Snacks in Urumqi

Every place has its own special food, and Urumqi is the same. People who often go to Urumqi know that Urumqi has many delicious snacks. However, people who have never been there, if they go there for the first time, may not know what delicious snacks are available in Urumqi. There are many of the most delicious special foods in Urumqi. The following is a detailed introduction to the food of Urumqi.

Snacks in Urumqi

Xinjiang fried noodles

Xinjiang fried noodles is a special snack in Xinjiang. The main raw materials are ramen, mutton, onions, green peppers, etc. High-gluten flour is better, and the taste is fresh and spicy.

Baked buns

Baked steamed buns (called "Samusa" in Uyghur) and thin-skinned steamed buns (called "Pitelmanta" in Uyghur) are one of the favorite foods of Uyghur compatriots. This kind of food is mostly sold in restaurants and food stalls in urban and rural bazaars. Baked buns are mainly baked in a naan pit. The bun skin is rolled out thinly with unleavened dough and the four sides are folded into a square. The filling of the buns is made with diced lamb, diced lamb tail oil, onion, cumin powder, salt and pepper, etc., add a small amount of water and mix well. Put the wrapped raw buns in the naan pit and bake them in just over ten minutes. The skin is bright yellow, the meat is crispy and tender, and the taste is fresh and fragrant.

Naren

Naren is a delicacy from Xinjiang pastoral areas, with distinct pastoral characteristics. This delicacy is also called hand-pulled meat or hand-pulled mutton noodles. It is usually cooked with mutton, horse meat, and beef, and is a local delicacy of ethnic groups such as the Kazakh and Kyrgyz. The secrets to making this kind of noodles delicious are: first, use an appropriate amount of salt water when kneading the noodles to make them hard, and second, make the broth thick. In the past, herdsmen would kill sheep and make this kind of meal to entertain distinguished guests. Naren usually likes to eat it with milk tea, because milk tea can remove greasiness.

Rice sausage

A famous dish made with sheep offal. The method is to wash the sheep lungs and large intestines, wash out the gluten from the kneaded flour with water, add oil and salt to make a paste, pour it into the flour lungs, then tie the trachea tightly, put it in water and boil it for about two hours. Rice sausage is made by mixing chopped lamb liver, lamb heart, lamb intestine fat with pepper, cumin powder, and salt into rice, boiling it in water for half an hour, pricking holes in the intestine to allow air to leak, and boiling it for an hour until it is cooked.

Smoked Horse Sausage

Smoked horse meat and smoked horse sausage from Yili, Xinjiang are essential foods for the Kazakh people to survive the winter. From the end of November to December every year is the peak season for Kazakh herdsmen to smoke meat. At this time, they would select some fat and strong cattle, horses and sheep and slaughter them for consumption during the winter. In order to preserve the meat for a longer period of time, they adopted a method that had been used for many years - smoking. At the beginning of winter, Kazakh families slaughter livestock to prepare winter meat, which is then pickled, smoked and dried to survive the winter. The smoked meat has a strong aroma and is durable in storage. The smoked meat sold on the market is basically similar, with some seasonings added, such as cumin, pepper, Sichuan pepper, onion, etc., and can be cooked or steamed. Smoked horse sausage is the best quality smoked meat.

Grilled Lamb Kebabs

Grilled lamb skewers are the most famous ethnic snack in Xinjiang. The main raw materials are mutton, onion, salt and so on. Mix the mutton and onions and marinate for a while to reduce the mutton smell.