The Tujia Special Snack —— Middle Road Bean Skin

Bean skin, which is more favorable for group purchase, is a traditional food circulating in Tujia area and one of the most distinctive traditional snacks in Enshi area. Zhonglu Town, Lichuan City is the hometown of Tusi with a history of 400 years, with profound cultural background. The production of mung bean skin has a long history and is also the most famous, so it is called Zhonglu bean skin. The middle bean skin is divided into rice bean skin and mung bean skin, of which rice bean skin is the most popular.

The main raw materials for making Sino-Shandong bean skin are rice and potato (potato) starch. The bean skin made of appropriate amount of mung beans is called mung bean skin, which is smoother in taste and richer in nutrition.

The method of making middle bean skin is very simple. First, the soaked rice is ground into paste by a stone mill (machine), and potato powder (potato powder) is added in a certain proportion and stirred evenly. The rice slurry is spread into thin skin in a hot pot, cooled and cut into pieces for eating. Some people directly use funnel-shaped objects to rotate rice paste into strips in hot pot.

There are two ways to eat middle bean skin. One is to cook it. Put it in boiling water and cook it slightly. Add seasoning and SAO Zi to make it spicy, refreshing, delicate and long. Then stir fry, fried bean skin made of shredded pork, kimchi and other raw materials, soft and moist, unique flavor.

Now bean skin has changed from manual workshop to mechanized mass production, and Hubei Jiutouniao Biotechnology Co., Ltd. is developing how to keep it fresh. Let homesick wanderers buy the taste of their hometown anytime and anywhere! However, among the people in China and Shandong, there are still many people who use traditional indigenous methods to make bean skin. The bean skin they produce has a long fragrance and unique flavor, which is deeply loved by the people.

Peng Fengying, female, with junior high school education, lives in Group 4, Hujiatang Village, Zhonglu Town. Her father is famous for making bean skin. At present, she makes a living by opening a manual workshop of bean skin in Zhonglu.