Douluo Continent on the tip of the tongue

Chapter 97
A steamer of steamed buns was quickly swallowed whole by Qi Han. After touching his slightly swollen stomach, Qi Han showed a satisfied look on his face.

Since coming to Douluo Dalu, it has been a long time since I ate the Xiaolongbao from my hometown.

Confidently walking to the interview, Qi Han started making steamed buns.

There is no difficulty in cooking noodles like Xiaolongbao. It is nothing more than placing the prepared Xiaolongbao neatly on the steamer and steaming for a few minutes.

With the black technology provided by the system, this steaming process can even be shortened to 1 minute.

This traditional noodle dish has a history of nearly a thousand years. All the difficulties in making it lie in the making of the dough and the preparation of the meat filling.

Qi Han picked up a washbasin-sized kneading basin from the noodle table, poured in a full bag of high-gluten flour, then added cold water in batches, and started kneading the dough.

The requirement for kneading the dough is to knead the dough until three light.

The so-called "three lights" refer to surface light, pot light and hand light. Surface light means that the surface of the kneaded dough should be smooth without too much graininess, and pot light means that there should be no flour sticking to the pot. Knead all the flour evenly into the dough. As for the lightness of the hands, it is similar to the lightness of the pot, and it is required that the hands should not be stuck with flour.

These are the requirements passed down from the older generation for making noodles. Only those who can meet these three points can be regarded as a master of making noodles.

But Qi Han has already mastered this step, which greatly speeds up his production of steamed buns.

Why already mastered?This is also thanks to the last one-star recipe: Longxu Noodles.

The difficulty of making Longxu noodles lies in stretching the noodles, but if you want to stretch [-] buckles of Longxu noodles, you must keep improving the process of making noodles. Strictly speaking, Longxu noodles have more requirements for kneading noodles than Xiaolongbao. High, because only the dough with the highest quality can be pulled as thin as a hair without breaking.

This is also the reason why Qi Han spent two full days on the dish of dragon beard noodles.

However, as the saying goes, if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools. Qi Han spent more time on the dragon beard noodles, and now he is saving on the steamed buns.

Even learning other pastries in the future, the crucial step of making noodles will never trouble Qi Han again.

Take a piece of plastic wrap, hug the reconciled dough tightly, and let it stand aside. This process takes about 10 minutes, which is called wake up.

Qi Han had tried countless times before and mastered the secret of awakening the meat, but this time the awakening noodle has a similar name to the awakening meat, and there are certain similarities in essence.

Resting the meat is to allow the temperature on the surface of the meat to penetrate into the interior, so that the internal temperature is consistent with the surface, and the resting noodles are similar to the resting meat.

Even if it reaches Sanko, it is impossible for the moisture in the dough to be completely uniform. It is inevitable that there will be some relatively dry flour flocs inside. These flour flocs can absorb excess water from other parts during the dough resting process, so that the dough as a whole Moisture becomes more even.

The process of resting the dough can not only increase the toughness and extensibility of the dough, but also increase the texture of the dough and prevent cracks and holes when rolling the dough.

For stuffed pastries like buns, revealing the stuffing is a big taboo.

Take fat and lean meat with a fat-to-lean ratio of 1:4, chop them into meat fillings, add seasonings and egg whites, add some water and mix well, then add pork skin jelly, the ratio of meat filling and pig skin jelly is 2:1 Mix and stir until the color of the meat filling becomes brighter and lighter, and the making process of the meat filling is completed.

It is worth mentioning that the system chooses badger pork for the lean meat and fat meat in the meat filling, but the raw material for making pork skin jelly is the pig skin of Guixiang pig, which is the raw material of Dongpo elbow. .

Because of this, there will be a touch of sweet-scented osmanthus aroma and a hint of sweet fruity aroma in the finished Xiaolongbao meat filling, and the flavor will be improved to a higher level.

The meat stuffing was finished, and the dough was almost finished. Qi Han pulled the dough into small pieces about the size of a thumb, and rolled them out on the chopping board to make dough skins that were thick in the middle and thin at the edges.

After rolling, remove the excess flour, fill it with the meat filling, and fold it into a neat umbrella-shaped texture. The cute meaty dumplings are done like this.

Put the Xiaolongbao in the steamer, and after 1 minute, when Qi Han opened the steamer again, the faint aroma of the Xiaolongbao penetrated into his nostrils.

Smelling the same aroma as the Xiaolongbao made by Xuying, Qi Han couldn't help showing a smile.

"System, how do you price the steamed buns?"

[The price of Xiaolongbao is: 5 gold soul coins/cage. 】

"It's not ten gold soul coins?"

Qi Han was a little surprised, he thought that a basket of ten buns, one bun for one gold soul coin, would cost ten gold soul coins no matter what.

[Small steamed buns are not expensive and difficult to make. The pricing of this system is based on these two. 】

Qi Han nodded knowingly, cheaper is also a good thing, diners in the small shop now have another staple food option at the same price besides fried rice with eggs.

It took Qi Han two full days to make the dragon beard noodles, but it only took more than two hours to complete the making of the steamed buns. There were only a few mistakes in mixing the fillings, but the rest of the time went smoothly.

After all, today's Qi Han is not what it used to be. Cooking skills are interoperable. With more recipes, Qi Han's overall understanding and control of cooking skills have also improved several levels.

The staple food suggested by Fuya, Qi Han chose Longxu noodles, Ying Shuangshuang wanted to eat steamed buns, so Qi Han chose Xiaolongbao, and now, only Ji Yunruo's sweets remained.

"System, exchange for a one-star recipe: Candied haws."

Regarding sweets, Qi Han already had an idea, so he opened his mouth without hesitation.

Blue Star has a lot of desserts, and candied haws are the most unsuitable for sale in small shops.

In the previous life of Blue Star, most of the candied haws were sold by old people holding straw targets as tall as a person, and on the targets were densely inserted strings of candied haws to sell along the street.

But so what, Qi Han still chose it capriciously, because those old people holding straw targets and peddling along the street formed his childhood.

The method of candied haws is not difficult, but it is to wash and remove the seeds of the hawthorn, and then use a bamboo stick to string them into a string. After the syrup is boiled, roll the stringed candied haws in the syrup, and sprinkle some white sesame seeds before it cools down. , put on a greased chopping board and wait for the syrup to cool and form a hard icing.

The only difficulty is probably the boiling of the syrup. You need to take rock sugar and water at a ratio of 1:1, put it in a pot and boil it slowly over a low heat. This process cannot be stirred to avoid a chain reaction of crystallization. The last pot of syrup becomes a pot of granulated sugar .

After the cooking is almost done, use a spoon to pick up a little syrup and drop it into the cold water. If it solidifies quickly and forms brittle sugar crystals, it means that it is done. At this time, you need to turn the fire to the minimum to keep the syrup from solidifying. Otherwise, the syrup will slowly darken and turn yellow, lose its crystal clear color, and taste slightly bitter.

The production of candied haws is even simpler than Xiaolongbao, so that Qi Han can make perfect candied haws in less than ten mistakes.

Walking out of the system space, Qi Han walked down the stairs slowly, and looked up at the price wall of the small store. At the bottom of the right half wall, there were three price tags quietly added at this moment.

Dragon Beard Noodles——10 Gold Soul Coins/Pack

Xiaolongbao - 5 gold soul coins/cage

Candied haws——1 Gintama coin/bunch

Among the price tags of more than a dozen gold soul coins, the candied haws with the price unit of silver soul coins was particularly conspicuous.

(Quick entry for today's recommendation ticket)
　Congratulations to book friend Bixie Xuanmao for getting the candied haws he ordered in the order post!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)