A little over two months ago, my good friend sent me a box of pure sweet potato noodles, and she taught me how to judge if they were real sweet potato noodles. She said that the real sweet potato noodles are dark and opaque in color, the handmade noodles are rough to the touch, the noodles will have starch precipitation after foaming, the soup water is relatively turbid, and the high-quality sweet potato noodles are crystal clear after cooking, they will not be cooked for a long time, and they will not be blue for a long time, and they will have a strong and smooth taste. I've eaten this box of sweet potato noodles many times, and I use them to make ant trees, vermicelli stews, vermicelli stir-fried cabbage, and so on. Every time I put more noodles, so that I can fry a plate of noodles with meat and vegetables for dinner, even cooking rice is saved.
A few days ago, this box of 5 pounds of vermicelli was eaten by me for the last time, I made the dish of ants on the tree, and I put the ants on the tree to dry the circle of friends. Some friends asked how to identify pure sweet potato noodles, and I told my friends how to identify sweet potato noodles that my friends taught me. Some friends said: "The noodles are delicious but the frying is not good, the sweet potato noodles stick together, a lump of flour is like a ball, and the fried noodles are really technical work." "It just so happened that I photographed the production process of this dish of ants on the tree, it is not difficult to handle the noodles well, before frying the noodles, you have to do two more steps, the fried noodles are not sticky, the flavor is delicious, very delicious."
Ant on the tree is also known as minced meat noodles, the name of minced meat noodles is very appropriate, using pork minced meat and vermicelli two kinds of ingredients, of course, on the basis of minced meat and vermicelli, you can also add carrots, green onions and other ingredients. The name ant on the tree is more imaginative, minced meat and vermicelli are combined, minced meat is attached to the vermicelli, minced meat is like small ants climbing on the tree, ant on the tree is a very famous Sichuan dish, and it is a home-cooked dish that many families like. Ant trees should use watercress sauce and millet pepper and other spices, ant trees are bright red, noodles are smooth, minced meat is fragrant, a very distinctive dish. I am a Cantonese, I like ants on trees, I make ants on trees is not necessarily authentic, but my family praises while eating.
Let's take a look at the detailed production process of the ant on the tree.
【Ants on the tree】
【Ingredients】 200g pork, 200g vermicelli, 1 small piece of ginger, 3 cloves of garlic, 1 chives
1 tbsp watercress paste, light soy sauce, oyster sauce, cooking wine to taste.
【Directions】
The first step is to prepare to make the ingredients of the ant on the tree, pork is best to use a little fat, many recipes will use pork belly, I personally think that the pork belly is too much fat, I used pork on the meat, there is fat but not a lot of fat. It is better for ants to use pure sweet potato noodles on the tree, you can refer to the method my friend told me to pick sweet potato noodles.
The second step Sweet potato noodles are soaked in 40 degrees of warm water for about half an hour, and the amount of water should be more, and the amount of water is higher than that of sweet potato noodles. If you soak the sweet potato noodles in cold water, then delay the time to soak the sweet potato noodles.
Step 3 The pork is cut into small pieces and stirred twice with a meat grinder, so that the pork does not need to be stirred too finely. Pork can also be chopped with a knife.
Step 4 The noodles are soft, white and transparent, and the noodles are mixed with oil.
Step 5 Add oil to the wok, add ginger and garlic and a large spoonful of watercress sauce, and sauté the watercress sauce out of the red oil.
The sixth step is to add minced meat and stir-fry quickly, stir-fry the minced meat loosely, and fry the minced meat to a drier state, so that the minced meat has a crispy taste.
Step 7 Add cooking wine, soy sauce and oyster sauce and stir-fry the seasonings and minced meat.
Step 8 Add a bowl of water to a boil, add the vermicelli, turn to medium heat and simmer to allow the vermicelli to absorb the sauce.
Step 9 After the noodles are soft, add the millet pepper and green onion, stir-fry the minced meat and noodles to serve.
Finally, I would like to emphasize the treatment of sweet potato noodles.
The first noodles should be soaked in advance, if soaked in warm water, about half an hour can be, with cold water to extend the soaking time of noodles. The soft soaking of the vermicelli can shorten the time of simmering, the sweet potato vermicelli is mixed with oil, and the vermicelli is not sticky or lumpy.
Second, add more water to the fried noodles, and the noodles absorb more water, so that the noodles absorb more sauce.
Third, it is recommended that you make the dish of ant on the tree and choose pure sweet potato noodles.