Naan is a special food of ethnic minorities in China ().

Naan is a traditional diet of ethnic minorities in northwest China.

Naan is mainly eaten by Uygur, Kazak, Kirgiz, Tajik, Uzbek and other ethnic minorities. Among them, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is the most concentrated, which is a special food in the food culture of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Naan is generally round, also known as Naan cake and baked Naan, which is a staple food of cakes for the Uighurs in Xinjiang. It is about the same size as the dead noodles (yeast-free) single cake in Shandong, but it is thicker. The taste is also very different from Shandong single cake. Naan is made of dough and baked, which tastes more crisp. The moisture content after baking is extremely low. In Xinjiang, where there is little rain in China, naan can be stored for a long time without deterioration.

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Naan has a long history in Xinjiang and its skin is golden yellow. It was called "Hu Bing" and "Luobing" in ancient times. Naan is mainly made of flour, mostly fermented noodles, but with a little salt instead of alkali. Most naan are round, and the largest naan is called "Aimanke" naan, which is thin in the middle, slightly thicker at the edge, and has many patterns in the center, with a diameter of 40-50 cm. This kind of glutinous rice is 1-2 kg flour, and is called the king of glutinous rice.

The smallest naan is as big as the mouth of a normal teacup, called "Tokas" naan, and its thickness is about 1 cm. It is the finest naan, and there is another naan with a diameter of about 10 cm, a thickness of about 5-6 cm and a hole in the middle. There are many kinds of naan, and the raw materials used are also rich.

Nanzhong

There are more than 50 kinds of naan, and the common ones are meat naan, oil naan, milk naan, Gedan naan, sesame naan, tooth naan, corn naan and buckwheat naan.

Brief introduction of Uygur nationality

Uighurs mainly live in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, mainly distributed in the southern foot of Tianshan Mountain. The oases around Tarim Basin are the centers where Uighurs live together, especially Kashgar Oasis, Hotan Oasis, Aksu River and Tarim River Basin. Turpan basin at the eastern end of Tianshan Mountain is also a relatively concentrated area of Uighurs.

A few Uighurs settled in the Ili Valley, Jimsar and Qitai areas north of Tianshan Mountain. In addition, there are a few Uighurs in Taoyuan County, Hunan Province and Mianchi County, Henan Province. Uighurs (Uighurs:? Uyghur), whose national language is Uyghur, belongs to Turkic language family of Altai language family, and is divided into three dialects: Central Language, Hotan Language and Apocynum venetum.