When people eat in restaurants, they will always see the staple food of steamed dumplings with hot noodles. Not only does the dumpling skin taste particularly soft and waxy, but the filling is also particularly delicious, so it is very popular among people.
In fact, the method of making hot noodles and steamed dumplings is very simple and can be completed in just a few steps. It is especially suitable for making at home!
1. Ingredients: 250 grams of cowpea filling for steamed dumplings, 100 grams of pork filling, appropriate amount of salt, appropriate amount of oyster sauce, appropriate amount of cooking wine, appropriate amount of light soy sauce, appropriate amount of white pepper, appropriate amount of ginger powder, appropriate amount of sesame oil, 400 grams of all-purpose flour for steamed dumpling wrappers, 2 hot water
, Method 1. Put water in the pot and bring to a boil, sprinkle in a little salt.
Wash and blanch the cowpeas and set aside.
2. Blanch the cowpeas until they change color, turn off the heat, remove and drain.
3. Cut the drained cowpeas into cubes with a spatula and put them in a bowl and set aside.
4. Break up the pork filling with chopsticks, add white pepper, ginger powder, salt, oyster sauce, and light soy sauce and mix well.
Add a few drops of sesame oil and continue beating in one direction.
Add a little water in batches and continue to beat in one direction with chopsticks until it becomes sticky.
5. Place the prepared meat filling on the cowpeas, and add an appropriate amount of salt to adjust the saltiness.
6. After mixing the minced pork and cowpea filling, you can drizzle a little more sesame oil to moisten it.
7. Put the flour into a basin and stir it into dough with chopsticks while adding hot water.
After kneading into a ball, cover with plastic wrap or a drawer cloth and let it rest for about 15 minutes.
8. Take out the dough and scoop out the dough. Each dough is about 30 grams. Sprinkle thin noodles to avoid sticking to each other.
9. Roll out the dough into a dough that is thick in the middle and thin on both sides.
Put appropriate amount of cowpea filling.
10. Wrap it into your favorite shape.
11. Pour water into the steamer and bring to a boil, cover with a damp drawer cloth, put the wrapped dumplings in after steaming.
12. Cover the pot and cook over medium heat for about 10-15 minutes.
Tips: It is recommended to eat steamed dumplings while they are hot. They will harden when cold, so just heat them up.
You can use the resting time to make the stuffing and make overall arrangements.
Dumplings made from meat stuffing beaten with water are tightly packed and not easy to fall apart.
3. The difference between soup noodles and ordinary noodles. To make noodles, you need to knead the noodles, and the kneading of the noodles has a lot to do with the water temperature.
When kneading noodles with cold water, the water temperature should be below 30 degrees Celsius, and the resulting noodles will be chewy and smooth, suitable for boiling, baking, and frying food; when kneading noodles with warm water, the water temperature should be between 30 and 50 degrees Celsius, and the noodles will be soft and firm.
, the finished product is not easy to lose shape, suitable for steamed and fried foods; knead the dough with hot water, the water temperature is above 70 degrees Celsius, the dough is soft and weak, darker in color, but has a sweet taste, suitable for steamed, fried, and fried foods;
Knead the dough with boiling water at 100 degrees Celsius. The dough will be sticky and dark in color. The finished product will have a delicate and sweet texture, suitable for fried and baked foods.
In Chinese pastries, the preparation of dough is divided into three categories: cold noodles, warm noodles, and hot noodles.
Hot noodles are made by boiling the noodles with boiling water. The dough prepared in this way can be used to make many foods, such as siomai. Depending on the noodles used, many shapes can also be made, which is what we call the dish. For example, Chengfen is made through this
After following the procedure, you can process and produce a beautiful looking tape.