Gushi County Food Guide Gushi County Specialty Food

1. Specialties and delicacies of Gushi County

1. Jiangji radish

Jiangji radish is one of the specialties of Xinyang, Henan. The main feature of Jiangji radish is its juicy and sweet taste. Its fleshy roots can be eaten raw and cooked, dried, pickled and salted, and especially eaten raw. It is also a good material for restaurant food carvings. It is rich in nutrients and contains a variety of vitamins, especially vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other inorganic salts, as well as a variety of amino acids. It has the effects of regulating qi, strengthening the stomach, and digesting food. Very popular, especially in winter.

2. Xinyang Chestnut

Xinyang Chestnut is one of the specialties of Xinyang, Henan. Xinyang chestnut has a very long history. It has the characteristics of large size, tender meat, thin skin, sweet taste, bright color, full particles, and easy peeling of seed coat. Its pulp is very popular due to its high sugar content, good quality, sweet and delicious taste, and is suitable for making candied chestnuts. In addition to fried foods, chestnuts can also be eaten raw, baked or ground into chestnut powder to be made into various pastries, and can also be used as cooking ingredients.

Third, Pingqiao Ginkgo

Pingqiao Ginkgo is one of the specialties of Henan Province. Ginkgo is a rare tree species in the world and is called a living fossil of plants. Its stem is tall and beautiful, its leaves are like an open folding fan, its tree is green in spring and golden in autumn, its fruit is like apricot, and its shell is as white as silver, so it is also called ginkgo. The fruit is sweet, delicious and fragrant, and contains a variety of beneficial ingredients needed by the human body, as well as ginkgo alcohol and gingkolic acid which have bactericidal effects. It is an advanced nutritional supplement with high medicinal value. It has the effects of astringing the lungs and resolving phlegm, relieving cough and asthma, and promoting menstruation and diuresis.

Fourth, Gushi Chaling Mausoleum

Gushi water chestnut is one of the specialties of Henan Province. Gushi water chestnut is an aquatic fruit plant, the same as water chestnut. Its stems and leaves float on the water. It has small white flowers and leaves in summer, and long, rod-shaped fruits that mature in autumn. It grows wild in the east of Gushi. When they mature in autumn, even the seedlings are picked, dried in the sun, the fruits are smashed, and the shells are ground off.

:2. Specialties of Gushi County

1. Gushi chicken

Gushi chicken is an excellent local chicken breed in my country, mainly produced in Henan Province Gushi County, commonly known as Gushihuang. It is famous both at home and abroad for its beautiful appearance, tender meat, fresh soup, unique flavor and rich nutrition.

2. Gushiyun

Qingfeng Yunwu tea is produced on the northwest slope of Qingfengling at an altitude of more than 900 meters in the deep mountainous area south of Duanji Township, Gushi County. With overlapping mountains, fertile soil, suitable lighting, moist air, and year-round clouds and mist, it is a unique pollution-free ecological tea production base, hence the place name Qingfeng, also known as Qingfengyun.

3. Gushi radish

Gushi radish was a tribute during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is cylindrical in shape, with green heads accounting for more than 2/3. It is crisp and tender in the mouth and crispy when eaten raw without residue.

4. Gushi soft-shell turtle

Gushi soft-shell turtle is a local characteristic species of this county. In recent years, the county has steadily improved product quality through companies + cooperatives + farmers.

5. Gushi Huanggu Camellia

Gushi Huanggu Camellia oleifera is a specialty of Gushi County, Henan Province. Gushihuanggu camellia is round and tall, with green soup color, sweet aftertaste and rich aroma.

6. Facing the sky and green snow

Tian Yangqing is a specialty of Gushi County, Xinyang City, Henan Province. Tianyang green tea is produced at Yang Tianwa Tea Farm in Gushi County, Henan Province. Features: Flat cords, beautiful and bright, green color, fragrant, noble and fresh, bright green soup, fresh and mellow taste, tender and smooth bottom leaves.

7. Gushi wickerwork

The handicrafts made of wicker, cattail and rattan are white in color and unique in shape. They mainly include fruit baskets, flower baskets, hanging baskets, door curtains, screens, etc. .

