[new Year’s Eve Dinner] You Can’t Do It with Brine

Name: [new Year’s Eve Dinner] You Can’t Do It with Brine
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 piece Pork tongue; 1 piece Tangerine peel; 4 pcs Dried chili; 3g salt; 2 pieces Dried Tofu; 2 pcs star anise; 1 small bowl Soy sauce

by Little Five's Food, Drink and Fun

4.8 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Normal

Time

2h

Serving

2

In the past, when celebrating the New Year in Chaoshan, a whole braised goose was prepared as a big dish at the end of the year to pay tribute to the ancestors, to comfort the ancestors and the family for their hard work this year. However, as life improves, there are more and more choices for New Year’s Eve dinners. This custom has begun to evolve. However, when banqueting guests during the New Year, Chaoshan people still like to have a brine platter. The common ones are braised goose and braised pig. Choose freely according to personal preference, match and eat.
For this year’s New Year’s Eve dinner, I chose pork tongue and dried bean curd and made a bittern double. Pig tongue, Cantonese pig hengli, has the meaning of getting rich and prospering. Tofu, the square is just like the official seal, plus the homophony of "gan" and "official" in the Chaozhou language. Reading cleverly, the poor students can leapfrog the good wishes of the dragon.
The beautifully implied braised pork tongue tastes crispy and delicious, while the dried tofu is tender and refreshing. "

Ingredients

1 piece Pork Tongue
1 piece Tangerine Peel
4 pcs Dried Chili
3g Salt
2 pieces Dried Tofu
2 pcs Star Anise
1 small bowl Soy Sauce

[new Year’s Eve Dinner] You Can’t Do It with Brine

1. Wash pig tongues and pot under cold water.

[new Year’s Eve Dinner] You Can’t Do It with Brine recipe

2. Boil and blanch; remove.

3. Scrape the tongue coating (white part) with a knife.

4. Prepare the old tangerine peel, star anise and dried chili and wash them.

5. Put the pork tongue, old tangerine peel, star anise, and dried chili in a casserole.

6. Add 1 small bowl of light soy sauce.

7. Add boiling water that can basically cover up the tongue of the pig.

8. Bring to a boil on high fire.

9. Turn to low heat and cook for 40 minutes, remove the dried tangerine peel and add salt.

10. Rinse dried tofu with water.

11. Put the dried tofu into the brine pot, turn to medium heat and boil, then cook for 10 minutes on low heat, then turn off the heat.

12. Let the pork tongue and dried tofu soak in the brine until the brine cools, and pick up.

Tips:
Dried tofu and pork tongue are put in the pot separately, the time for marinating is shortened, and the fragrance of dried tofu can be maintained.
The ingredients of brine can be freely increased or decreased according to personal preference.