19 of Hunan’s most famous dishes, spicy and delicious, a collection of special Hunan dishes. Have you tried them all? Hunan cuisine is one of the eight famous cuisines in China. The eight major cuisines in China are: Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, Fujian cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine, Hunan cuisine, and Anhui cuisine. Hunan cuisine represents Hunan cuisine. The taste of Hunan cuisine is mainly fragrant, spicy, salty, etc. Hunan people are famous for eating spicy food, so what are the Hunan dishes? After my collection, there are 19 most famous dishes in Hunan, including 10 classic Hunan dishes and 9 special dishes.
1. Fish head with chopped pepper
Fish head with chopped pepper is one of the top ten classic dishes in Hunan. This dish is indispensable in various Hunan restaurants. People also know and eat fish head with chopped pepper. The fish head of chopped pepper fish is usually made from the head of silver carp, because the head of silver carp is larger than the body, so it is very suitable for making fish head with chopped pepper. The taste of the fish head with chopped pepper: fragrant, spicy, salty, very delicious.
How to cook fish head with chopped pepper: wash the fish head, cut it in half and lay it flat on a plate. Add chopped pepper and minced ginger to the fish head, put it in a pot and steam it until cooked, then take it out. Pour the steamed fish with soy sauce, sprinkle with chopped green onion, and drizzle with hot oil.
2. Mao's Braised Pork
Mao's Braised Pork is one of the top ten classic dishes in Hunan. Compared with other Hunan dishes, this dish is very unique. Because this dish is not spicy. Mao's Braised Pork uses thick and alternate pork belly as the raw material. Cut it into square pieces, stir-fry it with rock sugar. Add the pork belly and stir-fry until it gets brown. Pour it into a casserole, add an appropriate amount of water and spices, and bring to a boil over high heat. Turn to low heat and simmer slowly, then turn to high heat to reduce the juice. The taste of Mao's braised pork: salty and slightly sweet, fat but not greasy, melts in your mouth, very delicious.
3. Steamed Cured Meat
Steamed Cured Meat is one of the top ten classic dishes in Hunan. It uses cured meat, cured fish, and cured chicken, topped with chicken soup, and topped with black beans. It's steamed, so it's called Steamed Cured Meat. The taste of steamed cured meat: salty and slightly spicy, soft and chewy, very delicious.
How to steam the cured meat: wash the cured chicken and chop it into small pieces and put it in a bowl. Wash the cured fish and put it in a bowl. Wash and slice the cured meat and spread it flat on the cured fish and pour it on. Chicken soup, sprinkle some tempeh, put it in a pot and steam over high heat for about 50 minutes, take it out, sprinkle with chili powder, and drizzle with a small amount of hot oil.
4. Haired beef louver
Haired beef louver is one of Hunan’s traditional famous dishes. Haired beef louvers are made by washing fresh beef louvers, cutting them into thin strips, as thin as hair, adding chili peppers and seasonings and stir-frying over high heat. Because the beef louver is as thin as a hair, it is named hairy cow louver. The taste of the hairy beef louvers: spicy and salty, very chewy and delicious.
5. Zuan Shark’s Fin
Zuan Shark’s Fin is one of Hunan’s local special traditional dishes. Zuan shark's fin is made by putting fresh shark's fin into a casserole, adding seasonings, stock, and red oil and slowly simmering it over high heat, so it is also called red stewed shark's fin. Zu'an shark's fin is light yellow in color, translucent and very beautiful. Its taste: soft, waxy and smooth, fresh and salty, mellow and delicious, and very delicious.
6. Yongzhou Blood Duck
Yongzhou Blood Duck is one of the top ten classic dishes in Hunan and a traditional dish in Yongzhou City. Yongzhou blood duck is bright red in color and tastes spicy and salty. The mixture of duck meat and duck blood has a very special taste and tastes very good. Yongzhou blood duck is made by washing and mincing the duck meat into small pieces, stir-frying it in an oil pan, adding ginger and pepper and stir-frying evenly, adding fresh duck blood and stir-frying it, then pour it into a casserole, add a small amount of water and simmer over low heat. Simmer slowly and sprinkle with chopped green onion at the end.
