Oat noodles, of course.
Oat (yóu) noodles is processed from oat flour, in Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Hebei dam Zhangbei, Kangbao, Guyuan area is oat noodle food collectively.
Oat noodles contain calcium, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin and other nutrients needed by the human body and medicinal ingredients, oat noodles contain a special substance - linoleic acid, the human body metabolism has obvious effects. The nutritional composition of oat flour is more than seven times the nutritional composition of other flours, comparable to refined flour.
In addition, oat flour is also a very good health food, help weight loss and beauty. Just oat noodles are not easy to digest (dinner is best not to eat more), the amount of each meal to eat less.
Oat noodles are a specialty food in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, Datong Basin area in northern Shanxi Province, as well as the Tuimerchuan Plain and the Yinshan Mountain area in Inner Mongolia, and the southern part of Ulanqab City, and are mainly grown in the mountainous areas with a short frost-free period.
Oat is an annual herb. Short growing period, after maturity, the seeds are easy to detach from the shell, ground into powder can be eaten, it is called oat noodles, also called naked oat noodles, also called oat noodles, the seeds of this plant is also called oat. Flour processed from oat. After fine production into food.
The biggest feature of oat is its practice. The so-called "three raw and three cooked", that is, from the raw oat to be made into edible oat flour products, to go through the process of three raw and three cooked.
One life, one cooked
Oat harvested, pulled to the field threshing, threshing down the seeds is naturally raw, can not be eaten. This is the "lifetime". To grind the oat into flour, the grain must first be fried.
Support a large iron pot, will be good off the oat poured into the pot, under the frame of the fire, with a spatula slowly turning, quite similar to the street sugar fried chestnuts. Waiting until the oat grain fried to yellow cooked slightly burnt, wafted out the flavor, which became "a cooked".
Two raw two ripe
The fried grains of wheat ground into oat flour, which became raw again. This is the "second birth". Oat flour from the appearance, in addition to the color is slightly darker, and ordinary wheat milled flour is not much difference. The local old folks used to use wooden cabinets to store flour.
This kind of face cabinet outside the paint red paint, in the house is very eye-catching. The northern home furnishings are simple, a large part of the house is the kang, so the noodle cabinet is the main furniture, the family's good or bad, from the size and brightness of the noodle cabinet can be seen at a glance. When eating oat flour, it should be made into noodles first, and the most special thing is that you can't use cold water to make noodles, you have to use boiling water (locally called boiling water). Scoop the right amount of oat flour in the noodle bowl, mixed with half of the boiling water, and then you can make noodles.
Because it is boiling water and noodles, so this is the "two cooked". And good noodles, to be made while hot oat noodle products on the cage drawer to steam. Three raw and three cooked
Whether it is noodles, fish or nest, and then become raw (three raw). The next step is to add water and firewood, and then steam over the fire. When the steamer in the white smoke rising, the house filled with oat noodles that unique smell, oat noodles steamed cooked (three cooked). At this point, oat noodles can really eat.