This traditional dish created in the Qing Dynasty, in the social form at that time, not every people can afford to enjoy the food, it appeared in a variety of royal relatives of the banquet. The reason why it was so embraced, enough to show that this seemingly ordinary soup in the society of the dietary status at that time.
Soup explosion double crisp practice mainly to pig belly and gizzard do raw materials , the gizzard after washing, with a knife to cut, in general, more than the use of the cross form of the knife. After preparation, put the pork belly and gizzards into a pot, add water and bring to a boil, cook over high heat until the gizzards are seven years old, and then remove the pork belly and gizzards all together, cooking quickly ensures crispness of the ingredients.
Then add wine and pepper and other ingredients, into the pot, and then use the fire will broth boil, really give the pork belly and gizzards crisp taste, is the fire into the ingredients of the time control. Too much time will result in pork belly meat is hard and not easy to chew.
This classic dish from Shandong, there is still a legend. According to legend, during the Kangxi period, the emperor, who was quite fond of private visits, came to the Shandong province, which is also known as Penglai, on a high autumn day. In the morning, the weather was clear and sunny, and in the evening, it suddenly started to rain, and Kang Xi was trapped in the field and cold and sleepy, and there was nothing he could do.
This is a quick and agile squire to find a way to make a hunting trap , we can only hope that there is a prey on the hook in the moment of skepticism, and waited for two hours, the people opened the trap found that actually caught all the time pheasant and mountain pig. The first time I saw this was when I was a young man, and it was a very long time ago, when I was a young man, and it was a very long time ago. The usual martial arts in the face of such a scenario but can not start, but fortunately the ability to adapt to the valet is very strong, three times five and two will be the pork and chicken processing clean, and in the fireplace on the grill up.
Looking at a meal not dealt with offal, Emperor Kangxi felt too oozing, between the remaining pork belly and gizzards and other viscera thrown into a simple pot, adding fresh water and weeds , but a while, accompanied by the aroma of the flavor of the people! After they revive the lid, let Kangxi taste a mouthful, due to the lack of natural conditions, the stove fire can not be too long cooking, just to give the dish time on the natural control, Emperor Kangxi felt the taste is delicious, soup sweet and refreshing, and after the After cooking the pork belly crispy, gizzard in the pork belly soup, also inspired another crisp.
Later, Kang Xi returned to the palace after, it is for this classic flavor to improve, not only in the gizzards and pork belly the choice of excellence, but also require the chef to replica the original cooking time, just a short time of ten minutes, the ingredients must be fished out, so as to ensure that the pork belly of the crisp. Crisp, which also became the prototype of the later soup explosion double crisp .
In addition to using pork belly and gizzards, with the deepening of the degree of population migration, this local Shandong classic dishes, people in the word of mouth, so that more outsiders to recognize and learn. In the southern region, this traditional dish was originally just pork belly and gizzards, but also added a variety of mushrooms, a variety of forms of improvement of the dish diversified taste.
On top of the original crunchy base, the addition of mushrooms makes the whole soup sweeter, but also more than one point of wild flavors, and this soup makes a lot of southerners fall in love with it.
In addition to improving the ingredients, this classic dish is also making its way around the world. The Teochew people, who are used to shabu-shabu, fish out ingredients such as pork belly and chicken gizzard and use the broth as the base for hot pot soup, adding various kinds of seafood and beef to create a unique hot pot flavor. This way of eating not only allows people to eat the sweetness of chicken gizzards and pork belly, but also incorporates a variety of new forms of eating.
This soup burst double crisp not only crisp taste , in the nutritional value of the same highly regarded. Pork belly as the main ingredient, is the nutritional effect of excellent treatment of human fatigue and weakness of the therapeutic good . At the same time, people also use pork belly as a dietary supplement. It has a more significant effect in treating symptoms such as diarrhea, frequent urination, and malaria in children.
Pork belly contains all kinds of nutrients needed by the human body, which contains carbohydrates, vitamins and proteins are beneficial to the human body nutrients. Especially for many middle-aged and elderly people, pork belly can promote their spleen and stomach function digestion, strengthen the body. For those with a deficiency of qi, pork belly is also an excellent tonic for both taste and nutrition.
In addition, pork belly is a good ingredient for pregnant women. From the Qing Dynasty period of medical books have special recorded, pork belly can information pregnant women's fetal qi insufficiency; and for women after childbirth, with pork belly in soup can replenish their loss of nutrients, especially the weaker women, in the post-delivery weak, with pork belly, with pork belly in soup to replenish their loss of nutrients, especially after childbirth, with weak. , with pork belly and ham with soup, can effectively play a supplemental nutrients, nourishing yin and yang, restore vitality and a variety of dietary efficacy .
Shandong's classic cuisine can be found in a variety of styles, including raw seafood, and soups that combine nutritional and gustatory enjoyment. This soup popping double crisp in the local can be a classic food for young and old, it is simple medical way of cooking has become a lot of Shandong locals in the home cooking regulars.
In our country's long dietary history, soup classic cuisine has been occupying an important position, in addition to the southern region of the soup and stew, this dish from the north of the vegetable soup class, is also very representative. In the north, it is often used in the form of meat and vegetables, which is cooked into a classic dish that can be eaten or quoted on its own. The Chinese cuisine is broad and profound, and this dish has been carried forward in various forms in various parts of the world, we are familiar with pork belly wrapped in chicken , which is one of the evolved forms of vegetable soups.
References
The Essentials of Qimin
Huainan Zi
The Essentials of Qimin
The Essentials of Huainan Zi