There is a kind of bean in the northeast, which is light yellow in color, small in size and without tendons. It looks like the elder of the bean, which makes people reluctant to eat it. In fact, it is a kind of high-quality bean, that is, "golden hook", commonly known as "oil bean". As for this humble "golden hook", from listing to listing, its price will never fall, one to two times more expensive than ordinary beans. At the highest time, it can be sold for more than ten yuan a catty. Even now, the price of golden hook is around 5-7 yuan per catty, which is considered as a fine product among beans.
The name of the golden hook comes from its appearance color. The color of gold hooks is yellow when they are mature, and some gold hooks are golden yellow. It is not only special in color, but also different in meat quality from ordinary beans. Ordinary beans taste chewy, while golden hooks taste soft and glutinous, and are easy to cook, and contain no gluten. Especially when stewed with braised pork, it tastes really delicious!
Stewed golden hook with braised pork is also a home-cooked dish in Northeast China, because in restaurants in Northeast China, this dish has a high ordering rate and is very popular with everyone. Braised pork itself tastes soft and delicious, and with the unique taste of golden hook, these two ingredients are stewed together, which tastes waxy in the mouth and is not very greasy. So although it doesn't look very special, only people who have eaten this dish can know its taste, and finally they will deeply like this dish.
Braised pork and golden hook take a long time to make, and it takes at least one hour from processing to maturity. Therefore, it takes patience to cook this dish.
To cook braised pork with golden hook, we must first do braised pork well. As we all know, it takes a lot of time to cook braised pork, because braised pork needs to be stewed slowly, so that the taste will be soft and the shape of braised pork will be good. If the braised pork is braised in a pressure cooker, although the time will be shortened, the taste of braised pork will be much worse, so it will take at least 50 minutes to make soft and delicious braised pork.
After the braised pork is cooked, the golden hook can't be directly stewed in the braised pork, so it needs a pretreatment, that is, the cleaned golden hook is fried in a pot to remove the beany smell of the golden hook, and it can also play a role in shaping, so that the golden hook can maintain its integrity after stewing.
Next, I would like to share with you the complete method of stewing golden hooks with braised pork.
Braised pork with gold hook.
Ingredients required: 500g pork belly, 500g golden hook, a little anise pepper, 30g white sugar or rock sugar, 20g soy sauce, 20g onion ginger, refined salt 10g cooking wine 10g.
-How-
(1) Cut the pork belly into blocks with uniform size, add a small amount of cooking oil to the pot, and when the oil temperature is 30% hot, add sugar or rock sugar to stir fry. At this time, we must stir fry slowly with a small fire, because we are frying sugar. If the fire is too long, the syrup will zoom, and the color of sugar can only be controlled by slow frying. Only when the sugar is deep-fried to bordeaux and slightly foamed can the pork belly be fried to color.
(2) Stir-fry the pork evenly, add onion ginger, star anise, pepper, cooking wine and soy sauce, stir-fry evenly, then add a proper amount of water, boil water over high fire, and then turn to low heat for 40 minutes. After stewing for 40 minutes, the braised pork is already 80% ripe. At this time, we turn off the fire and pretreat the gold hook.
(3) Do not add oil to the pot, put the cleaned gold hook into the pot, stir-fry for five minutes with low fire, and stir-fry the gold hook until it becomes soft. At this time, you should master the temperature. Too much fire will scorch the golden hook.
(4) After the golden hook is fried, put it into the braised pork. Although there is not much soup in braised pork now, don't add water. Just stew 10 minutes on medium fire, and then add refined salt to taste.
The dishes are slightly red in color and there is almost no soup. It's similar to a dry pot dish, but it tastes soft and delicious. Take a bite and the taste buds will open instantly!
To make this braised pork stew with gold hook, you need to pay attention to the following points.
Braised pork must be stewed in advance, because the golden hook is not easy to stew for a long time. If braised pork is not cooked well, it will affect the overall eating effect of this dish.
② The gold hook needs to be fried in advance. This practice is not universal, but I often use it myself. This can remove the beany smell of the golden hook and make it taste better.
3 The gold hook itself is easy to cook, so don't stew it for too long, otherwise it will be too soft and rotten, which will not only look bad, but also greatly reduce the taste.