Xianghe meat pie is a specialty of Xianghe County, Hebei Province. My impression is that it was first sold in Beijing during the 1990 Asian Games as the "Meat Pie King" on the Fourth Ring Road. Is there Hou Baolin in the store? inscription. This pie is larger than a large pizza, very thin, with several layers, and the fillings are mostly pork and green onions. It is said that when making cakes, the ratio of noodles to meat is 1:1, and the ratio of fat to lean meat is 1:1.

Xianghe meat pie has a history of more than 200 years, and its predecessor can be traced back to Turkic pancakes more than a thousand years ago. Because the Turkic nomads have plenty of beef and mutton but little pasta. Thin-crust meat pies are specially made to show hospitality when entertaining guests. Later, this method of making cakes spread to the Uighur and Hui areas of the ancient ethnic minorities. In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, moved the capital to Beijing, and a large number of Hui people moved into the Jingdong area.

Among the Hui people who immigrated to Xianghe, there was a family named Ha who opened a restaurant called "Hajiadian". The skill of making meatloaf was also brought here. After hundreds of years of study and operation, Xianghe Meatloaf has a unique flavor and unique style. Xianghe meat pie spread throughout Beijing and Tianjin during the Qianlong period. At this time, the owner of "Hajiadian" not only developed the shape and taste of the meat patties to the best state, but also raised the production craftsmanship to the level of "art". It is said that Emperor Qianlong took Liu Luoguo'er to the Xianghe area for a private visit and visited "Hajiadian". Before leaving, he wrote a poem: There are strange cakes in Xianghe River, and the old woman’s skills are new. After a meal in this shop, I will forget all the treasures in the world. Since then, Xianghe meat pie has become famous all over the country.

Features Introduction

More than forty years ago, there was a "Hajia Old Store" on Chengbei Street in Xianghe County. Meatloaf was the specialty meal served to tourists. The famous "Jingdong Xianghe Meat Pie

Meat Pie" is actually the meat pie here. The meat patties in this shop are only half an inch thick when stacked three together. It is generally large and round, with a diameter of one and a half feet. It looks like it was made from a mold. After rolling it out, it is thin, soft and big. You can use the rolling pin to spin the cake around without any wrinkles on the dough. Bake it into a uniform brown color in the pan. Once the heat is up, the cake will puff up into a ball, which proves that the dough is as thin as paper, but there is no leakage of filling or air. After puffing up, use a long-bristle brush to brush oil on both sides of the cake. The dough will be translucent with the oil, and the filling can almost be seen. If some ground or one side is not very transparent after being oiled, it means that the dough on both sides is not as thick as usual. The skin is crispy when cooked, and there is a tender and fragrant meat filling inside. When this kind of meat is not cooked, the dough plays a connecting role, and when cooked, the meat filling is connected together to become a large round cooked meat slice. Therefore, such a big cake is not broken even though it is crispy. When making this kind of noodles, the noodles should be "added crispy". Otherwise, no matter how much oil is applied to the cake, it will not be crispy. The degree of crispiness depends on the level of skill; the method of chopping the meat is particular, mutton is used, and occasionally beef is used. After the meat is chopped properly, turn it over and smash it with the back of a knife to smash the meat into puree. Add an appropriate amount of water and stir it into porridge. Only put onion, ginger and condiments in the pry, without vegetables. The standard when baking is that one pound of water should be filled with half a pound of meat filling. Mix stuffing with sesame oil. Brush the skin with soybean oil. Eat meatloaf with vinegar and garlic. Not only is it delicious, it’s also not cloying. We have all the staple and non-staple food, which is very convenient and affordable.

Flavour characteristics

This kind of cake is delicious because it has less noodles and more meat. A large cake is made of one pound of noodles, two pounds of meat, and one pound of green onions, and is about two feet in diameter. Everything from Xianghe Meat Pie

from kneading the noodles to making the stuffing is very particular. The dough should be neither cold nor hot, neither soft nor hard, smooth and soft when kneaded, easy to roll out, and the skin is as thin as paper and elastic. The meat filling, either beef or mutton, is chopped with the edge of the knife and smashed with the back of the knife to form a meat paste. Various filling seasonings such as onion, ginger, garlic essence, etc. are put in, and then stirred with sesame oil. Therefore, the Xianghe meat pie has three complete and dense layers - two layers of paper-like thin skin sandwiching a layer of whole pie-shaped meat filling, which is as uniform as silk and has no defects. I saw the chef turning the pan again and again, the dough was browned and gradually turned into a round ball. There is no leakage of filling or air in the huge meatloaf. Then brush it with oil, and the paper-like dough is soaked in oil and becomes translucent, with a few meat fillings visible. After taking it out of the pan, it becomes a Xianghe meat pie that is brown in color, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, oily but not greasy, and mellow and delicious.

Other information

Nowadays, the types of Xianghe meat patties are gradually increasing. The Han people mostly use pork as filling, and then stir in a small amount of strong-flavored vegetable fillings such as leeks and fennel. The Fengxianghe meat pie has a unique flavor.

Nowadays, there are more than 200 large and small restaurants in Xianghe, and they serve "Xianghe meat cakes". However, the skill of pancakes with a stick is hard to see.

In order to pass on the skill of meat pie, Xianghe has established several "Xianghe Meat Pie Training Schools" and has registered trademarks, making it a patented specialty of Xianghe. Some non-authentic stores can only call them "Jingdong Meat Pie" or something else. The brand comes to market.