Jiexi Leicha

Name: Jiexi Leicha
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 5
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 10g Mint (fresh); 10g parsley; 10g Perilla (fresh); 5g Bitter; 5g High quality green tea; 100g sesame; 100g Peanuts (fried); 1 teaspoon salt; 1 bowl boiling water

by Jiexi Gift Leicha

4.8 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Normal

Time

5m

Serving

5

As the saying goes: "There are different styles in ten miles, and different customs in a hundred miles."
In Jiexi, East Guangdong, every family can make Leicha.
Lei Cha is delicious and fragrant, rich in nutrition,
Refreshing appetizer, cool and refreshing,
It is a very authentic green snack.

Lei Cha is a special drink of the Hakka people.
Its production and flavor are unique.
The Hakka ancestors worked hard during the migration process,
After returning from work, enjoy a bowl of Lei Cha,
The sweet clear stream refreshes the heart.

Very strong rustic flavor.
Jiexi people are warm and hospitable,
Stir a spoonful of rice and a handful of fried beans into the tea,
A fragrant fragrance, especially refreshing,
This is the taste of home.

While beating, continue to add some sesame, peanut kernels, rice bones, etc. to the beating bowl,
When the contents of the bowl are smashed into mash, the tea is ready.
Then, use a scoop to sieve the strained tea,
Put it in a copper pot, add water to boil,
All the house fragrant for a while.
Tasting tea,
Its flavor is extraordinarily rich and long...

Ingredients

Jiexi Leicha

1. The tea stick and tea bowl are far from beautiful, and there are no other styles to choose from, but they are almost necessary utensils for the Hepo family. Just because they are making tea, these two pieces are necessary.
"Clamp your feet firmly (bowl), hold one hand (stick), and rub the other." With his left hand, grab a handful of tea and sprinkle it into the bowl.

2. The style of Leicha ingredients is not complicated: fried tea, ground beans (peanuts), white oil hemp (sesame) and bitch (mint). Others would pick some gold and cilantro, put them in a bowl and smash them together. The raw materials are divided into two categories, one with herbal aromas, such as tea and mint; the other with oil aromas, such as peanuts and sesame. After being ground into a paste, pour in a pot of freshly boiling hot water, add steam and stir evenly, it is "clean tea".

3. In addition to pure tea, a complete Leicha meal should also have side dishes and rice.

4. Seven kinds of vegetable tea is eaten on the seventh day, and 15 kinds of vegetable tea are eaten 15 times. What changes is the style of side dishes. More strict people carefully choose seven or fifteen vegetables or beans, such as cabbage, leeks, cabbage, and rice beans; other people classify dried shrimp, dried vegetables, and peanuts into the seven categories. Inside, it is not limited to "cai" tea. When a family eats Leicha, a table is often filled with dishes and a few spoons are attached; each person holds a large bowl, and the style and quantity of the bowl are all based on personal preference. Therefore, there is a joke in the market that Lei Cha is the originator of the buffet.
Caijiajingcha is Caicha; and the change of rice can give birth to "rice tea", "rice bone tea" and "pumi tea".

5. As for why Lei Cha is eaten on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, there has never been a clear statement. People in ancient times probably ate too much big fish and meat during the Spring Festival, so that it was too greasy, so they remembered eating a light diet on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. Therefore, eating Leicha on the seventh day of the day has become a unique custom for people who are nurtured by this land of water and soil.