"Shengshui" bean curd pill. "Shengshui" Tofu Pill is a famous dish in Jianghua Yao Autonomous County, and it is one of the "Eighteen Brews of Yao Family". Tofu balls are also called fermented tofu and tofu balls. Excellent selection of materials, fine production, delicious color, tender and delicious. Its preparation method is to chop the lean meat, mix it with chives, sesame oil, refined salt and monosodium glutamate, first make stuffing, then put it in the middle of fresh tofu with holes dug, and then paste it in a pot and braise it until it is cooked. Tofu grinded by the "holy water" in the fairy rock of Zhuyuanzhai in Tuojiang Town is the best product and enjoys a good reputation in the south of the Yangtze River. Later, a unique flavor snack-Yaojia Eighteen Brews was formed in Yaoxiang.
"Jianghua Eighteen Brews" refers to a unique flavor snack based on "Shengshui" tofu balls. There are water bean curd, pepper, bitter gourd, screw, rice bean curd, fried bean curd, mushroom, garlic, konjac bean curd, bamboo shoot, eggplant, towel gourd, lotus root, wax gourd, pumpkin flower, cowear vegetable, radish and egg. The material selection, making and eating methods of the other "Seventeen Brews" in "Eighteen Brews" are basically the same as those of "Shengshui Tofu Brew". They are colorful, delicious and have their own flavors, and they are unique and memorable. When you come to the dining table on the river, there are always "members" in the "Eighteen Brews".
Yao makes tea. When you enter Yaozhai, you are greeted by smiling faces, and the owner of Yaojia will also send you a big bowl of tea. This kind of tea has the function of invigorating spirit and expelling fatigue, and it is an indispensable drink in the life of Yao people. Yao people often get together in groups to "drink tea" after meals or after work, and are assisted by sauerkraut, corn or other snacks. Some people invite friends from miles away to get together for "drinking tea" in the moonlight or lighting torches at night. Talking while drinking, chatting about friendship, and having fun, often sitting in the middle of the night, and drinking is counting bowls. In Dayaoshan, drinking tea and having heart-to-heart talks is a traditional pleasure of people's life, and entertaining guests with tea reflects the virtue of Yao people's hospitality.
there are three kinds of tea for Yao family to make tea: one is bitter tea, which is bitter in the first drink and refreshing and sweet in the throat. It was once a royal tribute. Among the cultural relics unearthed from Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha, Jianghua bitter tea is mainly used for export. The second is "stem tea", which is the "coarse tea" in our saying "coarse tea and light rice". How rough is this tea? It takes off branches and leaves to make tea, and the tea brewed from branches has a unique flavor. The third is Dongli tea, commonly known as "big leaf tea". One leaf can make three bowls of tea. Its color is reddish and its taste is fragrant. It is a natural drink for heatstroke prevention and blood pressure reduction.
melon wine. When you visit the Yao family, the host of the Yao family will use their highest hospitality etiquette to receive you and hold out their own specially brewed melon wine for you to drink. Melon wine is a kind of sweet wine brewed from miscellaneous grains. It is called "drinking melon wine" after being soaked in cold water, put in a bowl with a beautiful gourd ladle and drunk heartily in a big bowl. "Melon wine" is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness, with rich aroma and endless aftertaste after dinner. When drinking, the youngest adult girl in the family pours the wine, and the host frequently toasts the guests. The guests don't have to be restrained and too modest, so they can drink freely, which makes the host more and more happy and think that you respect the Yao family and are more kind to you.
lotus leaf rice noodle meat. Lotus leaf rice flour meat is a feast for the people in Jianghua, and it tastes sweet and delicious. The preparation method is as follows: firstly, cut the meat into blocks one inch square, stir-fry the rice and star anise, mix them with flour, add seasonings such as refined salt, white wine, soy sauce, five-spice powder and white sugar, and then wrap them with lotus leaves (hence the name lotus leaf wrap), each package is 1-2 kg, and then steam them in a retort or pot until the lotus leaves are oily. When eating, untie the lotus leaves while they are hot, and the fragrance is fragrant and fragrant. Jianghua bacon is a good treat for Yao compatriots, which is named after the initiative of Pan Wang, the ancestor of Yao nationality. Its production method is unique to Jianghua Yao compatriots, and it has been adopted by state banquets many times, winning the praise of tasters. The meat strips are golden and shiny, fragrant and crisp, fat but not greasy, unique in flavor and not rotten after years.
bacon. Making bacon is a custom and a culture of the Yao nationality in Jianghua. Every year before the Spring Festival, the Yao people here make bacon.
