Hot and sour powder is one of the traditional snacks widely circulated between urban and rural areas in Sichuan, which has long been loved by people because of its low price and good quality. Hot and sour powder is mainly made of sweet potato powder. There are two kinds of hot and sour powder: one is "gouache", which is made of sweet potato starch; The other is "dry powder", that is, dry powder strips processed into powder strips. Because the hot and sour powder made of dry powder strips is simple and convenient, dry powder is generally used. The modulation operation of gouache is relatively complicated. Here's how to make gouache:

The raw materials are 5000 grams of sweet potato starch, 35-40 grams of alum and cooked paste125-130 grams.

The cooked sweet potato starch is first dispersed with clear water, then washed with boiling water, and stirred into a thin paste, which is customary as "cooked sweet potato starch".

Practice1.Grind alum into fine powder, add water100g and mix well to make alum water.

2. Pour the cooked paste into the basin, add sweet potato starch, 2000g of clear water and alum water, and knead it into a dough with moderate hardness for later use.

3. Use a large aluminum ladle to make a hole the size of a soybean, put the dough into the ladle, pat it with your palm to make it leak into a boiling pot and cook it, then pick it in cold water and let it cool to make it "gouache".

Preparation of hot and sour powder seasoning and types of pouring;

The sauce used for hot and sour powder is made like noodle sauce, mainly including "fat sausage sauce", "bean jelly sauce" and "ribs sauce", among which "fat sausage sauce" is the most famous. "Fat intestines" can be divided into "hot and sour pork intestines powder" and "original soup pork intestines powder", that is, hot and sour taste and fresh and salty taste. Seasoning is mainly composed of pepper, red pepper, chopped green onion, soy sauce, sprouts, celery, vinegar, coriander, big head sprouts (a vegetable in Sichuan), crisp soybean, monosodium glutamate and so on.

Soup boiled with hot and sour powder is a thick white original soup made by boiling fat intestines and pig ears.

The specific operation is: put vinegar, red pepper, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate and sprouts into the soup bowl and pour the original soup. Blanch the powder in a pot, put it into a bowl, and sprinkle with celery, coriander, big head bud and crisp soybean.