1. Separate the fat meat from the lean meat and chop the lean meat.
2. Wash the dried plums, soak them in cold water for 2 hours until they are soaked thoroughly, chop them for later use, and chop the shallots.
3. Add seasoning into the lean meat stuffing, stir evenly, then add a little cold water several times, and stir vigorously until the water is absorbed and the meat stuffing forms a sticky jelly shape; Add dried plums and fat into the prepared meat stuffing, mix well, make 5 balls and put them on a plate.
4. Boil the water in the steamer with high fire, steam the plate with meat pie in high fire 15 minutes until cooked, and then sprinkle with chopped green onion.
Cooking tips
1. Beat with cold water, or beat hard in a basin. The fat meat is cut into small pieces and finally mixed in. The meat pie tastes delicious, oily and loose.
Dried plum is a common traditional dish of Han nationality in Cixi, Yuyao and Shaoxing. There are different kinds of dried mustard, dried rape, dried cabbage and dried wild vegetables. Most of them are made at home. Let the leaves dry and pile up yellow, then pickle them, and finally dry them and can them. Oil yellow and black, fragrant, relieving summer heat, clearing viscera, resolving food stagnation, treating cough, promoting fluid production and appetizing. Therefore, Shaoxing residents must cook soup with dried vegetables every summer, which benefits them immensely. As for "Sliced pork with dried plum", it is a distinctive dish in Shaoxing and has been included in the China menu.