In the days leading up to Tet, the small family of La Khanh Ly (born 2002) in Thai Thuy district, Thai Binh province, is busy and bustling. Each person has a job, but everyone is excited and happy, because the spring atmosphere is coming very close.
This year, some relatives living nearby encountered a 60kg pig that had been raised for nearly a year. While everyone was busy cutting and cutting, Ly took the butt meat back to grind raw sausage and add some pig intestines to make sausage. The girl from Cao Bang revealed that she will make pork sausage to treat everyone.
A native of Cao Bang, Ly came to Hanoi to work as an employee in a supermarket on Doi Can street. Thanks to chance, she met her husband here. After a period of togetherness in 2021, the two decided to get married. When Ly was pregnant with her first baby, she moved back to her husband’s hometown, Thai Binh.
Remembering the first day she became a bride, the Cao Bang girl felt so confused because everything was so different from her hometown. local accents to regional cuisine. However, Ly easily adapted thanks to her mother-in-law’s wholehearted guidance and the people living around her were also very enthusiastic.
“The relationship between my mother-in-law and my daughter-in-law is very good. Although she is old, she has a youthful personality and loves her children and grandchildren very much. Thanks to that, my life as a daughter-in-law is not stifling. Thanks to her, I can study. more delicious dishes including sausage made from pig intestines” Ly happily said.
The young girl revealed that sausage intestines are a family heirloom dish that has been passed down since the time of her ancestors. left for children and grandchildren. Not only in Thai Binh, some other localities such as Hoa Binh also have this dish, but each place has a slightly different preparation.
In Thai Thuy district, my husband’s hometown, cassava leaves are indispensable. boat. This is a wild plant grown in some northern provinces such as Hanoi, Nam Dinh, Thai Binh, Ninh Binh. The leaves contain essential oils that have a bitter and slightly acrid taste and are taken by local people as ingredients for special spring rolls.
The dish has main ingredients such as raw sausage, homemade pork sausage, boiled liver and chicken eggs into thin pieces. If you can’t find herbs, you can use cassava leaves instead, but the flavor will be a little different.
When grinding raw spring rolls, Ly chooses lean rump with 7 parts of meat and 3 parts of fat to cook. Refrigerate for about an hour, then puree with ice. Pepper fish sauce is seasoned to taste and added while grinding the sausage.
According to Ly’s mother-in-law’s instructions, choose 5-6 banana leaves to place on top. Next, she spread a layer of raw sausage, added an omelette, then a layer of raw sausage, liver sausage and pork colon. This sausage dish alone is not good for the stomach or intestines. Finally, she took the raw sausage and spread it evenly to cover the gaps, then rolled it tightly by hand.
“Rolling the sausage is very important in wrapping the sausage. If you don’t wrap it tightly, the cut sausage will fall apart. “The sausages are not beautiful” Ly noted.
The sausages are tied tightly with string. Waiting for the water to boil, she put the spring rolls in and boiled for 2 hours. Occasion This Tet she makes a tree The sausage weighs 25kg and is expected to be cut into pieces to give to relatives to eat for herbs.
After removing the sausage, it is pressed for about 1 hour to drain completely. water and then store in a dry place. According to the experience of local people, spring rolls are best when eaten hot and should only be preserved within one day and not left until the next day.
“In Thai Thuy, my husband’s hometown, every family often makes spring rolls. to celebrate Tet. Customers who want to eat have to go to the Dong Lam area to find a place to buy it,” said the Thai Binh bride.
For Tet this year, Ly revealed that she also makes sausage (a type of local sausage). made from pork belly) stir-fried sausage and lean sausage with each type of 2kg.
The standard sausage dish is when cut into a non-discrete block that has a very strange taste. If refrigerated before eating, steaming the sausage will be more delicious. Depending on the family, it can be dipped in pepper fish sauce or shrimp sauce.
The happiest Tet is when everyone gathers to prepare delicious dishes and enjoy the results together” Cao Bang girl said happily.
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