The current Chenxi belongs to Huaihua City, and the former Chenxi can be famous. In the 70s and 80s, there was the famous 861 Arsenal, which mainly produced the famous Baiyun refrigerator, which was famous throughout the country. Later, the branch factory moved to Guangzhou. There are also large factories such as Hongyue and Hongmin, which have also moved to Changsha Zhuzhou and other places. Nevertheless, Chenxi's specialty snacks have always been famous and have never been inferior.
Sour radish
The sour radish on the road from Victory Park to the cinema has always been famous. Sour radish are placed in a large bowl, the color is pink, people who will eat sour radish, when choosing, are also very exquisite, mainly to select radish skin. crisp.
One of the most famous radish in Chenxi, the pickling process of sour radish. At that time, the main ingredient of sour radish was small carrots, first of all, the radish was selected clean, cut into slices, and then cut into strips, like a large fan, cool and dry; boil the water, cool; put salt, put rice sugar, and then put the radish slices in, cover the lid, the weather is hot for a day or two to eat; cold, four or five days can be.
Chenxi sour radish is the second most famous, is the oil splash pepper, the most important method is to put the oil pepper into the bowl mash, add spices; radish into the bowl, repeatedly pounded, so that it is completely stuck with peppers, like to eat peppers of Chenxi people, will stick a lot of peppers, eat fragrant, spicy and crisp and delicious. A must.
I remember my mother sold sour radish for two years after she retired to find something to do! They all say it tastes delicious! Today, my mother is in her 80s.
The main ingredient of sour radish is small carrots, or white radish. Whether the sour radish is filled with rice candy, or rock sugar or white sugar, I don't think it matters.
Press the radish
The pickling process of Tatsuki acid radish. The main ingredient is small carrots, washed, blown dry; put into a jar, pressed with a stone, so that it becomes white and light yellow, generally 7 days to half a month, you can eat. When eating, cut into thin slices, then cut into strips, put into a bowl filled with oil and spicy seeds, pound, add seasoning, radish stick to the pepper seasoning, eat crisp and refreshing. It's another must. It's not as sour as a sour radish, sweet and crunchy.
Pink rice dumplings
Chenxi pink rice dumplings. In Chenxi, there is a custom that on August 15, both married and unmarried men must go to give a gift to their father-in-law or future father-in-law (known locally as basket delivery). Among the gifts, in addition to tobacco, sugar, wine and meat, there is another indispensable thing, that is, powder and rice dumplings. Chenxi people love it.
The main raw materials of flour rice: glutinous rice flour, artemisia, soybeans, sesame seeds and brown sugar, etc. In the process of production, because all the raw materials are mashed into a powder, take a bite, the middle of the soybeans, sesame fragrant, powdered, sweet and soft glutinous to eat, and so on, and got its name!
Green "Youth League"
Because the main raw materials of flour rice: glutinous rice flour, artemisia, soybeans, brown sugar and so on. Therefore, it is also known as "Artemisia annua",
Pick the artemisia from the mountain, select the tender stem and leaf parts of the artemisia, wash it, chop it with a knife, wring it out, and remove the bitter water; then, put it into a pot and cook it, and then adjust it with cold water after cooling, and then add glutinous rice flour to knead it into a green "green dough".
Next, in the dough cut into small doses, put the filling made of brown sugar, mashed soybeans and crushed sesame seeds, knead it tightly and put a little oil into the leaves of the tung tree to form a square.
In this way, small green "green balls" are arranged neatly on the steamer in rows.
Raw, when not cooked, it is green; when cooked, it becomes black and blue.
