Mei Cai Kou Po-a Must-have Hard Dish for The Spring Festival Family Dinner

Mei Cai Kou Po-a Must-have Hard Dish for The Spring Festival Family Dinner

by mature11

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Difficulty

Easy

Time

1h

Serving

2

This dish is super delicious, and even the soup is delicious. How can it be missing for the Spring Festival family banquet!

It is better to cook less fried, fried, and steamed for healthier cooking. Many partners feel that steamed vegetables are not tasty, and they are too light to eat. Actually, it is a misunderstanding of steamed vegetables. It is not the choice of good ingredients and methods. Steamed vegetables can also be delicious with rice, even the soup is delicious.
Mei Cai Kou Po is a very classic dish, especially after Mei Cai absorbs the taste of the gravy, it is more delicious and can relieve greasiness. How can this delicious horizontal dish be missing from the family banquet of the Spring Festival? It doesn't need too much frying, it's relatively simple to make, just chat with your family and you're done.
Pork with salted vegetable (English name: Pork with salted vegetable) is also known as salty roasted white. It is a characteristic traditional dish and belongs to Cantonese and Hakka dishes. Among them, Meizhou, Guangdong is the most representative (the true source of Pork with salted vegetable should come from Sichuan cuisine, in the traditional Sichuan banquet dishes, the salty roasted white (Mei Cai buckled pork) and the sweet roasted white just form a pair of dishes).
Usually the pork belly is boiled in a soup pot, added with dark soy sauce, deep-fried and colored, and then cut into slices of meat. Then add green onion, ginger and other seasonings to fry for a while, then simmer in the soup over a low heat, put the pork belly in a bowl, top with the plum slices, pour the original soup and steam it thoroughly. When taking the dishes, buckle the meat back on the plate. After being cooked, the meat is rotten and fragrant, tastes salty and slightly sweet, fat but not greasy.
According to rumours, after the Central Plains Han people moved south, they lived in poverty, many of them engaged in physical work, and the labor intensity was high. Usually, meat is rarely eaten, and fatty foods can effectively satisfy hunger. The dishes they eat are salty, and the sauces used are relatively simple. Generally, they only use raw green onions, cooked garlic, and coriander to taste. The Hakka people make pork belly with ingredients, and then steam the meat pads on dried plums to make a delicious dish with oily color and strong aroma. With the passage of time, this kind of cuisine has gradually become famous all over the world, and it is the "meats with meat" that we often taste.
Mei Cai is mainly produced in the Meizhou and Huizhou regions. According to legend, it is a kind of vegetable sent to Mei Xiangu, so Mei Cai is a traditional Han Chinese dish in Guangdong. It is a preserved food and is also called "Huizhou Tribute Cai" in Huizhou. The fresh plum vegetables used in the country are made through multiple processes such as cooling, drying, selecting, and floating salt. The color is golden, the aroma is tangy, sweet and refreshing, not cold, not dry, not humid, not hot, not only can it be a unique dish It can also be used as an ingredient to make Mei Cai Kou Po, Mei Cai Steamed Pork, Mei Cai Steamed Beef, Mei Cai Steamed Fish, Mei Cai Soup and other dishes.
Speaking of "Mei Cai Kou Po", it has appeared on many occasions, especially during the New Year, because of its festive color and atmosphere, it is more prosperous, so it has become an indispensable classic dish on the New Year's Eve dinner table. The color of this dish is bright red and oily, the juice is sticky and delicious, the meat is soft and mellow, fat but not greasy, and the food is soft and rotten; the soup is more fragrant and delicious when the plum is soaked in the meat. The thick meaty aroma of pork belly and the delicate aroma of dried plums match each other perfectly. It smells fragrant and has a long aftertaste when you eat it. It is very popular with everyone.

