Oil cakes and thin bean powder are traditional snacks of Zhaotong people. The perfect combination of golden crispy oil cake and fragrant thin bean powder makes this snack enduring. The oil cake takes potatoes as the main raw material, and selects high-quality potatoes produced in high-cold mountainous areas such as Xiaolongdong in Zhaoyang District and Liangzi in Jing 'an Xi Kui. Chop it after cooking, wrap it in thin rice paste, fry it in oil until golden brown, and then take it out. The fried oil cake is golden in color, crisp outside and tender inside, sweet and delicious, and exudes the unique fragrance of potatoes. Thin bean powder is made of high-quality peas, ground into flour, and then boiled with ginger and other ingredients. Cooked thin bean powder is light yellow in color and pleasant in smell. Put it in a bowl and sprinkle with a little chopped green onion, pepper noodles, Chili noodles, etc. The light yellow of thin bean powder, the green of chopped green onion and the bright red of Chili noodles make people feel uncomfortable. Take a sip and smack your lips. It's really cool! This delicious food not only nourishes the eyes and stomach, but also nourishes the skin! Because thin bean powder is made of peas, drinking thin bean powder often can dispel spots and raise beauty!
2. You Gao Er kuai
Zhaotong people's main breakfast, the most common should be bait cake. Where you buy oil cake and thin bean powder, there are oil cake bait blocks. Coat the baked bait block with delicious peanut butter, sweet sauce and Chili sauce, wrap it in oil cake and take a bite. Crispy oil cakes, soft bait pieces and spicy Chili sauce will fill your whole taste world for a long time. Oil cake bait block is favored by many diners because of its high quality, low price, convenience and quickness. Some people jokingly call it "Zhaotong's KFC".
3. Zhaotong bean jelly
Zhaotong's bean jelly, like Zhaotong's potatoes, is also an enduring staple food in the lives of ordinary people. The method of bean jelly is very simple, that is, grinding the petals with dried peas, peeling them, soaking them in water, grinding them into slurry, filtering them, boiling them into paste, and cooling them to solidify.
In Zhaotong, the bean jelly of Dalongdong and the hot bean jelly of Enzan Ijuin are very famous in place names. From the perspective of raw materials, there are corn bean jelly, buckwheat bean jelly, pea bean jelly and pea bean jelly, which have a strong lineup and occupy most of the "bean jelly market"; In terms of surnames, Fu Jialiang powder and Zhao Jialiang powder are more famous. The raw material of Fujia bean jelly is golden pea, which has high market price, high starch content, good taste and good bones and muscles. Soak the golden peas in water, wash them, grind them to boil, pour them into a pot to cool and solidify, then put the prepared bean jelly on the chopping board, and scrape it gently with a special iron with a colander. Strip bean jelly will emerge along the small holes in the iron, grab them and put them in a bowl, and add sesame oil, chopped green onion, coriander, garlic water and garlic water. White sour lotus white, green chopped green onion, coriander, bright red oil pepper, and brown mushroom granules are exciting. When you mix seasoning with chopsticks, you can't help drooling. In addition to the special seasoning and rich bean flavor, Fu's bean jelly is also characterized by excellent bones and muscles, storage resistance, and will not deteriorate in a cool place for ten and a half months. So Fu Jialiang went to Kunming, Guangzhou and other places.
4. Zhaotong baked potato
Zhaotong is rich in potatoes, and Zhaotong people also like to eat potatoes. As a street snack, Zhaotong's baked potato has a long history and is very popular. In the streets, people often put charcoal (white charcoal) on the wok, and there are more than a dozen potatoes of different sizes on the charcoal. After burning, they scraped it with corncob or sawdust, cut it in half with a blade, smeared Zhaotong sauce or sprinkled Chili noodles, and took a bite. It was delicious, not only satisfying, but also satisfying. Passing by the stall burning potatoes, I couldn't help but stop, bought one with 2 yuan money and ate it while walking. If friends from other places come, the hospitable Zhaotong people will always take their guests to eat a few, because Zhaotong potatoes also have the effect of skin care. Eat potatoes, eldest son. Buy some if you don't believe me.
