The Yi Torch Festival is popular in Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan and other Yi areas. Every festival in traditional festivals has its own customs, and there are also foods related to festivals. For example, if you eat zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, then it is also an essential food for the torch festival of the Yi people. Below, let's learn about the indispensable food of the Yi people with me!

Stripped meat

Tuotuo meat is called "black foot" in Yi language, which means pork pieces. Because the weight of each piece of meat is about 232, it is in the shape of "Tuo", so it is named. Raw materials: fresh lean meat of chicken, pig, sheep and cattle, litsea cubeba root powder, refined salt, Chili powder, pepper powder, monosodium glutamate and garlic paste water.

Production: cut fresh meat such as chicken, pig, sheep and cattle into fist-sized pieces; Prepare mountain spring water in a large iron pot and start to add fire; Pour the meat cut into fist-sized pieces into the cold water in the pot and start cooking; When fresh meat is boiled in cold water in the pot, increase the fire and continue to cook for about half an hour, and then the fire begins to slow down (the time for cooking beef and mutton will be extended by about half an hour); Cook for two or three minutes until the blood foam is completely eliminated and the broth is innocent, then you can pick up the meat and put it in a dustpan woven with bamboo; Sprinkle a proper amount of refined salt on the meat while it is hot in the dustpan, and stir until the soup drops, until the meat is neither too hot nor too cold; Put the meat on the plate and serve it.

Chinese sauerkraut potato soup

Potatoes: Potatoes contain more starch, protein, colloid, citric acid, lactic acid, potassium salt and so on. Potato is a food with low calorie, multiple vitamins and trace elements, and it is an ideal diet food. Potatoes contain as much as 300 mg of potassium per100g. Experts believe that eating 5 ~ 6 potatoes a week can reduce the risk of stroke by 40%. At the same time, potatoes have a good effect on adjuvant treatment of indigestion, habitual constipation, mental fatigue, chronic stomach pain, joint pain, skin eczema and other diseases. They are high-quality health food for patients with stomach diseases and heart diseases, and can also reduce blood sugar and lipid, beautify and resist aging.

Ingredients: sauerkraut, potatoes, edible salt, salad oil. Production: sauerkraut should be rinsed clean; After the potatoes are cut, soak them in water, otherwise they will change color; Clear soup, not too much sauerkraut; Potatoes should not be cooked for a long time. It is better to cook them soft.