Shandong's gastronomic culture has a long history, and the delicious food is innumerable, whether it is the snacks on the Shandong Daji or the special cuisines of various places, which are the embodiment of Shandong's gastronomic culture. Today, I would like to introduce you to a famous food in Shandong, "Powder Belly". This dish is also classified as an intangible cultural heritage, which is not only delicious, but also amazing in its production. Powder belly is made of pork urine bubbles, that is, pig bladder wrapped in cured meat, the taste is very delicious, is an indispensable dish for people in Shandong during the festival. The shop we introduce today has a history of more than 80 years.
1, use two tons of meat every day
Their family's powder belly is very famous in the local area, in order to ensure the quality of the ingredients, the boss uses fresh meat pulled from the slaughterhouse every morning, never use frozen meat, because the powder belly made of frozen meat will taste very poor. Because the amount of meat used to make powder belly is very large, it is necessary to use at least two tons of meat every day, and it may be more during the New Year's Festival. From the amount of meat used, it can be seen that their business is very good.
2. Production process
The owner is very young and more than 30 years old, and the boss and his whole family are making this powder belly. According to the boss, it was learned by the boss's grandfather in 1938 when he worked in a restaurant and a chef, and later improved it. Although the secret recipe is ancestral, but there is learning, it does not matter whether to pay tuition or not, as long as you are willing to learn, you will teach.
The boss briefly introduced the production process of powder belly: first wash and slice the meat, put it in a large blender, then add ginger and secret spices, pour sesame oil, soy sauce and starch to start stirring. The boss said that the selection of ingredients for making powder belly is very exquisite. For example, sesame oil, the boss uses the first sesame oil, which is more fragrant than the sesame oil sold in stores and supermarkets. Starch must use mung bean starch, although mung bean starch is much more expensive than corn starch and sweet potato starch, but the effect will be very good. And the powder belly is to rely on the stickiness of the mung bean starch itself, so that the powder belly is more flexible and the taste is very good.
After the meat and spices are stirred, you can put the meat into the pork urine bubble that makes the belly, and the aunt who makes it says that it can only be filled with 7 points, otherwise it will crack if it is too much. After installing it, it can be boiled under the pot with a wire seal, it does not need to be boiled for too long, just need to be boiled in the pot to be fished out, and then wrapped in a rag to set the shape. After the package is wrapped, it can be brine in the pot, and after the brine, it needs to be dried for two hours before the wrapped rag can be unwrapped, which is the production process of the powder belly, which is indeed very cumbersome. But if you want to eat good food, you need to be patient.
3, 33 yuan a pound, up to 8000 pounds a day
According to the boss: this powder belly is generally normal to brine 5 pots a day, each pot is 400 pounds, a day is 2000 pounds, every New Year's Festival, then more brine, about 20 pots per day, that is, 8000 pounds converted into 4 tons. It seems that making powder belly is also a physical work.
Evaluation: This powder belly is not noodles at all, but it is very elastic, if you use chili oil, soy sauce, garlic juice to eat it should be better.