Pork is the meat we eat most often, and it is more affordable and easy to make than beef and mutton. There are too many ways to cook pork, and the number of ordinary home-cooked dishes is innumerable, and roasted white, salted fried meat, back-pot meat, ginger shredded meat, etc. are more common home-cooked dishes. Pigs can actually do roast whole pigs like roasted whole sheep, maybe we usually eat relatively little, after all, it is difficult for the average family to use a large fat pig of several hundred pounds to roast, and the roast chicken roast duck eats more.
Roasted whole pig, the unthinkable is to clean the whole pig on the stove to eat, after high temperature stewing, the thick fat of the pork is reduced, leaving is the protein that is beneficial to the human body, sterile and easy to store, eat themselves or give gifts are very convenient. However, because the whole pig is too big and too heavy, and it needs to be roasted with firewood such as fruit wood, it is generally difficult for us to make it ourselves at home, and if we want to eat roasted whole pigs, we have to go to the restaurant to buy it.
Today to introduce you to a very famous roasted whole pig in Jinan Zhangqiu, Shandong Province, there are many roasted whole pigs on a local street, but the most authentic and delicious thing to get to his family, this shop can be traced back to 400 years ago, the owner's surname is Huang, has been the 22nd generation. Moreover, the brothers directly inherited the ancestral business after graduating from college, although the society has mixed praise for their schooling to do roast pigs, but people do build mansions and TV by making roasted pigs.
Do roast whole pig is a strength work, rely on the brothers and several people in the family can not do, but also invited several Hercules helpers, baked every day, in the high season can roast twenty or thirty pigs a day, the boss said that when the Mid-Autumn Festival, at least 20 heads a day are not sold.
The craft of roasting whole pigs is also passed down from generation to generation, to the bone removal of a move are skilled, not only to blow air under the skin, so that the skin and meat have a gap in the taste, the skin of the meat should also be marked with a flower knife, the width should be controlled in each piece of meat is two centimeters, if it is too wide Pork is not easy to bake through, too narrow then the meat is easy to crush, the depth of the cut meat should also be exquisite, the minimum standard is not to scratch the white meat.
After the raw pork is taken care of, it is necessary to start the yardting, each piece of pork crevices should be evenly smeared, his family's flour contains but is not limited to peppercorns, sand kernels, cardamom, fennel and other herbal spices, after the yard is finished, let stand marinating. At this time, it is necessary to burn the fire, to use fruit wood as fuel, after burning the fire, to remove the smoke to control the fire, start to put the whole pig into the fire pit, 10 minutes later to raise the pig to determine the furnace temperature, and then immediately go down the furnace to prevent the furnace temperature from falling, roasting after 45 minutes can be out of the oven, lift out the roast pig scrape off the surface of the scorched black, you can eat a large piece of meat.
Freshly baked roast pork, you can smell the aroma from afar, the pork skin is crisp and crispy, the meat is tender, the fat is not greasy, the flavor is delicious, and the taste varies according to the different parts of the pork. In addition to the outer skin, personal favorite to eat the middle of the tenderloin part looks very bright flesh color, delicate dripping love, eat tender and fragrant; tendon meat is more chewy, bad teeth are not recommended to eat this piece, like to drink can be this part of the wine, very good.
Maybe the southerners will feel that his roast pork is slightly salty, you can buy a piece of fire, that is, burn the cake to eat, the meat sandwich steamed bun made of roast pork has a different flavor, especially the selection of fat and thin parts, the aroma of grilled meat and the wheat flavor of the roast cake are integrated with each other, and it is eager not to grow more than a few stomachs. Some people say that it is not very tasty to eat alone, and stewed cabbage or tofu is very good.