Chinese Food
Fried Lotus Root Cake (lotus root box), a special snack in Jiangnan
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You say meeting is fate. Knowing is destiny. The autumn rain drifted into the yellow paddy field. The coolness came to the bottom of my heart through the thin brocade. As if for a moment. The sea has become a mulberry field. The pursuit steps to the ends of the world. You turn around with a smile, pour snow waves and wind. Lotus root cake is a traditional snack in the south of the Yangtze River. It is necessary to have a feast every festival.
Cooking ingredients
Cooking Steps
Step1:Clean and peel the fresh lotus root. Cut into thin slices.
Step2:Don't cut the two pieces to the end. Keep openin
Step3:Pour minced meat into a large bowl. Add chopped scallion, ginger, oyster sauce and salt. Stir evenly in a counter clockwise circle with chopsticks
Step4:Add a small amount of clear water to the minced meat in three times. After each mixing, add a second time after no water seeps out. And so on to complete three times. Stir and start the tendon. Add white granulated sugar again. Mix it anticlockwise until it is completely absorbed. Add the dry starch. Stir well without dry powder. Marinate for 20 minutes.
Step5:Pick up some marinated minced meat with chopsticks. Put it evenly into the lotus root
Step6:Until complet
Step7:Make batter. Mix medium gluten flour with clear water until the batter seems to flow when lifting chopsticks.
Step8:Lotus root cake is wrapped with paste on both sides.
Step9:Add some vegetable oil into the pot. Heat over high heat. When the oil temperature reaches 186, turn to medium heat. Put the lotus root cake into the pot. Heat for 8 minutes.
Step10:Put the lotus root cake wrapped with paste into the heated oil pan and fry until it is done. Until it's all blown up.
Step11:Heat the oil over high heat. Raise the temperature of the oil. Fry again. Pour the uncolored lotus cake back into the oil pan. After the two sides of the cake are colored, drain the oil.
Step12:It's golden and crisp.
Step13:It's crispy outside and tender inside. It's fragrant.
Step14:Take a sip. The fragrance spreads in your mouth. Enjoy it with your loved ones.
Cooking tips:1. Cut the lotus root slices thinly. It tastes better. 2. Choose crispy lotus root. Don't choose pink lotus root. 3. Paste can be sticky. It can be hung on the lotus root cake. 4. The first fried is to fry. The second time is to color. 5. When mixing the meat stuffing, you need to stir it to make the meat stuffing more flexible. It tastes more tender and juicy. There are skills in making delicious dishes.
