Name: Lixia Paste
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2.5 kg rice flour; piece Lean meat; 2 pcs Dried squid; 2 pcs Dried cuttlefish; Some Dried clams; Some Dried bamboo shoots; 5s Dried shiitake mushrooms; Some shrimp; Some Sauerkraut; Some Peanuts; A handful shallot; Some Cooking oil; Spoonful salt; Spoonful Chicken Bouillon Powder

Lixia Paste

by Lu Niuer

4.6 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

30m

Serving

In the area of Shouning, Fujian, there is a tradition of eating Lixia paste when Lixia arrives. The saying "Lixia paste, eat your belly, dudu" is well known by the locals. Lixia paste is a special delicacy that accompanies Shouning people when they grow up, and almost every household can make it on this day. The neighbors share the Lixia paste made by each other. You give me a bowl, and I give you a bowl. Each household has different materials and different tastes.
The ingredients of Lixia Paste are many and mixed, there are 10 or 20 kinds at a time. The more common ones are diced pork, minced bacon, diced mushrooms, bamboo shoots, minced fungus, Wandou (commonly known as "maidou"), etc. The dried fish and squid are chopped and added, peanuts, soybeans, dried day lily, and dried fern are also indispensable. "

Lixia Paste

1. Prepare ingredients. Soak the dried food in advance, dice all the ingredients, and cut them as small as possible, and the taste will be better. Raise the pot and heat the oil, add the green onions and sauté until fragrant, add the diced pork, squid and other ingredients and fry until fragrant. Sprinkle with chopped green onions, add salt and chicken essence to taste, stir-fry and serve. The materials of Lixia Paste are not limited to those that I use, it can be based on personal preference. You can also add peas, dried mussels, fungus, daylily, bracken, soybeans, carrots, etc.

2. Peanuts are fried and the skin is removed. It's a bit burnt, but it's more fragrant.

3. Stir the rice noodles with water evenly. The authentic method is to grind rice into rice milk. There is basically no place to grind rice milk, so rice noodles are used.

4. Add water in portions and stir to form a rice slurry.

5. Pour the rice syrup into a large pot, heat it on high heat, and cook it on a slow fire until it becomes a paste. During the period, pay attention to the heat and keep stirring with a spatula. Do not burn it, which will affect the taste.

6. Add boiled water once in the middle, and keep stirring again.

7. Just stir it into this state, I don’t know if it’s because the rice noodles used look grainy.

8. Pour in the fried vegetables and peanuts and stir well.

9. This state is fine, you can taste the taste, and add salt if it is too weak.

10. Cook it and put it in a basin.

11. Finished product. The delicious Lixia paste is ready, and the flavor will be better when it is cooled slightly. Although it doesn't look very beautiful, it tastes really good. The ingredients are rich, and you can taste all kinds of ingredients in one bite.