There is a folk tradition in Wuxi that every reunion or festive day, there must be an oil gluten on the table. The oil gluten is round, which means that the family is round and safe. Wuxi oil gluten is not only popular in the local area, but now it has spread to all parts of the country as a member of Wuxi native products. People often use oil gluten produced in Wuxi when making oil gluten dishes. Can Wuxi oil gluten be made at home by itself? The answer is yes. Let's take a look at how to make authentic Wuxi oil gluten.

Ingredients: gluten flour, vegetable oil, salt.

Practice:

1, paste the head. Add 30~35 kilograms of water into 50 kilograms of flour one after another, mix and stir for about 25 minutes, then let it stand for 4~8 minutes, until the paste head bubbles, and you can see the agglomerated gluten mass.

2. Wash gluten. In 50 kg of agglutinated gluten, 45 kg, 40 kg, 17.5 kg and 17.5 kg of clear water were washed four times in turn, and the final essence was gluten. The washed water can be kept because the sediment in it can extract starch.

3. Kneading. First, add 0.75~ 1 kg salt to 50 kg of gluten for kneading, then cut the gluten into small pieces of about 0.5 kg, put them into a tank filled with clear water, stir and wash out the residual starch white pulp, and continuously change the water and stir until the water becomes clear.

4, spread out. Cut the kneaded gluten into small pieces with a weight of 1 50g, spread them on the bamboo plaque and spray them with water for1hour, then press them with a dry towel to absorb water until the gluten doesn't stick to your hands.

5 beating. Cut the gluten into small pieces with a weight of 50 ~100g, fully mix 500g of gluten and150g of flour, and then lengthen the gluten block. The method of lengthening is: grab it with one hand and beat it on the table with the other until there is no flour in the gluten.

6. Pick the blank. Gluten is made into small balls, and each 50g of gluten is picked 13~ 14 blanks.

7. Oil pressing. When the oil temperature reaches 120℃, slowly put the gluten blank into the oil pan until the gluten foams, the skin hardens and there is no raw gluten.

After these processes, Wuxi oil gluten with golden color, smooth surface and crisp flavor is made, and ingenious cooks can use it to process various delicious dishes.

How to make Wuxi oil gluten delicious

After the last process, all we got was plain Wuxi oil gluten. To make it more delicious, we should match it with other ingredients. The traditional practice in Wuxi is to cut a hole in the oil gluten, then stuff it with minced meat, and then steam or stew it to make a delicious new dish.

Ingredients: 500g pork stuffing, 8 oil gluten, 4g salt, 5g onion, 5g ginger, cooking wine, light soy sauce, 2g sugar and a little starch.

Practice:

1, pork stuffing with salt, minced onion and ginger, cooking wine, starch and soy sauce, and stir well.

2, poke a hole in the oil gluten with chopsticks, be careful not to poke it, and then gently stir it with chopsticks to leave room in the gluten, put the prepared meat stuffing into the oil gluten and try to plug it.

3. Put the oil gluten stuffed with meat in the pot, pour in a bowl of cold water, add some soy sauce and white sugar, and after the fire is boiled, turn to medium heat for about 10 minute.

4. At this time, the soup in the pot is getting less and less. Add chicken essence to adjust the taste, turn to a big fire and thicken the soup and sprinkle with chopped green onion to get out of the pot.

When you make Wuxi oil gluten, you should pay attention to it: when you dig a hole in the oil gluten, the strength is small, but when you are strong, you will poke the oil gluten through, and the meat will leak out. Because the oil gluten is not completely hollow, there is some starch left. After the hole is opened, the gluten should be pounded to make room for the meat stuffing. You can add some sugar to the soup cooked with Wuxi oil gluten, so that the taste of the whole dish becomes more fresh and sweet.

Nutritional value of Wuxi oil gluten

Oil gluten is simply fried gluten, which is essentially gluten. Therefore, gluten has nutritional value, and oil gluten is also reserved. Gluten is a special protein food obtained by kneading flour in water to remove the slurry, which contains a particularly high protein. Traditional Chinese medicine in our country believes that gluten is cool and cold, which can relax the spleen and replenish qi, and also help to relieve fever, quench thirst and remove blood stasis, so it is good for our health to eat gluten often. The following are the specific nutritional values of oil gluten:

1 and100g oil gluten contains 40.4g carbohydrates. Carbohydrate is an important substance that constitutes the body. Capable of storing and providing heat energy; Energy necessary to maintain brain function; Regulate fat metabolism; Provide dietary fiber; Save protein; Enhance intestinal function.

2. Every100g of oil gluten contains 26.9g of protein. Protein can maintain the balance of potassium and sodium; Adequate protein can eliminate body edema.

3. Every100g of oil gluten contains 25. 1 g of fat. Fat helps to maintain body temperature and protect internal organs; Provide essential fatty acids for the body; Promote the absorption of these fat-soluble vitamins; Increase the body's sense of fullness.

4. Every100g of oil gluten contains trace elements such as calcium, phosphorus, potassium and sodium. Trace elements can improve body immunity. Lowering blood pressure and buffering anemia are beneficial to growth and development.

Is Wuxi oil gluten high in calories?

Calculated by100g, the calorie of oil gluten is 490 kcal, that is, 2050 kilojoules, accounting for about 2 1% of the total daily calorie recommended by China Nutrition Society for ordinary adults to keep healthy, and the unit calorie is higher in similar foods. Oil gluten is cool and sweet; It has the effects of harmonizing middle energizer, invigorating qi, relieving fever and relieving polydipsia. It is especially suitable for eating when the body is weak, tired and thirsty. Most people can eat it, but because oil gluten is a high-calorie food, dieters had better eat less.

However, if dieters really can't give up oil gluten, you can try vegetarian fried oil gluten. Specific practices are as follows:

Ingredients: 200g of dried mushrooms, 200g of auricularia auricula, 200g of potatoes, 300g of oil gluten, and 0/0g of shallots/kloc.

Accessories: sesame oil10g, sunflower oil10g, soy sauce10g, soy sauce (average)10g.

Practice:

1, hot pot, add a little oil, add oil gluten, stir-fry for one minute and add more soy sauce until the color becomes darker, and serve.

2. Clean the wok, add a small amount of oil to heat it, add mushrooms, auricularia auricula, potato chips and chopped green onion, stir-fry for one minute, drain water, cook for one minute on high fire, then pour in oil gluten, cook over high fire until the water will dry up, take out the pan, add a few drops of sesame oil, and the delicious vegetarian fried Wuxi oil gluten will be out of the pan.

Selection of ingredients for Wuxi oil gluten

The production of oil gluten began in the Qing dynasty, and it has been more than 200 years since then. It is a local product of Wuxi. Wheat flour is lighter than water washing and precipitation, which is wheat starch, and its by-product is water gluten. If water gluten is kneaded into small balls and fried in an oil pan, it will quickly expand and become Wuxi oil gluten. Authentic Wuxi oil gluten is golden in color, smooth in surface, crispy in flavor, delicious to eat and high in vitamins and protein.

Wuxi oil gluten can be used as a staple food and processed into more delicious dishes with other foods. However, some foods cannot be eaten with oil gluten. For example, spinach, bamboo shoots, amaranth and other foods with high oxalic acid content cannot be eaten with gluten, because gluten contains high calcium, and calcium and oxalic acid can generate insoluble or insoluble calcium oxalate, which affects the absorption of calcium. In addition, gluten should not be eaten with water bamboo, which is easy to form stones. In addition, honey and gluten are prone to diarrhea. Everyone should pay attention to collocation when cooking Wuxi oil gluten.