Famous Authentic Chinese Recipe : Sweetened Jinhua Ham

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.

Lay the Jinhua ham slices in an inverting bowl, add pork skins, water, honey and wine and steam them for 3 hours.

Scald Hunan lotus seeds twice in boiling water, add water and candy sugar and steam them until cooked.

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.