Making process of Tujia sauce-flavored pancake:

1. Put the flour in a basin, add warm water and use chopsticks to stir the water into small pieces (do not add all the water at once, Because different flours have different water absorption)

2. Use your hands to knead the small pieces of dough into a shaped dough. It may not be smooth. Cover and let it sit for 10 minutes before kneading. It will be easy to knead smooth; Cover the kneaded dough for 20 minutes

3. While the noodles are baking, you can make the sauce to brush on the cake. Prepare all three sauces. Among them, Sichuan bean paste is best chopped with a knife. It needs to be broken up a little

4. Add oil to the wok, immediately add Sichuan peppercorns and star anise and heat over low heat until the seasoning changes color and becomes fragrant. Take it out and use it, just oil

5. Put the Sichuan bean paste into the oil in the pot, and slowly stir-fry over low heat until the aroma and red oil are released

6. Pour in the soybean bean paste and garlic chili sauce and stir-fry until the aroma is released

7. Add half a bowl of water and bring to a boil

8. Add sugar (a little is enough, just slightly sweet, of course you can increase the amount if you like it sweet), cumin powder, add a spoonful of sesame powder, and then heat it over medium-low heat

9. Turn off the heat when it is like gruel. Don't make it too dry to brush on the cake; it's done. If there is any sauce left, it can be refrigerated in a clean bottle. It can also be used for stir-frying, mixing vegetables, noodles, etc.

10. Divide the dough into 2 to 3 portions according to the size of the pot. , take one part and roll it into large thin slices and sprinkle with pepper powder (don’t add salt, the sauce is salty enough)

11. Then pour in cooking oil

12. Fold the four corners of the dough into the center of the dough and cover it with cooking oil

13. Use a knife to cut the dough as shown in the picture, and the middle will be connected

14 .Then fold each piece together to form a multi-layered dough cake

15. Knead the four sides together

16. You can fold the dough pieces together and roll them out directly. You can also gather the edges of the stacked dough pieces in the middle like a bun like in my picture, so that the dough can be rolled into a rounder shape

17. Roll out the dough into a thinner pancake. Roll it into a larger circle than the pan

18. Heat enough oil to cover the bottom of the pan, add the rolled out flatbread, and put all sides into the pan , let the cakes in the pot pile up into natural wrinkles because of their large size (in fact, you can also directly roll them into cakes that are as big as the pot or smaller than the pot. It doesn’t matter if you don’t use wrinkles, it will not affect the taste)

19. Fry both sides of the cake into golden brown over medium heat. If you use low heat to bake the cake, you must cover the pan, otherwise the cake will be dry and hard. If the cake is not too thick, it is best to bake it over medium or medium heat. Preparation

20. Brush your favorite side with the prepared spicy sauce. Then sprinkle with sesame seeds and chopped green onion, turn off the heat, and the cake is ready. The sauce is quite salty, so don’t brush too much first, you can adjust it according to your own taste

21. Take out the cake and place it on the board, cut it into four pieces, and then stack them together

22. Cut it into small pieces with a knife, put it on a plate and eat it with chopsticks. The ones sold are usually put in a paper bag and eaten with a bamboo skewer