Huizhou must taste delicious food:
1, make tofu
Tofu originated from the custom of wrapping jiaozi in the Central Plains. Lingnan does not produce wheat. On holidays, the Central Plains people who moved south replaced jiaozi with tofu.
Tofu is made from tender Dongjiang tofu, and cut into pieces about 5cm long, 4cm wide and 2.5cm high. Chop pork, fish and shrimp into stuffing, add egg, onion, left-handed fish and other ingredients, stir well, dig a small hole in the middle of tofu to brew meat stuffing, fry until golden brown, then add soup and ingredients, stew in a casserole, add soy sauce to color, and add onion.
2, white-cut chicken
Best of all, boiled chicken is a specialty of Longmen County where Nankun Mountain is located. Generally, the bearded chicken that grows to about two and a half pounds is the best if it is kept for half a year. "Beautiful chicken must be cut into white", which keeps the original flavor of the chicken, so that the chicken will not shrink. Just out of the pot, dip in the sauce made of dried onions, soy sauce and peanut oil, and you will find that the best food is chicken skin, which is smooth and delicious.
3. Braised meat with plum vegetables
Braised pork with plum vegetables, salted chicken and fermented bean curd are called "Huizhou three treasures". After cooking, frying, stewing and steaming the plum core and pork belly picked from Hengli Tuqiao, the original soup becomes thick. The meat is rotten and fragrant, fat but not greasy, salty and slightly sweet. It is said that when Su Dongpo lived in Huizhou, he taught local chefs to imitate the practice of Dongpo meat in Hangzhou and created it with local specialty plum dishes.
4. Roasted chicken with salt
Baked chicken with salt is a famous dish in Dongjiang traditional cuisine with a history of more than 300 years. Legend has it that it originated from the habit of storing cooked chickens with salt in Huiyang Salt Field of Dongjiang. When the local salt merchants held a banquet to entertain guests, the chef also tried to roast chicken with salt, which eventually formed a complete and complicated production method. At present, brine chicken has developed many different changes, but it is still the most popular traditional way. It is characterized by crisp skin, smooth meat, fragrant bones and strong taste. When serving, we must pay attention to shaping the chicken.
5, Babaowo whole duck
Babaowo whole duck and salt-roasted chicken can be called "double unique" in Dongjiang cuisine. They are made of glutinous rice, mushrooms, lotus seeds, shrimp, squid, diced meat, salted eggs and other raw materials, which are filled into the duck cavity and then cooked, boiled and steamed skillfully. The above soup is rich, fragrant, soft and delicious, especially popular with Hakka people.
Step 6 collect cakes
Gao Lian, pronounced as "lotus pepper" in Huizhou dialect, is a special food in traditional customs and etiquette. Huizhou custom, the wedding should steam red cakes, and the funeral should steam white cakes; After the birth of the full moon, grandma will steam red to congratulate; When you come home after the wedding, my family will steam red cakes as gifts. In addition, the "Guanyin Club" of the New Year Festival should also steam cakes. Generally, cakes are made of four-part glutinous rice and six-part glutinous rice, mixed with water, added with cake seeds, and then steamed into cakes. Red cake is a kind of rice flour with water and safflower powder to make the cake red.
7. Sand cake board
According to Huizhou custom, when a child is born, she must make a sand cake board and distribute it to her neighbors to celebrate. Sand cake board is made of 30% sticky rice flour and 70% glutinous rice flour, screened with white sugar, steamed and cut into two-inch square pieces. They are soft and delicious, and they are the favorite snacks of local children. In the old society, vendors selling sand cake boards used to sell steamed cake boards on their heads along the street, which was a scene of ancient city customs.
8, hair cake
Hair cake is a kind of food with special use. Although it is very popular in Huizhou, it is generally not seen in the market. Because red powder is always mixed in the production process, and it is always steamed every time, it is also called red hair cake, which is a festive food with gratifying color and auspicious name. Widely used in all kinds of wedding etiquette in life, marriage, birthday and childbirth are indispensable. Generally, steamed cakes are made of pure glutinous rice with sugar, baking powder or cake seeds. The steamer for steaming cakes is particularly large.