5. Bake stinky tofu
Zhaotong has beautiful scenery and is rich in high-quality mineral water. Stinky tofu made of clear and sweet mountain spring water and high-quality soybeans is nutritious, delicate and fragrant. In the street, people often cut tofu into an inch square, put it on a special pot, put some clear oil on it, and bake it full. After the tofu is browned, cut it in half with a blade, but don't cut it off. Put pickled pickles such as broken ears and lotus white in the middle, or sprinkle with thin Chili noodles, and then close and eat. Tofu is crispy outside and tender inside, and pickles are delicious and crisp. If the weather is cold, some merchants put an iron net on the stove, brush a layer of clear oil online, bake tofu online, dip a dish of marinated tofu in the water with peanuts, spicy characters, coriander and other condiments, roll the baked tofu in the water and put it in the mouth. The fragrance is overflowing and people can't stop. Stinky tofu is the most famous in Zhenxiong, and its taste is really too tight.
6.kebabs
The kebab that Zhaotong people say is actually a kebab of beef. Slice high-quality beef, put it on a bamboo stick, soak it in special seasoning water, let the fragrance penetrate into the meat slices, wipe it with clear oil, roast it on charcoal fire, put it in seasoning water, and roast it again. Repeat this twice and the kebab will be cooked. Sprinkle sesame and Chili noodles, and the delicious skewers can be eaten. If you like, you can also buy a baked potato, a kebab and a potato, which tastes very special. When the weather is hot, drinking some cold beer will be more refreshing. Zhaotong's kebabs, Sanguan BBQ in Chanzui Street is more famous, and the barbecue near Yueya Road is also more authentic. It is also interesting to invite three or two friends to the night market to eat kebabs when the lights are on and the cool breeze is blowing.
7. Red bean Chinese sauerkraut soup
In Zhaotong, whether it is a star-rated hotel or a street shop, whether it is a powerful person or an ordinary person, there is almost an insatiable dish on the table, that is, sauerkraut and red bean soup. Making sauerkraut and red bean soup is very simple. Choose the best red beans in Zhaotong, wash them, put them in a pot and cook them slowly with low fire until the beans are soft and thick, with wonderful bean flavor, and serve with sauerkraut and red beans soup. After the red bean soup is cooked, chop the sauerkraut, stir-fry it with Zhaotong sauce, dried Chili, garlic sprouts and ginger slices, then pour in the cooked red bean soup, add Chili noodles and cook for a few minutes, and a pot of sour and refreshing sauerkraut red bean soup is finished. Beans are soft and fragrant, sauerkraut is sour and crisp, soup is sour and delicious, and food is appetizing. Others like to use dried pickles to make sauerkraut and red bean soup.
Sauerkraut and red bean soup made of dried pickles has a purer sour taste and a long aftertaste, which makes people unforgettable. Now Zhaotong's private enterprises have processed sauerkraut and red bean soup into convenience foods and exported them to both inside and outside the province.
8. Crispy red beans
Fried red beans is a traditional dish in Zhaotong. Cook red beans in water, drain, and fry in oil until crisp. Then put oil in the pot, dry Chili, ginger and onion, add chopped meat and sauerkraut and stir-fry until fragrant, then put the fried red beans, Chili noodles, soy sauce, sugar and monosodium glutamate into the pot and stir-fry quickly, and a crispy and delicious red bean will be ready. This dish is crispy and delicious, and it is very popular among Zhaotong people.
9. Hot and sour jiaozi
Boiling vinegar is very important in hot and sour noodles. Using Zhaotong's unique raw vinegar, adding a certain proportion of ginger, garlic, tsaoko, brown sugar and other ingredients, the cooked vinegar is storage-resistant, unique in taste, sweet in acid, sweet in acid and long in aftertaste. After cooking vinegar, the matching order of ingredients at the bottom of the bowl is also a skill.
It is said that you must put salt first, then vinegar, then soy sauce, pepper and the like, and then scoop in bone soup or noodle soup. Boil the noodles in boiling water for two or three minutes, scoop them up and put them in a bowl, sprinkle with fragrant sesame seeds, chopped green onion, a little minced meat and a bowl of fragrant hot and sour noodles. Hot and sour jiaozi also has many doorways.