7. Spicy Chicken
Spicy Chicken is a Hunan specialty. It uses hens that have never laid eggs. Wash them and cut them into small pieces. Pour a lot of cooking oil into the pot. Heat and fry the chicken pieces until golden brown. Take them out and put them on a plate. Pour cooking oil into the pot, add dried chili segments and Sichuan peppercorns, and stir-fry ginger over high heat until fragrant. Add the fried chicken pieces, add salt, light soy sauce, and stir. Fry until cooked and serve.
8. Dong'an Chicken
Dong'an Chicken is a Hunan specialty dish and a local traditional dish of Dong'an. Dong'an Chicken uses new chickens raised locally, which are hens that have never laid eggs. Wash and chop them into small pieces. Pour cooking oil into the pot, add the chicken pieces and stir-fry evenly. Add an appropriate amount of chicken soup, dried chili peppers, ginger, and high heat. Bring to a boil, turn to low heat and simmer for about 30 minutes. Add light soy sauce, salt, pepper and other seasonings and stir-fry until the flavors are infused.
9. Xiangxi Grandma’s Cuisine
Xiangxi Grandma’s Cuisine is one of Hunan’s characteristic traditional dishes. Xiangxi grandma's dish usually uses radish, kohlrabi and purslane, washed and semi-dried in the sun, then chopped into pieces, added with salt, mixed evenly, put in a jar, sealed and marinated for about 15 days, taken out, added with minced meat and chili and stir-fried over high heat It can be eaten when cooked. The taste of Xiangxi Grandma's food: fragrant, spicy, salty, sour, very appetizing and delicious with rice.
10. Mushroom yolk-free egg
Mushroom yolk-free egg is one of the top ten classic dishes. It is also a traditional Hunan dish. The specialty of mushroom-free yolk eggs is that when you cut them into pieces, there is no yolk. The production process of flower mushroom yolk-free eggs is relatively complicated. Make a small hole in the egg shell, drain out the egg liquid, remove the yolk, put the egg white into the egg shell, steam it in water, and then peel off the egg shell. Pour an appropriate amount of cooking oil into the pot, add the washed flower drum and stir-fry, add the yolk-free eggs, add the chicken stock and bring to a boil over high heat, collect the juice and serve on a plate.
11. Ningxiang Flavored Snake
Ningxiang Flavored Snake is a traditional local dish in Hunan. Ningxiang flavor snake is prepared by washing the snake meat, cutting it into small pieces and frying it in an oil pan until golden, then take it out. Pour cooking oil into the pan, add dried chili peppers, ginger, and spicy sauce and stir-fry the fried snake meat. Pour evenly into the casserole, add the stock, simmer over low heat, add salt and oyster sauce to taste. The taste of Ningxiang flavor snake: fragrant, spicy, salty and very appetizing. The snake meat is very tasty and chewy. It is a very good famous dish.
12. Shaoyang pig blood meatballs
Shaoyang pig blood meatballs are a traditional dish in Shaoyang, Hunan. Shaoyang pig blood meatballs are a special dish made by Shaoyang people in November and December next year. Shaoyang pig blood meatballs are made by draining the tofu with gauze, then mashing it with diced pork and pig blood, adding salt, chili powder, five spice powder, sesame oil and other seasonings, mix evenly, and make them into oval shapes, like steamed buns. Put it in the sun for a few days, then hang it up and smoke it with firewood to dry it. When eating, cut into thin slices, add chili peppers and seasonings, stir-fry over high heat until cooked, and serve on a plate.
13. Xiangxi Sour Pork
Xiangxi Sour Pork is one of Hunan’s traditional famous dishes. Xiangxi sour pork is made by washing fresh pork belly, drying it, adding salt and corn flour, mixing it evenly, and then sealing and marinating it in a jar for more than ten days before the taste becomes sour. When eating, take it out and cut it into thin slices, add chili pepper and garlic sprouts, stir-fry over high heat until cooked, and serve on a plate. The taste of Xiangxi Sour Pork: sour, spicy, fragrant, salty, very appetizing and delicious. It's a very good side dish.
