Wuxi sauce ribs

Braised ribs with Wuxi sauce is a special food in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. Wuxi sauce ribs is a famous Jiangsu dish suitable for all ages. Its color is red sauce, its meat is crisp and rotten, its bone flavor is rich, its juice is thick and delicious, and it is salty and sweet, which fully embodies the basic flavor of Wuxi cuisine. Wuxi sauce ribs, Wuxi clear water oil gluten and Huishan mud Afu are well-known at home and abroad as the three famous products in Wuxi, which flourished from 1872 to 1909 (Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty). With the rapid development of Wuxi's industry and commerce, many butcher shops hired famous teachers, struggled to create famous brands and compete for business, and there have been "old treasures", "old manuscripts recommended" and "real land recommended" successively. Due to mutual competition, the quality of meat and bones is constantly improving. Wuxi ribs are very particular about cooking. First, the selection of fine materials, you need to take three fine straw rows as raw materials. This kind of grass row is used as raw material. This kind of straw chop weighs only seven or eight pounds on a pig, and it is characterized by tender meat. Second, the ingredients are good, and you need to cook with soy sauce, soft sugar, old rice wine, and onions, ginger, fennel, cloves, cinnamon and so on. Third, the operation should be strict. For 100 kilograms of raw meat and bones, add 12 kilograms of soy sauce, 3 kilograms of sugar and 3 kilograms of yellow wine, and burn them with slow fire for two hours. Finally, Wuxi spareribs with a weight of about 64 kg were made, and their characteristics were maintained. The hot documentary "China on the Tip of the Tongue", in which one section talks about Wuxi sauce ribs, "Although it is not a sugar producing area, Wuxi people have persistently chosen' sweet'. The locals believe that sauce ribs can best represent Wuxi's food, except for the exquisite selection of materials and cooking methods, and the most famous is its strong sweet taste ... In traditional practice, sugar accounts for almost one-tenth of the weight of ribs, which seems to diners in other parts of China.
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