Usually Zhaotong people like to call wonton jiaozi. To be a jiaozi, you should pay attention to dough and meat stuffing. Dough is made by mixing and rolling soil alkali, eggs, flour and Dalongdong spring water. Hand-rolled dumplings have good bones and muscles, good taste and can be cooked for a long time. Especially when the stuffing is wrapped and cooked properly, the dumpling skin is crystal clear, and a bowl of exquisite jiaozi can be seen in the fireworks. Jiaozi's stuffing is also made by hand. Select the best pork belly, wash and drain. Chop with the back of a knife until the meat becomes minced, then add ginger, salt and a little black kohlrabi, and chop with a blade. At this time, add water while chopping until it becomes minced meat. The minced meat made in this way is tender and delicious. The water for cooking jiaozi must be wide, and besides paying attention to the order and proportion like the seasoning of hot and sour noodles, the key is to add a little brown sugar to the soup, which is the secret of the delicious taste of traditional Zhaotong hot and sour noodles and hot and sour jiaozi! Zhaotong people also like to make hot and sour jiaozi and noodles together. Put the freshly rolled noodles (Zhaotong people become live noodles) and jiaozi in the water to cook. Generally, put jiaozi first, and then put the noodles in two or three minutes. Noodles are thin and thin, and jiaozi is the jiaozi of fresh meat. The cooked noodles are smooth and elastic, while jiaozi is delicate and crisp, but it is very distinctive. Tsinghua Hotel used to be famous for its hot and sour jiaozi noodles. Now, in West Street, there is another Song snack. The hot and sour noodles are very authentic.
10. Zhaotong beef jerky
Zhaotong Muslims are famous for their traditional handicrafts of raising beef and curing halal beef jerky. Because beef jerky is delicious, easy to store and carry, and convenient to eat, it is very popular among consumers.
The masses have raised cattle and sheep for a long time and accumulated rich experience in raising cattle. If you want to pickle beef jerky with excellent flavor, you must feed the strong cattle first. Every year in February of the lunar calendar, Muslims first use tender grass to promote fattening, and at the same time, according to the mouth and physique of cattle, choose appropriate Chinese herbal medicines to kill tuberculosis and treat diseases, so as to strengthen the spleen and stomach and stimulate appetite. After careful feeding, the cows gradually become smooth and fat.
Every winter, Muslims in rural areas slaughter their own beef cattle, and most of them are used to pickle dry fences. Hui people in the urban area go to the market to buy fresh beef with more fat (fat) slaughtered by themselves to pickle dry bar. Generally, in October and December of the lunar calendar, preserved beef is slaughtered and preserved for one year. According to the traditional custom, cows are slaughtered by imams, bled, skinned, cut open, hung on the front and back halves, and then cut into 24 "bones" (clean meat) along the meat seam. The cut meat is spread in a ventilated place for thorough cooling and then pickled. Beef is divided into sickle, fire fan, white outside, tenderloin, ribs, breast meat, chopping board and so on. Chopping board is top grade, tender and tender, suitable for cooking and frying, and frying is the most delicious. When curing beef jerky, add salt, spices, pepper and the like to the unwashed fresh beef and rub it repeatedly on the dustpan. Generally, the meat is thick first, then thin. For every 65,438+000 Jin of beef and vegetables, use 3-5 Jin of salt, then put it in a crock, put it in a cool place, put it in a crock according to the thickness of the meat, and then seal the mouth of the crock with a wooden cover and a linen bag. 15-20 days later, the beef is taken out and dried. Sunny in the morning, come back in the afternoon, according to the thickness of the meat, fold it flat. On a dustpan or a big wooden table, thin meat is on the bottom, thick meat is on the top, and one layer is flattened. In about 30 days, the drying process is completed. After the bacon is dried, the meat surface is hard and chestnut, so it can be hung indoors for eating. Steak is placed on a wooden frame, neat and massive, with a color like millet shell and a fragrant smell. A good dry bar can be preserved until next winter, and it is a good food for entertaining guests.
In Zhaotong, Tianma stewed chicken, whole potato mat and whole lamb mat are all famous, and the ham in the mountainous area is really beautiful. With the change of time, all kinds of dishes are constantly brought forth new ideas, whether traditional or modern, street snacks or big meals on the table. In short, when you come to Zhaotong and enjoy the beautiful scenery, you must taste the delicious food. Otherwise, the trip to Zhaotong will not be complete enough.