As one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization, Henan has an extremely long history. A sentence of "hometown Henan" has attracted countless people's fascination. However, when it comes to Henan's cuisine, the first impression of many friends is Hu Spicy Soup, because there are many migrant workers in Henan, and they have also opened Hu Spicy Soup Shops throughout the country, so Hu Spicy Soup has become a representative food in Henan. However, as a province with a large population, Henan has a lot of types of gourmet snacks, such as braised noodles, oil steamed buns, dragon whisker cakes, carp three eats, sets of four treasures and so on, wonderful. Today's Xiaobian introduced a kind of cuisine, very popular in Henan, because the taste is good, the price is very cheap, but also very full, so in henan markets can see its figure, guess what kind of snack?
Yes, this kind of ugly snack is actually fried cold powder.
Many Henan people from snacks to large, although the price of goods is soaring now, but most of the fried cold powder shops a bowl of fried cold powder tube full, only need 5 yuan. Really good value for money. So you can see it in almost every rural market in Henan. If you go to Henan tourism, just met the market, want to taste this special snack, teach you a trick: the general market on the fried cold powder stall looks relatively simple, a pot, a few tables, as well as several large pots of spices and cold powder, the villagers know at a glance is selling fried cold powder, follow to find, accurate.
To ask why the price of this fried cold powder is so low, but also to maintain the price of 5 yuan a bowl, in addition to the Henan hometown is more honest, small profits but high sales. Another reason is that the cost of this snack is actually very low. The raw material used in the frying cold powder is the local sweet potato of Henan province, which is ground into powder, added water, put into the pot and fried into a viscous paste, and then placed in a large iron basin to cool, and finally becomes a jelly-like cold powder. Like this old man of Henan has sold cold powder for more than 30 years, doing it at night, selling it during the day, riding a tricycle to pull it to the market, when there are guests buying it, it is cut into crystal clear "small bricks", and then put it in clean water to wash a few times, so that the cold powder is not sticky, and it is very convenient to buy it and fry it at home.
There is no trick to stir-frying cold powder, and the biggest secret is that you need to use a pan instead of a traditional wok in order to fry the skin of the cold powder to a brown. Because the cold powder absorbs oil, it needs heavy oil and heavy material when frying. Heat the pan, pour in a larger amount of oil, then heat the pan to 70% heat and pour in the cold powder. After stir-frying a few times and other slightly charred surfaces, add cooking wine, soy sauce, vinegar, bean paste, green onion, ginger, garlic, salt, chicken essence, chili oil and other seasonings stir-fry evenly, fry the cold powder until the skin is browned, drizzle with sesame oil, and then sprinkle with leeks and stir-fry evenly to get out of the pan.
Because the seasonings are used more, and heavy oil is needed, but also fried, the fried cold powder is black, and the stalls in the market generally do not pay attention to the presentation, and there is no beauty, so that the fried cold powder makes many outsiders feel that there is no appetite. However, just like stinky tofu, although the stir-fried cold powder does not look very good, as long as you taste it, you will know how delicious this snack is.
You see, uncle for the guests to catch up with a large bowl of fried cold powder, the portion is full, not enough to eat can also be added, the price is only 5 yuan, it is really very affordable. This stir-fried cold powder tastes the outside, but the powder inside is soft and tender like jelly, and the taste layer is very rich. In addition, the materials used by the uncle are very exquisite, and the ratio of stir-fried spices is groped out for more than 30 years, the taste is very delicious, the smell is also very fragrant, and it is far from the sale.
Such a delicious and affordable snack, no wonder Henan people, everyone likes to eat so much. I don't know if you have ever eaten fried cold powder in front of the screen of your mobile phone? How does it taste? Do you still know what local Henan cuisines are? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section.