What is a killing pig dish?
Pig-killing dishes are farm dishes in rural areas of Northeast China. In the poor years, people could only eat such dishes when killing pigs, so they were called "pig-killing dishes" by the Northeast people.
In the past, in the rural areas of Northeast China, almost every family would have a few pigs, and at least one pig would have to be raised. These pigs are absolutely reluctant to kill and eat at ordinary times, and they will only be killed and eaten when it is close to the end of the year or when a big banquet is needed. On the day of killing pigs, relatives and friends, even the daughter and son-in-law who are married to other villages, are all invited to eat this pig-killing dish.
When you kill a pig, you pick up the pig's blood in a basin and make it into blood tofu. People cut the blood tofu into large pieces, put it in a pot and cook it before cutting it into large pieces. Then put the pork blood slices into the pot and add sauerkraut while cooking. This is the original pig-killing dish.
Later, the pig-killing dish evolved into stewed pork belly with sauerkraut. First, a pot full of sauerkraut was cut, and then several pieces of good three-layer pork belly were selected and put into the pot to stew with sauerkraut. Stewed pork belly is cut into long and wide pieces, and served on the table with sauerkraut. Sometimes blood sausage or steamed pig blood is added to stew together.
What do you have in Northeast China?
Speaking of killing pigs, we should start with killing pigs.
Split the pig in half, and then it is like this.
This is the next pig blood, which is the material for blood sausage. Keep stirring, otherwise it will solidify.
Chop pork into chunks.
Boil large pieces of pork in a large iron pot
Perfumed blood sausage
Pickled sauerkraut, cut into filaments, and wring out the water.
Boiled blood sausage
Cut it open and see if it is appetizing.
Stewed Chinese sauerkraut
Pigskin jelly
Sauerkraut out of the pot
Cut white meat, fragrant but not greasy, tastes naturally.
Northeast cold dishes, the taste of mom.
Finally, have a family photo.
Do you see that every year during the Chinese New Year, the whole family sits around eating rice, a plate of meat, a plate of sauerkraut, a plate of blood sausage, and the pork-killing dish is tender and soup-fresh, fat but not greasy, appetizing and satisfying. My mouth is watering when I think about it. A large pot full of sauerkraut, which is a favorite dish of everyone, is delicious to drink soup.