Chapter 58 Chapter 58

The deliciousness of chili as a vegetarian dish has its own unique personality. This time I will introduce shredded pumpkin fried in oil.I think there are not many people who cook this dish. If you don't have a gourmet hobby, it is probably not easy to taste it.Because, the pumpkin with oil-fried pepper pumpkin shreds can only be as big as a fist, and it is better to be slightly smaller, about the size of a tennis ball. A pumpkin the size of a tennis ball has its mother flowers not shed yet, and there are tiny lanugo hairs on the pumpkin. Usually farmers will not pick it for sale, unless the frost brings a devastating blow to the pumpkin seedlings. After beating, the owner of the melon will pick off all the fruits on the vine and sell them to the market at one time. If you are lucky at this time, you will get one or two small pumpkins the size of a tennis ball.

When I was in the geological team, I ate more pumpkins.Because in summer nights, we always go out to catch frogs, catching eels, fishing with nets, hunting rabbits, hunting birds... These activities are all field work.Therefore, you can encounter a lot of pumpkin vines.The pollen of pumpkin flowers has a particularly strong fragrance. Under the moonlight, fine dewdrops sprinkle one after another, and fireflies dance around the pumpkin vines.Fireflies love pumpkin flowers the most. Sometimes there are several fireflies in a flower, and there are crickets chirping in the grass.Small pumpkins are not difficult to find. The petioles and flower stalks of pumpkins are always facing upwards. If the vines are facing downward or parallel, they are small pumpkins.Pick a few small pumpkins on the pumpkin vine, which can weigh several catties.Then, go pick the peppers.When we were in the geological team, we called this kind of behavior Fengharvest, and said: "Ah, go harvest some peppers and come back."It means going to the fields to pick peppers.Some people are particular about wearing dark pants and light-colored tops on moonlit nights, so that they are not easy to be spotted.Harvesting chili peppers is a bit particular. Although there are no people in the wilderness at night, you can’t turn on the flashlight to dry them, so you can’t see the chili peppers clearly. If you grab them randomly, you will damage the pepper seedlings. This is not in line with the long-term harvest strategy.Therefore, to harvest hot peppers, one should bow down and hold the palms upward from the bottom of the hot pepper branches and leaves, so that the first thing the palm touches is the hot pepper. Picking it without hurting a single leaf of hot pepper can be called a teacher of civilization.

First cut the small pumpkin into shreds, then cut the red pepper shreds and green chili shreds in half, prepare the minced garlic, and heat the oil pan.Stir-fry the shredded chili peppers until half-cooked, take out the pan, and then heat the pan until the oil boils and throw in the shredded pumpkins. There is a hissing sound, which sounds very comfortable and pleasant, and then stir-fry quickly.Serve with minced garlic and red pepper powder, then pour in shredded green and red peppers, stir-fry for a while, and the pot is ready.The taste of this kind of chili pumpkin shreds is fresh, slightly sweet, fresh and tender, like the breeze blowing slowly in early summer. If you are not a very high-ranking chili expert, you don't need to add red chili powder.It should be said that in the life of the pumpkin, when it was young, it was fresh and beautiful, not as sweet as the old pumpkin, with little sweetness, and random sweetness. , fresh peppers that have not been soaked in the smell of copper on a moonlit night, and cooking at two o'clock in the middle of the night, the moon is shining outside the window, crickets are still chirping in the grass, and sometimes birds in the forest are flapping their wings. Calling up in the woods, fluttering its wings and flying to the night sky, eating chili pumpkin shreds leisurely, its golden yellow and red and green colors alternate, it looks very beautiful and moving.

Have some wine.