Thin bean flour is a special snack in Yunnan, but also a good product for the three-volt day, it is made of fine white peas ground powder, cooked into a thin porridge. Thin bean flour is very refreshing to eat, and has the effect of clearing the heat of the summer. Thin eating slips the mouth, thickens the lips, like soup when hot, like a dish when cold. After boiling, the thin bean powder has a light yellow color and a pleasant fragrance. Put it in a bowl and sprinkle it with a little green onion, chili noodles, pepper noodles, etc., the light yellow of thin bean flour, the turquoise of green onions, and the bright red of chili noodles, and you want to eat it when you look at it. Take a sip, it's so refreshing!
Thin bean flour can be drunk directly in a whole bowl of spices, or it can be mixed with rice dumplings, fritters, rice noodles, and rolled flour. Pick out the round and slippery fine peas, put them in a basin and soak them for a day or overnight, then use a stone grinding belt to grind finely, and then use a clean gauze filter to pour the filtered pea powder water into the pot, and you can cook the thin bean flour. Don't wait for the pot to add too hot, put in the pea juice, don't stir the starch deposited underneath, leave about two small bowls of bean juice to set aside, turn on the medium heat, use the rolling pin to stir in one direction, then don't use too fast, but can't stop, stop the bean juice on the blossom, until the bean juice rises, start to add two times in a row to spare bean juice. When adding spare bean juice, pay attention to the bottom of the starch liquid stirred up, I generally grasp with my hands, stir a stir evenly, remember to add spare bean juice, to open the fire, along the side of the pot a small batch of added in, do not pour in at once, left hand juice, right hand stirring, stirring speed up, divided into two times to add the spare bean juice, the interval between the two additions is about 3 minutes, you will find that every time you add spare bean juice, thin bean powder will be more viscous, remember, to keep stirring in one direction, can not be stirred, The thin bean flour made is not silky.
When the thin bean flour is cooked, you can eat it immediately, and when you eat it, you can mix rice noodles and roll flour, or tear the bait and fritters into pieces and put them into the thin bean flour. Thin bean flour mixed with bait (or fritters) should be put first, thin bean flour mixed with rice noodles or roll powder is the condiment after the release. The condiments are: bright red spicy oil, coriander, ginger juice, marinade, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce, sesame oil and so on. Thin bean flour, as an indispensable delicacy in the Yunnan food industry, has its presence in most prefectures. Especially in the provincial capital of Kunming, some Dai restaurants or breakfast and supper stalls are not difficult to buy. Due to different regions and different cooking methods, when a large bowl of hot thin bean flour is held in the hand, the form is similar, but casually mix a few chopsticks, rice noodles and bean flour are thin, and then put into the mouth, the rice noodles are under the belly, and the bean flour has long been scattered in the bowl, and the bean flavor and sticky taste have disappeared.
When eating "thin bean powder" in other places, I always feel that it is not that taste, and I will pretend to be very knowledgeable about how this "thin bean powder" is not good compared with the taste of my hometown, even if I eat the taste closest to my hometown in other places, I also feel that it is a little worse, perhaps there is no childhood memory, there is no hometown streets and alleys to pave the intimate feeling, so that the taste of "thin bean powder" is also bitter in the mouth for a few points. That bowl of thin bean flour marked with the hometown brand carries the deep affection and gaze of the hometown, and the more frequent the food, the deeper the thoughts. When the stomach melted into the smoke and fire smell of Lincang's thin bean powder, the heart felt that it had really returned home. Friends, Yunnan has a special snack, called "thin bean powder", very refreshing, is a three-volt day to cool off the good product, have you eaten?