Xinjiang Fruit Monthly Calendar
According to the season, xinjiang fruits are lined up in summer and autumn,
There are many different varieties of the same fruit, which is dizzying.
How many kinds of apricots have you eaten?
There are also hundreds of varieties of grapes with similar appearances.
The nuances of each flavor are probably only discernible to experts.
Open the Xinjiang fruit calendar,
Let's walk into the "Land of Melons and Fruits" together!
Kyoko June
In Xinjiang in June, it is the season to eat apricots! Apricots grown in greenhouses are almost always on the market at the end of April, and June is the time when a large number of naturally grown apricots are on the market. It is said that the history of apricot cultivation in Xinjiang has exceeded 2000 years, and its area and output rank first in the country.
With the listing of different varieties of apricots in northern and southern Xinjiang, the time for Xinjiang people to eat apricots will last until August, along with other ripe watermelons, grapes, etc. in the same period, and all kinds of fruit aromas are intertwined, as if the taste of the air is sweet!
There are hundreds of kinds of apricots in Xinjiang, the more famous ones are small white apricots, Semati apricots, Juana apricots, black leaf apricots, and dried apricots on trees. Xinjiang apricots are listed in June and July, and many fruit stalls have three or four kinds of apricots for sale, which can be sold until August or even early September.
From a geographical point of view, the Turpan pear light apricot, Kucha small white apricot, Yingji Sha semat apricot, dried apricot on the Ili tree and so on are more famous varieties. Kucha is known as "China's apricot town", and there are as many as 20 or 30 varieties of apricots, of which the small white apricot is the crown of apricots.
Xinjiang apricots are as large as eggs and as small as lychees. The largest of the apricots produced in Turpan and southern Xinjiang is as large as an egg, and an apricot weighs seventy or eighty grams. Although the apricot looks beautiful, it is not too sweet to eat. There are more pear apricots, the skin is smooth, the color is golden after maturity, and the sunny skin has a red halo, while the hairy apricot is a very rare variety.
Among the many varieties of apricots in Xinjiang, the small white apricot is the smallest, one apricot is only one or two dozen grams, and the smallest is only the size of broad beans. Don't look at the small white apricot, the color is not bright red, but it is very sweet and soft to eat.
When the apricots are on the market, the streets and alleys of Urumqi can be seen everywhere with vendors pushing truckloads of apricots to sell. First the small white apricots are listed, followed by peach apricots, yellow apricots, and pear light apricots. Only to see the small white apricot white through yellow, peach apricot yellow with red, pear light apricot golden, a big taste.
To talk about apricots in Xinjiang, Kucha small white apricots are characterized by thin skin and thick flesh, less fiber, delicate flesh and particularly sweet. Many people in Xinjiang believe that Kucha small white apricots can be compared with the seedless white grapes of Turpan.
Pear light apricot is characterized by a large thick flesh, sweet with a slight sour taste, compared with the small white apricot, it is another taste, but also many people's favorite. There is also a kind of apricot called peach apricot, yellow through red, thick and juicy meat, fragrant and sweet, but also particularly delicious.
The medicinal value of apricots in Xinjiang is extremely high, and the southern Xinjiang region of Xinjiang is a famous longevity town, which probably has a lot to do with the people there who like to eat apricots!
Speaking of apricots, Xinjiang can be described as one of the centers of origin, with ancient wild apricot forests (ordinary apricots) preserved at the end of the Tertiary Period of the geological age, spread throughout the mountains of the western Tianshan Mountains. Although Ili has the "ancestors" of apricot trees, the scale of the apricot fruit forest here is not large, and most of the apricots produced are not sold as fresh fruits, but are sold as dried apricots. What is more peculiar is that the apricots here will not fall off even if they are not picked after ripening, and still hang on the tree, so people also call the dried wild apricots in Ili "dried apricots on the tree" or "hanging dry".
The "dried apricots on the tree" produced in Ili Guozigou are well-known and very popular in the country because they are in a pollution-free wild growth environment.
Unlock new ways to eat apricots
Fresh apricots, in addition to direct fresh food, there are also a variety of ways to eat apricots on the Internet, and the sharing jun has sorted out several ways to eat, so hurry up and learn it!
Apricot wine
Homemade apricot wine has a charming aroma, which has the effect of moisturizing the lungs, relieving cough, clearing heat and detoxification.
【Directions】
(1) Wash and control the dried apricots, and prepare sake (or 20 degrees of liquor);
(2) Wash the container with salt water and dry, first fill the apricots until they are eight points full, then pour the wine, seal it and put it in a cool place;
(3) Wait patiently for a few months to drink, like sweet can also add some rock sugar.
Apricot sauce
Apricots are easy to catch fire raw, so making apricots into apricot sauce is also a very popular way to eat, which is both easy to store and solves the problem of fire.
(1) Take an appropriate amount of fresh apricot pulp;
(2) Put the pulp in a pot and mash it while boiling;
(3) Sprinkle with sugar and stir evenly;
(4) Refrigerate after cooling.
Honey apricots
Apricot honey afternoon tea fruit plate, not only taste sweet and sour, but also has a certain beauty and beauty effect, is a delicious taste that must not be missed.
(1) Wash the apricots, peel them and cut them well;
(2) Add honey;
(3) After one hour, it can be eaten.
Hot June, it is a good time to eat apricots, Xinjiang's apricots are full of flavor, sweet and sour, it is better to buy two pounds, follow the pattern shared by the sharing of the king to eat apricots, try it yourself?
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