"iron pot egg"

"iron pot egg" is a very distinctive dish in Henan cuisine, which is set on fire with a special iron pot cover to burn red. Beat the eggs into a bowl, stir well, add diced ham, diced water chestnuts, shrimp, dried shrimps, monosodium glutamate, cooking wine and salt water, put them on a small fire, pour large oil into the egg paste, and stir slowly with a spoon to prevent the egg paste from scratching the pot. When the egg paste is eight-ripe, hang the red-hot iron pot cover on the iron pot with a fire hook, and bake the egg paste at high temperature by using the cover to coagulate and stir. Make the skin of the egg paste shiny and red and yellow. Its taste is delicious, its color is red and yellow, its oil is bright, its fragrance is tender and soft, and its aftertaste is endless.

Ranjia spiced fish

Ranjia spiced fish was made by Ran Xiandong in the old town of Xiayi County, with a history of more than 211 years. During the reign of Qing Qianlong, it was listed as a tribute.

The spiced and bad fish is made from the fat and tender crucian carp, a specialty of Xiayi Chenghu Lake, which weighs about 211g. The whole fish is preserved, fried and stewed with various seasonings without scales. Its color is golden and reddish, its fragrance is rich and mellow, its bones are crisp and rotten, and its fish is delicious and nutritious. Hot food is not greasy, and cold food is not fishy. It is really a delicious banquet and a good accompaniment.

Xujia glutinous rice balls

Xujia glutinous rice balls are a kind of night with unique flavor made by three sheng Restaurant, a famous restaurant in Shangqiu, the ancient city.

Because the restaurant was founded by Xu Shufu and his two other disciples in the 19th year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty (1893), Xu Minglin, the third generation descendant of the Xu family, is still in charge of the kitchen, so it is called "Xujia Tangyuan".

Xujia glutinous rice dumplings are mainly made of glutinous rice and appropriate amount of millet flour. The skin is white and crystal clear when cooked. The stuffing is made of white sugar, honey and various fruit materials. There are many varieties and flavors, and they are called "eight treasures of honey are far away". Xujia Tangyuan can be cooked in 11 minutes. It is soft and sticky, and it tastes sweet and fruity. It is a famous flavor food in Shangqiu.

Baked shrimp

Baked shrimp was a famous dish in the ancient city of Guide in Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the late Qing Dynasty, Guan Heqing, an old chef, was good at cooking shrimps with vegetarian dishes every time he entertained ministers with poor drinks. In the Republic of China, chefs Chen Sirong and Chen Siming pushed the cooking technique of serving food further, and promoted it from official cuisine to local cuisine.

The main raw materials of shrimp vegetarian meal are gluten and shrimp, and the fear materials are chicken skin, mushrooms, tremella, chicken and duck soup, etc.

production method: deep-fry the gluten with warm oil, tear it into blocks, then add shrimp, chicken skin, mushrooms, tremella, chicken and duck soup, and simmer the soup with slow fire to collect the juice.

Shrimp is fragrant, delicious and good in shape, and has a strong flavor of eastern Henan-heavy color, strong fragrance, thick soup and thorough fire. Tangxiayi is one of the famous snacks in Henan.

guocun roast chicken

guocun roast chicken is one of the traditional famous dishes in Shangqiu county, with a history of more than 311 years.

This product is characterized by fragrant smell, good color and delicious taste, tender and white meat, complete shape, rotten but not greasy, and long aftertaste. For example, when it is hot, lift the chicken's legs on the plate and shake it gently, that is, the meat and bones are separated and the meat falls into the plate.

Meng Zhaoxing, the producer of Mengjia roast chicken in 1951s, attended Henan Science and Technology Exchange Conference twice, and was named as "Roast Chicken Expert" and "Roast Chicken Technician" by the province.

Songyue brand white sugar bean curd

Songyue brand white sugar bean curd produced by Shangqiu Brewery is a famous specialty of Dayoufeng Soy Sauce Garden in Guide House.

Founded in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, it has a history of more than 311 years. The founder Li Dayou was rich in words. At that time, the production of sauce gardens was booming. By the 8th century, Meng Chunfa, the master of the sauce garden, had painstakingly studied the technology of pickles, absorbed the technical characteristics of the North and the South on the basis of the original technology, improved the operation, and created a unique style, thus becoming famous all over the world.

white sugar bean curd is golden and reddish in color, with well-proportioned rotten blocks, delicate texture, rich aroma, moderate hardness, no rot, salty and palatable, and delicious taste. It is a good product for appetizing and increasing food and giving gifts to friends.

