Do you want to eat Macheng meat cake? Teach you how to do it

In Macheng, Hubei Province, there is a special delicacy called meat cake. It is characterized by fusion has become one of the most important delicacies of Macheng folk, in the eyes of Macheng people, making meat cakes for the New Year is a big thing, but also a tradition to celebrate the New Year.

From green silk to white hair, although Macheng has long changed its appearance, the taste of the meat cake made by my grandmother has always lingered in my heart. Today, I tie up my apron and roll up my sleeves, hoping to pass on the practice of this hometown meat cake.

First prepare a fresh live fish, peel it, chop it into a fine mushroom, and then peel the fat and lean pork belly and chop it into a meat paste. Then take a bowl of water, pour in the starch and stir slowly, add the chopped fish and knead it repeatedly. When the fish pulp is sticky, add the minced meat, mix with ginger and salt, and stir well. Spread the made puree on clean gauze, put it in a steamer basket, steam it for 20 minutes, until the surface of the meat cake becomes soft and elastic, spread the beaten egg yolk on top of the meat cake, and after 5 minutes, the fragrant handmade meat cake can be baked.

From an ordinary fish, a piece of pork, after fine chopping, fusion, stirring, steaming cake, to make a tender and soft meat cake, all these imaginative transformations, let people reflect the flavor of meat cake and the sublimation of nutrition, breathtaking. Meat cake has long become a part of Macheng culture, and the taste of hometown it carries also needs to be inherited and promoted by you and me.