Horseshoe Crisp is the favorite traditional delicious snack of Minnan people. This is a kind of fried food. Its main ingredients are flour and fine sugar. When making, you need to mix flour, yeast, baking soda and appropriate amount of sugar, and add warm water to knead the dough, so that the dough can be fermented in a warm environment. Only when the volume of the lighthouse is fermented to 2.5 times the original volume can you start the next production.
After the dough is fermented, put it on a clean chopping board and knead it evenly. Then roll it into rectangular sheets with a rolling pin. At this time, its edge will have some irregularities. Cut off these irregular edges with a knife, put the cut dough into a bowl, add a proper amount of white sugar and knead evenly to make a sugar filling.
The remaining rectangular dough pieces on the chopping board should be cut in the middle, and the prepared sugar stuffing should be evenly spread on the cut dough pieces, then folded in half, and then the folded dough pieces should be cut into three centimeters wide dough pieces. Put enough cooking oil in the wok and heat it. After the oil temperature rises, the prepared dough embryo is fried in oil. After frying until the surface is golden, remove and drain the oil. After cooling, it is a delicious horseshoe crisp, which can be used as a snack or breakfast. It tastes particularly good.
The horseshoe crisp that Minnan people like to eat is not made of horseshoe, although it has the word horseshoe on it. Its name is related to its shape, because it looks like a horseshoe after being fried. However, some people like to mix sugar and horseshoe powder when making horseshoe cakes, and the horseshoe cakes made in that way are also very delicious. You can try it sometime. When frying horseshoe crisp, the oil temperature should be controlled well. You can try it with chopsticks before putting it in the pot. If there are small bubbles around chopsticks, it means the oil temperature is just right. When frying, use medium fire to avoid the appearance and taste of horseshoe crisp being affected by too much fire. However, the oil temperature is too low, which will affect the color of horseshoe crisp, making it inhale too much oil and feel a little greasy.