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Pigeon with Sweet Fermented Rice

A traditional dish from Zhejiang, featuring turtledove as the main ingredient, braised with sweet fermented rice (jiuniang). It has a vivid color and tender, succulent meat.

45 min
Easy
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Pigeon with Sweet Fermented Rice

Ingredients

pigeons (slaughtered, feathers plucked clean, innards removed, heads and feet cut off, each cut into 4 pieces) 5
green peas 15 g
cooked carrot (diced or sliced) 25 g
sweet fermented rice 100 g
Shaoxing wine 15 g
soy sauce 25 g
scallion 6 g
ginger 5 g
white sugar 5 g
salt 1 g
MSG 1.5 g
all-purpose flour (for coating pigeon meat) 20 g
wet starch (for thickening) 15 g
sesame oil 10 g
cooking oil (for frying) 500 g (actual usage 450 g)

Instructions

1

Prepare the pigeons

Kill the pigeons, pluck all feathers, remove innards, cut off heads and feet. Blanch in boiling water, rinse clean, cut each into 4 pieces, mix evenly with salt and flour

2

To be continued

Carrots and (process to be continued)