Not from Chengdu, many people don't know what "husband and wife lung slices" are. Even if I know it should be a dish, I can't figure out why it is called husband and wife's lung slices!
To clarify the origin of this name, we must trace it back to Chengdu in the late Qing Dynasty. People at that time didn't like to eat the internal organs of animals. A couple who set up a stall thought it was a pity that all the internal organs were thrown away as "waste". After careful study and repeated processing, they created a dish with a yellowish and transparent cow head, a reddish cow tongue and a tender tripe, which was named "husband and wife scrap".
Later, people changed it to "husband and wife lung slices" for the sake of elegance and listening, and it was handed down and became a famous dish in Chengdu.
Husband-and-wife lung slices are generally made of beef, tripe, tongue, heart and scalp, which are marinated first and then sliced, and then sprinkled with red oil made of spices such as pepper noodles and Chili oil. The production is very fine, spicy and fragrant, tender and delicious, beautiful in color and very delicious.
In the "American 217 Food and Beverage Ranking" published by GO magazine in 217, China's "Couple Lung Slices" cold dish was selected as "appetizer of the year". In order to satisfy everyone's curiosity about this famous food at home and abroad, here is a detailed introduction to how to make the husband and wife lung slices authentic.
ingredients: 3g beef, 15g beef offal and 1g peanuts.
prepare appropriate amount of auxiliary materials: cinnamon, red oil, star anise, pepper granules, soy sauce, brine, cooking wine, pepper powder, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil, coriander, ginger and onion.
detailed steps: 1. put a proper amount of water in the pot, and after boiling on high fire, put the clean beef offal and fresh beef into the pot and cook for a few minutes, then remove the floating foam on the water surface and take it out.
2. In another casserole, add ginger, onion, star anise, cinnamon, pepper, cooking wine and halogen bag, and then add the beef and beef offal cooked on it. Add water that hasn't covered all the ingredients. After the fire boils, change it to low heat and cook until the beef offal and beef are cooked but not rotten. Take it out and let it cool. Take another bowl, scoop out some brine from the pot, add soy sauce, pepper powder, Chili oil and monosodium glutamate, and stir to make flavor juice.
3. Take out the cooled beef offal and beef, cut them into thin slices, mix them and put them into a good shape, pour the prepared flavor juice on them, and then sprinkle them with fried peanuts and sesame oil to serve.
Key tips for making authentic husband and wife lung slices:
1. Beef offal and other meats have a strong smell, so you should blanch them first and deodorize them for the first time.
2. It's delicious only after bittern is used. Under the action of brine, the odor can be removed to the maximum extent and the umami taste can be increased. This project is very important and plays an irreplaceable role in the overall quality of husband and wife lung films.
3. Knife cutting is very important when cutting husband and wife's lung slices. The thinner the better. Tripe and ox head meat must be sliced, and tripe is not suitable for direct slicing because it is very thin. It is necessary to use the slice method of inclined knife wire to increase the area and have the shape of the slice.
4. Cattle hide belongs to colloid, and only with an inclined blade can it be cut into thin slices along its tenacity. In the hands of a skilled master of knife work, the sliced scalp meat seems to be transparent.
5. Through this cutting method, the volume of ingredients can be thinned, and the area with attached flavor can be enlarged, so that various seasonings can be better adhered, and the rich, thick flavor and color of this dish can be improved.