8. Gushi eggs

Gushi eggs are a specialty of Gushi County, Xinyang City, Henan Province. Gushi Bendan has occupied the national market with its high quality, delicious taste, nutrition and nourishment, and has obtained national green food certification and origin mark certification.

9. Gushi White Goose

Gushi White Goose breed description, origin and development

3. Gushi County’s specialties

Gushi goose cubes are the most famous local delicacy in Gushi. The full name is Gushi Han Goose Piece. Gushi belongs to Xinyang. The biggest characteristic of Xinyang is that he knows how to eat, eat, and eat. Xinyang Restaurant is full of flowers. In recent years, Gushi goose cubes are not only fresh goose cubes, but also salted goose cubes and cured goose cubes, all of which are cooked together with fresh goose cubes. It's truly mouth-watering.

Gushi goose nuggets have several main features:

First, the geese used in Gushi goose nuggets must be local large white geese. This kind of large white goose has thick meat but not a thick layer of fat. If it tastes good, fresh goose is best. Frozen goose and broiler chicken shrink, and the low temperature destroys the cells, making the goose meat stale and fragrant. The unique stewing method of boiled goose also leads to the fact that there is no big market for frozen goose.

Second: Gushi goose cubes pay attention to the original soup, and the juice is used to pour the goose. In addition, there are no dipping sauces, and the soup is clear and tasty, not oily, not greasy, and not greasy.

3. Gushi goose pieces can be made into hot pot. You can continue cooking after eating the goose meat and miscellaneous goose in the pot.

Let’s talk about the specific method of making Gushi goose cubes. The key is that the ingredients are good and the method is actually very simple.

The first step: processing raw materials.

Slaughter and wash the whole white goose. Lao Goose is the best. After the fine hairs are cleaned, remove the internal organs from the abdominal cavity and clean them.

Then put the ginger slices and onion knots in, and put the goose's claws into your belly.

Boil water in a pot, add ginger slices and cooking wine. Prepare another pot of cold water. Put the goose into boiling water and soak it for 15 seconds. Place in cold water to cool, then place in a stock pot for 30 seconds, then continue to cool in cold water. Finally, put the goose meat into the soup bucket and simmer on low heat for 1 hour.

When the time is up, poke it with chopsticks to see if it is cooked. When it is ripe, take it out, cool it and cut it into pieces.

Step 2: Boil the water.

Prepare a handful of chili peppers with strong aroma and moderate spiciness, sliced ??green onions, ginger, Sichuan peppercorns, and some grass fruits.

First skim the goose fat from the soup noodles, melt the water in the pot, and add vegetable oil to heat.

After the oil is hot, put the ginger slices, green onion slices and dried chili peppers into the pot and stir-fry. Add the peppercorns and stir-fry until the aroma is overflowing, then pour in the goose soup and bring to a boil.

Season with salt and pepper. It must be salty. Simmer for 10 minutes to bring out the flavor of the peppers. If you feel there is less oil, you can add more goose fat. Keep the water slightly boiling.

The third step: finished Gushi goose cubes.

How to eat: Put the goose meat cubes on a plate, top with chopped green onions, and pour hot water.

Eat hot pot: Take a hot pot, put cabbage, vermicelli, braised pork and other side dishes on the bottom, stack the goose cubes on top, pour in water, bring to a boil over high heat and eat the goose cubes first. Rinse the vegetables again.

4. Gushi County Specialty Food Shop

Main ingredients:

100 grams of silk

100 grams of eggs

200 grams of colored oil

Auxiliary materials:

10 grams of salt

10 grams of green onions

5 grams of ginger rice

5 grams of edible alkali

Exercise:

1. 100 grams of shredded leather for later use.

2. Wash the wok and heat it.

3. Add about 200 grams of salad oil.

4. When the oil is 70% hot, fry a little lint until it swells.

5. In addition, prepare a clean soup pot, add an appropriate amount of water and 5g of edible alkali, heat it, put the fried shredded pork skin in and cook for 5 minutes, then turn off the heat and take it out.

