Dongpo pork knuckle for all ages
Dongpo pork knuckle for all ages
Meishan is located in the southwest of the Sichuan Basin. The Minjiang River and Qingyi River flow through the territory, forming fertile land. The mild and rainy climate provides suitable growth conditions for the growth of various crops. There must be good food in places with abundant products! And Meishan has become a famous food and cultural city because of the birth of a great writer, the top ten Su Dongpo. This is the former residence of Su Dongpo. He and his father Su Xun and Su Che are also called Sansu, leaving behind many poems and songs that have been passed down through the ages. At the same time, it is also a food enthusiast and recorded in poetry, becoming a generation of gourmets.
Dongpo pork knuckle is one of the most widely spread Dongpo dishes, and it is also a masterpiece of Dongpo carnivorism. Dongpo elbows are fat but not greasy and soft but not rotten. They are stained with fragrant soup and melted in the mouth, leaving a sweet and sour glutinous stick between the lips and teeth. Meishan people eat elbows, and they also need to match a few sour and delicious appetizing kimchi, which can relieve the greasy! The mellow aroma of meat and the hot and sour of kimchi mix into a wonderful compound flavor, which is free and unrestrained on the tip of the tongue. Anyone who has tasted Dongpo elbow can't stop the chopsticks in their hands.
Dongpo pork was invented when Su Dongpo lived in Huanggang, Hubei. At that time, Huanggang pigs were so cheap that the rich didn’t want to eat them and the poor wouldn’t make them. Su Dongpo developed a unique cooking method: choose a good pork elbow and use it first. Soak in hot water for an hour and cook for another half an hour. At this time, add pepper, dried chili, ginger, green onions, and white wine and simmer for another two and a half hours. When the chopsticks can gently rub the elbow, the elbow is cooked! This is not over yet!
Next is the sauce: use minced ginger and bean paste with chili, sugar, soy sauce, etc. to make a beautiful and delicious sauce! Let the spicy ginger and the fragrant flavor of the bean paste fill the elbows. Finally, sprinkle the green onion diced and coriander moer, and a delicious Dongpo elbow is completed!
There are many flavors of Dongpo pork knuckles, and you can make DIY sauces according to your own preferences. Do it yourself is a different flavor! You can try it!
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