Xianju Salty and Sour Rice

Overview

Salty and sour rice is a unique rice dish in Xianju. For Xianju people born in the 1970s and 1980s, like salty and sour porridge, it is also a meal that best evokes nostalgia and memories in the gastrointestinal tract. In addition to the salty and sour porridge eaten during the first half of the first lunar month, the Xianju diet also includes salty and sour rice eaten daily. Salty and sour rice is a kind of salty rice served with whole grains and vegetables. Just like its other name, salty mixed rice, its main feature is that it can be mixed with sweet potatoes, potatoes, taro, green beans, choy sum, pumpkin, dried mustard and other whole grains and seasonal vegetables as condiments to create various flavors. Most of the farmhouse salty and sour rice is stewed in large iron pots on earth stoves. The stewed salty and sour rice is rich in aroma, salty and delicious. There are no other dishes. Eaters often eat more and praise it. A few days ago, I made an appointment with my friends to go to the countryside for leisure. We agreed to eat authentic farmhouse salty and sour rice. It used bacon marinated in native pork and dishes grown by the farmers. We cooked a large pot of it in a large iron pot on the earthen stove and ate it for 17 people. The foodies who had lived in the city for a long time devoured it. They said that they had not tasted such delicious salty and sour rice for a long time. I recorded this experience as a kind of memory of my childhood life

Tags

• staple food
• home cooking
• bacon
• japonica rice
• light soy sauce
• taro
• white radish
• wine
• mustard
• salt
• vegetable oil

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Put water in a pot and bring to a boil, put the washed rice into the pot and cook until it is eighty-ripe, then drain it in a basket.

   

2. 2 This is the drained rice soup, don’t throw it away, it’s very nutritious and a good accompaniment to rice

   

3. 3 Cut the pork belly into pieces and put it in a pot to boil out the oil, then add the diced yam into the pot, add cooking wine and a little light soy sauce and stir-fry. You need to stir-fry for a while, so that the stewed rice will be more delicious

   

4. 4 Spread the drained rice on top of these fried condiments, pour a little water around it, cover and simmer. When you smell the aroma, simmer the rice over low heat or use the residual heat of the charcoal fire in the stove

   

5. 5 Grate the white radish into shreds. Heat oil in a pot, add shredded radish and stir-fry until cooked, set aside.

   

6. 6 Wash and chop mustard greens.

   

7. 7 Heat oil in a pot, add mustard greens and stir-fry until cooked, then remove.

   

8. 8 Pour the fried shredded radish and mustard greens onto the stewed rice

   

9. 9 Stir fry evenly. The aroma of bacon and rice is rich, salty and delicious.