In my impression, there are no dishes like a meatball on the rice table on the rice table. It cannot be said to be authentic Chinese New Year. The family will definitely reunite in the year, but if it is a braised lion head every year, it will definitely get tired, so today this dish without pearls but is called “pearl balls” can give you a different reunion year.
Pearl balls are the first of the “three steaming” in the Puyang area of Hubei, and the steamed vegetables in Hubei areas were recorded in the book “Liyang County Governance · Life Customs”. “Beauty in hospitality”, because all the local ingredients can be used for steaming, so its “three” is just a conceptual word. The real number of real steaming vegetables cannot be counted, and the locals will also follow their own home according to their own house. Taste and hobbies are unique dishes. As the leader of the local steamed vegetables, Pearl Maruko naturally has the reason why it dominates.
Today, most of the rice we eat comes from the rice middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in Jiangsu and Zhejiang or the rice in the Northeast Plain, but there are also rice in the two lakes. One of them is unique in the local area because of its good ecological environment. This kind of rice with long shape, full rice grains, and sweet taste, and it is this rice that makes pearl balls different.
In the process of making pearl balls, the ingredients are easy to find in our ordinary life, such as minced pork, minced crickets, shiitake mushrooms, fish velvet, and egg white, and then season with an appropriate amount of condiments to combine them into group -shaped shapes. It was half successful. And some people like fungus can also be chopped and added. Pearl balls do not have fixed ingredients. As long as it is in line with the taste of the family, you can add it. It can be steamed for 20 minutes (the leaves are to prevent the meatballs from sticking to the pan). People can make an extremely delicious New Year reunion ball with the simplest ingredients and cooking methods. You can feel the toughness and fragrance of rice. The richness of the meatballs and the tenderness of current vegetables are definitely not exaggerated.
And there is also a history of Pearl Maruko. According to legend, after the peasant leader Chen Youliang in the late Yuan Dynasty was successful, his wife had such a dish in the celebration banquet he made for him. After the times, with the change of the times, in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the Emperor Qianlong was also conquered by its deliciousness after the people’s three steaming, and it introduced it to the royal house. Later, it continued to improve the current pearl balls.
Although there are many dishes, eating this dish in our Chinese New Year means that this year’s family is happy and reunion. No matter how it changes, the only constant thing is always the hard work and blessings that the family poured on the dishes. When you think of home, when you are outside, it will always be your soul sustenance.