The cooked "green dough" has a strong aroma that makes people can't help but swallow. Uncover the pot, take out the "green dough", endure the hot, hands back and forth to uncover the leaves of the tung tree, the original tender green "green dough" has disappeared, into a black, black, shiny black rice rake; because it is eaten, sweet and soft, stuffed with powder, so call it "pink rice dumplings"! And because it looks exactly like cow, the Chenxi people also call the powder rake cow. ”！
Don't look at its appearance is black, but it is delicious to eat! The skin of the powder is thin and soft and sticky, full of toughness, full of strength, brown sugar, soybeans, sesame filling, the powder is sweet but not greasy, with a faint aroma of artemisia grass, soft glutinous sweet. The taste is full.
Powder rakes are rich in nutritional value, mainly derived from its raw materials, artemisia, soybean sesame, etc.; some people also use mugwort, so it is also known as "mugwort". Mugwort has a history of thousands of years as a medicinal use, with warm menstruation, dampness, cold dissipation, hemostasis, anti-inflammatory, asthma, cough, fetal safety, anti-allergy and other effects, known as "the grass of the doctor".
The "doctor's grass" grows in the grass in the mountains, and there are many plants similar to it, so it is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish.
Chenxi people rely on their own unique experience to easily distinguish mugwort. The steamed powder, even if it is black, can't stop its sweet powder soft sticky taste!
In short, the non-polluting "green food" of the powder rice dumplings are more and more loved by people!
Nowadays, in Chenxi, shops specializing in making powder rice are all over the streets and alleys, and the unique fragrance of powder rice is wafting everywhere. The surrounding counties and municipalities, streets, vegetable markets and supermarkets can also see the figure of Chenxi powder, which can solve the hunger of many people.
Social meals
She-rice [shè fàn] She-rice has existed since ancient times and is a kind of food sacrificed by The Han, Tujia, Miao, Dong and other ethnic groups in China. Eating community meals is mainly carried out on the community day (that is, the fifth day after the spring), and the folk custom is called "passing the society" and "blocking the society". The fifth day belongs to the soil, so this day is the day of worship of the land bodhisattva, and people pray for a smooth New Year, abundant grains, and peaceful family luck.
Although every household cooks social meals, but there are always different times, neighbors have to give each other a taste, this simple rural customs and folk customs, still continue from generation to generation, Hunan Xiangxi and eastern Guizhou have always existed.
She's rice comes from the ancient custom of she-day sacrifice in Tongren, and has developed into today's she-day ritual ancestor worship, with little change in content. Every year, after the fifth day of spring is the spring society day, the family must have a spring feast to sweep the grave, or the whole family gathers for a feast, the ceremony is solemn, the scene is warm. If relatives and friends from other places come to visit at this time, they can attend the dinner. Every spring back to the earth, everything is revived and full of vitality, when the important raw materials used to make social rice- fresh and vigorous artemisia and wild onions, are full of mountains, which is a good time to make social rice. The food community meal, to a certain extent, expresses the local people's nostalgia for the ancients and hopes for the future.
Extended information: Distribution areas of Tongren City, Guizhou Province, Xiushan, Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Tianzhu County, Zhuxi Township, Lantian Town, Bangdong Town, Fengcheng Town, Shexue Township, Duma Township, Pingdi Town, Zhenyuan County Baojing Township, Jinbao Town, Jianggu Town, Wuyang Town and other places have also passed the community. In Hunan Province, Xiangxi Phoenix, Huaihua Zhijiang Xinhuang Mayang Tuxiang Miao Village, there was a custom of spring society to eat community meals. The meal is mainly held on the day of the society (that is, the fifth day after the establishment of spring), that is, the spring society. The day belongs to the earth, so this day is also a day to worship the god of the land. People pray for a smooth New Year, abundant grains, and peaceful family fortunes. On this day, every household must cook community food to show that the community has passed. If guests come across this festival, they will feast on the "mouth".
method:
Step 1 Bacon sausage 1 to 1
Step 2 Artemisia annua and wild onion 1 to 1, wash clean, artemisia to wash away the bitter water with a washboard, cut both finely and fry in the pan. Shallots and artemisia, three or four garlic leaves, finely chopped and sautéed.
