Fujian Xiamen's roasted meat dumplings have a long history, with sweet and tender, oily and not greasy, fine work and other characteristics. There are many varieties of rice dumplings in various parts of Fujian, including salty dumplings, bean dumplings, sweet dumplings, meat dumplings, etc., and the only Xiamen meat dumplings are more famous. Xiamen meat dumplings taste sweet, oily and not greasy, red and yellow shiny in color, full of attractiveness for tasting. When eating, it is dipped in garlic paste, mustard, red hot sauce, radish acid and other condiments, which are sweet and tender, and the oil is not greasy. Hokkien dialect "hot" and "burnt" have the same meaning, the so-called "roast meat dumplings", that is, rice dumplings that are eaten while hot, and hot food has more flavor. A roasted meat dumpling, put a little Xiamen sweet and spicy sauce is the taste of Xiamen's most Dragon Boat Festival. Not too extravagant to ask for how exquisite, but nourishing and mellow, simple is happiness!
Roasted pork dumplings
In Xiamen Zongzi can be used as a dim sum, eaten all year round, especially Xiamen Roast Meat Dumpling is a long history, although there are many shops have Zongzi, but each has its own secret recipe, the taste is also different. The rice dumplings here include signature meat dumplings, meat dumplings, salted peanut dumplings, peanut red bean dumplings, alkali dumplings, etc., just like rice dumpling experts. Looking at the eyes, let people try a pill right away. What you eat now is placed in a large steamer, and you can eat it directly when you open it. Signature meat dumplings, oily and not greasy, red and yellow shiny in color, and the ingredients actually have 6 kinds, sausage, pork belly, dried scallops, salted egg yolk, chestnuts, shiitake mushrooms, a grain of rice dumplings, full of materials, and large pieces of pork belly, the whole grain of salted egg yolk, is really rich, the soft sticky salty aroma of the entrance, it is really addictive, too delicious. You can also add special peanut butter to eat on the spot, which is more intense.
Impression when I was in elementary school, every morning near home there was an Abel riding a bicycle through the streets and alleys to sell rice dumplings, listening to the sound is particularly easy to summon hunger, sometimes late to eat breakfast, grandpa rode a bicycle to send me to school passing by, will buy a rice dumpling by the way to let me sit in the back seat to fill my stomach first. When I was a child, I always looked forward to the Dragon Boat Festival, and the memory of the Dragon Boat Festival in my childhood was indispensable to the figure of my grandmother. Grandma hurt me since I was a child, and every time it was close to the Dragon Boat Festival, she would ask me, "What kind of stuffed rice dumplings do you want to eat, Grandma will wrap it for you." "Although my taste is the same every year, I want to eat chestnuts and salted egg yolks this year, and I want to eat dried scallops and shrimp next year, but Grandma can always change the law to meet my requirements." Every Dragon Boat Festival, Grandma would prepare wormwood in advance, and on the fifth day of the first month of May, it hung on the doorknob of each room, and I could smell the faint smell of wormwood when I woke up and pushed the door open.
When I was a child, my grandmother wrapped rice dumplings and I watched from the sidelines. She usually uses two rice dumpling leaves, overlaps the leaves, concave in the palm of her hand into a funnel shape, puts in rice and filling, flattens, tightly wraps the palm leaves, and then flattens, presses the two corners with her hands, pulls the rope that has been tied in advance, and winds it several times with force, and the tightness of the rope is very testing experience and hand strength. Listening to Grandma, when boiling rice dumplings, you need to reserve room for expansion, so the rope should not be tied too tightly or too loosely. Grandma's rice dumplings are particularly large, the filling inside is particularly large, and the rice dumplings are tightly wrapped, and the rice will not be exposed when the pot is cooked. Grandma's rice dumplings include the north and south, there are roasted meat dumplings that pack mountains and seas, and there are alkali dumplings dipped in honey, the former is the best to eat hot, and the latter is the most refreshing to eat after being cooled. Friends, Xiamen Dragon Boat Festival food "roast meat dumplings", have you eaten?