Ingredients

Mei Cai Kou Po-a Must-have Hard Dish for The Spring Festival Family Dinner

1. The dried plums are soaked in boiling water for 30 minutes, washed several times and squeezed out the water

Mei Cai Kou Po-a Must-have Hard Dish for The Spring Festival Family Dinner recipe

2. Put the whole piece of pork belly in cold water and cook in a pot. After the pot is boiled, cook for 15 minutes to fully remove the blood foam and fishy smell. Remove and rinse with hot water, let cool and freeze in the refrigerator for about half an hour (this makes it easier to change the knife and slice). Cut the cooked pork belly into slices with a thickness of 0.5 cm.

Mei Cai Kou Po-a Must-have Hard Dish for The Spring Festival Family Dinner recipe

3. Add fermented bean curd juice 1 tablespoon soy sauce, 2 tablespoons dark soy sauce, 2 tablespoons cooking wine, 1 tablespoon white sugar, 1 tablespoon, dip the sliced pork belly on both sides of the sauce to color, and use the rest of the sauce to set aside

Mei Cai Kou Po-a Must-have Hard Dish for The Spring Festival Family Dinner recipe

4. When everything is done, find a large bowl and place the colored pork belly slices neatly on the bottom of the bowl

Mei Cai Kou Po-a Must-have Hard Dish for The Spring Festival Family Dinner recipe

5. Cut ginger and green onions and set aside!

Mei Cai Kou Po-a Must-have Hard Dish for The Spring Festival Family Dinner recipe

6. Heat the cooking oil in a frying pan, add the green onion and ginger until fragrant, add the dried plum and vegetables to stir fry

Mei Cai Kou Po-a Must-have Hard Dish for The Spring Festival Family Dinner recipe

7. Stir-fry the dried plum for three minutes, add the remaining sauce of the pork slices, half a teaspoon of salt, and 1 tablespoon of sugar to taste, and stir-fry for another minute

Mei Cai Kou Po-a Must-have Hard Dish for The Spring Festival Family Dinner recipe

8. Fill the whole bowl with the sautéed dried plums and vegetables,

Mei Cai Kou Po-a Must-have Hard Dish for The Spring Festival Family Dinner recipe

9. Steam for 40 minutes on an electric pressure cooker, 2 hours for a normal pan! After steaming, take out the big bowl, cover the plate, hold the plate with your thumb, put four fingers on the bowl, reverse the bowl at the fastest speed, gently uncover the bowl, and the meat is completed. Sprinkle some scallions on the surface when serving.

Mei Cai Kou Po-a Must-have Hard Dish for The Spring Festival Family Dinner recipe

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Mei Cai Kou Po-a Must-have Hard Dish for The Spring Festival Family Dinner recipe

Tips:

Tips:
1. For pork belly, choose three layers of fat and lean pork belly. Boil the meat in a pot under cold water and cook for 15 minutes after it is boiled to fully remove the blood and fishy smell, as well as to remove excess fat, which makes it healthier to eat.
2. Meicai should choose good quality, no sediment, and the sediment in poor quality is difficult to clean with repeated washing liquid.
3. There are many ways to cook pork with Mei Cai. The more traditional method is to deep-fry the skin into tiger skin. This step is omitted here. After trying it once, I don't think it will increase the flavor compared to not deep-frying, and deep-frying is not very healthy. The key is that the oil splashes heavily when frying the pork skin. If you want to fry the tiger skin, you must pay attention to the pork belly. When frying in the oil, you must wipe off the surface water. When the meat is out of the pot, immediately cover the pot to avoid oil splashing. It hurts people, otherwise the oil will splash all over the kitchen! ! !
4. Pay attention to the amount of salt to be controlled, soy sauce, soy sauce, fermented bean curd juice are relatively salty, don't put too much salt.
5. Don’t throw away the leftover dried plums, cook some meat slices, wrap the bottom of the soy sauce, fill in the remaining dried plums, and continue to steam, each time it’s more fragrant, the more you steam it, the more fragrant it becomes!

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