“Eight-Treasure Rice” is a delicacy commonly served at banquets in Shaanxi, renowned for its appealing color, aroma, taste, and presentation. The dish is primarily made of glutinous rice and is typically accompanied by nutritious ingredients such as red dates, lotus seeds, lily bulbs, coix seeds, ginkgo nuts, longan pulp, and candied fruits or vegetables.…
1. Use a knife to slice the kernels off fresh corn cobs, dice the carrot, and set aside the peas and pine nuts. 2. Once the water in the pot comes to a boil, add a little oil and salt, then add the peas and cook for seven or eight minutes before removing and setting aside. Add the corn kernels and cook for two or three minutes, then remove and set aside. Finely chop the green onions and set aside. 3. When the oil in the pan is hot, put...
Features: The sour soup is uniquely prepared, offering a deliciously tangy and aromatic flavor that is delightful to savor. Main ingredients: Flour, meat filling, vegetable filling, seasonings. Brief introduction: Sour soup dumplings are an ancient and distinctive snack with a history of over 1,000 years. These dumplings consist of lamb-filled boiled dumplings served in a specially made sour soup…
Mint dumplings are a delightful summer treat. Made from flour, lard, rose petals, walnut kernels, candied fruit strips, and mint powder, they are shaped like dumplings and then baked on a griddle or deep-fried. With their golden color, sweet aroma, crispy texture, strong mint fragrance, and cooling effect, they are perfect for beating the summer heat. …
As a traditional crop, mung beans have long been intercropped or grown alongside other crops, primarily for household use. Despite their long history of cultivation, both production volume and planted area remained on a small scale. In the early 1980s, with the development of rural commodity production and thanks to the unique health benefits of mung beans — such as clearing heat and detoxifying, quenching thirst and promoting fluid production, calming the nerves and invigorating qi, as well as diuretic and anti-swelling properties...
Ji County potatoes can be said to be the latest crop introduced in the county, yet they have developed the fastest and play a pivotal role in agricultural production and people's daily lives. The potato planting area accounts for one-fourth of the county’s total grain crop area, with a total annual output of 150 million kilograms. After multiple rounds of improvement and varietal upgrades, the main varieties currently grown in the county include “Shaza No. 15”…
Sihouguo Village in Yuhe Town, Yuyang District, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, is a comprehensive agricultural development demonstration village. It has successively been awarded honorary titles such as “Advanced Grassroots Party Organization,” “China’s Characteristic Economic Village,” “Advanced Village in Vegetable Industry Development,” and “National One Village One Product Demonstration Village.” In 2007, Yulin City launched the “Hundred Villages Demonstration, Thousand Villages Promotion” project for one village one product...
Yulin Lamb Offal Stew is a specialty snack from Yulin City, Shaanxi Province. The dish is made by stewing a mix of lamb’s head, hooves, blood, liver, heart, intestines, stomach, and other parts, hence it is commonly called “lamb offal stew.” Since these are all by-products of butchering a sheep, it is also known colloquially as “sheep’s innards.” Yulin has traditionally been an agricultural and pastoral area…
Main ingredients: Chicken 1000g, Fresh corn 400g; Accessories: Onion 300g; Seasonings: Egg 150g, Wheat flour 150g, Vegetable oil 150g, Fried wheat flour 25g, Egg 50g, Starch (pea) 15g, Breadcrumbs 200g, Salt 10g, Pepper 1g — all in appropriate amounts. Method for making fried chicken fritter rolls…
The leek pancake is a well-known Hui ethnic minority snack in Shaanxi, and there are many stalls selling it in Xi’an’s Muslim Quarter. Fillings for the leek pancake include leek and egg, yellow leek and egg, as well as beef and leek. The dough for the pancake is scalded dough, meaning it’s made with boiling water, which results in a soft texture and pleasant mouthfeel. The dough is rolled out into thin pancakes the size of the pan...
