Huangpi Sugar Steamed Pork Huangpi Sugar Steamed Pork, also known as Dongpo Sugar Steamed Pork, is one of the famous traditional delicacies in Hubei and enjoys a high reputation inside and outside the province.

Su Dongpo's poem praised: "The salty and idle officials disdain to go, but the sweet and sour pigs are delicious." Huangpi people pay attention to "sugar steaming", and every New Year's Eve banquet, they make a mellow red dish that symbolizes sweetness, happiness, and sweetness.

A happy, auspicious and auspicious delicacy is steamed pork with sugar, so it is served as a treat to guests.

The characteristics of this dish are bright red color, fresh and mellow taste, sweet and salty, and moist and refreshing.

Legend has it that when the Song Dynasty writer Su Dongpo was exiled to Huangzhou, he visited Huangpi Mulan Mountain to give lectures.

There are many scholars who admire his reputation.

When the powerful learned about this, the imperial court in Shangshu slandered Su Dongpo and gathered people in Huangpi to slander the dynasty.

Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty listened to the evil talk and sent people to investigate and secretly visit the place where Dongpo lectured. However, no slanderous words were collected, so he used an ingenious method to interview students to find loopholes to incriminate Dongpo.

At Dongpo's lecture office, the interviewer pointed to the small pagoda from a distance and said, "The pagoda has seven floors and is in all directions."

The students were embarrassed for a moment and raised their hands and shook their heads silently.

The visitor scolded Dongpo: "You are lecturing. You are obviously using the past to satirize the present for a different purpose! Why can't anyone answer it?"

Dongpo smiled coldly and said, "Didn't you answer the last sentence "No housework" with your hands one by one? The visitors couldn't help but ask what words you answered. Dongpo replied contemptuously: "The students all answered with their hands.

'The jade hand shakes with five fingers, two short and three long'.

Why do you say no one has the answer.

"After hearing this, the visitors left Dongpo in despair, but the students admired Dongpo's knowledge and courage even more. Knowing that Dongpo liked pork and sweets, they all sent fresh pork and brown and white sugar as thanks. Unexpectedly, the students

He accidentally mixed sugar and pork, and when he was unsure about whether to leave it or not, Dongpo walked over slowly and said: "The salty and idle officials don't bother to go, but the sweet and sour pork is really delicious."

"It hinted that the guests had left. Why not mix sugar and meat to satisfy your appetite? Since then, steamed pork with sugar has become a traditional local dish. "Dongpo likes to eat roasted pig.

When Foyin lived in Jinshan, he would burn pigs every time to wait for him to come.

” ——Volume 48 of Su Shi’s Collected Poems, “Replying to the Seal of the Buddha”, referenced in “Zhupo Poetry Talk” Ingredients: Pork, brown sugar, sugared osmanthus, rice noodles, soy sauce, green onions, rice wine, ginger, pepper Step 1. Wash the pork

, cut into 6 cm long and 1.5 cm wide pieces, and put them into a bowl; 2. Add indica rice noodles to the pot and stir-fry until cooked; 3. Add salt water (very little), soy sauce, rice wine, pepper, sugar and osmanthus to the pork.

Mix chopped green onion, minced ginger, 100 grams of brown sugar and cooked rice flour together and marinate; 4. Put 50 grams of brown sugar and 50 ml of water into another bowl and dissolve into sugar water; 5. Place the meat pieces neatly into the bowl and serve

Steam over high heat for 1 hour and remove from the cage; 6. Loosen the sides of the meat, pour in melted brown sugar water, and continue steaming for 1 hour; 7. Remove from the cage when the meat is cooked and fragrant, turn it over and serve.

It is a delicacy for patients with malnutrition, anemia, hepatitis, tuberculosis, hyperthyroidism, glossitis, dermatitis, pellagra, loss of appetite, memory loss, neuritis, heart damage, mastoma, beriberi, etc. as well as pregnant women and nursing mothers.