For so many years, hot pot has been eaten for nothing! Do you know what Chongqing people eat hot pot Jiugongge for? Chongqing people love hot pot for historical reasons. Chongqing faces the river and backs the mountains. There is no plain farmland and the mountain road is difficult.
Center grid: strong firepower, high oil temperature, suitable for scalding tripe, goose intestines, fat cattle, waist slice, ensuring fresh and tender taste
Crisscross: medium heat, medium oil temperature, suitable for prawns, Jun Hua, meatballs, cooked for a long time
Quadrangle: small firepower, thick butter, suitable for long time brain flower, fat intestines, squid, chicken feet, keep the original flavor of food
Historical reasons for Chongqing People's love of hot pot
Chongqing people love hot pot for its historical reasons. Chongqing faces the river and backs the mountains. There is no plain farmland and the mountain road is difficult. Every day, a lot of goods and materials come along the waterway, and also a lot of goods and materials have to go downstream. There are a lot of people doing manual work on the dock and unloading the goods on the ship. Chongqing has seven or eight docks, big and small. The fresh cattle and sheep transported by Sichuan Guizhou waterway are killed on the docks. Naturally, the beef and mutton are transported to the city and sold to rich families, while the viscera are discarded on the spot. The internal organs of these cattle and sheep were called shuibayuan by the labor on the wharf. They were picked up and buried in an iron pot. They were added with pepper, pepper and salt. It was also a dental sacrifice. This was the earliest Chongqing hot pot. In fact, it was the water of cattle and sheep cooked in a pot of spicy soup. During the meal, there was no lack of tripe. Chongqing hot pot was also called tripe hot pot.
Later, Chongqing people found that it was a business, and they began to commercialize this simple way of eating. The rudiment of hotpot stores now appeared. However, when there was no such stress, and the labor force did not have much consumption power, so the shop owners thought of a way to divide a pot of hotpot soup into nine squares, and the boatman and the labor force ate in their own squares, even if it was not too expensive It's not only affordable, but also gives people a sense of closeness without losing distance. This practice soon became popular on Chongqing docks. Over time, it formed the agreement that Chongqing old hot pot should be put in nine palace style.
First of all, we need to know which things in Chongqing hotpot are the most frequently visited by local people in Chongqing
Dried tripe, duck intestines, goose intestines, beef liver, kidney slices, coriander meatballs, potatoes, cucumber slices, naohua, Melaleuca, gizzard (Jun) flowers, xuewang, Huanghou, Gongcai, bamboo shoots slices, laorou slices, consumptive fish These are the dishes that often appear on the table of Chongqing people. Of course, as a hot pot cooking City, there are a lot of delicious food that are relatively private preferences. I'll add it when I think about it later!
How to cook so many dishes? At this time, we have to talk about another familiar hot pot term - Jiugongge. In the eyes of many outsiders, the nine palace grid is a wonderful thing. I have heard many outsiders ask if each grid has a different flavor. This is a fallacy. If you go to a hot pot shop in Chongqing, the boss will directly give you a big pot without a grid. You say to the boss, 'boss, add a grid'. He takes out a few big iron pieces from the back kitchen canglanglang and inserts them into the pot, which will become a nine palace or four palace grid.
Then why divide the lattice? As I said before, lattice was the culture of Chongqing People's trackers in the past. When the hot pot was just popular, people didn't have much money in their pocket and could not afford to eat the whole bottom of the pot, but they couldn't stand the craving of bachelors. When several strangers sat together to make a pot, they thought it was' group buying '. In order not to let their vegetables float away, they began to divide the grid. Nowadays, it is no longer necessary to eat hotpot together. It has become a sad thing to eat hotpot alone, but Chongqing people still insist on dividing the grid, because it is easier to pick up vegetables.
To get back to the point, when we get a nine palace grid, what we need to do is put the lumpy meat into several side grids first. This kind of meat needs to be cooked for a long time, but there is no need to boil the soup over a large fire, such as: coriander balls, gizzard flowers, brain flowers, blood. There's one exception - old meat. As the name suggests, old meat must be cooked to be delicious, so we left it in the pot from the beginning.
Next, we start to scald sliced meat - beef liver, tripe, yellow throat, duck intestine, goose intestine. These dishes must not be cooked directly, but should be rinsed in the middle of the grid. Instant boiled meat is a kind of "seven up and eight down". Put the ingredients in the pot for two seconds at a time, and then put the oil noodles in the pot for one second. In this way, you can eat it seven or eight times. Flaky food emphasizes crispness, which can only be realized in the process of continuous alternation of cold and heat. If I put the grid, I usually choose the middle one. Of course, if the upper, lower, left and right four grids are boiling, I can put them. It can successfully solve the problem of chopsticks fighting!
When we have cooked all the meat, we can eat our first batch of cooked ingredients - of course, it's absolutely OK to eat the floating ones first! Brain flower and old meat slices have not reached the best taste time, so we must wait.
At this time, we can order some staple food, such as rice. When I eat rice in Chongqing, I have to go with kimchi, but I usually don't use kimchi. I use dried Gongcai and bamboo shoots to go with rice. It's also crispy. The dried square bamboo shoots from Jinfo Mountain are suitable for sliced bamboo shoots. They are salty, not spicy and not dry. After eating rice, I chat with my friends and cook potatoes (although potatoes take ten minutes to cook, it's easy to paste the pot too early), cucumber slices, lasagna belly and fish, which are the perfect ending of a hot pot.