The fragrance floats far away, across the valley of Qian Shan, in the blue sky, adsorbing the earth and permeating the hearts of Chinese children. This is the masterpiece of women holding hoes, crops and chains on the northern Shaanxi Plateau-northern Shaanxi cuisine.
A famous food in northern Shaanxi-mutton
In this ancient and heavy land of northern Shaanxi, people's lives have always been anxious, and they always try their best to find food to fill their stomachs. In addition, this area has been an active area for northern minorities to fight, live together and integrate for a long time in history. Therefore, the local people naturally absorbed the dietary elements of ethnic minorities, and over time, they formed various eating habits with different styles and flavors.
Counting the delicious food in northern Shaanxi can't help but make people drool! The most common food in northern Shaanxi, people do not have enough to eat is round egg-shaped potatoes, called potatoes and potatoes. Although it looks unremarkable and full of belly buttons, don't underestimate it, it can make many delicious foods! And never tire of eating! In the rural areas of northern Shaanxi, there is often such a scene: every day at dawn, when men and dolls are asleep, hardworking aunts put on clothes, quietly walk from the hot kang to the ground, wash their faces, then peel the potatoes, make them into symmetrical strips with their skillful hands, and then steam them in a pot with seasoning and flour ... Potatoes can cook many delicious foods. For example, potatoes cooked with flour as the staple food wipe rice, fry potato chips and stir-fry cold dishes. Not only that, it can also be processed into starch and made into vermicelli for vermicelli to eat.
Shanbei Snacks-Xiao Lu Momo
In northern Shaanxi, the food that potatoes can make is only a special case of the land food in this area, and those real foods need to be developed slowly. The raw materials for making delicious food in northern Shaanxi can be roughly divided into three categories: whole grains, poultry meat, vegetables and fruits. Grains mainly include millet (millet), hard millet (yellow rice), soft millet (soft rice), buckwheat (buckwheat flour), wheat, oats, beans and so on. These grains can be processed into many delicious foods. Millet can be made into millet porridge and cooked into millet porridge, which has high nutritional value. People eat it to nourish the stomach, promote blood circulation, invigorate qi and refresh themselves. Yellow rice can not only be made into yellow rice, but also be processed into powder to make yellow rice buns and yellow buns, and fermented into rice wine to drink! Soft rice can be made into soft cakes, fried cakes and other delicacies after being processed into powder. Buckwheat noodles can be made into chromium, chopped buckwheat noodles, and stirred. Buckwheat seeds can also be used as bean jelly, bean jelly brain and other delicacies. After oats are processed, they can be made into oatmeal fried noodles, which people used to eat. In the past, when I walked into northern Shaanxi, I could see people eating oatmeal and fried noodles anytime and anywhere. People in northern Shaanxi go out to take fried noodles as dry food, old people tend sheep, cultivators farm in the mountains, and student dolls go to school for lunch. There are three main kinds of poultry in northern Shaanxi: goats, native chickens and native pigs. People in northern Shaanxi used to herd sheep, but now they keep them in a sheepfold. Mutton tastes delicious, fat but not greasy, and the unique pepper as seasoning adds some delicacies. Smell it, it will definitely make your mouth water! People in northern Shaanxi not only eat goat meat, but also chop suey, sheep head and sheep hoof. What's more, some people smashed the sheep's head and saved vinegar to eat the sheep's brain. In the rural areas of northern Shaanxi, every household feeds pigs, and fat pork is also delicious. In particular, the tank meat (neck) of the pig that has just been killed is the first-class good meat, not greasy or fishy, and has a strange smell, which always attracts people in the city. And the ribs are delicious, and the pork is delicious. After their pigs are killed, women in northern Shaanxi will put lean meat and fat meat together with salt in a big pot and store them in a meat vat, and dig a bowl for cooking (steaming) every day during busy farming, which is delicious during busy farming. The pork in northern Shaanxi is delicious, and the pig's head, pig's trotters, pig's ears and enema are not inferior. After the pig's head, trotters and ears are steamed, they are excellent snacks to entertain guests in the first month. The local chicken in northern Shaanxi is delicious, and the local eggs are more delicious than those sold in the city market. They are not only delicious, but also have different colors after frying. The fried eggs are bright yellow, but the eggs in the market are gray. Vegetables and melons can be cooked with dried radish made of white radish and pickled cabbage made of salt.
Shanbei snacks gaojiaojiao
In addition, people in northern Shaanxi will also make delicious food with wild vegetables, such as soft steamed buns made of flour picked up in rainy days. In summer, I went to the mountains of Shan Ye to dig at vegetables, pull out alfalfa sprouts, fry them and eat them. Moreover, these vegetables are rare and have good nutritional value. There are also some synthetic foods, such as jiaozi made of peas and wheat. There are also eight bowls of food such as weddings, funerals and weddings, which can be called a must in northern Shaanxi.
If you don't mention the food in northern Shaanxi, you can mention a laundry list, what you see at the dinner table every day, what you write in the book, what you say by word of mouth, and what you don't show. I can't finish talking, talking and eating.
As the saying goes, "Shili is unusual." In eating, all counties and districts in northern Shaanxi also have their own famous and special foods. Wu Qishan mutton, Ganquan dried bean curd, Zichang pancake, Yan 'an oil cake, Yan 'an handmade noodles, puffer fish bowl, Zizhou fruit shop, Suidemin Street, Yichuan steamed buns, Shenmu noodle sauce, Hengshan oil steamed buns, Jingbian braised vegetables, etc., to say the least, there are as many as 180 kinds, all of which are well-known delicacies. Many foreign tourists come here and want to taste the northern Shaanxi cuisine for themselves.
Eight bowls of banquet in northern Shaanxi
Because the places are similar and the regional characteristics are similar, some places have the same famous food, such as stewed vegetables in Jingbian and Dingbian; Pancakes of Zichang and Qingjian; The fruit shops in Zizhou and Suide are typical examples. These two places are very famous and shocking. People don't know where this food originated. In fact, as a eater, we don't have to waste our mind to understand the origin of diet, just eat delicious food and enjoy the comfort and pleasure brought by delicious food. As long as the food in this place smells good and tastes good, it is beautiful to think of. As for the origin of food, those dietetic experts will study it.
Northern Shaanxi cuisine is born in northern Shaanxi and fragrant in Wan Li. Smell your saliva, taste it, make you fragrant to the top of your heart, think about how many times you have dreamed, and listen to it, and your appetite will arise. I can't help but want to go to northern Shaanxi to taste the original northern Shaanxi cuisine!