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How to make pork belly dumplings?
Dumplings are a kind of food eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival, mainly to commemorate Qu Yuan. Eating dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival has a long history. There are many kinds of dumplings with various fillings, such as meat dumplings, red bean dumplings, and red bean dumplings, etc. The method for making pork belly dumplings requires marinating the pork belly first, and then pay attention to placing the pork belly in the middle of the dumpling when wrapping.
Method one:
1 Wash the pork belly and cut it into cubes about 2 centimeters in size.
2 Peel the dumplings and cut them into small pieces about 2 centimeters in size.
3 Heat the frying pan with cooking oil, fry the dumplings until they turn golden and set aside.
4 Use another pot to fry the pork belly until the oil is released.
5 After the pork belly has fried out the oil, pour out the oil, add a large bowl of water, bring it to a boil, and add salt, soy sauce, and soy sauce.
6 Add Sichuan pepper, ginger pieces, garlic particles, and sugar, and simmer the pork belly over low heat.
7 When the pork belly has reduced to half of the sauce, add the fried dumplings and cook until the sauce is completely reduced.
8 Add a little monosodium glutamate, stir-fry evenly, and then add a little sesame oil, stir-fry evenly and then remove from heat.
Tricks
1. The dumplings are easy to shape and not stick to the knife after being refrigerated in the refrigerator.
2. The dumplings must be fried, otherwise they will stick together due to their stickiness.
Cooking utensils used: frying pan
Tips
1. Do not cut the pork belly too large to avoid adding too little glutinous rice.
2. When marinating the pork belly, you can add any spices at home, but you must add more salt, otherwise the cooked dumplings will have no taste.
Method two:
Ingredients
Glutinous rice, pork belly, salt, bamboo leaves, string, soy sauce, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate
Method
1. Soak the glutinous rice for half a day, wash it clean, and cut the pork into pieces, marinate with cooking wine, salt, chicken essence, and soy sauce.
2. Soak glutinous rice with the sauce used for pork.
3. Wrap the leaves into dumplings, press tightly and tie them securely with a string.
4. Boil until fully cooked.
Boil the dumplings in boiling water first, then add the dumplings to cook. There is no need to worry about sweet rice dumplings made with white rice, as they can be cooked with cold water. On the basis of pork belly, you can add salted egg yolk, chestnuts, peanuts, mushrooms, dried malan tou, and so on according to your own taste. Those who like small dumplings can make triangular dumplings with smaller pieces of meat.
