Recipes: Dongpo pork

To cook Dongpo pork, needs to select streaky pork washed clean, cut into cubes, sand mat onion ginger under a pot, pork skin good toward the bottom, add rice wine, soy sauce, sugar and bring to a boil, turn tenderly braised 2 hours. Some home or in restaurants, saute anise flavor, such as stewed meat again.

But do this step yet, stew meat and skin up, code in a large bowl, pour the boiling juice, on boiler steam for 30 minutes.

The table dongpo meat, often eat a bite, superposition of triple feeling: pork skin, fat tender, lean meat tender, the grease in the early and simmer walked off, fat but not greasy, taste fragrant meat, the rice is delicious.

Said to dongpo pork, have to mention a words and their stories: su shi was huangzhou, found here cheap delicious pork, but other people don't understand, then wrote the first doggerel: "his good pork, price and other dirt. The rich get refused to eat, the poor don't understand cooking. Slow fire, less water, when the temperature of foot since its beauty. The daily up and hit a bowl, mo tube filled with their king."

But the folk legend, this dish has a more grass-roots comes from. Northern song dynasty god XiNing ten years in April, su shi to flare xuzhou the year. Who thought of, July 7, the Yellow River burst unexpectedly in alliance consisting of cao village area. On 21 August, flood waters of xuzhou, water level and two zhangs eight feet high, and the people worried. Su shi led soldiers and civilians to flood control, to keep the xuzhou city, after the construction of water conservancy projects, also built "su causeway". The people appreciate Sue's adult, kill pig with yellow rice wine to send. Sue lives family cooked pork, with wine also pay for the people, but my family understand a pork dishes with rice wine, unexpectedly made of pork is more delicious, achievement of one party.

Think of this story, today in the aroma of dongpo pork is a little bit of feeling: "alone le le than the lele, together with all of you to eat meat, an unexpected bliss. Dongpo adult if you want to do with his meat, is probably will get a few years don't want to see stewed pork?!"