Generally, sugar-fried hawthorn and sugar-coated haws are sold in stalls.
However, the production method and taste of sugar-fried hawthorn and sugar-coated haws are different.
Sugar-coated haws need fruit such as hawthorn. After the sugar is cooked, roll the ground fruit on the surface of the sugar solution and soak it evenly in the sugar solution. After cooling, it will form a thin and transparent sugar coating, which looks crystal clear. The icing formed is very crisp and looks like rock sugar. Therefore, it is called sugar-coated haws.
Sugar-coated haws can also be made into combinations of various patterns, such as sandwich and external touch.
Stir-fried hawthorn with sugar is made by cleaning hawthorn, removing pedicels and directly pouring it into sugar solution to stir fry.
Sugar-fried hawthorn products are wrapped in sugar like snow, so some people call them "snow red fruit" or "sugar snowball"
The sugar of hawthorn fried with sugar is soft and moist, and it has a feeling of melting in the mouth, which is completely different from sugar-coated haws.
Stir-fried hawthorn with sugar can generally be made with hawthorn, cherry tomatoes, jujube, kumquat and yam bean.
In addition, it can be made into a variety of flavors, such as sweet orange flavor, pineapple flavor, apple flavor, strawberry flavor, taro flavor and so on.
Here's how to stir-fry hawthorn with sugar:
Raw materials:
1, 500g hawthorn
2250 grams of sugar
3, 5 grams of white vinegar
4. Corn starch 10g
5, water 100g
6, agar powder 0.5g.
Tools:
1, a wok
2. A wooden shovel.
Treatment of hawthorn:
First, remove the stem of the fruit, that is, the small handle connecting the hawthorn with the tree. If the hawthorn you bought can bring the pulp down a little when pulling the stem directly, you can't pull it directly. You can unscrew it by hand, so the hawthorn won't get hurt.
Then clean it, dry the water on the surface, and then dry it.
In addition, if the hawthorn you buy is taken out by the fruit merchant in the cold storage, it must be placed in an outdoor ventilated place for about 3 days to allow the hawthorn to evaporate.
Frying method:
Put the sugar in the pot first, then put the starch in the water, and stir it thoroughly to dissolve.
Pour the evenly stirred starch water into the sugar pot, and the fire will melt the sugar.
When the sugar is completely melted, put it into agar powder, stir the agar powder again, turn down the heat and continue to boil.
Dip some sugar into the pot with a shovel when cooking.
You can smoke the last drop of sugar after it is finished, and it is generally ok for the sugar drop to recover slowly.
Note: the dripping state of sugar solution is not fixed either, and the dripping situation should be observed according to the temperature in the sugar boiling space.
If the ambient temperature is high, the dripping state will be faster, because the sugar solidifies slowly.
If the ambient temperature is low, the sugar drops slowly, and the drawing time is short.
In other words, when the ambient temperature is high, the time for boiling sugar is short.
The surrounding temperature is low, so it takes longer to boil sugar.
Specifically, it is necessary to flexibly adjust the sugar boiling time according to the actual situation.
After the sugar is boiled, turn off the fire, pour the white vinegar into the pot and stir, and take the pot off the gas stove.
Then pour the hawthorn into the pot and start to stir fry, and stir fry with a wooden shovel at the bottom of the pot.
First, evenly spread the sugar solution on each hawthorn, and then stop stirring. After the sugar solution is solidified, gently stir to separate the mutually adhered hawthorn. If the sugar solution is still sticky, please wait a moment.
When the sugar solution turns white, stir-fry it again to separate the adhered hawthorn.
Shake the hawthorn in the pot like a cooking spoon, which will separate some adhered hawthorn and rub out the uneven sugar on the hawthorn skin, making the finished product sugar-fried hawthorn more round.
When the sugar-fried hawthorn is completely cold, it can be sold.
Precautions:
1, hawthorn must be dried after cleaning, otherwise it will melt easily.
2. Stir-fried hawthorn with sugar must be spread out and thoroughly cooled, and then stored in a mesh plastic box or other ventilated container. Small packages can be put in open paper bags and can't be sealed, otherwise it will be easy.
3. Use sugar produced in Guangxi or Yunnan.
4, hawthorn should choose varieties with hard skin, such as: big Venus, crooked red, big pentagon, etc. This is not easy to be fired, and you must not use big cotton balls.
Agar powder is a kind of food additive, which can generally be bought in food additive stores. If you don't have it locally, you can buy it at a treasure, about 70 yuan per catty.
6. Start using fire when frying. Turn down the sugar when it melts. The fire is easy to go too far and burn the hawthorn skin.