Hand-Grabbed Rice is a specialty of Xinjiang.

Grabbing rice is called "polo" in Uyghur language, it is a kind of meal favored by people of Uyghur, Uzbek and other nationalities in Xinjiang, and it is called "grabbing rice" in Chinese because it is picked up by the hand, which is one of the essential foods for Uyghur people during festivals and hospitality. Grabbing rice is one of the necessary food for festivals and hospitality.

In Xinjiang, there are great differences in different regions of the hand grabbed rice. For example, in the South Xinjiang region, ethnic minorities like to add flavors such as papaya and chama mushroom leaves to their rice; in the North Xinjiang region, ethnic minorities like to add dried meat and chickpeas to their rice to adjust the taste. All in all, people living in Xinjiang, both ethnic minorities and Han Chinese, are very fond of this kind of food.

Types of rice

1, leg of lamb rice

Lamb leg rice really is not the whole leg of lamb to do, is the leg handle that section of the skinny meat and tendons connected to the nibble a mouthful of lamb leg meat, and then eat a mouthful of rice, the flavor of the good so that you can not forget.

2, mutton chop rice

This is the most common kind of rice, a large piece of mutton cooked and fragrant, with a layer of fat and lean mutton, a bite can flow out of the juice, in a spoonful of grainy and fragrant rice, with refreshing special rice small dishes, very delicious.

3, minced meat rice

This is the sheep bones removed, directly to the lamb cut into small pieces or small diced to do, the practice and other rice, that is, the lamb is very small, the general old man and the children love to eat this kind of rice, do not need to go to the bones, you can be a spoonful of direct scoop to eat.