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Famous Authentic Chinese Recipe : Sweetened Jinhua Ham

Ingredients:

• 160g Jinhua ham
• 80g Hunan lotus seeds
• 3 red cherries
• 3 green cherries
• 160g pork skins

Seasonings:

• Adequate amount each of candy sugar, honey, osmanthus sugar and wine

Directions:

1. Cut the Jinhua ham into slices like dominoes; halve each of red and green cherries and cut two halves of green cherries longitudinally and transversely into 4 pellets each.
2. Lay the Jinhua ham slices in an inverting bowl, add pork skins, water, honey and wine and steam them for 3 hours.
3. Scald Hunan lotus seeds twice in boiling water, add water and candy sugar and steam them until cooked.
4. Put the steamed lotus seeds in a plate, lay pork skins on both sides, invert the bowl to place the Jinhua ham on top and garnish them with red and green cherries; add osmanthus sugar into the steaming juice of the ham, stir starch solution in and pour the mixture over the ham for serving.