This is my "holiday exclusive snack" and as long as I stay at home, I have it.
It's almost the New Year, when you are preparing the New Year goods, how can you get less of it?
This classic, traditional, and familiar snack is simple and quick to make, and when you have nothing to eat, you can be happy.
Look at the production process, is it simple enough!
【Strange Peanuts】
Ingredients: Peanut kernels 200 g, caster sugar 70 g, water 35 g, pepper powder 3 g, paprika 2 g, salt 2 g, corn starch 5 g.
★ The dosage of pepper powder and paprika can be adjusted according to individual taste.
Production process
1: First, roast the raw peanut kernels (peanut rice) in the oven. Heat up and down at 150 °C for about 20 minutes. Bake until fragrant. Please adjust the baking time according to the actual situation of the oven, the peanut kernels have a skin, the color change is not very intuitive when baking, and the baking paste should be avoided.
2: After the roasted peanuts have cooled, rub off the skin by hand and clean them up, leaving only the peanut meat.
3: Pour the cast sugar into the non-stick pan. Gently pour water over the surface of the sugar and let it sit for a while to allow the sugar to be completely moistened.
★ The amount of water in the recipe is enough to moisten all the sugars. Don't use too much water, or it will take longer to cook later.
4: Turn on low heat and slowly heat the pot to melt the sugar and start to bubble up continuously.
5. After all the sugar is dissolved, you can adjust the fire slightly and start boiling the sugar. During the cooking process, the pot can be gently shaken to make the syrup even in the pot. Observe the texture of the syrup, which becomes thicker and thicker as the water evaporates.
6. When the syrup thickens, the speed of bubbles bulging and cracking in the pot becomes significantly slower. Picking up the syrup with a spatula will drip slowly in a thin line, indicating that it is almost cooked.
7: Pour peppercorns, paprika and salt into the syrup at one time and stir quickly.
★ Peppercorns, paprika and salt can be mixed in a bowl in advance, pouring in at once. Do not pour in slowly in parts.
8: Add peanuts at the end. Stir-fry quickly so that the syrup is evenly wrapped over the peanuts.
9: Then sprinkle the corn starch evenly on the surface of the peanuts and continue to stir-fry evenly. At this time, the syrup will return to the sand, no longer a transparent texture, but a white sandy sugar shell stuck to the peanut. Turn off the heat. At this time, the strange flavor peanut is ready, but it is still soft when it is hot, and we have to let it cool completely, and it will become fragrant and crispy. After that, it can be stored in a sealed jar and tastes best after eating within a week.
Tips：
1. Can peanuts not be removed from red? If you are really lazy, don't go, just cool down and make it. But one of the problems with this is that the final syrup is wrapped in the red coat of peanuts, and the red coat of cooked peanuts is easier to fall off, so the good smell of peanuts may fall off together with the sugar coating of the shell, leaving a smooth peanut.
2, the degree of boiling of syrup is more critical. If it is not cooked enough, the sugar will be too soft and sticky to become sugar coating. But this recipe is relatively small, and the sugar is still easy and can be boiled quickly. If you can't grasp it, you can do it twice more.
3, you can add a large spoonful of fried white sesame seeds to the recipe, along with the peanuts added to the syrup, which will be more fragrant. You can also add a little cumin powder (0.5-1 g) to the recipe, and the taste will be richer. However, neither of these is necessary, depending on your preference.
4. How to make pepper powder? How to make paprika? (Oh actually, I really don't really want to answer this kind of question), this, I think, just buy it at the supermarket!