Henan, located in the Central Plains, has a long history, and its food culture has a long history. Its food style belongs to Henan cuisine, and it has also formed its own unique flavor food in the long history of thousands of years. Every place has its own special cuisine, and so does Henan, but some migrants come to Henan and say that they are not used to it. They think that Henan cuisine is high in calories and heavy in taste, but locals like it very much, and some even feel uncomfortable without eating it for a day. Let's take a look at some special foods in Henan ~

Four-flavor dishes

What is a four-flavor dish? To put it bluntly, it means mixing four kinds of dishes into a bowl. Siwei cuisine is a special food in Kaifeng, so if you want to eat authentic Siwei cuisine, you have to go to Kaifeng.

Four kinds of dishes include gluten, meatballs, diced beef and day lily, and the soup base is usually beef soup or mutton soup. Friends who have been to Kaifeng must have seen it. There must be a long queue at the door of the four-flavored dishes in the morning market. You can't eat it when you get up late. When eating four kinds of dishes, you must eat them with steamed buns. One bite of the dish is fragrant, or you can break the steamed buns into pieces and soak them in the soup. When the steamed buns completely absorb the soup, they taste terrible. Xiaozan's saliva is about to stay!

Hu spicy soup

Hu spicy soup is a common food in Henan breakfast. It is made of pepper, pepper, beef, bone soup, rice starch, fine powder strips, day lily, peanuts, fungus, etc. If one of them is missing from the Hu spicy soup you eat, then the bowl of Hu spicy soup is definitely not authentic.

Hu spicy soup smells like Chinese herbal medicine and mutton soup. The soup is thick and smooth, the mutton and gluten are chewy, and the spicy taste is just right. However, many foreign friends say that they can't get used to it, because the taste is too heavy, and the friends who can't eat Hu spicy taste really don't like it, but we can't deny this traditional food. Hu spicy soup can be said to be loved by everyone in Henan. There is no soul without a bowl of Hu spicy soup for breakfast.

Huimian Noodles

There are many types of mutton in Huimian Noodles, such as Huimian Noodles, Sanxian Huimian Noodles and Wuxian Huimian Noodles. People in Henan are the most fastidious about eating Huimian Noodles. It looks like a simple bowl of white Huimian Noodles, but it contains more things than you can imagine.

Huimian Noodles's soup is made of mutton bone and more than ten kinds of traditional Chinese medicines. It not only removes the smell of mutton, but also reduces the internal heat of mutton, which is very nourishing. Huimian Noodles is smooth on the outside and tough on the inside. The umami flavor of the soup permeates into the noodles, and it smells delicious. With a few pieces of mutton, quail eggs, day lilies, fungus, medlar, etc., it is delicious and delicious.

fried chicken

fried chicken is a traditional food in Henan. When cooking this dish, the key is to marinate the chicken in advance and add appropriate amount of salt, vinegar, pepper, fennel, pepper and star anise in soy sauce. The more ingredients, the better the taste.

From the ingredients of this dish, we can know that fried chicken is also a delicious food with heavy taste. In the local area, fried chicken is a very common dish and is deeply loved by everyone. Although everyone's practices are different, the taste is surprisingly delicious. In any takeaway shop, the order quantity of fried chicken is very high.

Goose nuggets in Gushi

Goose nuggets in Gushi County, Henan Province are a special local dish made by special cooking process. Goose in Gushi is the fattest. This dish is not only very popular in Henan, but also popular in towns and villages from markets in Henan. You can also see many Gushi goose hotpot restaurants in Beijing.

The secret recipe of Gushi goose block is to wash the goose and put it into the pot, then stew it in white without adding salt. After taking out and drying, add goose oil, ginger and pepper, then add the white soup of boiled goose, and finally add ingredients such as salt and monosodium glutamate. Be careful not to add it too early, otherwise it will be easy to boil to death. Gushi goose is spicy, the soup is delicious and the meat is tender, so many young people love to eat it at dinner.

Mutton soup

Mutton soup is a dish, and its main raw materials are mutton, Chili oil, pepper noodles, salt, etc. The soup is white, the mutton is fat but not greasy, and there is no smell of mutton. It has its own characteristics in local snacks all over the country.

But the biggest difference between mutton soup in Henan is that mutton is tender, delicious and rich in nutrition. In Henan, when you drink a bowl of mutton soup in the morning, it will be accompanied by a pancake. Generally, the boss will cut you into slender strips and soak them in the mutton soup. The pancake before soaking is a bit hard, so it is delicious when it is soft.

Fried bean jelly

Fried bean jelly is also a traditional snack in Kaifeng. It is transparent, crystal clear, tender and refreshing. There are many kinds of bean jelly, such as bean, rice or potato starch, etc., which are diluted into paste by adding appropriate amount of water and condensed into pieces after cooking. This is bean jelly.

this gourmet snack often appears in bazaars and places where snack stalls are concentrated, and it is also made by ordinary families. It tastes hot, fragrant, fresh and tender, and it is burnt but not burnt. The taste is also added according to your own preferences. Some people like to eat spicy food and mix it with onion, garlic and Chili oil. Outsiders generally dare not try it easily when they see it. They have never seen this kind of bean jelly, not to mention it is fried, but people who have really eaten it will gradually accept the taste.

Blast furnace sesame seed cake

Blast furnace sesame seed cake is a traditional local dish in Kaifeng, Henan Province, with a long history and a history of thousands of years of civilization. The technology of blast furnace sesame seed cake is simple, and the sesame seed cake with beef is a must. The sesame seed cake is brown in color and slowly roasted on charcoal. After baking, the aroma is overflowing and mouth-watering

There are many ways to eat it. You can eat it directly or with beef, mutton or fried dough sticks. Others like to eat it with fried bean jelly. They are all delicious.