While enjoying the beautiful scenery of Hebei, you must eat enough, because the beautiful scenery and food always complement each other and are indispensable.
Today, I want to introduce some Hebei cuisines to you. I asked a circle of Hebei friends in soul and selected some representative foods for you.
1. Donkey meat on fire
When it comes to Hebei specialty food, many people will think of donkey meat burning. When I investigated the most popular Hebei cuisine in soul, many young friends knew more about the burning of donkey meat. Cooking meat on the stove is referred to as donkey meat for short, and cooked donkey meat is eaten in the fire. It tastes crisp when burned, and the donkey meat is fat but not greasy. Hebei donkey meat is divided into "Hejian school" and "Baoding school", which are very different in shape, raw materials, practices and eating methods.
Baoding Caohe donkey was burned into a circle, and the donkey was chosen as the smaller Taihang donkey. The cooking style is preserved with different secret soup stock. Donkey meat has been tumbling in the pot, and when it is hot, take out a piece of meat, and the hot meat is sandwiched with heat. Eat it while it's hot, and the meat has the mellow flavor of the old stock marinade.
Hejian donkey meat huoshao vs Baoding donkey meat huoshao
Hejian donkey meat is square, and the meat is big Bohai donkey meat sauce. After the sauce is ready, let the soup and donkey meat cool together. When the soup cools, it becomes a full collagen stew. Stewed meat is made from old soup starch donkey oil. The donkey meat is sliced after cooling, with pepper and braised pork as auxiliary materials, and put into the fire skin together.
2. pancakes
Bobo cake is a traditional famous food in Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province. Cake is made by mixing starch and flour in a certain proportion, adding water and stirring to form a batter, then spreading the batter on the leaves of the cake, covering it with stuffing, folding it in half, and finally steaming it in a steamer. The cake tastes good, and it smells like leaves.
3. Mutton soup
The mutton soup in Chengde, Hebei Province is famous all over the country. On a cold morning, a bowl of milky mutton soup is full of mutton offal, dotted with a little parsley. Many people in Chengde start their breakfast with a bowl of authentic mutton soup. Mutton soup in Chengde is different from mutton soup in other places. It tastes mellow, and the soup is oily but not greasy.
4. Bean foam
Doumo is a famous specialty of Handan, Hebei Province. The invention of bean foam has a history of thousands of years and is known as "the living fossil in snacks". Bean foam is made by grinding millet into rice slurry, adding peanuts, soybeans, tofu and kelp, and adding seasonings. When eating, add some sesame sauce, and the fragrance of various ingredients blends together, which is endless.
5. Chess cookies
Chess biscuit is a special snack in Tangshan, Hebei Province. Chess and card biscuits are made of meat, sausage, ham and other ingredients, wrapped in flour embryo and baked in the furnace. The freshly baked chess pieces are crispy outside and tender inside, and the stuffing is delicious. The more you chew, the more fragrant it is.
6. Xianghe meat pie
Hebei famous snacks, in addition to donkey meat fire, there are Hebei Xianghe meat pie.
Meat pies appeared in Xianghe County, Hebei Province. In the last century, Xianghe Meat Pie, like Shaxian snack, became the first foreign food to come to Beijing, because Xianghe in Langfang is in the east of Beijing, and Xianghe Meat Pie also has a name-JD.COM Meat Pie.
Xianghe meat pie has thin skin and thick stuffing, rich flavor and rich meat flavor. There are beef stuffing and pork stuffing, one catty, and there will be thousands of layers and cakes. This kind of cake is delicious, because it has less noodles and more meat, and it is delicious with millet porridge and pickles.
7. Zhengding Eight Bowls
Zhengding Eight Bowls is an indispensable delicacy for Zhengding people on holidays and weddings. The production technique of Zhengding Eight Bowls, which represents the Eight Bowls of Song Dynasty, has been listed as the second batch of intangible cultural heritage protection projects in Hebei Province.
Legend has it that Zhengding Eight Bowls originated from the army. Zhao Yun, the ever-victorious general, ordered the cooks in the army to serve meat and vegetables in large bowls every time he led troops to win the battle. Later, it was brought to Zhengding for improvement and spread to this day.
Zhengding's eight bowls, with four meats and four vegetarian dishes as a set, symbolize abundance and auspicious celebration. Four kinds of meat are mainly pork, which are divided into elbow buckle, pork buckle, square meat and meatballs. The four vegetables are mainly radish, kelp, vermicelli and tofu. Eight of them can be selected according to different guests. It focuses on cooking techniques, such as steak, stew, sauce, roast, stew, stir-fry, steam and stir-fry.
8. Cangzhou Hotpot Chicken
Hotpot chicken originated in Cangzhou, which means an improved version of Sichuan hot pot instant-boiled mutton. It is a combination of red-cooked chicken and spicy hot pot, which not only retains the spicy and delicious flavor of Sichuan-Chongqing hot pot, but also increases the tenderness and juiciness of chicken.
Hot pot chicken is mainly made of vegetable chicken, which can be cut into pieces to make hot pot, or it can be made of chicken legs, chicken wings and other different parts alone. It has three flavors: spicy, slightly spicy and braised. Stir-fry the chicken until it is cooked, and then put the cooked chicken pieces into the hot pot together with the stewed chicken soup. After eating chicken, you can rinse vegetables in the chicken soup pot.
9. Dingzhou braised pork
According to folklore, it was born in the Song Dynasty and was created by Su Dongpo, a writer who once knew Dingzhou.
Someone in Dingzhou once said: "In Dingzhou, everyone likes to eat braised pork.
Dingzhou braised pork is a combination of pork and sweet potato starch, which is firm and elastic. The traditional practice of braised pork in Dingzhou is to chop up fresh lean meat, then add a certain proportion of sweet potato starch, and pour in spices, water, sesame oil and so on. , stir evenly into a paste. Then grab the paste into the prepared cotton bag by hand, and then put the stewed meat bag into the boiling hot soup and stew it with low heat. Take out the cooked braised pork bun, cool it in cold water, dry it, take the braised pork out of the bun and smoke it.
10. Bao Guo elbow
Bao elbow is a famous dish in Baoding with a history of 100 years. The pot elbow was invented by a chef in Gaoyang County, Baoding. This dish is crispy and delicious, fragrant but not greasy, and easy to carry. Boil the elbow in water until it is half cooked. Add seasoning to the original soup and simmer slowly. Hang the batter, fry it in the oil pan, and change the knife and slice it. Sprinkle with spiced powder. If served with green onions and flour paste, it will have a special taste.
There is also the Hongyan elbow in Tangshan, Hebei Province, which is actually a simmering elbow. Blanched elbow, coated with a layer of secret sauce, fried twice in oil pan, and stewed with broth and seasoning for one hour.
I also want to know a lot of authentic Hebei cuisine. You can go to soul to make friends with Hebei and feel the charm of simple and authentic Hebei cuisine. The places where locals introduce eating, drinking and having fun can't be bad! And you can also see many Hebei netizens posting the beautiful scenery of Hebei in soul. You can feel the customs of Hebei online ~?