In fact, there are many delicious and interesting things in Zhaotong, but many of them are not known to outsiders. For example, these are the main delicacies of Zhaotong:

Oil cake and thin bean powder

Oil cake and thin bean powder are traditional snacks of Zhaotong people. The perfect combination of golden crispy oil cake and fragrant thin bean powder makes this snack enduring. The oil cake takes potato as the main raw material, and selects high-quality potato produced in the cold mountainous areas of Zhaoyang District, such as Xiaolongdong and Jingan Xikui Liangzi. After cooking, it is chopped, wrapped in thin rice paste, fried in oil until golden, and then taken out. The fried oil cake is golden in color, crispy on the outside, soft and sweet on the inside, and exudes the unique fragrance of potato. Thin bean powder is made of high-quality peas, ground into flour, and then boiled with ginger and other ingredients. The cooked thin bean powder is light yellow in color and pleasant in fragrance. Put it in a bowl, sprinkle with a little chopped green onion, pepper noodles, pepper noodles, etc., the light yellow of thin bean powder, the green of chopped green onion and the bright red of pepper noodles make people look at it, and they feel uncomfortable. Take a sip and smack their lips. It's really cool! This delicious food is not only eye-nourishing, stomach-nourishing, but also beauty-nourishing! Because thin bean powder is made of peas, drinking thin bean powder often can dispel spots and maintain beauty!

oil cake bait block

Zhaotong people's main breakfast, the most common one should be oil cake bait block. Wherever you buy oil cake and thin bean powder, there are oil cake bait blocks. Spread the roasted bait block with fragrant peanut butter, sweet sauce and Chili sauce, wrap it in oil cake, and take a bite. The crispy oil cake, the waxy soft bait block and the spicy Chili sauce will fill your whole taste world for a long time. Oil cake bait block is favored by many diners because of its cheap price, convenience and quickness. Some people jokingly call it "the Kendeji of Zhaotong".

Zhaotong bean jelly

Zhaotong bean jelly, like Zhaotong potato, is also an enduring staple food in the lives of ordinary people. The method of bean jelly is very simple, that is, grinding the petals with dried peas, peeling them, soaking them in water, grinding them into slurry, filtering them, boiling them into paste, cooling them and solidifying them. In Zhaotong, the bean jelly of Dalongdong and the hot bean jelly of Enzan Ijuin are famous in terms of place names. From the perspective of raw materials, there are corn bean jelly, buckwheat bean jelly, pea bean jelly and pea bean jelly, which have a strong lineup and occupy most of the "bean jelly market"; In terms of surnames, Fu Jialiang Powder and Zhao Jialiang Powder are famous.

The raw material of Fujialiang powder is golden peas with high market price, high starch content, good taste and good bones and muscles. Soak the golden peas in water, wash them clean, grind them into pulp and boil them, pour them into a pot to cool and solidify, then put the prepared bean jelly on a chopping board, scrape it gently with a specially-made iron with a leaky spoon, and strip-shaped bean jelly will emerge along the small holes in the iron, grab them and put them in a bowl, and add sesame oil, chopped green onion, coriander, garlic water and garlic water. White sour lotus white, green chopped green onion, coriander, bright red oil chili pepper, and brown mushroom grains make people feel excited. When you mix the seasoning with chopsticks, you can't help but drool. In addition to the special seasoning and rich bean flavor, Fu's bean jelly is also characterized by excellent bones and muscles, storage resistance, and will not go bad after being placed in a cool place for ten and a half days. Therefore, Fu Jialiang powder has traveled to Kunming, Guangzhou and other places.

burning potato

Zhaotong is rich in potato, and Zhaotong people also like to eat potato. As a street snack, Zhaotong's baked potato has a long history and is very popular. In the streets and lanes, people often put charcoal (white charcoal) on a wok, and there are more than a dozen potatoes of different sizes on the charcoal. After burning, they scrape them with corncob or wood chips, cut them in half with a blade, spread Zhaotong sauce or sprinkle with chili pepper noodles, and take a bite, which is delicious, not only satisfying, but also satisfying. Walking past the stall burning potato, I couldn't help but stop and spend 5 cents to buy one and eat it while walking. If friends from other places come, the hospitable Zhaotong people's concourse will take the guests to eat a few, because Zhaotong's potato also has the effect of beauty, "eat potato, eldest son", if you don't believe me, just buy a few and try them.

roasted tofu

Zhaotong mountain is beautiful in water and rich in high-quality mineral water. Tofu made of clear and sweet mountain spring water and high-quality soybeans is nutritious, delicate and fragrant. On the street, people often cut tofu into one inch square, put it on a special pot, put some clear oil on it, and bake it full. After the tofu is baked yellow, cut it in half with a blade, but don't cut it off. In the middle, put pickled pickles such as broken ears and lotus white, or sprinkle with thin chili pepper noodles, then close it and take a bite. The tofu is crispy outside and soft inside, and the pickles are delicious and crisp. If the weather is cold, There are also merchants who put up an iron net on the stove, brush a layer of clear oil on the net, bake tofu on the net, dip a dish of marinated tofu with peanuts, spicy words, coriander and other condiments in water, roll the baked tofu in the water, and put it in the mouth, which is full of fragrance and makes people want to stop.

roasted skewers

the roasted skewers that Zhaotong people talk about are actually roasted beef skewers. Slice high-quality beef, put it on a bamboo stick, soak it in special seasoning water, let the flavor penetrate into the meat slices, wipe with clear oil, roast it on charcoal fire, put it in seasoning water, and then roast it again. Repeat this twice, and the kebabs will be roasted. Sprinkle sesame seeds and chili pepper noodles, and the delicious skewers can be eaten. If you like, you can also buy a roasted potato, a kebab and a potato, which has a special flavor. When the weather is hot, it will be even more refreshing to drink some cold beer. Zhaotong's grilled skewers, Sanguan barbecue in Chanzui Street is more famous, and the barbecue near Yueya Road is also more authentic. When the lights are on, it is also an interesting thing to blow a cool breeze and invite three or two friends to eat grilled skewers at the night market.

