In Qian'an City, Tangshan City, Hebei Province, there is a kind of "shelved" cuisine that makes the local people tireless and makes the wanderers who leave their hometowns never forget. This delicacy is called Koza, which is a round pancake made by peeling mung beans or climbing beans, red beans, cowpeas, etc., adding an appropriate amount of flour and turmeric powder, stirring well, grinding them into juice with stone grinding, and then spreading them in a large iron pot. The right amount of flour in the khaoza can increase its flexibility. Turmeric is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, with the effect of breaking the stasis, through the menstrual pain, adding an appropriate amount of turmeric powder to the cruza, not only the color is yellow and bright, the taste is fragrant, but also has a certain health care effect.
Kuza is a specialty of Tangshan, and is widely distributed in the Tangshan area, qian'an city, Zunhua city, Yutian county, Luan county, Luannan county, Laoting county and other places in the Tangshan area, and Qinglong Manchu Autonomous County in Qinhuangdao is also distributed. In Qian'an, Kuza is a common delicacy in the daily life of the local people, every New Year's Festival, wedding and funeral celebrations, ushered in, qian'an people will definitely use it to make a variety of dishes to entertain guests. Qian'an people have the saying that "do not eat the Kuza feast, do not count to Tangshan", and the Kuza feast is a special banquet of Qian'an.
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Khao Za Feast
The production of Qian'an Kaza dishes is diverse, such as frying, stir-frying, cooking, frying, slipping, boiling, etc., there are simple home-cooked methods, and there are complex methods that pay attention to workmanship. In short, Khaoza can be paired with a variety of local vegetables, fruits, meat to make dishes, the creativity is also various, the taste and taste have their own advantages, such as: sweet and sour cruza color is brown, bright, crisp and sweet, appetizing and delicious; cruza stew is fresh and smooth; kuza balls are crisp and delicious; vegetable rolls are fragrant and attractive, light and refreshing. Chefs in Qian'an can create hundreds of dishes that are not heavy, each with its own flavor and mouth-watering. Each village in Qian'an has several special khaoza dishes, and the chefs of various restaurants, restaurants and farms in Qian'an also have their own specialty khaoza dishes.
Sweet and sour cluck
Kuzao stew
Vegetable rolls
In Qian'an, Kuza has also been given a beautiful meaning by the local people, and among the many Kuza dishes, the Kuzaqian, which is favored by the Qian'an people, means that there are many children and many blessings. Kuza qian is also called kuza qianzi, thousand sons mean many sons, the ancients believed that many children are more blessed. Every New Year's Festival, every household will blow up and burn thousands of people, wishing the family a happy life and the happiness of their children and grandchildren. To make the dumplings, the meat is changed into a knife, cut into a long strip eight centimeters wide, and the meat filling is spread on one end of the long strip of the strip, so that the meat filling is a long strip, and the edge of the other end is coated with flour paste for sealing, the meat filling is rolled into the rattle, rolled and cut into segments, and fried in oil until golden brown is fished out of the plate. The fried crust is crispy and the meat filling is salty. Many wanderers who have left their hometowns to work hard have been away from home for many years, and the most memorable taste in their hearts is the hometown of Khaozhaqian.
Khao Za Qian
So, what exactly does "khaoza" mean? Why is this "clucking" a "shelf" delicacy? This also answers you with a local legend. It is said that after the Qing Dynasty built the Dongling Tomb in Zunhua, the shouling people sent the special product of Kuzaza to the imperial palace in order to please the royal family. Legend has it that at that time Empress Dowager Cixi had a habit of eating, each dish served up, at most eat one or two bites to withdraw, once, the imperial dining room served vinegar slip, Empress Dowager Cixi asked, what is this dish, the eunuch busy said, this is not yet named, please Lafayette to give a name to it, eat the mountain treasures and sea flavor of Cixi did not eat this dish, the first time to eat, feel the vinegar slip sour taste and smooth tender taste is very refreshing, degreasing, very tasty. But after eating two bites, the eunuch was about to retreat, and at that time Cixi did not let the eunuch withdraw, saying: "Shelve"! It means that this dish should not be withdrawn, first shelved, I will eat it. The eunuch thought that this was the name given by the empress dowager, and the horse passed it on: "Lafayette gave this dish the name of shelving"! Because of the harmonic sound of "shelving" and "kuza", the name of kuza has spread in the folk since then, and the value of kuza has also been greatly improved.
The people in the Tangshan area will also write khaoza as other consonant characters on the shelf, such as: 饹馇, eachza, or 帔蔗, giggling and so on.
Kuza is a fresh specialty food, generally to be eaten on the same day, the longest can not exceed two days. Li Qinghua, a villager in Qian'anohe Village, opened a khaozhafang in the village, in addition to selling it to the local market and restaurant, he also made a vacuum-packed khaozaqian, which was expressed to relatives and friends who worked and lived in the field, so that the hometown people who were away from home could also taste the taste of their hometown.
Li Qinghua's family handmade stalls have a history of hundreds of years, and he is the fourth generation of handmade stalls in the family. In April 2019, Li Qinghua's Li Jia Khaoza production technique was rated as the fourth batch of county-level intangible cultural heritage by the Qian'an Municipal People's Government. Just after noon, Li Qinghua's family's khaoza had been sold out. Li Qinghua said that the stalling technique looks simple, in fact, it is not easy to learn, the production of the stall is to go through eighteen processes such as broken petals, bleaching, grinding juice, passing, stalling and so on to be processed, and there are also hidden stalling secrets in the pot stalling technology. The stall system should also be carried out in steps, and cannot be formed at one time, so that the stall system will be flexible and smooth, and the trembling will continue.
In Qian'an, Khaoza is not only a local specialty, a delicious taste with a unique flavor, a taste of hometown, but also a culture and a good wish. I believe that more friends will fall in love with today's headlines as much as I do, come here to understand and share food with me, and taste different tastes.