Lingyuan, a small town with a long history, is permeated with Han, Mongolian, Hui and Manchu cultures. And here, it is constantly gestating unique national cuisine. Lingyuan people have unique views on the pursuit of food. The most famous ones are the seven unique skills, the eight arts and the fifteen flavors, namely: sesame seed cake, mutton soup, bean curd, cake-cut bean curd and Yuanxiao. Noodles, fish and beans, bowls of fried cakes. Shanwan donkey meat pancake, fire spoon cedar roast chicken. Hui steamed dumplings in four bowls, buckwheat noodles with high nutrition.
Walking on the street of Lingyuan, all kinds of snack bars can be seen everywhere. Tofu brain has a long reputation, and Zhao's tofu brain is one of the well-known representatives. Founded in the late Qing Dynasty, it is a unique bean curd product developed by Zhao ancestors living in Lingyuan who constantly summarized, improved and innovated the processing technology of bean curd. Friends all over the country and foreign friends are full of praise. Now it has been loaded into Lingyuan county annals. Lingyuan bean curd made from local mountain spring water is its unique advantage, delicate taste is its essence, and matsutake root is its crowning touch. Here, taste a bowl of Lingyuan bean curd and feel the cultural heritage of a city.
Speaking of Lingyuan food, another unavoidable food is mutton offal soup with western Liaoning flavor. Both Lingyuan locals and foreign tourists will punch in the mutton soup kitchen and taste its delicious food.
Lingyuan mutton soup is mainly made of mutton head and mutton offal with mutton bone soup, so it is also called "mutton offal soup". Shred the cooked sheep's head, cook the old soup with sheep's bones for later use, put the mutton offal cooked in advance into a bowl, scald it with hot fresh soup several times, boil the soup before serving, and add seasonings such as chopped green onion, coriander, Chili powder and pepper noodles to make a bowl of delicious mutton soup. The mutton soup made by this method has clear soup color, rich fragrance and the taste of mutton offal, which has won the essence of "fresh".
A small town has many flavors. A bowl of mutton soup looks simple, but it's delicious. Just like the small town of Lingyuan, it carries a passionate and colorful life in a simple way.
You must try the sesame seed cake when you go to Lingyuan. Over the years, many tourists have always said that although they have eaten all kinds of baked wheat cakes from all over the world, they just can't taste the baked wheat cakes from Lingyuan. The flavor of Lingyuan sesame seed cake has been deeply embedded in people's hearts and lingers.
Hanging sesame seed cake on the stove is to paste the baked sesame seed cake embryo on the stove. Because there is a charcoal fire below, heat the ceramic cylinder piece above, then turn the biscuit embryo upside down and stick it on it, heat it up and down together, and slowly bake it by the charcoal fire below. Because the biscuit embryo is upside down, it is called "hanging oven biscuit". Lingyuan hanging furnace sesame seed cake is baked with slow fire, with yellowish appearance but not burnt, soft inside and cooked outside, paying attention to large crisp, multi-layered, even sesame seeds, sufficient heat and low moisture.
How delicious is Lingyuan food? This is an old tradition of cedar roast chicken. Cypress roast chicken had better be Lingyuan local rooster, with more than ten kinds of secret seasonings and health-preserving Chinese medicines carefully selected to make broth. Slaughter and clean the white striped chicken, put it in a large pot, cook it with the cooked soup until soft and rotten, and take it out for later use. Take brown sugar and cypress sawdust, stir them evenly, spread them in an iron pot, and heat the bottom of the pot to make it emit smoke. Put a smoking cage on the iron pot, put the cooked chicken in the smoking cage, and turn the chicken repeatedly during the smoking process to make the color uniform and delicious. Finally, the chicken is coated with sesame oil to lock the skin moisture, and the cedar roast chicken is finished.
If you come to Lingyuan, don't miss this delicious cedar roast chicken. I heard that many people have heard of its delicious food, driving hundreds of kilometers!