The four most famous dishes in Shaanxi, all classic! Netizen: Shaanxi cuisine is unique

Shaanxi, located in the inland northwest of my country, is a charming city with local characteristics.

The ancients often said that the land and water nourish the people. It is precisely because of Shaanxi’s unique geographical location, scenery, people, and unique ethnic characteristics that the eclectic Shaanxi cuisine has been born.

Everyone says that Shaanxi’s scenery is picturesque, but they don’t know that Shaanxi’s food is “hard to give up.” The following four Shaanxi dishes are all authentic Shaanxi dishes that friends who come to Shaanxi must not miss.

First course: Gourd Chicken

Ingredients: Clean and tender hen, green onions, ginger

Seasonings: salt, pepper, chicken essence, soy sauce, cooking wine, cinnamon , grass fruit, star anise.

1. Kill the chicken, remove its feathers, take out the internal organs, wash them, soak them in water for about 20 minutes, and then cut off the chicken feet.

2. Put the chicken under cold water in the pot, bring it to a boil and simmer over low heat for half an hour. Add about one liter of chicken broth into a container, and add soy sauce, salt, cooking wine, green onions, ginger, cinnamon and other seasonings. , turn on high heat and steam for about 1 hour and take it out.

3. Remove the ginger, green onions, and star anise from the chicken, drain the water, and cut it along the backbone of the chicken. Add rapeseed oil to the pot, add the oil to the pot, stir-fry and remove.

4. Place the chicken breast part upward in the shape of a gourd, and put it into a grilling plate.

The second course: grilled three delicacies

Ingredients: steamed squid, steamed sea cucumber, magnolia slices, ginger, onion, garlic

Seasonings: rice wine, aged rice Smoke, chicken essence, Sichuan peppercorns, salt.

1. First, cut the squid into cross-shaped knives with a knife, cut the sea cucumber into sections, cut the magnolia slices into small pieces and soak them in water for 15 minutes, cut the green onions into sections, cut the garlic into minced garlic, and cut the ginger into minced garlic. end.

2. Heat oil in a pot, add chopped green onion, minced ginger and minced garlic and stir-fry until fragrant, then add squid, sea cucumber and magnolia slices, stir-fry evenly, then add salt , add chicken broth, and then add the starch prepared previously to thicken the soup.

3. Cover the pot and cook for 3 minutes, then turn off the heat and put it on a plate. A fragrant roasted three delicacies is ready.

The third course: Shaanxi steamed pot

Ingredients: whole chicken, pig trotters, eggs, minced pork, lotus root, carrots, green bamboo shoots, yams

Seasonings: Angelica dahurica, Zanthoxylum bungeanum, dried chili pepper, cooking wine, grass fruit, cinnamon, onion, ginger, garlic.

1. Cut the ginger and green onions into fine pieces and place them on top of the pork filling. Add pepper powder, soy sauce, salt, chicken essence and other seasonings according to personal taste, and stir evenly. Crack three eggs into a bowl and add 2 tablespoons of starch, mix well and set aside.

2. Put a small amount of vegetable oil in the pot, add a spoonful of egg liquid to the oil pan, and spread the meat filling on top of the egg liquid, then pick up half of the egg skin and wrap the other side, covering the meat filling Just press it with a shovel. Repeat the above steps until all the egg liquid is made into egg dumplings.

3. Put the chicken into a large container and add green onions and ginger. Stuff some ginger and green onions into the belly of the chicken, add 4 spoons of cooking wine and marinate for 20 minutes.

4. Boil the cut pig's trotters in a pot of cold water. Pack the spices with gauze and enlarge the bottom of the pot. Place the chicken in the middle, place the pig's trotters around the chicken, and then add an appropriate amount of salt and Boil the water over high heat for 2 hours. Cut the vegetables and put them in a basin. Put the egg dumplings in the basin and steam them for half an hour.

5. After cooking, take out the pot and you will have a delicious Shaanxi steamed pot.

Course 4: Stuffed Nostoc

Ingredients: Nostoc, chicken breast, eggs, bamboo shoots, spinach, green onions

Seasonings: salt, cornstarch , cooking wine, chicken essence, chicken juice, sesame oil.

1. Prepare 2 eggs. When beating the eggs, be sure to separate the yolks and whites. Place them in two bowls. Add an appropriate amount of water to the bowl with the egg yolks, add water starch and mix well. . Add water to the pot and bring to a boil, put it in a steamer and steam for about 8 minutes. After steaming, take it out and let it cool, then cut it into long strips and put it in a bowl for later use.

2. Cut the washed spring bamboo shoots into thin slices, cut the spinach into small pieces and put them into a bowl. Then spread 3 egg skins in the pot, put the chicken minced nostrils, and put them in the middle. Add the egg yolk strips and roll them up, continue to steam for 15 minutes, take them out, then cut them into thick pieces and put them into a soup bowl.

3. Add clear soup to the pot, then add the spinach and spring bamboo shoots cut before, add seasonings, add a few drops of sesame oil, pour it into the soup bowl and you're done.

The four dishes mentioned above are all relatively famous Shaanxi classic dishes. If you come to Shaanxi, you must try these classic dishes to make your trip worthwhile. Welcome everyone to leave a message in the comment area and tell us what classic local specialties are available in your hometown?