longjing tea with 50 milliliters of boiling water. After one minute, discard 30 milliliters of tea soup, and leave the tea leaves and leftover juice for later use.The usage of fresh leaves is roughly the same. Heat the frying pan on medium heat, slide the pan and add lard. When it is four mature, pour in the shrimps and quickly spread them out with chopsticks. When the shrimps are jade white, pour them into a colander to drain the lard, and fry the onions in the pan (That is to fry the oil pan with scallions, remove the scallions when using, and leave the scallions fragrant without seeing the scallions), then pour the shrimps into the oil pan, quickly pour in the tea leaves and juice, cook in Shaoxing, shake a few times, and take out the pan Put it on a plate, and it will be a plate of Longjing shrimp with jade white, fresh and tender, green tea leaves, fragrance, elegant color and unique flavor.

How to eat: Eat as a delicacy.Longjing Shrimp is inspired by Su Dongpo’s thinking about the old people’s homeland, and using new fires to test new teas. Poetry and wine take advantage of the years, and use the four unique characteristics of Longjing tea, green color, fragrance, sweet taste, and beautiful shape, to match with fresh and fresh river shrimps. A famous Hangzhou dish created.When U.S. President Nixon came to China in 1972, Premier Zhou Enlai hosted a banquet in Hangzhou. When the waiter brought the heavenly dish Longjing Shrimp, people were full of praise. "Five. Steamed tea crucian carp"

Ingredients: 500 grams of live crucian carp, 10 grams of green tea. Preparation method: wash the live crucian carp after removing the scales, intestines and gills, stuff green tea into the belly of the crucian carp, put it on a plate and steam it in a pot for about 40 minutes. How to eat: Once a day without adding salt.A course of treatment is three to five days.Tonify deficiency and damage, relieve thirst, can cure diabetes, polydipsia, drinking water, and is also suitable for fever. "Six. Longjing Pork Soup" Ingredients: 150 grams of pork leg, 1.5 grams of Longjing tea, 10 grams of Sichuan Fuling mustard, 1,000 milliliters of fresh soup, one egg, and a little seasoning.

Preparation method: Cut the leg meat into thin slices, add Shaoxing wine, fine salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper, egg white and dry starch, mix well, and set aside for half an hour.Brew Longjing tea with boiling water, drain the water, and then brew with 100 ml of boiling water, set aside.Shred mustard, set aside.Boil the leg meat in a hot pot and remove it.Add spices to the fresh soup, add tea juice and tea leaves, add mustard shreds after boiling, and finally pour in sliced ​​meat and serve. How to eat: Eat as a dish. 7. Green Tea Tomato Soup Usage: 1 to 1.5 grams of green tea, 50 to 150 grams of tomato.

Preparation method: wash the tomatoes, scald them with boiling water, peel them, mash them, mix them with green tea and put them in a cup, add 400 ml of boiling water and serve. How to eat: This soup can be eaten as a dish or taken three times a day.It has the effects of cooling blood, correcting blood, promoting body fluid and quenching thirst.It is suitable for fundus hemorrhage, high blood pressure, bleeding gums, yin deficiency and thirst, loss of appetite and other diseases.