Sweet Smoked Meat Roll

I am not a vegetarian, I like meat, and there are many ways to cook meat. I would like to teach you how to make a sweet meat roll with bean-curd.

Suitable people:

1.  Normal healthy people and unhealthy people can eat this dish. However, if you eat too much and gain too many calories will cause obesity and cause more diseases. Eat too hot or cold food will cause stomachache and diarrhea. People who has stroke and high blood-pressure should not eat fat.

2.  Suitable for weak, old people and people who have malnutrition.

3.  Not suitable for people who are not good with pork.

4.  Pork skin and pork feet have effects for beauty and skin. Women who like to improve their look can eat pork skin and feet.

Appropriate cooking and eating：

1. There are many ways to cook and eat pork. From nutrition and health protection’s purpose, it is better to stew, boil and steam than to fry and bake. Under the high temperature of fry and bake, the protein of the meat will become chemicals that will cause cancer, so it is better to avoid frying and baking especially over-cooked meat. Meat that is cooked thoroughly is easier to digest, and protein will dissolve in the soup making the soup delicious and healthy.

2.  Do not use hot water to wash the pork before cooking, because it will lose some nutrition and make the flavor bad. Pork should be thoroughly cooked, since pork sometimes contains parasite.

3.  Pork belongs to acid food category. To balance it, you can add some beans and vegetables when cooking.

4.  Food that will conflict: you should not eat pork with plum, shrimp, almond, coriander, buckwheat, and beef.

Food contradiction:

1.  Do not drink milk with lean meat, because there is a lot of calcium in milk and phosphorus in lean meat. Body cannot absorb both at the same time.

2.  Do not drink tea after eating pork, because tannic acid in tea will make digestion slow causing to absorb poisonous and cancerous materials and causing health problems.

Ingredients:

• Grounded pork – 1/2 lb
• Bean curd 
• Green onion
• Ginger
• Garlic

Seasonings:

• Brown sugar – 2 teaspoons
• Salt – 1 teaspoon
• Soy sause – 2 tablespoons
• Oyster sauce – 1 teaspoon
• Sesame oil – 1 teaspoon

Procedure:

1.  Prepare materials. Ground the pork then add in green onion, ginger, garlic, sesame oil, oyster oil, then mix them.

2.  Boil bean curd so that it’s soft.

3.  Spread out the bean curd shin. Put a layer of grounded pork on it.

4.   Roll the bean curd clockwise into a roll.

5.   Boil hot water in the pater. Put the meat roll inside and steam for 25 minutes.

6.   Steamed meat roll is clear. Let it cool down.

7.  Put aluminum paper in the pot, sprinkle the brown sugar on it. Turn the stove to low fire.

8.   Put the meat roll inside and then close the lid for 2-3 minutes.

9.   Separately, add brown sugar into soy sauce to make the sweet sauce.

10.   Brush a layer of sauce on the meat roll.

11.   Close the lid again.

12.  After cooking, cool down the meat roll then cut it into pieces.