Zizhou Meat Soup is a delicious food with pork as the main ingredient and a variety of Chinese herbal medicines. This soup is not only delicious, but also rich in nutritional value, and it is a local specialty food deeply loved by people.
The following is the list of ingredients of Zizhou Meat Soup:
1. Pork: pork, pig bones, pig trotters, pig offal, etc.
2. Chinese herbal medicines: Dangshen, Astragalus, Lycium barbarum, Cinnamomum cassia, Illicium verum, etc.
3. Vegetables: bean sprouts, fungus, day lily, onion, ginger, garlic, etc.
4. Others: salt, cooking wine, pepper, monosodium glutamate, etc.
The next step is to make Zizhou meat soup:
1. Wash and cut the pork into pieces, blanch it in boiling water, take it out and drain it for later use;
2. Wash and break pig bones, blanch them in boiling water, take them out and drain them for later use;
3. Wash the Chinese herbal medicine ingredients, put them in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, and cook for about half an hour to make a medicinal soup;
4. Put the blanched pork, pig bones, pig offal, etc. into the medicinal soup, add appropriate amount of salt, cooking wine and pepper, and stew with low fire until the meat is cooked and rotten;
5. Wash and cut vegetable ingredients such as bean sprouts, auricularia auricula and daylily, and cook them in a pot;
6. Pour the cooked broth into the pot, add the cooked vegetable ingredients, add a proper amount of salt, monosodium glutamate, onion, ginger, garlic and other seasonings, and boil over low heat.
7. Sprinkle some chopped green onion as decoration before serving.
The key to making Zizhou meat soup is to choose fresh pork and pig bones, and at the same time, pay attention to the heat, and slowly cook with low fire, so as to completely release the umami flavor of the ingredients. This soup is suitable to be eaten with rice or steamed bread. It is delicious and nutritious.