The dish of re-burned beef is a dish that not only has a strange name but also has a wonderful recipe, only available in Tam Dao (Vinh Phuc).
Burned rare ant beef is a dish that not only has a strange name but also has a wonderful recipe. Only in Tam Dao (Vinh Phuc), you can enjoy this dish in the most authentic way, which is almost impossible to find anywhere else.
Newly slaughtered cows, the meat is still hot, will be cut in pieces and hung next to the ant nests on the forest trees. Then, people poked the ants in the nest to burst open, covering the meat. The hotter the meat, the more fragrant it stimulates the ants. However, to ensure hygiene, people here only choose ant nests on trees. The more aggressive the ant, the better the sting, the better the meat will be.
What’s unique here is that not all ant colonies produce the same taste. Each type of ant brings its own flavor, such as the pungent aroma caused by the black ant sting, the sour taste caused by the red ant sting, similarly with the sweet, spicy,… If the food is rich, people often hang meat in many different ant nests.
After finishing the stage of ant burning, the beef is washed in a thin layer of salt, drained, then brought to a griddle and burned on a burning charcoal stove until it is rare, then stops. When the meat is cooked, sizzling, the scent released is that the meat is cooked.
The most important thing in grilling meat is to quickly turn it over, helping the heat penetrate deeply into each fiber of the meat, not letting the raw meat inside and scorching the outside. The finished product is a pinkish, fragrant piece of meat, thinly sliced and served on a beautiful pink plate. Diners can start enjoying.
Burnt rare ant beef can be eaten with a few sour, acrid, fragrant raw vegetables, dipped in soy sauce, the smell is really suitable.
This rather unique dish can be found in restaurants in town, so be sure to book in advance to be more thoughtfully prepared. Burned rare ant beef costs about 350,000 VND/kg of meat. Follow Dân trí