Sha Xian flat meat is evolved from wontons.

Practice:

One, the meat with a mallet to beat, preferably flat and thick wooden stick, can also be used rolling pin, beat like meat puree can be.

Two, add the right amount of salt, monosodium glutamate (MSG) or chicken broth to the pureed meat and mix well.

Three, pack the filling like wontons.

four, the pot of soup is best beforehand with pork bone soup, soup rolled into the flat meat, to the clear or slightly milky soup bubbling up a small flat meat, floating pot surface for a few moments, put a little green onion oil can be eaten.

There are a lot of flat meat in the north and south, and most diners think that Shaxian snacks are very famous, in the Shaxian dazzling array of food, flat meat is the most popular snacks, which as early as 1997 won the title of "Chinese Famous Snacks".

Shaxian flat meat due to its filling, soup, eating method, seasoning differences, is divided into boiled flat meat, fried flat meat, chili flat meat, three fresh flat meat, flat meat, shrimp flat meat, flat meat, flat meat noodles and other more than 20 varieties. Its most important feature is the thin skin with a lot of filling, it is said that 1 catty of flour can be processed 400 to 500 sheets of skin blanks, so you can imagine how thin the skin is.

The meat used for the filling is lean meat from the front and back legs of healthy and fat pigs, which is fresh and red, with tight and elastic muscles, and the skin, bones, sinews and fat are removed. The most special thing is to add alkali to the skin and filling, so that the skin becomes more elastic and is not easy to sour and change flavor, and the filling increases the amount of draught, which is crunchy, tender and chewy. After cooking, the crystal clear flatbread, loads of sinking and floating in the white thick soup, and then sprinkled with green onions, the fragrance of the nose, temptation is difficult to be.

North and South Song Dynasty, the famous politician, military, national hero Li Gang (1083 ~ 1140) was once relegated to Shaxian in charge of taxation, he liked Shaxian flat meat, has used his brilliant pen to write a poem praising the flat meat in Shaxian: "Chaos, Qiankun, a packet, and always save the righteousness of the singing wind. Seven peaks stacked green enough to entertain the evening, ten miles of flat flow to the west and east." To this day, it is still rumored to be a good story.

According to the field study, Shaxian flat meat with the famous specialty of Fuzhou, Fujian Province, "Swallow skin" wrapped into the system, so there is a "flat meat Yan," the name. Swallow skin is lean pork with a wooden stick pounded into mush, into the top sweet potato flour made of thin slices, created in the late Qing Dynasty during the reign of Guangxu, which is characterized by thin as paper, white in color, tough and strong, not rotten for a long time. It is named for its soft, smooth, delicate and refreshing taste, rich in bird's nest flavor.

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