Jiaxian Oil Spiral is a type of noodle-based food, categorized as a kind of baked flatbread. It is called "Oil Spiral" because the bread is shaped in a spiral form. Once baked, the outer crust becomes crispy and offers an exceptionally delightful texture. The Oil Spiral is made with refined flour, warm water (with a small amount of salt and alkaline water), first kneaded into a firm dough and then softened by dipping in water. After resting for two hours, the dough is divided, spread into long sheets on an oiled surface, brushed with melted...
Stewed Lamb from Jia County: Su Shi once said, “The best dish of Qin is lamb stew.” The Taiping Imperial Reader states, “Meat with juice is called stew.” Particularly when it comes to stewed lamb, cut into five-centimeter chunks with bone and meat together, the thick slices make it the ultimate way to enjoy lamb. There is a local proverb praising this delicacy: “Pork has the bone, lamb has the marrow.” Lamb marrow — the essence within the bone cavity — is simmered in the pot, infusing the broth with its rich flavor, resulting in an exceptionally delicious taste. That’s why lamb stew must be made with both bone and meat. In autumn and winter, when lambs are at their fattest, butchering and cooking them fills the towns and countryside with mouthwatering aroma.
Jiay County bowl noodles are made by soaking buckwheat kernels in water, kneading them into a dough by hand, then adding water to filter out the starch paste. The paste is ladled into bowls, steamed in a basket until cooked, and cooled before being removed from the molds. When served, they are sliced thin, topped with a savory sauce and spicy pork liver, offering a refreshing and tasty dish perfect for summer and autumn. …
Ji County Buckwheat Geda is one of the traditional foods. There is a very famous folk song from northern Shaanxi that goes: “Buckwheat Geda in mutton broth, together inseparably, dead or alive.” The Buckwheat Geda may be well known, but the folk song is even more renowned. Its straightforward lyrics express a devotion no less profound than vows of everlasting love. Whenever buckwheat is mentioned…
Jia County Corn has been cultivated in the county since the Ming Dynasty. With its high yield, wide applicability, and drought resistance, it gradually became a staple crop for local farmers. As agricultural science and technology continued to advance, after 1980, the high-yield and disease-resistant variety “Zhongdan No. 2” was promoted throughout the county, achieving full hybridization of corn in the region.
The "Honey Bowl" of Jia County in northern Shaanxi is a famous traditional local snack. It is beloved for its crispy texture, softness, and fragrant aroma. When it comes to its origin, the older generation will tell you an interesting legend: Empress Changsun, the wife of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, suffered from a serious and mysterious illness after childbirth and could not eat any delicacies. One day,…
Millet from Jia County is a variety of broomcorn millet. Its stalks are hairy, the panicles are loose yet clustered, and the grains are hard and non-sticky. In northern Shaanxi, “millet” is pronounced as “mi.” Broomcorn millet is divided into soft millet and hard millet. The rice milled from soft millet is called soft rice, which is used to make the famous northern Shaanxi rice wine. This soft rice can be ground into flour to make cakes, and it is used in both fried cakes and date cakes in the region. Hard…
Yangyu Caca, also known as Yangyu Kela, is a rustic dish from northern Shaanxi. In times of food scarcity, locals in this potato-rich region used yangyu caca as a staple dish. "Yangyu" is another name for potato. The dish gets its name because it is made by grating potatoes into thin slices about an inch long using a special tool called a "caca" (a scraping tool). …
Jia County dates are a specialty of Jia County in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province. Renowned for their large size, tender flesh, and rich nutrition, Jia County dates are hailed as “woody grain” and “sturdy crop,” while fresh dates are known as “living vitamin pills.” In May 2001, Jia County was awarded the title of “China’s Famous Date Township” by the State Forestry Administration. The ecological and climatic conditions for date cultivation are…
Ji County Chenjiayancun handmade noodles are among the finest traditional noodle dishes in northern Shaanxi. The village has over 140 households, all surnamed Chen. According to the "Chenjiayancun Village Annals," the ancestors of the Chen family migrated from under the Great Locust Tree during the early Ming Dynasty. The making of Chenjiayancun handmade noodles began during the Qing Dynasty’s Guangxu era and boasts a history of several hundred years. To this day…