Fried Lotus Root Box is a very good dish, which is golden in color, burnt on the outside and tender on the inside, crispy and fragrant. Here is how to make fried lotus root box.
Fried Lotus RootRequired ingredients: 750 grams of lotus root, 500 grams of lean pork, 1 egg, 100 green onions, 1 piece of ginger, 5 grams of cooking wine, 2 grams of sugar, 5 grams of shrimp powder, 5 grams of soy sauce, 10 grams of salt, 1,000 grams of cooking oil.
Method of production: 1. Crispy paste according to the above mentioned mix well, ginger washed clean and patted, squeeze out the ginger juice. Small green onions cleaned and cut scallions. Lean meat rinsed, chopped into minced meat on a plate;
2. Inside the minced meat, add egg white, ginger juice, cooking wine, sugar, salt, soy sauce, shrimp powder, scallions and mix well, marinate for 20 minutes;
3. Lotus root peeled, rinsed, and cut double fly slices. That is, the first knife does not cut off, leaving one-fifth connected, the second knife only cut off;
4. All cut, the lotus root slices into the basin, add water, a small amount of rice vinegar soak for 5 minutes to prevent color change. Then drain the water;
5. Hold the lotus root slices in one hand, separate them into shells with your fingers, and use chopsticks to stuff them with the meat mixture. Repeat until all the meat is stuffed;
6. Pour cooking oil into a pot, heat to 5-6 oil temperature, turn to medium-low heat, use chopsticks to pick up the lotus root folder, immersed in the crunchy paste inside, and then lift up and shake off the excess paste, put into the pot;
7. Frying for 1-2 minutes, the lotus root folder, turn over, and deep fry until golden brown, remove from the pot and control the oil.
How to adjust the crunchy batterWant to be crispy enough, you must use noodle seed, is to do the old noodle buns of the noodle seed, passed down from generation to generation, not with baking powder yeast and other improvised, can be compared. With the kind of noodles to adjust the crunchy paste, you need to ferment for about 5 hours, it is winter, if the fermentation is not ideal, you should also add 10 grams of lye mix, wake up for about 20 minutes to help the kind of noodles fully fermented.
Prepare a clean ceramic pot, add 2 grams of salt, 375 grams of flour, 75 grams of pasta seeds, 60 grams of horseshoe flour, and 65 grams of cornstarch. Slowly pour in 550g of water, stirring as you pour. Mix until no particles can be seen in the batter and leave to ferment. Before using, add 160g cooking oil and mix well until the oil mixture is inside the batter.
Fried lotus root box (folder) should be on the thin paste, the surface of the sticky layer can be, the operation is to put the lotus root folder with chopsticks, immersed in the batter inside, and then clamped up, to be on top of the lotus root paste is no longer flowing down, put into the frying pan deep-fried.
The temperature of the oil should not be too high, 5-6% is suitable. The way to tell is to insert a chopstick into the frying pan, see the small bubbles around the chopstick, and then turn to medium-low heat to fry. If you use high heat, it is easy to cause the skin of the lotus root folder has been crispy, and the meat inside is still raw phenomenon.