Suzhou people love to eat, know how to eat, can eat, eat noodles are still so, eat meat is not ambiguous. For fresh meat, Suzhou people have their own obsession. Soup dumplings, green balls, mooncakes, raw fried... But where the food that needs to be stuffed, it is indispensable to the figure of fresh meat.
This love of fresh meat does not stop at the world of dim sum. In Suzhou home cooking, meat filling is interpreted as a unique cooking technique, called "stuffed meat", which is very grounded. If you use the technical vocabulary in cooking, it is actually a "brewing" technique. Oil gluten stuffed meat, field snail stuffed meat, silver bud stuffed meat... Suzhou people "stuffing meat" is really not talking about playing!
Oil gluten stuffed meat // the leader in home cooking
In Suzhou, oil gluten stuffed meat is a well-known home-cooked dish. Suzhou people's Super Hearty Table for the New Year is always indispensable to this fragrant oil gluten stuffed meat, although the ingredients and process are very simple, but there is a taste that other dishes cannot match.
@The Art of the Stomach of a Foodie
Speaking of which, the oil gluten stuffing meat filling is also a test of patience, the gluten is opened in a small hole, hollowed out and can not puncture the thin and crisp skin, the adjusted meat filling is stuffed a little bit, the corner is full, pressed tightly, and then the hole is sealed.
Different cooking, different tastes. Prefer a little lighter, directly on the pot steaming; heavier flavor, can be braised. The flavors of minced meat, soup and gluten are infused with each other and do not distinguish between each other. The fragrant gluten skin is soft and juicy, and when you bite it open, your lips and teeth meet the rich meat filling. Two shiny and fragrant "meat stuffed gluten", a bowl of the most simple and unpretentious white rice, can make people feel satisfied.
@Shiba no ChiiChii
Green pepper stuffed meat // Memory of the taste of Suzhou
Green pepper stuffed meat, Suzhou dialect called: spicy tiger astringent meat, it is best not to use salt and use soy sauce to make the flavor, cook out the vegetable thick oil rubbing sauce.
Before cooking, hollow out the seeds and stalks, brew the minced meat in the thick green peppers, and cook them in a heavy oil sauce. After serving, the surface of the sauce-colored soup is layered with oil, the green pepper crumpled in the hot oil to form the so-called "tiger skin", and the slightly pointed slightly spicy and slightly spicy is neutralized by the meat aroma, and the meat is suitable. One bite down, not only has the clear aroma of green pepper, but also permeates the strong meat flavor, super rice ~
@YEYE1211
Flat Pony meat // A home-cooked dish in summer
It is a type of oblong melon that resembles loofah and raw melon, and there is a place called "zucchini". Suzhou people are more ate, as can be seen from this flat meat. The good end of the flat pu clear stir-fry, braised feel that there is nothing to eat, you have to stuff some meat into it.
The whole strip of flat pu is shaved out of the skin, cut into four or five centimeter segments, and then stuffed into the hollow flat pu, and then stuffed into the hollow flat pupa. It can be steamed or braised. Braised pork is lightly fried, with soy sauce and sugar simmered slowly. More elaborate points will add some shrimp, nutritious and delicious, more suitable for summer.
@Rudder white orchid
Snail stuffed meat // Season limited, fresh eyebrows
Suzhou people like to eat snails, and there are many ways to eat them. The most common and simplest way to do this is to directly handle the boiling pot, and the slightly more exquisite people prefer to make it into another slightly more complicated home-cooked dish - snail stuffed meat.
The seasonality of this dish is very strong, and the snail meat before the Qingming Festival is the fattest. It is also more troublesome to make, take out the snail meat, chop it and stir it with the pork, and then stuff it back. The stuffed snails are boiled in a pot and finally the sugar is added to collect the juice.
@ Butler's Day
There is also a trick to this dish, to buy green shell snails, the shell is relatively thick, it is not easy to break when it is put into the pot. For some people, it is a bit laborious to eat, and the meat hidden deep in the shell is often so purple that the dough is purple and cannot be eaten, but as long as it is ingested, the eyebrows are freshly dropped.
@Zhouzhuang
Cifu sai meat // very "Gangnam" delicious
Late autumn and early winter are the time when Cipu is on the market. Suzhou people eat Ci Zhen, with some exquisite careful thinking, can be cut into very thin slices, on the pot of oil into a crisp and delicious Ci Zhen slices; because of the bitterness of Ci Zhen, eating it is often inseparable from the thick oil red sauce of the roast meat method.
@Shizu
The mixed meat stuffing is stuffed into the cissel, and the whole dish is called fat but not greasy, fresh and delicious. A single one can produce 12, as many as 15, and it can often be seen at the dinner table during the New Year's Festival, which is inseparable from the auspicious meaning of "many children and many blessings".
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Silver bud stuffed meat // Cixi's beloved
Suzhou has a famous dish, which is Cixi's favorite, called silver bud stuffed meat. The so-called "silver sprouts" are actually bean sprouts. Bean sprouts are so fine, how can the meat be stuffed in? There are many people who have been famous for a long time, but few people have actually eaten it, and the reason is that this dish is really troublesome.
First use a needle to pick the bean sprouts into an empty tube, and then use the needle to stuff the ham meat into the bean sprout core. Empress Dowager Cixi liked to eat meat except for her name, but in her later years she did not move meat because her teeth were not good. So the imperial dining room thought hard about such a dish for her request to "eat meat without meat". In the Qing Dynasty's posthumous posthumous "Qing Barnyard Banknotes", it is written: "Skeletonized bean sprouts are empty, filled with chicken shreds and hams, and are most popular in Jiaqing.
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Suzhou people stuff meat, still follow the tradition of "exquisite". Although the cooking method is not difficult, it is a unique Suzhou flavor. With them, suzhou people do not have to be busy when entertaining guests, and there are several decent side dishes that can be handed.
Suzhou has so many "stuffed meat" cuisines, do you like it? Do you still know those "stuffed meat" delicacies? Welcome to leave a message at the end of the article~
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