Yanggao Great Wall Mutton

Yanggao Great Wall Mutton is a national product protected by geographical indications of agricultural products. It is often said that it is a great pity not to eat mutton in Changcheng Township in Yanggao County. Indeed, the mutton in the Great Wall Township is tender and delicious, the shredded mutton tripe mixed with white jade is delicious and refreshing, and the mutton offal made in different ways is fresh and not delicious, which is impressive.

Datong Yanggao Great Wall Mutton is famous in northern Shanxi, and it is produced in Cailiangshan, Changcheng Township, Yanggao County. Yanggao County Great Wall Township is located in the northeast of Shanxi Province, at the junction of Mongolia and Shanxi, with 4 degrees north latitude and a cold temperate zone, which is recognized as a high-quality meat production belt in the world. The area is mostly hilly and hillside, and hundreds of kinds of wild medicinal materials, such as Astragalus membranaceus, Scutellaria baicalensis, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, Lycium barbarum, Japanese pepper, licorice and honeysuckle, grow on Liangshan Mountain in the south. I eat grass on the grazing slope, drink cold mountain springs and breathe oxygen-enriched air. There are grazing slopes in spring, summer and autumn, and crop straw fields for grazing in winter. There is no long ice and snow cover period, and the four seasons produce high-quality lamb meat. High-quality pasture and mountain spring nourish "Yanggao Great Wall Mutton" with unique nutrition and taste, which is delicious and nourishing.

the most representative ones are yanggao great wall mutton offal, yanggao great wall mutton soup, yanggao great wall braised mutton, yanggao great wall stewed mutton and yanggao great wall mutton jiaozi.

apricot in Yanggao

Apricot trees have been cultivated in Yanggao for a long time, especially in Tun, Wang Guan, for more than 3 years. At present, the county has cultivated more than 1 apricot varieties. There are two main varieties of fresh-eating apricots, among which "Dajie Apricot" is the most popular apricot fruit among fresh-eating apricots, and "Fake Beijing Apricot" is the superior raw material for making preserved apricots.

It is said that more than 3 years ago, there was a poor and studious wang xing scholar in the village of Wang Guan Tun, Yanggao County. Because of his hard study, he touched the poor people. With the support of everyone, he finally got into the examination as a scholar, won a prize, and became an official in Beijing. After returning to his hometown for many years, Wang Guanren saw that his hometown was still so poor, with sand and loess everywhere. Farmers simply depended on farming for a living, and were seriously threatened by water shortage and drought, sand and frost, and lived a hungry and cold life. So, in order to repay the kindness of the villagers in helping students, he conducted an investigation and study in Cailiang Mountain under the guidance of the knowledge he had learned, and wrote "Song of Persuading to Plant Apricot Trees": "Listen to me, folks, how can you peel the poor skin in your hometown?" Take Liangshan Mountain, the water is like gold, and the seeds receive eight liters in a bucket; Mining Liangshan, cold climate, hard work and frost; Mining Liangshan, the land is thin, it is difficult to eat a nest when planting a slope, and it is difficult to drink a bowl when planting a ditch. Sow sweat and collect tears, and plant more cash cows. Don't you see, who has apricot trees and doesn't worry about being hungry? Who has many almond trees and has had a good time! " In addition to publicity, Wang Guan people also set up porridge sheds in villages along the mountain. After a full meal, the poor people are not paid anything, but only asked to bury a few apricot stones on the designated hillside. After Wang Guan-ren retired from his old age and returned to his hometown, he went to Cailiang Mountain to look around. There were already apricot trees, and the poor people benefited from them. In memory of him, people renamed the hometown of Wang Guanren as Wang Guan Rentun. It is said that people in other places called the doctor "Xinglin" because Dong Feng, a famous doctor in the Three Kingdoms period, didn't charge for medicine after seeing a doctor, but only planted a few apricot trees. However, people in Wang Guan people's villages have always called officials "Xinglin". Until now, they also call the national cadres who go to the countryside in the village "Xinglin".

