Urumqi Cuisine

Very abundant cooked food with strong national characters of diet of Urumchi and local delicacies all assemble herein, the Uygur nationality type, the Mongols type, Hui Islamic type, let every come people of Urumchi slaver. Mention Xinjiang kebob, nobody know and Xinjiang good merchantable brand of cooking culture bake the whole sheep, Nang hole roast meat, Nang, finger food, etc. at Divine Land, can let you taste traditional flavour in Urumchi. Xinjiang melon and fruit are favored by tourists, the fruits of all parts of the whole boundary are collected in Urumchi, add the sweet purpose for the table delicacies in Xinjiang.

The introduces of some special features snack

>>The roast mutton in Xinjiang
Edible mutton, occupy very important status in the diet life of the people of all nationalities in Xinjiang. It is one of the most general, most characteristic eating habit of people's edible mutton to roast.
Roast meat: The people of Uygur are generally called the roast meat " the click tile is general ". According to roast difference of method, each have concrete name again, if " pursue slave tile general click have " mean Nang hole roast meat, the one that is to say people dwelt upon with great relish baked the whole sheep; " shut the click tile diligently generally " is a bunch of roast meat ; " whether click tile general to praise click" mean " pots of roast meat ", mean, fry roast meat in fact; " it is general to carve the benevolence click tile " and mean " the roast meat of stomach ". Roast method of mutton varied, because whom condition need different and different often among the people, but because materials basically similar, color and luster and perfume are often very much the same.
Bake the whole sheep: It is a big name food which Xinjiang can compare favourably with the fragile leather sucking pig of Beijing Roast Duck, Guangzhou bake young pig. It is traditional to the south of Tian Mountain, " the bar is pitched " (the country fairs ) can all smell its peculiar perfume for the magnitude in Keshen, and field and other places. It is famous and precious to bake the whole sheep, except that it selects the material to investigate, mainly its unique law of making. There is no flavor of having a strong smell tenderly in the mutton texture in Xinjiang, enjoy high reputation on the carnivorous market at home and abroad. Among the people, people at edible mutton, especially in for bake the whole sheep put emphasis on, choose the sheep growing in South Sinkiang the dry district especially, in Uygur, and had better be the fat sheep within two years old. When the silk floss wether within two years old has to choose the goat, people have chosen still never cutting the castrated ram goat of the wool. This is valuable experience that people summarize out in the daily life of the long-term edible mutton, selected one of the secrets of material of meat for baking the whole sheep too.
Bunch of roast meat: Folk and traditional bunches of roast meat of Xinjiang Uygur, is likewise the flavor fast food of the street, can have delicious food that mat receive guests. Traditional clusters of roast meat bake the whole sheep the same color and luster sallow and glossy, taste bring fresh and fragrant in being a little hot too, not having a strong smell of oiliness, the meat is tender and delicious. The stress of using the material not like the bake the whole sheep rigorously, difference of two lie in roast scale big or small and at the concrete method materials. Bunches of roast meat, pick the meat to cut to slice first, every slice have thin and fat is best. Then fat to collocate while being tight them, put on meat, discharge at firing trough shape iron sheet roast meat stove of anthracite even they density, fan wind toast, let go, have refined salt, diligent and right the hot pepper, looking through, baking, can eat several minutes from head to foot. In recent years, appear clusters of another form of roast meat in black jade, Kuqa, Urumchi, claim among the people it , in order that " the rice is special the click tile is general " , means " the bunches of roast meat 1 meter long ". This kind of roast meat is really worthy of the name, the hammer drill is 70- 80 centimetres long totally, meat lump is too heavy, stand on Nang hole toasting, once can be roasted into a dozen bunches, taste is tender and delicious, taste is more enjoyable, because this big bunch of feet carries that a bunch of small roast meat. Fry roast meat is to fry sheep meat slices that come out with described above condiment those with pan while being what is called.
The roast meat of stomach: What is meant by " stomach roast meat", clean by stomach sheep, fill mutton into stomach, pour into some salt solution mix meat lump thoroughly, fasten the mouth, bury into the cook meat that bake on the hot sand with bonfire and then. It was only that stomach that was roasted, the stomach has really become " the pot for cooking rice " here. It is profuse in praise behind the roast meat for people to taste, say while only having this kind of meat, could enjoy the peculiar, natural tender perfume of mutton, unique flavour that whom other method any cook and become carnivorous to can't be substituted, perhaps, this is one of the most primitive, most remote eating habit spread!

