There is a folk proverb in Xining that says: "Give the mouth to relieve hunger, sweet sauce should be the first" Sweet sauce is a sweet food loved by the local people of Xining. Locals will eat this snack as a staple food or as a casual food, and it has been passed down for thousands of years. Sweet and delicious, mostly made of jade wheat (i.e. barley) or barley. That is, it can mediate the diet, and can provide guests, the brewing process pays attention to cleanliness and hygiene, eating in the summer can clear the mind, remove the irritability and fatigue caused by the heat, and eat in the winter can warm the stomach, strengthen the body, and enhance the appetite.
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The method of making sweet pickles is also very simple, and friends who like it can try it.
Preparation materials: In addition to making sweet wine koji, the most important thing is barley, first of all, we need to choose a relatively good quality barley. Each grain of barley should be very full and should not be damaged in any way. Because the temperature required for good quality barley is generally relatively low, the growth time required is relatively high, and the barley cannot be cultivated in very fertile soil. Therefore, only under the natural conditions of Qinghai or Tibet, it is possible to cultivate high-quality barley, and if the season of making sweet sauce has not yet harvested barley, it can also be replaced by locally produced barley. Because these two ingredients, although the taste is slightly different, the taste is very similar, and both contain more crude fiber.
steps:
First wash the barley with water.
Place in a pot and fill with water, bring to a boil over high heat, then cook slowly over low heat
Cook until the grain opens.
4, after cooking, fish the barley to the panel, spread it evenly, let it dry until cold, then crush the sweet yeast into a powder, evenly mix it in the barley [more than half a bowl of barley and ball sweet yeast] into porcelain or pottery.
Put a damp rag on top, and after three or four days, we can open the container and eat the delicious sweet sauce. The freshly made sweet sauce tastes very cool, but has a fairly strong rice aroma and a slight smell of wine.
Welcome everyone to Xining, taste a bowl of Qinghai sweet sauce, and feel the beauty of the tongue but in the heart.
Original: Fat Skinny Food Circle