1, Youtazi Youtazi is a flour food invented by the Hui people in northwest China. It is white and shiny, thin as paper, with many layers, rich in oil but not greasy, soft and non-sticky, and suitable for all ages. Youtazi, named after its shape, is usually cooked with noodle soup for breakfast and is one of the favorite foods of people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang. When eating, gently shake the hot oil tower with chopsticks, and shake it off to eat. Or add small pieces of pickles, shredded pickled cabbage and carrot strips, and add vinegar and homemade peppers to eat, which is delicious and tastes better.
2. Koumiss Wine Pour the freshly squeezed Koumiss into a special sheepskin pocket, hang it on the wall of the yurt, stir it with a milk-smashing rod, and make it ferment, and you can drink it the next day. Koumiss wine is nutritious, sweet and sour, and can also cure many diseases.
3. Pepper Chicken In Xinjiang, not only the large-scale chicken is fascinating, but the pepper chicken with attractive color is also an irresistible food for many foodies. Free-range chickens are used. After being cleaned, salt, pepper and cooking wine can be added for pickling or directly boiled. During the cooking process, a variety of Chinese herbal medicines will be added. After cooking, ice water will be removed to make the meat more tough and chewy, and the chicken will be shredded for later use. Then use chicken soup, pepper oil, special pepper sesame oil and other ingredients to pour into the shredded chicken and mix well. The taste is spicy and delicious. The aftertaste is endless.
4, saute spicy chicken Speaking of Xinjiang cuisine, the first thing to mention is naturally Xinjiang saute spicy chicken. Although all cities can eat Xinjiang saute spicy chicken now, the really delicious chicken can only be eaten in Xinjiang.
5. Hand-grabbed rice is a nutritious and delicious staple food for Urumqi locals. Choose fresh mutton, carrots and other ingredients, cook with sheep oil, and then mix vegetables, meat and rice well to eat. Generally, local hand-grabbed rice does not put cumin and soy sauce, so that the original flavor of mutton and the nutrition of carrots can be fully preserved.
6. Naan is one of the main wheaten foods loved by all ethnic groups in Xinjiang. Its skin is golden yellow, and flour is the main raw material. It is a round flour cake. It is first fermented with wheat flour or corn flour, kneaded into dough, and then baked in a special fire pit. There are many kinds of naan, about fifty. The common ones are meat naan, oil naan, Wowo naan, sesame naan, sliced naan, Hillman naan, etc. This unique food can be seen everywhere in the streets of Urumqi. Naan was even selected into the list of "Top Ten Snacks in China" in Xinjiang sponsored by China Cuisine Association, and "Kuqa Naan" was also rated as "China Gold Medal Tourist Snack" by china tourism association.
7. kebabs kebabs kebabs are famous ethnic snacks in Xinjiang. Their meat is tender and salty, and they are widely welcomed by people. The raw materials of kebabs are mainly mutton, onion, salt, etc. One or two-year-old sheep is the best mutton, and lamb is the best in that year. Mixing mutton and onion and pickling for a period of time can reduce the smell. Baked mutton kebabs should be crisp outside, tender inside, salty and spicy, and rich in cumin flavor. Xinjiang kebabs were selected into the list of "Top Ten Famous Snacks in China" sponsored by China Cuisine Association.
8. Sliced noodles Sliced noodles are a kind of popular pasta, which is popular among people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang and northwestern provinces. It is a common name for mixed noodles in Xinjiang. Noodles are the mainstay, supplemented by vegetables, and the dishes are vegetarian and the taste is changeable. Pulling strips are made directly by hand without rolling or pressing, and various vegetables and beef and mutton are added. Noodles with oily meat, a signature dish in many noodle mixing restaurants in Urumqi, has bright golden red color, transparent thick juice, no oil, no soup, tender and smooth entrance and rich flavor. Xinjiang mixed noodles was selected into the list of "Top Ten Famous Snacks in China" sponsored by China Cuisine Association.
9. Naren Naren (Na Ren), also known as "hand-grabbed meat" and "hand-grabbed mutton noodles", is a special snack in Urumqi, Xinjiang. In Na Ren, mutton, horse meat and beef are generally used to cook broth, noodles or noodles are cooked with the original broth, and the dish is taken out, and the noodles are placed at the bottom of the dish, and the meat is put on it. After being chopped with a knife, the meat is mixed together on the same side, and some condiments such as chili pepper noodles and minced onions are sprinkled, and then eaten by hand. This is the hand-grabbed mutton noodles. Naren generally likes to eat with milk tea, because milk tea can get greasy. Na Ren was even selected into the list of "Top Ten Snacks in China" sponsored by China Cuisine Association in Xinjiang.
10, Maren sugar Maren sugar is also called cut cake. Authentic Maren sugar is pure in taste, mellow in taste, moderately sweet and sour, fragrant, sweet but not greasy, and nutritious. Cut cake is a name given by people outside Xinjiang according to the characteristics of selling when they don't know the name. It is a kind of ethnic food cooked by Xinjiang Uygur people with traditional characteristics and raw materials such as walnut kernel, corn cob, raisins, grape juice, sesame seeds, roses, padan apricot and dates. Cake-cutting has a long history. As early as the Silk Road, Xinjiang was an important transportation hub for caravans at home and abroad, a very important food supply station and one of the traditional snacks in Xinjiang.