Simmered Elbow with Red Dates is a medicinal dish made with pork elbow and red dates as the main ingredients.

Simmered elbow with red dates is a special traditional dish in Sichuan, belonging to the Sichuan cuisine system, now in the plate, around the edge of a little effort, its shape becomes more beautiful, tempting appetite. Color and lustre red, forming beautiful and generous, texture Po sticky, taste slightly sweet and fragrant, oil and not greasy,? According to Chinese medicine, red dates are sweet in flavor and slightly warm in nature, which can replenish the spleen and benefit the qi, nourish the blood and calm the mind. Used to simmer the elbow, the texture Po sticky and slightly sweet, suitable for the elderly to eat.

A, ingredients: 2000 grams of pork elbow, 300 grams of jujube, 300 grams of rock sugar, sweet orange?400 grams of vegetable oil, Sichuan salt, ginger, green onion, cooking wine, each appropriate amount.

Two, ingredients nutrition

1, pig elbow: pig's trotters are very nutritious, containing more protein, especially containing a large amount of collagen protein, and the same as the meat skin, is to make the skin plump, moist, strong body fattening dietary supplements. Pork elbow, sweet, salty, flat; and blood, moisten the skin, fill the kidney essence, healthy waist and feet.

2, jujube (dry): jujube contains vitamins A, C, E, P, biotin, carotene phosphorus, potassium, magnesium and other minerals, folic acid, pantothenic acid, niacin and so on. It has to improve human immunity, prevention and treatment of osteoporosis and anemia, soften blood vessels, peace of mind and so on. Middle-aged and elderly menopause osteoporosis, adolescent growth and development peak calcium deficiency, women are prone to anemia and iron deficiency, consume jujube food will have a good therapeutic effect, after the disease, people consume jujube also has a very good nourishing effect. Red dates are suitable for chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis of the liver people eat, can also reduce the damage of other drugs on the liver. Red dates contain cyclic adenosine phosphate, can expand blood vessels, enhance myocardial contractility, improve myocardial nutrition, on the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease has certain benefits.

Three, therapeutic effects

1, pork elbow: pork elbow taste sweet and salty, sex flat; and blood, moist skin, fill the kidney essence, healthy waist and feet.

2, jujube: spleen and stomach, weak spleen and stomach, diarrhea, tiredness and weakness of the people, eat seven jujubes a day, or with ginseng, atractylodes macrocephala *** with, can replenish the middle of the qi, strengthen the spleen and stomach to achieve the increase in appetite, stop diarrhea effect;

three, the production method:

1, pig elbow bone sop up the water and sop up the pot sizzling skin and scrape the impurity, washed, the skin down on the pier, the skin down on the vegetables. In the meat graver cross cuts, the depth of the pork elbow meat thickness of 1/3 ~ 1/2 place, into the put ginger, green onion, cooking wine and Sichuan salt in the soup pot slightly boiled, to have been removed from the blood and odor, fishing out of the steaming bowl bowl set bowl.

2, red dates washed and cored, into the steam bowl. Pan on the fire, put vegetable oil is hot, into the rock sugar (whack fine) fried, add water to boil into sugar color, scooped into the steaming bowl, on the steamer about 3 hours to the extreme poi soft out of the cage, fishing out the red dates, decanting the juice into the pot, the elbow of the pork turned into the plate, the red dates around the set in its surroundings.

3, the pot on the fire, with a small fire juice to the color red bright oil, remove from the fire, dripping oil pushed evenly, scooped in the pan on the simmering elbow; sweet orange cut into semicircular slices, placed around the plate as a garnish around the edge that is complete.

Four, pork elbow practice guide:

Trimming pork elbow when the skin surface to stay a little longer, pork elbow skin surface is rich in gelatinous, heated contraction of the larger, while the contraction of the muscle tissue is smaller, if the skin surface and the muscle and flush or the skin surface is smaller than the muscle, heated skin surface will be contracted and fall off, resulting in the muscle exposed and fragmented. Therefore, the skin surface should be appropriately left a little longer, after heating the skin surface contraction, just wrapped around the muscle and not to fall off, the dish body neat and beautiful.

Five, raw materials are incompatible

1, pork elbow

Pork should not be eaten with umeboshi, licorice, crucian carp, shrimp, pigeon, snail, almonds, donkey, lamb liver, parsley, turtle, rhododendron, buckwheat, quail meat, beef. Should not drink a lot of tea after eating pork.

2, jujube (dry)

Jujube is not easy to eat with shrimp, scallions, eel, seafood, animal liver, cucumber, radish.