The 12 high-end ingredients of the Northeast are: wild mountain treasures, Northeast black fungus, Northeast pickles, gully smoked chicken, Harbin red sausage, Wu Chang rice, hazelnuts, frozen pears, Liao Sen, cold noodles, venison, Northeast sticky corn.
"White mountains and black water by Xing'an, Songnen duck Liao Run Wo Yuan", the Northeast is a magical land, obviously three provinces, but good like a family. Northeastern people are bold and warm-hearted, Northeastern words "swept the world", Northeastern food salty and sweet clearly. Vast territory, and sitting on the mountains, rivers, lakes and seas of the Northeast, known as the "world's breadbasket", with countless specialties.
As a "senior foodie", to introduce you to 12 kinds of northeastern "high-end ingredients", high-end that it is good quality in this category of ingredients, does not mean that the price is expensive, the average person can eat, want to stock up on high-quality ingredients when the priority! Consideration, it is worth stocking up on some.
A, wild mountain treasures
The Northeast has a wealth of wild forest resources, the mountain grows a lot of wild plants, such as ginseng, hazelnut mushrooms, fungus, monkey head mushrooms and other wild mountain treasures.
Ginseng has been a valuable medicine since ancient times, and is hard to find in many costume dramas, but ginseng, which is known as the "king of all herbs," can be easily seen in the Northeast.
The northeast of this piece of land is rich in ginseng, ginseng has become one of the "three treasures of the Northeast", many people to the northeast of one of the specialties must buy. There is also the nationally renowned wild fungus and hazelnut mushrooms, fungus soaked meat thick color, with good luster and elasticity, the mouth crisp and tender, rich in gelatin.
Hazel mushrooms are known as the "fourth treasure of the Northeast", and they are one of the few wild mushrooms that can't be cultivated artificially, so they're an absolutely natural ingredient. Hazel mushrooms have a rich aroma, thick meat, tender and delicious, the Northeast famous dish "chicken stewed mushrooms" used in the mushroom is the Northeast wild hazelnut mushrooms, eaten fresh and mellow, who can not refuse this mouthful of delicious.
Two, Northeast black fungus
Black fungus national output, but the quality of the Northeast is significantly higher. The size of the Hinggan Mountains and other mountain ranges are the output of high-quality black fungus place, Northeast winter long summer short, slow growth of black fungus, ear piece thick, good taste, excellent quality, nutrition is also richer.
The three northeastern provinces have large-scale production of black fungus origin, such as Heilongjiang Dongning, Linhai, Jilin Jiaohe County, etc. are one of China's largest production base of black fungus, buy black fungus to choose the northeast of the right.
Three, Northeast Kimchi
Northeastern people are obsessed with kimchi, where kimchi generally refers specifically to spicy cabbage. Northeast winter is especially long and cold, everything outside the house will freeze into ice, in order to survive the winter, kimchi has become essential, the most representative of the Northeast characteristics of the food, generally speaking, in the fall after the collection of Chinese cabbage began to pickle, stored in the cellar.
In the past, the traditional families in Northeast China, rich or poor, there are two things that can not be missing at home, one is the pickle jar, the other is the pressure of the pickle stone.
Four, Gou Gangzi smoked chicken
China has "four famous chicken", Dezhou pickled chicken, Daokou roasted chicken, Fuli set of roasted chicken, there is another is that we may be relatively new to Gou Gangzi smoked chicken, which is the Guangxu period on the food.
The production of fine, there are sixteen procedures, made out of smoked chicken color jujube red, crystal bright, tender and fragrant, very tasty, in other places is not too easy to buy, properly one of the specialties of the Northeast, is to the Northeast must eat a mouthful of delicious.
Five, Harbin red sausage
Harbin red sausage is the representative of the Northeast sausage, although it initially originated in Europe, but later took root in Harbin, and gradually became Heilongjiang, and even all the Northeast people in the heart of the standard Northeast specialty. The Chinese New Year festivals on the table to set a plate of red sausage, work outside the study also want to bring some red sausage to share with roommates, and then left a little left to eat.
Smoked red sausage is full of fruit and wood, crisp and tight, full of meat flavor, and the fat in the sausage is permeated with the smell of oil. The garlic and pepper aroma hidden in the red sausage gradually emanates out with each chew and fills the mouth with layers of flavors that make it unforgettable after eating.
Six, Wu Chang rice
With the fertile black soil of the Northeast, cultivated China's most delicious rice, which is the most prestigious and also counted in the Heilongjiang produced Wu Chang rice. Wuchang rice is grown in a favorable environment, where not only the soil is fertile, but also the irrigation water is gathered from mountain springs and alpine snow, which makes the rice accumulate a lot of nutrients.
Wu Chang rice grains full, white and transparent texture, steamed rice aroma overflowing, rice grain oil shiny and glossy, eat up the texture of soft, fragrant back to the sweet, so delicious that people do not want to leave. However, with the Wu Chang rice steamed rice even if it is really left, will not return to life, which is also one of its major advantages, eaten Wu Chang rice will basically become its "loyal fans".
seven, hazelnut
Nuts are the best snacks for many people, whether it is chestnuts, walnuts, or almonds, pistachios, are fresh and nutritious favorite. In the Northeast, as one of the four nuts of the hazelnut most people love, on New Year's Eve when it is inevitable to prepare some on the coffee table to entertain guests, there are Northeasterners say "eat hazelnut, all flavors do not smell", which shows that hazelnut in the hearts of the Northeasterners status.
