Each region has its own unique cuisine. The most famous ones are China's "eight major cuisines". Shandong cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, Hunan cuisine, Anhui cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Fujian cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine, and Jiangsu cuisine all have their own systems and unique flavors.
As for Shandong cuisine, as the first of the eight major cuisines, what is so unique about it?
The following 8 dishes are relatively famous. Each of them is a top-quality dish with excellent color, flavor and flavor. They are the favorites of Shandong people. How many have you tried?
1. Jiuzhuan large intestine is secretly made with pig large intestine as the main ingredient, supplemented by onion, ginger, garlic, cinnamon, cardamom, salt, cooking wine and other seasonings.
The finished product has an attractive ruddy color and unique taste, with five flavors of sour, sweet, fragrant, spicy, and salty. It tastes soft and chewy, fat but not greasy, and has a rich and mellow aroma that is endlessly memorable.
2. Sea cucumber roasted with green onions is cooked with sea cucumbers and green onions as the main ingredients, supplemented by seasonings such as chicken broth, refined salt, green onions, monosodium glutamate, and starch.
It tastes fresh, smooth, fragrant, mellow and attractive, and very nutritious.
3. Kongfu Yipin Hotpot is made with shark fin, abalone, sea cucumber, hen, duck, fish maw, pig's trotters and other precious ingredients as the main ingredients. It can be said to be all the delicacies in the world in one pot.
The soup is fresh, rich, delicious and nutritious. This dish is now available in many places in Shandong, but it is an improved version. The ingredients are not as precious as those, but the taste is still very good. You can try it if you have the opportunity.
4. Guotai Tofu is secretly made with tofu, egg yolk, flour, shrimp as the main ingredients, supplemented by onions, ginger, salt, MSG and other seasonings.
When grown, the color is golden and pleasant, and tastes salty and delicious. The tofu is soft, tender and elastic, and the taste is fresh and mellow, and very delicious.
5. Sixi meatballs are very particular about the ingredients used. They are made with sea cucumber, sea crab, sea shrimp, and pork as the main materials, supplemented by eggs, water chestnuts, pepper, star anise, salt, green onions, ginger, etc. as seasonings.
After the dish is finished, there are four golden and attractive meatballs, which smell fragrant and have the meaning of fortune, wealth, longevity and happiness. In some important wedding banquets and birthday banquets in Shandong, the Four-Happiness Meatballs are often the finale.
6. Oil-fried double crispiness. The heat should be accurate to within 1 second. If it is less than one second, it will not be cooked, and if it is more than one second, it will not be crispy. Many chefs who have been cooking for many years cannot achieve perfection.
It is made with chicken gizzards and pork belly as the main ingredients, supplemented by Shaoxing wine, salt, starch, lard, pepper, onions, ginger, garlic and more than ten kinds of seasonings.
The oil-fried double crispy must be eaten while it's hot. The cooked belly is milky white and has a salty and fresh taste that melts in your mouth. It tastes salty and spicy, and after one bite, it's so crispy that it bounces around your teeth.
7. Yipin Tofu is made with tofu, mushrooms, water chestnuts, ginger slices, and egg white as the main ingredients, supplemented by salt, sesame oil, oyster sauce, stock, etc.
It tastes extremely tender, the skin is crispy and elastic, the tofu inside is smooth and tender, the sauce is salty and slightly spicy, and the taste is very wonderful.
8. Stir-fried kidney is made from pork kidney as the main ingredient, supplemented by onions, ginger, garlic, soy sauce, sugar, etc.
It tastes extremely fresh, spicy, crispy and tender, smooth but not greasy, very tasty and has extremely high nutritional value.