Five-Flavor Pork Stomach

Name: Five-Flavor Pork Stomach
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 2 h
Total time: 2 h 20 min
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 pork stomach; 9 g anemarrhena; 9 g trichosanthes root; 9 g ophiopogon; 3 g coptis; 2 g black plum (ground); fine salt, a pinch; lard (for steaming), to taste

Steamed pork stomach prepared with five traditional Chinese medicinal herbs. Traditionally used to clear heat, nourish yin, and tonify deficiency; suitable for summer heat damaging the body's fluids.

2h 20m

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Ingredients

pork stomach 1

anemarrhena 9 g

trichosanthes root 9 g

ophiopogon 9 g

coptis 3 g

black plum (ground) 2 g

fine salt a pinch

lard (for steaming) to taste

Instructions

Preparing the pork stomach

Wash the pork stomach and blanch it in boiling water to remove the bloody residue.

Filling and steaming

Grind the black plums into powder. Combine with the coptis, anemarrhena, trichosanthes root, ophiopogon, and fine salt, then stuff the mixture into the pork stomach. Sew the opening shut with hemp twine and steam for about 2 hours until tender. Remove the herbal ingredients before serving.