First, the classic of Hunan cuisine - Yongzhou drinking snail, an interesting legend.
Regarding Yongzhou drinking snails, there is an interesting local legend: the Eight Immortals floating in the sea, the first arrival in Penglai Wonderland, the Seven Immortals praise the Penglai Immortal Scenery, but He Xiangu does not say a word. Lü Dongbin asked He Xiangu why? He Xiangu said: "Although the beauty of Penglai is good, it is not as good as the light rock autumn moon in my hometown of Yongzhou. The crowd then went down the water, into the Yangtze River, across the Dongting, into the Xiang River, and finally to Yongzhou Capital. After a long journey of day and night, all the immortals were hungry.
When Tie Qiu Li picked up the wine gourd and "grunted" to drink, he sighed deeply and sprinkled no vegetables. When Han Xiangzi heard about it, he quickly took a pen and wanted to draw a large carp for everyone to eat. Who knew that there was too much ink, a few drops on the ground, and turned into an iron snail. He Xiangu was overjoyed at first sight, busy burning fire and stir-frying snails, after the immortals ate, the aroma was strong, the spicy taste was violently stimulated, and passers-by were salivating, all praised the good dishes! Yongzhou drinking snail is also famous for this.
Second, the classic of Hunan cuisine - Yongzhou drink snail is rich in nutrition
1) Snails are very rich in calcium, and each 100 grams of snails contain about 156 mg of calcium, which is significantly higher than other foods.
2) The types and contents of minerals in the snail are quite rich, including phosphorus, selenium, iron, potassium, magnesium, copper and so on.
3) Snails are very rich in protein, about 7.5 grams of protein per 100 grams of snails, although the content is not high, but the types of amino acids contained are very many, especially the essential amino acids of the human body.
Third, Hunan cuisine classics - Yongzhou drinking snail gastronomic characteristics
Crispy and tender, fragrant and intensely spicy
Fourth, Hunan cuisine classic - Yongzhou drink snail raw materials
1) Main ingredient: iron snail, it is advisable to choose the clear rivers, ponds, rice fields in Yongzhou area to grow the size of the live iron snail.
2) Excipients: tea oil, it is advisable to choose Yongzhou pressed tea oil or Shaoyang tea oil and Changning tea oil.
3) Seasoning: dried chili pepper, ginger, sesame oil, soy sauce, cinnamon, peppercorns, cooking wine, perilla, garlic, Zhiran, fragrant leaves, grass fruits, etc
Fifth, Hunan cuisine classic - Yongzhou drink snail production method steps
Step 1: Buy fresh Yongzhou iron snails on the market.
Step 2: Feed the iron snail into the basin with water for 2-3 days, add a few drops of tea oil to the water, make it spit out sludge impurities, and change the water 3 times a day.
Step 3: After feeding for 2-3 days, rinse off the sediment and mud smell, scratch it several times, and use the wire clippers to cut off (or chop off) the tip of the shell with a knife.
Step 4: Beat half of the green onion and ginger, use half of the cooking wine to make the shallot ginger cooking wine juice, the other half of the green onion cut the flowers, the sub ginger into rice, the grass and fruit to beat, the garlic into rice, the perilla leaves chopped and set aside.
Step 5: Add the shallot ginger cooking wine juice to the boiling water, pour in the cut iron snail depressed water, so that most of the snail mask is off, and then drain the water for later
Step 6: Put the wok on high heat, put the tea oil to heat to 60% heat, add garlic rice, ginger rice, dried peppercorns, cinnamon, fragrant leaves, grass fruits, peppercorns, cumin, soy sauce, salt, perilla leaves slightly simmered, then pour in iron snails, cooking wine and stir with water, sprinkle green onions and drizzle sesame oil when the soup is strong, and put it on the plate. Crisp and tender, spicy, strong flavor Yongzhou drink screw production success.
Suggestion: Yongzhou drink snail so-called "drink", because with the snail shell to eat, when eating and drinking snails, the first thing is to take off the snail mask, hold the breath, lips should be close to the snail head, drink appropriately, drink in the suction, but mainly suck, like a baby sucking, force in the mouth, not in the mouth, throat, too strong will choke, insufficient force can not drink. Foreign diners who do not know how to eat snails can only look at the "snail" and sigh, and it is difficult to appreciate the special taste of Drinking Snails in Yongzhou.