Today we are still talking about the more unpopular spices, it as a traditional sense of Western food spices, in recent years more and more appear in our Chinese food, it is very interesting that this spice its applicability is very broad, not only in the spicy flavor of the spice application, in some brine, roast goose juice and other applications, you can also see its figure, so today we will talk about thyme.
There are many members of the thyme family, as far as our Land of China is concerned, there are more than a dozen kinds of thyme, and there are still some differences in the taste of different kinds of thyme, in order to facilitate the selection, we can roughly divide into two categories of local and foreign products. In general, the taste of our domestic products is fresher, while the taste of foreign products is relatively strong, so the effect of using foreign products is relatively better when using spicy hot pot base, spicy brine, dry pot sauce, cooking oil, etc. In the production of Cantonese brine, Chaoshan brine, Cantonese roast goose juice, it is our local thyme is better, here we want to mention in particular, in the mouth of some of our masters mentioned the pepper, in fact, we are now talking about the local thyme.
Thyme in different spice applications, its use is also different, as far as the current experience is concerned, it can be roughly distinguished according to the taste and use of different. First of all, the more commonly used spicy flavor spice recipes, such as hot pot base, dry pot sauce, cooking oil, hot pot oil, spicy brine, etc., in these spice recipes, thyme is mainly the role of rich aroma, so its dosage is generally relatively small, the dosage can refer to the incense, spirit herbs, grass, sweet pine and other spices, when adding thyme, the general dosage and these are comparable, that is, we often say that the condiment location.
In Cantonese brine and Chaoshan brine, the amount of thyme needs to be changed according to two common usages. If it is used to enhance the aroma of the mouth and assist some deodorization effects, thyme is generally positioned as a condiment, and the amount of spices used is roughly the same as that of licorice and grass, and when used to improve the freshness effect, the amount of thyme will be more. Use thyme to enhance the freshness of the brine, when considering the dosage, it is generally necessary to consider the amount of lemongrass, galangal, cumin, coriander seed, dill This type of spice, in general, if the amount of lemongrass, galangal, cumin, etc. is small, it is about close to the amount of the ingredient, then the amount of thyme can be increased to the amount of the material, on the contrary, if the amount of this type of spice is more, then the amount of the material can not be used.