Yipin pot is a kind of traditional food which is often eaten in winter in Huizhou mountain area of Anhui Province. This dish belongs to a cauldron, and it is appetizing like hot pot in peacetime, belonging to the category of hot pot. This dish was created in Ming Dynasty. According to legend, an emperor visited Shangshufu in ancient times. In addition to delicacies, his wife also specially made a local golden harvest dish in Anhui, which is hot pot. Unexpectedly, the emperor ate with relish and kept giving a thumbs up. Later, this dish became the most famous food in Anhui, hence the name Anhui Yipin Pot.
Yipin Pot has an elegant name, and it is also very particular when it is made, mainly the choice of ingredients and tiling, and there are strict requirements for what to put on each floor. To eat the bottom of hot pot, spread dried bamboo shoots first, then spread a large piece of meat with tofu or fried or fried tofu pieces made by yourself in the middle. There are all kinds of meatballs on tofu, which can be beef and mutton, fish balls, chicken balls and so on. The taste is up to you. To eat hot pot, cover the meatballs with vermicelli, spinach or some vegetables. The more, the better. Add hot pot seasoning and water. Boil the fire and simmer until it is cooked. This dish is mainly cooked in a small fire. It has a strong homesickness in Anhui. The taste is fresh but not greasy, and the soup is delicious. It can't stop eating.
Practice: Prepare the ingredients, put the shark's fin in a pot and boil it, add onion ginger yellow wine and cook for 13 minutes, then take out onion ginger and throw it away, and keep the soup.
Wash the pot, add lard, pour shark fin into the pot and stir fry, add 2 tablespoons white sugar and 1 tablespoon cooking wine, light soy sauce and color, stew the whole pot for a few minutes, and pour into a bowl for later use.
Wash the small ribs, chop them into small pieces, put them on the shark's fin, add a handful of rock sugar, spiced powder and soy sauce (soy sauce is mainly used for coloring, just enough is enough, too much is not delicious, and it is still salty), add the shark's fin soup just now, boil it over high fire, and stew it over low fire until cooked, usually about 3 hours. Remove the foam from the top and continue to stew.
In addition, if your family likes seafood, you can buy some sea cucumbers, soak them in advance, cut them into filaments, put them in a pot, boil them over high fire, and add cooking wine. Otherwise, if they smell fishy, just cook them directly, take them out and pour out the soup. This is unnecessary.
You can buy some pig parts, blanch them with boiling water, remove all impurities, cut them into strips or blocks, and then prepare pig's trotters and pig's blood. You can also put some chicken, duck and fish if you like. Anyway, this big pot of ingredients is enough for 3-4 people to eat at noon. Be sure to blanch all the meat, remove the blood, and then stew it in the pot of hot pot.
In addition, prepare a large pot, put all the ingredients in it and add enough seasoning. There are few yellow rice wines at home. If not, use white wine or cooking wine instead. Put some more octagonal.
Eating more bamboo shoots in spring is especially good for your health. You can put more bamboo shoots. Mushrooms are good, too. They contain fungi. All ingredients should be steamed or stewed on the fire for at least 2 hours. You can put half the cooked ingredients in. Like some meat, you can stew it from the beginning.
Tips:
If you cook a quality pot at home, it is recommended to put more things made of bamboo at the bottom of your own wok, so that it will not stick to the pot when stewing, because the meat in this pot is always heated, so the quality of the pot is also very important. For the sake of safety, it is recommended to buy a better quality pot.
In fact, regardless of the season, you can cook whenever you want, mainly because you don't need to cook, which saves time and heats while eating.