Traditional Gaza rou

[Gaza meat in Wenjiang, Sichuan, makes people drool at the thought]

Clay pot meat is one of the "nine bowls" of Sichuan traditional steamed vegetables. When local people get married, celebrate their birthdays or entertain guests, they will entertain guests with "nine bowls" as the main dish. Meat with sand is an indispensable delicacy!

China is known as "Food in China, Taste in Sichuan". There are countless delicious foods in Sichuan, and I want to eat the next meal after eating the last meal. Among them, the casserole meat in Wenjiang, Sichuan is a delicious food you still want to eat.

1. What restaurant did you eat this dish in? That was decades ago, when we were still wearing military uniforms. Once we went to Chengdu on business, on the way back to the barracks, we walked into Wenjiang Guest House, and a comrade-in-arms who had eaten here before ordered this dish. He said he wanted to come here to eat sand meat every once in a while. When the waiter served steaming sand meat, a smell of meat and beans came to the nose. The four of us threw ourselves into each other's throats and ate a plate of meat with sand with chopsticks. The comrades looked at each other and asked for another plate of sand meat with news. From then on, until we leave the army, we will solve our problems whenever there is an opportunity.

2. What kind of dish is sand meat? Sand pork belly is the pork belly of the local authentic black-haired pig. Pork belly is cut into thin slices about three inches long, two inches wide and half a centimeter thick, then the thin slices are divided into two parts, filled with pre-prepared mung bean paste stuffing, and steamed in a pot. Adding sugar and a little seasoning to the stuffing, each piece of meat is crystal clear, melts in the mouth, smells sweet, fat but not greasy, and has a clear aftertaste.

There are sand meat in other places, but it is different from that in Sichuan. Shaanxi Guanzhong and Henan Lingbao also have sand meat, but the practices and tastes in the north are very different from those in Sichuan. Generally speaking, the meat with sand in Guanzhong and Lingbao areas is cooked and oiled with pork belly prepared in advance, and then the sweet potato slices are cut into the same size as the meat slices, and then fried in an oil pan. One piece of meat and one piece of sweet potato, eight pieces in each bowl, packaged and steamed in the pot. Take the brown sugar out of the pot after cooking. At the wedding reception, this dish is very popular with the elderly and children.

Although the practice and materials of meat mixed with sand are different, the similarities are all sweets, which are deeply loved by people. Now that I am in Sichuan, I will still order this dish. I will never forget the taste of that year. Meat mixed with sand, you are a delicious food in Sichuan, but it is a youthful taste that I always remember in my heart.