The haggis that no one cares about, why has it become the top card of Lanzhou Night Market? Do the Northwesterns have to take this mouthful?
Haggis haggis, a pity to abandon it, delicious food. When I was a child, this sentence was like thunder, and this sentence has become a mantra for locals.
The so-called "haggis" is the sheep's head and sheep's internal organs, that is, sheep heart, sheep lung, lamb belly, sheep intestine, sheep liver and so on. In addition to being cumbersome to make, these parts are also delicious to eat.
In the cuisine of various places, sheep's head, sheep's hooves, lamb tripe, etc. are generally made into cold dishes, but in the northwest, they are very widely used.
But Lanzhou is an exception, where people not only like to eat haggis, but also become the standard for locals to have a late-night snack.
Why are Lanzhou people good at this mouthful?
Why do Lanzhou people like to eat haggis?
When it comes to Northwest cuisine, the reaction in the mind is always hand-grabbed lamb, yellow braised lamb, cold mix beef and camel paws, etc., Western flavors.
Yes, these are the home dishes of the Northwesterns, although the practice of these dishes is still different, but in the street corners of each city, there are always traces of these dishes.
But haggis is different, the name of haggis, every time you go to the night market, you can hear from the shouting of the shops, is the coordinates of Lanzhou snack food, but also the symbol. In Lanzhou, mention it, you can distinguish it from other cities.
According to the old man, "On the table are haggis, lamb skewers and mutton noodles, even if he is a foreigner, you can see that he is from Lanzhou."
Although Yinchuan, Xi'an, and Xining all have this kind of snack food, compared with Lanzhou's, it seems to be almost interesting.
Why is that? Haggis has become a representative of Lanzhou cuisine?
The search engine gives wonderful legends:
The origin of haggis is variety of theories, here are the rich man and beggar woman story is quite wonderful, legend: in the early years, there was a rich man returning from the field, suddenly found his own high gate compound, there was a beggar built a few thatched huts against the wall to live, annoyed into anger, humiliated the beggar a bit stomped away, then slaughtered a sheep to eat the whole sheep feast, after the sheep slaughtered, the internal organs of the wall threw out, the beggar saw it, overjoyed, was worried about not eating, did not expect food to fall from the sky. While washing the five organs and hooves of the head, he put them into the pot, and when he was about to boil the drunken incense, the rich aroma splashed around and was smelled by the rich man. Looking up the wall, I asked: What are you eating? The beggar replied: The whole sheep feast, the rich man is angry, nonsense, the whole sheep is in my pot, the beggar replied again: You eat the outer whole sheep, I eat the inner whole sheep. The rich man returned home angrily, sniffed the aroma emitted by his own lamb, smelled the fragrance wafting outside the wall, and immediately ordered the people to slaughter another lamb that chopped up the internal organs and ate the whole sheep, and since then the haggis has been famous in jincheng, with five organs and five flavors, and the aroma is pleasant.
In fact, the history of eating haggis in Lanzhou is nearly 30 years, and it has been used before, but it is indeed not large-scale and not very popular.
At that time, because of the economic downturn in the northwest, most of the mutton was exported, so it was a pity that the remaining sheep's head, hooves and offal were discarded, so people tried to turn waste into treasure, make these ingredients into delicious haggis, and buy them for people who liked to eat, and gradually the people of Jincheng began to like this taste, and people usually ate it as a supper.
For the derivation of the word "laid-off" in the 90s, it is not easy to eat a meal of meat for one or two hundred yuan a month, so the sheep's head hoof that turns waste into treasure is inexpensive, a handful of spices, a handful of salt, the meat is full of flavor, and it is also economical.
When people who have lost their jobs drink to relieve their boredom, the heart of the sheep, the liver of the lamb, blanch the water, onion, ginger and garlic, add some spices, cut into thin slices, sprinkle with pepper and salt, chat, while teasing, a glass of wine, a piece of lamb liver belly, can also become the best appetizer on the wine table.
Haggis is so hot, after losing their jobs, laid-off workers, began to set up a stall to make a living, at night on the street to support the stove, set up a few tables and chairs, or braised or fried, so that haggis into the life of Lanzhou people, especially at night, this kind of food has become part of the supper.
How many ways to eat haggis?
Eating haggis is generally to remove the fishy smell and cooked and then made, braised is the most common way to eat haggis, cooked haggis with fragrant mutton soup, braised into a bowl of hot haggis soup, sprinkled with green onions, coriander, like to eat spicy random spoonful of red oil peppers, fragrance with a slight spicy taste, is also a delicacy in the world.
In order to make this delicacy more delicious, fried haggis also with the change of people's tastes, stir-fried also gradually into people's vision, fried haggis, appears particularly fragrant, color and flavor, quite flavorful.
Peppery taste, is also a way to eat haggis, after the haggis blanched water, down into the prepared soup, low heat slow simmering, the taste gathered in the hemp, spicy and pepper flavor, red and bright and fragrant, but also became the first choice of diners.
The perfect partner for haggis: oil cakes and old five springs
Haggis is the top brand of Lanzhou Night Market, but Lanzhou people also do not eat haggis as a staple food, in Lanzhou, the best partner of haggis is baked oil cake and Yellow River beer.
Baked oil cake and oil cake and oil flavor are two completely different foods.
A bowl of braised haggis, baking an oil cake, and opening a few bottles of Old Five Springs have also become the most beautiful scenery in the night market.
Wuquan beer is a kind of old beer in Lanzhou, how many years of history remains to be studied, but every Lanzhou person knows Wuquan beer, especially the glass bottle beer known as Old Wuquan in Lanzhou. It was later acquired by Tsingtao Beer, but the current Wuquan Beer is far inferior to the old Wuquan Beer.
When it comes to the old Five Springs beer, many friends think of the strong taste, sometimes two or three bottles can make you drunk.
Therefore, the old Five Springs and the Wusu beer in Xinjiang are called "three langs".
Gastronomy is a city of memories
The birth of many cuisines is closely related to the city's food culture.
Therefore, food is also the memory of the city, and its emergence and demise have also touched the emotions of countless people living in the city.
Haggis, along with lanzhou's most confused generation out of the predicament, to prosperity.
It is not high-class, full of human fireworks, but also condenses the most common taste and reflects the civilian life of the mass group.
A bowl of haggis, a baked oil cake, two bottles of old five springs under the belly, dizzy home, no matter how the world changes, or full of gossip, the next day dawn still have to continue to struggle and work hard.