Yóu flour is flour made from naked oats, which is the general name of naked oats flour food in Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Hebei Bashang Zhangbei, Kangbao and Guyuan areas.

Youmian contains calcium, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin and other nutritional elements and pharmaceutical ingredients needed by human body. Youmian contains a special substance-linoleic acid, which has obvious effects on human metabolism. The nutritional content of oat flour is more than seven times that of other flour, and it can be comparable to refined flour.

In addition, oat noodle is a good health food, which is helpful to lose weight and beauty. It's just that oat noodles are not easy to digest (it's best not to eat more at dinner), so eat less at each meal.

Youmian is a special food in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, Datong Basin in northern Shanxi Province, Tumochuan Plain in Inner Mongolia, Yinshan Mountain and southern Wulanchabu City, and mainly grows in mountainous areas with short frost-free period.

Naked oats is panicum miliaceum. The growth period is short, and the fruit is easy to be separated from the shell when it is mature. It can be eaten after being ground into powder, which is called oat flour, naked oat flour and naked oats flour. The fruit of this plant is also called naked oats. Flour processed from naked oats. After careful production, it becomes food.

The biggest feature of naked oats is its practice. The so-called "three raw and three cooked", that is to say, from raw naked oats to edible naked oats products, it has to go through the process of three raw and three cooked.

Once cooked in a lifetime

Naked oats are harvested, pulled to the field for threshing, and the seeds taken off are naturally raw and cannot be eaten. This is "life". To grind naked oats into powder, you must first fry the wheat grains.

Support a large iron pot, pour the peeled naked oats into the pot, take off the shelf and turn it slowly with a spatula, which is quite similar to the sugar fried chestnuts in the street. When the naked oats are fried until they are yellow and slightly burnt, and the fragrance comes out, it becomes "one cooked".

Two crops and two crops.

Grind the fried wheat into a oat noodle, and it will become raw again. This is "second life". From the appearance, except for the slightly darker color, the flour made from common wheat is not much different. Local villagers are used to storing flour in wooden cabinets.

This kind of counter is painted bright red outside, which is very eye-catching in the room. People in the north have simple furnishings, and more than half of the rooms are kang, so the cabinet is the most important furniture. The quality of the family can be seen at a glance from the size and luster of the cabinet. When you eat the flour, you should mix it into flour first, and the most special thing is that you can't use cold water when mixing flour, you have to use boiling water (local people call it boiling water). Scoop a proper amount of flour in the basin, add half of boiling water, and you can mix the noodles.

Because it is boiling water and mixing noodles, it is called "double cooked". The mixed noodles should be made into oat noodle products while they are hot and steamed in the steamer. San sheng San Shu

Whether it's Hele, Fish Fish or Wowo, it's raw again (Sansheng). The next step is to add water and firewood, and burn the fire and steam. When white smoke rises in the steamer and the room is filled with the unique smell of oat noodle, the oat noodle is steamed (three times cooked). At this time, you can really eat it.