Lingyuan, a small town with a long history, is permeated with multi-ethnic cultures such as Han, Mongolian, Hui and Manchu. And here, distinctive ethnic cuisine is also constantly gestating. Lingyuan people have unique views on the pursuit of food. The most famous ones are the seven unique skills, eight arts and fifteen flavors. They are: sesame seed cake, mutton soup, tofu, cut cake, tofu and Yuanxiao. Noodles, fish and beans, bowls of fried cakes. Mountain bend donkey meat and pancakes, cedar roast chicken with fire spoon. 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 tofu product developed by Zhao ancestors living in Lingyuan who constantly summarized, improved and innovated the processing technology of tofu brain. Friends from all over the country and foreign friends are full of praise. Now it has been included in Lingyuan County Records. Lingyuan tofu made from local mountain spring water is its unique advantage, delicate taste is its essence, and pine mushroom root is its crowning touch. Here, taste a bowl of Lingyuan tofu and feel the cultural heritage of a city.
Speaking of Lingyuan cuisine, another unavoidable food is mutton offal soup with western Liaoning flavor. No matter Lingyuan locals or foreign tourists, they 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 broth, so it is also called "mutton offal soup". Cut the cooked sheep's head into shreds, cook the old soup with sheep bones for later use, put the mutton offal cooked in advance into a bowl, scald it several times with hot fresh soup, serve the cooked soup on the table before serving, and serve it with seasonings such as chopped green onion, coriander, Chili powder and Chili noodles, and a bowl of delicious mutton soup is ready. The mutton soup made by this method is better than clear soup, with rich fragrance and the taste of mutton offal, which has won the essence of "freshness".
A small town has many flavors. A bowl of mutton soup looks simple but delicious. Just like Lingyuan, a small town, it carries a passionate and colorful life in a simple way.
When you go to Lingyuan, you must try the sesame seed cake. 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 implanted in people's hearts, lingering.
Hanging oven sesame seed cake is to paste the prepared sesame seed cake embryo in the oven. Because the charcoal fire is below, heat the ceramic cylinder piece on it, then turn the sesame cake 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 and ripe inside, paying attention to large crisp, multi-layered, even sesame seeds, sufficient heat and low moisture.
How delicious is Lingyuan cuisine? This is an old tradition of cedar roast chicken. Cypress roast chicken is preferably Lingyuan local rooster, and more than ten kinds of secret seasonings and health-preserving Chinese medicines are carefully selected to cook 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 them smoke. Put a smoking cage on the iron pot, put the cooked chicken into 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, you must not miss this delicious cedar roast chicken. I heard that many people have heard of its delicious food and drove hundreds of kilometers!