>>Snow lotus
It is a famous local product of Xinjiang, Tian Mountain of Xinjiang, Altai Mountains, Kunlun mountain and Pamir Mountain Area produce snow lotus, and distribution of lotus the widest with Tian Mountain snow. Snow lotus grow on whom ice and snow cover high and cold moraine overhanging cliff of area have an elevation of 2500~3500 meters, throughout the year, belong to the Compositae herb, about 15-25 centimetres high, the whole one wraps the fine hair dens. From stem or leaf now at the stem, leaf are dense and thick, divide for silk floss head snow lotus, big bag snow lotus and water red snow lotus, etc.. Gather while blooming. Flavor is hard, a little bitter, the sex is warm, restore menstrual flow and invigorate blood circulation, distribute the cold function that dehumidifies. It is not only a kind of famous and precious medical herbs, struggle against the moral integrity proudly even more, firm and indomitable character, win the favor from travel consumer deeply.

>>Seedless white grape:
Have another name called green grape, ancient to claim the exempt eyeball grape. The fruit is jade green and sparkling and crystal-clea , agreeably sweet, color, shape, flavor are all beautiful, there is laudatory title of " crystal and grape " , " green pearl ". The taper shape of ear of grain of the fruit, 27- 3 centimetres long, weigh is 216 grams on average, the ear of grain of biggest fruit is 600- 100 grams. Fruit grains of ellipse, yellowish green and getting white, grain 1 gram in weight on average, the big one is up to 1.8 grams, peel is thin, nuclear-free, unless it is and the fragile to be the close in fruit, the sweet and delicious, it make on variety ideal, for the rate 23-25 percent. Seedless white grape plant history is long, South Sinkiang and field area right away plant extensively as far back as the 3rd century. King of Wen Caohuan (A.D. 220- 22) writing in the imperial edict: "Southern dragon's clothes; Litch skill; Would rather stone dense than west country grape ". The claiming when " made the Western Regions write " of Chen Cheng in the Ming Dynasty: "city of Liu..Wide to plant grape; There are small sweet and seedless grapes. "Cultivate heavy and seedless and white growing grains of seedless new variety in vain again in recent years, its fruit ear of grain bigger more than 1 time compared with the situation that ordinary and seedless in vain, one is heavy 3-4 times higher, it is 2 percent to make doing rate, candy content is high too, and meat is fragile, the sugariness is suitable, not merely the good variety to make to dry, also the good merchantable brand raw to eat. Eat seedless mortar grape can treat scurvy more; Strengthen human body's ability of resisting to pandemic. Can eat the fresh, can also make to dry , the rate of dry is high.

>>Xinjiang raisins
The quality produced with Xinjiang seedless white grape soft, high in candy, without seed was processed. Its preparation method has three: In order to expose to the sun selenium under the sunshine directly, make brown raisins; Two, in order to air and make in the shady room. The third is the method of drying fast in order to adopt in recent years, is dealt with the grape by dehydrated pharmaceutical first, and then put into shady room and dry or dry with the drying-machine, shorten and make and do time greatly . Xinjiang produce history of raisins is long, record according to " the record of Taipingguang ", in the period of Da Tong of Liang country of the Southern Dynasties (A.D. 535-540), the Gaochang country (in Turfan county of today ) has sent envoys to contribute the raisins to the Wu emperor of Liang; Archaeological workers find in the Tang Dynasty of Turfan grave too. The raisins produced in Turfan now, except selling to the domestic each province and municipality, export to Japan, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and other places.

>>Xinjiang safflower
Safflower, have another name called Yellow blue, red blue, red orchid, grass safflowe , red cauliflower, etc.. It is the Compositae safflower that belongs to the annual herb, the stem stands upright, many branches; Leaf is intergrowth, the quality is hard, the leave margin has sharp thorns; The capitulum is carried and grown, premium, yellow; The triangular form of seed is ovoid; Getting white, like born in climate arid sunny, soil drain off water of good performance ecological environment. The producing area belongs to the continental climate, soil water permeability is good. Plant it in north and south of Tian Mountain extensively, has had a history of more than 2000 years already. Its variety have over 50, getting yellow variety keep wild property still, the character of going against to be relatively strong; Getting red with getting orange variety present, evolve property, character of going against to be relatively weak. Often eat and can prevent or lighten diseases such as artery porridge form hardening, hypertension, apoplexy, head angina in heart failure, etc. . Its flower is good crude drugs, promote blood circulation, moisturize, stop the pain, distribute the swollen efficiency stimulating the menstrual flow. Treat the result with other medicines compatibility modernly with it; Treat urgent chronic muscles to strain with 5 percent safflower parenteral solution, the result is obvious. Xinjiang is the main producing region of safflower of our country, export Japanese, Singaporean and wait until the country.

