Lianghe Pea Flour Noodles

Lianghe Pea Flour Noodles

　　Pea flour noodles are a highly favored grain-based food among the people of Yunnan. Peas have a sweet taste and slightly cool nature. They are known to tonify the middle energizer, benefit qi, and help detoxify and digest food. They are suitable for treating conditions such as difficulty in urination, bloating in the lower abdomen, excessive thirst, and blocked lactation in women.

Pea flour noodles are made by grinding dried peas into cracked pieces, removing the skins, soaking them in water, then grinding them with water into a slurry. After filtering and boiling the slurry into a paste, it is cooled and solidified. The resulting product has a delicate, smooth texture and a yellowish-brown color, with a distinctive fragrant flavor of peas. Once shaped by knife work, it can be cooked and served either hot or cold.