Xiangtan county gourmet

The delicacies in Xiangtan County include fish head with chopped pepper, melon seeds and tofu, white pepper fried bacon, lobster sauce pepper, Tianma fish head soup and brain rolls.

1, Fish Head with Chopped Pepper: It is a special food in Xiangtan, Hunan Province, with bright red color, delicious taste and tender meat. It is cooked with high-quality bighead carp and secret hot sauce.

2. Selected Tofu: It is made from a kind of wild fruit called Selected Tofu. This is a special snack in Xiangtan, Hunan. In autumn, the seeds are picked when they are ripe, ground into powder with water, dried and stored for production all year round. Selecting seeds can not only make tofu, but also make dough and noodles. This kind of bean curd is chestnut shell color, tough and smooth, cool at the entrance, and winter bamboo shoots are best cooked.

3. Fried bacon with white pepper: it is a traditional dish in Xiangtan. Hunan has long been an export destination for sacrificial pigs. The famous ones are Ningxiang Liushahe Pig, Changsha Dawei Pig, Xiangtan Shaziling Pig and xiangxi black pig. They are tender in meat, delicious in taste, high in lean meat rate and consistent in size, so they are favored. We use this advantage to process bacon in the traditional way of Xiangtan farmers.

4, lobster sauce pepper: pepper first squashed and cut in half with a knife, garlic diced. Put a little more oil in the hot pot, stir-fry lobster sauce and pepper, and constantly turn over the salt. Stir-fried peppers with more salt, the taste must not be weak, otherwise it will feel so spicy that the peppers will soften. Add garlic, stir-fry while adding water, afraid of drying. Put soy sauce monosodium glutamate before taking off the pot and put it on the plate.

5. Tianma Fish Head Soup: Tianma Fish Head Soup is a special food in Xiangxi, Hunan. Gastrodia elata gum is heavy, sweet and bitter, and has the effects of invigorating qi, relieving convulsion, relieving pain, nourishing liver, expelling wind and removing dampness, and strengthening bones and muscles.

6. Brain rolls: Among local traditional snacks, there are spring rolls, egg rolls and vegetable rolls. And a kind of local snacks in Xiangtan, Hunan Province has a special name-Naoxuan. In fact, brain pulp rolls are not made of animal brains, but are peeled from pork, twisted into paste, and then frozen into drums. Its raw material looks like brain pulp, hence the name brain pulp roll. Brain roll is a famous flavor snack in Xiangtan with a long history.