【Northeast】Egg crystal skin jelly

Overview

The New Year celebrations are the most lively in the rural areas of Northeast China. After the small New Year, they start to prepare New Year's goods, killing chickens, pigs, and steaming bean buns. Every household competes to see whose family has the most New Year's goods and whose daughter-in-law is the most capable. At this time, there are the most pig skins, so pig skin jelly is naturally indispensable. Housewives can make it and it has been passed down for generations. Cheap pig skin, not cheap nutrition, for men to drink, for ladies to beautify, add beaten eggs to form flowers, all crystal clear, elastic and transparent, dear friends, hurry up and make it, add a refreshing and non-greasy dish to the Spring Festival dinner.

Tags

• cold dishes
• home cooking
• cinnamon
• cooking wine
• egg
• mineral water
• pigskin
• star anise
• fragrant leaves
• ginger
• peppercorns
• salt

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Soak the fresh pig skin in rice washing water for 20 minutes, rinse it with warm water, and scrape off the fat with a knife against the pig skin. The fat meat can be boiled into lard;

   

2. 2 Blanch the pig skin, put the pig skin under boiling water, add ginger slices and cooking wine to remove the smell, blanch for 10 minutes, roll the pig skin and take it out, the pig skin is easiest to clean at this time;

   

3. 3 Use a knife to scrape off the grease on the inside, cut off the red spots, cut off the darker parts, leaving only the white parts, rinse with warm water several times, and cut into thin strips with scissors, which is easier than cutting with a knife;

   

4. 4 Prepare ingredients;

   

5. 5 Put the ingredients into the soup bag and tie the opening tightly;

   

6. 6 Pour the pork skin strips into a soup casserole, add 750 grams of mineral water, cooking wine, a little salt, and a soup bag; I use an electric stew pot;

   

7. 7 Simmer for 2 hours, add a beaten egg in the last 10 minutes, take it out after forming egg flakes, pour it into a basin, and let cool overnight;

   

8. 8 It didn't flow when I stood on my head the next day, and it solidified very well.

   

9. 9 Prepare the dipping sauce, there are one large spoon and one small spoon in the picture, 5 crushed garlic cloves, two tablespoons of soy sauce, one tablespoon of rice vinegar, one small spoon of sugar, one small spoon of pepper oil, one small spoon of chili oil, one small spoon of sesame oil, mix well.

   

10. 10 Arrange the cut crystal jelly on a plate, add red pepper flakes, top with 2 tablespoons of dipping sauce, and enjoy!