Braised noodles

Overview

Every year during the Chinese New Year, you must braise pork tongue and eat it. Because in our local dialect, pig tongue is a homophone for making money. If you eat pig tongue during the New Year, you will have good business profits and good luck in the coming year.

Tags

• cold dishes
• chinese banquet
• old man
• spring recipes
• summer recipes
• autumn recipes
• winter recipes
• banquet dishes
• lunch
• cinnamon
• cooking wine
• old soy sauce
• onions
• pork tongue
• rock sugar
• star anise
• fragrant leaves
• ginger
• salt

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Remove impurities from pig tongue, wash it,

   

2. 2 Put cold water in the pot, add cooking wine, boil the ginger slices for 3 minutes, remove, peel off the moss and rinse.

   

3. 3 Take a soup pot, put in the pork tongue, add 80% of water,

   

4. 4 Add onion knots, ginger slices, star anise, cinnamon bark, bay leaves,

   

5. 5 Add dark soy sauce, cooking wine, rock sugar,

   

6. 6 Bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer for 40-50 minutes,

   

7. 7 Add some salt and reduce the juice over high heat,

   

8. 8 Once cool, slice and serve.