When it comes to Fuzhou cuisine, we have to mention Fuzhou snacks. Fuzhou snacks are an important part of Fuzhou cuisine, and its history and influence are as compelling as Fuzhou cuisine. The elderly Fuzhou people have a saying called "seven walks and eight walks can not leave Fuzhou", which means that the flavor of Fuzhou food is unique, and the townspeople can't bear to leave.
What kind of delicacy is this? Don't worry, this will take you to find out.
1. Fuzhou fish balls
Fuzhou fish balls are famous flavor snacks, with natural, nutritious, health care of the gastronomic characteristics.
Generally, eel meat or mackerel meat is pounded into a puree shape, stirred with sweet potato flour to make skin, and then minced lean pork, shrimp, etc. as filling, and kneaded into balls; Cooked, add a delicious broth, sprinkle with green onions, and a bowl of brightly colored, tender and delicious fish balls is complete!
It is said that the origin of this fish ball can be traced back to the dynasty of Qin Shi Huang, which is more than two thousand years old. Today, the streets and alleys of Fuzhou are still ubiquitous fish ball stalls, and locals will buy fish balls to cook at home, and foreign visitors to Rong are also happy to taste fish balls.
2. Gift cake
Gift cake is a traditional pastry in The Shiyi area of Fuzhou, and is also one of the varieties of heavy sugar and heavy oil in the pastry, generally flat and round, larger than the moon cake, the skin is as thin as paper, and the filling is full of flavor.
Its method is also quite elaborate, with stalk rice, glutinous rice, flour after kneading into a skin, with fat meat, peanuts, sesame seeds, green onions, winter melon strips in time to make nuts as filling, and then through the master's skillful hand to make a round cake, sprinkled with sesame seeds on the stove baking, it will not take long to smell a burst of aroma.
In the early years of Fuzhou, there was a saying: "There are gifts for cakes, but others are not gifts", which means that gift cakes are not only used as one of the dowry gifts for men and women to get engaged, but also a special gift necessary for married daughters and granddaughters to honor their elders in the Mid-Autumn Festival every year.
3. Sea oyster cake
Sea oyster cake, commonly known as oyster cake (Fuzhou dialect: diê-biāng), is a traditional flavor snack originating in Fuzhou, popular in Fuzhou, Puxian and Ningde and other coastal areas of Fujian.
Sea oyster cake is crispy in texture, shaped like a round, golden color, shell crisp filling, can be used alone as a snack, can also be eaten with porridge, Dingbian paste, etc., is a favorite small dish of Fuzhou citizens.
The oyster cake is made of exquisite materials, and the preliminary process is also time-consuming. The rice and soybeans should be soaked in water for 3-4 hours, mixed with water and ground into a thick pulp for later, the pork should be chopped into meat filling, the cabbage, green onion, etc. should be chopped, mixed into filling, and the oyster meat should be washed and drained. After heating the special iron spoon in the oil, pour half a tablespoon of rice milk into a hot spoon, add the filling to the rice milk, add an oyster, cover with a tablespoon of rice milk, put it in the oil pan, fry until the cake surface is golden brown, fish it out, let it cool a little and enjoy.
Fourth, meat swallow
Meat swallow, also known as Taiping Yan, is a famous special flavor snack in Fuzhou, which belongs to the Fujian cuisine - Fuzhou cuisine.
Meat swallow is a festive dish in Fuzhou customs. Fuzhou people celebrate the New Year's Festival, weddings and funerals, relatives and friends gather to say goodbye, will eat "Taiping Yan", that is, take its "Taiping" and "Peace" auspicious, so "no swallow is not a feast, no swallow is not a year". Meat swallow has also become a good gift, which is sincerely loved by Fuzhou people, including overseas villagers.
The meat swallow skin is made by hand using the lean meat of the hind legs of the pig, removing the tendons and periosteum, cutting into thin strips, mashing the meat with wooden sticks, and adding potato flour.
Although the meat swallow also has a nickname - "flat meat swallow", its taste is different from the flat meat (flat food) in other places in Fujian, and the taste of the two is completely different. The swallow skin is as thin as white paper, its color is like jade, the taste is soft and tender, tough and strong, and it is full of meat in one bite, which can be said to be quite satisfied.
Before wrapping the filling, cut the fresh swallow skin into about two inches of square pieces, hang it in a ventilated place to dry, and become dry swallow skin; The filling is selected from lean pork leg meat and fresh fish meat, chopped into meat paste, dried shrimp, water chestnut chopped into a minced shape, add an appropriate amount of bone broth, egg liquid, rice wine, shrimp oil, and stir with chopsticks for filling; Take a piece of dried swallow skin, put the filling in one corner, roll it up with chopsticks to the position near the diagonal, and then pinch the two corners of the diagonal line tightly, and the wrapped meat swallow resembles a gold yuanbao; Place in the cage drawer and steam for 5 minutes on high heat, add to the pot of boiling water, boil over high heat, pick up and put it in a soup bowl, sprinkle with celery, add bone broth, drip in the appropriate amount of shrimp oil, rice wine to taste, and finally sprinkle sesame oil, a bowl of delicious.
Flat meat swallow is deeply loved by Taiwan compatriots and overseas Fuzhou overseas Chinese, and when they come to Fuzhou, they will bring back the swallow skin to give to relatives and friends.
Five, jasmine tea
Jasmine tea is a specialty of Fuzhou, Fuzhou is the birthplace of jasmine tea, has a history of nearly a thousand years. Jasmine is one of the four sacred flowers of Buddhism, which was introduced to the southeastern Buddhist country of Fuzhou with Buddhism during the Qin and Han dynasties, and Fuzhou gradually became the capital of jasmine.
The aroma of Fuzhou jasmine tea has always been loved by the majority of people who drink flower tea, high-quality jasmine tea has the characteristics of dry tea shape tight and uniform, black brown oily color, fresh and lasting aroma after brewing, bright yellow and green soup, tender and soft leaf bottom, mellow and fresh taste.
In general, Fuzhou's specialties are still quite numerous,
When you come to Fuzhou, you don't know what specialties to bring to your family
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