Chongqing, a city full of magic, is recognized as the capital of gastronomy. The biggest impression of Chongqing cuisine is heavy hemp, heavy spicy, heavy oil, such as Chongqing's hot pot, Chongqing's skewers, and Chongqing's various types of jianghu dishes, etc., are recognized as delicious, but it is too heavy taste. yes! Not only hot pot, skewers, jianghu dishes... Even Chongqing's snacks are different from other cities, only because of a "strange". It is said that this strange flavor of Chongqing is a bean.
Jianghu cuisine (image from the Internet)
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >what is a bean? </h1>
Hudou is actually the name of the People of Sichuan and Chongqing, its written language is called broad beans, according to local customs, some places are also called Luohan beans, Hu beans, Nan beans, vertical beans, Buddha beans, legumes and so on.
The cultivation of hudou in China has a long history, the earliest record is that zhang wrote the "Guangya" in the Three Kingdoms period, there is a word for hudou; according to the Song "Taiping Imperial Records", fava beans were introduced to the Central Plains by Zhang Qian of the Western Han Dynasty from the western region; Li Shizhen also said: "The beans are like old silkworms, so they are called broad beans."
It should be known that fava beans are the third most important winter edible bean crop in the world, and the nutritional value is high, and the broad bean flowers, leaves, and shells can be used for medicinal purposes. It is planted in most provinces in China, with spring sowing in the north of the Yangtze River and autumn sowing in the south of the Yangtze River.
Hu Dou (Image from the Internet)
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the origin of Chongqing's weird flavored beans</h1>
Why is Chongqing's strange taste of beans called "strange taste"? It is because the five flavors of hemp, spicy, sour, sweet and salty are integrated into the beans at the same time, and the five flavors are harmonious and different, do not interfere with each other, and the taste is quite harmonious.
Chongqing's strange flavor of hudou originates from Beibei. At first, it was just a fried stall founded by Xiong Rongcheng and his wife, selling some self-developed fried goods. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, they innovated the practice of beans and peanuts, especially the five-flavored beans, which tasted quite peculiar. At that time, Lao She moved to the Beibei King Kong Monument "Yashe", and after inadvertently tasting the beans, he was even more amazed, and named it "Strange Taste Offidelity", and the name has been passed down since then. Wang Zengqi also wrote in his book "Eating Beans, Drinking Water, And Idle Pen": "The strange taste of Beans in Beibei is really strange: crisp, crisp, salty, sweet, hemp, spicy. ”
The earliest strange flavored bean brand is "Butterfly Flower", from the early 1820s to the present, the Butterfly Flower brand strange flavor bean with "sweet and crispy delicious and peculiar, spicy salty comfortable and refreshing" high-quality best-selling at home and abroad.
Strange smell of beans (image from the Internet)
Don't look at just a small broad bean, depending on the production method, the taste is also very different, and almost every city has its own favorite flavor.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > shaoxing fennel beans</h1>
Fennel beans (image from the Internet)
When I mentioned fennel beans, what flashed in my mind was Lu Xun's pedantic and kind Kong Yiji, wearing a long shirt, and every time he went to the tavern, he would: "Warm two bowls of wine, ask for a plate of fennel beans." "I think the taste of fennel beans is superb. And in Shaoxing folk also circulated such a folk song: "Delicious fennel beans, chew tough and tangled, use humility, tongxing good soy sauce." ”
Fennel beans are made of dried fava beans as the main raw material, simmered with fennel, cinnamon, salt and edible naphtha, so that all its spices penetrate into it, and the cooked fennel beans are fragrant, soft and delicious, and the more chewy, the more fragrant, the sweet aftertaste.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > orchid beans in Ningxiang</h1>
Orchid bean, also known as jade belt bean, is a more traditional snack in China, all of which are called jade belts, because in the processing time, the shell of the broad bean needs to be peeled off to only the middle circle to prevent the broad beans from separating. It looks like a jade belt, so it is called "jade belt bean".
