What is the specialty of Jinghai County?

Jinghai county is a county with a long history. The special culture and terrain have created the unique products and special snacks in Jinghai County. There are many specialties and snacks in Jinghai County, such as golden jujube, Liu Du vinegar, green horseleaf Chinese cabbage, Taitou watermelon, crispy fried rolls, Cao Ji donkey meat, fried grasshoppers, roasted seeds and nuts in Wangkou and so on.

The following is a general introduction of these special snacks;

Jinghaijin Xiao Si Zao

Jinghai County, Tianjin, as the hometown of China golden jujube, has been planted for more than 600 years. Jinghai golden silk jujube is sweet, juicy, bright in appearance, bright red in color, thin and fleshy, and the mature pulp is often connected with golden silk after being torn open.

Liu Du vinegar

The unique mature vinegar in Jinghai is one of the three famous traditional vinegars, and it was once a royal tribute during the reign of Kangxi. Liu Du mature vinegar uses traditional formula to ferment high-quality red sorghum, millet, rice, peas and wheat. In a special way. After ripening, it is naturally turned over for three years. Therefore, the aged vinegar brewed by the traditional technology is red in color, rich in taste and layered, without natural addition, without side effects on the body, rich in vitamins and trace elements, and can be preserved for a long time.

Chinese cabbage with green hemp leaves

The quality of Chinese cabbage planted in Jinghai County is excellent. Not only the leaves are tender, the noodles are thin, the fiber in the leaves is less, the taste is refreshing and delicious, but also the nutrition is rich, and there are more vitamins, carotene, protein and minerals. Chinese cabbage with green hemp leaves tastes excellent and can be eaten in a variety of ways, such as stir-frying, cold salad, pickling and soup making.

Head-up watermelon

Taitou Town, Jinghai County, Tianjin has had the reputation of "Land of Fish and Rice" since ancient times, especially the watermelon is favored by consumers in Beijing and Tianjin. Taitou watermelon has a history of thousands of years. The clear and sweet Daqing River, fertile black soil and high-quality climatic conditions have cultivated high-quality, green and pollution-free Taitou watermelon. Thin and crisp skin, sweet and refreshing taste.

Fried vegetable rolls

Bean skin is used as the skin, mung bean, dried bean curd, vermicelli and coriander are mixed with sesame sauce, fermented bean curd, sesame oil and Jiang Mo to make stuffing, then the stuffing is rolled on the skin, cut into sections, and the batter at both ends is fried in an oil pan. Stir-fried rolls are golden in color, crisp outside and tender inside, light and palatable, which is a unique flavor snack in Tianjin.

Caoji donkey meat

Named after the founder surnamed Cao, it has a history of more than 200 years. It uses fresh and high-quality donkey meat with a variety of spices and stews it in a pot for seven or eight hours. It is rich in protein, crisp and chewy, delicious and famous.

Wangkou roasted seeds and nuts

Tianjin Jinghai wang kou zhen is a base of roasted seeds and nuts, with a wide variety, mainly including black and white melon seeds, sunflower seeds, fried broad beans, various peanut products and dried fruits, such as opening pine, almond and hazelnut. Wholesale all kinds of raw materials.

Fried grasshopper

It's a snack in Jinghai. Locust, scientific name locust, is extremely harmful to crops. When the plague of locusts strikes, in an instant, the grasshoppers that cover the sky will eat up all the crops in the field. Once upon a time, the northern countryside suffered greatly from it, and Tianjin people hated it to the extent of "peeling its skin and eating its meat". Over time, locusts have not been eradicated, but have eaten a famous snack. It is a great pity to visit Jincheng without eating fried grasshoppers.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, grasshoppers eat newly cooked grain and get fatter and fatter, which is the most delicious time for grasshoppers. Too early, the grasshopper is not fat and has no children; It's too late, the grasshopper is old, and the thick skin is not delicious.

The specific production method of fried grasshoppers: pull out the wings of live grasshoppers and remove their thighs; When the oil pan is boiling, fry the grasshoppers until brown, and take out the oil. Prepare a clay pot in advance, put soy sauce, vinegar and sesame oil, and put some shredded onion and garlic in it. Soak the fried grasshopper in a casserole, fish it twice, and then take it out to dry. Add a little onion and shredded garlic to the noodles when you sell them. Fried grasshoppers, fat but not greasy, crispy and delicious. If it is sandwiched in a hot cake that has just been baked, it is really full of different flavors and tastes great. Therefore, Tianjinwei has a popular saying, "Pancakes are fried grasshoppers-go home and eat!"

Postscript: Among many special snacks, only fried grasshoppers are introduced in detail, because this snack has disappeared.

The plague of locusts is the enemy of agriculture. Through decades of scientific locust control, it has been basically controlled, and the possibility of locust plague is very slim. Without the plague of locusts, fried grasshoppers cut off the source of raw materials, and the hope of eating fried grasshoppers is slim. In order to taste the old flavor again, the old people who ate it when they were young sometimes take a small basket and catch dozens of grasshoppers in an open field to fry them. As an appetizer, it has a unique taste and humor.