Meat swallow, also known as "Taiping Swallow", Fuzhou flavor snack also.
The origin of the meat swallow, there are many opinions, there are rumors that this is the Ming Jiajing years, there is a royal history to return to the hometown to Pucheng, Fujian, taste the taste and insufficient, the family kitchen under the thought, take the lean meat of the pork leg, swing the wooden hammer into the mud, mixed with sweet potato starch, and into the meat puree powder ball, such as rolling wonton skin on the case rolled into a piece of paper as thin, cut three inches to see the square thin slices, wrapped in meat filling, made into flat food that is, the northern people called wontons, after cooking, Yushi tasted only smooth and crisp, pure fragrant Qinren, even called "big wonderful", asked what name, the family chef because of its shape like a flying swallow, It is called "flat meat swallow".
Later, because Fujian has many seas and prosperous fisheries, duck eggs in Fuzhou dialect are harmonious with "suppressing chaos" and "pressing waves", so folk customs like to cook flat meat swallows and duck eggs together, implying "Taiping", and the meat swallows have "Taiping Yan".
Since then, the people of Fuzhou have celebrated the New Year's Festival, weddings and funerals, relatives and friends gathered to say goodbye, and they will eat "Taiping Yan", taking the auspicious meaning of "Taiping Peace". There is a saying that "no 'yan' is not a feast, and no 'yan' is not a year".
In the past, the legend of meat swallow heard a lot, helplessly did not have the opportunity to see and taste, one year, led the filming of the food documentary "Search Fresh Record", came to Fuzhou, in the three lanes and seven lanes of an old shop called "Tongli meat swallow" to see the production process of meat swallow, and taste this taste, as desired, there is a mouth blessing, there is a mouth blessing.
The shopkeeper Lao Chen, people are quite bold, Chinese dress, beard long, talk like Hong Zhong, command more than ten guys, all dressed in short shirts, big waist round, not himself, set up a number of meat piers, select pig hind leg meat, placed on the pier, Lao Chen under the order, the guys wielded a wooden hammer, this wooden hammer is two feet long, the head is about a foot, for the cylindrical shape, the back foot is the handle, the wooden hammer flips up and down, the ear only hears the clanging sound in the ear, the hammer seems simple, but under close observation, it is very exquisite and quite skilled, the right hand holds a wooden hammer, each hammer , the left hand needs to extend the middle finger of the index finger to stir the meat puree clockwise, pound it and stir it, so that the fiber of the meat can be strengthened, hammered for a moment, Lao Chen began to take the trumpet again, hi ya ya yo, hi ya yo, the sound of the trumpet mixed with the sound of the wooden hammer hitting, like listening to the pull fiber boatman, very heroic.
When the fresh and lean pork is hammered into a meat paste, then sprinkled with potato flour, just like the noodles, kneaded and kneaded into a meat paste dough ball, placed on the board, holding a rolling pin, repeatedly pressing, rolling into thin slices, this method is similar to rolling wonton skin, to be rolled until it is as thin as paper, take a round stick, wrap the round skin around it, or fold the knife to cut, or cut with scissors, this is still exquisite, cut into a filament called "swallow silk", cut into pieces is called "swallow skin". Swallow shredded can be cooked like noodles, because it contains fresh meat, and it is also delicious when boiled in water. The swallow skin is wrapped in meat filling, called meat swallow. The meat swallow is shaped like a ravioli, but compared to the wonton, the meat swallow has less filling and fragrant skin.
Meat swallow wrapping method, also exquisite, with a little girl of meat swallow, put the meat swallow skin on the hand, put the filling in one corner, roll up with chopsticks, hold the hand tightly, wrap the thumb and index finger around and pinch, a meat swallow into the end. After wrapping the meat swallow belly drum tail scattered, shaped like a swallow, cooked in the pot, the tiger tastes it, the swallow skin is as thin as white paper, its color is like jade, smooth and delicate, and the meat filling tastes soft and tender, the soup is delicious, the taste buds are above, the meat swallows have flown!
As desired, there is a blessing of the mouth, and there is a blessing of the mouth.
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