Cai Lan talks about drinking and eating: taro mud
Cai Lan, who is known as the "four gifted scholars on Hong Kong Island", speaks as freely as drinking, eating and playing, and has numerous fans. Let's immerse ourselves in Cai Lan's interesting and original "food altar".
There are many ways to make taro, salty and sweet, and ever-changing, but the most famous is Chaozhou taro mud.
Making taro paste is simply an art, and the person who does it best thinks it is the mother at home. All the delicious food in the world comes from the mother's hands. How good the cooking skills of the elderly are is not a problem, and there is no doubt that once they argue, they will fight.
Everyone thinks that the method of mashed taro is very troublesome, but in fact it is extremely simple: buy a big taro and steam it for about an hour, then take it out. Cut into thick slices, put the blade of the square kitchen knife on the taro slice with your right hand, and press the blade with your left hand to make the taro into powder, and add sugar to fry it, which is taro paste.
How long does it take to fry? I am the last person to answer this kind of question. I rely entirely on experience. If I fail once or twice, I will definitely learn.
The most common taro paste is gingko and melon taro paste. The former is to peel ginkgo, remove the heart, cook it in sugar water and put it on the taro paste. The so-called melon and taro paste is to rub the taro and put it aside. After it is cooked, use a small melon, peel it and cut it. If you choose a pedicle, you can use it as a cover and put it in the taro paste.
If you want to eat expensive food, you can make bird's nest and taro paste. Make the taro paste by the above method, put it in a glass pot, boil the bird's nest in sugar water and add it into the glass pot. The taro paste is thick and will not melt. At this time, it is two layers, white on the top and purple on the bottom, which is beautiful.
To eat cheap, use white fungus instead of bird's nest, which is equally delicious. I believe the nutrition is not much worse.