Zhejiang Cuisine

lotus leaf tamale
  • March 10,2023

lotus leaf tamale

Steamed flavor is more suitable for summer

By Firefly Kitchen [Official Certified Bean & Fruit Master]

Ingredients
  • Pork breast 250g
  • 3 lotus leaves
  • 2 tablespoons light soy sauce
  • 1 teaspoon white wine
  • A little oil
  • Sugar 10 g
  • Ginger slice
  • Abalone sauce, 10 ml
  • Salt 10 g
  • Steamed Pork Fluff, Five Spice, 200 g/pack
  • steps lotus leaf tamale

    1. Fresh pork belly with skin 250g

    lotus leaf tamale

    2. Piece of ginger

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    3. Pork breast, washed

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    4. Cut into finger-thick slices

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    5. Prepare a packet of meat powder with five spices

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    6. Lotus leaf

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    7. One steamer

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    8. Wash lotus leaves

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    9. Boil water in a saucepan and add lotus leaves

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    10. Blanch until lotus leaves are soft

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    11. Take out and drain water for later use

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    12. Put lotus leaves in steamer

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    13. Corners wrapped around steamer and tucked in

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    14. Cut ginger

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    15. Put in a pot with pork belly

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    16. Add white wine

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    17. Add soy sauce

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    18. Add abalone sauce

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    19, add sugar

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    20, add salt

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    21. Mix well and marinate in fridge for half an hour

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    22. Pour steamed meat powder into a bowl for later use

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    23. Take out marinated pork belly for half an hour in refrigerator

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    24. Start steaming the meat powder

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    25. The front and back of the meat should be evenly coated with steamed meat powder

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    26. Then put pork belly dipped in steamed meat powder on lotus leaf

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    27. After code is ready, put pieces of ginger

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    28, fire boils water

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    29, turn on steamer

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    30. Cover and cook over low heat for an hour

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    31. Sprinkle pan with chopped green onions

    Tips

    If you like spicy food, you can marinate it with bean paste and chili sauce

    The nourishing effect of pork belly

    1. Protein Supplements

    Pork provides a person with high-quality protein and essential fatty acids. Pork can provide heme (organic iron) and cysteine, which promote iron absorption, which can improve iron deficiency anemia.

    2. Tone up kidneys and nourish blood

    Pork tastes sweet and salty, is flat in nature, and enters spleen, stomach, and kidney canals; constipation, nutritional deficiency, nourishing yin, moisturizing dryness, nourishing liver yin, skin moisturizing, defecation relief and thirst quenching.

    3. Hydration

    Pork soup can be used as a quick tonic for irritability, dry cough, constipation and dystocia caused by insufficient fluid in body.