The best time to prepare bacon is after the winter solstice of the lunar calendar and before beginning of spring. The bacon prepared during this time can be stored for a long time. The production method is: after buying fresh pork, cut it into long strips (1-2kg each), then sprinkle salt and white wine (preferably Sanhua wine) for 7-9 days, wash it with warm water, then put it on a wood stove with a rope, and let it slowly be naturally smoked by firewood on the wood stove (if there is no wood stove, it can be dried). The dried bacon is burnt yellow, and it becomes black after being smoked for a long time. If the bacon can't be eaten after spring, it can be washed and dried with warm water, and then put into a dry porcelain jar, which can be stored for one year without deterioration.
Yaoxiang bacon is completely smoked with natural wild firewood, so it is particularly mellow. Bacon can be fried with garlic sprouts or other vegetables, or cooked or steamed in a pressure cooker and sliced. This is a funny way for the Yao people at the wedding. On the wedding night, young people among relatives and friends gather in the bridal chamber to make fun of each other, and the bride and groom want to * * * fry camellia oleifera to entertain guests. In the process of frying camellia oleifera, the guests tried every means to tease the newlyweds until late at night. This custom has been passed down from generation to generation, but the content and form have changed.
over the water. Water-soaked cakes are also called "cold frozen cakes". This delicious food is made by soaking the top-grade glutinous rice in alkaline water, pulverizing it, making it into round balls, cutting it into pieces, serving it on a plate, and sticking it with thick sugar juice or powdered sugar. Some people also eat it as cabbage. This food has the characteristics of refreshing, delicious but not greasy, digestion promoting and stomach invigorating. It is a good food in summer and autumn.
steamed dumplings with fruit. Fruit steamed dumplings are made of glutinous rice, chestnut, red dates, peeled mung beans and pork. The preparation method comprises soaking glutinous rice, taking it out and wrapping it with bamboo leaves, adding pork prepared with salt, sugar, spices, bean curd and wine stains, chestnut, red dates, mung beans, etc. (mung beans and rice beans can be mixed with glutinous rice), bundling, steaming in a pot, putting the fruit steamed dumplings on a plate, adding fresh pepper brine and coriander, etc.
pot-bellied (also known as "lump-bellied"). This food takes glutinous rice as raw material, and the stuffing can be made into fresh meat vegetables, sweet sugar, spicy meat vegetables and seasonal vegetables. Production method: Wash and soak the glutinous rice, add fresh pomegranate leaves or Hollyleaf to powder, knead the powder with hot water, twist it into small balls, repeatedly pinch the small balls into concave shapes, put the prepared stuffing into the concave, and then knead it into round Ciba. Cook in a boiling pot, fish into a bowl and serve with hot soup. You can choose what kind of stuffing you like. This food has the characteristics of clearing away damp and heat, strengthening the spleen and stomach, beautiful color, fresh taste, being suitable for all ages and being edible in all seasons.
white Baba. This food is a special food on holidays. It is made of the above-mentioned glutinous rice, which is washed and soaked, put into a steamer and steamed until it is cooked, soft and loose. Take it out and put it in a stone spoon. The two of them mash it with a wooden stick and steam it in a pot. Mash the steamed glutinous rice into soft and tough Ciba, fish it in a basin, divide it into small balls while it is hot, and then flatten the small balls into circles. Each Ciba is about 1 cm thick and generally 15 to 2 cm in diameter. For marriage, it should be 3 to 4 cm long, and the words "Dragon and Phoenix are auspicious" and "good luck" should be cut and pasted on the white rice cake. If the white glutinous rice cake is put in alkaline water, it can be preserved for several months, and can be taken out at any time for washing and eating, and can be boiled in soup or fried and roasted. This food is delicious, sweet, soft and refreshing.
rice tofu. This food is made of rice. The production method is to soak the rice with clear lime water, take it out, filter it and powder it. Put the powder into a proper amount of clear water and stir it evenly. Pour it into a boiling pot and stir until cooked. Then the cooked powder is fished into a basin or a wooden basket, and after the cooked powder is cooled, the powder block is cut into a cubic centimeter of small particles with a knife. Soak in cold water, and when eating, use the rice flour granules to heat them in a boiling pot, put them in a bowl, add the prepared fresh and spicy brine, crispy soybeans, fried peanuts, pork, chives and garlic, Chili powder and monosodium glutamate, and heat the soup to serve. The food has the characteristics of cooling, relieving summer heat, promoting digestion, invigorating stomach, being sweet and refreshing, and being suitable for all ages.