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Yangzhou special cuisine

Yangzhou specialties include lion head, boiled shredded pork, three-piece duck, Yangzhou pickles and Yangzhou fried rice.

1, lion head

There is a famous dish in Huaiyang cuisine, which is Yangzhou Lion Head. The soup is very oily, the lion's head is very tasty, and the meat is tender but not hard, slightly sweet. You must use pork belly to make Yangzhou lion head, because the proportion of pork belly is necessary to make Yangzhou lion head. Chop pork belly into minced meat with a knife. Yangzhou lion's head is a famous dish on the list, which is to eat the delicious food in the meat bowl.

Step 2 cook dried silk

Boiled dried silk, also called boiled dried silk in chicken sauce, is a traditional famous dish and belongs to Huaiyang cuisine. Boiled dried silk is a refreshing and nutritious delicacy, and its delicious flavor has been promoted as a delicacy in Huaiyang cuisine. The raw material is mainly Huaiyang square dried bean curd, and the requirements of knife work are extremely fine. After cooking, the fresh flavor of various condiments is compounded into dried bean curd, which is refreshing and appetizing, extremely rare and delicious, and never tires of eating.

3. Three sets of ducks

Three sets of ducks are a traditional dish in Yangzhou. Now it is specially cultivated in Yangzhou and Gaoyou. Because Gaoyou has the widest range and the most advanced technology, it is also called Gaoyou Ma Duck, which is one of the three famous ducks in China. Gaoyou belonged to Yangzhou in ancient times, and now it is a county-level city in Yangzhou. This kind of duck is very fat and is a high-quality raw material for making duck dishes such as "Nanjing salted duck" and "salted duck".

4. Yangzhou pickles

The most famous pickles in Yangzhou are Yangzhou Sanhe Sisei pickles. "Sanhe" means that the producers hope that entrepreneurs can unite and cooperate like matsutake, plum and cold friends; "Four beauties" refer to the four great pleasures in life, namely, good times, beautiful scenery, feasting and pleasure. Yangzhou pickles are beautiful in appearance, bright in color, rich in sauce flavor, sweet, crisp and delicious, and there are dozens of varieties such as cucumber, radish head, tender ginger and mixed rice.

5. Yangzhou fried rice

Yangzhou fried rice, also known as Yangzhou fried rice with eggs, is said to have originated from the fried rice with eggs, which was loved by Su Yang, King of Yue in Sui Dynasty. When Yang Di visited Jiangdu (now Yangzhou), fried rice with eggs was introduced to Yangzhou. Through the gradual innovation of cooking masters of past dynasties, Huaiyang cuisine with the characteristics of "strict selection of materials, fine production, exquisite processing, attention to color matching and original flavor" has finally developed into one of the famous staple foods with Huaiyang flavor.