When you come to Lijiang, you can hear such a folk proverb; Lijiang Baba Heqing wine. Indeed, Lijiang Baba, as a traditional food of Naxi nationality, together with Heqing's famous wine, is very famous in Yang Sifang. Lijiang Baba is a unique flavor food of Naxi nationality with a long history. Its main raw material is local refined wheat flour, and spices such as ham, cooking oil and sugar are mixed evenly, kneaded into layers, made into a round cake about one plate and about one inch thick, and then cooked in a pot with slow fire. In Sifang Street, the ancient city, there are many shops specializing in Lijiang Baba, most of which are run by adult women. They are skilled, skilled, prosperous and full of customers.
Lijiang Baba can be divided into two categories: salty and sweet, and you can choose according to your own taste. It is golden in color and fragrant, and it tastes crisp and delicious. Lijiang Baba is not only delicious, but also not easy to deteriorate and taste. After cooking, it will not be moldy for a few days. It is a rare dry food for people to travel abroad, and it is also a good gift from relatives and friends in other places.
On the first line of Sifang Street in Old Town of Lijiang, there is an authentic Lijiang Baba for sale, and the price is about one 3.5 yuan. Buckwheat Baba
The Xiaoliangshan area in Ninglang is rich in tartary buckwheat, so tartary buckwheat is the king of grains in the eyes of Yi people, and tartary buckwheat Baba has also become a local flavor food. It is used on the altar, when you get married, and it is always indispensable at the banquet. Buckwheat Baba cooked by Yi people with fire ashes (mother and son) will not go bad for ten and a half months. Dip bitter buckwheat into winter honey for dinner, which is bitter, sweet and refreshing, with endless aftertaste. At present, buckwheat wine, buckwheat cakes, buckwheat shreds and other products are developed by using buckwheat produced in Xiaoliangshan and Laojunshan in Lijiang area, which are deeply loved by consumers.
The results show that buckwheat is rich in protein, fat, minerals, vitamins and amino acids with health care functions. Luxi is a unique component of buckwheat (especially tartary buckwheat), which has the functions of softening blood vessels and lowering blood lipids, and has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on cardiovascular diseases and hypertension. The total effective rate of controlling and treating diabetes is 93%. In addition, it also has the effects of invigorating stomach, resolving food stagnation and clearing heat.
Tartary buckwheat is suitable for planting in places with cold climate and poor soil, and its growth period is short. In the past, it was used for food or feed cultivation. In recent years, it has attracted people's attention because of its nutritional health care and medicinal value, and is known as "longevity food". Chicken bean bean jelly
On the streets of Old Town of Lijiang, there is also a famous snack called "chicken bean jelly". Chicken beans are a famous specialty of Lijiang, which are exported to Southeast Asian countries. Soak chicken beans thoroughly, grind and filter them into slurry, then boil them into ash, and put them into various containers for cooling and molding, which is chicken jelly.
The third bean jelly is food for consumers. Lijiang chicken bean jelly can be eaten hot except cold. Vendors selling bean jelly in the streets have two hands ready to meet customer requirements. Cold food is mostly eaten in summer. After crystal powder is marinated, it is mixed with condiments such as red pepper, green leek, pepper, mustard foam and sour vinegar. Full of color and flavor, a bowl is appetizing and refreshing. Hot food is often eaten in cold season. Square powder blocks are fried on both sides of the pot, and then various seasonings such as hemp, spicy and acid are added according to everyone's taste. A bowl down, the whole body is warm. Chicken bean jelly, cheap and good, is favored by people. Bean jelly skin is its essence and has become a good food for some hotels and restaurants to entertain guests. Glutinous rice and blood sausage
Glutinous rice blood sausage is a popular food of Naxi nationality, which is called "linen" in Naxi language. Its practice is to mix steamed rice or glutinous rice with fresh pig blood or egg white and various spices while it is hot, pour it into the cleaned pig large intestine, seal it and steam it. Because of the different production methods, those with blood are called black hemp and those with egg white are called white hemp. When eating, you need to cut into discs, or fry them, or steam them in a steamer. It is famous for its bright color and rich fragrance.
