Today I will share with you how to cook delicious salted peanuts at home, you need to master 2 key points, the peanuts are fragrant, and the more you chew, the more fragrant they are;
Salted peanuts are boiled in the shell, many friends boil salted peanuts only add salt, in fact, salted peanuts want to eat more fragrant, you can also add some ingredients, boiled into salted spiced peanuts, the taste will be better, the main source of salt is salt, the amount of salt is a little more than when cooking, generally a pound of peanuts 25g salt, I am here a pound and a half of peanuts, with 40g of salt, the saltiness is just right; Five spices are generally used star anise, pepper, cumin, bay leaves, cinnamon, like to eat spicy can put some dry chili, add spices to boil out of peanuts taste more, do not like to put spices, only put salt is also OK;
After knowing the raw materials for boiling salted peanuts, and then with 2 tips, you can make the boiled peanuts more soft and glutinous, the first skill is how to cook peanuts to make them more flavorful? First of all, clean the peanuts to pinch it open, so that it is more convenient for the flavor to enter, and after cooking, soak it in salted water for 1 hour and then take it out, so that it is more flavorful;
The second tip: How to cook peanuts more soft and glutinous? Many friends boil peanuts are boiled in the pot, so it is not easy to grasp the time, boiled out is not soft and rotten, you can use the pressure cooker, there is an electric pressure cooker is more convenient, directly choose the low-pressure stew button, boil and simmer for an hour to get out of the pot, if you use an ordinary pressure cooker, turn to low heat and cook for 15 minutes after steaming, and then turn off the heat and simmer for 1 hour; Master these 2 skills, and you can cook brine peanuts at home that are comparable to those of food stalls, so you can try them if you like them!
[Raw materials] 750g peanuts, 30g salt, 1g pepper, 2 star anise, 1 cinnamon, 2 bay leaves, 2g cumin, appropriate amount of dried chili;
【Preparation of brine peanuts】
1. After buying fresh peanuts home, add some salt, put them in the rice basket and clean them, and completely clean the mud on the surface of the peanuts.
2. After the peanuts are cleaned, pinch them on the top of the peanuts and pinch them open, so that they can add more flavor when cooking;
3. After the peanuts are processed, I used 1g of pepper, 2 star anise, 1 piece of cinnamon, 2 cinnamon leaves, 2g cumin, 40g of salt, after all the preparations are made, put these relatively small spices in the seasoning bag, I am used to putting pepper, cumin and star anise into it, and then put the spices in the bag and the remaining spices in water to soak for a while, and soak the flavor of the spices;
4. After the ingredients are ready, pour the peanuts into the pressure cooker, add salt, spices and water for soaking spices, and then pour in an appropriate amount of water, and the water and peanuts are level;
5. Put the inner pot of the pressure cooker in the pressure cooker, select the low-pressure stew button, wait for it to cook, don't take it out immediately after cooking, put it in the pot and simmer for another 1 hour, so that the peanuts can add more flavor;
6. After simmering, put the peanuts in a bowl, and the delicious salted peanuts are ready; The salted peanuts are salty, soft and glutinous, and the flavor is definitely appetizer;
Summary of the practice of brine peanuts:
1. There is a lot of mud on the fresh peanuts you just bought, which need to be cleaned several times, and must be cleaned;
2. If the taste is relatively light, the amount of salt can be appropriately reduced, and a pound of peanuts is about 20g;