Jinwei Gaba Cuisine (Tianjin Jinghai Specialty)

Introduction to Jinwei Gaba Cuisine

Jinwei Gaba Cuisine (commonly known as Guoba Cuisine) is a unique local snack in Tianjin, evolved from Shandong pancakes. Shandong people who made a living in Tianjin in their early years often cut mung bean pancakes (known as Gaba in Tianjin) into thin strips, mixed them with prepared sauce, and sold them with small ingredients. They became very popular and gradually spread throughout the city, becoming a local snack

Beautiful color and shape, mixed with multiple flavors, fragrant and refreshing, plain and refreshing. Gaba "is fragrant, tender, and has a strong bite, and the brine is transparent and fresh. Green beans, with their sweet and cool nature, can clear heat, relieve summer heat, promote diuresis, and detoxify, making them popular every summer

Grind the mung beans, sift them, soak them in water, and then rub them with hands to remove the skin and impurities, control the residual water, mix them with the soaked rice, and grind them into Congee. Finally, dilute the sesame paste with sesame oil. Beautiful color and shape, mixed with multiple flavors, fragrant and refreshing, plain and refreshing

The most famous Gaba dish in Tianjin is undoubtedly the "Dafulai" in the northwest corner. When it comes to the "Da Fu Lai" Gaba cuisine, there are inevitably fabricated side stories. It is said that during the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Lan, a descendant of Zhang Qing in the vegetable garden of "Water Margin", opened a Zhang Ji pancake shop in Tianjin Wei. One day, Emperor Qianlong came into the shop in disguise and ate a pancake roll with scallions. Suddenly, he became extremely thirsty and ordered soup. The pancake shop didn't originally sell soup, so in a hurry, the staff tore up the pancakes, added seasoning, and rinsed them with water before serving them. Unexpectedly, the customer tasted it delicious and asked for the name of the soup. The shop owner mistakenly thought he was asking for his name, so he answered 'Guo Ba'. The guest laughed heartily and said, "How can soup be called 'guoba'? The word 'cai' should be added to it." A few days later, a palace guard broke into the pancake shop and shouted, "Shopkeeper, you're lucky!" and put down two hundred taels of silver gifted by the emperor. From then on, 'Da Fu Lai Guo Ba Cai' became famous. After all, the story is just a story and cannot be trusted, but "Zhang Ji Pancake Shop" does have its own shop, and Zhang, the shopkeeper, does exist. His name is Zhang Qifa

How to make Jinwei Gaba food

Materials

, ground into Congee shape

(2) Place the pancake on low heat, scoop the batter on top, spread it out into a thin circular pancake like paper, and cut it into willow leaf shapes with a knife

(3) When making brine, first heat the sesame oil, add chopped scallions, ginger, and cilantro roots, and fry until golden brown. Then add the large noodles and sauce, pour in soy sauce, and pour into a bowl after boiling. Boil the water again, add salt and the prepared sauce. After the pot is boiling, pour in soy sauce, add the large noodle soup, five spice noodles, ginger powder, and alkali noodles. Wait for the brine to boil, thicken with water ball powder, and pour into a container

(4) Use some clean brine to drain Fermented bean curd, mix it with other brine, and add monosodium glutamate to mix it well. Fry the spicy noodles in hot oil until they turn apricot yellow, then separate the oil and batter

(5) Take dried fragrant herbs and cut them into small elephant eye slices. Fry them in hot sesame oil until the outer skin is crispy, then pour them into boiling water and boil. After boiling, pour in soy sauce and monosodium glutamate. After boiling, remove the dried sesame paste and dilute it with sesame oil

(6) When eating, put the "Gaba" into the container containing the brine, mix it properly, put it into a bowl, and add the sapropel, pepper paste, parsley slice, sesame paste and coriander powder according to the taste of each person