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Szechuan cuisine

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Szechuan Cuisine or Sichuan Cuisine (川菜, pinyin: chuān c?i), originating in the Sichuan province of western China, has an international reputation for being spice|spicy and flavorful.

Some well-known Szechuan dishes include "Kung Pao Chicken" and "Twice Cooked Pork". Although many Szechuan dishes live up to their spicy reputation, often ignored are the large percentage of recipes that use little or no spice at all, including recipes such as "Tea Smoked Duck".

What many do not realize is that the chilli pepper|chili pepper, a common ingredient in Szechuan cuisine (often used unseeded), was only introduced to China following Christopher Columbus|Columbus's discovery of the New World. Chili peppers were perhaps introduced to the remote Szechuan province by Western missionaries. Previous Szechuan cuisine was not completely without spice, however. Szechuan pepper is an indigenous plant (fruit) that produces a milder spice, and is still a key ingredient in Szechuan food to this day. The reason for this emphasis on spice may derive from the region's warm, humid climate. This climate also necessitates sophisticated food-preservation techniques which include pickling, salting (food)|salting, drying (food)|drying and smoking (food)|smoking

Common preparation techniques in Szechuan cuisine include stir frying, steaming and basting. Beef is more common in Szechuan cuisine than it is in other Chinese cuisines, perhaps due to the widespread use of oxen in the region. Stir-fried beef is often cooked until chewy, while steamed beef is sometimes coated with rice flour to produce a rich gravy.

Some common Szechuan dishes include:

  • Chengdu chicken

  • Kung Pao chicken (宮保雞丁)

  • Tea smoked duck (樟茶鴨)

  • Twice cooked pork (回鍋肉)

  • Mapo dofu (麻婆豆腐)

  • Szechuan hotpot

  • Fuqi Feipian

  • Xue Zhou Yu


See also: Chinese Cuisine Hunan cuisine Cantonese cuisine Cooking

Category:Szechuan cuisine
Category:Chinese cuisine
ja:四川料理

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Szechuan cuisine".


Last Modified:   2005-04-13


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