Apricot with high yield has four characteristics, namely, the fruit is large and even, the meat is thick and sweet, the kernel is small and sweet, and the color is yellow and the inside is red. Good color, fragrance, taste and shape.

yanggao mutton offal soup

yanggao people have a long history of eating mutton offal soup, which can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. At that time, Yanggao area was occupied by ethnic minorities such as Lin Hu and Lou Fan, who lived by grazing and shooting. In the 3rd century BC, King Wuling of Zhao used force to expand his territory and built Yunzhong, Yanmen and Daijun before the agricultural production in the Central Plains was spread here. However, in actual farming, King Wuling of Zhao found that the climate in Yanggao was dry, cold and windy, and the land was barren. Many crops were not suitable for planting, but pasture was very strong, so he advocated the development of animal husbandry. Sheep are the main livestock that people raise, so mutton has become the main food on people's table.

At that time, Yanggao was an area where Han people and ethnic minorities lived together, and the habit of eating mutton was different. Ethnic minorities only eat mutton and throw all the sheep into the water. However, the Han people live a simple life and think it is a pity to throw the sheep into the water. Therefore, after eating mutton, they should also wash the sheep's head, sheep's hoof, sheep's heart, sheep's liver, sheep's lungs, sheep's intestines and sheep's blood, cook and chop them up, and cook them with seasonings such as onion, garlic, ginger, pepper and salt to make soup. Because there are all kinds of things in it, it is called mutton offal. Later generations became more and more refined, and yam vermicelli, a local specialty, was added to the mutton offal soup. The vermicelli tastes stiff and shaky, and the mutton offal tastes spicy and fragrant. Together, the two are like icing on the cake, so it is called mutton offal noodle soup.

Mutton offal noodle soup is good in meat, oily but not greasy, mellow and delicious, steaming when taken out of the pot, and delicious when eaten in the stomach. It has obvious effects of dispelling cold, warming the stomach and relaxing the body, and is a better health food, just like "mutton in soup" in Xi 'an and "Qingheyuan Mind" in Taiyuan.

Bitter vegetables in Yanggao

Bitter vegetables are the favorite wild vegetables of Yanggao people. Every spring, men, women, old people and young people fuck with shovels, carry baskets and carry them around, and go looking for it in groups from east to west.

sowthistle, also known as chicory and Patrinia scabiosaefolia, is one of the five flavors, although it tastes bitter, so it has a unique flavor. It is said that Sonchus oleraceus is still blindly Chinese herbal medicine, which is also introduced in Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica. It is not only rich in trace elements such as protein, vitamin C, vitexin, fat, sugar, inorganic salts, phosphorus, calcium and iron, but also has high nutritional value, and it has many functions such as anti-inflammatory, blood stasis-removing, blood pressure lowering, eyesight improving, skin caring, diuresis and detumescence, and appetite increasing, and often suffers hardships.

there are many ways to eat bitter vegetables, and the most common way is to eat fresh bitter vegetables in cold sauce. When cooking, first pick out the sundries in the bitter vegetables, wash them with cold water and boil them out with boiling water. Cooking bitter vegetables is also a science, and the heat is the most difficult to master. After a short time, bitter vegetables are still raw; After a long time, the bitter vegetables become yellow and soft, and they have no taste and no food. The most appropriate time is to put bitter vegetables in boiling water, turn them over immediately and take them out. The bitter vegetables cooked in this way are fresh and tender, and they are very chewy. The green leaves are white, white is that white, and green is that green, which greatly increases people's appetite. Of course, this is about cooking, and the knowledge of mixing bitter vegetables is even greater. I'm poor and widowed in Caicai, but I still haven't eaten my head. There is a restaurant that makes fresh bitter vegetables in cold salad. First, it minces the bitter vegetables, then adds fresh garlic, chopped green onion, sesame oil, salt and monosodium glutamate and gently stirs them up. That dish is not only bitter, but also fragrant, which reminds people to produce saliva under the tongue, and the faint fragrance and beauty overflow in their hearts.

