Ham how to save
Ham preservation methods: overall preservation, hanging in the air circulation and shade, often with edible vegetable oil coated in ham to prevent mold and insect pests. After chopping the ham, the incision part is coated with a layer of edible vegetable oil, and then stick a layer of plastic paper to avoid the wind to produce harlequin flavor. Normal temperature is 20℃, the shelf life is 6 months.
The knife cut the place with plastic wrap, the next time you eat, the outermost yellow layer removed, every time you cut off the part to eat, remember to use the plastic wrap to cut the knife cut the place to stick, so you can put a long time. For example, when winter melon is on the market, cut a few slices of ham and roast winter melon soup, very good. It does not matter, eat the haram place cut off on the line. Eat how much to cut how much, do not eat not cut, because the outermost layer is always going to turn yellow, yellow place on the halla, can not eat.
Ham should not be refrigerated, because it will make the fat precipitation, resulting in ham meat lumps or loose.
(-) Refrigerator storage has to be careful: in general, the lowest temperature of the double-door refrigerator is the freezer, for minus 18 degrees Celsius, the highest temperature in the drawer below the freezer, 7 degrees.
Set aside for a day and then put in the refrigerator: cabbage, spinach, celery, carrots, peaches, grapes, apples, etc. are suitable for preservation at 0 degrees.
Not suitable for storage in the refrigerator for a long time: more water content of fruits and vegetables or tropical fruits, such as tomatoes, cucumbers, persimmon peppers, lychees, etc., it is best to save in the freezer drawer, and should not be stored for a long time. Due to the high water content, these fruits and vegetables will appear after a long period of refrigeration blackened, softened, tasteless phenomenon.
Room temperature preservation: bananas, lemons, pumpkins and other fruits and vegetables are suitable for storage temperature is 13-15 degrees, low-temperature storage is easy to make it black, rot. Ham should not be refrigerated, because it will make the fat precipitation, resulting in ham meat lumps or loose. Chocolate is prone to white frost on the surface after refrigeration, thus losing its original flavor. Bread and other pasta should not be stored in the refrigerator, otherwise it will lead to its branched-chain starch in the straight chain part of the slowly close together, and thus gradually harden, appear "Chen" phenomenon.
What kind of soup can be made with ham
"Jinhua" ham in addition to the main dishes, auxiliary ingredients, or the production of soup is the ideal fresh material. "Ham pigeon soup", "ham and bamboo fungus soup", "ham and phoenix claw soup", "fire velvet shrimp ball soup", "Hot Tripe and Buddha's Hand Soup", "Begonia Ham Soup", "Fish Balls Soup with Hot Mushroom", "Peanut Soup with Hot Meat", "Hot and Sour Soup with Fresh Flowers", "Golden Corn Soup with Golden Legs", "Yellow Fish Soup with Ham", "Sea Cucumber Soup with Ham", "West Lake Brasenia schreberi soup" (chicken fire Brasenia schreberi soup), as well as homemade "ham and winter melon soup", "ham and cabbage soup", and so on, up to hundreds of kinds. Ham soup dishes are easy to make, tasty, fragrant and elegant, spleen and appetite, known as "ham soup, mouth-watering" reputation. In addition, the production of high-level broth for flavoring (top soup), ham is the main raw material of fresh flavor. In fact, many dishes, high-grade food, such as sea cucumbers, bear's paw, shark fins, camel's paw, trotters, monkey head mushrooms and melon, etc., its own taste is light, and some even have no taste, and ham meat, fire claw, ham skin or ham bone with cooking, before the fresh aroma and flavor, complement each other.
Ham and what to eat
Ham + hawthorn / garlic: in eating ham, if with hawthorn or garlic to eat together, can improve the human body to the ham in the protein utilization, enhance the absorption of nutrients.
Ham + winter melon: Certain ingredients in winter melon can help break down the proteins in ham into smaller components that can be easily absorbed by the body, thus helping the nutrients to be better absorbed by the body.
Ham + cabbage / purple cabbage: ham with vegetables is a good choice, especially with cabbage, purple cabbage and so on together, can play a good effect of nourishing Yin moist, very suitable for women to eat.
Ham + mushrooms: ham and mushrooms are a more common combination, which can benefit the spleen, moisturize dryness and resolve phlegm, you can try to eat this combination.
Ham + loofah: summer loofah on the market in large quantities, you can try to buy some loofah and ham and burned to eat, which can make the nutrition more balanced, play a good health effect.
Ham + seaweed: seaweed itself is a more nutritious food, and ham with the food, you can play the role of heat detoxification, conducive to the body detoxification.
Ham + eggplant: we cook eggplant, you can try to put some ham inside the cook together, help to improve the resistance to disease, strengthen the body's basic qualities, suitable for weak people to eat.
Ham + pumpkin: pumpkin itself is a good effect of sugar, if you eat with ham, the effect of lowering blood sugar is more significant, very suitable for high blood sugar consumption.
The grading standard of ham
There are four kinds of ham sold in the market: the south leg is a kind of ham produced in Jinhua area, the north leg is produced in the north of Jiangsu Province in the area of Rugao, the cloud leg is produced in the area of Xuanwei and Rongfeng in Yunnan Province, and the Sichuan leg refers to the ham produced in the Sichuan area. Among them, Jinhua ham is the most famous, and there are Jiang leg, tea leg, tribute leg, bamboo leaf smoked leg points.
The hams are divided into different grades according to their weight, appearance and odor.
Premium ham weighs about 2.5 to 4 kilograms each, with a beautiful, neat appearance, dry and whole skin, fine claws, full leg heart,
small oil head, lean meat more fat less.
First-class ham weighs about 2 to 4.5 kilograms each, the leg shape is intact, smooth and dry, the oil head is small, no cracks, insect moths, rat bites and other scars.
The second level of ham weighs about 2 to 5 kg each, the skin is slightly thicker, more fat than the first level, more salty meat, thicker legs, beautiful and neat appearance.
Third-grade ham weighs about 2 to 5 kilograms each, leg fat, fat more, knife work is slightly rough, slightly bruised.
Fourth-degree ham weighs about 1.5 to 5 kilograms each, the leg is thick and fat, thick skin, leg style is poor, the meat is not wrapped around the bone, there are insects and not serious.