Fried food is one of the traditional foods in China, whether it is twist flowers and balls for the New Year's Festival, or fritters and oil cakes for breakfast every day, they are deeply loved by people because of their crisp and delicious, fragrant aroma, especially in alpine areas, this higher calorie food is more popular.
In Qinghai, skilled Hui and Salar women are very good at making all kinds of fried foods. Ancient steamed bun is a unique food of the Salar people, which is an essential food for people to entertain guests when they are doing a happy event at home or when their children are on the full moon, and it is also the best food for settling small children.
When making the ancient steamed bun, the noodles are mixed, kneaded, rolled into thin slices, cut into diamond-shaped or round pieces and fried in a frying pan, similar to today's crispy and very delicious. The allure of this food for children is great, who has a happy event, the children wait at the door of the owner's house early, just for the crispy ancient steamed buns. In the past, Sala children would shout loudly in the village: "Give you ancient steamed buns, give you steamed buns!" "This beckons the friends to come out and play together."
The Sala chicken cake is also unique, this chicken cake is not what people call a fluffy cream cake today, but a pasta called "Umta Ermaihe" in the Salar language. When a distinguished guest from home came, the Salar women used lye water and good noodles, kneaded them into small dough, and then wrapped a red date, kneaded it into the shape of an egg, and fried it in a frying pan. So this cake is actually an egg-type pastry, not a cake made of eggs. Before the hot chicken cake is served, it is sprinkled with honey or sugar, so that the chicken cake is sweet and soft, and it tastes unique.
When it comes to fried food in Qinghai, of course, there are steamed buns. Steamed buns are one of the foods that people of all ethnic groups in Qinghai Agricultural Area must make every New Year's Festival. In particular, the steamed buns of the Qinghai Hui and Salar ethnic groups are the most famous, and are regarded as the best in fried food.
The fried steamed bun is made with the best white noodles, mixed with an appropriate amount of clear oil, water, salt, pepper water and other spices, repeatedly kneaded to make it tough enough, and then cut into sections, and then kneaded into strips, coiled in the basin, smeared with some cooking oil on it and let the noodles be fed through in the basin. After this treatment, the elasticity of the noodles when the pot is just right, use your hands to pull the thickness and evenness, put in the oil pan, gently flip it with chopsticks, master the heat, and the golden brown and crispy steamed bun is fried. The steamed buns are connected in circles, the appearance is slender and yellow, the entrance is salty and crispy, and it is not bad for a long time.
Flowers are Hui festival foods, flour mixed with brown sugar, honey, eggs and various food coloring to make hard noodles, the various hard noodles are stacked together, kneaded by hand into flowers, birds, fish, animals and other shapes or geometric figures, and then cut into pancakes, fried in a frying pan. The flowers look beautifully patterned, crisp and sweet to eat, and can be used as a snack or a gift of dried fruits during the festival, which is very popular with children.
In addition, there are fried foods with similar but unique characteristics such as candied fruit and oil aroma, which are also loved by the people of Qinghai. Of course, with people's attention to health, the proportion of fried foods in people's recipes has gradually declined, but every time they face traditional foods such as steamed buns and flowers, people will always say, eat less and taste the taste. Behind this "gluttonous mouth" is actually a memory of the taste of the hometown that is difficult to give up.
(The pictures in this article are all from network illustrations)
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