Food in Kasumigaura
Xiapu Special Snacks Illustrated (1)
Life is chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea
Walk the streets of Kasumigaura in the early morning
It is a leisurely bird song and a passer-by who runs for his own purpose
And of course, the steaming breakfasts
Today
Let's start with the Minnan paste from Breakfast China
Take a look at popular snacks from all over Kasumigaura
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Breakfast China · Minnan paste
The twenty-fifth episode of "Breakfast China" welcomes a bowl of breakfast from Xiapu, Minnan Paste.
Minnan paste is undoubtedly the master of Sansha cuisine, when it comes to Sansha snacks, many people think of Minnan paste, which is an authentic civilian food and is famous for its unique flavor.
Regarding Minnan paste, there is such a history. During the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, Xiapu Sansha welcomed the first batch of Minnan people, Zhangpu fishermen. After they came to Sansha, they found that Sansha Port was rich in fishery resources, so they often drove boats to this place to fish and shelter from the wind, and then fishermen from all over the coast of southern Fujian settled in Sansha one after another. Therefore, Minnan paste has also become a special breakfast in Xiapu Sansha.
Directions: Minnan paste is a smorgasbord of food embedded in sea shells, shrimp, diced meat, shiitake mushrooms, green onions and other ingredients. Don't look at the appearance of black and dirty, the locals are very salivating about it, the soft taste is particularly aftertaste, even if you eat a whole plate, it does not support the stomach.
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Paste soup buns: special paste soup + buns
Paste soup carries many memories of Xiapu people's childhood. A bowl of paste soup and a meat bun are the most common and most frequent breakfast forms on the streets of Xiapu. Whether it is breakfast or supper, the status of paste soup in the Xiapu snack industry can also be described as pivotal, especially when the wallet is flat, what can be more touching than a bowl of hot paste soup?
Directions: Paste soup is somewhat similar to Minnan noodle paste, the method is simple. Break the fresh rice noodles into the pot, slowly pour in the starch prepared with water while cooking, take a large spoon and stir clockwise, then add shiitake mushrooms, duck intestines, squid fillets, dried fish, dried shrimp, and sprinkle a small handful of marinated large intestines when the pot is raised.
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"Flavor of the World" · Sweet potato shavings
The 30th to 35th minutes of the seventh episode of "Flavor of the World" aired Kasumigaura sweet potato shavings. The whole film introduces sweet potatoes dug out from the ground to shaved sweet potato shreds, dried sweet potato rice, washed powder, steamed powder, shaved vermicelli, dried vermicelli, sweet potato vermicelli cooking and so on.
Fujian Xiapu shaving powder is made by using the best sweet potato milling, steaming, drying, grafting, sun drying and obtaining, shaving powder is derived from the semi-dried sweet potato powder shaving process and named.
Shaving powder can make Kasumiura famous snack paste soup, the local name is "yo-yo" is probably because "when looking at the light slippery, chopsticks clip when slippery, sucked into the mouth when slippery" so there is this saying. Because it is not easy to break, does not paste the bottom of the pot, the taste is strong, and it has a strong "powder absorption ability".
Method: The trick to making Xiapu shaving powder lies in mastering the process of "one steaming: steaming the powder pulp to form a powder; two grinding: grinding powder, grinding the pulp; three drying: the first time to dry the part, the second time to dry the powder, the third time to dry the vermicelli". From sweet potatoes to vermicelli, it is necessary to go through cutting vines, digging potatoes, washing potatoes, cutting rice, washing powder, grinding powder, beating, steaming cakes, grating, sun drying and other links.
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Consumer Proposition · Sweet potato cup
Although Xiapu's sweet potato cup is "invisible" in the inconspicuous back streets and alleys, it is a delicacy that once appeared in the "Consumption Proposition" column of CCTV. The 110511 issue of "Consumption Proposition" aired the special topic of Xiapu gourmet sweet potato cup "Sweet Potato Cup Made By Trick when Taole is carried out".
The steamed sweet potato cup is golden throughout, smooth and moist, the entrance is elastic, the taste is good, the taste is fragrant, the lips are hot and hot, the bite is in the mouth, the outer skin is soft and soft and sweet, and the filling of the inner bag is lined with hot steam, and it is even more fragrant. If you eat it in winter, a mouthful of half a sweet potato cup is hot and hot, and there is an indescribable sense of satisfaction in your heart.
Method: Sweet potato cup, as the name suggests, is made of sweet potato as raw material, sweet potato steamed and pressed into a puree, add eggs, starch, sesame oil, etc., put into a mold when shaping, make it into a small cup shape, and then add the filling made of minced meat, steamed on the pot. The skin is very soft and sticky, which is a perfect match for the salty filling.
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Explore discovery · Sea oyster cake
On February 1, 2020, the "Exploration and Discovery" column of CCTV network broadcast the spring chapter of "Hometown to Taste" and the special topic of sea oyster cake.
