How to make Hunan jar dish

Hunan jar meat is quite famous. It is mainly made with beans or melon vegetables as the main ingredients. There are many ways to cook it. Many families in Hunan can cook this dish. When cooking this dish, you must master some knowledge, methods and operating essentials. For example, you need to prepare an appropriate amount of pork, chili peppers, green peppers and other ingredients to make it. Let us take a closer look at the method of cooking Hunan jar meat.

How to make Hunan jar dish

Ingredients : 10 grams of jar vegetables (two handfuls), 200 grams of pork (5-6 yuan worth), auxiliary ingredients: 3 garlic cloves, 3 chili peppers, 2 sharp peppers, 2 green peppers, salt to taste, soy sauce to taste, peanut oil to taste

1. Preparation: slice the chili pepper and cut the garlic into sections.

2. I bought the Hunan jar vegetables on Taobao. Two pinches is enough.

3. Pour some oil into the pan and fry the chili peppers over medium heat until fragrant.

4. Add the jar vegetable and stir-fry for a few times, then add one and a half bowls of water (just enough to soak all the ingredients), and cook over low heat to bring out the flavor of the jar vegetable.

5. When half of the sauce is left, add the fried meat (adding some light soy sauce when frying the meat will make the color look better)

6. When there is only a little juice left, add garlic, and add appropriate amount of salt and light soy sauce for seasoning and color. Wait until the garlic is cooked. The garlic absorbs the flavor of the jar vegetables, and the chili pepper stimulates your taste buds. Are you still worried about not being able to eat in summer?

How to make Hunan pickled cabbage

Sour cabbage is also called kimchi or soaked cabbage, so the jar used to make jar dishes is also called kimchi jar or soaking jar. In my hometown, people are used to calling it sour jar.

The first step in making sauerkraut is to make sour water, which is the soup used for pickling cabbage. This is a crucial step. Only with good acid water can you make good sauerkraut. Generally, ordinary cold water is used, but cool and sweet well water is the best; you can also use the distilled water left over from boiling liquor, which has a slight wine aroma; you can also use cold boiled water.

It is best to ask for some old sour water from other people’s old soaking jars and put it in the jar to act like a “yeast”. If you are particular, you should also add water boiled with licorice to make the sauerkraut sweeter and more delicious.

In my hometown, it is common to see century-old soaking jars that have a pure sour taste and a refreshing fragrance. The sour water can also cure some minor illnesses such as indigestion in children.

The specific method of making a sour jar is to pour water into the jar, add an appropriate amount of salt (preferably coarse-grained well salt or rock salt), cover the jar, and it will become sour after a few days. You can add all kinds of vegetables, except leafy vegetables, but other roots, tubers, and fruit pods seem to be fine. In my hometown, the ingredients usually used are radishes, beans, sword beans, scallions, garlic, ginger, Jerusalem artichokes, and peppers.

These ingredients, especially radishes, beans, sword beans, and peppers, must be properly dried in the sun to make them a little drier (wilted, which is called "晒LAO" in the hometown dialect). Some types of vegetables cannot be stored for a long time after being put in, such as cucumbers and carrots. They must be taken out and eaten after soaking for a day, otherwise the acid water will deteriorate.