It is said that the most difficult thing to quit is nostalgia,
The most memorable is the taste of the hometown,
The bowl of delicious food collides with the strong love of the taste buds,
It also burns with a fiery passion for the food culture of the hometown.
I'm going to introduce it to you today
What are the characteristics of the New Year's taste of Gansu Tianshui and Longnan people's hometowns?
Tianshui
Tianshui is located at the confluence of the north and south of China, with a mild climate and abundant products. Good natural environment coupled with the ancient Silk Road commercial port town, so that Tianshui diet has a high cultural taste and strong folk heritage, Tianshui people celebrate the Spring Festival, naturally indispensable to the traditional food of the New Year, in addition to the famous Eight Treasure Rice, Chowder, Bad Meat, Tamales, Shrimp Sauce Meat, Yellow Braised Chicken and other button bowl series, of course, chowder, fried tenderloin, beef stew and so on.
Buckle the bowl
The bowl is also known as the button dish, which is an indispensable delicacy in the eating memory of the Tianshui people. Every festive event, family and friends gather, and people with conditions generally have to make a few dishes to enjoy.
There are as many varieties of Tianshui buckle dishes as the production process, about 20 kinds, including chowder, eight treasure rice, braised pork, yellow flower meat, bad meat, tamales, shrimp sauce meat, plum button meat, yellow braised chicken, yellow braised ribs, yellow braised elbows, etc., as well as braised pork, braised ribs, braised striped fish. Rich ingredients, exquisite ingredients, meat and vegetarian collocation, spicy and sweet and delicious, passed down to this day, to meet the taste buds of many Young and Old in Tianshui.
Tianshui chowder
Stir the egg whites and spread out into pancakes. Take the fine beef and chop it, add salt, flour noodles and peppercorns, mix well, add it to the middle of two layers of quiches and flatten it, steam it in a basket, cut it into strips, and make a splint meat. Mainly splint meat, with leather strips, meatballs, poured chicken soup, sprinkled with green onions, coriander, fungus, etc., a bowl of chowder with enough soup is ready. Meat and vegetarian combination, not greasy, delicious taste.
Tianshui loin
"Sour and spicy tenderloin" is a traditional dish with local flavors in the Great Northwest. The "sour and spicy tenderloin" cooked by Chef Tianshui uses soft tenderloin and homemade chutney, which is specially cooked, tender and sour, with a unique flavor and a very delicious taste. It is also the first choice for hard dishes for Tianshui New Year!
Cut the meat into small pieces, stir and mix well with flour and egg whites, and fry in vegetable oil. After frying and drying, it is fished out, accompanied by fungus, magnolia slices, red and green peppers, etc., and poured with the hooked soup to become a water tenderloin.
Bad meat
The so-called bad meat is to mix the bad tofu (that is, red curd milk) with some other spices, mixed into a sauce, evenly wrapped on the pork belly slices, steamed on the pot. Every New Year, every local household in Tianshui will make ten bowls, eight bowls, or even twenty or thirty bowls of bad meat in advance. Or send friends, or entertain visitors, as well as enjoy from your own family, is a must-have dish for the New Year's lotus leaf cake.
Eight treasure sweet rice
Babao sweet rice, also known as Babao rice, is based on glutinous rice. Tianshui's Eight Treasure Sweet Rice is served with dates, lotus seeds, white fruits, cinnamon meat, green and red silk, etc., and can also be accompanied by walnut kernels, hawthorn cakes, raisins, peanut kernels, roses, cherries and other vegetables and fruits. The basic production process is to wash the glutinous rice, add water to the basin, steam it in the cage, and then take out the appropriate amount of sugar and cooked lard. Take another steaming bowl, spread a layer of oil on the bottom of the bowl, or lay the fat slices at intervals, lay out the various fruit materials according to their desired patterns, lay the bottom of the bowl flat, and then put the steamed glutinous rice into the bowl, smooth it, prick a few holes with chopsticks, steam it in the basket, and put it on the dish.
Longnan
Longnan is located at the junction of the three provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu and Sichuan, and the food in the eight counties and one district has its own characteristics, and the Chinese New Year's Eve rice are not the same: some are all kinds of meatballs, noodle balls, and tofu balls, which mean reunion and good color, and some people's family heirlooms are fried fruits, which means five grains and abundance.
Nine bowls of three rows
There is a local proverb: "Nine bowls and three lines, one bowl is the same." These nine dishes are the most original feasts in the countryside of Huixian County: Gaza meat, Dongpo meat, sliced meat, ribs, small crispy meat, balls, roasted tofu, sour soup, vermicelli, no matter from the north to south or from the east and west, are arranged in three rows, so the name "nine bowls and three lines."
Warm pot
Warm pot is a local specialty of Longnan, widely spread in eight counties and one district. Gathering with relatives and friends around a steaming pot of food has become the first choice for many people in this season.
Sauerkraut fish
In the New Year, those pickled sauerkraut are refreshing, and they can neutralize the fishy smell and improve the freshness when placed in the fish. The river dumplings produced in bailongjiang have fewer spines and are most suitable for sauerkraut fish. Picking up a slice of translucent fish fillet, the sour taste stimulates the taste buds, so gentle boneless fish meat is the most tender and fresh.
Wax chops
The wax steak is the favorite of the Longnan people, the meat is tight and chewy, and the hand leaves the aftertaste. Don't look at the meat quality of the bacon steak is slightly lean, eating to the mouth not only has the tightness of the lean meat, but also the juiciness of the fat meat, a thin and fat, a tight and tender, simply let people feast!
Tamales
Sticky and fragrant, crisp and refreshing, and fragrant tamales are regular customers of many Longnan people's Chinese New Year's Eve meals. There are fat and thin, red and white, tender but not omile, rice flour oily, every bite has a full sense of happiness!
Every festive season, I gain three pounds,
Did you get a lot of weight this year?