The world admired Sichuan Food or Sichuan Cuisine, which is also popular in the name of Szechuan Cuisine. This cuisine is more than 700 years old and was initiated during the dynasty of Song.
Nowadays Sichuan Food has achieved a well-earned repute across the world for its sizzling and benumbing features added by its chief ingredient called ‘Sichuan peppercorn’. The range of other ingredients includes spices like ginger, specific piquant herbaceous plants, and chilies. Those spices and herbs are mainly collected from the regions of Sichuan with weather featured by humidity and temperate summer. The significant specific spice and herb processing methods contain several phases like the preserving method, specific drying procedure, and smoldering method. Next, those processed herbs and spices are salted to preserve for longer.
The popular dishes of Sichuan Foods are characterized by sizzling, spicy, and pungent flavors with an unusual piquant and brackish taste. These magnificent dishes are prepared with Soya Sauce made in Zhongba, Special cookery vinegar from Baoning, Fresh mustard herbs from Fuling, Pixian Bean sauce, and Chili sauce from Chongqing. The general methods of Sichuan food preparation incorporate some specific steps:
- Swift Stir sautéing
- Swift Frying
- Steaming
- Quick Preparation
This swift processing let the foodstuffs remain very delicate and refreshed and tasty as well. Fish, Kidney, Liver, and Beef are very common subjects of the Sichuan delicacies. The steamed or light fried flesh of Beef is often served with thick spicy flavored gravy to make the dish more delicious.
Some of the well-liked sizzling dishes with pungent taste and flavor are as follows:
- Sichuan hotpot
- Dan Dan Noodles
- Fuqi Feipian
- Tea Smoked duck
- Shuizhu Dishes
- Mapo Dofu
- Kung Pao Chicken
- Twice Cooked Pork
- Chongqing Spicy Deep Fried Chicken
Other than those alluring and mouthwatering foodstuffs, Sichuan Cuisine includes a number of toothsome munchies and dessert dishes. A few of those delicious dishes are lantern Shadow beef, Bangbang Chicken, Chicken graced with the paste of Sesame, ‘Husband and Wife’s pork lung slices and ‘rice dumpling stuffed with sesame paste’, Noodles served with chili sauce.
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