Fujian meat bird's nest, also known as "Tai Ping Yin", is a flavorful snack in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, it can be said that as long as the New Year's festivals, weddings and funerals, in Fuzhou, Tai Ping Yin is a necessary dish, which is meant to be peace, peace of mind. It is mainly made of lean meat and skin called "Tai Ping Yin", which is made of meat, quail eggs (traditionally duck eggs are used to take the meaning of "duck eggs - pressure disorder"). They are usually bought from old stores. As for the fillings and practices to not have Shiyan Pi material fine work fine, picking fresh lean meat, pounded with a wooden hammer into a puree, sprinkled with potato flour synthesized billet, with a round wooden stick repeatedly pressed and crushed into thin slices, which is as thin as paper, and then folded and cut to dry, cut into silk called "Yan Si", cut into slices is called "Yan Pi".
If it is in the wedding banquet, this is a big dish, this dish on the table, can not eat, must wait for the newcomer to come to the table to the Yan people can not help but laugh out loud, after all, this food does have a similar appearance with the wontons, outsiders to Fuzhou natural easy to confuse the two foods, in fact, when it comes to the meat Yan, the degree of hotness in Fujian that is really unimaginable, not only is it a local custom in the I chose the skin of Tongli Pork Bird's Nest, a long-established restaurant in Fuzhou, and took out a roll, cut it in half in the center, and then cut it off at the joints in turn. I can probably make more than 40 rolls of this. As for the filling and the practice to not have a fine swallow skin material fine work, picking fresh lean meat, pounded with a wooden hammer into a puree, sprinkled with potato flour synthesized billet, with a round wooden stick repeatedly pressed and crushed into thin slices, which is as thin as paper, and then folded and cut to dry, cut into silk called "swallow silk", cut into slices is called "swallow skin".
The best quality swiftlet skin per catty in ancient times, people poor people have no meat, no oil in the stomach, some poor people go to the cliffs to look for those pregnant the fattest swallows, generally March and April when the spring swallows eat the most, the fat is the thickest, the people will be used to soup, braised, and the authentic Fuzhou Meat Swallows are called Meat Swallows, is because its skin is made of meat, not like ordinary wontons are made of meat, but the skin is not made of meat, it is not like ordinary wontons. The authentic Fuzhou Pork Bird's Nest is called Pork Bird's Nest because its skin is made of meat, unlike ordinary wontons, which are made of noodles. Authentic good swallow skin, must choose the pork hind leg of the fine meat, with the above good potato flour, has a precise meat powder ratio, Tongtun, compared to see the obvious point is not so much meat inside the wontons, so it looks less full, appear to be a lot of pocket, leaving aside the filling production methods, Fuzhou meat swallow from the size of the body directly crushed.