How to distinguish different parts of a pig? Which part is the best? How should I cook? You can easily list a long list: tenderloin, pork belly, plum blossom meat, pig exhibition meat, pig neck meat ...
Pork is not as simple as you think! If you still only know fat meat, lean meat and pork belly, it is really weak!
TOP 1 loin
"Where is the best piece of meat on a pig?" For this question, the stall owners who have sold pork for more than ten years rarely agree: "The best is of course the tenderloin that has long been sold out."
Ridge is divided into inside and outside, and the one with skin is the outer tenderloin, which is also called rib meat. The dividing line between skin and meat is on this piece of meat, which is suitable for making boiled meat slices. Of course, the skin here can also be used separately to make an issue of it. Tang Lusun once ate a "fried osmanthus skin" ("fried" is pronounced as "slag") in Qinghetang outside Di 'anmen. This is not a simple fried skin, just choose a three-inch wide one on the back. Pull out all the wool, fry it until it bubbles, and seal it for one year after sun exposure. Soak it soft before eating, then soak it in chicken soup or stock, shred it, stir-fry it with strong fire, pour eggs and sprinkle with minced ham, which is soft and fragrant, but not greasy.
The top tenderloin that is well protected in the body is the most tender part of the pig, and it can also be said that it is the rarest meat in the pig. Each pig has only one thin one, and the two pigs add up to about 4-5 kg.
For the tender and willful tenderloin, how to cook is really "light makeup is always appropriate". Cutting, chopping, frying and frying can be easily accepted. But the most popular is probably the sweet and sour tenderloin. The lightly fried tenderloin is crispy outside and tender inside, poured with sweet and sour juice, and enjoyed while it is hot. The skin is cracked like thin ice, while the inside is soft and sweet.
TOP2 pork belly
Good pork belly is as beautiful as a skirt: one layer is fat and the other is thin. Speaking of fat content, except for suet, nothing dares to be the boss in front of a piece of pork belly.
The five flowers are thick, so they are very suitable for cutting into thin slices or small pieces. If they are greasy, they will not be as good as they are. The most famous is Dongpo Meat, which was won by Su Dongpo.
Su Shi, who lives in exile in Huangzhou, specially created this dish of vegetables for the table in order to give a loud slap to "the noble refused to eat, but the poor couldn't understand cooking". "Slow fire, less water, when the temperature is enough, he is beautiful. Get up and play a bowl every day, so full that you can't care about it. " Long-term stewing forced the fat out of the pork belly, making it fat but not greasy, and the oozing oil star infiltrated the whole flesh, which was so tender and abnormal that even an 80-year-old woman could eat a piece easily.
TOP3 forelegs
To buy front legs, we must first distinguish which is the front and which is the back. Please imagine what a four-legged animal looks like when it moves. Probably the main focus is on the rear of the weight measurement, so the hind legs used for starting on the ground are more lean than the front legs. In the front and rear legs of the same pig, the pure lean meat of the front leg is 2.5kg, while that of the rear leg can reach 5kg.
The developed front legs have more than ten muscles, so there are more fascia, which is ok for frying minced meat. It may not be palatable to eat quickly. However, its greatest contribution is that it can make stuffing. For the northern people who eat jiaozi on a holiday, the strong demand for meat stuffing is enough to put the front legs on the third best seller list.
After seeing the top three delicious pork, congratulations on taking a step further from a senior foodie, and no longer have to worry about being unable to start with pork. In the future, Xiaobian will introduce you to the delicious practices of other parts of the pig, among which the delicacy is not lost to the top three.