Oyster cake, commonly known as oyster cake, is a Fujian-style cuisine that is popular in the eastern coastal areas of Fujian. The oyster cake is made with fresh sea oysters, served with vegetables and covered with thick rice milk, which is crispy on the outside and has a faint hint of sea oysters on the inside. Kasumigaura people often dip sea oyster cakes with fresh soy sauce in the morning, and they are often able to eat a large bowl of porridge, which is salty and light.
Directions: Moray oyster cake is made of rice flour (pulp), soybean flour (pulp) as raw materials, put celery, sea oysters, meat on an iron plate, pour the paste, put it in the oil pan, fry until golden brown. On the palate it is crispy and delicious, round in shape, golden in color, and fresh in the shell.
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"Good Luck Tour" · Kasumigaura rice dumplings
"Good Luck Tour Group" is an in-depth experiential cultural travel reality show, which broadcast the experience of tasting rice dumplings in Xiapu in the 20170528 program, spreading this Xiapu feature to more people.
The people of Xiapu attach great importance to the winter solstice festival, and on the eve of the winter solstice, every household rubs tangyuan and makes dumplings. The dumplings in Kasumigaura have unique local characteristics, and the dialect is called "migian (fourth sound)", which is a sound check. According to the "Chronicle of Xiapu County. The Winter Customs say: "People will grind glutinous rice flour, cut radish shreds to cook, mix brown sugar, women's generation group powder as a cantonese, and sugar radish shreds as filling, made like a half-moon style, commonly known as 'rice gian'".
Directions: Ingredients: First, 80% glutinous rice flour, 20% late rice flour, the two are mixed, this material can be made into white rice dumplings. Too much glutinous rice is too thick, too much late rice is too crisp. Second, steam the sweet potatoes and peel them, add an appropriate amount of glutinous rice flour while hot, and knead. This ingredient can be made into golden sweet potato dumplings.
Filling: Xiapu "rice dumplings" have a lot of flavors, including radish shredded filling, sugar filling, meat filling, vegetable filling, etc. Xiapu Sansha people also use seafood to make filling, the taste is unique. The finished dumplings are placed on the leaves and finished.
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"Three Sands and Three Absolutes": Three Sand Fish Balls
Q-bomb sansha fish balls, together with meat swallows and meat dumplings, are called "three sands and three musts".
Kasumiura's fish balls are handmade from freshly caught mackerel, and the meat filling is made with fresh pork leg meat with ingredients such as boiled scallion oil, salt, and soy sauce. Cooked under the pot, take a bite while it is hot, the strong fish aroma and the sweet gravy are mixed together, it is simply delicious.
Method: Sansha fish balls are made of eels, sharks, mackerel or other fish meat in the mortar, add starch and stir evenly, fine selection, exquisite production, thin and uniform skin, white and bright color, smooth and crisp food, fresh and fragrant soup, elastic.
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"Three sands and three musts": three sand meat swallows
Meat swallow can be said to be a popular food in Fujian region, thinner than wonton skin, filling to choose lean hind leg meat, hand-chopped, which is the same as adding sweet potato starch, eating is full of Q feeling, especially with Xiapu's specialty seaweed, it is really fresh, it can be said that it is an excellent choice for breakfast.
Method: Meat swallow at first glance is skin wrapped meat, in fact, its skin is very exquisite, is a selection of pig lean meat, with a wooden stick a hammer "beaten" into the meat mushroom, put in the high-grade sweet potato powder stirred evenly refined, shaped like paper, white smooth and fine, emitting meat aroma, quite a bird's nest flavor when eating, very refreshing, so it is known as meat swallow skin.
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"Three sands and three absolutes": three sand meat dumplings
Kasumigaura's local rice dumplings are sweet dumplings with dates and ordinary bean dumplings. The meat dumplings are specialties brought together with the ancestors of southern Fujian when they migrated to Sansha.
Unlike meat dumplings in other parts of southern Fujian, Sansha meat dumplings use pickled egg yolks, while glutinous rice should be filled with fresh fennel, which tastes fragrant, and the meat wrapped inside is also pure lean meat.
Method: Sansha meat dumplings are made of glutinous rice and rice dumpling leaves as the main raw materials, red shallots as accessories, pork belly, dried shiitake mushrooms, dried scallops, quail eggs as fillings, and five-spice powder, dark soy sauce, soy sauce, old wine, salt and sugar as the seasonings. Taste salty.
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Sansha Chicken Roll: Classic snack
"Chicken rolls" can also be called "chicken neck", rich in nutrition, with spleen appetizer, weight loss and slimming effect, is one of the famous flavor snacks in Sansha.
"Chicken roll" has a golden crispy skin and a tender and delicious heart, and the fried small one is placed in a small dish containing garlic vinegar, and after biting, the filling inside is mainly pork, and it is very Q to bite. The onion-flavored caramelized crisp and sticky meat fillings are mixed with chewing, the fat and gravy that are perfectly sealed in it are squeezed out, and the diffuse fresh aroma travels between the tongues and teeth, with the full satisfaction of carnivores.
