Shaanxi is one of the important birthplaces of Chinese culture, where 14 dynasties once built their capitals, with a broad history and culture. In addition to history, Shaanxi's cuisine is also well-known throughout the country, such as lamb bubbles, noodle noodles, rolled dough skin and so on.
Of course, in addition to snacks, Shaanxi's cuisine is also unique, although it is not as famous as the eight major cuisines, but Shaanxi cuisine is one of the oldest cuisines. Its development has had an impact on other cuisines to a greater or lesser extent. After the vicissitudes of the years, there are always a few dishes on the Chinese New Year's Eve meal or banquet of Shaanxi people, which is everyone's favorite and can be regarded as the finale hard dish.
Shaanxi Eight Bowls are eight kinds of steaming bowls, the earliest originated from rural banquets, with people's love for steaming bowls, gradually every New Year's Festival has become a must-do signature dish for every household. In the eight bowls, meat dishes account for 7, only one vegetarian dish, and not vegetables, let's see what these 8 dishes are?
1. Small crispy meat
Small crispy meat is a very common home cooking, mainly common with Shaanxi, Henan, Yunnan, Sichuan, Shandong and other places, small crispy meat to eat crispy outside and tender inside, rich five-spice flavor, people can't stop, the key is not greasy. However, if you want to do a good job, you still need a certain skill.
Small crispy meat is very important when choosing meat, try to choose fat and lean front leg meat, the meat here is more tender, and less fat, eat not greasy, many people like lean meat, but the taste of lean meat is more dry and woody, the taste is not good.
2. Yellow braised chicken
The yellow stewed chicken is characterized by its crisp and delicious flavor, strong flavor and bright yellow color. Most of the method of yellow stewed chicken is braised, but the steamed yellow stewed chicken has a different taste, and it can be melted off in the mouth, which is particularly tender. The most critical step is to marinate the starch, and then through steaming, the starch is steamed out.
Third, bring the elbow
Elbow is the favorite of the old Shaanxi people, until now, no matter what kind of banquet, this dish is a must, but also a veritable finale dish, in Shaanxi cuisine, with a handle elbow is a veritable first dish. Compared with other elbows, its color is more red and shiny, the flesh is fat but not greasy, and it is soft, crisp, rotten, and easier to clamp up, even if the elderly with bad teeth can easily chew.
4. Strips of meat
Strip meat is a delicacy that men and women of all ages like, even if many people usually do not like to eat meat, but after seeing the strip meat, they inexplicably want to clip a piece, especially with hot lotus leaf cake, the taste is really too satisfied. The strip meat looks fatter, but it is not greasy at all, and when it is gently pressed with the tongue in the mouth, the meat melts in the mouth, and the aroma immediately fills the mouth, and the aftertaste is endless.
Five, four hi pills
Sixi balls are a traditional dish consisting of four meatballs of good color, aroma and taste, which are a celebration of the four great joys of life, lu, shou and joy. It is often used as the finale dish in wedding feasts, birthday feasts and other banquets to take its auspicious meaning. Sixi balls should be delicious, the meat should choose seven points thin, three points fat, the meat filling should be manually chopped, the fine knife is coarsely chopped, the size is like a grain of rice, not too thick nor too fine, so that the gap between the meat can be retained, so that the gravy can be wrapped and the wood is not dry to eat.
6. Tamales
Tamales belong to a variety of cuisines, the earliest in the "Suiyuan Menu" is a Jiangxi dish, tamales are characterized by fat and lean, sticky and fragrant, rice flour oily, fragrant but not greasy. Depending on the cooking method, it can be spicy or sweet, and the method is more varied.
7. Plum vegetables buckle meat
In fact, the plum button meat and the strip meat are basically the same, the strip meat will usually be placed under some dried cowpeas, and the plum button meat is cushioned with dried plum vegetables. Since plum button meat is a Hakka dish, it will have a slight sweetness on the palate, while the strip meat has a prominent five-spice flavor.
8. Sweet rice
Sweet rice can also be called eight treasure rice, glutinous rice, Shaanxi people make sweet rice, usually using river rice to make, it is a kind of glutinous rice, the shape is a long strip, the glutinous rice soaked to absorb enough water, and then add lard mixed, add green and red silk, raisins, red dates, preserved fruits and the like on the pot steaming treatment, out of the pot drizzled with a little starch water. The color looks shiny and oily, and the entrance is soft and sticky and sweet.
Shaanxi cuisine has a long history, the essence of the cuisine from all over the world, involving a very wide range, court cuisine, local cuisine, official cuisine, temple cuisine, etc., it is precisely because of this, Shaanxi cuisine can not be unique, lost its own characteristics, so over time, Shaanxi cuisine is gradually ignored.
Eight bowls are the most representative of Shaanxi cuisine, in fact, not only shaanxi has eight bowls, there are eight bowls all over the country, do not know that your hometown has eight bowls? What they are, welcome to leave a message in the comments section.
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