Huizhou cuisine takes Huizhou specialties as the main raw material, and on the basis of adopting traditional folk cooking skills, it absorbs the skills of other cuisines to cook local dishes with salty taste as the main material. Anhui cuisine is one of the eight major cuisines in China, with rich cultural heritage. Its main flavor characteristics are salty and fresh, emphasizing original flavor, paying attention to temperature and food supplement.
Cooking methods mainly include burning, stewing, stewing, steaming and smoking. The main dishes are banquet dishes, five baskets, eight bowls, ten bowls, nine bowls, six bowls, eight bowls, twelve dishes, six pots, popular dishes and so on. The main famous banquets are Bagongshan Tofu Banquet, Baogong Banquet and Hongwu Banquet.
Huizhou has a mild climate, moderate rainfall, four distinct seasons and rich products. Tea, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, fungus, chestnuts, yam, pheasant, stone fish, tremella, soft-shelled turtle and eagle turtle are abundant here. The famous "Qi Hong" and "Tunlu" are world-famous Anhui dishes.
The history of Anhui cuisine
Huizhou cuisine originated in ancient Huizhou in the Southern Song Dynasty, and was originally a local flavor in Huizhou mountainous area. In the long years, through the hard work and eclecticism of famous chefs of past dynasties, especially after liberation, the famous chefs in the province exchanged ideas and inherited and developed, and Huizhou cuisine has gradually stood out from the mountain flavor of Huizhou.
Nowadays, it has concentrated the special flavors and famous delicacies in Anhui, and gradually formed the famous dishes in North and South Xian Yi with unique characteristics and self-contained. Later, it gradually spread to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Shanghai, Hubei and other places, and even affected Xi 'an, the ancient capital of northwest China. It is unique among China cuisines, and ranks as one of the eight major cuisines in China along with Sichuan cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Guangdong cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine, Fujian cuisine and Hunan cuisine.
Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Anhui Cuisine