Spicy is the flavor of Sichuan and Chongqing.

Spicy is one of the common flavors of Sichuan cuisine.

It is characterized by a thick spicy flavor, salty and fragrant.

Widely used in poultry, livestock, offal, as well as dried and fresh vegetables, beans and soy products as raw materials for cold and hot dishes style, such as boiled sliced pork, Ma Po tofu, spicy shredded beef, beef tongue lettuce, spicy chicken slices, tripe hot pot, etc., mainly by chili peppers, peppercorns, Sichuan salt, monosodium glutamate (MSG) and cooking wine modification and become.

Characteristics of Sichuan Cuisine

There are six types of Sichuan cuisine: numbing, spicy, sweet, salty, sour and bitter. On the basis of the six basic flavors, and can be deployed to change into a variety of composite flavors, in the Sichuan cooking process, such as the use of taste of the primary and secondary, thick and thin, more or less, deployment changes, coupled with the selection of materials, cut with and cook properly, you can get the best color, flavor and shape with a special flavor of a variety of delicacies.

Sichuan cuisine is characterized by prominent numbness, spiciness, aroma, freshness, oil, thick flavor, heavy use of "three peppers" (chili peppers, peppercorns, peppercorns) and fresh ginger. Seasoning methods are dry burning, fish, strange flavor, pepper, red oil, ginger, sweet and sour, lychee, garlic and other composite flavors, forming the special flavor of Sichuan cuisine, enjoying the reputation of "one dish, one pattern, one hundred dishes, one hundred flavors".

There are more than 20 kinds of composite flavors in Sichuan cuisine, such as salty and fresh, homemade, hot and spicy, mushy and spicy, fish flavor, ginger flavor, strange flavor, pepper and numbness, hot and sour, red oil, garlic flavor, sesame sauce, soy sauce, smoke flavor, lychee flavor, five flavor, aroma, aroma, sugar and vinegar, sweet flavor, Chenpi, wasabi, salt, pepper and salt, mustard, salt and sweet. The flavor of the mustards, salty and sweet, pepper and salt, spicy lychee, ketchup and so on.