Braised pork is one of the hot dishes, with pork belly as the main ingredient, and the cooking skill of braised pork is mainly casserole. Braised pork is a famous local dish, which fully embodies the characteristics of this local dish "thick oil red sauce" The taste belongs to sweetness. Braised pork is fat but not greasy, and no one doesn't like the attractive smell, unless it is Hui nationality or naturally doesn't like pork.
Braised pork also has certain nutritional value: Chinese medicine believes that pork is warm and sweet, and has the effects of moistening stomach, promoting fluid production, invigorating kidney and qi, and clearing away heat and toxic materials. It is mainly used to treat body fluid injury caused by fever, thirst, emaciation, kidney deficiency, postpartum blood deficiency, dry cough, constipation, tonic deficiency, nourishing yin and moistening dryness, nourishing liver and yin, moistening skin, diuresis and quenching thirst. Pork soup can make up for the symptoms such as irritability, dry cough, constipation and dystocia caused by insufficient body fluid. Pig skin and trotters have the effect of "harmonizing qi and blood, moistening skin and beautifying", and ladies who love beauty can eat more pig skin and trotters. Look, braised pork is very nutritious!
However, some people can eat braised pork, while others can't eat too much: 1. Generally healthy people and people with diseases can eat it, but eating too much will make people consume too many calories, and the excess calories will be converted into fat and stored in the human body, which will lead to obesity, which will easily lead to many diseases; Eating too much or cold food is easy to cause gastrointestinal fullness or abdominal distension and diarrhea; For fat and lard, people suffering from hypertension or hemiplegia, stroke, stomach cold deficiency, fat deficiency, excessive phlegm and dampness, and indigestion should use it with caution or eat less; 2. Braised pork is suitable for people with yin deficiency, dizziness, anemia, dry cough and phlegm in the elderly, dry stool and malnutrition; 3. People with heavy damp and heat, excessive phlegm and greasy tongue coating should not eat pork. Therefore, no matter how delicious things are, there are also fly in the ointment.
Understand the nutrition of braised pork and its suitability for people, and then I will talk about the simple method of braised pork! The main ingredient of braised pork is pork belly, and the seasoning is ginger, onion, star anise, fragrant leaves, peanut oil, soy sauce, sugar, salt, monosodium glutamate and brown sugar. Although the raw materials of braised pork are quite simple, the whole production process is somewhat complicated and time-consuming. But as the saying goes, "Slow work makes fine work" and "You can't eat hot tofu if you are impatient". If you don't have so much time to spend, the taste of braised pork will not be authentic: soaking in cooking wine 15 minutes, boiling on high fire for 30 minutes, stewing on low fire for 60 minutes, and collecting juice in an iron pot for 30 minutes.
This is my favorite braised pork-tender and delicious braised pork!