Beijing's fried liver has no heart and no lungs. This snack is neither fried, nor does it contain more than liver, and it is intuitively a big bowl of sticky. The accurate definition, Tang Lusun summed it up most concisely and clearly: "pork liver and pig intestines with minced garlic thickened double stew".
The boiled pork intestines are cut into "thimble segments", and the pork liver is sliced into willow leaf strips. In addition, you should also prepare garlic sauce: put star anise in boiling oil, fry it thoroughly, add garlic, and add an appropriate amount of yellow sauce to fry it as garlic sauce. When making fried liver, first put the cooked intestine section into boiling water, then put in garlic sauce, chopped green onion and mushroom soup that had been boiled before, then put the liver strips into the pot, thicken it with starch, stir it into a paste, sprinkle the garlic paste before starting the pot, and you can get it in a pot of fried liver.
There is also knowledge in eating fried liver, remember that it is "drinking", not "eating". Authentic old Beijing never uses chopsticks or spoons, but holds the bowl with one hand, turning in circles and "sucking" one by one. However, many restaurants are rough in the treatment of intestines and liver, and the taste is violent, the taste is bitter, and the thick sauce is difficult to swallow.
The last time fried liver became famous, it was when then US Vice President Biden and his entourage visited Yao Ji Fried Liver Shop on Gulou East Street, which immediately made the people of the whole country know about this Beijing specialty food that "even the President of the United States wants to come and taste". But what the news doesn't tell you is that Biden's group of six people only ordered 77 yuan of food, and they only ate one or two bites of each food and left in a hurry. Like bean juice, it is also a challenging Beijing snack, and it needs to be psychologically built before eating.
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