6. Rinse the boiled leather silk with clean water to remove the oil, drain the water and set aside.

7. The raw materials and main ingredients of pine bark silk.

8. Add appropriate amount of salt to the eggs, add shredded skin and chopped green onion, mix well and set aside.

9. Heat the salad in a wok until 70% hot. Saute the ginger and garlic until fragrant, then put the prepared egg liquid into the wok and stir-fry until the egg liquid solidifies.

5. What delicious snacks are available in Gushi County

Hot and sour shredded radish

Ingredients: 300 grams of green radish, or 150 grams of white radish, 150 grams of carrots .

Accessories: 20g red oil, 5g salt, 20g white vinegar, 10g shredded ginger.

Preparation: Cut the radish into 6 cm long filaments, soak in water, remove, squeeze out the water, add the auxiliary ingredients, and mix for 10 minutes.

Shredded mustard.

Materials: 300 grams of Gushi leather silk. Accessories: 5 grams of shredded winter bamboo shoots, 5 grams of shredded leeks, 5 grams of shredded shiitake mushrooms, 5 grams of shredded green and red peppers, 5 grams of mustard oil, 10 grams of mustard sauce, 5 grams.

Ingredients: 600 grams of Xinyang free-range eggs , 100 grams of special Xinyang Maojian tea.

Accessories: 100g oil, 2g refined salt, a little ginger and green onion.

Preparation:

1. Break the eggs into a bowl and stir evenly with chopsticks;

2. Soak Maojian tea twice in 90% water , take out the tea leaves after they stretch, rinse once with cold water and drain;

3. Put the pot on the fire and add oil. After the oil is hot, pour in the eggs, then the tea leaves, add refined salt, ginger, and green onions, and stir-fry quickly until the eggs become loose.

Banqiang Daylily

Ingredients: 400g daylily; accessories: 10g shredded winter bamboo shoots, 10g shredded fungus, 5g shredded pepper, 5g shredded green onion, 5g shredded ginger, 5g prickly ash, 50g ground oil, 2g refined salt, 35g soy sauce, 35g sugar, 25g balsamic vinegar, 15g cooking wine.

Yield: 1. Squeeze the stems of the day lily, drain the heart, rinse with boiling water, take it out and let it cool, kill it with salt, squeeze out the water slightly, put it into a bowl and set aside;

2. Add a small grinder to the pot Heat oil, add Sichuan peppercorns and stir-fry until fragrant, remove and set aside;

3. Add other auxiliary ingredients to the pot and stir-fry, add day lily and mix well.

Stir-fried tofu with general vegetables

Ingredients: 200 grams of general vegetables with water method, 400 grams of Xinyang tofu.

Accessories: 10g oil, 5g ginger, 5g garlic, 5g salt.

Yield: 1. Cut the tofu into 5cm long and 2cm wide pieces, use a pan to cook both sides until they turn yellow, then remove from the pan and set aside; 2. Add the ginger and garlic to the hot pot oil and stir-fry for 2 minutes, then add the general vegetables and tofu Stir-fry on the stove. Season to taste and serve.

Chestnut braised chicken

Ingredients: 300 grams of shelled chestnuts, 1 Gushi native chicken (about 1000 grams).

Accessories: 20g ginger slices, 20g green onions, 1 star anise, 10 fennel, salt, cooking wine.

Preparation:

1. Cut the chicken into pieces, add cooking wine and salt and marinate for 10 minutes;

2. Add onions, ginger slices, star anise, Add the fennel to the hot oil pan and stir-fry, then add the marinated chicken pieces and stir-fry. When the surface of the chicken turns yellow, add the stock, simmer over low heat until cooked through, then add chestnuts to stew. When the sauce thickens, remove from the pan.

Farewell My Concubine

Ingredients: 1 Xinyang soft-shell turtle (about 750 grams), 1 annual hen (about 1000 grams).

Accessories: 15g refined salt.

Production:

1. After the turtle is scalded to death, scrape off the black skin and rinse it clean;

2. Slaughter the hen, disembowel it, remove the internal organs and wash it Clean and set aside;

3. Put the turtle and hen into the sand pot at the same time, simmer over low heat until fully cooked, then add refined salt to taste.

