Gluten is a kind of protein, which consists of wheat mucin and wheat grain protein. Add a proper amount of water and a little salt to the flour, stir well to form a dough, and then rub it repeatedly with clear water to wash off all impurities such as starch in the dough, leaving gluten. Rub the oil gluten into a ball by hand, fry it in a hot oil pan until golden brown, and then take it out. Put the washed gluten into a boiling pot and cook it for 80 minutes until it is cooked, that is, "water gluten".

production process

raw material

Put the flour into a container, add 60% water (water 1% salt), mix thoroughly, and process into sticky dough. Then let it stand for 1 hour, and the standing time can be slightly shorter in summer to prevent it from turning sour. The amount of water added should not be too much, so as to prevent the protein from dispersing in water before bonding, which will bring difficulties to the operation and affect the gluten extraction rate.

form

Put the dough into a close-hole roller, sieve or coarse cloth and pour in water. When rubbing and washing, the starch will go with the water, and the protein stuck in the drum or cloth is wet gluten. The more times of washing, the lower the starch content in gluten, the higher the protein composition and the better the quality. Usually wash it 3 ~ 5 times. The water for washing flour contains a lot of starch, and wheat starch can be obtained by precipitation. The moisture content of wet gluten is 38%, and that of protein is about 60%. It has smooth surface, sufficient elasticity and good toughness.

Classified production

(1) Oil gluten: Flour can be added or not. The formula of adding flour (Beijing, Shanghai) is: wet gluten 10 kg, flour 2.0 ~ 2.9 kg, a little salt. Stir for 7-8 minutes, take it out, cut it into small pieces, make it into small balls, put it in an oil pan with an oil temperature of 90- 100℃, fry it for 3-5 minutes to break the outer layer of the balls, take it out, put it in an oil pan with an oil temperature of 130-240℃, and fry it for 10 minutes.

(2) Water gluten: the wet gluten is cut into small pieces or made into small balls, then put into a water pot and heated by steam, and the steam is kept at 100℃ for about 30 minutes to obtain water gluten.

(3) Baking bran: spreading wet gluten in a steamer with a thickness of 2-3 cm and heating for 30 minutes to obtain baked bran. In addition, there are gluten sausage, gluten skin, gluten silk, twisted gluten, stinky gluten and so on.