An Giang is another name for beef sausage with a delicious and strange taste. This is also a typical dish of the Cham people living in Chau Doc.
An Giang is a tourist destination in the West that is loved by many tourists because there are enough gentle rivers, mountains and plains lying next to each other with many romantic destinations. Not only famous tourist attractions, check-in corner such as Sam mountain tourist area, Sap mountain, Ta Pa lake , Tri Ton, but also attracts diners everywhere because of the long list of specialties. lead, deliciousness.
An Giang is the land of many famous specialties. Photo: chotot
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So when traveling to An Giang , do not miss the opportunity to explore the interesting cuisine with bun Mam or snack paradise in Chau Doc market , jaggery beef cake, … and especially An Giang – one of the strange and familiar specialties of this land.
Unleashed a specialty is An Giang’s specialty. Photo: hoidulich
If you just look from the outside, everyone can comment that this dish looks no different from normal sausage, but when you enjoy it, you will definitely feel the special taste of roasting. Because not only delicious, richer than normal sausage but also possesses a very unique culinary taste of the Cham people and especially the surprise comes from the ingredients that make this dish. Let’s explore all the features from the name, the way of processing, the origin to the way to eat this delicious An Giang !
Why is it called “breaking the furnace”?
An Giang province is located adjacent to the Cambodian border, and is also the residence of many people: Cham, Khmer, Chinese, Vietnamese … so it has a diverse and rich culture. That is the reason why the dishes here have a distinct ethnic identity, but are all interchanging and converging, and is a distinctive feature of the Southwestern cuisine.
Unique dishes of the Cham people of Islam. Photo: Doanhnhanplus
When you first arrive in An Giang, whether you check in the Sap mountain resort, visit Sam Chau Doc mountain or climb Co To mountain , on the way you can easily see many long dark red scrolls exposed on the trees. or bamboo stalls. That is tossing the furnace – famous and unique dish of the Cham here.
The Cham people in An Giang are Muslim, so they eat pork and only beef. According to many local people, the name of launching An Giang mole is derived from the name “tung laomaow”. The origin of this name comes from the way to call a typical Cham dish that “tung” means intestine, and “laomaow” is a cow. So “tossing laomaow” means beef in the intestine. After being disseminated, this dish is read by Vietnamese deviations into “rolling the oven” as the present, translated into sausage beef.
Trying to find Vietnamese people read out the Cham word ‘tung lamaow’. wikimedia
According to the legend of the Cham people, in the past, in the chaotic times, the earth was completely sunk in silence. At that time God (Allah) felt sad when he realized that there is no life on earth. So he sent the angel to take four kinds of clay black, white, yellow, red to form the first man, Nabi Adam, who had only body but no soul. However, the appearance of Adam has made the demons fear that their power will be taken away for a long time. One day, waiting for Adam to fall asleep, they pull back together to defecate him to humiliate him. When he woke up, he realized that his whole body was stinking, so he was extremely painful and embarrassed.
The sausages of beef are grilled on an embers stove, the crust is stretched and fat iridescent. Photo: vntrip
A loving God, he sent Adam to bathe Adam with water from heaven. And during the cleaning process, the dirt on Adam’s body gathered and turned into a pig, a dog. After cleansing Adam had a vow: “Pigs and dogs are my enemies and my descendants.” Since then, Cham Muslims consider pork and dog meat as taboo food. That is also the reason why An Giang was later launched – a variation of sausage that used beef instead of pork.
Previously released slaughterhouse ranks snacks nực own Cham Muslims and mainly popular in all areas of Chau Doc, Tinh Bien and Tri Ton, … Today, delicacies have become special The real estate is loved by many tourists everywhere.
The process of making dishes unleashed An Giang oven
As a traditional dish of the Cham people, rolling the oven is also known by a more familiar name than beef sausage. Right from the name says the main ingredient that makes up this delicious Chau Doc .
Delicious food, attracting many visitors. Photo: dulichhoanmy
To make a deliciously delicious dish, you need to have beef gut, beef, beef fat and many other spices such as pepper, garlic … and especially cold rice. This unique dish is often grilled or fried and whether eaten with rice or eaten separately as a target dish is also extremely delicious.
