I. Staple food and dishes
Fried rice noodles as white as snow and as fine as silk are a famous specialty of Xinghua. There are two ways to eat it: fried rice noodles and soup rice noodles, that is, rice noodles are cooked with local meat (vegetarian) spices, fresh and delicious. The "three-in-one soup" of fried onion, ginger and lobster sauce rice noodles is called "onion rice noodles", which is a folk prescription for treating cold. Fried rice noodles are a delicacy in folk festivals and banquets, especially in the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Stewed tofu stewed tofu with water is a traditional dish in Hanjiang District. The eating method is unique, that is, tofu is stewed with shredded mushrooms, shredded bamboo shoots and peanuts, which is a vegetarian dish; If you add shredded pork, shredded shrimp and egg yolk, it is a meat dish. When stewing, you must master the heat, moisture and time. It is bright in color, tender, fragrant, nutritious and has a strong local flavor, and is often used as the first course at banquets. Stewed tofu is a must-have dish at Buddhist banquets.
Warm soup mutton Warm soup mutton is one of the unique snacks and dishes in Hanjiang River. After slaughtering the sheep, remove the hair and dirt, blanch the whole sheep in a large pot of boiling soup, pick it up and put it in a large pottery pot, then pour the boiling soup into the pot, soak it for a certain period of time and take it out for the market. Slice it, dip it in the best soy sauce and eat it cold. The meat is crisp and tender, not greasy or dry, fresh and delicious, and it is also delicious with breakfast.
"liuhong" red is a famous product of Hanjiang River. Mix the meat with proper amount of starch, put it in a pot and boil it, pour in garlic oil, sprinkle with onion beads and pour in some rice vinegar. It is called "scrolling" and "wiping". Tender, crisp and refreshing, mellow and refreshing, it is one of the home-cooked economic dishes and flavor snacks.
"Insects replace monkeys" and "Insect substitution", oysters. Shelled oyster meat and proper amount of starch are mixed into small powder, which floats in the soup pot after being cooked. This is like a probe for monkeys, so it is called "replacing monkeys with insects". Oysters are cold, so it is necessary to cook them in the soup with fried onions and ginger slices for a while, add some rice vinegar and sprinkle with chopped green onion. Fresh but not fishy, smooth and refreshing. It is a common dish and a feast in winter.
Stir-fried tofu leather coat The soft tofu leather coat is rolled into a tube (that is, "yuba"), cut into pieces, added with seasoning, and fried in oil to make a dish with soft fragrance, which is called "fried yuba". This dish is the top grade of Buddhist banquet. Smart vegetarian chefs use it to make famous dishes, such as "chicken nuggets" and "duck neck and duck neck", which may be confusing.
"Powder kneading" is also called "bean soup". Mix chopped rice flour or noodles with oysters, pig blood, celery and other condiments, and put them in a pot to cook together. When boiling, mix them with the dissolved sweet potato powder and cook them. Stir-fried peanuts with some oil when eating, which has a unique local flavor.
Warm soup octopus: Wash the fresh octopus, boil it in a boiling water pot for a few minutes, pick it up and put it in a clay pot, then rinse the original soup, cover it for heat preservation, take it out when the water in the pot is cold, and soak it in cold water. When eating, cut it with a knife and dip it in soy sauce and other seasonings. The meat is tender and crisp, delicious and nutritious, and it is most suitable for drinking with meals.
Frozen bamboo shoots Crush bamboo shoots (seafood) to remove sediment, wash them, nourish them in water for a while, then add water to decoct them so that gum overflows in the soup, then cool them with a bowl seat (or a small dish) and freeze them into transparent, soft and smooth flat pieces for the market. Dip some soy sauce and vinegar when eating cold, and serve with a bowl, which is cool and refreshing. This is another cold dish at the party.
Soak the golden fruit in glutinous rice and grind it into pulp, and add appropriate amount. Steamed with alkali, slightly golden yellow, so it is called golden fruit. Golden fruit is soft and sticky, so it can only be sliced with thread when eating. After frying, dip in white sugar (or brown sugar) and drink fragrant tea, which is fragrant and delicious.
"Earth snake turtle" and "Earth snake turtle" are unique snacks in the Han River, and "turtle" is another name in rice and fruit food, hence the name "Earth snake turtle". Grinding glutinous rice into powder (commonly known as "rice sacrifice") and oil (replacing water with oil) into thin rice skin, wrapping it with peeled and steamed mung beans and sugar stuffing, and steaming it in a cage. It is oblate, soft and delicate, sweet and refreshing, and accompanied by fragrant tea.
chicken rolls
Chop the lean meat first, and add seasonings such as mushrooms, shrimps, tail pears, wax gourd strips, spiced spices and pepper. Then wrap it in pig's net oil, cut it into round particles about half an inch, fry it until brown, and dip it in soy sauce and vinegar while it is hot. It is crisp and sweet, with five flavors.
Second, the cake
Sea oyster cake
Using sweet potato powder and tofu as raw materials, with onion, coriander, spiced, pepper, monosodium glutamate and so on. Put it in a special rice spoon and fry it with oysters. Crisp and sweet, with garlic sauce vinegar, it is even more refreshing and pleasant.
pill
Using lean pork as raw material, hammer it into slurry, and add seasoning such as tail pear, borax, pepper and ginger juice. Wrap it in small beads and scald it with hot water. This is a famous bone-clearing soup.
Fengting cake
Pure glutinous rice flour is used as raw material, with white sugar powder, peanuts, sesame seeds and so on. After drying, steaming and cutting into four squares, it is sweet and delicious, suitable for the elderly and children, and also a good gift for relatives and friends. It is very popular in the province and Southeast Asia.
Ren Dan cake
Using glutinous rice flour as raw material, mixed with white sugar, refined salt and sour juice, steamed and sprinkled with white sugar while it is hot, has a complete sweet, salty and sour taste, and is especially suitable for patients and young and old.
Wugao
Put some mint grass (commonly known as western clover) at the bottom of the steamer covered with glutinous rice flour. After cooking, Puhe flavor permeates into the rice cake, which is a unique cake with attractive aroma.
Commercial sodium vanadate
Mix the flour into dough, then iron it into dough in a pan, and then wrap some dough with fried peanut powder, sesame seeds and sugar. The skin is tough and sweet, full of fragrance.
Polygonum hemp tube
Xianyou county has a long history of producing Polygonum flowers and hemp tubes. "Polygonum flower" is made of glutinous rice, sucrose, soda ash and maltose, and then fried into Polygonum flower embryo. If you cover it with Polygonum cuspidatum, it will become Polygonum cuspidatum, and if you cover it with fried sesame seeds, it will become hemp tube. Both "Polygonum multiflorum Thunb" and "Hemp Tube" have the characteristics of rich nutrition, crisp and delicious.
Xiancaobing
Commonly known as "immortal frozen". Use local Cao Xian, boil it into Cao Xian water, and add yeast powder. After cooling, it condenses into black Cao Xianbing, which is cool and can eliminate the fire. It can be cut into small pieces and mixed with cold boiled water and white sugar. It is a good cold food in summer.