It has the only 5A-level scenic spot listed in the World Natural Heritage List in Zhejiang Province. An ancient city with a history of 1800 years is a battleground for ancient strategists and is known as "Confucianism in Confucius Temple". Its rotten Keshan is the origin of "rotten chess game" It is a "national historical and cultural city" with dozens of titles, but it has disappeared in the eyes of Zhejiang people for a long time like invisibility. ...
It's Quzhou, a place with a bad reputation because its name is difficult to write. The magic of Quzhou lies not only in its invisibility, but also in its diet. In the case that the whole of Zhejiang prefers a light diet, Quzhou people are not spicy or boring. If you ask them how spicy they can eat, just say a breakfast. Quzhou people eat porridge with red peppers in their eyes!
Quzhou cuisine pays attention to freshness, softness and smoothness, aiming at maintaining the original flavor. There are many methods such as steaming, roasting, stewing, soaking, frying and pulping. Generally speaking, Quzhou cuisine combines the umami flavor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang cuisine with the spicy stimulation preferred by local people. So it's right to go to Quzhou if you like spicy food. From spicy breakfast to midnight snack. Don't panic if you like light food. Fresh and smooth food can also make you eat it.
In order to find the authentic Quzhou cuisine, our "Grandma's Recipe" column spent 46 days, from the streets to the ancient village of Linshan, and found five major cuisines that can represent Quzhou's food culture to a certain extent.
People in Quzhou eat cakes. As an authentic southern city, this preference can be said to be very rare. When foreigners come to Quzhou, the first food they see is probably the famous Quzhou scones.
A round cake the size of a baby's fist, with fragrant chopped green onion inside and white sesame seeds outside, is baked in a red-hot stove until it is crisp and golden, and its fragrance is absolutely unique.
In addition to this iconic scone, Quzhou also hides several other delicious cakes. Their main ingredients are flour, rice flour and glutinous rice flour, as well as frying, frying and steaming. Quzhou people make three simple cakes into flowers. Have you seen all these cakes?
Thin sesame seed cake is one of the representative foods in Changshan County, Quzhou City.
Choosing pork belly with three parts fat and seven parts thin as stuffing, chopped green onion and dried pepper are spicy, and Quzhou people dare to challenge Hunan, Sichuan and other spicy provinces.
The dough is rolled repeatedly, and I can't wait to roll it thin until it is transparent. Finally, after two or three minutes of frying, the skin turns yellow and turns over. Golden on both sides is the most obvious sign of the maturity of thin sesame cakes. From the kitchen to the dining table, the greasy thin sesame cake smells as if the whole room had wings.
Taro cake is a kind of "earth cake" in Jiangshan County, Quzhou City. It is different from thin sesame cake, and its main component is glutinous rice flour. Glutinous rice flour brings a softer and thicker taste to taro cake. Taro stalks are similar to dried bamboo shoots, and the more you chew them, the more fragrant they become.
The main ingredient of taro stalk cake is the stem and leaf of taro. Every summer, the old people will pick the tender stems and leaves, remove the leaves, blanch them, and then dry them in the hot summer sun for later use.
Add freshly cooked lard to the dried taro stalks, then pour enough glutinous rice flour and knead it into balls. Finally, fried, golden on both sides, crisp and delicious.
Gao Pei should be regarded as the most eaten cake in Quzhou. Unlike the first two kinds of cakes, they are steamed. Quzhou has the custom of eating Gao Pei on July 15th. Now, with the improvement of material living standards, local people usually do some high training at breakfast.
The highlight of Quzhou Gaopei lies in adding the ingredients of the cake. Perhaps every household makes a different taste. According to personal taste, sprinkle with stuffing such as shrimp, pork, dried bean curd, dried bamboo shoots, red pepper and pickled mustard tuber. If it's a sweet cake, just add sugar water to the rice slurry.
Steamed cakes are a bit like foreign pizzas, but they have the unique flavor of China, which can be seen on the breakfast table of local people. This Quzhou specialty, seemingly simple cake, is not simple to make at all.
In addition to all kinds of cakes, Quzhou people also have a special liking for taro. After the taro is steamed, other ingredients are added to make fresh and lubricated food. This dish is also a rare non-spicy dish in Quzhou cuisine.
Changshan meatball is the king of snacks on the streets of Quzhou. There are meatballs for breakfast, lunch and dinner. In Quzhou, meatballs have various cooking methods, such as steaming, frying and soup. Moreover, it is more convenient to make dumplings. You don't have to rub them around. You can put them in the pot with a spoon and cook them. Soon, your mouth will be watering!
Just out of the pot, the meatballs taste soft and glutinous, and a gentle bite of elastic meatballs perfectly blends the fresh fragrance of various ingredients.
Taro balls, this kind of food may be heard or eaten by many people, but Quzhou Taro balls are a little different from everyone's impression. It is an essential dish for rural weddings in Quzhou.
Peel the cooked taro, mix it with potato powder and stir it evenly, then knead it into balls of appropriate size and cook it in a pot. Simple and delicious, it is also one of the home-cooked dishes that Quzhou people usually cook.
Quzhou has many representative cuisines. We just look at the daily food stories of Quzhou people through these common cuisines. Are there any interesting recipes? More detailed practice in the "Grandma's Recipe" column group, travel all over the country, taste the motherland food. Come and join us.