Fujian cuisine is one of the eight major cuisines in China, and southern Fujian cuisine is an important part of it. It covers dishes from Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Putian in Fujian Province. Minnan people have their unique local culture and habits in terms of diet.
From the perspective of staple food, their main food is not white rice or pasta. Three meals a day, white dried rice, white porridge, salty rice, salty porridge, noodle paste, fried rice flour, sweet potato porridge, braised dough, etc. divide their appearance rate.
Savory salty rice is one of the specialty staple foods in southern Fujian. If there is a happy event at home, building a house (building a house), or having other matters, and a large group of people are invited to help, the owner often treats him with salty rice. There are children aged one or 16 in the family. Before hosting a banquet, each household in the village will collect salty rice (meaning divided). Of course, the kind will be cooked better (meaning very good ingredients). There are quite a lot of things to add to the rice, usually a combination of meat and dried seafood. After all the ingredients are cooked together, they are sprinkled with red onion oil, and then dipped in a special southern Fujian sweet spicy sauce. When eaten, the flavor is strong and the aftertaste is endless.
On the street, from hotels to restaurants, salty rice is stocked, and there are many shops that specialize in salty rice. This shows the extent to which salty rice is eaten in southern Fujian.
Southern Fujian Xian Rice
Recipe Recommendations
- salty and fresh
- cook
- half an hour
- simple
Steps for Southern Fujian Xian Rice

1
Prepare rice.
2
Prepare three layers of meat, carrots, salty para fish, and green onions.
3
Prepare peanuts, pearl mushrooms, dried shrimps, and dried oysters.
4
Wash the rice, add appropriate amount of water, mix in soy sauce and salt, and soak for a while to make it color and taste.
5
Peanuts are fragrant after frying. (Or stir-fry)
6
After soaking, shred the mushrooms, shred the carrots, and remove the bones and tear the salty bala fish into small strips.
7
Cut the three layers of meat into small strips and add to the pan and stir-fry until golden brown.
8
Then add shredded mushrooms, dried shrimps, dried oysters, and para fish.
9
Stir well until fragrant.
10
Stir fry until fragrant, remove, add the shredded carrots to the soaked rice, stir well and start cooking.
11
After cooking, pour in the red onion oil and turn the rice evenly.
12
Sprinkle with peanuts and chopped chives.
13
Serve on a plate and serve. It tastes better with sweet spicy sauce.Southern Fujian Xian Rice Make Tips
1: When cooking salty rice, you should not add too much water. The cooked rice should have clear grains, so that it tastes particularly good! 2: Add water before adding ingredients (according to the proportion you like when cooking), because after adding ingredients, it seems that the amount of water cannot be grasped well in a large pot. 3: After cooking, it should be stuffy for a while, so that the rice will be more transparent and fragrant. 4: Be sure to add red onion oil, which will greatly improve the quality and taste of salty rice. 5: Ingredients can be adjusted according to your favorite taste.