What is Chinese sausage?
Chinese sausage concerns any number of land, spicy meat mixtures wrapped in packaging and used in Chinese cooking. Depending on the area of origin and the required result, ingredients may include a wide range of parts from animals and poultry. These usually include pigs, turkeys and chickens. Beef is sometimes used in a special Chinese sausage, although its use is rare. Chinese sausages found on most traditional Chinese restaurants and Chinese markets usually fall into two categories: LAP Chong and Yeung Cheong. Both are popular additions to a number of Chinese dishes. Usually only contains pork and fat from pork, sweeteners and spices. On the Chinese market, LAP Chong is usually dried variety of sausages seen by vision in windows. This type of thin sausage is generally about 6 inches (approximately 15 cm) long and 1 inch (approximately 2.5 cm) in diameter.
Another most common type of Chinese sausage is Yeung Cheong. The place of pork is its main ingredient usually pork livera. Unlike Lap Chong is Yeung Cheong salty taste, without a hint of sweetness in the mixture. Due to the liver content, it is usually darker than lap chong.
both sausages are common ingredients in a number of Chinese dishes. The links are usually cut into bicycles or chopped, cooked with vegetables and served through rice or mixed with noodles. In DIM sum, popular steamed dumplings of the appetizer, the sausages are removed and the meat inside is cooked as part of the DIM filling.
ago, when the first Chinese sausages were made by hand, ground meat was traditionally packed with sheep and lamb stomach cases, and manually twisted into links. It was usually made in the summer to help in the drying process. Summer production also provided less humidity that prevented sausage spoiling.
Today, Chinese sausage is generally produced in factories around the world and vacuum wrapped before sending it to restaurants and withUPERMARKETS. Some privately owned and operated traditional Chinese markets and restaurants that adhere to time -recognized preparations, which is still manually. It is widely available to buy online for consumers who do not have access to Chinese markets. Recipes for making homemade sausages can be found in Chinese cookbooks and on Chinese cooking website.