Gusong brand jam-packed melon

Gusong brand jam-packed melon produced by Shangqiu pickles factory is exquisite in workmanship and exquisite in preparation method. It takes Niugua as the skin and contains more than a dozen small dishes such as peanuts, almonds, antlers, embryo blue, dried tangerine peel and shredded ginger.

the finished product is beautiful in shape, shiny and sauce brown. When eating, each melon is cut into 2-3 knives to form a lotus petal shape. When spread on the plate, the melon looks like a flower heart, and the sauce is brown, golden and dark green. It is colorful and full of flavors.

weizhuang sesame candy

weizhuang sesame candy is a traditional specialty of shuangba town, Shangqiu county. Up to now, it has a production history of more than 211 years, and has a long-standing reputation for its four characteristics of sweetness, fragrance, looseness and crispness.

This sesame candy is made of high-quality rice, white sugar, sesame seeds and malt. The operation process is as follows: rice is distilled, sugar catalytic enzyme is added, sugar juice is squeezed out, boiled, drawn and cut, and sesame seeds and white flour are added. Sesame candy is uniform in thickness and length, sesame seeds are covered with no skin, sealed at both ends are airtight, not stiff, not sticky, crisp, sweet and palatable.

Jingjiama Pian

Jingjiama Pian is a traditional famous product in Yucheng County. It was handed down from the family of Jijing in Chendian, and now it has been handed down to the descendants of Jinglianhe for seven generations. According to the Records of Yucheng County, Jingjiama was once listed as a tribute by Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty.

jingjia hemp chips are well-selected and finely made. Made of fine powder, sesame oil, white sugar and other high-quality raw materials. Characterized by discerning and transparent, sweet and crisp, refreshing food, Xian Yi, young and old. In 1984, it was selected into the Directory of Industrial and Commercial Enterprises in China, and was rated as a high-quality product by the provincial light industry system.

Chicken feet twist

Chicken feet twist is named after it looks like chicken feet. It is a famous product in Anping, Zhecheng County, and was once listed as a tribute during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty. Originally, Wang's ancestors took this as their profession. When it was spread to Wang Anping for a generation, it was spread to Zhou Dajiang, a good friend, because there were no heirs. So far, the Zhou family has spread it for four generations for more than 111 years.

The chicken feet twist product is light yellow, shiny and bright, crispy and crisp, and has a unique flavor. It is still crisp after half a month of storage; Immersed in boiling water for more than ten minutes, it is still crispy and as good as new; Folding off one strand can be used as a piece of paper to light a cigarette. If one strand is lit one after another, a chicken claw twist can illuminate a mile.

Yucheng Black Jingguo

Yucheng Black Jingguo is also known as Damijing. Taking glutinous rice, sugar, honey, sesame oil and osmanthus as raw materials, glutinous rice was crushed, fermented, added with ingredients and fried to make Mojing fruit. It has a unique flavor of crisp, sweet and delicious, melting in the mouth, sweet but not tired, fragrant but not greasy. During the Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty, it was listed as a tribute.

Mahuazhuang Mahuazhuang

Mahuazhuang Mahuazhuang is a specialty of civil rights and has a history of more than 211 years. In the early Qing Dynasty, the Zhang family settled in Minquan County, one kilometer south of the town, and made a living by frying dough twists. Because of its fine production and unique flavor of crisp, fragrant and crisp, it was listed as a tribute during the Qianlong period, and the place where Zhang lived was named "Mahuazhuang".

Some people have made an experiment: after storing in a plastic bag for a winter and spring, the color, fragrance, taste and crispness remain unchanged. People summarize its characteristics as follows: "When you eat incense, you can light a lamp at night, and when you fall to the ground, it will be completely crushed, and it will be fragrant indoors."

Jiazhai dried bean curd

Jiazhai dried bean curd in Yucheng County has a production history of more than 211 years, and was once listed as a tribute in the late Qing Dynasty. The products are made of high-quality soybeans, and there are more than 11 kinds of accessories such as star anise, pepper, tsaoko, cold ginger, cinnamon and clove.

