Meat with sand is one of the "nine bowls" of Sichuan traditional steamed vegetables. When local people get married, have a birthday party or entertain guests, they will take "Nine Bowls" as the main dish to entertain guests, and the meat with sand is an indispensable delicacy!
Our country is known as "Eating in China and Taste in Sichuan". There are countless delicious foods in Sichuan, and I want to eat the next meal after eating the last meal. Among them, the meat with sand in Wenjiang, Sichuan is a delicious food that you still want to eat.
1 In what restaurant have you eaten this dish? It was a few decades ago when we were wearing military uniforms. Once we were on a business trip to Chengdu, on the way back to the barracks, we walked into the Wenjiang guest house, and a comrade-in-arms who had eaten here before ordered this dish. He said he wanted to come here every once in a while to eat meat with sand. When the waiter served the steaming meat with sand, a smell of meat and beans came to the nose. The four of us threw themselves into each other's throats and ate a plate of meat with sand with chopsticks. Comrades looked at each other and asked for another plate of sand meat with the message. From then on, until we left the army, whenever there was an opportunity, we would go to solve our problems.
2. What kind of dish is meat with sand? The pork belly with sand is the pork belly of the local authentic black-haired pig. The pork belly is cut into thin slices about three inches long, two inches wide and half a centimeter thick, and then the thin slices are divided into two parts, filled with pre-mixed green bean paste stuffing, and steamed in a pot. White sugar and a little seasoning are added to the stuffing, and each piece of meat is crystal clear, which melts in the mouth, sweet and fragrant, fat but not greasy, and the aftertaste is fragrant and clear.
3. There are also sand meats in other places, but they are different from those in Sichuan. There are also sand meat in Guanzhong, Shaanxi and Lingbao, Henan, but the practice and taste in the north are quite different from those in Sichuan. Roughly speaking, the meat with sand in Guanzhong and Lingbao areas is cooked and oiled with pork belly prepared in advance, and then the sweet potato slices are cut into the same size as the meat slices, and then fried in an oil pan. A piece of meat and a piece of sweet potato, eight pieces in each bowl, are packed and steamed in the pot. Remove brown sugar from the pan after cooking. At the red and white banquet, this dish is very popular with the elderly and children.
Although the methods and materials of meat with sand are different, their similarities are all sweets and are loved by people. Now that I am in Sichuan, I will still order this dish, and I will never forget the taste of that year. Meat with sand, you are a delicious food in Sichuan, but it is a youthful taste that I often remember in my heart.