Southern spicy fish

Ingredients: 500 grams of Nanwan bighead carp; accessories: 5 grams each of cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, star anise, Sichuan peppercorns, and dried chilies, 50 grams of cooking oil , 25 grams of mutton fat, 5 grams of refined salt, appropriate amount of bean paste, appropriate amount of stock.

Preparation:

1. Remove the gills and internal organs of the fish, wash, drain and cut into pieces;

2. Place the wok on high heat When the oil is hot, add the bean paste, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, star anise, Sichuan peppercorns and dried chili peppers to the wok. When it becomes fragrant, it becomes soup. After boiling, add the fish pieces;

3. Boil the soup into red oil, add refined salt, and put it into a hot pot or soup basin after taking it out of the pot;

4. Serve it It can be served with tofu, Qianzhang and vermicelli.

Shuangxiong stewed fish head

Ingredients: 12 grams of gastrodia flakes, 200 grams of bullwhip flower, 250 grams of chicken fillet, and 1500 grams of Nanwan fish head.

Xinyang Restaurant

Accessories: 2 slices of ham, 5 grams of ginger, 5 grams of green onions, 2000 grams of soup, 100 grams of Diao wine, and appropriate amount of cooking wine.

Preparation:

1. Wash the fish head, rinse it well and put it into a casserole with the fish side facing up;

2. Add oil to the bottom of the pot Clean it, put the fish into a pot with more ingredients, add Diaojiu wine, add the soup, and pour it into the casserole;

3. Put the beef whip flowers and chicken tenderloin into the casserole and stir-fry. Add onion, ginger and cooking wine, then put into casserole and simmer for 40 minutes. It's time to serve.

: 6. Food in Gushi’s hometown

1. Luoshan large intestine soup is a traditional snack in Luoshan County, Xinyang. It has a unique flavor, is fat but not greasy, is soft in the mouth, and is colorful and It has good aroma and taste and is rich in nutrients.

2. Li Gang Fish Soup, a snack in Huangchuan County, Xinyang.

3. Gushi goose cubes, Xinyang Gushi snacks.

4. Xinyang Ciba.

5. Xinyang salted duck.

6. Fill the cake with eggs. Xinyang Xinyang's traditional attractions are deeply loved by the public and are one of Xinyang's special snacks.

7. Canned meat with stuffing, rich meat aroma and tender skin, is a specialty name of Xinyang.

8. Canned fresh fish, a famous dish

When it comes to autumn specialties, Xinyang chestnuts have to be mentioned. Xinyang is located on the geographical dividing line between north and south of China. It has superior natural conditions and is suitable for the growth and reproduction of various crops, animals and plants. Among them, Xinyang chestnut has the longest history. It is said that the remains of Lizi were found in a sacrificial plate unearthed from King Chu City in Taiguan County, Xinyang County. The chestnuts produced in this area have the characteristics of large size, tender meat, thin skin, sweet taste, bright color and plump seeds. The oil chestnuts produced in Luoshan and Shangcheng counties are small in size, have thin skin, thick flesh, unique flavor, are not easy to be infected, and are easy to store and transport. They are very popular among consumers. Xinyang Chestnut Market There are chestnut wholesale markets in Lijiazhai Town and Yuji Town in Xinyang City. The largest chestnut sales market in the country is built in Xinxian County.

7. Introduction to Gushi County’s specialty foods

Gushi County’s specialty foods include pig skins, radish nests, goose cubes, etc. Gushi chicken is a famous specialty, and Gushi native eggs are also famous. Gushi leather silk is the most famous. The method is as follows:

1. Heat the oil, put a small amount of leather silk into the pot, open the leather silk and take it out quickly; put a small amount into the pot, repeat until enough quantity.

2. Boil a pot of water, add fried shredded skin, add a small amount of alkali, and cook over medium heat for 5 minutes.

3. Take out the shredded skin and drain the water, then wash it with water and cook until the shredded skin is soft and oil-free.

4. Drain the shredded skin, add egg liquid and mix well, add appropriate amount of salt and cooking wine.

5. Put in the wok, sauté the chopped garlic sprouts, garlic cloves, and ginger until fragrant, then pour the shredded skin into the stir-fry, add a small amount of water after the egg liquid solidifies, and then remove it from the wok .