Chinese Food
Old Jinan flavor ~ spiced sweet foam
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Sweet foam is a kind of traditional congee food in Jinan. It is a kind of salty congee mainly made of millet noodles. Jinan people also call it five fragrant sweet foam . Among the many snacks in Jinan, sweet foam is the most inexpensive and beautiful signboard famous snack. There's a saying about the origin of sweet foam - it's called Tianmo. It's called Tianmo. The porridge is ready. Add some end like vermicelli, vegetables, peanuts and seasonings. Taste it. It's delicious. Add the end spread. Later, people became sweet foam according to its homonym. There is another origin of sweet foam. At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, during the years of war, a large number of refugees swarmed into Jinan. There was a small congee shop with a Tian surname. They often gave congee to help the victims. The victims told each other that more and more people came to the congee shop to drink congee to save lives. It's hard to make porridge full of people's demands. So they add a lot of leaves and spicy seasoning to the porridge. When the disaster victims see the white foam in the big pot of porridge before serving the bowl of porridge, they affectionately call it
Cooking ingredients
Cooking Steps
Step1:The main raw materials for making sweet foam, millet noodles, spinach leaves, sweet potato sticks and peanuts, can also be added with some dried tofu shreds. I didn't buy them, so I didn't. If you can buy them, you can add them by yourself. Wash spinach leaves in advance. Soak sweet potato strips in cold water.
Step2:Add some water to the pot. Put in the peanuts and cook them, then fish them out for use
Step3:Use cold water and boil millet noodles. If you want to drink a little thin, you can dilute it. If you want to drink a little thick, you can thicken it. Or adjust the amount of water in the pot in step 4.
Step4:Add some water into the pot. After the water is boiled, put in the diluted millet noodles. Then use the hand spoon to quickly disperse. Avoid pimples. Boil in high heat. Then cover and cook in medium and low heat for 20 minutes.
Step5:Put the boiled spinach leaves (in order to remove the oxalic acid in spinach), the vermicelli and the peanuts cooked in advance. Stir well and then turn off the fire
Step6:Add a little salt and five spices to taste it
Cooking tips:There are skills in making delicious dishes.