Directions: "Chicken rolls" are made of fine ingredients. First the lean pork will be made into fine mince, and then the horseshoe, green onion white cut into fine mince, with the right amount of MONOS glutamate, fine salt, put together in a small basin to mix well, kneaded by hand into a cylinder shape, wrapped in fine plate sand oil into a diameter of 3 cm long segment of small round rod shape, and then cut the small round rod into a section (every 4 cm savings), dipped in a layer of egg mixed wet flour, put in the oil pan fried, fried until the appearance is golden brown, fished up, put into a colander to drain the oil, Sansha chicken roll snack is ready.
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Seafood stir-fried rice noodles: Minnan flavor
Seafood fried rice noodles are one of the traditional snacks of Xiapu and are favored by everyone in the local area. In particular, the handmade rice noodles of the past are classics, which are not only easy to cook, but also have a unique taste, delicious taste, and are widely praised.
Whether it's breakfast or a late-night snack, this stir-fried rice noodle is the choice of many Kasumigaura people.
Directions: Handmade rice noodles are the main ingredients, and the taste is very unique. First, it is soaked and sautéed in a number of ingredients with plenty of oil, including cabbage, shiitake mushrooms, pork and shredded carrots.
Different seasonal vegetables can be added in different seasons, and simmered with fresh shrimp and sand clams, which are the characteristics of Xiapu, to make the rice noodles soft and delicious.
12
Food Table· Fillet soup
Chinese mainland food show "Food Station" broadcast a specialty of Kasumiura, fish fillet soup, in 2017 and explained its practices in detail. Fish fillet soup is a snack all over the streets of Kasumiura and a regular at the dinner table.
The people of Xiapu, Fujian Province, surrounded by mountains and seas, will use moray eels to make a bowl of fish fillet soup that pays attention to the essence of the ingredients. The key to making this dish is to hang the syrup in the fish fillets, and the hanging pulp should use coarse-grained sweet potato starch, and onion oil and egg whites, so that the fish fillets are not easy to disperse, and the taste is more delicious and tender
Method: Melt the lard in a hot pot, put the white section of the green onion, simmer slowly until the green onion tastes and discolor, turn off the heat, put it to cool; open and cut the processed clean moray eel slices into 1cm thick fish fillets, add salt, sugar, green onion, ginger shreds, cooking wine, egg whites and sweet potato starch, stir well and stir in shallot oil for 30 minutes; heat the bottom oil of the onion oil, pour the pork minced and stir-fry, change color and pour the winter shoot shreds, carrot shreds and shiitake mushrooms, add salt, and continue to stir-fry the sugar until cooked thoroughly; boil the soup pot and reduce the heat, add water to turn the sweet potato starch into a thick paste. Wrap the fillets on both sides of the fish with a thick paste and cook for about 5 minutes; turn on the heat, then add the red pepper rings and parsley segments and cook for a while, add salt, sugar, drizzle with a little white vinegar to get out of the pot; fish fillet soup scooped into a bowl, add the stir-fried ingredients, and the delicious fish fillet soup is ready.
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Consumer Proposition · Red Sturgeon Eight Treasure Rice
The 20200116 issue of CCTV's "Consumption Proposition" broadcast "Hometown's New Year's Taste • Fujian Xiapu", which tells the special delicacies of Fujian Xiapu people during the New Year.
Red Sturgeon Eight Treasure Rice is a fujian specialty traditional dish. In Xiapu, the well-known Red Sturgeon Eight Treasure Rice is a must-have dish for locals during the New Year's Festival, with red and red colors, which means "good luck is the head".
The staple of this dish is the local wild red sturgeon, scientific name is green crab. The main ingredients of red sturgeon eight treasure rice are glutinous rice and green crab, and the ingredients include ham, dried scallops, dried shrimp, dried shiitake mushrooms, corn kernels, green beans, carrots, winter shoots, etc., which are complete in color, aroma and taste.
Method: Wash the glutinous rice, soak in water for 30 minutes, drain the water, steam in the basket drawer; steam the eight kinds of auxiliary ingredients such as ham and cut into cubes; wash the red sturgeon, remove the sturgeon, cut the umbilicus into slices; mix the eight kinds of accessories and glutinous rice with the diced pieces, mix well, put them in a bowl, add the washed and sliced sturgeon fillets on top, add the white onion and ginger slices to the fire cage for 20 minutes, take out the green onion white and ginger slices; put the pot on the high heat, add the soup to boil, add 3 grams of dried scallop juice, white soy sauce, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate, pepper to taste, and pour on the eight treasure rice.
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This issue is the first episode of The Illustrated Catalogue of Xiapu's Specialty Snacks
The list of cuisines is in no particular order
It is intended to organize the review
Kasumigaura local specialty snacks
To be continued
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