1. Yongzhou Dongan Chicken Yongzhou Dongan Chicken is a kind of delicious food with a long history and enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad. It is listed as one of the state banquet menus and the first of the eight Hunan dishes. "Dong 'an Chicken" has experienced the evolution of three dynasties. The Western Jin Dynasty called it "old vinegar chicken", the late Qing Dynasty called it "official chicken" and the Republic of China called it "Dong 'an chicken".
Yongzhou Dongan chicken
Dong 'an Chicken is one of the traditional famous dishes in Hunan, enjoying a high reputation. Beautiful appearance, bright color, rich nutrition, fragrant, sweet, sour, spicy, tender and crisp. Dong 'an Chicken is named after its cooking method originated in Dong 'an County. According to related recipes, Dongan people began to make Dongan chicken as early as the Kaiyuan period of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, and it was later introduced to Southeast Asia and North America, with a history of 1200 years.
Braised shark's fin
Anzu shark fin is also called braised shark fin.
Anzu shark's fin, also known as Anzu shark's fin and braised shark's fin, is a local traditional dish in Hunan Province and belongs to Hunan cuisine. This dish is light yellow in color, bright and shiny in juice, soft, waxy and smooth, fresh and salty. The shark fin in the temple is exquisite in materials and unique in production. This dish tastes mellow, the shark's fin is waxy and soft, and it is rich in nutrition. It's really a treasure in the plate. Before liberation, Qu Yuan Restaurant operated this dish, which was quite appreciated by diners.
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Steamed multi-cured ham
Steamed bacon is a local traditional dish in Hunan, which belongs to Hunan cuisine. It is made of preserved meat, preserved chicken, preserved fish, chicken soup and seasoning by steaming in a pot. The method is simple, its waxy fragrance is rich, salty and sweet, flexible and not greasy [1], and it has the effects of appetizing, dispelling cold and promoting digestion.
4 Yongzhou blood duck
Yongzhou blood duck
Yongzhou blood duck is a traditional local dish in Yongzhou, Hunan Province. There are many kinds of blood ducks in Yongzhou, including Jiangyong, Daoxian, Xintian, Ningyuan, Lanshan, Dongan and Shuangpai. In the local area, almost every household can cook this dish. It has the characteristics of delicious taste, appetizing and cooling blood.
In fact, there are many folk Hunan dishes. Representative dishes of folk Hunan cuisine include fish head with chopped pepper, fried meat with chopped pepper, grandma in Xiangxi, sour meat in Jishou, beef powder, fish powder in Chenzhou, Dong 'an chicken, goldfish playing lotus, Yongzhou blood duck, steamed bacon, sister jiaozi, delicious snake in Ningxiang, and ginger and spicy snake in Yueyang. Welcome friends who like food to taste authentic Hunan cuisine.
In addition, Shi Mao braised pork, do you recognize Hunan cuisine?
There are steamed pork from old Hunan cuisine, chop suey and dried bean curd from Youxian county, braised pork with bean skin, fried pork with bamboo shoots, pepper and radish, sugar and oil Baba, scraping bean jelly, dried fruits, steamed bacon with laba beans, fried pork with pepper, qianzi with orchids and qianzi broad beans with Betty. Too many. Many of them have gone bad.
Dong 'an Chicken, Yongzhou Blood Duck, Hot and Sour Tendons, Dry-roasted Mandarin Fish, Braised Belly Sliced, Maman Crispy Duck, Braised Beef Sliced and Zi Long Naked. Take it away. No, thanks!
Eight major cuisines instead of eight major Hunan cuisines! There are many famous varieties of Hunan cuisine, definitely more than eight!
Dongan Chicken
Also known as Dong 'an Chicken and kung pao chicken. Dong 'an An Zi Chicken is cooked by a new hen in Dong 'an. It is bright red, white, yellow and green, and tastes hot and sour.
Braised shark's fin
Also known as group temple shark fin. Anzu's shark fin is exquisite in materials and unique in production method. The whole dish is light yellow in color, juicy, salty and delicious, and rich in nutrition.
Bread whole duck
The skin is golden and smooth, and the duck meat is tight and chewy.