Although there are simple ingredients, there are also certain requirements on the selection stage. Accordingly, the beef to make this dish must be an Indian beef that is allowed to roam freely in the field to have firmness. According to the standard way of launching the Cham weaving oven, it is necessary to take the “salvaged” meat parts of the cow such as meat trim, beef fat and beef intestines, then chopped and then stuffed all the beef intestines. One note is that to get the best beef sausage, one has to choose meat from the thighs, muscle or lean meat.
After preliminary processing, all ingredients are taken away to deodorize with alcohol and ginger, marinated for a while to absorb, then minced with beef fat, mixed with esoteric spices in appropriate proportions. Finally, the Cham people will stuff all the ingredients into the intestines of the pre-cleaned beef and dry in the sun for about 3 days to use.
After finishing the furnace, it must be sun-dried to seize. Photo: tieudungvne
In addition to beef, An Giang beef sausage also uses a special ingredient, which is cold rice added during the process. Because rice after being fermented will create a strange sour taste for the eaters and stimulate the taste buds, reducing the appetite of this An Giang delicacy . But if the fermentation is not to your taste, don’t worry, you can still try tossing the oven without sour.
How to eat open the oven in accordance with An Giang
As a special version of sausage dish, there is also a standard way to enjoy grilled (Cham language is kilete) or fried (chuh). When eating, this dish must ensure that it remains hot to be less greasy and does not have the fishy smell of beef fat.
Beef sausage is usually grilled or fried, served with rice or as bait. Photo: Thanhnn10
It can be said that baking is the way to cook this unique dish to promote its “forte”. Because when each plant is baked directly on a burning charcoal stove, the aroma of beef mixed with the fat and spices covered by thin intestines will be increased. Especially when grilled on both sides just cooked, you will enjoy the finished product which is a delicious dish made of crispy golden beef on the outside, chewy and sweet in the middle, mixed with a little soft, sour inside with more pepper. spicy is extremely catchy.
When baked, An Giang is the best when it is cooked, then eat there, while still hot. The feeling of sitting next to the charcoal stove, then watching each piece of cooked beef sausage with the sizzling sound falling in the smoke, aroma is unforgettable, making you think about it and feel very craving.
Eating with sour food will make the dish tossing the oven more delicious. Photo: @lasan_phung
People often eat hot pots like how to eat sausages, dipping with dipping sauce made from pureed seed sauce or chili sauce, soy sauce is delicious. This famous specialty of Chau Doc also has another way to eat it with pickles, herbs including basil, cilantro, canola, raw banana or if you like, you can also eat with rice paper, vermicelli or rice for a few slices of sweet and sour papaya.
Roasting on embers is the most common and simplest way to cook oven. Photo: mavinfood
Just pick up a piece to open the An Giang oven and take a bite, diners will feel the sweetness of meat and beef fat, the strange sour taste of fermented cold rice mixed with the pungency of pepper. Then the crisp and fragrant sweetness of raw vegetables, sour star fruit, and bananas melted together on the tongue, creating an unforgettable culinary experience.
How to cook the oven to cook until it is cooked? Photo: helenhotel
In addition, people also often use the oven to open as a dish with chasing palm. Or, after enjoying beef sausage, you can reward yourself with a glass of sweet jaggery for dessert.
Beef sausage – rolling the oven is not only a delicious and precious dish but also a specialty full of feelings of Cham people for visitors to the land of An Giang. Today, this dish has gone beyond Chau Doc, An Giang and is increasingly popular in many parts of the country as well as abroad.
The food is precious but also filled with the feelings of the Cham people. Photo: vietravelasia
If you have the opportunity to go to the West and travel to An Giang , do not forget to enjoy this famous beef sausage specialty, to fully feel the deliciousness of the nutritious dish with new but bold taste. ethnic identity momentum of the Cham people, demonstrating this culinary cultural intersection of Vietnam – Hoa Cham. Visitors will forever remember the taste of launching An Giang when leaving this land.
If you have not had the opportunity to visit An Giang but want to try to open the furnace, you can buy a few pounds at the address Nguyen Van Cu, Cau Kho ward, district 1 for only 180,000 / kg, processed by the Cham people. for sale.