Chaoshan is near the South China Sea. There are hundreds of kinds of fish, shrimp, crab and all kinds of shellfish, and there are dozens of edible kinds. Each kind of seafood can be used to cook many different kinds of dishes. For example, besides boiled shrimp, it can also be made into dry fried shrimp, fried shrimp with tomato sauce, fried shrimp balls with oil, fried shrimp with salt, roasted shrimp, shrimp balls and shrimp glue. Shrimp glue can also be used to cook many dishes. Chaozhou cuisine has more than 20 cooking methods, such as steaming, stewing, roasting and buckling, which are exquisite, unique in color, fragrance, taste and shape.
Keep the original flavor
Chaozhou cuisine attaches importance to originality, such as cooking. First, use strong fire to decompose the material fiber, so that the aroma of the raw materials is overflowing, and then use medium fire or diffuse fire to gradually concentrate the soup, so that the dishes are fragrant and delicious. Stew is the use of steam outside the stew pot, so that the stew in the pot absorbs the essence of ingredients and blends with the raw materials without losing its original flavor.
Vegetarian and meat dishes
Vegetarian but not vegetarian. Chaoshan is evergreen all the year round, with fresh and tender vegetables and a wide variety. Chaozhou cuisine must have vegetarian dishes at every banquet. Choose the best seasonal dishes. Through the roasting and cooking of meat, the sweetness of meat can penetrate into vegetables, but it is clear but not light, gloomy but not greasy, green but not hard, soft but not greasy, delicious and refreshing.
Pay attention to the quality of soup.
Chaozhou cuisine must have clear soup, which is fresh, sweet and pure, and the production is extremely elegant. Such as stewed pigeon soup, it is necessary to soak a little ginger, onion and pigeon in a tripod for a few minutes to remove the odor, then take out the ginger and onion, rinse them with water and put them in a stew. When stewing, add soup and ribs. Finally, check the ribs with bamboo shoots and seasonings.
Light and sweet
"Clear" means maintaining the original flavor and nutrients. "Light" means adding ingredients and seasonings to make it "light but not plain, light and tasty". "Gan" is sweet, delicious, smooth and palatable. "He" is a mixture of auxiliary dishes and sauce.
Nourish health
As the saying goes, "it is better to make up for food than to make up for it." Nourishing includes cooking dishes with high nutritional value of raw materials supplemented by traditional Chinese medicine supplements, such as stewed fish with barley, stewed duck with cordyceps sinensis, medicated eel, nourishing jade liquid soup, etc., which are all famous nourishing dishes.
Cooking innovation
The flavor characteristics of Chaozhou cuisine are gradually formed by inheriting the tradition. The objective condition is Chaoshan's unique raw materials, and the subjective factor is that Chaozhou cuisine chefs are good at cooking and seasoning. With the improvement of people's consumption level, Chaozhou cuisine will adapt to consumers' dietary needs and innovate constantly on the basis of maintaining tradition.
Harmonious contradiction
In a pluralistic and five-party environment, the most easily accepted and believed philosophy of life is the "golden mean". The ultimate of the golden mean is "harmony", which is a magic weapon to adjust contradictions. Shown in Chaoshan diet, it is to adjust the contradictory relationship between yin and yang, exterior and interior, cold and heat, and compensation.
Medicine and food
As all hipsters know, food is medicine, and the compatibility between foods is taboo. Although not everyone has memorized the formula of Tangtou Song, the actual experience is even worse. Therefore, every food collocation of Chaozhou cuisine strives to achieve the best nutritional effect.