Pork Joint Stewed with Rock Sugar

Today, Cathy’s going to show u how to cook another famous Chinese dish, Pork Joint Stewed with Rock Sugar. (Please Notice: No offence to those people who do not eat any pork!)

Pork Joint Stewed with Rock Sugar

Pork Joint Stewed with Rock Sugar is a well-know Beijing Cuisine in China. Its main ingredient is pork joints which are stewed and steamed. The dish is red and bright in color and the pork joint is crisp and soft. The dish sauce has a gluey consistency.

I don’t like greasy or rich food. But I do like Pork Joint Stewed with Rock Sugar. The taste is not like the way you think. The dish is agreeable to the taste as it is fragrant and strong in flavor, salty and sweet. It is also nutritious and has functions of skin elasticity strengthening, beauty protecting and age defying etc. People couldn't help enjoying it.

Here we go with the recipe.
First of all, please be prepared with the following ingredients. It’s very important. They’re 500g of the boneless uppermost part of a front leg of pork, soy sauce, 50g cooking wine, 5g of green onion, 5g of garlic, 10g ginger slice and 100g rock sugar.

Ingredients

Then, you may follow the steps as below.

1. Clean the pork leg and remove the hair; split deeply enough to see the bone the leg in the inside and the soft side. Cut along both sides of the bone and spread out the leg; then cut off the fatty meat aside to make the pork leg round.

2. Put the pork leg in boiling water and stew for about 10 minutes until the skin shrinks.

3. Put a bamboo grid in the pan and put the pork leg on the grid with the surface down; add water to submerge the pork leg and put in the cooking wine, soy sauce, refined salt, rock sugar, scallion and ginger; boil them on a high heat and then cover with the lid and stew for another half an hour; then turn the pork leg to stew thoroughly; stew the pork leg on a high heat until the soup becomes gluey in consistency; then take the pork leg out and put it while facing down in the soup bowl. Pick out the scallion and ginger and pour the sauce onto the pork leg.

Now go to the kitchen and try it!

Halal Food

Halal Food is Hui People’s favorite in China. It’s one of China’s famous foods. In Chinese, halal is called Qingzhen Cai. Hahal food is easy to find in most major cities in China given the large Muslim population in China. Small Muslim restaurants and food stalls are also widely available in cities or towns because of the number of Muslim migrants from western China. Muslim restaurants in China are usually run by Muslim migrants, and offer cheap halal food given the greater prevalence of these meats in the cuisine of western Chinese regions.

Chinese halal food appeared over 1,000 years ago during theTang Dynasty when Islam was introduced to China. Arabic businessmen, travelers and missionaries traveled to China along the ancient Silk Road, and settled in places like Xian, Kaifeng, Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Yangzhou and Hangzhou. These Arabic people were the ancestors of today’s Hui people in China. Chinese hahal food developed, and more dishes were created during the Yuan Dynasty when the Hui ethnic minority was formed.

Chinese halal food blendes the original Middle East flavors with traditional Chinese dishes, creating its own style. Wheat food and products are eaten more frequently than rice, and various dishes and snacks are made from wheat flour. Sweet flavors take an important role, probably related to Arabian Muslims' preference for a sweet taste. Beef and mutton are also widely eaten.

Personally, I like beef much more than lamb. Thus I would like to tell you a type of Halal food cooked with beef first of all.

Lanzhou Hand pulled Noodles with Beef
Lanzhou Hand pulled Noodles with Beef is also known as the "Lanzhou Beef Noodles," one of the most common dishes in the local area. Visitors can see this dish being served on every corner of the city, and it has become a part of the local people's life. The noodle is handmade, and it takes a cook only one or two minutes to stretch the flour cake into many needle-like noodles. Today, small restaurants serving Lanzhou Beef Noodles can be found in almost every Chinese city. Most of them are hidden in small alleys or back streets.

I had this delicious food when I started my college life. I went to a Muslim restaurant and had my first bowl of Lanzhou Beef Noodles. It’s an unforgettable experience. I could still remember the nice taste of the noodles as well as the soup. I do think the secret of this food depends on how well the soup and the flour dough are made. I can drink a full bowl of noodle soup without any noodles, and I don’t know why! Hee-hee~

Roasted Whole Lamb
Roasted Whole Lamb is the most famous dish in Xinjiang Province, and it can be found in major cities across China. The dish is prepared with selected ingredients and is cooked using a special cooking technique. When preparing, a mixture of flour and water with yelk, salt, ginger, and pepper powder is applied to shroud the entire carcass. The lamb is then put into a specially made oven and baked for around one hour. It is trimmed with red silk around its neck and served with it mouth stuffed with fresh caraway. When eating, people use a knife to cut the mutton from the lamb.

Hand-taken Lamb

Hand-taken Lamb has a history of around one thousand years. It is so named because the lamb is eaten with one’s hand.
The lamb is boiled in soup, with ingredients such as pepper, onion and ginger. It is done when the meat is soft. The lamb can be served hot, cold or fried.
Roasted Whole Lamb, Lanzhou Hand pulled Noodles with Beef and Hand-taken Lamb are 3 typical Halal dishes.

Now you may have some ideas about Halal Food. Go out and find a Muslim restraint, and enjoy the delicious from Chinese Halal Food.

Special food of Chinese Spring Festival

You must have ever heard of Chinese Spring Festival. Now the Chinese Spring Festival is coming, which is of vital importance to all the Chinese people. All family members come together to eat at this time. Foods for Chinese Spring Festival are not only delicious but it is traditional to eat certain foods over this festival. So I’m now introducing you some traditional food for this important day.

Fish, Chinese Dumplings, Spring Rolls, Nian Gao are usually seen as delicious and eaten at this time.

Fish
In Chinese, Fish sounds like "save more". Chinese People always like save more money at the end of year because they think if they save more, they can make more in the next year.

Fish

Chinese Dumplings
With a long history of more than 1,800 years, dumplings are a traditional food widely popular in China, especially in North China such as in Zhengzhou, Chengde, Dalian, Harbin, etc. Dumplings generally consist of minced meat and finely-chopped vegetables wrapped into a thin and elastic piece of dough skin. Popular fillings are mince pork, diced shrimp, fish, ground chicken, beef, and vegetables. They can be cooked by boiling, steaming, frying or baking. Legend has it that the more dumplings you eat during Spring Festival celebration, more money you can make in the New Year.

Chinese Dumplings

Spring Roll
Spring rolls are a Cantonese dim sum dish of cylindrical shape. The filling of spring rolls could be vegetables or meat, and the taste could be either sweet or savory. After fillings are wrapped in spring roll wrappers, the next step is frying. Then the spring rolls are given their golden yellow color. It is a dish especially popular in Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Fujian,Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, etc. They get their name because they are traditionally eaten during Chinese New Year Celebration.

Spring Roll

Nian Gao/Glutinous Rice Cake
In Chinese, Nian Gao sounds like "getting higher year by year". In Chinese people's mind, the higher you are, the more prosperous your business is. Main ingredients of Nian Gao are sticky rice, sugar, Chestnuts, Chinese date and lotus leaves.

Nian Gao/Glutinous Rice Cake

Fish, Chinese Dumplings, Spring Rolls and Nian Gao are the four symbols of Chinese Spring Festival food. Do try them!