Mung bean gezha

Mung bean Luo Zha Luo Zha is one of the famous foods in Tangshan, and it is a necessary thing for people to celebrate holidays, weddings, funerals and celebrations. In the local area, there is even a saying that "if you don't eat Luo Zhayan, you won't count as Tangshan". Luozha is now widely distributed among the people in Tangshan, including Luanxian, Luannan, Laoting, Zunhua and other places. The work in Luannan County is the most authentic and common, but now the luozha sold in the market rarely uses mung beans, which is low in cost but not as delicious as pure mung beans. If you want to eat mung beans, you must make them customized and the price is more expensive. Guo said that when the Qing Dynasty built Dongling here, the mausoleum keepers sent this specialty to the palace in order to please the royal family. At that time, Empress Dowager Cixi had a habit of eating, and the dishes served were removed after only two bites at most. Once, vinegar was served in the imperial kitchen. When she saw that she had not eaten it, she asked, "What is this dish?" The eunuch quickly replied, "I haven't named it yet. Please give it to Lafayette." Empress Dowager Cixi took two bites while listening, and the eunuch was busy withdrawing. Who knows, Empress Dowager Cixi said "put it aside" before she had enough to eat. The eunuch thought it was the name given by the queen mother, and immediately handed it down: "Lafayette gave this dish the name' Luozha'." Luozha is homophonic with shelving. Since then, the name of Luozha has been circulated among the people, and the value of Luozha has also been greatly improved. In fact, Luo Zha was originally the product of fine coarse grains made by ordinary people. Tangshan is rich in mung beans. People grind the selected mung beans into watercress, foam them with water, remove the skin of the beans, then grind them into juice with water, then add water to remove residues, after three times of depilation, after they become white starch, they mix the juice, stir it into paste, spread it with a pointed pot and make it into round slices, and one piece is made. The Luo Zha made in this way is fragrant and attractive, full of toughness, not bad to lift, and will not crack when folded. In addition, from the perspective of nutritional dietotherapy, mung bean Luo Zha also has the functions of clearing liver and stomach, purging fire and relieving summer heat, beautifying and detoxifying, lowering blood pressure and blood lipid, which meets the requirements of dietotherapy and diet health preservation advocated now. Now, Luozha cuisine has become a unique delicacy loved by Tangshan people. There are more than twenty kinds of dishes, such as vinegar-fried Luozha, burnt Luozha, glass Luozha, fried Luozha, stewed Luozha, fried Luozha, etc., which are placed on the dining table with high quality and different shapes and delicious colors. In recent years, Luozha has become an elegant hall, and Luozha banquet has become a specialty for entertaining domestic and foreign guests, winning the praise of diners.
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