Hue cuisine is rich, extremely special that no tissue is available. Coming to the Land of Neurology, you will enjoy a dish of filtered tea wrapped with roasted pork, which is considered a unique dish of the royal court from ancient times still handed down to this day.
Tea "breaking the way"
By talking about tea, we often think of the characteristic sweetness that folk people often have the saying: "Sweet as tea". And usually, the tea is cooked with tubers (taro, purple potato), or nuts like lotus seeds, millet and beans like chickpeas, red beans ... But there's something left here. the rule is illogical when it comes to tea powdered with roast pork.
Because the roast meat has a salty, fatty, very characteristic aroma that it is only suitable when served with rice or as an attractive bait for drinking to enjoy with spicy drinks such as wine, beer. Yet in Hue, the housewife has combined these seemingly opposing ingredients into a delicious, nutritious, unique gift and "breaking the way" in the tea processing recipe.
Exquisite in making dough
Tapioca starch is a starch of cassava tubers (cassava) grown in Hue. When cooking powdered tea wrapped with roasted pork, the processor only needs a sufficient amount of dry powder, about a bowl to eat rice. The dough is kneaded with hot water so that it is flexible. Stitching dough requires dexterity and sophistication because if the water is not hot enough, the dough will "flow" back into the water; If the broth is too hot, the dough will be cooked, not used to wrap the roast pork. Therefore, making dough requires experience. The finished dough is required to be a dough that is both soft and flexible, very easy to shape or to roll.
Elaborate in the processing of kernels
The kernel is roasted pork, so elaborate processing. Bacon (pork belly) selects delicious pieces, sand into pomegranate seeds, marinated with spices including a few spices, pepper, garlic onion, salt. Marinate for 30 minutes to absorb. Put oil in a hot pan, pour meat into frying, while frying remember for low heat, stirring with chopsticks until each piece of meat is yellow cockroach wings, crispy aromatic feeling is satisfactory.
Skillful hands in baking
After processing the dough and filling, the housewife will "catch" the cake. With a quantity of dough just like marbles, the housewife flattens it and lets the pork fillets turn in, then closes the "eyelids" of the corners and rounded them evenly. How when cooked, the cake will be transparent and the cake will float yellow cockroach wings look eye-catching.
Cook tea with rock sugar
To have the filtered tea powder wrapped with roasted pork "in tune", you must use rock sugar to cook. Because rock sugar has an elegant sweet taste, it will purify the tea water after it becomes transparent, looks extremely attractive. With just enough water and sugar, bring to a boil. How to make rock sugar melt. When you will put the pork pies on the cake and continue to cook for about 3 minutes, the cake will float on the water, the transparent yellow skin of the cake is cooked. Homemaker scooped tea into a bowl, sprinkled on the cup a little fresh ginger tea. The powdered tea wrapped with roasted pork, which is often used when it is still hot, is extremely attractive and delicious and has once captivated the Nguyen kings in the land of the God.
Tea goes king
Filtered tea wrapped with roasted pork, is a delicious and extremely special tea. Once you have tasted it, it will be very unforgettable and the impression will be very deep. It is the combination of the toughness of the filter powder with the feeling of crunchy, greasy, salty, aromatic flavor of roasted meat along with the sweetness of rock sugar, the warm aroma of ginger, giving a It feels strange and very refreshing for people to enjoy. Therefore, in ancient times, this unique tea was also used to advance to the King.
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