Pot helmet, also known as pot kui, pot helmet bun, dry bun, (English: guokwei) is Shaanxi Guanzhong region of urban and rural residents like to eat the traditional flavor of noodle snacks. Pot helmet originated from grandma to grandchildren congratulations on the gift of the month, and later developed into a flavorful convenience food. The helmet is round in shape, about a foot in diameter, 1 inch thick, and weighs 5 pounds. The material is wheat flour, straw and flour, shallow pan baked on a slow fire. Appearance of yellow, incision sand white, crispy living mouthful, can be put on a long time, will be carried. Outside the province, people made up of the slogan "Shaanxi ten strange", there is a strange "bun like a pot lid", referring to the pot helmet.

The more famous Guanzhong Qianzhou pot helmet, Changwu County pot helmet, Qishan County pot helmet. Pot helmet, is one of the eight strange Shaanxi. People call "pot helmet like pot lid", that is, like a helmet, as the name suggests and called pot helmet. Helmet production process is delicate, known as "dry, crispy, white, fragrant". Dry hard chewy, crispy inside and outside, white and light, fragrant and flavorful. Pot helmet is Shaanxi, Gansu and other places have been passed down for a long time folk snacks, from the grandmother to grandchildren to congratulate the gift of the month, after the development of flavor and convenience of food. People often say, "Qianxian have three treasures, pot helmet, hanging noodles, tofu brain."

Pot helmets are said to have originated in Shaanxi, and were originally dry food for soldiers or civilian laborers, whose roughness can be seen here. But as with many things, once they enter the land of heaven, they certainly become different. Helmets are no exception, from the initial white flour soon developed into salt and pepper, brown sugar, and then a variety of fillings, all ingredients can be imagined with the helmet with. The old white flour and salt and pepper are still available in popular stores, but the brown sugar helmets have been hard to find.

Materials 1

Flour (medium) 300g yeast 3g warm water 120g

Materials 2

Flour 150g egg 75g salt 2g

Helmet recipe

Flour (medium) 300g yeast 3g warm water 120g yeast in warm water

Make a smooth dough. Molasses for a few hours, because it is winter

Developed to double the size of the can, take out on the board and knead into a smooth dough

Wrapped with a film, molasses for 15 minutes

Kneaded dough, pressed into a width of about 20cm, thickness of 2cm or so, patted with a little sesame seeds, you can be on the pot to cook

Pot preheating, the bottom of the pan, brush with oil, cooking on the pancake, turn on the heat

Turn every 3 minutes to turn the pancake, and the heat is low

Turn the pancake to the bottom of the pan, and then turn the pancake to the top of the pan.

Each 3 minutes to flip a side to cook

Appropriate cover to simmer, the pot is hot enough to properly remove the fire baking

Experienced three flip six turn, cooking to the pancake aroma emanate, the surface hard and "bang" can be.