As street snacks, you can find everything in Chanzui Street, which is located in the center of the city. However, the famous spring cakes can't be eaten now. The traditional snacks such as pot stickers, steamed dumplings, steamed beef and oil cakes are still enduring, enriching our wonderful life.

In addition to street snacks, there are several home-cooked snacks in Zhaotong that make people linger.

red bean and sauerkraut soup

In Zhaotong, no matter in star-rated hotels or street shops, no matter in dignitaries or ordinary people, there is almost a dish that you can never get tired of eating, that is sauerkraut and red bean soup.

it's easy to make sauerkraut and red bean soup. Choose the best red beans from Zhaotong, wash them clean, put them in a pot and cook them slowly with low heat until the beans are soft and thick, with wonderful bean fragrance, and the bottom soup of sauerkraut red bean soup is cooked. After cooking the red bean soup, chop the pickled Chinese sauerkraut, stir-fry with Zhaotong sauce, dried chili pepper, garlic sprouts and ginger slices, then pour in the boiled red bean soup, add pepper noodles, and cook for a few minutes, and a pot of sour and refreshing red bean soup with pickled Chinese sauerkraut will be finished. The beans are soft and fragrant, the pickled Chinese sauerkraut is sour and crisp, the soup tastes sour and delicious, and the food is appetizing.

Some people like to make sauerkraut and red bean soup with dried pickles. The sauerkraut and red bean soup made with dried pickles has a purer sour taste and a long aftertaste, which makes people unforgettable. Nowadays, Zhaotong's private enterprises have processed sauerkraut and red bean soup into convenience food, which are exported to both inside and outside the province.

Crispy red beans

Stir-fried crisp red beans are a traditional dish in Zhaotong. Cook red beans in water, drain, and fry in oil until crisp. Then put oil in the pot, dry chili pepper, ginger and onion, add chopped meat and pickled cabbage and stir-fry until fragrant, then put fried red beans, pepper noodles, soy sauce, white sugar and monosodium glutamate into the pot and stir-fry quickly, and a delicious crisp red bean is ready. This dish, crisp and delicious, is very popular among Zhaotong people.

hot and sour dumpling noodles

in hot and sour noodles, the boiling of vinegar is very important. Using Zhaotong's unique raw vinegar, adding a certain proportion of ginger, garlic, tsaoko, brown sugar and other ingredients, the boiled vinegar is resistant to storage, unique in taste, sweet in acid, sour in sweetness and long in aftertaste. After cooking vinegar, the order of matching the bottom ingredients of the bowl is also a skill. It is said that you must put salt first, then vinegar, then soy sauce, pepper and the like, and then scoop in bone soup or noodle soup. When the noodles are boiled in boiling water for two or three minutes, scoop them up and put them in a bowl, sprinkle with fragrant sesame seeds, green chopped green onion, a little minced meat and a bowl of fragrant hot and sour noodles.

There are many doorways for hot and sour dumplings. Usually Zhaotong people like to call wonton jiaozi. Do jiaozi, pay attention to is the dough, meat stuffing. The dough is made of soil alkali, eggs, flour and Dalongdong spring water by stirring and rolling. Hand-rolled dumpling skin has good bones and muscles, good taste, and can be cooked for a long time. Especially when it is wrapped with stuffing and cooked properly, the dumpling skin is crystal clear and transparent, and a bowl of exquisite jiaozi can be seen in the fireworks. Jiaozi's stuffing is also hand-made. Choose the best pork belly, wash it and drain it. Chop it with the back of a knife until the meat turns into minced meat, then add ginger, salt and a little black kohlrabi, and chop it with a blade. At this time, add water while chopping until it becomes minced meat. The minced meat in this way is delicate, tender and delicious. The water for cooking jiaozi must be wide, and besides paying attention to the order and proportion like the seasoning with hot and sour noodles, the key is to blend a little brown sugar in the soup, which is the secret of the delicious taste of traditional Zhaotong hot and sour noodles and hot and sour dumplings! Zhaotong people also like to make hot and sour dumplings and noodles together. Boil the freshly rolled noodles (Zhaotong people become live noodles) and dumplings together in water. Generally, put the dumplings first, and then put the noodles after two or three minutes. The noodles are fine and thin, and the dumplings are fresh meat dumplings. After cooking, the noodles are smooth and flexible, and the dumplings are exquisite and crisp, but they are very distinctive. In the past, the hot and sour dumpling noodles in Tsinghua Hotel were very famous. Now, in West Street, there is another Song family snack whose hot and sour noodles are authentic.

In Zhaotong, the stewed chicken with gastrodia elata, the whole potato mat and the whole lamb mat are all famous, as well as the ham and dried beef in mountainous areas, which are really beautiful. With the change of years, all kinds of dishes are constantly brought forth new ones, whether traditional or modern, street snacks or big meals on the table. In short, when you come to Zhaotong and enjoy the beautiful scenery, you must taste the delicious food. Otherwise, the trip to Zhaotong will not be complete enough.