Henan people love to eat noodles and even more like steamed buns.
"A history of Henan, half of Chinese history", Henan is the "witness" of China's five thousand years of history, with a profound historical and cultural heritage. In the long history, agricultural production has always been the top priority of Henan.
"Central Plains Granary" Henan is the main production area of wheat, with high quality flour. Henan people love noodles, and they cannot do without various steamed buns. "But and Vegetable Soup" in the morning and evening is the memory of every Henan person's homesickness.
Henan people who love to eat buns have also eaten various buns and made new ideas. Take a look at the 10 popular buns in Henan to see if there are any of them you like to eat?
1, baked bun
baked bun looks like a pancake, but it is not a pancake. Moreover, the authentic Henan dialect pronunciation is "luǒ bun". Baking buns should be the childhood memory of many Henan people. When they got home from school, they happened to catch their mother making baking buns. After rolling the baking buns, they put them on a pure iron ball with slightly raised bulge in the middle and flat on all sides. When one side of the baking buns bulges with small bubbles, turn them over and turn them over. When the other side also bubbles, a baking bun is ready. I was so hungry that I didn’t even bother to wash my hands. I picked up a baked bun and even if I only applied sweet noodles sauce, I could eat it happily.
baked buns can be the breakfast, lunch or dinner for Henan people. Roll them with whatever they want. They can be said to be the "king of intrarolls" in the steamed bun industry. Baked buns, baked buns rolls tofu, baked buns rolls sprouts, stir-fried potato shreds , fried peppers and other home-cooked side dishes, baked buns can still be perfectly integrated with them and roll them out to create their own flavor.
2, vegetable buns
Henan people like to call cakes also breads, and the cakes with fillings are not called vegetable buns but vegetable buns. A large bun of buns is covered with filling, then a large bun is covered with a large bun and pinch it together, put it in a pan and bake it into a frying pan and become a favorite vegetable bun for Henan people. It is so satisfying to take a big bite while it is hot.
The filling of vegetable buns does not have any fixed combination. They can be shredded pumpkin with vermicelli, or egg with carrots. The filling depends on what ingredients are on hand. Of course, leek eggs or leek egg vermicelli filling is the most popular.
3, oil bun and oil cake
In Henan, a bowl of hot Hu La soup in the morning and paired with freshly cooked oil bun trunk is the most simple human spirit. Henan Hu La Soup is now a food business card in Henan. Everyone will know a little about it, but as a perfect match for Hu La Soup, not many people probably know about the oil buns.
Oil buns are actually a reduced version of traditional fried dough sticks, which are smaller and thinner. Because it is relatively small, it is directly used to pick up the Hu La soup with chopsticks, which will make it more delicious and more convenient to soak it.
In Henan, the golden partner of Hu La Soup can be oil buns or oil cakes. When mixing the noodles, add shallots and put them into the oil pan, and fry them until they are browned and crispy. After the pan comes out of the pot, the oil cake with oily aroma and green onion aroma will even make a "cracking" sound when cut with a knife, so it will be directly immersed in Hu La Soup, or a bite of oily cake with pickles, and then drink Hu La Soup. This is the happiness of Henan people.
4, pancake silk buns
As the saying goes, "If you don't drink Luoyang soup for three days, you won't treat it to a god." When you come to , Luoyang , you can truly see that people in Luoyang really like soup and water, and drinking soup has become a local culture.
Must beef soup be served with steamed buns. The well-known beef soup must be accompanied by thinly cut shredded cakes. Soak the shredded cakes in beef soup to fully absorb the soup, it is delicious and tasty, and enjoy the taste of Luoyang. If you drink mutton soup, you must match it with golden, crispy oil champagne , which makes people praise it for being "really popular".
In Luoyang's soup and bun combination, some buns even become the mainstay, becoming the ingredients in Luoyang's famous soup. Luoyang No Soup is the protagonist.Pour mung bean batter on pancakes and spread it flat like pancakes, bake it into mung bean pancakes, and rinse it with shrimp skin, tofu skin, etc. with broth, so it is so spicy and sour. Because mung bean pancakes do not need to be turned over when baking, it is also called not turn over soup .
5, Guokui Mo
, you have to drink soup in the morning in Luoyang, and when you come to , you have to drink soup in Kaifeng , of course, you have to drink soup.