Every winter, almost every Naxi family will make some hemp supplements to entertain relatives and friends. If your family is studying or working outside, please ask someone to bring home textiles and linen as far as possible. Now there are people who process and make hemp supplements for sale all the year round. Yongsheng camellia oleifera
Buttered tea is the main way of drinking tea for Naxi, Mosuo and Pumi nationalities in Lijiang. The first thing after getting up every morning is to boil water and beat butter tea, which has become a major feature of their diet.
Butter is extracted from milk and has high nutritional value. Buttered tea is a kind of beverage with butter as the main raw material. The production process is as follows: first, the housewife concentrates the fresh milk squeezed from the milk in the morning in a wooden bucket, then pours it into a slender wooden bucket with a height of about 1 m several times, then vigorously stirs it with a wooden stirrer until the milk fat is separated from the milk residue and floats on the surface, then takes out the milk fat, puts it into another wooden basin filled with clear water, and vigorously rubs it. When the cream is kneaded into cakes, it is packed according to the weight of one catty. When eating, first put the tea leaves into a teapot and simmer, then cut the ghee into small pieces, put them into a wooden barrel with a length of about 1 m and a diameter of10cm, add seasonings such as salt, sesame, peanuts, walnuts and eggs, pour the simmered tea leaves, and repeatedly hit them with a stick with a cork at the top until the tea leaves, ghee and spices are found.
Buttered tea is milky white in color and rich in aroma. Three bowls in the morning, refreshed and chilled. For beginners, the first smell is unbearable, the second is mellow and delicious, and the third is unforgettable. Yi nationality tuorou
Most visitors to ninglang county (commonly known as Xiaoliangshan) in Lijiang area want to taste the meat of Yi people. The meat of the Yi people in Xiaoliangshan is similar to the "hand-roasted mutton" in Xinjiang. When making, fresh and fat pigs, cows and sheep are selected, slaughtered immediately, chopped in large pieces, as small as fists and as big as bowls, without salt and pepper, boiled in clear water until they are half cooked, and then lightly sprinkled with salt and sweat with a sieve. Because this kind of meat is special and not very fat, the more you chew, the more appetite you have. Therefore, the meat has become a famous flavor dish in Xiaoliangshan. Pork fat
The Xiaoliangshan area in Ninglang is rich in tartary buckwheat, so tartary buckwheat is the king of grains in the eyes of Yi people, and tartary buckwheat Baba has also become a local flavor food. It is used on the altar, when you get married, and it is always indispensable at the banquet. Buckwheat Baba cooked by Yi people with fire ashes (mother and son) will not go bad for ten and a half months. Dip bitter buckwheat into winter honey for dinner, which is bitter, sweet and refreshing, with endless aftertaste. At present, buckwheat wine, buckwheat cakes, buckwheat shreds and other products are developed by using buckwheat produced in Xiaoliangshan and Laojunshan in Lijiang area, which are deeply loved by consumers.
The results show that buckwheat is rich in protein, fat, minerals, vitamins and amino acids with health care functions. Luxi is a unique component of buckwheat (especially tartary buckwheat), which has the functions of softening blood vessels and lowering blood lipids, and has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on cardiovascular diseases and hypertension. The total effective rate of controlling and treating diabetes is 93%. In addition, it also has the effects of invigorating stomach, resolving food stagnation and clearing heat.
Tartary buckwheat is suitable for planting in places with cold climate and poor soil, and its growth period is short. In the past, it was used for food or feed cultivation. In recent years, it has attracted people's attention because of its nutritional health care and medicinal value, and is known as "longevity food". Sauced fish
Fish with Chinese sauerkraut is a traditional dish of Mosuo people and Pumi people in Ninglang. People catch half a catty of fresh fish in Lugu Lake and keep them in wooden pots. When they take it home, they first cut open the fish belly, take out the internal organs, wash the blood, flatten the fish, then put the fish belly in the mud pot, sprinkle a layer of seasoning such as Ciba noodles, salt, pepper and spiced powder on the fish body, seal the jar mouth and put it in the shade.
This kind of pickled fish can be eaten raw, or fried or boiled with peppers to make hot and sour soup. The taste is fresh and refreshing, which makes people's appetite double. One of them is called Schizothorax fish, which is named after the scales on both sides of its reproductive hole and anal fin are like split holes. The meat is more prickly and less prickly, so it tastes particularly delicious. Schizothorax is a primitive subfamily fish, which gradually evolved with the uplift of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the change of living environment. Now it belongs to the national second-class protected aquatic animals.