There is a saying in northwest Yunnan: "Lijiang Canghe Qingjiu, Yongsheng Oil Tea Family Owns." "Yongsheng oil tea is a well-known tea drink with unique flavor, which was created and spread in Yongsheng County, and is also a specialty of Yongsheng County.
Yongsheng oil tea, not only has the common nature of general tea to quench thirst and help food, but also has the wonderful use of refreshing and replenishing qi, and because of the simple raw materials and convenient production, it has become a popular drink that "has every family".
A good taste that the taste buds can never forget
Yongsheng people are accustomed to drinking oil tea, and they cannot do without oil tea. Whether in mountainous areas, dam areas, towns or villages, most families simmer a can of oil tea in the morning. There is a joke to support it: "I didn't eat oil tea and rice for three days, and I was dizzy and stumbled." Yongsheng oil tea has a strong taste, the tea aroma is overflowing, full of fragrance, wonderful, whether it is Yongsheng people or people from other places, after drinking Yongsheng oil tea, they all love it.
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@ Lao Wu: I have been out for more than 20 years, only the oil tea in my hometown accompanies me, rain or shine every day.
@wait. T: I am a big Heqing girl, one is not Yongsheng, the second is not married Tonsheng, actually every day I think about drinking oil tea, when I was in Chengdu for those years, I wanted to drink it every day, every time I came back to see the oil tea foot, I couldn't move my steps, and there was no one to dry it three bowls at a time.
@ Yiye: Yongsheng oil tea, the taste buds on the tip of the tongue, although outside, from time to time or boil some oil tea in the pot to drink.
@If: Don't eat oil tea for three days, the head is fried and painful.
@Gerry: Oil tea is really the more I grow up, I love to drink it, I didn't like it when I was a child, and I don't understand why adults love to drink oil tea so much, and now I unconsciously fall in love with oil tea, especially after leaving my hometown for a long time.
Similar to the Japanese tea ceremony, it is different from butter tea
Yongsheng oil tea seasoning is not much, easy to make, and now this tea drink has been widely spread throughout the region.
Yongsheng oil tea is similar to the Japanese tea ceremony, the "bottom soup" is made of local fine rice, made into tea rice, until the tea rice is roasted and fragrant, and then added to the tea leaves. After that, it can be made into a very refreshing flavor snack according to different tastes, sweet or salty.
Butter tea, on the other hand, is made by boiling brick tea in water, adding ghee (butter extracted from yak milk), putting it in a slender wooden barrel, and beating vigorously with a churning stick to make it an emulsion. Another way is to put the ghee and tea in a leather bag, tie the mouth of the bag tightly, and beat it hard with a wooden stick. Therefore, the configuration of butter tea is called "hitting" butter tea.
Tea pots, tea leaves, and tea rice are indispensable
If you want to say what is needed to make Yongsheng oil tea, it is more, you need tea pots, tea leaves, tea rice, oil, simmered tea condiments and so on.
First of all, let's talk about tea pots, generally Yongsheng people make tea pots of oil tea are made of clay fired tea pots, no matter the size, glazed inside and outside, only the bottom of the pot is not glazed, the simmered tea does not leak oil, does not break in case of cold, both beautiful and durable; there are copper tea cans, to carry convenient and simmer tea when heat transfer is fast as an advantage, the disadvantage is that when simmering tea, if the can cloth is improperly selected, it is very hot. People in other places will choose tea pots from other places.
Yongsheng does not produce tea, for the tea needed to make oil tea, making oil tea is exquisite. The first choice of tuo tea, that is, the square tea or round tea of Shimonoseki, one is the positive taste, the second is boiled, and the third is inexpensive and practical. Unless there is a shortage of tea, choose boxed tea, bagged tea and other teas that are simmered.
Yongsheng is rich in rice, and the tea rice used to make oil tea is of course also made of local rice.
The oil needed in the production of Yongsheng oil tea is chicken fat, followed by lard; and then sheep fat and vegetable oil.
The condiments for simmering tea are essential salt and sugar, and the other is the necessary "hemp seeds", that is, the condiments that must be added like salt when simmering oil tea. After washing and filtering the water, the hemp seeds are stir-fried in a pot and fried over warm heat, and repeatedly scooped in the stone mortar, scooped into a paste paste, until the sesame oil is scooped out, and bottled for later. The third is to prepare the dim sum for tea, that is, all kinds of rice noodles, such as wheat noodles, baogu noodles, soba noodles, glutinous rice noodles.
How to simmer Yongsheng oil tea?
The most important thing about Yongsheng oil tea is simmering, how to simmer it? "See Lijiang" I will talk to you about it now.
1, put the tea pot on the charcoal fire, wait for the pot to be roasted and put a handful of tea rice, add the right amount of oil, simmer Yongsheng oil tea must be slowly roasted tea rice, from time to time will be taken away from the charcoal fire with bamboo chopsticks to stir non-stop, until the tea rice is all fried in the oil golden brown.
2: Put in a lump of tea to an appropriate amount, stir-fry at the oil temperature in the jar, and the tea will be white.
3, from the fire rush into the boiling water put charcoal on the fire boiled two rises, take off the chopsticks to stir three times, then use chopsticks to block the can mouth, pour the can decanting tea in the tea cup.
4, in the process of each decanting of tea, it is necessary to pick a small lump of "hemp seed salt" in a timely manner to make the oil tea more oily, the aroma is more fragrant, the tea taste is stronger, and the tea drinker prefers to put salt or sugar.
The people of all ethnic groups in Yongsheng use oil tea as a treat for guests, and the first tea must be respected by the elderly or guests. When you arrive at Yongsheng, which is called the "land of fish and rice", you must not forget to try the unique flavor of Yongsheng oil tea!