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.
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)