Spicy.
Of the seven flavors commonly used in cooking, salty, sweet, sour, spicy, fragrant, fresh and bitter, spicy is the most irritating basic flavor. Many delicious dishes need spicy flavor. This is not to blindly pursue the intensity of spicy, but to achieve: fragrant but not spicy, rich flavor, good taste, Xian Yi of all ages, so as to achieve the "Jianghu status" of a dish.
For example, the following dish.
A thriving jar of meat.
Jar meat is a traditional dish in Chenzhou, Hunan Province.
In ancient times, people in the village were not rich, so they could only eat meat during the Spring Festival. In order to prevent the pork from going bad, the locals salted the fried pork with salt and hot sauce in a big porcelain jar. In this way, the meat can not only be preserved for a long time, but also has a strong taste of fresh, salty and spicy, and emits a unique aroma.
Since then, this dish has become a favorite food of local people: jar meat.
Jar meat
Ingredients: earth hen (soaked), pork elbow (soaked), ringing skin (soaked), heart-shaped belly (pre-cut), tiger skin eggs, fried dumplings, crispy meat and wild mushrooms (watered).
The practice of jar meat
1, add pig elbows to the jar (the jar needs to be boiled in water for 10 minutes in advance to cool for standby, and it should be preheated to prevent cracking)
2. Add native hens (old hens over one year old)
3. Add tiger eggs
4. Add fried dumplings
5. Join the heart.
6. Add the sound skin
7. Add wild mushrooms
8. Finally, add the crispy meat.
9. Add Sichuan old ginger slices
10, add geranium
1 1, add one star anise.
12, add a few Hanyuan Zanthoxylum bungeanum
13, add sugar and cooking wine to the boiled bone soup.
14, add salt and mix well.
15. Add the sauce to the jar.
16, double-layer tin foil sealed the jar mouth and tied it tightly with rope.
17, put it in the pot, cover it with medium and small fire, steam or stew it for five hours (add enough water in the pot at one time)
18, take out the jar after five hours (be careful not to burn)
19, put red cloth on the table (red cloth is wrapped for beauty)