1, Jinzhong snacks Taigu smoked pigeon

Taigu smoked pigeon is a traditional dish of Han nationality in Taigu County, Shanxi Province. The smoked pigeon with golden red color, strong smoked fragrance, mellow entrance and rich nutrition is put on the table, which is mouth-watering. Before marinating, first blanch the pigeons in boiling water, then put the blanched pigeons in a marinated pot, and add seasonings and medicines such as pepper, aniseed, anise, Amomum villosum, cardamom, ginger, onion and salt. After boiling, simmer with low heat. When the pigeons are marinated to the point where they can be penetrated with chopsticks, they are basically cooked. After taking out, put the pigeons in the fumigation tube, set fire to the fumigation pot with willow sawdust and cypress sawdust, and then light the fumigation pot. When smoking, buckle the casserole on it and smoke it until it is golden red.

2, Jinzhong snacks sweet buckwheat noodles bean jelly

Sweet buckwheat noodles bean jelly, often eaten in Shouyang area, is one of the flavor cold noodles in summer.

3, Jinzhong snack Pingyao beef

Pingyao beef is one of the essence of profound and long-standing Chinese food culture. In ancient Han Dynasty, there was a description of beef processing that "selling knives to buy calves, selling knives to buy cows, and being comfortable with it", while Pingyao beef with unique flavor and long reputation was exported to Asian countries as early as the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the late Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi passed Pingyao and enjoyed Pingyao beef.

The traditional production technology of Pingyao beef is unique, from the operation procedures and methods such as slaughtering raw cattle, cutting raw meat, pickling and cooking in pot, to the use of salt, water and even the solar terms and seasons of processing. The beef produced is ruddy in color, fresh and tender in meat, fat but not greasy, thin but not firewood, mellow and delicious, rich in nutrition, and has the effect of supporting the stomach and strengthening the spleen.

4. Jinzhong snack oil noodles

Oil noodles are a traditional food in Taigu County, which looks like steamed bread and is made by frying. Crispy outside and soft inside, sweet and delicious.

5. Jinzhong snack oil cake

Oil cake is a food made by frying yellow rice (that is, soft millet flour) with sugar or jujube paste and red bean paste as stuffing. Golden color, tender outside, soft and sweet, delicious. There are many kinds of oil cakes in Jinzhong area. Due to different production methods, there are cloud cake, jujube cake (also known as cut cake) and raw fried cake. Because of the different raw materials used, it is also called glutinous rice cake and vegetable cake; Because of the homonym of "cake" and "Gao", people often eat it on New Year's Day or weddings, children's full moons, birthdays, old people's birthdays, and when they build houses, so they are also called New Year's cakes and hi-cakes.

6, Jinzhong snacks Taigu cake

Taigu cake is a traditional famous food in Shanxi Province, named after it is produced in Taigu County. Beginning in the Qing Dynasty, Taigu cake has the characteristics of sweet but not greasy, crisp but not broken, delicious and delicious, and is famous all over the country for its fragrance, crisp, soft and soft, and enjoys the reputation of "king of cakes".