Non-greasy slightly crispy aroma Yan red tender frozen crystal dish - Jiangsu Zhenjiang cuisine

　　Pork, known as "crystal hoof" by the people of Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, is a dish cooked with the meat of the pig's pre-trotters with an appropriate amount of salt and salt. Many places in the north and south of the river are processed and made of meat, many people love to eat, but in Zhenjiang there is a strange thing of "dish dish", in fact, this is a unique local food culture phenomenon.

　　According to the "Qing Barnyard Banknotes and Diets", "The tea sips of the Zhenjiang people will be accompanied by dishes." The dishes are made of pigs and dolphins, first stained with salt, so that the taste is slightly salty, the color is as white as crystal, cut into pieces, and accompanied by tea when drinking, it is very delicious, and it does not feel that there is fat. "Sipping tea" means that Zhenjiang people have the habit of getting up in the morning to eat morning tea in a tea house, a pot of clear tea, a plate of meat, a dish of balsamic vinegar, and then add some ginger shreds, while tasting tea, while picking balsamic vinegar, accompanied by ginger shredded meat, this tea, vinegar, ginger, pork four spices into the mouth, unique delicious, unique taste, beautiful, endless aftertaste, enjoy is a kind of mouth blessing, completely forget that the meat is a dish.

　　Zhenjiang cuisine with exquisite materials, after 13 processes of size and meticulous workmanship, with "fragrant, fresh, crisp, tender, beautiful" five characteristics, fine meat crisp, food is not stuffed teeth; fat meat to fat, food is not greasy; unique aroma, umami tempting; skin white flesh red, brine transparent, smooth crystal, showing a different quality, thus winning the reputation of "crystal hoof". When eaten, it can be cut into different shapes according to different parts of the dish hoof. The two pieces of meat in the upper part of the front hoof claw are cut into pieces, shaped like glasses, the tendons of the food are soft and soft, the delicious flavor is beautiful, known as "glasses dishes"; the meat next to the front hoof claws, cut down and bent like a jade belt, its flesh is extremely tender, the entrance is melted, the fragrance is delicious, known as "jade belt dish"; the walking melon meat on the front hoof claw, fat and thin, delicious and refreshing, known as "Dongpo cuisine"; that piece of net lean meat connected to a thin bone, the taste is particularly good, known as "jade stick dish".

　　Different parts of the meat have different tastes and different tastes. Therefore, the writer Mr. Wang Zengqi's "Meat Color Is Not Contemptuous, Zhenjiang Cuisine Hoof" records: "Zhenjiang dish hoof, salted, added nitrate, enlarged basin with huge stones pressed, until the fat and lean meat are plated, taken out, cooked, dried to remove water vapor, cut thick slices, plated." The lean meat color is yin red, the fat meat is as white as mutton fat jade, and the entrance is not greasy. To eat the meat, it is necessary to dip it in Zhenjiang vinegar and add tender ginger shreds. After eating Zhenjiang meat, Zhenjiang folk writer, educator and poet Wang Jun thought that this was a supremely beautiful enjoyment, greatly sighed, and compared the delicious and beautiful scenery, and praised the poem: "The scenery is infinitely golden, and I love the Jingjiang meat even more." Not greasy slightly crispy aroma overflowing, Yan red tender frozen crystal dish. ”

　　(Pan Chunhua)