The pig breed that must be used to make Jinhua ham is "Liangtouwu" (with black hair on the head and buttocks), which is characterized by thin skin, rich fat and sweet taste. Jinhua ham only takes fat and tender pig legs, and 5-9 kg pig legs are the first choice.

Jinhua ham is delicious. First of all, the choice of raw materials is very elegant. It takes the pig legs of improved pigs unique to Jinhua area as raw materials.

This kind of pig is black at both ends and white in the middle, hence the name "double-headed black", which is characterized by thin skin, thin feet, tender meat and fresh taste. Therefore, even if the master of Jinhua ham goes to other places, it is difficult to keep the delicious taste of Jinhua ham.

Secondly, the production is excellent, the processing is timely, and the salinity is moderate. Third, it should be properly kept, cleaned and dried strictly on time, and the legs should not be trimmed during the mildew season. Rub it with vegetable oil before stacking, which can not only avoid caterpillar damage, but also make ham shiny.

There are various cooking methods of ham, such as steaming, stewing, boiling, frying, stewing, simmering, frying, soaking, honey juice, making soup and so on. Steaming and stewing are the most common in daily family cooking. However, due to the different parts of ham, the practice is not the same.

Whole ham can be divided into fire claw, fire claw, waist peak and dripping oil. Fire claws and fire hooves should be matched with fresh pig's trotters and stewed with slow fire. This is the famous dish "Gold and Silver Claw" and "Gold and Silver hoof".

"Drip oil" is suitable for cooking soup to taste. Those accompanied by hairy bamboo shoots and winter bamboo shoots are called "fire bamboo shoots"; Accompanied by wax gourd, it is called "fire governor wax gourd"; Tofu is called "fire tofu" and so on.

Origin environment

Jinhua ham is made from the hind legs of Jinhua "Liangtouwu", combined with the special geographical environment and climate characteristics of Jinhua area and the unique pickling processing method formed by the people for thousands of years, the product has typical local characteristics.

Jinhua is located in the hilly basin in the middle of Zhejiang Province, with a unique landform of "surrounded by mountains and a river on three sides, with three rivers scattered in the basin". The late spring and early autumn are short, the summer is long and hot, the four seasons are distinct, and dry and wet alternate, which provides Jinhua ham with unique natural, geographical and climatic conditions.

Refer to the above: Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security Jinhua Ham.