How to fry and squeeze peppers?

Zhaguang pepper is a unique dish of Tujia nationality, especially in Yesanguan area of Badong. Most of them were made after the Millennium of the lunar calendar. The preparation method is as follows: clean the bright red pepper, chop it, mix it with proper amount of corn flour and salt, mix it with pepper and orange peel, put it in a pickle jar, cover it with vegetable leaves or banana leaves, then clamp it with bamboo pieces, then put it upside down in a stone basin (also can be a porcelain basin or a wooden basin), and fill it with water to isolate the air. With the film, the jar is usually covered with film paper, tied tightly, the basin is covered and rehydrated. You can eat it in a month, or stew it or steam it, and then fry it. The color is red and the taste is very sour and spicy, especially when fried with local bacon, it will be more refreshing and increase appetite.

nutritive value

Baked in a pot, fried or steamed with Tujia bacon as the base material, the finished product is reddish in color and has a very special sour and spicy taste. There is also the use of squeezed peppers as steamed meat, meat base and accessories. The steamed meat made in this way is not greasy, refreshing and easy to digest and absorb. Even use it and corn flour to make corn paste, called squeezed pepper paste, to stimulate appetite and increase appetite.

food culture

Tujia people in Enshi Prefecture especially like to eat hot and sour food. There is a folk proverb that "if you don't eat hot and sour for three days, your heart will scratch like a cat."

special

Fried wide pepper bacon

Stir-fry the bacon in a pot to get oil, and then stir-fry a proper amount of dry-squeezed wide peppers in a pot for about two or three minutes until the oil is completely immersed in the squeezed wide peppers.

Fried potato chips with fried peppers

Stir-fry (stir-fry) the squeezed peppers in advance for later use, add a little oil to the pot, add ginger and garlic to stir-fry, add a little salt and monosodium glutamate to taste, and add the squeezed peppers before taking out the pot.

Zhaguangjiao steamed meat

Steam the cut meat in a bowl, then take it out, put a layer of dry squeezed pepper on the meat, put it back in the steamer for about 5 minutes, take it out, put it in a bowl and pour it into a plate. Squeeze peppers and buckle meat.

Zhaguang Chili sauce

Make a soup first, you can add your favorite vegetables. When the soup is cooked, put the prepared squeezed peppers into the soup, stir them when they arrive, and cook for a few more minutes.