During Tet, Ms. Tran Thi Gio's family in Duc Hop commune (Kim Dong) produces 50 - 60kg of sausage/day.

The name Gio Lan is named after the ingredients used to prepare this dish, which are pork and pork belly. This is a famous specialty of people in communes along the dikes of Kim Dong district such as: Duc Hop, Mai Dong, Phu Thinh, Hung An... Although this sausage dish is not picky about ingredients, it requires meticulous processing. Meticulous and meticulous, in which the most important step is choosing meat. To make sausage, the wrapper not only chooses fresh and delicious pieces of pork belly (70% lean meat, 30% fatty meat), but also has to choose pigs that have the appropriate weight from 100kg to 130kg to get it. Best quality meat. After washing and drying the meat, cut it into pieces weighing about 3 - 4kg, spread it on a pineapple sack that has been washed and cut into squares, lined with banana leaves and marinated with spices such as: Salt, fish sauce, seasoning powder, MSG, pepper... Wait for the meat to absorb evenly, then roll and wrap in banana leaves to help the finished sausage have its characteristic color and flavor. The process of wrapping sausage is very important, usually for men who are skillful and strong, rolling tightly and evenly so that the meat fibers stick together and the ingredients do not fall apart. Normally, 1kg of fresh pork belly produces 600 grams of finished pork sausage.

After rolling, the sausage is boiled for about 3.5 - 4 hours over medium heat to maintain heat and cook evenly. When cooked, take the sausage out to cool, then unfold and roll tightly a second time to drain the sausage, helping the meat inside stick together even more. Thanks to that, the sausage has a beautiful green color and delicious flavor, giving off a mouth-watering aroma. Keep the sausage in the refrigerator so it can be stored and used for about 5 - 10 days. When eating, people often combine pork sausage with pure fish sauce, pepper, chili, and eat it with pickled onions or sauerkraut, which will help the flavor of the sausage blend together, giving the person a greasy feeling. but not boring.

 

Ms. Tran Thi Gio's family in Duc Hoa village, Duc Hop commune is one of the local sausage making households for a long time. Ms. Gio said: 38 years of working with the profession of making sausages and rolls is also the same amount of time I have been making sausages, a specialty dish of my homeland. Previously, few people knew about this dish, my family mainly served it to local people. In recent years, this dish has become known and loved by many people, so the number of customers ordering it is increasing, and many customers in Hanoi also come to order it. On average, my family makes 20 - 25kg of sausage every day. During the Lunar New Year, customers place orders from the beginning of December and from December 20 to 30, my family has to increase capacity 2-3 times as much as usual to meet customers' orders. Pork sausage is currently sold for 230,000 - 240,000 VND/kg, 2 times higher than sausage.

The specialty of sausage is increasingly known and favored by many people

At first glance, "whole" sausage makes diners feel sick, but when eating, the sausage is soft and has a strange, cool taste, not boring. Pork sausage has a beautiful appearance. When eating, cut the sausage into pieces and eat it with pickled onions or pickles, which is very "waste of rice". In communes along the dykes of Kim Dong district, sausage rolls are often used to entertain distinguished guests and appear in local death anniversary and Tet menus. In recent years, pork sausage has not only been popular with people in the coastal communes of Kim Dong district, but has also been ordered by customers in many places in the province and neighboring provinces and cities as gifts and used on occasions. TET holiday.

Ms. Tran Thi Thu Trang, a resident of Mai Dong commune, said: Every year, my family's Tet feast cannot lack pork sausage to offer to ancestors and treat relatives and friends. This dish served with banh te is loved by many people because of its fragrant, delicious flavor that is not greasy. This is a strange and interesting dish. Anyone who has ever enjoyed this sausage dish will never forget its unique and attractive flavor.