In Phoenix, the most delicious and unforgettable thing is the local blood duck. It is the most distinctive local dish in Phoenix. Duck with blood dumplings has both the delicacy of duck meat and the fragrance of blood dumplings. Delicious and memorable. Miao bean curd Miao bean curd is a common home-cooked dish and local dish of Fenghuang Miao and Tujia people. Make tofu, leaving thick bean juice. When fried, it is usually cooked with cabbage. Otherwise, the starch bacteria in protein will be boiled to death. When the tofu is cooked, put some pepper juice on it. It tastes fresh and delicious, which is very beneficial to strengthening the body, strengthening the stomach, promoting blood circulation and accelerating digestion. Vegetable tofu is a famous dish eaten by Miao and Tujia people, and it is also a kind of delicious food.
Hot and sour glutinous rice pickled pepper Hot and sour glutinous rice is the favorite common home-cooked dish of Phoenix people. First select the best glutinous rice, grind it into rice, and then make it into powder. Mix the cleaned and chopped red pepper evenly, add a little cool and clean mountain spring water, and make into pills or tablets. The main way to eat is to fry or cook. The best way to eat is to fry. It tastes hot and sour, tender outside and tender inside, and full of energy. Phoenix people especially like sour food. This sour food is the formation of traditional habits. According to legend, because they live in the mountains, the mountains are high and the roads are far, and the transportation is inconvenient, it is difficult for them to eat fish and vegetables and lack salt. Therefore, in order to meet the needs of daily life, Miao people set up acid jars in every household to make sour fish, sour meat, sauerkraut and other foods.
Miao people use carp to make sour fish. Most carp are raised in rice fields. During the autumn harvest, both fish and rice were harvested. Most of the harvested fish, except a few fresh fish, are used to make sour fish and can be eaten for a long time. Phoenix banquet is cooked with glutinous rice, indica rice, Artemisia scoparia, wild onion, bacon, lard, vegetable oil and peanuts. You can cook and eat it now, or you can fry it afterwards. Club food will only get better and better. In Miao Village, Fenghuang Township, Xiangxi, there is a unified custom, that is, having dinner at the Spring Club. According to the lunar calendar, the fifth day from the fifth day of the first month to the fifth day around the vernal equinox is the Spring Festival. On this day, every family will cook a social meal to show that it is a sign of social cooperation.
If guests encounter this kind of steamed rice noodle meat, Phoenix people like to steam a bowl of steamed rice noodle meat around the long summer every year. It is said that eating in summer will not cause prickly heat. People stir-fry rice with spices such as aniseed and cinnamon, grind it into powder, cut pork belly into thick slices, soak it in Chili oil and soy sauce, add seasonings such as white sugar, cooking wine and monosodium glutamate, then pour in rice flour and mix well, then fold the meat wrapped in rice flour in a bowl, steam it in a cage until it is rotten, and buckle it in a plate when eating. Some meat is mixed with peas, which makes the dishes taste like powder and beans. The meat is tender and greasy and has a unique flavor. It is well known that tofu is cooked with sauerkraut. The five flavors are sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty, and acid comes first. What an interesting taste and wonderful feeling this fermented chemical is in our daily diet.
People like it and its popularity is obvious to all. Su Heng, a stewed chicken with chestnut, is known as the king of dried fruits and hardcore crops, and is rich in the mountainous areas of this area. The main varieties are big chestnut, oil chestnut, rice chestnut, hairy chestnut and spinning chestnut (a small round chestnut). Chestnut pulp is yellow and white, fragrant, crisp and sweet, and rich in nutrition. Stewed chicken and duck with chestnuts has a unique flavor. Sun Simiao, a medical scientist in the Tang Dynasty, said: Chestnut is the fruit of kidney and is suitable for nephropathy. .
Chestnut is a local product of Phoenix, especially the black chestnut with full grain and big fat fruit is the best. The Double Ninth Festival in September is the time to harvest chestnuts. Choose chestnuts with large particles and no pests and diseases, and put them on a ventilated and light-transmissive roof beam to dry. At this time, the slaughtered chicken (duck) meat is cut into pieces, then the chestnuts are cooked, mixed with the fried chicken (duck) meat, and stewed with fire to make a house.
Different from the smoked bacon in the market, the old Fenghuang bacon smoked every other year is not made by Laqi Laba, nor is it made by mechanical technology. Do not use all kinds of raw materials, smoke on the stove all the year round. Generally, coal is not burned in rural areas, let alone natural gas, and firewood is used for cooking. When do you not smoke? What's more, the pigs used by villagers to make bacon are all local varieties, called waste oil. They never use pig powder to gain weight, lean meat to increase lean meat, and do not use any additives or chemical feed. The methods of reprocessing are also different. Add proper amount of salt before smoking, and then smoke for 3-5 days. This stove burns wood all the year round. The climate in mountainous areas is warm and cool, mostly wooden houses, which are ventilated and breathable.
Bacon can be put on hold for a long time, and the longer it is put on hold, the more delicious it tastes. The bacon smoked on such a stove has a special taste. Old bacon is delicious in texture, but extremely ugly in appearance. It has a dark pot bottom, hard stones, steaming and sticky hands. Only by throwing it into the fire, burning it, soaking it in rice washing water, washing it with straw and taking off its ugly coat can it show its true colors. After cooking and cutting, you will immediately feel a delicious, deep, mellow, nourishing and refreshing taste, which will haunt you for the rest of your life.
Sour soup, like blood rake duck, is the most distinctive main course of Phoenix. There are many barbecue stalls at Hongqiao BBQ Bridge every night. 5 yuan, a small string, about 20 strings. Grilled crispy bones are highly recommended, and grilled fish is also very good. Barbecue and beer are life.