Do locals really know how to eat ham? The answer is natural. There are still many dishes in Jinhua that use ham. So do Jinhua people really eat ham often? The answer varies from person to person. Of course, those who like to eat often eat it, and those who don’t like to eat will not be included in their daily diet.

Many people don’t actually understand ham, and think that ham is the same concept as ham sausage. Look at the pictures!

How about a very big one? There is no way to hold it in your hand and chew it! So ham can only be used for cooking.

So what does ham taste like? People who love to eat say that ham is bright in color, with distinct red and white colors, the lean meat is salty and sweet, the fat meat is fragrant but not greasy, and it is delicious. What about people who don’t like to eat? Maybe just one word: salty.

In fact, the most important thing about ham dishes is cooking. Come, Jinhua Aboriginal Media will show you two ham menus at Jinhua local restaurants to get a feel for it.

Have you thought about it? One ham can be used in so many different dishes. It can basically satisfy your various choices, right?

So how to make ham delicious? The editor is not a chef, but I used my connections to find Master Jiang Xianping, the first-level chef of Jinhua Qingheyuan Restaurant. He told me that ham is generally best eaten by stewing or steaming. However, due to different parts of ham, the methods are also different. The whole thigh can be divided into four parts: fire claws, fire hooves, waist peak and dripping oil. "Fire claws" and "fire hoofs" are suitable to be accompanied by fresh pig's trotters and fresh pig's claws, stewed over slow fire. These are the famous dishes "gold and silver claws" and "gold and silver hoofs". "Drip oil" is suitable for cooking soup to enhance the flavor. Those with hairy bamboo shoots and winter bamboo shoots are called Huodu bamboo shoots; those with winter melon are called Huodu winter melon; those with tofu are called Huodu tofu, etc. "Du Bamboo" is the most famous. "Yaofeng" is suitable for steaming and eating, and is cut into thin slices. It can be used to make famous dishes such as "thin sliced ??ham", "Painan ham" and "dense juice ham", and is used with rice, wine and tea.

Finally, let the natives teach you two dishes.

1. Honey ham

Color and aroma: fiery red color, transparent marinade, crispy ham, fresh and sweet taste, deep aftertaste

Main ingredients: Ham, water, sugar

Preparation: 1) Wash the whole piece of pureed meat above the fire, put it into a soup pot and cook until it is 80% crisp, take it out, remove the bones, flatten it with a basin, cool it and put it in the refrigerator Take it out from the ice and cut into thick slices; 2) Place thick slices of ham in a casserole, simmer in chicken soup, and remove the saltiness. If the taste is still too salty, decant the original soup, and add clear chicken soup to remove the saltiness, until the ham meat Remove the saltiness from the thick slices, put them into another pot, add water and sugar, and simmer over low heat for 1 hour until the marinade is thick and bright in color.

2. Ham and fresh bamboo shoots soup

1) Cut Jinhua ham into thick slices, cut ginger into thin slices, peel off the skin of fresh bamboo shoots and slice them

2) Wash the ribs , first immerse it in boiling water to remove the blood, then rinse, drain the water, and drain the ham in boiling water too

3) Put the processed ribs, ham slices, and ginger slices into the rice cooker, and add an appropriate amount of water, the water should cover all the ingredients by 1 palm width, press the 2-hour soup button on the rice cooker

4) After about 50 minutes, skim off the scum on the soup, add bamboo shoot slices and bagged bamboo shoots

5) Then stew. When it is almost done, add rice wine, white pepper powder and small pieces of chives. The soup cooking time depends on the performance of each rice cooker, but the soup should be white.

As long as it's cooked well, there's no need to worry about whether the locals will eat it or not.

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