Meat dumplings
Meat dumplings are one of the many delicacies of Lead Mountain, is an indispensable dish for Lead Mountain people every New Year's Festival, every household must steam meat dumplings, meaning reunion, family joy.
Meat dumplings can be eaten as soon as they are steamed, and the meat dumplings that have just come out of the cage are steaming, fragrant, soft and tender, smooth and not greasy, sweet and sticky, crisp and refreshing, and endless.
In the past, meat dumplings were considered to be relatively valuable foods in the folk, and people only made and eaten them at the end of the Year to receive guests during the First Month. The craftsmanship of meat dumplings has been passed down from generation to generation and has become a favorite Spring Festival delicacy in Lead Mountain.
Ingredients for meat dumplings: sweet potato flour, pork belly, taro, shiitake mushrooms, carrots, water chestnuts.
How to make meat dumplings: cut the pork belly, taro, shiitake mushrooms, carrots, water chestnuts into small cubes, add the appropriate amount of sweet potato flour, water, soy sauce, salt, stir and mix evenly into a ball the size of a ping-pong ball and steam it on the steamer for 20 minutes.
History records that the meat dumplings of Lead Mountain once won the championship of the National Cooking Competition, the story starts from the tenth generation of the Ming Dynasty King Zhengde Emperor, lead mountain man Fei Hong was then in charge of the Hubu Shangshu, Zhengde Emperor said: "Fei Gelao, there are so many delicious things in your hometown you also bring some for me to eat", Fei Hong brought meat dumplings to the little emperor to eat, the little emperor will hold a national cooking conference to compete after eating, there are thirteen provinces and cities in the country to participate, and the lead mountain vegetables won the championship. This dish is meat dumplings.
Steamed pork dumplings