14. Preserved egg and pepper
Preserved egg and pepper is one of the specialties of Hunan. Preserved egg chili peppers are put into firewood and burned until brown, then taken out. After peeling off the skin of the green peppers, put them into a garlic pounding vessel. Add the peeled garlic and peeled preserved eggs, then mash them into a paste and pour them into a bowl. Inside, add salt to taste and drizzle some sesame oil. The taste of preserved egg chili pepper: spicy and delicious, a great dish to go with rice.
15. Liuyang Steamed Vegetable Banquet
Liuyang Steamed Vegetable Banquet is a famous Hunan specialty dish. Steamed vegetable feast is a specialty of Liuyang City, Hunan Province. Liuyang people love to eat steamed vegetables. Liuyang Steamed Vegetable Banquet includes both meat and vegetable dishes. Meat or vegetable dishes, add seasonings, put them into small bowls, steam them and eat them. Some of them are fried and put into a small bowl, then placed in a steamer to keep warm.
16. Stir-fried pork
Stir-fried pork is a Hunan specialty dish. Stir-fried pork can also be called chili stir-fried pork.
For the stir-fried pork, use fresh green and red peppers and cut them into shreds. Wash the pork belly and cut it into thin slices. Wash and cut the ginger into thin strips. Pour a small amount of cooking oil into the pot. When the oil is hot, add the pork belly and stir-fry until the oil is released. Add the shredded ginger. Stir-fry the green and red peppers evenly, add salt and pepper to taste, stir-fry until cooked and serve on a plate.
The taste of the stir-fried pork: spicy and salty, the pork belly is fat but not greasy, soft and chewy, very delicious with rice.
17. Stir-fried yellow beef
Stir-fried yellow beef is one of Hunan’s specialties. Stir-fried yellow beef is made from local yellow beef from Hunan. Wash and cut into shreds. Add light soy sauce, starch, salt, oyster sauce, and five-spice powder. Stir evenly and marinate for 15 minutes to add flavor. Wash the red pepper and cut it into small pieces. Pour cooking oil into the pot. Heat the oil and stir-fry the marinated yellow beef until it changes color. Add the red pepper and ginger and stir-fry evenly. Add salt and pepper and stir-fry over high heat until cooked. Just put it on the plate.
The taste of the stir-fried yellow beef: spicy and delicious, the beef is tender and delicious, it is a very good side dish.
18. Zhukai Local Chicken
Zhukai Local Chicken is one of the famous specialties in Loudi City, Hunan. Zhukai local chicken is made from local chickens raised by local farmers in Zhumeili, a village below Loudi City, as the main ingredient, and added with chicken intestines, chicken offal, chicken blood, pork belly and various seasonings. The local chicken is very famous in the local area. Zhukai chicken is grown on vegetables, small insects, and corn. When its meat is tender and firm, it is very delicious.
19. Salted duck with spicy sauce
Salted duck with spicy sauce is a special dish of Hunan. For the spicy salted duck, wash fresh duck meat and cut it into small pieces. Add salt and marinate for 10 minutes. Drain the water and put it into a pressure cooker. Add cinnamon, star anise, ginger, bay leaves, pepper and other seasonings, and cook. After 30 minutes, take it out and put it on a plate. Pour cooking oil into the pot. When the oil is hot, add chili pepper and ginger and stir-fry until fragrant. Add the cooked duck meat and stir-fry evenly. Add soy sauce and salt and stir-fry evenly. Take it out of the pot and put it on a plate. .
Salted duck with spicy sauce: Spicy and delicious, the duck meat is very chewy and delicious. It can also be eaten as a snack for watching dramas.
Summary
Have you tried all of Hunan’s 19 most famous dishes, spicy and delicious, a collection of special Hunan dishes? The above are 19 special Hunan dishes, including 10 classic Hunan dishes and 9 special Hunan dishes. Some are spicy and delicious, some are salty, sour and spicy, and some are soft and slightly sweet. There are various flavors, so Hunan cuisine is not necessarily spicy. For those who want to eat Hunan cuisine but cannot tolerate spicy food, you can choose non-spicy options such as Mao's Braised Pork, Mushrooms without Yolk Eggs, and Zu'an Shark's Fin. For those who like spicy food, you can choose spicy dishes such as fish head with chopped pepper, stir-fried pork, and stir-fried yellow beef. I am @hubei人yanzi. You are welcome to leave a message to add other specialties in Hunan. You are also welcome to follow me. Thank you!