The New Year pays attention to a "New Year's flavor", that is, the memory of the New Year, the red lanterns hanging high, the crackling of firecrackers, the Chinese New Year's Eve meal of the family reunion... Pingyao Ancient City is the most youthful representative of the northern ancient city, cutting window flowers, pasting couplets, wrapping dumplings, both sides of Pingyao Street are hung with red lanterns, and every household is illuminated.
It's hilarious. Walking on the street can be infected by the festive atmosphere, the New Year's flavor of Pingyao Ancient City, just in the red lantern hanging high, the red lantern, the upper blessing, the lower treasure land, each string, are hidden in the strong New Year flavor and luck.
Pingyao Ancient City is one of the four ancient cities in China, and it is not only the history and culture that people yearn for, but also a variety of cuisines. It is also a great pleasure to feel the history from the food! To this end, we went to find some of the most popular Chinese New Year's Eve meals of ordinary people in Pingyao!
Pingyao beef
During the New Year, everyone has to buy Pingyao beef, and there are many brands, with "Guanyun" as the top product. The famous song "Quao Native Products" mentions the most famous Shanxi cuisine - Pingyao beef, Pingyao beef is delicious, nutritious, fat but not greasy, thin but not chai, suitable for all ages.
I bought Guanyun's ordinary beef, as well as melon meat that tastes better than this, you can also go to Guanyun's beef supermarket to taste it when you come to Pingyao Ancient City.
Pork head meat
Every year in the twenties of this waxing month, ordinary foodies in Pingyao have to press a pot of pig's head meat that everyone loves, why do you have to make it yourself, because you make it affordable, safe, hygienic, and the most important thing is incense.
The selection of materials is generally with pig heads, pig trotters, and pigs into the water. This year the water is very expensive, I made it with elbows, pig's trotters, stomach, it is very delicious to eat.
Sauce plum meat
"Sauce plum meat" is one of the black bowls to be made in Pingyao for the New Year, it is not woody, it is not greasy, fragrant and mellow. Sauce plum meat belongs to the representative dish of Jinshangzhuang cuisine, and is also the third steaming of the Jin style, named for steaming with soy sauce tofu juice to remove fishy freshness. In Pingyao, sauce plum meat is an indispensable dish among the eight bowls and eight plates of the banquet.
Burnt sandwich crisp
One of the famous Top Ten Bowls in Shanxi. In the Jinzhong area, it is almost a home-cooked dish that people love. The steaming puff pastry is steamed by small cooked meat and roast meat, and I also put some fried potato pieces on the black ball bowl, which can absorb some of the grease when steaming.
In this way, a piece of roasted meat is sandwiched in the mouth, but it is crisp but not rotten, fat but not greasy, the sauce is fragrant, and the soup at the bottom of the bowl is thick.
Steamed balls
Steamed balls are made from pork belly meat, which is unique. The ten bowls of banquets made by the people, the eighty-eight banquets, the eighty-six banquets, and the dry eight, water eight and other banquets are inseparable from the "balls", and the methods of the balls in Pingyao are fried and steamed.
Either way, soft and tender balls are key. Here I put the balls directly in a black bowl to steam, saving trouble and delicious.
Pingyao copper hot pot
Eight bowls of collection, meat and vegetarian collocation, Pingyao locals during the New Year every household to make eight bowls, and Pingyao copper hot pot is to put Pingyao local eight bowls, beef, added to the stew, hot very delicious.
Yellow rice oil cake
Yellow rice oil cake is a kind of food that every household has to fry in the New Year, unlike the river rice cake so delicate and tender white, the yellow rice oil cake is mainly made of yellow rice as raw material, and then made of cooked yellow rice wrapped in red adzuki beans, date paste, and fried. Sprinkle with a little sugar when eating. Tender on the outside, golden in color, fragrant, sweet and fragrant, chewy, pingyao's yellow rice oil cake, belongs to coarse grains, eating and raising people, grounded. In Pingyao, the locals use "cake" to express the meaning of harmonic pitch, and people go to high places and ascend step by step. For the New Year's wedding, everyone makes "fried cakes", and there must be a plate at the banquet of relatives and friends. Everyone eats cakes, and everyone can be tall.
Over-oiled meat
Oiled meat is one of the famous dishes in Shanxi, and it is also a home-cooked dish often eaten in the New Year, with selected lean meat after sizing, oiling, with natural black fungus, garlic, green onions fried. Shanxi people are very jealous, and the stir-frying of vinegar is very particular in cooking. The finished dish is golden and bright in color, salty and smells vinegary, and the texture is soft on the outside and tender on the inside, which is a rare beauty.
Bowl off
Bowl defined but not greasy, smooth and refreshing, suitable for all ages, popular in all seasons, and eat a variety of ways, summer can be cold mixed, winter is hot stir-fried, Pingyao bowl off is especially famous for dipping sauce bowl off. Pingyao's bowl is made of white flour, and the fragrant bowl is accompanied by an exclusive dipping sauce, which makes people feel salivating when they look at it.
Each dish in Pingyao's New Year cuisine has its own unique flavor, and being able to taste the unique local cuisine is the greatest joy for a foodie. Delicious and authentic food may be better than just looking at the scenery. The above New Year's food may become a feeling on the tip of your tongue,
So which is your favorite of the many cuisines?