Stay-at-Home Cooking: A Month of Mastering Oil Stick Recipes
A batch of cooking masters have been cultivated in just half a month from stay-at-home cooks. From cold noodles to flower rolls, and then from flower rolls to meat-filled buns, the difficulty level keeps increasing. Recently, oil sticks are gaining momentum and becoming popular check-in objects.
But for many newbies, making dough and frying at the same time is a big challenge, and accidentally failing is a common occurrence. To dispel this concern, I'll help you navigate the path of homemade snacks more smoothly. Today, we invited foodie Liu Xiao-pang to share his simple and easy oil stick treasure book.
| Ingredients |
Flour............500g
Warm water............320g
Eggs............1
Salt............5g
Sugar............12g
Olive oil............20g
Oil stick composite expanding agent............20g
| Steps |
■ Making the dough.First, mix all the powdered ingredients evenly (including flour, salt, sugar, oil stick composite expanding agent), then add warm water and eggs to mix into a dough. NoteAbsolutely do not knead the doughUse chopsticks to mix the dough, after which you can refer to the following technique.
■ Kneading the dough.Push from the four sides towards the center, absolutely do not press hardotherwise, it's difficult to make fluffy oil sticks.■ Proofing the dough.
Once the dough is well-kneaded, cover it with plastic wrap and let it stay at a warm room temperature for 3 hours to relax.■ Shaping.
After the dough is proofed, sprinkle some dry powder on the cutting board, roll the dough into long strips, and then use a rolling pin to roll the dough into dough slices about 1cm thick, and combine them into two-finger-wide strips.■ Controlling the oil temperature.
It is important to pay attention to the oil temperature when frying oil sticks: it must not be too high, otherwise the oil sticks will easily burn and collapse after cooling; oil temperature is too low, the oil sticks will not expand, affecting the taste. Here's a method to teach you: before frying, put a small piece of dough in to test, 3-5 seconds floating, the oil temperature is okay!■ Frying oil sticks.
After putting the oil sticks into the pot, quickly use chopsticks to roll them, let the oil sticks expand to the maximum. The home stove, generally can fry at most two oil sticks at a timeAbsolutely do not put too manybecause the oil temperature is very important! When the color becomes golden, the oil sticks can be taken out of the pot.
