Listen to the older generation, donkey meat and dog meat are not on the table, that is to say, donkey meat is generally not used to entertain distinguished guests, there are also older generations of people said, donkey meat is not easy to do, do not do well will be difficult to eat! But there is also a folk proverb "dragon meat in the sky, donkey meat on the ground", which elevates donkey meat to the same high status as "dragon meat", which is simply the pinnacle. But who has ever eaten dragon meat? Of course, no one has ever eaten it, dragons are legendary magical things, of course, "dragon meat" does not exist. The polarization of good and bad donkey meat also shows that people, at least some people, are unfamiliar with donkey meat and rarely eat it.
Most of the so-called cuisine originated from folk respect, and gradually formed a relatively characteristic local snack or dish through the accumulation of time. The same is true for donkey meat, Luxi, Ludongnan, northern Anhui, western Anhui, northwestern Henan, southeastern Jin, northwestern Jin, northern Shaanxi, Henan, and many places around Hebei have formed unique traditional foods and local famous foods. Such as Zhao County salted donkey meat, Qingzhou capital Jiahe donkey meat, Feidong Shitang Xunzi donkey meat, Junan old local donkey meat, Ermiaoju village donkey meat, Gao Tang Lao Wang Zhai donkey meat, Hejian donkey meat fire, Guangrao donkey meat, Baoding Caohe donkey meat fire, Cao Ji donkey meat, rice fat donkey meat, Shangdang bacon meat, Luoyang donkey broth, Jiaozuo soup donkey meat, Baodian donkey meat, duoshi donkey meat, etc.
According to scientific nutrition measurement, from the perspective of nutrition and food science, donkey meat has a better taste and higher nutrition than beef and pork. The amino acid composition in donkey meat is very comprehensive, and the content of 8 essential acids and 10 non-essential amino acids is very rich. Tryptophan is an important substance to identify whether the protein in meat is comprehensive, and it is also an important indicator to evaluate the quality of meat. The content of color amino acids in donkey meat is 300~314mg/100g, which is much larger than pork (270mg/100g) and beef (219mg/100g), so the quality of donkey meat is better than that of pork and beef.
Nutritional value Donkey meat has the characteristics of "two highs and two lows": high protein, low fat; high amino acids, low cholesterol. It has a good health care effect on arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease and hypertension. In addition, it also contains ingredients such as animal glue, bone glue prion and calcium, which can provide good nutritional supplements for the elderly, children, the weak and those who are recuperating after illness.
Suitable for people: the average person can eat, especially for the thin and weak. Suitable for accumulation of years of strain, long-term illness after the lack of qi and blood, shortness of breath, fatigue and thinness, loss of appetite, palpitations and poor eyes, insufficient yin blood, wind and dizziness limb cramps, sleepless dreams, functional uterine bleeding and hemorrhagic purpura and other symptoms; plain spleen and stomach deficiency, chronic enteritis, diarrhea those who avoid eating donkey meat.
Different parts of the donkey have different ways to eat, such as the donkey belly meat is the most smooth, used to make white cuts without violent destruction; donkey bones are not easy to taste, take red stew; the most classic is XO sauce fried donkey intestines.
Donkey meat is fresh and naturally how to do it well, but the smell is not easy to remove, especially the white cutting method, there is no other ingredients, the smell of donkey meat is easy to emit, affecting the whole dish. To remove the smell, the new porridge city has a magic method, that is, fresh donkey meat to take, we tried to eat the most elastic donkey meat that day, soaked with medicinal herbs, and then added old chicken, southern ginger, star anise and fragrant leaves to cook, and then put into the refrigerator to freeze, commonly known as "ice", hot expansion and cold shrinkage can make the meat become firm and elastic. White cut donkey meat on the end, you can see that the slices are full, keep the two skin eight points of meat, bite down, donkey skin elastic teeth, smooth, donkey meat tender, if dipped in soy sauce or mustard oil, it is more flavorful.
Red braised donkey bones are a good dish to eat. Donkey ribs are selected, made of horseshoe, garlic, curd bamboo, ginger and other fires, the juice is rich, the flesh is strong, first cooked and then used for ten minutes. In particular, the rotten bamboo, which is permeated with the aroma of donkey bones, is very delicious. Donkey intestines are directly fried with parsley, garlic, hollandaise beans, etc., and stir-fried with fragrant XO sauce, each donkey intestine is soft and not tough.
Chinese medicine believes that donkey meat is sweet, cool, non-toxic, has the effect of relieving upset and stopping wind and madness; modern medical research believes that donkey meat is a high-protein, low-fat nutritious food, it contains animal glue and other nutrients, which can well nourish the body.
(Author: Xu Jingchun)