Yanggao Fried Cake

Yanggao Fried Cake is steamed and fried in yellow wheat, which is similar to the southern rice cake, so it is named because of its golden color.

yanggao fried cake is small and thin. Cake fillings are all made according to personal taste, including bean paste, jujube paste, pith oil, sauerkraut and minced meat. There are many shapes of oil cakes, some are round like chess pieces, some are crescent-shaped, some are pinched into triangles, some become "xianggong hats" with one hand pressed, and some are simply wrapped into dumplings, and so on. Put the cake into the oil pan and fry it slowly with slow fire. The oil cake after taking out is crispy outside and fragrant inside, soft and delicious, and the more you eat, the more fragrant it is.

Fried cake is a high-grade food. Because of the homonym of "cake" and "Gao", eating oil cake has become a necessary staple food for Yang Gaoren's Chinese New Year holiday, wedding celebration, birthday, moving to a new house and welcoming guests, which is commonly called "hi cake". In Yanggao, hi-cake is a good gift for relatives and friends. When you get married, you should "send oil cakes three times in the early morning" and all the neighbors should send them. There is also a folk allegorical saying that "sending cakes next door, one for another", and sending cakes here has become a etiquette of mutual communication.

yanggao preserved apricot

the preserved apricot, a specialty of yanggao county, is refined from local apricot fruit. The flesh is orange-yellow, thick and loose, and the juice is sweet and sour, fragrant and of high quality. It contains 1.22% monosaccharide, 5.84% disaccharide, 7.6% total sugar, 2.84% acid, and the ratio of sugar to acid is 2.5: 1. According to the analysis of China Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jingxing contains many mineral elements, including .3% phosphorus, 1598PPM calcium, 14.8PPM zinc, 84.6PPM iron and 4.1PPM manganese.

Preserved apricot slices are neat and full, with delicate and soft meat, uniform size, no trauma, sugar-free crystals, non-sticky hands, orange color and consistent color. It is delicious, sour and fragrant, and has the sweet and sour flavor of preserved apricots. Appraised by the provincial import and export commodity inspection bureau, all of them meet the export standards. Yanggao preserved apricots are well received by foreign businessmen. All the preserved apricots processed every year are sold to Japan, Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, enjoying a high reputation in the international market. In Japan, they are called "precious snacks in China".

Glass jiaozi

Glass jiaozi is a unique folk food in Yanggao. It originated from the people and entered the dining table of hotels and restaurants by the people. Because its skin is transparent or translucent like glass, people can see the stuffing inside, so people call it glass jiaozi.

Yanggao is an alpine region with a short frost-free period. Youmian and Yam are the main crops planted by local farmers. The raw materials for making glass jiaozi are oat flour and yam. Of course, this is jiaozi's skin. The weight ratio of oat flour to yam flour is 37%. When cooking, oat flour and yam flour should be mixed evenly, then mixed with warm water, rubbed constantly, and finally rolled into thin dumpling wrappers. The second is to use yam and yam powder as raw materials. When cooking, first select some big yams and stew them in the pot, then peel off the stewed yams and add yam powder while they are hot and knead them evenly. Under normal circumstances, a catty of cooked yam is added with half a catty of yam powder, which should be kneaded and mixed with powder, and then made into dumpling skins.

mutton is the best filling for glass dumplings. Because the mutton stuffing is a complete product, which is not only good-looking, but also delicious. The stuffing should be mixed with a proper amount of shredded white radish, and then seasoned with pepper, monosodium glutamate, green onions, sesame oil, etc. After being kneaded by jiaozi, it can be eaten after being steamed in a cage.

Yang Gao's cabbage

The specialties in Datong area are "three yellows and two whites", namely: Huangqi from Hunyuan, Huanghua from Datong, Yam egg with yellow inside and outside in Tianzhen, white hemp from Guangling and Yang Gao's cabbage.

Cabbage with Tam Soap grows on the saline-alkali beach in this area. The water and soil quality here make cabbage unique and famous at home and abroad. It is characterized by tight wrapping, heavy weight, less gluten, white quality, less water content, pressure resistance, rot resistance, long-term storage without knife rust after cutting, still sweet and delicious, and no spicy taste. These characteristics of Tam Soap Cabbage, despite the long-distance transportation and hot weather, the quality remains unchanged, and it can always maintain its delicious color. In recent years, the country has established an export base here, and more than 1, tons of cabbage are exported to all parts of Southeast Asia every year.