Step 3 Dried tofu and peanuts 1 to 1, sautéed. Step 4 Fry the diced bacon, all of the above ingredients should be fried in this way.
Step 5 After serving, put aside, wash the pot, cook the rice, cook until 3 minutes cooked, pour out the rice soup, pour in the above mixed ingredients, stir evenly, ensure that each grain of rice has oil, this rice is very oily, the pot is very fragrant. Put the mixed rice and ingredients into the rice cooker and cook it as usual, and don't put water again.
note:
1, bacon with fat more fragrant.
2, stir-fried artemisia wild onion garlic seedlings can put some salt, less put a little, bacon and sausage inside the salt more.
3. The key step is bibimbap and vegetables. Cook the glutinous rice in a pot for 3 minutes. That is, when sandwiching raw rice, pour out the rice soup, and then combine three kinds of vegetables with fried diced meat, and finally mix it in the rice (sandwich raw rice), put it into the rice cooker, and do not put water.
Sticky
Rice dumplings are a special snack of Hunan Spring Festival, from snacks to large, this traditional cuisine is already a household name. If you don't eat rice dumplings for the New Year, it will really be a little less flavorful!
When I was a child, it could only be eaten in the New Year, so in our minds, it was a symbol of the New Year. Now the material is rich, the supermarket has all year round there are rice dumplings sold, but the machine made of rice dumplings is too delicate, the taste is definitely not as good as handmade, so every year someone will make some rice dumplings at home to relieve hunger.
The method of rice dumplings is very simple, the ingredients are also very easy to obtain, but in some areas of Hunan, the rice sticks (also called rice dumplings) in counties and cities are made of rice, pressed with sticky rice, the process may be similar, and then pressed with a mold, it is beaten into one by one. After baking, it does not have a soft sticky feeling when eaten.
Hunan Chenxi rice is made of glutinous rice, glutinous rice after soaking, steaming, with a tool to mash the shape can be, when we were young, every household had to buy rice dumplings for the New Year. With a small water tank, loaded with a tank, from the New Year has been eaten fifteen.
Rural people play rice dumplings every time, and the atmosphere at that time should be very lively! A family fights sticks, and neighbors come to help. The family sits around the fire, roasting the rice dumplings while eating the rice dumplings, and the flavor of the year is strong.
The process of hand-making rice dumplings.
Ingredients: 1000 g glutinous rice, oil to taste.
Wash the glutinous rice and soak it overnight in advance.
The soaked glutinous rice is placed in a steamer basket and steamed in a pot.
Dig out the glutinous rice, put it in a deeper container, use the end of the rolling pin to pound hard, the glutinous rice into a delicate mud, the process is fast, take advantage of the glutinous rice when it is hot, the easiest to mash, if the glutinous rice becomes cold, it is not easy to mash, but the glutinous rice does not have to be pounded into a delicate state of glutinous rice flour, handmade rice is delicious, because there is a rough grain of glutinous rice.
While hot, divide the glutinous rice puree into about the same size. If your hands are sticky, you can apply some oil to your hands.
Place the glutinous rice in the palm of your hand, knead into your favorite shape, and place on an oiled plate. When it is completely cooled, it will be fixed, at this time it will be packed in a plastic bag, eating for a week will not be bad, if you do a lot at once, we were put in a clean bucket when we were young, poured into clean water, and changed the water in a few days, you can eat for more than half a year.
Homemade handmade rice dumplings may be grainy to eat, and the taste is more chewy, which is much better than the machines on the market.
The practice of rice dumplings is particularly simple, and the most important thing is that the whole operation process must be carried out while it is hot! Hot glutinous rice is very malleable, what you want to knead into is what it is, become cool on the shape, the whole process is done in one go, glutinous rice from the pot to the molding, the faster the better.
In short, Chenxi also has many special snacks, such as: rice candy, inch gold candy, kraft candy, etc., countless!
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