As early as the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were many vendors in the streets and lanes of Chengdu, carrying loads and baskets to sell cold lung slices. The leftover bits and pieces of beef offal, especially beef lung, are low in cost, finely processed, marinated and sliced, and mixed with soy sauce, red oil, pepper, pepper noodles and sesame noodles. They are unique in flavor and cheap, and are especially popular with rickshaw pullers, porters and poor students. In the 1930s, there was a couple who set up a stall in Chengdu, Sichuan, male named Guo Chaohua and female named Zhang Tianzheng. When they saw that some abandoned internal organs had been thrown away, they felt it was a pity that the young couple had nothing to do anyway and were indulging in their livelihood. So they went to the slaughterhouse in the early morning, rummaged through the piles of internal organs, picked out the ones that they thought were still eating, cleaned them up and cooked them in the pot. After repeated experiments, they finally made the tripe white and tender as paper. After that, it was accompanied by various seasonings such as red oil, pepper, sesame, sesame oil, monosodium glutamate, excellent soy sauce and fresh celery, which were carefully matched by husband and wife, and this delicious food was produced. This "lung slice" has the characteristics of red and bright color, soft and waxy taste, spicy and delicious, tender and slag-melting, and its reputation soon spread among nearby residents. Because the raw materials are selected from the abandoned internal organs and cut into thin slices during processing, they are called "waste slices" at first, and because they are made by husband and wife, they are preceded by the word husband and wife, hence the name "husband and wife waste slices". Then, with the increasing number of diners and the spread of fame, some people thought that the word "waste film" was not good, so they advocated changing the word "waste" into the word "lung", which caused the origin of the name of Chengdu, a famous dish.

This dish has beef tongue, heart, belly and scalp, and later beef is added, but there is no beef lung all the time. Therefore, diners should not think that this "lung slice" is a beef lung slice when tasting it. You should know that it is called "lung slice" because there is no "lung slice" originally, which is just a misnomer caused by coincidence.

Raw materials for production

The authentic couple's lung slices are made of scraps such as beef heart, belly, tongue, tendon and scalp, marinated with refined brine, sliced, and sprinkled with carefully prepared juice such as red pepper, pepper powder, brine, peanut powder, sesame powder and celery powder.

Ingredients: beef, beef offal (tripe, heart tongue, tripe, scalp), salt-fried peanuts, brine, soy sauce, sesame powder, pepper powder, monosodium glutamate, star anise, pepper, cinnamon, Sichuan salt, white wine Chili oil.

Production method

1, clean the fresh beef and beef offal, and cut the beef into 500g pieces;

2. Boil beef and beef offal in a boiling water pot until the blood is clean, fish them out, put them in another pot, add old bittern, spices (including pepper, cinnamon and star anise), Sichuan salt and white wine, add clean water, boil them with high fire for about 30 minutes, then cook them with low fire for 90 minutes, until the beef offal is cooked but not rotten, take them out first, and let them cool for later use;

3. Boil the brine with high fire for about 10 minutes, then put monosodium glutamate, Chili oil, soy sauce, pepper powder and brine into a bowl to make juice;

4. Smash the cooked peanuts for later use, then cut the cooled beef and beef offal into slices about 6 cm long and 3 cm wide, mix them together, pour the flavor juice and mix well, divide them into several plates, and sprinkle sesame powder and peanut powder respectively.

characteristic

Red and bright color, soft and tender texture, spicy and fragrant taste. The view is green and green, and the Tianjin River is undercurrent. A large celadon dish of freshly mixed lung slices was served on the table, with red oil and bright color; When you put the chopsticks in your mouth, you will feel spicy and delicious, soft and waxy, smooth, crisp and tender, and tender. 　

Celebrity and Couple Lung Tablets

Ba Jin is a renowned literary master at home and abroad. During his long life journey of 10 1 year, his local accent remained unchanged, and he liked to listen to Sichuan opera and eat Sichuan food.

Li Yaomei, the eldest brother who died young, was the one who loved Ba Jin the most, and also the one who loved Ba Jin the most. After the death of his eldest brother, he was very concerned about his nephew Li Zhi. Li Zhi called Ba Jin's four dads, and he knew that his four dads loved Chengdu cold dishes such as husband and wife's lung slices and second sister's diced rabbit. Therefore, every time Chengdu's family goes to Shanghai, Li Zhidu sets out to bring some cold dishes that he likes to eat to his fourth dad.

Once, Li Zhi decided to go to Shanghai temporarily. Before leaving, he hurried to find his son-in-law and asked him to buy some husband and wife lung films quickly so as to bring them to his fourth dad. At that time, it was getting late, and most of the shops that operated husband and wife lung slices were closed. Li Zhi's son-in-law was very anxious and said to the owner of a "lung slice shop" that was about to close: "I am anxious to buy husband and wife lung slices, which are for Ba Jin!"

When the shopkeeper heard Ba Jin's name, he welcomed the "late" customer into the store without saying anything. Subsequently, the beef pieces are processed in a hurry: beef pieces are mixed with beef offal such as beef tongue, beef heart, beef tripe and cow skin, rinsed clean, added with spices, salt, pepper noodles and other seasonings, marinated and put into water, and when the meat is not rotten, it is picked up and cooled, and cut into large slices.

In addition, the celery was washed and cut into sections 1 cm long. Cooked sesame seeds and cooked peanuts are crushed together. Finally, put the chopped beef and beef offal into a dish, add marinade, soybean oil, monosodium glutamate, pepper noodles, red pepper, sesame peanut powder and celery, and mix well. Li Zhi was overjoyed to get this "husband and wife lung slice" with fast processing speed, excellent quality and excessive weight.

Get it after eating.

Nowadays, many people associate animal viscera with words such as cholesterol and junk food when they mention them, which makes famous dishes such as husband and wife lung slices lose many supporters. In fact, animal internal organs are rich in trace elements such as iron and zinc and vitamins A, B2 and D, which can effectively supplement the human body's demand for these substances after eating. Especially the spicy couple's lung slices, it is a good dish to warm the stomach and body in winter. Animal viscera can also supplement zinc and improve vision.

Animal offal such as beef offal should not be eaten, but should be eaten less, twice a week, and the consumption per person should not exceed 50 grams each time. Also, because of the high cholesterol content in animal viscera, people with high blood fat had better not eat it.

Nutritional analysis

Tripe contains protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, etc. It has the effects of invigorating the spleen and stomach, invigorating qi and nourishing blood, tonifying deficiency and essence, quenching thirst, and dizziness. It is suitable for people with deficiency of qi and blood, malnutrition and weak spleen and stomach after illness.