The top ten specialties of Yichang include Tujia lattice, Kang potato, Sanyou fairy chicken, stir-fried bacon with pressed Cantonese pepper, Baisha fatty fish, cold shrimp, red oil noodles, radish dumplings, Dingding cake, and crispy oil.
1. Tujia Carrying Gezi Tujia Carrying Gezi is a Tujia specialty dish in Yichang, also called Tujia steamed pork. When Tujia villagers kill New Year pigs or entertain guests, they mix fresh pork, old pumpkins, radishes, potatoes, etc.
It is steamed with cornmeal in a large steamer and then served on the dining table to entertain neighbors, relatives and friends. It is called "carrying the grid" and is known as "the first major Tujia dish".
In this way, neighbors, relatives and friends are entertained, each table is served with some side dishes, and Tujia's special "Baogu Shao" is poured. It is very lively while eating and talking about family affairs.
2. Kang potato "Kang" is the local dialect and is a cooking method other than frying, stewing and deep-frying.
Scrape and wash the potato skin, boil it in water for a while, pick it up, put it in a pot, add vegetable oil or lacquer oil, wait until the skin is brown, add salt, minced garlic and chili powder, mix well, you can also adjust it according to taste
Add auxiliary vegetables such as Houttuynia cordata.
The inside of the potatoes is soft and tender, and it tastes great when eaten hot!
Golden in appearance, crispy on the outside and waxy on the inside, every bite is so fragrant that you can't stop eating it.
3. Sanyou Immortal Chicken Sanyou Immortal Chicken is a traditional dish in Yichang City, Hubei Province. It uses fat and tender chickens as raw materials. After being slaughtered and cleaned, the whole chicken is placed in a sand bowl and marinated with a variety of seasonings, and then added with broth and
Bring spices, rock sugar and other seasonings to a boil, then reduce the heat to low until the juice is thick and the chicken is cooked and put on a plate.
Bright color, fragrant and authentic.
4. Pressed Cantonese Pepper for Stir-fried Bacon. Pressed Cantonese Pepper is a very common Tujia dish in Yichang. It is made with bright red chili sauce and corn flour (cornmeal) as the main raw materials. It can be called the "universal oil" in the food industry and can be paired with various combinations.
As long as you can't think of it, there is nothing you can't do.
Stir-fried sausage with pressed cantaloupe pepper, scrambled eggs with pressed cantonese pepper, stir-fried potato slices with pressed cantonese pepper, and the most delicious thing is stir-fried bacon with pressed cantonese pepper.
The combination of the squeezed patchouli pepper flavor and bacon is guaranteed to be a must-have, fragrant and delicious.
5. Baisha Fatty Fish Baisha Fatty Fish is a traditional specialty dish in Yichang. Baisha Fatty Fish is also known as Baisha Catfish. Since the preparation of Baisha Fatty Fish is no different from that of other fish soups, the key point is to choose
What kind of fish.
The catfish in Yichang area has delicious meat and large size. Over time, people gradually call the "catfish" in Yichang "fat fish".
6. Cold shrimp. Cold shrimp is not shrimp. It is a very common snack in Yichang. It is smooth and glutinous, refreshing, soft and sweet.
It is made by cooking rice pulp and pouring it into a basin of cold water with a slotted spoon.
It is named because its head is big and its tail is thin and resembles a shrimp. Then put brown sugar water.
You can drink cold shrimp on its own, but some people also like to eat cold shrimp with red oil noodles. The low price makes cold shrimp a popular summer treat on the streets of Yichang.
7. Red oil noodles Red oil noodles are one of the special snacks in Yichang. Because the soup is rich and spicy, bright red in color, smooth and tough, and tastes salty and spicy, it is named red oil noodles.
noodle.
The ingredients include noodles, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate, oily chili pepper, chopped green onion, etc.
Due to its low price and unique taste, it has become a unique delicacy on the tables of local citizens.
8. Radish dumplings Radish dumplings are one of the traditional snacks in Yichang. Although radish dumplings are also called dumplings, they are fried food. Because the finished product looks like a big dumpling, they are named radish dumplings.
Radish dumplings are made by cutting radishes into shreds and mixing them with chili powder, pepper powder, garlic sprouts, refined salt and other seasonings. When frying, first put the base batter in a special crescent-shaped iron spoon, and then add the mixed shredded radish as filling.
, cover with starch, put in oil pan and fry until golden brown.
It is crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, spicy but not pungent, and tastes fresh and delicious.
9. Dingding cake Dingding cake is one of the specialties of Yichang. Dingding cake is made of rice flour, glutinous rice flour, and brown sugar powder. It is placed in a special small wooden grid, added with a little brown sugar and osmanthus, and placed in a bottle of boiling water.
Using the thick steam in your mouth, it only takes two or three minutes to make round white cakes, which are soft and waxy, with a sweet fragrance.
Because of its affordable price and sweet taste, it is deeply loved by people.
10. Crispy oil crispy oil crispy food is one of Yichang’s specialty snacks and is also a fried food.
To make crispy rice, you will first steam the glutinous rice into glutinous rice, then add sugar, sesame filling, etc. to it to make a prism shape, then put it in the pan and fry it until golden brown, then you can take it out.
When the oil is crispy and fried to the right temperature, it will be crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. When you take a bite, it will be rich in content and feel great.
Usually at home, a plate is fried and crispy before cooking, and it is considered an appetizer.