The top ten famous dishes of Hunan Hunan cuisine are as follows:
1, chopped pepper fish head
Chopped pepper fish head, is a traditional dish in Hunan Province, belonging to the Hunan cuisine. It is rumored that the origin is related to Huang Zongxian, a literati in the Qing Dynasty. It is usually steamed with bighead carp fish head and chopped peppers as the main ingredients, with soy sauce, ginger, green onion, garlic and other auxiliary ingredients. The dish has a bright red color, strong flavor and tender meat. It is fat but not greasy, soft and sticky, fresh and spicy.
2, preserved meat and steam
Preserved meat and steam is a traditional dish in Hunan, belonging to the Hunan cuisine. It is made of preserved pork, preserved chicken, preserved fish, chicken broth and seasonings, steamed in a pot. The practice is simple, its wax aroma, salty and sweet taste, flexible and not greasy, with appetizing cold, digestion and other effects. Hunan is a low-lying area with a warm and humid climate. Fresh meat is not suitable for storage, but the smoked bacon can be antiseptic and resistant to storage. Gradually, the people also developed the eating habit of eating bacon. As early as the Han Dynasty, Hunan ancestors used bacon to make delicacies. To the Qing Dynasty, such dishes have been very famous, "preserved meat and steam" is one of the many preserved meat dishes.
3, Dong'an Chicken
Dong'an Chicken, also known as Dong'an Chicken and Guanbao Chicken, is a local traditional dish, belonging to the Hunan cuisine. It is also called Dong'an Chicken, Guanbao Chicken, and is a traditional local dish belonging to Hunan cuisine. Dong'an chicken dish was red, white, green and yellow, chicken meat is fat and tender, the taste of sour, spicy and fragrant. This dish was selected as one of the four traditional Hunan dishes for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. =The steps are as follows: Slaughter the chicken, put it into a soup pot and cook it, then take it out and leave it to cool when it is 70% mature, then cut it into small strips. The frying pan oil to eighty percent of the heat, under the chicken strips, ginger, vinegar, peppercorns and other stir-fry, and then put the fresh broth stew until the soup dries up, put the green onion, sesame oil, and so on, out of the pan into the plate.
4, spicy chicken
Began in the Qing Dynasty, Tongzhi years, is one of the authentic Hunan cuisine with a strong local flavor. It is one of the most famous authentic Hunan dishes with a strong local flavor. It is said that "if you eat chicken with spicy sauce, you can eat Hunan cuisine", and it is most famous in Changsha's century-old restaurant, Yuludong Restaurant. Spicy chicken was first created in Changsha's Yuludong Restaurant during the Tongzhi era. The chef chooses about 500 grams of hen's chicken as the main ingredient, and cooks it with chili peppers, yellow vinegar, garlic and a variety of seasonings, making it delicious and popular. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Zeng Guofan's grandson, Zeng Guanghou, boarded the building to have a meal and wrote a poem saying, "Spicy chicken soup soaks the belly, making people often remember Jade House East. After the Changsha Lixiang restaurant chef crafted, taste better, folk has circulated such a limerick: "outside the burnt inside tender spicy chicken, color golden flavor new, if you ask where the restaurant is good, Lixiang better than the jade building east.
5, taste snake
Flavor snake is a Hunan Province, a traditional dish, including Ningxiang taste snake is the most famous, is the Changsha public familiar with the famous dishes, belongs to Hunan cuisine, Changsha size restaurants indispensable to the flavor of the protagonist of the main dish; this dish selection of high-protein, low-fat, tender meat of the local snake as a raw material, with the preparation of the taste of the fresh, fragrant, spicy as the main characteristics. Snake meat has low cholesterol content, which is useful in preventing and treating vascular sclerosis. Delicate texture, fresh taste, but also rich in high nutritional value, is a favorite delicacy.
6, Yongzhou blood duck
Yongzhou blood duck is a local traditional dish in Yongzhou, Hunan. Yongzhou blood duck is divided into many kinds, there are Jiangyong, Daoxian, Xintian, Ningyuan, Lanshan, Dong'an, Shuangpai and many other sayings. In the local area, almost every family makes this dish. It has the characteristics of delicious, appetizing and cooling blood. After generations of Yongzhou culinary elites have studied and cooked it carefully, "Yongzhou Blood Duck" is famous for its unique flavor.
7, Xiangxi Grandma's Cuisine
Xiangxi Grandma's Cuisine is a delicious dish. Grandma's Cabbage is a common local dish in western Hunan, and the raw materials are selected from a variety of wild vegetables in western Hunan. The raw materials are selected from a variety of wild vegetables in the western Hunan area, such as amaranth, diced radish, large leafy greens, Xiangxi local vegetables, meat foam, etc. The taste is very good. The taste is very good, chewing strong, taste of the over fragrance, with appetizing rice, nourishing the effect of the face.
8, Mao's braised pork
Mao's braised pork, also known as the Mao family braised pork, is a colorful and fragrant traditional dishes, belonging to the Hunan cuisine. Mao's Braised Pork is made with pork as the main ingredient, and sugar and cooking wine as the colored seasonings. When the dish is ready, the color is golden and the oil is not greasy. When the dish is ready, the color is red and the meat smells strong without greasiness. Because a little chili pepper is added in the firing process, the flavor is sweet with salty, salty with spicy, sweet but not greasy.
9, group Um shark's fin
Group Um shark's fin, also known as the red simmered shark's fin, is a traditional dish in Hunan Province, belonging to the Hunan cuisine. This dish is yellowish in color, bright and oily juice, soft and smooth, fresh and salty, mellow and delicious. The shark's fin is made of delicate materials and unique production. This dish is rich in flavor, soft and glutinous shark's fin, rich in nutrients, it is a rare dish. Before liberation, the Qu Yuan restaurant operation of this dish, quite appreciated by diners.
10, chili pepper stir-fried meat
Chili pepper stir-fried meat is chili pepper, pork as the main ingredients, to black beans, garlic, soy sauce, oil and salt, monosodium glutamate, etc. as a supplement to the production of a dish. The flavor is spicy. Stir-fried pork with chili peppers is the signature "local dish" that every Hunan family must eat, and it is one of the most representative Hunan dishes.