Sauce meat is also called brine meat, is a kind of food that we like to eat every day, the method of sauce meat is roughly the same, each place will be according to the eating habits of the locals, slightly different, sauce meat is the older the shop to make the better delicious, the reason is that the store a pot of decades of old brine soup, this old brine soup is the key to the delicious meat sauce meat.
Xinjiezi Village, Xinjiezi Town, Hanzhong Mian County, is located next to the 108 National Road there is an old soup brine shop, the old soup in a large iron pot is thick black, the pot is boiled with pork head meat, pig trotters, pork belly pork heart and other sauce meat, the boss is a 70-year-old aunt, she has been making sauce meat for 40 years, very famous in the local area.
The environment of this shop is very simple, the house is still a little gray, but from the store diffuse sauce meat aroma, the old can smell it, passing guests are attracted by this smell, involuntarily into the store, here without restraint, they fished out the sauce meat from the pot, let the aunt weigh well, plate can eat.
This shop is a family in operation, the big mother leads her son and daughter-in-law, the daughter and son-in-law to do together, the whole family is together, it is happy and harmonious, for decades has never been red because of money, relying on this pot of 40 years of old brine soup rich family for three generations, the grandchildren of the big mother, even if they do not have to do things, can also eat and drink without worry.
When I was young, my aunt worked in the local catering industry, opened this shop next to the national road at the head of the village in 1981, talked about the reason why her sauce meat was delicious, my aunt said that there was no know-how, the fresh ingredients used were cleaned, and the other was this pot of old brine soup, which was filled with pure natural ingredients every day, such as fennel, fennel, cloves, cinnamon, white nutmeg, etc.
His family can sell two large iron pots every day, both boiled on the same day, sold out on the same day, never leaving leftovers, the meat cooked with this old brine soup, the color is naturally sauce, and the red aroma is tempting. His family's pig head meat sold for 38 yuan a pound, pig trotters sold for 40 yuan a pound, pig tongue sold for 50 yuan a pound, pig intestines sold for 60 yuan a pound, some people think it is expensive, and some people think that the price is still acceptable.
The marinated meat can be eaten directly or added to the ginger and shallots, adjusted and eaten. Some people like to slice the pork head and stir-fry it, which tastes better.