Let's first listen to the Chinese culinary master, Chinese pastry senior technician Liu as how to say,
"Shanxi people love to eat noodles and Shanxi's history, geography, politics, culture and planting habits are inseparable. Historically speaking, Shanxi Yao, Shun and Yu have all built their capitals and established their careers here. Furthermore, from the point of view of Pingyao, a famous historical and cultural city, Shanxi also has a lot of commercial activities, which also lays the foundation for the formation and development of Shanxi noodle dishes. Coupled with the fact that Shanxi has many mountains and little water, the temperature difference between the north and the south is large, so it also formed the habit of planting a lot of miscellaneous grains, which also laid a material foundation for the formation of Shanxi pasta."
Many varieties and patterns of Shanxi noodle dishes are also a reason why people love noodles. Even the average housewife can use wheat flour, sorghum flour, bean flour, buckwheat, oat noodles made of dozens of kinds of pasta, such as knife-shaved noodles, pulling noodles, pulling the lumps, push the nest, enema and so on. If it is to the hands of the chef, it is more innovative, well-documented noodle dishes, in Shanxi there are 280 kinds of. You can say so, if you want to taste the Shanxi noodles, a day three kinds, three months will not be the same.
Shanxi people's daily noodle dishes can be divided into several categories from cooking methods, such as steaming, boiling, frying, baking, deep-frying and stewing. Liu Cheng as said,
"Steaming, in addition to steaming white noodles, you can also steam oat, buckwheat, especially oat by castor beans, there are dial rotten son; boiled aspects of the pulling noodles, peeling noodles, knife dialing noodles, picking tip, of course, there are holding the flow of flow, pulling the piece, cut pimples, and other boiled things, frying aspects of the battered cake, pancakes, fried dumplings, fried dumplings, these are people very popular, as for the baked things, the baked things can be divided into several major categories. These are very popular, as for the baked things are even more, there are baked cakes, hairy cakes and so on. The casserole and stir-fry category is even richer."
Because the variety of boiled noodles is extremely rich, and it is easy and simple to make, and it can be eaten with soup and vegetables, which is convenient and affordable, it is widely spread. If Shanxi people don't have a meal of noodles on any day, it seems that they haven't eaten enough on that day.
Listeners, I'd like to introduce you to the knife-shaved noodles, which are very characteristic of Shanxi's region and can be called one of the best in Shanxi.
Knife-shaved noodles, also known as knife cut noodles, is one of the five famous Chinese noodles. Why is it called knife-shaved noodles? There is a folk story. According to legend, after the Mongols established the Yuan Dynasty, in order to prevent the people from revolting, all the metal utensils of every household were confiscated, even the kitchen knives used for cooking were also taken away, leaving only one for each household to take turns to use. One day, an old master had already made the noodles and was waiting to use the knife, but when he went to someone else's house to get the chopper, someone else was using it. On his way home the old master kicked a thin piece of iron under his foot and picked it up and carried it in his pocket. His old companion was in a hurry at home, and the old master took out the piece of iron he had picked up and asked his companion to use it to cut the noodles, and the old companion took a look at it and said angrily, "You're blind kan." The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you're doing and how you're doing it. When it was cooked, it tasted really good! In this way, one by ten, ten by a hundred, knife cut noodles spread all over the land of Sanjin. But to do a good job of knife-shaved noodles is not an easy thing. Liu Cheng as Mr. said,
"Shanxi knife-shaved noodles to be good, first of all, and the noodle should be and good. How do you mix the noodles? It is 500 grams of flour plus 250 grams of cold water, add the water, after the first spike, all beat evenly, beat into snowflakes, and then kneaded together, kneaded, covered with a damp cloth, molasses 20 minutes and then kneaded. Kneading is a bit delicate, to follow the grain of the surface, long and smooth kneading, and can not be folded over and over again, so that cut out of the surface, the grain is positive, eat up the surface of the gluten will be more smooth."
Knife-shaved noodles from the beginning of and noodles have to pay attention to, chipping more can see the chef's kung fu. Legend has it that in the past in Beijing than the martial arts, there is a Shanxi folk can, in the bald head pad a clean cloth, the noodles on top of the head, both hands holding the knife, left and right bow, fast cutting as flying, the noodles in order to fall into the teapot of seven, eight steps away, become the capital of China's strange story. To eat the real flavor of knife-shaved noodles, but also to see its toppings. The topping is what we usually talk about the material. Now often eaten toppings are mainly tomato brine, stir-fried meat, fried sauce, hit the brine and so on.
Shanxi people on the opposite side of the really deep love, of course, this preference is also integrated into the plasticity of the noodles and the wisdom of the Shanxi people. Birthday to eat ramen to take the meaning of longevity, New Year's Eve to eat "to take the face of the year" to take the meaning of the long years, the child went to school, the first day of school to eat "remember the heart of the fire burns", hoping that the child grows a heart of the mind and so on, and so on and so forth. These noodles are no longer just as food for hunger, but has become a contain emotional and philosophical meaning of "spiritual food", in fact, the roots of China's noodles in Shanxi. Listeners, listen to my above introduction, if you have the opportunity to travel to Shanxi, it must be a good taste of Shanxi noodles.
Shanxi noodle varieties are many:
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