Laiyuan County delicacies include Laiyuan sticky cake, Laiyuan tofu, Laiyuan pickles, Laiyuan pancakes, stick dry food, stirred porridge, etc.
1. Laiyuan sticky cake: Laiyuan people invented and made many delicious sticky cakes using yellow rice.
2. Laiyuan tofu: Laiyuan tofu is made with physalis, which is formed by fermenting the water drained from pressed tofu.
The cooked tofu is soft and tender, and the pieces are like white jade.
Laiyuan County delicacies include Laiyuan sticky cake, Laiyuan tofu, Laiyuan pickles, Laiyuan pancakes, stick dry food, stirred porridge, etc.
1. Laiyuan sticky cake: Laiyuan's loess soil, sandy soil and cool climate are very suitable for the growth of millet. The rice produced by millet is not only large in size, but also golden. It is called yellow rice. This kind of rice is very sticky.
Laiyuan people invented and made many delicious sticky cakes using yellow rice.
2. Laiyuan tofu: The tofu in Laiyuan is different from other places. It is made with physalis. The physalis is formed by fermenting the water drained from pressing the tofu.
The cooked tofu is soft and tender, and the pieces look like white jade.
3. Laiyuan pickles: Laiyuan’s pickles are neither like Sichuan pickles nor Korean pickles, but have their own unique flavor.
Not only are there many varieties, but the tastes vary greatly.
A rough inventory found that there are more than ten kinds, including pickled cabbage, various sauerkraut, rotten pickled cabbage, pickled cabbage, spicy cabbage, pickled cabbage, pickled cucumber, pickled pepper, pickled beans, and stinky cabbage (also called pressed cabbage).
etc.
Among these pickled vegetables, pickled vegetables, pickled vegetables, and spicy vegetables are the most distinctive.
4. Laiyuan pancakes: The unique feature of Laiyuan pancakes is the "three meters", that is, they use "corn ballast" as the main ingredient, add local "millet" and "soybeans" and soak them with water, and add "Sichuan peppercorns"
, aniseed, onion, ginger, garlic, salt and other condiments, mix these ingredients together and grind them into a paste with a stone mill, and then spread them on the pancake pan to form a large, golden and fragrant pancake as thin as paper.
It can be eaten directly, soaked in tofu or mushroom shredded pork soup, or fried in pancakes. You can also roll pancakes with fried dough sticks or pancakes with various vegetables. The most delicious thing is definitely the pancakes rolled with meat.
5. Bangzi dry food: Bangzi dry food is almost synonymous with Laiyuan. Grab a handful of thick stick noodles, mix them with boiling water, pat them into cakes the size of paper towel bags, put them in a large iron pot with boiled water, and steam them
It is soft and delicious, and it will be even more delicious if it is wrapped with bean filling.
6. Stir the porridge: first cook the cornmeal into gruel, then add a little dry flour, simmer and stir, repeat three times, and finally it becomes thick enough to be picked up with chopsticks. It seems very simple, but when it comes to making it, there is no certain level.
It is easy to get stuck in the pot or produce lumps.
After the porridge is prepared, it is usually served with sauerkraut made from various ingredients such as cabbage, mustard greens, radish, etc. which are pickled at home. It tastes very refreshing.