Steamed Pork

Overview

Steamed pork with rice flour was popular in Mianyang Prefecture (including Tianmen, Honghu, Qianjiang, and Mianyang) in the old days. It is known as the hometown of steamed vegetables and is one of the three famous steamed dishes in Mianyang. The story about Mianyang Sanzheng is even more well-known. According to legend, Mianyang Sanzheng began with the story of Chen Youliang, the leader of the peasant uprising in the late Yuan Dynasty. At that time, on the eve of Chen Youliang's expedition to Caishiji from his hometown Mianyang, in order to reward the soldiers for their bravery and boost their morale, he ordered the army cook to cook some hometown dishes according to the word "Zheng", which symbolized the victory of the expedition. The clever chef made steamed fish, steamed meat and steamed dumplings according to the meaning of Zhengzheng, which has the same pronunciation but different words. Chen Youliang's wife, Luo Shi, took advantage of the opportunity to wash and cut the ready-made green vegetable - Artemisia annua, add rice flour for steamed fish meat and seasoning, mix well and steam it until it was cooked, and then served it to the dining table. All the soldiers were very happy to eat it and praised it profusely. From then on, the people in this area followed suit one after another. On festive days, they also used Sanzi as a big dish to entertain guests, which has been passed down to this day.

Tags

• hot dishes
• cooking wine
• ginger
• onions
• pork belly with skin
• rice noodles
• steamed pork seasoning packet
• sweet potato

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Prepare the required materials

   

2. 2 Wash the pork belly and cut into 5 cm long slices, wash, peel and cut the sweet potatoes into cubes, slice the ginger and set aside

   

3. 3 Put the cut pork belly into a bowl, add ginger, cooking wine, and seasoning packets, stir evenly, and marinate for 10 minutes

   

4. 4 Add the marinated pork belly to the rice noodles and mix well so that the rice noodles fully coat the pork belly

   

5. 5 Wrap it evenly as shown in the picture (no water, it is better if it is dry)

   

6. 6 Put the sweet potatoes on the bottom, put the pork belly in the steamer and steam for 2 hours. When the sweet potatoes are cooked, put them on a plate and sprinkle with chopped green onion

   

7. 7 Finished product