Children's Favorite Snow-Coated Snacks: Supermarket Price 23 Yuan per Kilogram, Learn to Make at Home for Only 3 Yuan
The child is particularly fond of a supermarket’s snack with a sugary coating, white as snow, melts in the mouth, and a sweet taste with each bite. It costs 23 yuan per kilogram, and the recipe is simple, with few steps, but the difficulty lies in the details, and if you’re not careful, it will turn into caramelized sugar. Today, I’ll teach you the correct method for freshly made snacks, which children love and can’t stop sending to their mouths. The cost is only 3 yuan.
The most difficult part of the process is making the syrup, it’s a challenging task. The size of the fire determines the quality of the sugar coating. It must be cooked over low heat. This method is very traditional and commonly used in banquets. It’s suitable for various snacks with sugary coatings, which are sweet and become more fragrant with each chew.
Sugar-Coated Snack
Ingredients: Flour, yeast powder, eggs, sesame seeds
Seasoning: White sugar
1Prepare 300 grams of medium-strength flour, add 2 grams of yeast powder, 8 grams of white sugar, and beat in two eggs. Stir with a chopstick to disperse, then prepare an appropriate amount of warm water.
2Pour warm water while pouring, stir until a flocculent state is formed, then pour in 10 grams of edible oil and 5 grams of sesame seeds. Knead into a dough, which feels somewhat hard. Cover with plastic wrap and let it ferment for 30 minutes.
3Take out the fermented dough, knead it a few times, and wait until the dough is smooth before pressing into a circle.
3Roll into a rectangular dough, about 0.5 centimeters thick, first cut vertically, then horizontally, cutting into evenly sized small diced pieces.
4Shake off the diced pieces, and use your hands to roll them into small ball shapes.
5When the oil temperature reaches 50% hot, pour in the small balls, cook over low heat, as the oil temperature rises, the balls will slowly float up, and turn several times to maintain uniform heating. When the color becomes golden yellow, remove from heat to drain the oil.
6Pour 50 grams of water and 50 grams of white sugar into the pot, heat over low heat, and slowly heat. Use a spoon to stir in a clockwise direction until the syrup becomes viscous.
7When the syrup rises with a large bubble, turn off the fire, and quickly pour in the fried balls, stirring evenly to coat the surface of the balls with syrup.
8The frying process must not stop, when you first pour in the fried balls, they will stick together, you must stir them a lot to see the desired result.
9A delicious sugar-coated snack is ready, crispy and sweet, with each bite, it’s still very hot, and it was ‘eliminated’ almost immediately after it came out of the pot, and the child kept asking if we could make another pot?
Technique Summary
When fermenting the dough, place it in a warm place for 30 minutes, adding yeast powder is for better digestion. How to test the oil temperature? Insert a chopstick into the oil pot, if the tip of the chopstick rises, it means it’s ready to be cooked.
