Caotou Circle is a well-known dish, which belongs to Shanghai cuisine.

The color of this dish is dark red and green, and the circle is crisp, rotten, soft and ripe, fat but not greasy. It is a very popular food in the Shanghai style menu. This dish can be eaten by Shanghainese all year round now. In the past, it could only be eaten when Caotou was on the market. Caotou is a Shanghai dialect gossip, but its scientific name is actually alfalfa.

Although the name of Caotou Circle is vulgar, don't underestimate it. In the food program "Fireworks Picking up Taste" launched by Shanghai TV Station, the grass circle is the highest delicacy of Michelin's "Laozhengxing". In the film, Zheng Bo quoted that "people who have never eaten the grass circle are not real gourmets, and chefs who can't make grass circles can't be called masters of this cuisine".

The production process of the grass head circle

Put the pig's large intestine in warm water, turn it over while pouring water, peel off the dirt in the intestine, wash it, put it in a water pot and boil it with high fire; When the outer layer of pig intestine is hard and tight, it can be taken out, put in a bucket, add salt and balsamic vinegar and knead by hand to remove mucus; Rinse with clear ice until the intestinal wall has no sticky feeling; Put the large intestine in the pot, add the onion, ginger slices and yellow wine, and cook for about 2 hours with high fire; Then take out and rinse with cold water, cut off the head, anus and thin intestine, put it in the soup pot, cover it and stew it for about one hour with high heat;

after burning until the rectum is fat and white, after cooling, cut the cooked rectum into 2 cm long oblique segments; Remove the yellow leaves and old terrier from the grass head (alfalfa), wash with clear water and drain; Heat a wok, put it in a circle, add 75g of yellow wine, soy sauce, white sugar, Jiang Mo and white soup, heat another wok, bring lard to a boil, stir-fry the grass, add soy sauce and white sugar until it is broken, and pour it into a basin; Put the burned circle on the grass head.