It is made by squeezing the colored rotten blocks out of water and cooking them in a chicken soup pot. Dried bean curd is a thin square block, with dark red color, red and transparent, black and shiny, strong five-flavor, salty but not astringent, and fragrant but never tired

Shangqiu water-soaked steamed bun

Shangqiu water-soaked steamed bun, formerly known as water-soaked steamed bun, originated in Guide House, Shangqiu ancient city, and it is impossible to test when it was founded. According to legend, every time Shen Li (a native of Shangqiu County) entertained guests in the Ming Dynasty, it was necessary to serve steamed buns with water from home.

The main raw material of water-induced steamed buns is hard-faced steamed buns. The production method is to cut the steamed buns into ingots about inches long and as thick as fingers, dry them, soak them in hot water of about 41 degrees, fry them in boiling oil until golden brown, and then quickly put them into dilute sugar juice prepared in advance. After two or three seconds, the finished products are bright in color, rich in coke outside and sweet and delicious. Because there is water in the sugar juice, the steamed buns should be put in the water to stir after frying, so it is called "water-stirred steamed buns".

small sesame seed cake in Yudong Hotel

The small sesame seed cake in Yudong Hotel was originally a famous product in Guide, which was founded by the famous chef Wang Yixi, with a history of more than 111 years. Zhang Yuxiang, the chef of Yudong Hotel in Shangqiu, is Wang Yixi's apprentice. On the basis of inheriting the traditional craft, he has continuously improved the making method of the small sesame seed cake and formed a set of unique making techniques, so he is called "Yudong Hotel Small Sesame Seed Cake".

Small sesame seeds are divided into four categories: sweet, salty, meat and vegetarian. More than 21 varieties of sweet and vegetarian are made of jujube paste, hawthorn, rose, red bean paste, brown sugar and white sugar. Salty and meaty ones are stuffed with meat oil, ham, dried salted duck, chicken, beef, mutton and fish. The finished product is about 8 cm in diameter, golden yellow, sweet in import, crisp to eat, thick outside and delicious.

Ningling barbecued bun

Ningling barbecued bun is a long-standing food in Dongjie, Ningling County. Thick-stick buns are pure in taste, palatable in hardness and softness, beautiful in color and exquisite in heat. This kind of steamed bun is soaked in boiling water and looks like a cake. When pressed with a spoon, it becomes paste, which looks like milk with sugar. It can replace milk to feed children, so it is also called "milk steamed bun".

yuba in Sizhuang

The yuba produced in Sizhuang, the eastern suburb of Xiayi County, is a unique product of Sizhuang, with a history of more than 411 years. It was exclusively enjoyed by local officials in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and served as a tribute gift.

sizhuang yuba is made of high-quality soybeans and refined. It contains protein, fat, sugar, crude fiber, etc. It is golden and transparent in color, good in toughness, resistant to storage and transportation, rich in nutrition, easy to digest and absorb, and is a high-quality health food. Enjoy the reputation of "super vegetable meat".

Shangqiu, as one of the birthplaces of Chinese culture, is also a gathering place of ancient Chinese food culture. Shangqiu cuisine combines ancient and modern times in one furnace, and there are more than a thousand kinds of famous local dishes. Tasting antique dishes and snacks has become one of the purposes for many tourists to come to Shangqiu.

Shangqiu is the birthplace of Yi Yin, the originator of Chinese cooking. For thousands of years, perhaps the cooking skills and dishes created by Yi Yin, the originator of cooking, have been lost elsewhere. Today, you can only eat them in Shangqiu, its original place, and you can also taste the taste from ancient times. Shangqiu cuisine is almost natural, with authentic materials, original flavor, strong reputation for color and fragrance, and is not flashy. The utensils used are also large plates and bowls, which look eye-opening and taste magnificent, which is really a far cry from some flashy and artificial cooking styles popular in the market today. Among them, the more distinctive dishes that can fully demonstrate the traditional cooking skills of the Central Plains are casserole mutton, turtle stewed with pork, black-bone chicken stewed with pork, stuffed mutton, gourd chicken leg stewed with cordyceps sinensis, fried gourd duck with eight treasures, scallion-roasted plum ginseng, emerald fish maw, Sanqiu roasted eel, Sanqiu hot and sour soup and so on. There are also some special snacks such as flowering sesame seed cake, scallion cake, Hu spicy soup and oil tea, which are also well-known and memorable.