Ordinary families take care of the elderly, children and the weak and cook porridge for them. There are also many porridge shops in the market, which specialize in selling all kinds of porridge. When young people and middle-aged people have a bad appetite, they will also come to the porridge shop to ask for a bowl.
On porridge shops, there are many porridge shops in southern Guangdong, China, and there are many kinds of porridge. Cantonese people are famous for their love of porridge. They like porridge not only for breakfast, but also for lunch and dinner. Some people eat porridge three times a day. This way of eating porridge is inseparable from the weather in Guangdong. Guangdong is located in the subtropical zone, with a hot and humid climate. People sweat a lot, feel very tired and don't want to eat. Drinking porridge can stimulate appetite, promote fluid production and nourish the stomach.
The weather in northern China is colder than that in Guangdong. Many people in northern Renye Fang like to drink porridge. Why? In fact, this is also related to the weather in the north. The farther north it gets, the colder it gets. Do you feel warm in your stomach when you drink a bowl of warm millet porridge in the morning? Indeed, it is necessary for northerners to have porridge for breakfast to warm their stomachs.
Both southerners and northerners drink porridge. Do they drink the same porridge? The cooking methods of porridge are basically the same, but the porridge in the north is different from that in the south, and the differences are mainly in the following aspects.
1, the raw material of porridge
The raw materials of northern porridge are mainly whole grains, such as rice, millet and wheat, or a single kind of whole grains or whole grains porridge. This is because, influenced by favorable weather and geographical location, many crops grow on the land in the north: rice, wheat, corn, sorghum, millet and so on. It provides nutritious raw materials for northern porridge.
The raw material of southern porridge is mainly rice, the most common rice porridge, because the crops in the south are mainly rice, although there are also a small amount of wheat and corn. But the output is very small. Southerners mainly drink rice porridge, and they are also good at making all kinds of rice porridge.
2, porridge accessories
Northerners usually cook porridge with a single ingredient. The most common porridge is millet porridge, with some auxiliary materials. For example, add beans such as red beans, mung beans and soybeans to millet porridge, or add dried fruits such as red dates, walnuts, medlar and peanuts to porridge. Others directly use grains as auxiliary materials and add wheat, sorghum and sweet potatoes. Cook millet porridge into whole grain porridge.
When southerners cook porridge, it is much richer to add accessories. Various vegetables, such as Chinese cabbage, rape, loofah, beans, etc. , can be added into white rice porridge, and also can be added with fruits such as apples and pears, dried fruits such as red dates, medlar, walnuts, melon seeds and peanuts, eggs such as eggs, chicken, duck eggs and duck meat, pork, beef and mutton, etc. The raw materials and accessories of southern porridge pay more attention to nourishing the body.
3. The taste of porridge
The taste of northern porridge is mostly original, and it is sweeter at most.
The taste of southern porridge, pure white rice porridge is original, if porridge with fruits and dried fruits is added, the taste is usually sweet; Porridge with vegetables, eggs, meat and seafood is salty.
4. Thin consistency of gruel
North porridge, south porridge, on thin and thick porridge It is generally believed that northerners drink porridge thin and thick, because they drink porridge with staple food, steamed bread, rolls, cakes and other pasta. The porridge in the south is thicker, because southerners drink porridge and often eat it as a staple food. Thick cooking is good for satiety.
But in real life, whether porridge is thin or not mainly depends on the people who drink porridge. Some people like thin, others like strong, southerners drink thin, northerners drink strong, which varies from person to person.
Wu Jie school