Production steps

1, pork belly with skin. Cut into 3 cm cubes. Blanch it with boiling water.

2. Set a fire in the wok. Add pork belly, white sugar, ginger slices and cooking wine (yellow wine) and fry until cooked. Add soy sauce to color, then add broth to boil, pour in dried plum vegetables, and simmer on low heat until crispy vegetables are soft. Add monosodium glutamate before serving.

Pork belly, also known as "three-layer meat" or "three-line meat", is located in the abdomen of pigs. There is a lot of fat tissue in the belly of a pig, including muscle tissue, which is fat and thin, so it is called "pork belly". This part of lean meat is also the most tender and juicy.

Pork is rich in high-quality protein and essential fatty acids, and provides heme (organic iron) and cysteine to promote iron absorption, which can improve iron deficiency anemia. Sweet and salty, flat in nature, entering the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians; Tonifying kidney and nourishing blood, nourishing yin and moistening dryness; Indications are fever, body fluid injury, thirst, emaciation, kidney deficiency, postpartum blood deficiency, dry cough, constipation, tonic, nourishing yin and moistening dryness, nourishing liver and yin, moistening skin, relaxing bowels and quenching thirst. Pork soup can make up for irritability, dry cough, constipation, dystocia and other symptoms caused by insufficient body fluid.

Shaoxing, Ningbo, Jinhua, Lishui and Fuzhou in Jiangxi are called "dried plum vegetables", Taizhou in Zhejiang is called "dried plum vegetables" and Meizhou in Guangdong is called "dried plum vegetables". There are dried mustard tuber, dried rape, dried cabbage, dried winter vegetables and dried wild vegetables, most of which are homemade at home. The method is to dry the leaves, pile them into yellow, then add salt to pickle them, and finally dry them and put them in a jar.

Dried vegetable oil is 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.