Shaanxi people love to drink oil tea, especially Guanzhong people, with the elderly as the most important. Especially in the countryside, there are elderly people in the family, and if the children are filial piety, they often serve oil tea. Drink a bowl every morning in the winter, try to be warm, happy, nutritious, and beneficial to health.
Camellia oleifera comes in all kinds. The quality is very different. Fine, the oil is multi-faceted and finely made, accompanied by a variety of fruits. Folk recipe: one pound of butter, one pound of sheep fat, two pounds of clear oil, eight pounds of flour; first put oil in the pot, put the noodles when burning 70% or 80% of the heat, stir continuously, fry until the color is yellow, into the cylinder, squeeze flat. After cold, it becomes a lump, cut and eaten. When eating, boil with water to make a paste, add seasoning. You can also add walnut kernels, peanut rice, sesame seeds, etc. When eating, there are stone steamed buns.
Ordinary, the flour is steamed first, then fried in clear oil, and one or two oils can be used for a pound of flour. Stir-fry with pepper noodles, fennel noodles, salt and other spices. When eating, add water to the pot to make a paste, at this time add diced red and white radish, diced tofu, diced cabbage, etc., pour green onions, you can also add some soybeans. Such oil tea, save labor and materials, rich in nutrition, often eat in winter is quite beneficial. At the end of the Spring Festival in Dongfu counties, there are many people who eat oil tea, which is a cleanup of a large amount of leftover food, and all kinds of foods can be put into oil tea and brewed and eaten.
Fried noodles, which are similar to oil tea and are included in the inferior category, are the home-cooked meals of the pingtou people in the past. Method: peas, barley, wheat, one-third each, without oil, fried in a hot pot, then ground into powder, peeled, reserves for food. When eating, you can only use boiling water to make a thick paste, generally do not add anything, dry eating can add some sugar. There are also some that are placed in a pot, added water and stirred into a thin paste. Many places in Guanzhong produce persimmons, some people use soft persimmons to peel, with its thin paste and fried noodles, into a paste after eating, unique flavor; can be eaten hot, more suitable for cold eating, winter can eat, summer eat better. In the old days, rural students went to the city to study, and there was more of a kind called boiling water stove, that is, only boiling water, regardless of staple foods and dishes, there were many township children with fried noodles and the like, beating a bowl of water on the boiling water stove and stirring it to eat, now naturally there are very few, or even none. This is a reflection of the improvement in people's lives.
Guanzhong and Xi'an oil tea are diverse, and there are many precious varieties, which deserve a big book.
Pot of oil tea. Popular in Baoji. The method is to stir the flour, blended noodles with cold water into a thick paste, slowly pour in the pot of boiling water and stir well, add almonds, sesame seeds, soy sauce, salt, pepper, monosodium glutamate, etc., use the low heat to burn while stirring, after about twenty minutes, the color becomes sauce yellow and cooked. Then put it in a large copper pot, place it on the stove, and pour it into a small bowl while drinking. There were special hawkers in the old market. Now put it in the thermos and drink it as you like. Due to the delicious almonds and other delicacies, the fragrance is delicious. This can be called the alternative of oil tea, because it is not like the general oil tea to first fry flour and then brew and drink.
Pimple oil tea. Xi'an Hui flavor snacks. Generally, oil tea is based on thin and uniform thickness, no knots, this oil tea does the opposite, but put up a "I have knots" flag. This knot is the size of a cherry, the texture is crisp and loose, it can be dissolved in the mouth, and its aroma, in Shaanxi dialect, is called "Tsuen". After drinking, the teeth and cheeks remain fragrant. To make it, you need to add some flour, stir it to form a pimp, and then add the rest of the flour and stir-fry until cooked. Knotty oil tea is often added to a few twist flowers when eating, oil tea is refreshing, twist flowers are soft and soft, and have a unique flavor.
Large copper pot oil tea. The oil tea in the Shangluo area is sold in a large copper pot, called large copper pot oil tea. The pot was like the kind of large copper teapot used in the old Beijing teahouse. The belly was pooped, and the cotton cloth and cotton were tightly wrapped, and it was said that five pounds of cotton were to be packed. There is one of the most famous in Shangzhou City, which is called "Big Copper Pot Oil Tea". Danfengcheng also has a very famous one, because Xu Hou old man sold a lifetime of oil tea in the city, also known as "Xu Hou oil tea". This thick copper pot oil tea not only uses wheat flour, but also uses a part of corn flour, not adulterated, with one-seventh of corn flour, there is indeed an indescribable fragrance. The oil tea in the Shangluo area is also a late-night snack, and the large copper pot oil tea in Luonan City has become a scene after nightfall.
Three crude oil teas. Sanyuan used to be an important cultural town in Shaanxi and an important commercial port in Shaanxi, so food snacks and food culture have great characteristics. There is something very special about camellia oleifera here. Instead of a single oil, the noodles are fried with a mixture of butter, mutton fat and rapeseed oil. It is believed that this can ensure that the tea foam is yellow and bright, and the tea taste is fragrant. The second is to add some condiments to the oil tea, such as mustard, do not like mustard, you must put some small linen pages. Most of the three also have to beat a poached egg into it, or soak it with hot steamed buns and steel helmets to eat. In short, more exquisite.
Many people in Xi'an also love to eat oil tea. Have their own production. Most of them were bought to eat. Get up in the morning, brew a bowl to drink, when milk, when soy milk, more taste, more nutrition. Hui compatriots sell oil tea, fine production, sweet taste; beef bone marrow oil tea is rich in nutrition, very famous, many people bought to send people, many sent to Beijing and other provinces.
He Jinming Profile: Former Secretary-General of the Provincial Party Committee of Shaanxi Province, Scholar of Shaanxi Food Culture Research, Former President of the Sanqin Culture Research Association
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