Fried squid head

The head of fried squid is one of the representatives of Kaifeng traditional cuisine. It is also the traditional dish of Kaifeng, another new restaurant known as “the first authentic yin dish”. It has the reputation of “fantastic taste”. This dish was well-received in the Central Plains at the end of the Qing Dynasty. It was dominated by large squid, and the head and tail were used to put the knife on both ends. The fish scallions were rounded between the head and the tail. After the two sides of the pot are fried yellow, the bamboo shoots, mushrooms and onions are used as ingredients, and the pot is simmered with high soup and medium and small fire. The juice is thick and fishy, ​​and the color is red. The food is tender and tender, and the aroma is mellow.

Squid, also known as black mullet, black mullet, it feeds on mollusks, the head is rich in fat, known as "fish brain", has anti-inflammatory and detoxification effects. As early as in ancient times, people liked food. In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there were already "three hundred tails in the day" for the consumption of Linchuan Wang Xiaohong. In the Song Dynasty, because the squid meat was fine and white, the taste was pure, and it was highly praised by the Song Dynasty food lovers. At that time, the mother of Song Gaozong, who had been sent back to Lin'an, was obsessed with the squid that was eaten in Kaifeng on that day. The wife of Qin Hao’s wife, Wang, once worshipped a hundred tails. Afterwards, she was beaten by Qin Yu and said that she should not be enshrined. a lot of". In 1923, the 65-year-old Kang Youwei Yu Xuejing (Kaifeng), after another taste of the fried squid head and tail in another village restaurant (now another new hotel), was amazed, and the Western Han "singular flavor" - " "Wu Houyu" is an allusion, immediately wrote the four characters of "flavored cooking Hou". Yu Xing did not finish, and inscribed on a folding fan: "The sea memory confidant, the younger brother Kang Youwei", was given to the "cooking stove" Huang Runsheng (Chinese famous chef, one of the founders of another new hotel).