Xuzhou Ground Pot Cuisine

Ground Chicken is a traditional Chinese dish that originated in Xuzhou City in the northern part of Jiangsu Province. The main ingredients are chicken, chili peppers, white flour and cornstarch, and the taste is fresh and mellow, with the cake lending flavor to the vegetables and the vegetables lending fragrance to the cake.

In the past, the fishermen working and resting on Weishan Lake, due to the conditions of the boat, often take a small mud stove, sitting on the stove on an iron pot, below the support of a few pieces of dry wood to build a fire, and then according to the common practice of cooking a pot of vegetables, the pot side should also be full of pasty cakes, and so there is this cooking method of rice and vegetables in one.

Ground pot dishes have less soup, mellow flavor, cake by vegetable flavor, vegetable by cake aroma, with soft and smooth and dry incense coexist characteristics. Nowadays, some chefs have improved the traditional cooking method of ground pot dishes, thus introducing ground pot chicken, ground pot fish, ground pot beef, ground pot three fresh food, ground pot bean curd, ground pot lobster and other ground pot delicacies.