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''Guokui'' (), literally "pot helmet", is a kind of ''
The dish is said to have been invented during the
File:Cooking Jingzhou style guokui.jpg, Cooking Jingzhou-style ''guokui'' in the traditional cylindrical oven
File:Dried mustard greens pot cake.jpg, With ''
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'' (flatbread) made from flour originating from Shaanxi cuisine
Shaanxi cuisine, or Qin cuisine, is derived from the native cooking styles of Shaanxi Province and parts of northwestern China.
Description
Shaanxi cuisine makes elaborate use of ordinary ingredients and is characterized by its noodles, lamb ...
.
Variations
The dish is said to have been invented during the Tang dynasty
The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, c=唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an Wu Zhou, interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed ...
by a laborer who cooked flatbread in his iron helmet over a wood fire. There are many different versions including Shaanxi, Jingzhou (Hubei), Henan
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, Sichuan
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, and Gansu
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.
Jingzhou style
Hailing fromJingzhou
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, Hubei
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, in this style the dough of flour, water, yeast and sugar is stuffed with either a savoury filling like chicken, beef, and pickled vegetables, or a sweet filling like red bean paste
Red bean paste () or red bean jam, also called adzuki bean paste or ''anko'' (a Japanese word), is a paste made of red beans (also called "adzuki beans"), used in East Asian cuisine. The paste is prepared by boiling the beans, then mashing or ...
. It is then flattened and cooked until crispy inside a cylindrical charcoal oven. Since the preparation resembles making Indian ''naan
Naan () is a leavened, oven-baked or tawa-fried flatbread, that can also be baked in a tandoor. It is characterized by a light and fluffy texture and golden-brown spots from the baking process. Naan is found in the cuisines of Central Asia ...
'' in a ''tandoor
A tandoor ( or ) is a large vase-shaped oven, usually made of clay. Since antiquity, tandoors have been used to bake unleavened flatbreads, such as roti (as well as leavened ones, such as naan) and to roast meat. Tandoors are predominantly use ...
'' oven, the dish is sometimes called "Chinese ''naan
Naan () is a leavened, oven-baked or tawa-fried flatbread, that can also be baked in a tandoor. It is characterized by a light and fluffy texture and golden-brown spots from the baking process. Naan is found in the cuisines of Central Asia ...
''".
Shaanxi style
The ''guokui'' originated in Shaanxi. In Shaanxi, a guokui is round in shape, about a foot long in diameter, an inch in thickness, and weighs about 2.5 kg. It is traditionally presented as a gift by a grandmother to her grandson when he turns one month old (滿月, a traditional custom amongHan Chinese
The Han Chinese, alternatively the Han people, are an East Asian people, East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China. With a global population of over 1.4 billion, the Han Chinese are the list of contemporary ethnic groups, world's la ...
). Along with biang biang noodles, they are considered one of the "Eight/Ten Oddities of Guanzhong
Guanzhong (, formerly romanization of Chinese, romanised as Kwanchung) region, also known as the Guanzhong Basin, Wei River Basin, or uncommonly as the Shaanzhong region, is a historical region of China corresponding to the crescentic graben str ...
".
Gallery
meigan cai
Meigan cai, also called mei cai, is a type of dry pickled Chinese mustard of the Hakka people from Huizhou, Guangdong province, China. Meigan cai is also used in the cuisine of Shaoxing (), Zhejiang province, China.
The pickle consists of a who ...
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File:Beef 锅盔.jpg, Beef ''guokui''
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File:陕西八大怪铜雕——锅盔像锅盖 - panoramio.jpg, Statue depicting Shaanxi/Guanzhong style Guokui
See also
*List of Chinese dishes
This is a list of dishes in Chinese cuisine
Chinese cuisine comprises cuisines originating from Greater China, China, as well as from Overseas Chinese, Chinese people from other parts of the world. Because of the Chinese diaspora and the hi ...
* List of pancakes
This is a list of notable pancakes. A pancake is a flat cake, often thin and round, prepared from a starch-based batter (cooking), batter and cooked on a hot surface such as a griddle or frying pan. In Britain, pancakes are often leavening agent, ...
References
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