Shanxi people like to eat pasta.

When mentioning Shanxi, the first thing that comes to mind is the pasta in Shanxi. There are many kinds of pasta in Shanxi. According to the production process, it can be divided into steamed pasta, cooked pasta and cooked pasta. As many as 280 kinds of pasta can be found on the menu. The most famous is Daoxiao Noodles, which is famous overseas. Other kinds of pasta are countless and dazzling.

Let's take a look at the most common kinds of pasta in Shanxi.

1: sorghum noodle fish

This is a common meal in northern Shanxi. Housewives knead the dough into a suitable size, rub their hands from both ends of the case at the same time, make a fragrant small fish, steam it and pour it with soup. If the time is tight and there is no time to rub the fish, it will be pinched into a thin red shell. Either break it into pieces and mix it with vegetables, or cut it into strips and fry it with eggs and sauerkraut, which is equally mouth-watering. In the past, when the children in the village were hungry, they took a red-faced shell, poured a little salt and vinegar into it, dropped a little cooking oil, and broke a piece from the side to eat with salt and vinegar. Finally, salt vinegar and shell fragrance, the people call it "oil and salt touching the nest."

2: Longxu Noodles

Longxu Noodles was originally a royal palace meal, but later it was introduced to the people. Because of its silver hair, hair like a wisp, graceful hand-pulled face, like a tangled dragon beard, its mouth is soft and fragrant, so it was named "Longxu Noodles" by the emperor. In Shanxi, people often eat this kind of noodles on birthdays and reunions, which means longevity.

3 foreskin surface

It is also called sandwich noodles. According to legend, this noodle is an examination question that a mother-in-law deliberately embarrassed her daughter-in-law. He asked his daughter-in-law to roll noodles with white flour and soybean flour. Two kinds of noodles can't be mixed in advance, but both kinds of noodles must be available when eating, so her daughter-in-law created this kind of noodles. The method of wrapping noodles needs to be prepared with white flour and soybean flour in the same proportion, and the white dough is rolled into cakes. Finally, the spherical bean cake is wrapped with cake-like white flour and rolled into noodles. When eating, it needs to be accompanied by coriander and sour soup, which is extremely refreshing.

4: Daoxiao Noodles

Many signs of pasta in Shanxi are to put the kneaded dough on the chopping board. After carrying it, the blade in the hand falls quickly and evenly. The noodles in the blade suddenly jumped like a fish, and the soup rolled over like a whitebait. Is a beautiful and skilled chef, who can cut 100 knives per minute. Each leaf is exactly six inches long and comes with a bowl of soup of the same size. It's delicious and makes people feel comfortable.

5: fried cake

There is a saying called "buns in the south of Shanxi, noodles in the middle of Shanxi, cakes in the north of Shanxi". In Yanbei, you have to eat Liang cakes when you build a house, gongs and drums when you move, rice cakes when you get married, and rice cakes when you have holidays ... There are three kinds of fried cakes in Shanxi: vegetarian cakes, hairy cakes and crispy fried cakes. Vegetarian cake is a cake made by peeling, grinding and steaming millet, also called "yellow cake"; The cake ground from flour with skin is a "hairy cake"; A vegetarian cake, wrapped with stuffing and fried in an oil pan, is called "shortbread".

6: fried dumpling

Fried dumpling, like jiaozi, is a kind of fried food with half stuffing and two sides unsealed. When taken out with a shovel, five or six pieces are connected together, the bottom is golden yellow, the periphery and the upper part are slightly soft, and the taste is the best when steamed.

7: A nest of cakes

A nest of cakes is a famous flavor snack in modern Taiyuan. Its origin is the improvement and innovation made by Mr. Hu Shinian, a special pastry chef, on the basis of 1958 Longxu Noodles. Recently, it has become a plus item in the banquet. In fact, the method of making a nest of cakes is very simple. Put the slightly proofed dough on the chopping board, shake it evenly up and down according to Lamian Noodles's method, and finally pull it into a Lamian Noodles with the 10 button (1024). Then put it evenly on the chopping board, brush the vegetable oil evenly on the noodles, roll it up along the length direction, chop it into 20 small pieces, spin it into a round cake blank, put it in a baking tray, and bake it in the oven with warm fire until it is golden yellow. A nest of cakes has now developed into a series of foods wrapped with various fillings.

There are many materials used to make pasta in Shanxi, such as wheat flour, sorghum flour, corn flour, bean flour, buckwheat flour and naked oats flour. Mix with water, roll, pull, poke, cut, press, knead, pull and sip, then steam, fry, roast, fry, stew, simmer, fry and rot in a pot. Daoxiao Noodles, Lamian Noodles, Lamian Noodles, Daoxiao Noodles, cat ears, enema, etc. It is a common Shanxi pasta on the dining table. Shanxi pasta is not only delicious, but also beautiful. For example, in Daoxiao Noodles, which is famous at home and abroad, the chef holds noodles in one hand and a knife in the other. Under the flying knife, noodles are cut into the pot like meteors chasing the moon and whitebait playing in the water. Noodles are thin, thin and long. Some people praised the beauty of the scene as "a leaf falls off the pot and floats, a leaf leaves the surface and cuts, whitebait falls into the water and turns into white waves, and willow leaves ride under the treetops."