The symbolism is that oil incense is not only a delicacy, but also a cultural symbol.

The origin of oil incense:

In 610 A.D., Muhammad, by the command of God, began to propagate the revelation of God in the city of Mecca on the Arabian Peninsula, "believing in God as the unique master. Muhammad is the Messenger of God", the Islamic doctrine, by the local aristocracy, rich gentry, merchants and polytheists of strong opposition and cruel persecution. After thirteen years, Muhammad was finally ordered by his Lord to lead the Muslims to Medina in groups.

As soon as Muhammad arrived in Medina, he was warmly welcomed by the people of Medina. People grabbed the reins of Muhammad's camel and asked him to stay in their homes. Muhammad was in a difficult position, not knowing whose house to go to first. So Muhammad signaled them to let go of the camel's reins and let the camel go on its own. He said that he would stay in the house of whomever the camel lay in front of.

So Muhammad's camel went ahead, and the people clustered behind Muhammad to see whose house the camel would stop at, and to see who would have the honor of being the first host to receive Muhammad. Finally the camel came to the door of the house of Abu Ayyub and lay down, and the people laughed and congratulated Abu Ayyub. Muhammad entered Abu Anyub's house in high spirits.

Abdu'l-Ayyub welcomed Muhammad and said, "O Messenger of Allah! Welcome! In order to welcome you, I have prepared the finest flour, the most fragrant varnish, and made the most delicious meal for you as a token of our respect for you." Muhammad expressed his gratitude to Abu Anyub and took the food from Abu Anyub, and at first glance it turned out to be deep-fried flour cakes.

Muhammad took some and distributed it to those around him, then sat down with the group and savored the delicious food. Abu An Ubuh asked Muhammad to name the food he had eaten today as a souvenir. Muhammad considered it for a while and asked everyone, "Does this cake smell good?" Everyone said, "We can smell it from a distance."

Muhammad said, "This cake tastes sweet and savory and is very delicious, and it is fried in oil, so let's call it "Oil Fragrance". Everyone cheered and said, "That's a good name for it. This incident soon spread throughout the Arabian Peninsula and became a good story. Later, the Muslims followed the example of Abu An-Nayyub, who used the fried oil to entertain his honored guests, and it was passed down from generation to generation.

Procedural practice of oil incense

Flour, salt, alkali, vegetable oil as the main raw materials, with these ingredients can be made to taste the delicious oil incense. You can also choose the type of auxiliary ingredients according to different tastes or needs. The auxiliary ingredients mainly include brown sugar, eggs, honey, spiced bean powder, mint leaf powder, and meat filling. The first thing you need to do is to make the noodles and wake them up.

There are three things you need to know when making oil-expressed noodles: light noodles, light hands, and light pots. In other words, after the noodles are made, the dough should be shiny; the hands should not be stained with a lot of flour; and the basin should be clean inside and out. And the good flour pulled or cut into small dough, each small dough rolled into a diameter of about 10 centimeters, about 1 centimeter thick cake blanks, in the process of rolling generally do not need to turn over and roll, change the rolling position of the rolling pin to roll a side can be.

The oil will be on the pot to heat, into the rolled out biscuits, to be slightly browned in the pot of oil fragrance, turn over a child, when the two sides of the bulge browned, you can fish out. Frying process of the fire should not be too large, the oil temperature is too high, the skin of the oil is easy to fry scorched, so there is a "slow fire frying oil incense, both sides are bright", "explosive oil frying oil incense, the skin of the raw charcoal does not shine," the saying.

Flour and yeast, warm water and good. After the fermentation of flour and alkaline water and mixed into the egg and other accessories, kneaded on the board and spread into a bowl-sized round cake, the surface of the two or three knife lines, and then put in the pot with sesame oil fried, color red and soft, beautiful and mellow flavor.