Chili Fried Pork is a dish made with chili peppers and pork as the main ingredients, and edamame beans, garlic seeds, soy sauce, oil and salt, monosodium glutamate (MSG), and ginger as the auxiliary ingredients, with a spicy flavor.
"Stir-fried pork with chili peppers" was originally a famous dish of Hunan cuisine, also known as "stir-fried pork". If the earliest of the four major geographic distribution of cuisine, Hunan cuisine is covered in the scope of the Sichuan cuisine, and therefore the Sichuan and Hunan cuisine have many similarities, the most obvious **** the same characteristics is that they like to eat spicy, but on the spicy but also have different preferences, Sichuan cuisine loves spicy, Hunan cuisine loves fresh and spicy. If you analyze the process will find that the Hunan cuisine of small fried meat and Sichuan cuisine in the salt fried meat is similar to the salt fried meat is used to peel the two cuts of meat, small fried meat is to choose the front leg meat. Because of the lean meat of the two cuts of meat after frying dry texture is dry, less Hunan cuisine stir-fried meat moist feeling. Therefore, Sichuan-style stir-fried pork is made from skinless three-stranded pork, which is directly stir-fried into a dish that is soft, dry and fragrant, slightly spicy and refreshing.
Historical Origin of Chili Fried Pork
Xiang Cuisine, also known as Hunan Cuisine, is one of the eight major cuisines in China with a long history, which was formed as early as the Han Dynasty. Among them, stir-fried pork with chili peppers is even more famous among Hunan cuisines, and it is a great nostalgia in the hearts of Hunan people. Freshly picked chili peppers with Ningxiang soil flower pork, spicy and delicious, tender and mellow, very flavorful, first-class rice.
In the "Chu Rhetoric - Soul Invocation" inside, Hunan has such a description, "Hunan people to Sin appetizing cold has been more than 2,000 years", and in the late Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty has just begun, chili peppers began to imported into Hunan, but also to the friends of Hunan, brought the "no pepper mustard carcasses, pepper addiction
We all know that Hunan cuisine in the dishes and flavors above, are focused on spicy, fresh, and soft, and chili pepper fried meat just perfect contains these. If you friends have been to Hunan, you may find that such a phenomenon, that is, Hunan restaurants inside the menu, there will certainly be chili pepper fried meat the figure of this dish, and in Hunan's farmhouse, chili pepper fried vegetables is to entertain guests must be on a signature dish. In 2004, the world's largest portion of chili pepper stir-fry meat was freshly baked in Changsha, Hunan Province.
The origin of chili pepper is not our country, and the time of introduction into our country is not much earlier, for its a record, the earliest time has been the Ming Dynasty, and to the Qianlong Emperor's time, people in Hunan began to gradually eat chili peppers, but not many people at that time, and only after the Daoguang, chili peppers have really become a must-have for every household. The food material.
Based on such historical records, we can imagine that the greatness of the people of Hunan, can create a dish belonging to them is not an easy thing, but also can be imagined, chili pepper stir-fry meat is likely to be an accidental attempt, the results found that the taste of doing out especially in line with the tastes of all of us, and therefore so passed down, and then according to our descendants continue to innovate and improve, so that its The flavor becomes even better, until it finally, became the characteristic representative dish of Hunan cuisine.