Zi Tong slice powder [Sichuan cuisine]

Slice powder, known as one of the three best local flavor snacks in Zitong. The food has a spicy, spicy and punching flavor. The nature is still hot, chewy, flexible and cool, giving people cold. A small snack, cold and hot, yin and yang are suitable.

Tablet powder, not only taste delicious and refreshing, quench hunger and thirst, but also has the effect of clearing heat, detoxification, and improving qi and pulse. According to legend, during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, a chef with the surname qiu in Zitong Dongba, in the long-term practice of making a table for people, constantly summed up his experience and created this beautiful dish through many experiments. He concluded that the raw materials for making tablet powder should use high-quality, red amaranth starch as the main ingredient, of which it is the best. The method is to follow the traditional folk craftsmanship, with sweet well water, fine operation. Slice powder, amaranth starch is generally, the green vegetable juice, the natural pigments in the juice and starch diluted into a pulp, scooped into a flat bottom round metal pot to swing flat, put into the boiling water pot to swing a few times, until the slurry condenses into a film-like, the pan is raised, put in water to cool, and then get up, flat on the table, according to this division code to about 1-3 inches high, with a knife cut into a wide strip of about an inch, when eating a piece of tearing, thin and transparent, so called slice powder.

Zi Tong slice powder, green and tender, silky and elastic, neat and layered, exquisite when eating, more with spicy and sour seasoning, if poured with tempeh sauce, nest oil high vinegar, sesame oil, garlic, see the green water pan, spicy taste of food, chewing soft and cool, cold and hot are good, tender and refreshing, yin and yang, umami unique.