Pre-processing food raw materials into semi-finished products or finished products, and then adding various auxiliary materials as needed, this is the current hot pre-prepared dish. In the past, pre-prepared dishes were more targeted at catering companies, but the epidemic has reduced people's dining out. At the same time, young people also have the problem of not wanting to cook or not knowing how to cook. Some pre-prepared dishes have also begun to target families and individual consumers. The more popular pre-prepared dishes include: braised pork, steamed pork with rice flour, pickled fish, preserved vegetable and pork, etc. At the same time, the sales volume of pre-prepared dishes has also increased significantly.
Steamed pork with rice flour originated in Jiangxi and flourished in the south of the Yangtze River. It is a fixed traditional folk custom to eat rice flour meat on the day of the beginning of summer every year. This famous dish originated in Jiangxi and quickly spread across the country. The standard Jiangxi steamed pork with rice flour is made with potato cubes as the base, and pork belly mixed with rice flour is placed on top, and steamed in a bamboo cage. Green peas, sweet potato cubes, pumpkin cubes, taro, and lotus root cubes can also be used as the base, in various forms.
To make steamed pork with rice flour, first, the meat selection is particular, and pork belly with fat and lean meat is required; second, a small amount of blending oil must be added, preferably some fermented bean curd juice to make the taste more mellow; third, the spice formula must be matched well, which is the decisive factor for steamed pork with rice flour of different flavors; fourth, the heat must be sufficient, and soft and glutinous is the best. Steamed pork with rice flour is delicious, but many young people don’t know how to make it, so pre-prepared steamed pork with rice flour dishes appeared, and at the same time, aluminum foil packaging for pre-prepared steamed pork with rice flour dishes also came into being. Pre-prepared aluminum foil packaging has the characteristics of high barrier properties, health, safety and hygiene. Especially in the consumer environment where "whoever wins the young wins the world", packaging companies must see the real needs of young people, and then do a good job in the research and development and innovation of products and their packaging. The consumer groups, consumption habits, and aesthetic hobbies we face have undergone tremendous changes. The transformation of the packaging and printing industry to quality, creativity, and new life is the general trend. Opportunities always belong to innovative companies, and changes can create the future.
