Daixian pickle making technique

Shanxi
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Dai County is known as the "Vegetable Daizhou". The record of pickling vegetables and fruits can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. At that time, there were many soldiers stationed around Yanmen Pass, officials and officials were mixed, and food and grass were collected from a long distance. Vegetables were not easy to store and had to be adjusted locally, so the folk craft of pickling pickles came into being. In the process of using salt to pickle vegetables for storage, the clever and hardworking ancestors passed down and continuously improved the process from generation to generation, making it an important part of Dai County's food culture. Dai County pickles are finely made, with exquisite ingredients and a full range of styles. Its flavor characteristics are rich sauce aroma, bright brown, sour and salty, and delicious. It is famous in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Mongolia, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan. There are big dishes and small dishes of pickles, which are divided into pickled, salted, sugared, and vinegared. Different ingredients and different processes will produce different flavor characteristics. The raw materials generally include white radish, mustard greens, kohlrabi, lettuce, potatoes, celery, cabbage, fennel, milk melon, small eggplant, sharp pepper, ground pear, melon strips, etc. The ingredients include black sauce, yellow sauce, vinegar, soy sauce, pepper, bitter bean, fennel, ginger, garlic, chili, etc. There are also various methods of pickling, including dry pickling, pressure pickling, brine pickling, bleaching pickling, rapid pickling and lactic acid fermentation, etc. There are more than 100 varieties of large and small. The most common varieties are pickled radish, sauerkraut, yellow vegetable, old pickled vegetables, pickled kohlrabi, pickled melon strips, pickled eight treasures, assorted, sour and spicy beans, garlic eggplant, sweet and sour ground pear, chili sauce, etc. Daixian pickles are finely made, with rigorous craftsmanship, exquisite ingredients, and a full range of styles. Today, Daixian pickles, on the basis of inheriting and carrying forward this traditional skill, combine it with modern food processing technology, and continue to innovate, making this ancient art wonder shine again. (No pictures available, please provide them.) (No pictures available, please provide them.)

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