【Steamed Handmade Lion Head】---The taste from the countryside

【Steamed Handmade Lion Head】---The taste from the countryside

Overview

This is a dish that I am very good at. I have watched my father cook it since I was a child. In our hometown, this is a very popular local dish. Whether it is a wedding banquet, a birthday banquet or any other happy event, it is indispensable at the banquet. And during the Chinese New Year, it is also a must for every household. When the New Year comes, my father always holds a pair of knives in both hands and keeps waving them there. Every time I go home, I often meet people who are traveling and staying at home, and they usually like to eat these authentic country dishes for dinner, such as braised pork trotters, native chicken soup, handmade lion heads... These are all particularly popular.

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Prepare the main ingredient: pork leg.

    【Steamed Handmade Lion Head】---The taste from the countryside step 1

  2. Prepare the ingredients: water chestnuts, green onions, and ginger.

    【Steamed Handmade Lion Head】---The taste from the countryside step 2

  3. Peel the water chestnuts and cut into small cubes, and cut the green onion and ginger into mince.

    【Steamed Handmade Lion Head】---The taste from the countryside step 3

  4. Add 1 tablespoon of sweet potato powder to 5 tablespoons of water, mix well, and set aside.

    【Steamed Handmade Lion Head】---The taste from the countryside step 4

  5. Cut the fat and lean meat into cubes respectively. Set the fat meat aside for later use.

    【Steamed Handmade Lion Head】---The taste from the countryside step 5

  6. First chop the lean meat into coarse mince.

    【Steamed Handmade Lion Head】---The taste from the countryside step 6

  7. Add the fat cubes.

    【Steamed Handmade Lion Head】---The taste from the countryside step 7

  8. Chop into finer minced meat. (Don’t make it too mushy, keep it granular so that the lion’s head is crispy)

    【Steamed Handmade Lion Head】---The taste from the countryside step 8

  9. Add diced water chestnuts, chopped green onion and ginger.

    【Steamed Handmade Lion Head】---The taste from the countryside step 9

  10. Just chop it evenly. (Don’t chop for too long here, mainly for mixing. If the horseshoe is completely chopped, there will be no particles of horseshoe in the lion’s head, and it will not be so crisp)

    【Steamed Handmade Lion Head】---The taste from the countryside step 10

  11. Put the chopped meat into a larger bowl, add the above seasonings, put on disposable gloves, add the water starch made from sweet potato powder prepared earlier in batches, and mix the minced meat evenly. (It only takes about 2 or 3 minutes, no need to stir vigorously)

    【Steamed Handmade Lion Head】---The taste from the countryside step 11

  12. Take an appropriate amount of minced meat and put it in the palm of your left hand. Use your right hand to scrape it up repeatedly until it looks like a round lion's head. (This step is a bit difficult and requires proficiency. I grew up watching the chefs and fathers in my family do this, so I learned this way. Now I am proficient. If you don’t know this method, you can use an iron spoon, hold it in your right hand, and use your left hand to scrape it repeatedly to make a round shape. The iron spoon is the type commonly used to feed children, because this kind of spoon has a round center, and the ceramic spoon we usually drink soup has a flat bottom, so it is not suitable)

    【Steamed Handmade Lion Head】---The taste from the countryside step 12

  13. Make all the lion heads in sequence, I made 2 plates.

    【Steamed Handmade Lion Head】---The taste from the countryside step 13

  14. After it's done, steam it in a pan. (Put cold water into the pot. After the water boils, turn to medium heat and steam for about 5 minutes. The picture is already steamed. You can see that there is a lot of soup on the plate. This is because water starch is added during seasoning)

    【Steamed Handmade Lion Head】---The taste from the countryside step 14

  15. Take out the steamed lion head and put it on a plate. You can decorate it slightly according to your imagination.

    【Steamed Handmade Lion Head】---The taste from the countryside step 15

  16. Pour the soup from the plate into the pot, add a little water starch, and thicken it into a thin gravy. (Thin gravy is fine, not too thick)

    【Steamed Handmade Lion Head】---The taste from the countryside step 16

  17. Pour the gravy evenly onto the decorated plate.

    【Steamed Handmade Lion Head】---The taste from the countryside step 17