What are the characteristics of Hunan cuisine

1, cooking techniques

Xiang cuisine is a fine production, with a wide range of materials, flavors, varieties; color and lustre on the oil heavy color, affordable; taste focus on spicy, fresh, soft and tender; method of simmering, stewing, wax, steaming, stir-frying method known.

2, Hunan cuisine flavored with spicy and sour

Because of the geographical location of the relationship, Hunan's climate is mild and humid, so people like to eat chili peppers, used to lift the spirit of dampness. Sour pickles as a seasoning, accompanied by chili pepper cooked dishes, appetizing and refreshing, favored, and become a unique local dietary practices. At the same time, stir-frying is also a Hunan people cooking skill.

3, rice

The theme of Hunan cuisine is rice, in fact, many Hunan people are also afraid of spicy, and to eat the kind of very spicy, by spicy and produce more rice results, so Hunan cuisine is the main role is to produce rice, such as Grandma's dishes are very rice dishes.

Expanded Information:

Xiang Cuisine, or Hunan Cuisine, is also known as the Honmai Cuisine in Changsha. One of the eight major Chinese cuisines with a long history, the cuisine was formed as early as the Han Dynasty. It is dominated by three local flavors from the Xiangjiang River Basin, the Dongting Lake area and the mountainous regions of western Hunan.

Xiang cuisine is a fine production, with a wide range of materials, flavors and varieties; color and lustre of oil and thick, affordable; taste focus on spicy, fresh, soft and tender; method of simmering, stewing, waxing, steaming, stir-frying method is known.

The representative dishes of governmental Hunan cuisine are represented by group-an Xiangcai, such as group-an tofu, group-an shark's fin, etc.; the representative dishes of folk Hunan cuisine are chopped fish head with chili, chili pepper stir-fry, Xiangxi Grandma's dishes, Jishou sour meat, beef noodle, Chenzhou fish noodle, Dong'an chicken, goldfish playing lotus, Yongzhou blood duck, Jiuyi mountain rabbit, Ningyuan stuffed bean curd, preserved meat and steamed, sister dumplings, Ningxiang flavored snake, and Yueyang Dumpling, which is the most popular dish in China. The company also offers a wide range of other products, such as Ningxiang Flavor Snake, Yueyang Ginger Spice Snake, and so on.

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