Hibiscus Yellow Tube Shandong Cuisine
Hibiscus Yellow Tube Shandong Cuisine

The hibiscus yellow tube is one of the traditional famous dishes in Shandong. This dish is made of fine materials, exquisite in production, exquisite in knife work and novel in shape, just like a water hibiscus. Soft, smooth and crisp, delicious and delicious, it is a high-end banquet soup dish of Shandong cuisine.

Raw material:

10 pig yellow tubes, 700g clear soup, 150g egg white, 25g shredded ham, 25g shredded mushroom, 10g Shaoxing wine, 50g shredded rapeseed, 3g monosodium glutamate, 5g refined salt, 100g puree chicken breast

Cooking method:

  1. Rinse the pig yellow tube with water, put it in a pot and add water to boil on a high heat, then move to a low heat and simmer for 2 hours. When it is mature, remove it, wash it with water, tear off the fat, and scald it with boiling water. After that, wash off the oil and hold one end with chopsticks. Turn it over; rinse with water and set aside.
  2. Stir the chopped chicken breast paste with monosodium glutamate, Shaoxing wine, onion and ginger juice, refined salt, and egg white into chicken paste.
  3. Take 5 pig yellow tubes and cut them into 5.5 cm long sections, and use the tip of a knife to evenly cut them into a “centipede” shape. Spread the mashed chicken evenly in the yellow tube, dip shredded ham, shredded mushrooms, and shredded rapeseed alternately on the knife edge of the yellow tube, steam thoroughly and take out. The remaining 5 pig yellow tubes are also cut into 5.5 cm long sections, also cut into a “centipede” shape with a knife, and blanched in boiling water.
  4. Put the egg whites into the soup bowl, add clear soup and refined salt, stir well with chopsticks, put them into the cage and put them on medium heat and steam them until cooked. Take out the bottom of “hibiscus”. Arrange the pig yellow tubes with and without chicken puree on the bottom of the “hibiscus”.
  5. Put clear soup in a clean pot, add refined salt, monosodium glutamate, Shaoxing wine, set it to a boil over high heat, skim off the foam, and slowly pour it into the soup bowl and serve.

Process key:

  1. When hitting the centipede flower knife, the knife should be suspended, and the pig yellow tube should not be cut off.
  2. When making hibiscus base, the ratio of egg white and clear soup should be equal.
  3. Pay attention to the heat when steaming the pig yellow tube, generally steam for 5 minutes.

Flavor Features:

  1. “Hibiscus Yellow Tube” is a style dish with hibiscus egg and pig yellow pipe as the main ingredients. This dish is a traditional flavor soup dish in Jinan.
  2. The pig yellow tube, commonly known as the tube, is shaped like a tube, flexible and elastic. Crispy when cooked, it is an ideal ingredient for soups.
  3. The selection of ingredients for this dish is strict, and the knives and heat are very particular. After maturity, the soup is clear and bottomless, the taste is pure and mellow, crisp and refreshing, and it is rich in nutrients. It is a soup dish for high-end banquets.