The method of orchid beans is also relatively simple, soak the hair and wash the fava beans after water control, peel the shell leftovers of the "jade belt" after frying, change color and then fish up and fry again, drain the oil and put in a variety of salt, chicken essence and other spices while hot. The fried orchid beans are fragrant, attractive in color, crispy and delicious, and have an endless aftertaste.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > spiced beans in Shanghai</h1>
Spiced beans (image from the Internet)
Shanghainese often say: "Not tasting the spiced beans of the City God Temple is equivalent to not having come to Shanghai." "The spiced beans of the Shanghai City God Temple are a famous snack in Shanghai, it is exquisite in materials, the heat is appropriate, and there is a light milk aroma, so it is also called "creamy spiced beans".
The fava beans selected for spiced beans must be produced in Yuyao, Zhejiang, the method is slightly more complicated, you need to use two pots, one is a water pot, and the other is a sugar water pot with sugar, flavor, fennel, cinnamon and other ingredients added, broad beans are cooked in the water pot and poured into the sugar water pot and kept turning, about half an hour to see the bean skin turn out the salt flowers can be started to cool. Made city god temple spiced bean skin thin meat floss, chew soft glutinous.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Chongqing weird flavored beans</h1>
In Chongqing, the strange flavor of the ancient town is even more famous, and most of the strange bean is processed by machine, while the rich strange bean is still handmade. In 2018, the Liujia Sihe Hudou making technique in the ancient town also won the "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Banan District", and in 2019, Liujia Sihe Hudou won the bronze medal of the "Chongqing Good Gift" Characteristic Tourism Commodity (Cultural and Creative Products) Competition, and won the "Sixth Linkage Cooperation Meeting of the Golden Triangle of Qianchuan-Chongqing Adjacent Cultural Tourism" Excellent Cultural Tourism Commodity Award.
Chongqing's weird bean production method is also extremely cumbersome and elaborate, just the raw materials of weird bean are as many as a dozen kinds, beans, sugar, caramel, cooked sesame seeds, sweet sauce, chili noodles, monosodium glutamate, five-spice powder, salt... The selection of strange flavored beans is also extremely exquisite, it must be the local beans in Chongqing, and the beans should not only be large, but also full of particles.
The process flow of strange flavored beans is: soaking beans ➡ in oil and frying beans, soaking them ➡ in sugar, soaking them in alum ➡ ➡, frying ➡ and frying them ➡ on icing ➡ and cooling packaging.
Among them, "boiling sugar" is the most critical step, because it directly affects the taste of strange flavored beans, to know that more than 20 people in Chongqing make strange flavored beans, the difference is on this boiling sugar.
"Wearing sugar coating" is the most ornamental and technical, of course, such a scene can only be seen in places where strange beans are made by hand.
"Wearing sugar coating" requires three perfect combinations, one person shakes the beans, one person pours sugar, and one person sprinkles the ingredients, so as to ensure that the sugar coating is uniform and layered.
Wearing sugar coating (image from the Internet)
Just made strange flavor beans must not be in a hurry to eat, and so cooled into the mouth clicking, full of fragrant, each can let you feel the numb, spicy, sour, sweet, salty five tastes, and the more you eat more spicy, the more you eat the more numb, but always can't stop letting the mouth put. Such a strong and peculiar taste may only be fully understood by those who have eaten it.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > today's Chongqing weird flavor of beans</h1>
In order to meet the needs of the market, Chongqing's strange flavor of beans is also seeking new breakthroughs, in addition to the traditional spicy taste, but also added matcha flavor, durian flavor, tomato flavor, seaweed flavor, bayberry flavor, coconut flavor... In Chongqing's pedestrian streets and even some tourist attractions, most of them can buy this kind of freshly fried strange flavored beans, and the freshly fried beans are really the entrance slag. The focus is on all flavors of beans, you can taste on the spot, think which is delicious and then order, independent packaging whether it is eaten by yourself or given away is a good choice.
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