>>Hami melon
The pieces of Hami melon is big and the meat is thick, quality detailed juice sweet and delicious large, best in quality. Its variety is up to more than 100, the form has oval, round and weaving hammers, rod shape to wait until much kind ovums; Come in different sizes, the small one is 1 kilogram, the big one is 15-20 kilograms; The peel is two kinds of woves, mere peel; It is green yellowish-white to wait until it is white green orange for pulp to have, it is fragile crisp soft for meat to divide into for color and luster to have, the flavor is sweet-smelling, fragrant and fragrant fruit.
Can be divided into three major types according to growth period; The ripe early-maturing melon of early summer, the variety has yellow egg-shaped things, draws in it sweetly, proper and sweet in it. The characteristic is relatively short for growth period, the melon shape is little and esthetic. Yellow egg-shaped thing melon form weigh 1-2 kilometers, fruit is spherical, color of the leather orange to have cloth have deep and vast green detailed patterns, the cortex is hard, meat is close, there are few juices, flavor is extremely sweet, a little fragrant, suck candies to measure 1-15 percent. About 90 days of growth period, are able to bear storing and transporting, is mainly produced in Urumchi, Changji and do on place. In July- August, the melon in being ripe, variety have heart fragile, wove fragrant pear, one candy, white skin fragile, fragrant yellow pear, the color, flavor, type are all excellent. The heart fragile form melon weighs 3-4 kilograms, oval or long and ovoid, yellowish pink is yellow and red, meat is superfine, crisp and juicy, sweet and delicious, candy content 12-14 percent. 97-100 days of growth period. Plant in Turfan, Urumchi, Changji and so on place now.
September ripe later period melon (call autumn melon or wax gourd), variety have dark eyebrow dense extremely sweet, blue and green skin red meat, dense sweet blue and green meat, etc. extremely. The peel of the melon is thick and coarse, the looks is not very refined, but quality is extremely good, able to bear preserving; The red meat form melon of blue and green cover weighs 7-8 kilograms, the big one is 20 kilograms, oval or long shape, color of the leather is dark, wove is thick and dense, thick of skin is 1.8 form centimetre; The cortex is hard, yellowish green, the melon meat is thick, meat is close and hard, pale red, the flavor is slightly bad at the beginning, after storing, crisp delicious juice increase, candy content from the 9-10 percent increase until 11-12 percent, it is thin for skin, able to bear preserving very much, can be to April of next year - May, 140-150 days of growth period. Mainly produced in Turfan, Keshen, Hetian and other places. Many kinds of nutrients of water content of dense melon of a melon that Kazakhstan is dense, glucose, fructose, content of cane sugar 10-15 percent, the high one is up to 20 percent; Vitamin of fresh melon content of each hectogram is 29-39.1 milligrams. Besides eating the fresh melon, can process into the dry melon, melon chest, melon sauce and juice and so on. Xinjiang is one of the dense melon dense melon birthplaces of Kazakhstan, the history of planting over 1600 years, Hami melon stills have wild kind so far.

>>Sub grape of Xinjiang mare's milk
Have another name called horse's milk grape, gain the name because it is like sub head of mare's milk. The ear of grain of fruit is cylindrical, the fork shoulder is big, there are branches, the fruit is a cylinder form, one is 6 grams in weight on average, 8 grams of maximum weight; Green and white color, sweet and juicy, the quality is relatively fragile, flavor is delightful. Because there are small cores, can eat fresh one. Have a long history of planting, record according to " copies of office yuans of tortoise " second emperor since founding of a country Tang broken Gaochang country (today Turfan ) get horse milk grape and wine production technology; Cultivate in Turfan the grape in its successor's hinterland, prove from this to have a history over 1300 years; The sub grape of mare's milk has higher nutrition prices.