Northeastern people love to eat hazelnut, but also because of the hazelnut produced in the northeast taste good, pure domestic hazelnut particles in the northeast although small, but the color is brown and bright, peeled off, the kernel is round and full, eat up with a natural aroma, taste mellow, strong flavor. In addition, the Northeast also produces a large number of crossbreeding from the introduction of Europe, "flat European large-fruited hazelnut", the kernel is large and dark, smooth and sweet to eat, but also very tasty.
eight, frozen pears
Frozen pears is one of the Northeast's winter fruits, this dark frozen pears in the cold winter will be punctual in the northeast provinces of large and small fruit stalls. Northeast China is rich in products, also produces a variety of pears, such as pointed handle pear, flower cover pear, south fruit pear, autumn white pear and so on.
In the past, fruit preservation technology and storage, transportation conditions are backward, can only use the sub-zero outdoor temperature as a "refrigerator", the fruit frozen preservation, the pears produced in the fall has become the first choice of winter frozen fruit object.
Frozen pears can stand out from the many frozen fruit, but also because the pears after freezing and then eat does not affect the taste, eat sweet and juicy. Especially after a long time in the heating room and eat a greasy meal on a, sip on a mouthful of ice cool, as if drinking sweet honey, and then eat a mouthful of white flesh, soft and refreshing, ate the first one on the second thought.
Nine, Liao Sen
Northeast China is rich in mountain treasures, but also rich in seafood, three provinces in the Liaoning south of the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea, a variety of fish, shrimp, shellfish, everything is truly a seafood province. Speaking of Liaoning seafood, we have to mention the sea cucumber, Liao cucumber has a long history, "Compendium of Materia Medica" has recorded "sea cucumber from Liaodong Bay has a better texture". Although there are sea cucumbers in the south, they are still a little inferior to the northern ones.
Liaoning sea water is deep and the water temperature is low, so the growth rate of sea cucumbers is relatively slow, plus there are many reefs and dense seaweed in the sea, which provide more nutrients for the cucumbers. Harvested sea cucumbers have thick and smooth skin, long and thick spines, and less impurities in the body. After cooking, the meat of Liaoshen is full of texture and tastes sinewy, elastic, full of freshness and excellent flavor, and its nutritional value needs no further explanation.
Ten, cold noodles
Northeasterners have frozen pears in the winter, then there must be cold noodles in the summer, in the Northeast without cold noodles in the summer is not complete. Northeast cold noodles are divided into three major genres, namely Liaoning Xita cold noodles, Jilin Yanji cold noodles and Heilongjiang Jixi cold noodles.
There is no major difference between the three types of cold noodles, just slightly different flavors and side dishes. Xita Cold Noodles are salty, with a salty broth made from soy sauce, freshly pressed, cold-water noodles, soy sauce beef, spicy cabbage and chili noodles, making them salty, spicy, cold and refreshing to eat.
Yanji Cold Noodles is the "granddaddy" of the cold noodle world. It is made from beef and beef bones stewed into a base soup, which is refrigerated and then put into buckwheat noodles boiled in water with sugar and rice vinegar, and topped with beef, kimchi, eggs, cucumber and other vegetables, and then thrown into the two slices of apple and pear, which makes for a sweet and sour dish and a fresh noodle soup.
Jixi cold noodles are simplified, a bowl of soy sauce broth with smooth noodles were served on the table, the bowl of vegetables only cucumber, eggs and kimchi, only to eat with a plate of spicy oil with a good mix of beef, orange, big head of cabbage, etc., both to eat noodles is also to eat vegetables.
Eleven, venison
Velvet antler is one of the "three treasures of the Northeast", venison is also the Northeast table "high-level delicious". Changchun, Jilin is by far the largest deer breeding base in China, known as the "hometown of China's sika deer", so the venison in the Northeast was created a variety of different flavors.
Liaoning people are good at kebabs, so they make skewers of venison, which are savory and delicious. The sweet and tender venison in honey sauce made in Yichun, Heilongjiang, is long-lasting.
Jilin is the venison to make a "venison feast", fresh and delicious cooking deer meat, venison, venison, deer jumping wall, braised venison, venison soup, brined venison and so on. The taste of venison in Northeast China confirms what Yuan Mei of the Qing Dynasty described in his "Food List in the Garden", "venison is not to be taken lightly, and when it is made, it is as tender as roe deer meat". If you really want to savor the taste of venison, the best choice is venison from the northeast.
Twelve, Northeast sticky corn
Northeast not only rice is good, corn is also very good quality! In Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, where there is not only a square dance, there is the famous Northeast sticky corn, sticky corn as the name suggests to eat fragrant, tender, sweet, sticky.
The street vendors selling boiled corn, fast food restaurants with corn, most of the Northeast sticky corn, cooking method does not have any fancy, cooked on the line, depending on the quality of the ingredients to win the reputation.
Northeast specialties in addition to the eight mentioned above, there are many more, seafood abalone, yellow clams, oysters, etc.; dried fruits such as pine nuts, hickory nuts; grain in the soybean, black corn, yellow rice, etc..
Strawberries, mushrooms, cherries, lantern fruit, etc. in fruits; and sauerkraut, daliba, soybean paste, blood sausage, gewurztraminer, etc. in specialty cuisine. If you have the opportunity to go to the Northeast, you must try these Northeast characteristics, feel the Northeast specialty "charm"!