Zhiyuan has worked in Beijing for several years and has also been to many places in the north, and the deepest impression is that every New Year's Festival, northerners either eat noodles or eat dumplings, for example, the first two sides of the first day of the first year, the winter solstice to eat dumplings, it seems that in addition to noodles and dumplings, northerners have no other food options.
But in the south, it is very different, and each season will make different food snacks. For example, in Quanzhou, minnan, Qingming eats run cake dishes, Tanabata eats sugar dumplings, winter solstice eats dumplings, Pudu makes nine-layer cakes, wedding celebrations make big flower bags, and so on. It can be said that snacks are an important part of Quanzhou food customs. More because for Quanzhou people, snacks can be both dim sum, can also be used as a meal, and can even be entertained at banquets, it has been deeply integrated into the food customs of Quanzhou people, becoming a preference, a habit, a folk custom.
Today, Zhiyuan wants to introduce you to a famous snack in Quanzhou - crispy fried, it is crescent-shaped, golden and seductive, crispy and delicious, mixed with sweet peanut filling, endlessly evocative. In the city, it is called "fried" (Hokkien pronunciation: Ko); in Hui'an, it is also called fried crisp and shortbread; and in Quangang, it has another name - mouth crisp. Because Zhiyuan's hometown is in Quangang, this article is called "Quangang Crisp".
Spring harbor crisp
The so-called puff pastry is similar to the northern dumpling method, except that the dumplings are usually eaten steamed, while the puff pastry is eaten fried, and the filling of the bread is also different.
I remember when I was a child, every New Year and Pudu ("Pudu" is a folk cultural phenomenon in southern Fujian, it is a folk festival formed by blending the Taoist Zhongyuan Festival and the Buddhist Obon Festival on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar), the family will make a few pounds of puff pastry, which is used for sacrifice, gifts to relatives and friends, and used as tea. This is also the most happy and anticipated moment for children. Although it is easy to catch fire after eating (after all, it is fried), its crispy and delicious flavor still makes many people unable to resist the temptation.
Compared with the dumplings in the north, the practice of Quanzhou mouth puff pastry is more complicated, and the raw materials of the mouth puff pastry are mainly peanuts, flour, peanut oil, meat oil, sugar, garlic paste, black sesame seeds, eggs and so on. Peanuts and sesame seeds are sautéed, mashed, and sugar into fillings; water is mixed with flour, a little meat oil is added, and sometimes a few eggs are added, stirred evenly, kneaded into a dough, take a small ball, roll out smoothly with something sleek like a wooden stick or wine bottle, spread it flat in your hands, place the filling in it, and pinch your fist to make the dough close into a chicken crown. After kneading them one by one, they are fried in batches in a frying pan to form a crispy, crispy, fragrant and sweet puff pastry.
Peanut filling
Roll out the dough
Stuffing
figuration
There are crescent-shaped and round ones
Fry until golden brown
In the early years, many people did not have refrigerators to store, so they put puff pastry in a jar or hung on a "hanging basket" on the ceiling. The cylinder and basket are laid under a layer of line, and the surface line can absorb oil and prevent moisture. Weather permitting, the puff pastry can be left for several months. Because the mouth is crispy and delicious, and can be preserved for a long time without deterioration, many people regard it as a "universal snack", because it can fill the stomach and can also be a snack, especially the Minnan people have the habit of drinking tea, and the mouth crisp is an excellent tea match, which relieves the mouth.
It was thought that seasonal snacks like this one with local characteristics would be difficult to find in other regions, after all, each place has different production crops and eating habits. But what Zhiyuan did not expect was that in the Qingyang region of Gansu, thousands of miles away, he found a snack that was very similar to quangang crisp- Qingyang "crispy hezi".
Qingyang crispy zygote
It is reasonable to say that this two completely different places, south and north, cannot be hit by eight poles. But according to Zhiyuan's observation, these two snacks, whether in the use of raw materials, or in the method and appearance, are almost exactly the same - the same pasta snacks, the same fried desserts, the same dumpling shape. This made me feel intensely curious!
Qingyang's crispy zygotes, because of their appearance is a large dumpling, also known as crispy dumplings. It has a yellow and bright color, a thousand layers of skin, a trim with flower graves, a sweet filling inside, a delicious crisp, sweet and delicious, and is a famous food on Longshang. During the Festive Season, many families in Qingcheng make their own food, eat their own food or give gifts to relatives and friends. The method of puff pastry is unique, and its process is: one is to make a sweet filling, then to make a foreskin, the third is to fill, and the fourth is fried.
The practice of Qingyang puff pastry is very similar to that of Quangang puff pastry
As we all know, Qingyang, like many northern regions, is characterized by noodles, with a long history of traditional famous foods such as noodles, soba noodles, lamb meat, etc., with its unique local characteristics and tempting delicacies, attracting high-ranking friends and good guests from all over the world. Qingyang is located in the northwest of North China, which is a special area where the grassland culture connects with the farming culture, so the food culture of Qingyang is also long-standing, and it sets the strengths of each family. Therefore, when you come to Qingyang, you will find that in addition to pasta, there is also a food featuring animal products, not only meat and vegetarian collocation, cold and hot interlaced, thick and light, sweet, salty, sour, spicy, hemp five flavors are complete, color, aroma, taste, shape are good.
Qingyang cuisine
It can be said that Qingyang's gourmet snacks are rich in variety and unique in flavor. It embodies the imagination and creativity of Qingyang people and is unforgettable. Have you ever eaten Quangang Crisp and Qingyang Crisp?
Qingyang crisp and spring port puff pastry
Photo: @ Zhiyuan Tianxia