Spicy winter bamboo shoots
Stir-fry peanut oil for seven minutes, add miscellaneous bone soup, stew, and finally drizzle with Chili oil, mix well and cool, the texture is crisp and tender, and the taste is delicious.
chestnuts cabbage
Stir-fry chestnut meat with cooked lard, then drain, steam in a cage for 10 minute, wash cabbage, stir-fry with lard, and finally thicken with wet starch, which is salty and sweet.
Wushenyuan fresh chicken
Also known as "five-yuan golden rooster". According to records, this dish originated in the Qing Dynasty. Steamed chicken with astragalus can strengthen the body and prolong life.
Jishou sour meat
The dishes made of fat pork are spicy in color, fat but not greasy, and have a unique flavor.
Fish head with chopped pepper is a famous dish in Xiangtan, Hunan Province, and it is the first of the eight famous dishes in Hunan Province. Choose a fish head with chopped pepper, put a few slices of ginger on the plate, put the fish head on it, put chopped pepper on the fish head (chopped pepper is added with ginger, garlic and a lot of salt), and steam it in a steamer 10 minute. Take it out and pour it with steamed fish soybean oil, which is delicious, salty and appetizing. Is it simple?
Xiangtan fish head with chopped pepper was founded in Qing Dynasty, which is said to be related to Huang Zongxian, a scholar in Qing Dynasty. In order to take refuge, Huang Zongxian fled to a farmer's house in rural Xiangtan. Because the farmer's family is poor and can't afford to buy vegetables, at this moment, the farmer's son caught a fish, and the farmer's wife stewed the fish and steamed it with salted chopped pepper. So this fish head with chopped pepper was born. It is the first Hunan cuisine and the most representative dish in the world.
Classic representative dishes of Hunan cuisine: Zuan shark's fin, Dong 'an chicken, steamed bacon, spicy chicken, fried chicken with mushrooms, left-handed fried chicken, rock sugar Xiang Lian and hairy belly; New representative dishes: Chili fried meat, chopped fish head, Shi Mao braised pork, Yongzhou blood duck, boiled live fish, dry pot series, home-cooked tofu, braised pork and so on.
It seems that there are no eight famous Hunan dishes, but there are many famous Hunan dishes, especially traditional Hunan dishes. Now it is a market economy, and it is profitable to sell products quickly. Too complicated Hunan cuisine is rarely cooked, and many chefs can't cook it or even know the name of the dish.
If you are interested, I recommend the book Hunan cookbook, which is very good.
As one of the eight major cuisines in China, Hunan cuisine is popular all over the country and even the world, which is inseparable from two famous figures in Hunan history and Zuo.
But to be honest, even though the two of them were famous, the food they ate at that time was still talked about by people and passed down from mouth to mouth. However, due to the constraints of the economic development level and material living conditions at that time, they didn't have much chance to eat the so-called Hunan cuisine when they didn't even have enough to eat.
The popularity of Hunan cuisine stems from the great improvement of people's living standards brought about by reform and opening up. When I was working in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Shenzhen, Hunan restaurants all over the street could eat any Hunan food you wanted at any time, which means that people feel less and less authentic.
This is no wonder, because many chefs who manage and cook Hunan cuisine have never even been to Hunan. Chefs trained according to cooking school's teaching methods can cook Hunan cuisine, so restaurants are naturally called Hunan cuisine.
Even if you go to Changsha, Hunan, Yueyang, Changde and other places in western Hunan, you may not be able to eat the so-called authentic Hunan cuisine.
Because both Hunan cuisine and other cuisines are constantly changing and innovating. But even so, there are always some recognized classic Hunan dishes handed down. Some are more expensive and rare; Some are rarely done; Some of them have been greatly improved and changed.
The dishes represented by official Hunan cuisine include tofu, shark's fin and so on. Representative dishes of folk Hunan cuisine include shredded pork with Chili, braised pork with Shi Mao, fish head with chopped Chili, Xiangxi women's dish, Jishou hot and sour meat, beef powder, Hengyang fish meal, Du Qifeng fish meal, Dongan chicken, goldfish playing lotus, Yongzhou blood duck, Jiuyishan rabbit, Ningyuan stuffed tofu, steamed bacon, sister dumplings, Ningxiang delicious snake, Yueyang ginger and spicy snake and so on.
Fried meat with Chili peppers
Shi Mao braised pork
Steamed fish head with diced red pepper
Steamed multi-cured ham
Dongan Chicken
Yongzhou blood duck
Fish head with chopped pepper, Donganzi chicken, bacon, I don't know the rest.