What are potatoes called in your hometown? How many common ways are there to eat it?

Speaking of potatoes, there is another joke. There was a TV series called "Serious Case Group Six" more than ten years ago. In the TV series, a female police officer, Ji Jie, was interrogating a criminal suspect nicknamed "Tudou". ?What’s your name?? ?Potato?. Ji Jie slapped the table and said her name. The man timidly replied "Potato". That's right, potatoes are really just called "potatoes".

No matter how it is called elsewhere, the locals call potatoes potato

However, the rural areas located in the central and eastern part of Longxi Province are truly "loess high slopes". Potatoes have been grown since the beginning of life, and potatoes have been with farmers for generations. It’s okay if you don’t have tomatoes and other exotic vegetables. It’s a decent meal. But we can’t live without potatoes. In those "difficult years", potatoes were still their "savior". I have developed a deep affection for this kind of "food" that can be used as vegetables and can also fill the stomach. Strangely enough, potatoes are called "potatoes".

So, as long as someone in the village shouted: "Potatoes for 10 yuan for three pounds", "Potatoes for bran", two or three-year-old children immediately ran in the door and shouted, "I want to eat shredded potato, potato shreds" Baba, potato-controlled steamed buns, potato stewed chicken (pork ribs), potato dumplings, potato glutinous rice? Potatoes are called potatoes, and they have been passed down from generation to generation.

Potato preparation involves frying, frying, steaming, boiling and stewing. Only potato cakes and potato dough are called potato delicacies.

1 Soft and chewy potato cakes

1. Ingredients: 4 potatoes, 20 grams of flour, appropriate amount of pepper, pepper, cumin and dry spicy noodles, a little edible oil, salt and vinegar, chopped small red pepper and green onion.

2. Steps:

① Wash the potatoes, peel and cut into cubes.

② Soak the diced potatoes for about 5 minutes and drain.

③Put a pot of boiling water in a basket, steam the potato pieces (diced) and take them out.

④ Let it dry for a while, then use the back of a spoon to grind the steamed potato cubes into a paste.

⑤ Add salt to the paste and mix well, then add pepper Add appropriate amounts of peppercorns, cumin, chili powder, sesame oil, etc. and stir evenly.

⑥Add 20 grams of flour and stir until there is no dry flour and it is not leaking.

⑦Put the steamer on the steamer, lightly brush it with a layer of oil, then place it on the steamer with a spoon, and smooth the back of the spoon.

⑧Steam on high heat for about 20 minutes, then stop the heat; take it out. Steamed and porcelain food, namely potato cake.

⑨ Cut the potato cake into narrow strips and place it on a plate.

⑩ Season with salt, vinegar and MSG. Pound the chopped red pepper and green onion into water, pick up the cut potato cake with chopsticks and eat it.

2 Soft and smooth potato dumplings

Dumpling is our local specialty. It is a delicacy whose ingredients generally include wheat flour, corn flour, buckwheat noodles, etc. However, these ingredients are made in an iron pot and have its own special processing tools. The locals call it "Shiwo Stone Hewn". Use a concave vessel with a stone hammer handle to pound the washed and steamed potatoes until they turn into a tough potato mud. Mix it with salt, vinegar, etc. and eat it with water. You can also make it into soup and eat it. It is smooth and delicious and has an endless aftertaste.

① Choose no. Wash and peel some potatoes with rotten buds, and cut them into pieces (or not cut them)

② Add water to the pot, steam or cook the potatoes, remove (drain) and drain. , slightly cool.

③Pour the potato pieces into the "stone nest" and hammer them with a stone hammer until they become sticky. This is the potato dough (the more flexible the paste, the better. ).

④Spoon out the mashed potatoes and put them on a plate.

⑤Fry the coriander, green onion segments, ginger slices, cinnamon, star anise, and bay leaves until golden. Take out and heat the oil. After the oil temperature drops slightly, pour it into the previously stir-fried condiment. Add the oil while stirring; then use light soy sauce, mature vinegar, cooking wine, salt, monosodium glutamate, and sesame seeds to make a sauce. It is now a local dish. It's called "He Shui" (you can also season it into soup according to your preference)

⑥ Stir the potato into a ball and eat it dipped in water (you can also eat it soaked in soup).

Whether potatoes or potatoes are the same thing, they can be used as vegetables and eaten as staple food to make you feel full. However, if potatoes are to be used as a staple food, it is not easy to cook them. They should be roasted, boiled, or steamed, but should not be fried, boiled, or stir-fried. No matter how good the potato is, you should not be a partial eclipse. It will make you feel tired and bloated, which is not good for your health.