In the past, the winter solstice was one of the most important festivals of the year. On this day, people had to go home for the winter festival to show that there was a home for the year. There is a custom of eating dumplings on the winter solstice in northern China. As the saying goes, it's winter solstice. Eat dumplings. In the south, of course, there are exceptions. For example, in Tengzhou, Wenshang, Qufu and Zoucheng of Shandong Province, the winter solstice custom is called counting nine. The custom of drinking mutton soup on the day of counting nine has been popular, which means to drive out the cold. Different places have different food customs, but dumplings are the most common.
Step1:Chop beef tenderloin into minced beef. Set aside.
Step2:Blanch the celery in boiling water. Cut it into celery pieces for use.
Step3:Put the minced beef, celery, soy sauce, egg white and beef flavored soup in the mixing basin. Stir evenly until the meat is strong.
Step4:Then pour in a proper amount of cooking oil to cover the beef filling. This will better lock the water content of the filling.
Step5:Put the ingredients of the spinach dough together and make it green. Cover and wake up for 30 minutes.
Step6:Put the white dough together and make it into a white dough. Cover it and wake up for 30 minutes.
Step7:Take a piece of white dough and twist it into a small cylinder; take a piece of spinach dough and roll it into a long dough. Then put the white dough on the spinach dough. Wrap it.
Step8:Use a plastic scraper to cut into small dosage forms.
Step9:Roll it into thin dumpling skin around the middle thick.
Step10:Wrap the beef stuffing. Wrap it in the shape of dumplings you like.
Step11:Boil a pot of water in the soup pot. Put some salt into the pot after the water boils. Then put the dumplings into the pot and boil them.
Step12:When the dumplings are all floating on the water. Press it down with your hand. The dumpling skin will bounce back to prove that the dumplings are cooked. (you can also do that - after the dumplings are boiled for the first time, add some cold water. Add cold water for three times. When they are boiled for three times, the dumplings will be cooked.)
Step13:After the dumplings are cooked, they are put out of the pot, put into the plate, dip in some vinegar to eat dumplings. It's delicious.
Cooking tips:Beef nourishes the spleen and stomach, nourishes the body and has high nutritional value. Celery has the function of reducing blood pressure and cholesterol. It also contains a lot of crude fiber. The matching of the two can ensure the normal nutrition supply and will not increase people's weight. There are skills in making delicious dishes.