What is bird's nest skin made of

Bird's eye skin is a kind of edible item. Perhaps many people have never heard of this kind of food. In fact, this food is not much different from bird's nest. If you master the method of cooking bird's eye skin, it can also be made delicious. There are many ways to cook bird's nest skin. Some people mix bird's nest skin and meat together to make meat bird's nest skin, which is also delicious after drying. So what is bird's nest skin made of?

Meat-bearing bird's nest skin is made from lean meat and auxiliary materials such as starch. It is paper-like in shape, white, smooth and delicate, and exudes a meaty aroma. It has the flavor of bird's nest when eaten and is very refreshing, so it is known as meat-bearing bird's nest skin.

Raw material formula: 50 kg lean meat, 50 kg starch, 4 kg glutinous rice, 0.5 kg plant ash

Preparation method 1. Material selection: Choose lean meat from the hind legs of pigs, which should be slaughtered immediately and used immediately, striving for freshness.

2. Meat removal: The raw meat must be cleaned of fascia, broken bones, etc., and then the lean meat pieces are grouped into soft and hard groups (customarily called blanks), each weighing 750~1000 grams.

3. Beat the meat: Place the lean meat on the chopping board, beat it repeatedly with a wooden mallet, and add appropriate amount of glutinous rice paste and plant alkali to enhance the stickiness. The force should be even and rhythmic when beating. The meat should be turned over repeatedly, and the small fascia should be picked out while beating until the meat is beaten into a gelatinous meat paste.

4. Making bird's nest: Put the gelatinous meat paste on a wooden board, sprinkle potato starch evenly, and gently pat and roll it until it is formed. This is called fresh bird's nest.

5. Drying: Cut the fresh bird's nest into 16 cm wide strips, roll them up, and hang them in a ventilated place to dry to make dry bird's nest skin.

Product Features: Uniform thickness, little damage, no obvious wrinkles on the surface, rich in nutrition, each kilogram of dried meat bird's nest skin can be cut into about 600 pieces of 8 cm square.

Due to the complicated production process of bird's nest skin, many people do not have the time to make it, and even some stores use ready-made "dry bird's nest skin". Dried bird's nest skin is equivalent to wonton skin, but it is not fresh, it is dry, easy to preserve, crispy and delicious. It is made of pork leg meat, eggs, starch, etc. in a certain proportion and processed into paper-like thin sheets through special processes such as mixing sticks and hammering, and then wrapped with meat filling, it becomes flat meat bird's nest (bird's nest skin wonton), which tastes great and is a Fuzhou snack.

How to eat: After spreading out the dry bird's nest skin, use a clean wet towel or a sprayer filled with clean water to evenly moisten and soften it (so that the skin will not break when wrapping), then cut it into the same size as wonton skin, and you can wrap the meat filling (wrap it into a round head and loose tail shape). After wrapping, put it on a plate that has been greased with base oil and steam it in a pot or steamer over high heat for a few minutes (until the meat filling is cooked), take it out and prepare to eat. When eating, put it in boiling water or broth, boil it, add salt, vinegar, MSG, pepper, chopped green onion and other seasonings.

If you want to make the best "Taipingyan", you must use the best bird's nest skin. The best bird's nest skin needs to be carefully made by hand. Therefore, the production of bird's nest skin is still manual work nowadays. There are many small shops making bird's nest skin in Fuzhou city, commonly known as "Taijiang Juji and Chengnei Tongli". Especially in the remote streets and alleys, you can hear a series of rhythmic "tatta, tapalitta" sounds from time to time. Following the sound, you will find the small shop selling bird's nest skin.