Powder soup is a flavor snack of Hui people in Xinjiang. During the Eid al-Adha Festival and the Jizi Festival, almost every Hui nationality cooks noodle soup, waiting for the arrival of distinguished guests, relatives and friends. Although this flavor snack can't be served at a banquet, it is deeply loved by the masses. It is often a snack for guests. Powder soup is divided into hot and sour powder soup and chop suey powder soup. No matter what kind of powder soup, one must be good powder and the other must be good soup. Although this is just a kind of home-cooked food, it takes some effort to make it delicious, moderately sour and spicy, oily but not greasy, appetizing and refreshing.
noodle soup is mostly made by Hui women. They not only like to eat it themselves, but also have the custom of giving it to their neighbors. This is not only to enhance the friendship between each family, but also a competition without a ceremony. If a woman's noodle soup is well cooked, it will be something that she feels proud of and praised by everyone. It is said that before getting married, Hui girls have to receive strict training from their mothers to cook powder soup at home, so that all Hui girls become experts in cooking powder soup, so Hui women can cook powder soup.
noodle soup is delicious, slightly sour and slightly spicy, which is suitable for northerners. Its practice is not complicated, but it is not an easy thing to do well.
The main bean jelly blocks of noodle soup should be uniform, transparent, touching and tender, and tasty and tough to chew. Then use mutton, broth, tomatoes, spinach, Chinese cabbage, red pepper, vinegar, pepper and water fungus to make soup, and the two are combined to form powder soup. Generally, high-quality starch (mainly pea powder) is selected to boil and refrigerate for later use, then sheep or beef ribs with moderate fat and thin are cut into pieces, and the prepared ginger powder, pepper powder, pepper powder, onion, red pepper, water-borne fungus, etc. are added with salt and burned. Add sesame oil, spicy red noodles, coriander, etc. to the noodle soup bowl, which is the hot and sour noodle soup. If a few dumplings are mixed in the noodle soup, it will become the noodle soup jiaozi. The chop suey powder soup is made of cooked chop suey or beef chop suey in a wok, with the original soup powder and various adjuvants. In the cold weather, eating a bowl of noodle soup makes you feel hot and sweaty, which is both affordable and flavorful. Some people even use noodle soup to treat colds, which is another wonderful use. Noodle soup can be cooked in four seasons, but the dishes are changed due to different seasons. Whenever you make noodle soup, it has the characteristics of fragrant smell and dazzling color, which makes people linger and admire.
When the Hui people entertain their guests to eat noodle soup, they also serve a plate of fragrant oil. This kind of fried flour product is golden, shiny and crisp, and it is absolutely beautiful to eat with noodle soup.