Method of preparation
The noodles should be made two to three hours in advance so that the dumplings will be strong. According to the ratio of one kilogram of flour to twelve hundred grams of water to make the dough, of course, it also depends on the flour, in any case, the dough is not easy to be too hard. Knead the dough three times or more until it is smooth and soft to the touch.
Mixing the filling, take the leek meat dumplings as an example, the rest are similar. Stir the meat and leeks in the ratio of 1:1, add an egg, chopped green onion, ginger, sesame oil, and add about 50 grams of soup, or you can use the same amount of water instead. Then add salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper, thirteen spices. Stir in the same direction, the direction can not be reversed, until the filling to absorb the water can be.
Put down the dumplings, cover the pot to cook the filling, and uncover the pot to cook the skin.
Making sour soup is very important. Shaanxi sour soup production must be shrimp, cilantro, green onions, seaweed. Half a catty of dumplings, for example, more than ten grams of salt, a little monosodium glutamate, 15 grams of balsamic vinegar, must use balsamic vinegar, which is very critical, otherwise it will change the flavor, a little soy sauce, 20 grams of chili oil, a little chicken, into the shrimp, cilantro, green onion, nori blended into the base of the dumplings with dumplings, the soup is washed away and fished into the dumplings can be. A bowl of fragrant dumplings in front of you.
Snack Characteristics
The sour soup is uniquely prepared and has a deliciously sour flavor that is hard to taste.
In Xi'an, there are as many dumplings in sour soup as there are Lanzhou ramen in Lanzhou. Foreigners can see and smell them as long as they walk down the streets. Many of the dumpling sellers have signboards, even if they only use red and white paper to write a few crooked words, but they are big enough to be seen.
Even if there is no signboard, most of the dumplings in the water pot in front of the store, and often another hot, fragrant hot and sour soup pot, so both visible, but also smelled.