What are the "most authentic" Henan home-cooked dishes, all of them classic?

Type 1: Big pot of dishes In Henan, no matter whether it is a banquet or a funeral, as long as there is something going on at home, a big pot of dishes will be prepared to entertain guests.

This type of braised food is called a big pot dish, and it contains a wide variety of foods, including fried tofu, winter melon, pork belly slices, sweet potato vermicelli, carrots, sweet potato vermicelli, tofu skin, etc.

There are more than a dozen kinds of dishes in one pot, which are delicious and rich in nutrients.

This custom has continued in the countryside until now. Relatives and friends gather together and each person eats a bowl of vegetables and a steamed bun, which is called a fragrant meal.

Type 2: Sweet noodle leaves. When the summer comes, Henan people often lose their appetite due to the hot weather, so they make this type of sweet noodle leaves, boil the noodle leaves in warm water, and eat them with the soup and noodles.

Served with some pickled pepper rings and small pickles, it is more delicious than starched noodles.

Type 3: Sesame leaf noodles Henan is a major agricultural province with a rich variety of food crops. In addition to staple foods such as wheat and corn kernels, it also grows soybeans, peanuts, sesame seeds and other food crops.

Sesame seeds are full of "treasures". Sesame seeds can extract oil and can also be used as seasonings. They can be eaten when cooking or steaming rice.

Sesame stalks can be used to feed livestock, and sesame leaves can be used to make noodle soup after drying.

Henan's sesame leaf noodles are very famous. Although they don't look very good, they taste delicious.

Type 4: Green wheat harvesting. Every year during the harvest season, before the wheat turns completely yellow, many farmers will harvest some green wheat, extract the wheat bran inside, and grind it with old-fashioned terrazzo in the countryside.

Turn it around and mix it with some spicy oil and garlic juice. It tastes very fragrant. The aroma of wheat bran is refreshing and makes you appetite.

Type 5: Sweet Potato Noodles Sweet potatoes are one of the most important food crops for Henan people. During the famine years, they were also everyone's "life-saving food."

Sweet potatoes have a very high starch content and a relatively high sugar content. They taste sweet and are particularly resistant to hunger.

In addition to being eaten directly by steaming and making porridge, sweet potatoes can also be rolled into noodles or made into glutinous rice noodles like the one in the picture.

Add water to the sweet potato noodles and wheat noodles at a ratio of 2:1 to form a batter, and then cook them. Then use a traditional noodle punch to make round noodles, add bean sprouts, and stir-fry eggs. The taste is particularly fragrant.

Type 6: Steamed Braised Noodles. In the summer, Henan people like to eat steamed noodles. They stir-fry a large pot of vegetables, steam the noodles until they are half cooked, mix them with the vegetable juice, and then mix them with the vegetables and put them on the table.

In a stainless steel steamer, it can be cooked within 15 minutes. The noodles are smooth and tender, and the vegetables and noodles are mixed together, making it delicious.

These are the most authentic home-cooked delicacies in Henan. If you haven’t tried them, you are definitely a fake Henanese.