Zhongxiang food culture has a long history. Zhongxiang cuisine has formed thousands of dishes and dozens of banquets, especially the "Jiajing Banquet". In the eighteenth year of Jiajing, he cruised to Zhongxiang, where the imperial chef and local famous teachers cooked more than ten kinds of dishes with local characteristics to entertain the emperor, which was later called "Jiajing Banquet". Among them, the most famous ones are sweet potato, red sweet potato and Ge Fen, which are known as "three wonders of Zhongxiang". Now let's see what specialties Zhongxiang has.
Panlong vegetables
Panlong is a traditional dish of Zhongxiang, and it is known as one of the top ten classic dishes in Hubei. Not only is it listed in China menu, but its production technology is also listed in Hubei Intangible Cultural Heritage List. From the perspective of ingredients, lean meat, fish and eggs are not precious. Therefore, the quality of food depends on the chef's skill. Pork and fish are made into ingredients and pasted into the final egg roll. Every step is quite particular. How to eat asparagus after cooking is another test. Steaming, frying, frying, distilling, rinsing, etc. All kinds of eating methods have different taste experiences.
Wild Ge Fen
Zhongxiang Ge Fen is a specialty of Zhongxiang City, Hubei Province, and a symbolic product of chinese national geography. Zhongxiang Ge Fen is rich in trace elements such as calcium, iron, zinc and copper, more than 20 kinds of amino acids and effective components of traditional Chinese medicine such as puerarin and pueraria flavonoids. Ge Fen soup, soup, cake, steamed stuffed bun, jiaozi, noodles, vermicelli and other products made from it have the characteristics of strong kudzu root flavor, crystal clear, delicate taste, rich nutrition and convenient eating. Zhongxiang Ge Fen is also famous at home and abroad for its uniform color, mellow taste, delicate taste, high viscosity and good molding degree.
Sweet dried hemp fiber
Shipai Xiangganzi is made of high-quality soybean as the main raw material, refined sauce, Chinese herbal medicine, spiced spices and Sichuan pepper as the auxiliary materials, refined by traditional workshop production methods, and then packaged in high temperature and vacuum. It is delicious and nutritious. This dish, hemp fiber is dry and fragrant. Take the dry fragrance, cut it with a double cross knife, pull it into a net, and fry it in an oil pan. Put a little oil in the wok, add onion and ginger, stir-fry until fragrant, add soup, stew for 10 minute, let the fragrant dried fruit absorb the marinade and soften it, and serve. It is characterized by tea red, unique shape and long fragrance. This dish is rich in plant protein and is known as longevity food.
Miha
Rice tea is a local flavor snack in Zhongxiang area, and it is one of the intangible cultural heritages in Zhongxiang City, Jingmen City. Stir-fried from rice, the taste is slightly sweet but not light, slightly astringent but not bitter, which can not only replace rice, but also have the effect of drinking tea to quench thirst. Say it is rice, it has soup; It is said to be soup, and it can also be used as a staple food.
Short bread
Shortbread is a traditional popular food deeply loved by Zhongxiang people. Zhangji shortbread is light yellow and looks appetizing. The tempting crispy fragrance makes people drool a few meters away from the store, oily but not greasy, and the entrance is instant. Shortcakes are divided into sweet and salty flavors, among which the sweet one is especially famous.
Lamb cake
"There are thousands of appetizers, none of which is better than Baba." For thousands of years, Zhongxiang people have loved to eat Baba. According to their hobbies and different material conditions, various places have formed a series of catfish, catfish, eggplant and cowpea. For the production of this kind of food, there is a folk saying: "The main ingredients are cut into fine water, dried in the sun, mixed with seasoning, sealed in a jar for several days, fried, sour and spicy." Baba, a specialty of Zhongxiang, is made of roasted noodles, pork, fat sausage, refined salt and vegetables, and does not contain any additives. When eating, stir-fry with clear oil repeatedly (to avoid burning) until it is cooked thoroughly, or stir-fry a little diced fat meat first and then add the main ingredients according to the taste. A little chopped green onion in the pot tastes better.
Jiukousha pear
Jiukousha pear is a kind of sand pear, which is mainly produced in Jiukou Town, Zhongxiang City, and is a geographical symbol of agricultural products in China. The soil in Jiukou Town of Zhongxiang City can be roughly divided into gray oily sand and sandy loam, with high natural fertility and maturity, loose structure and good air permeability. The water quality is clear and pure, which is the ideal water for pear production. Laokousha pear is uniform in color, round, white in flesh, small in stone, tender and crisp in meat and sweet in juice.
Fengle river gyro bag
Fengle River Gyro Steamed Bread is a kind of small Gyro Steamed Bread, so it is also called Gyro Steamed Bread. Its method is special, the workmanship is ingenious, the flour is very tight, it can be torn off layer by layer, and it is chewy than ordinary steamed bread and has a faint sweetness of white flour.