Kaifeng, the soup + steamed bun food set is a golden combination, among which Guokui is a good partner for various soups in Kaifeng. At first glance, it looks a bit like baked naan . It is large and thick. When eaten, cut into small slices and soaked in the soup and will not dissipate. After eating, a bite of wheat has a strong aroma and a crispy aroma. There are many types of Guokui. Usually, the salty Guokui is sticking with sesame on the front, and the sweet Guokui is the pattern on the front. (Kaifeng people are used to calling foods without salt and seasoning sweet, while those with salt and seasoning are called salty)
Of course, when you come to Kaifeng, you should also try One of the most popular contestants in Kaifeng Night Market - mutton kang buns. The mutton cooked with mutton oil on the tummy roll, there is a hint of barbecue flavor in the fresh fragrance, it is really enjoyable to eat while it is hot.
6, Niutun Fire
In Henan, there is a kind of steamed bun called Niutun Fire tilled, with a long history and more than 300 years ago. Niutun Huoba It looks like a sesame cake and is not only larger than a sesame cake, but also has meat filling, which tastes crispier than a meat box. Huoba is slightly convex in the middle, with clear layers. It tastes crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, fragrant but not greasy. I have to say that this Niutun Huoba shiki looks like a lot of water, not to mention how fragrant it is when you take a bite.
7, compressed bun
When most buns pursue the characteristics of softness, the compression mold chose the opposite and chose to be firm. The "980,000 Internet celebrity bun selling stalls" that once became popular on the Internet sell these compressed buns. It is a snack in Huaiyang County, Zhoukou City, Henan Province. It is the peak season for selling this compressed mold at the second to third lunar month.
This compressed bun is dry and chewy, crispy inside and crisp on the outside, making it easy to carry and store. After worshiping the ancestor Fuxi, people usually buy large and small packs of compressed buns, whether they go home to send their relatives and friends, or they are good.
8, earth bun
In a small town called Jiyuan, Henan, in addition to the Wangwushan in "Yugong Moves Mountain", there are also many delicious foods hidden, such as eggs without turning on , beef balls, etc., of course, there is also a local feature - earth bun.
earth buns are not made of soil, but are rolled into dough with seasonings, eggs and sesame ingredients, cut into small pieces and put into a pot containing white dough soil to bake. The earth buns are as color as earth, with a slight "earth" flavor in the mouth at first, but after chewing, the earthy flavor slowly disappears and gradually turns into a mixture of pasta and sesame. With the effect of eggs and seasonings, it tastes crispy and the more you chew it, the more fragrant it becomes.
9, oil-shrimp bun
oil-shrimp bun is also called oil-shrimp burnt , which is a traditional snack in Xinyang Xi County, and it has been more than 400 years since then. Its color is golden and crispy layer by layer, and it tastes crispy and delicious on the outside, which is very attractive. Later, in order to adapt to the diet of modern people, eggs were poured on the original basis and sausages were added. Now, egg-filled cakes can be seen everywhere on Henan Street. It can be said to be the luxurious version of Xixian .
Xinyang buns are "all kinds of strange". In addition to Xixian's oil-sauce buns, there are also buns that are very distinctive in terms of name, appearance and production methods, such as spoon buns made of special tools iron spoons, and large and round pots and kang buns that use floor pots and "kang" and so on, which are dazzling.
10, steamed buns
steamed buns should be the simplest buns in Henan buns. The hot steamed buns that have just been out of the pot are soft and rosin. When they reach the tip of their nose, they smell a faint wheat fragrance. At this time, a pack of spicy strips is added, accompanied by the sweetness of flour, which is really fragrant.Although steamed buns are the simplest buns, don’t underestimate them. They can also make flowers according to the different materials and seasons. For example, the flower buns that need to be steamed during the Chinese New Year, jujube buns , etc. are also among the steamed buns. Or add white sugar or brown sugar to the flour, and after steaming, the top of the bun cracks, like a flower.
——Lao Jing said—
bite the mouth of oily braised bun , stone bun baked in the stone, crispy burnt bun , Lingbao bun, etc. If you really want to count the types of Henan buns, it is really not easy to find out, but there is no doubt that Henan people eat steamed buns very hard, and eat steamed buns very seriously.
may be a simple, pure, casual but delicious food like steamed bun, which is the real microcosm of Henan people.
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