Shanxi Spring Festival Cuisine: The First Cold Dish of the Founding Of the People's Republic of China"

"Improper dish of pork" is an introduction to Zhenjiang people who like to eat meat when drinking morning tea; "cooking pot lid in the noodle pot" refers to the pot lid noodles in Zhenjiang famous shop. Zhenjiang people are accustomed to dipping balsamic vinegar when eating meat, accounting for two "strange", so if you want to choose a dish to represent Zhenjiang cuisine, it is not meat. In addition, crystal meat was once used as the main dish of cold dishes at the "First Feast of the Founding of the People's Republic", so it was called "the first dish of the State Banquet", which showed its high status.

To prepare the crystal meat:

【Ingredients】Pig trotters to taste

【Seasoning】 Salt, green onion, ginger, star anise 20 grams, peppercorns 10 grams, cinnamon 10 grams, cooking wine, 10 grams of spices

steps:

1. Scrape and wash the pig's trotters, cut them open with a knife one by one, can not be cut off, remove the bones, put the skin down on the cutting board, poke some holes in the lean meat with bamboo skewers, and then sprinkle the salt water evenly, and then smear with coarse salt, 20 grams of star anise, 10 grams of cinnamon, peppercorns  spices are crushed together with 10 grams of spices, and after kneading evenly, put flat into a jar for about 3 days;

2. Soak the marinated pig's trotters in water for about 10 hours, then fish out, scrape off the dirt on the skin of the meat, and rinse them with warm water; 20 grams of star anise, 25 grams of cinnamon, 15 grams of peppercorns into a gauze bag, ginger slices, white onions into another gauze bag, respectively, the bag mouth is tightened;

3. Put the hooves into the pot, add shallot knots, ginger slices, rice wine, peppercorns, star anise and old brine, to submerge the meat noodles as the standard, boil with high heat, turn to low heat and simmer for 1.5 hours, turn the hoof meat upside down, and then continue to simmer for 1 hour on low heat, until the crisp is taken out, the skin is placed in the basin, scoop out a small amount of marinade, skim off the oil slick, pour on the hooves, and then press it with a heavy object, and after it is cold, it becomes a dish. When eating, slice and put into pots, followed by two small plates of ginger shredded and balsamic vinegar;

Finally, I attach two poems about meat as the end. A song "Wangjiangnan" said of the scene of morning tea in Yangzhou: "Yangzhou is good, and the tea house is invited." Add a thousand silk piles of fine wisps, cooked copper tobacco bags lying long seedlings, shochu crystal dishes. Another song only says the magic of crystal meat: "The scenery is infinitely golden, and I love Jingkou meat more, not greasy and slightly crispy, and the red and tender frozen crystal dishes." ”