When people line up to eat hot sugar fried chestnuts, when the aroma of roasted sweet potatoes wafts from the streets of Liyang, we know that winter is coming. Winter is a wonderful season, and winter food always has a power that reaches the heart. Liyang Cultural Tourism Xiaobian is not afraid of the cold, walking the streets and alleys to visit food, recommending Liyang delicious baked sweet potatoes & fried chestnuts (in no particular order)
『 Little Chestnut 』
The sweet chestnut fragrance condenses into a steaming hot air in the cold wind. If you want to say which sugar fried chestnut in Liyang City is the most famous, it must be the small chestnut in XichengQiao.
The heat absorption ability of sand and gravel is strong, and it can maintain a stable temperature for a long time, and it can be fried with chestnuts to ensure that chestnuts are heated evenly. As the boilers spin, the chestnuts collide with each other and make a rattling sound. The melted sugar granules also went up, coating the shell of the chestnuts with oil and polish.
The fried chestnuts are also exquisite, and the chestnuts cannot be covered when they are baked, but should be opened to cool naturally. The shop uses conical chestnuts that are more suitable for sugar stir-fried chestnuts, and unlike Liyang's specialty Nanshan chestnuts, this conical chestnut is relatively small, and the shell is thin and crisp, and it is easy to peel off. The entrance is soft and sweet, and the meat is more delicate.
The oily chestnuts are packed in traditional paper bags with earthy yellow and held in their hands like hand warmers in winter, and just looking at them makes people feel happy and rub upwards. In the "Book of Poetry and National Style", chestnuts are even used as a metaphor for the love between men and women, only because chestnuts are sweet and dense, and the taste that slowly dissolves on the tip of the tongue is like the entanglement of love.
『 Liangxiang chestnuts 』
Earlier, sugar-fried chestnuts were most famous for their production in Liangxiang. Lao She praised in "Camel Xiangzi": "Liangxiang fat chestnuts, wrapped in fine sand and molasses, stir-fried on the side of the road, even the wood smoke under the pot is fragrant." ”
The little chestnut, although small, condensed the Heaven and Earth Aura in one place. After being fried, the Liangxiang chestnuts are shiny and shiny, the taste is fine and soft, the sweetness is just right, and there is a magic that makes people want to eat another one.
This shop not only has delicious chestnuts, but also roasted sweet potatoes that can give you double the happiness of winter. In fact, fried chestnuts and baked sweet potatoes are not just food, they are more like the carriers of people's memories, the limited warmth and sweetness in winter.
『 Potato Time 』
Different from the mobile baked sweet potato stall we remember, Potato Time is a stylish shop, the store is not large, the store mainly sells sweet potato products, and the golden sign is naturally her family's baked sweet potato.
The way it is baked can make the sweet potatoes simmer out of the sugar juice and taste sweeter. Freshly roasted sweet potatoes, the skin is slightly cracked, flowing out of the honey is generally still nourishing sugar oil, under the browned skin is a soft glutinous that can make the air warmer.
Open paper boxes, with small spoons, can also be eaten delicately and elegantly with baked sweet potatoes that would have always been dipped in their hands. Picking apart the thin skin, the aroma suddenly becomes more intense, taste a soft and sweet, especially to eat the skin that is baked until browned and sticky with syrup, with a caramel-like aroma, the satisfaction is self-evident.
In addition to the signature baked sweet potatoes, the shop's handmade sweet potato strips and stir-fried sweet potato fries are also very popular.
『 Gangnam Spring Baked Sweet Potato Stand』
After a few nights of cold wind, the roadside mobile cart came out with a steaming baked sweet potato, and now the streets of Liyang are actually difficult to touch. The colder the day, the more fragrant the sweet potato flavor, and this one in the Parking Lot of Jiangnan Spring often attracts pedestrians to stop for it.
The washed sweet potatoes are arranged in large round barrels in a regular manner, and slowly roasted in the traditional carbon roasting method, so that the baked sweet potatoes are still the taste of childhood. When the skin begins to gradually become softer, the sugar oil flows out of the gap little by little, and the unique aroma of baked sweet potatoes continues to drift out of the mouth of the barrel, spreading out, and can be smelled from afar, and then it makes people follow the fragrance.
Baked sweet potatoes with a charred skin and soot will be placed at the mouth of the stove, in different sizes, and sold for a price. Just like buying a watermelon, you will definitely knock twice to listen to the sound, and in front of the baked sweet potato stall, people will often pick and choose, or pick a one that is covered with sugar oil and charred skin, or pick the one that looks the most eye-catching.
The baked sweet potato in hand is too hot, the two hands sweep around, and then can't wait to tear open the wrinkled skin, whistle a few times, the hot air of the baked sweet potato mixed with the aroma instantly spread in the cold wind, these are the most soothing fireworks, life qi.
『 Village Roasted Sweet Potato 』
The baked sweet potato at the entrance of the school is a good memory for many people, this rural baked sweet potato is a baked sweet potato shop opened opposite the school, which has captured the hearts of many students and parents so far.
Baked sweet potatoes are delicious, there are many reasons, from the variety to the baking method, every link is very exquisite, and the storage of sweet potatoes is also one of them. To make roasted sweet potatoes more delicious, sweet potatoes must be stored for a period of time to allow the moisture to disappear, so that the outer skin will appear dirty and sweeter to eat. Stacking across the newspaper layers can also ensure the quality of sweet potatoes.
Baked at high temperatures, the sweet potatoes slowly shrink, and the dark brown sweet potato oil drops down one by one, and after cooling, it condenses on the skin of the sweet potato, which is tempting.
Peel off the softly roasted skin, can't wait to take a bite, delicate and smooth between the lips and teeth, full of sweetness, sweet into the heart.
Source: Liyang Cultural Tourism