Shanxi's special snack oil gnocchi, which you can make at home, is as delicious as fried dough sticks
Today I will share with you a "oil lump" method in Jinnan, Shanxi, where pepper leaves are added to the oil lumps, which are particularly fragrant and delicious like fritters and oil cakes.
Prepare the ingredients:
Sichuan pepper leaves, plain flour, salt, yeast powder, warm water, shallots, baking soda, cooking oil
Here's how:
1. Prepare some pepper leaves first, this is the pepper leaf I dried in advance, pinch it directly by hand, if there is fresh pepper leaves, it is the best, kneaded like this.
2. Next, start to mix the noodles, add ordinary flour to the basin, pour the pepper leaves that have just been crushed into the basin, add salt to taste, then add yeast powder into it and stir evenly, and then add warm water to mix the noodles in batches, add a small amount of water, stir with chopsticks, stir into a ball, continue to stir in the same direction, stir out the gluten inside, add about 600g of warm water and 3g of yeast powder to a pound of flour, stir until there is no dry flour in it, and finally stir it into this degree of paste. Cover and let it ferment to double its size.
3. Prepare the required side dishes below, wash a handful of shallots, and cut them all into shallots for later use.
4. At this time, the batter is fermented, add a small spoon of baking soda to the basin, then pour the chopped shallots into it, and stir it directly with chopsticks.
5. Pour more oil into the pot, turn to medium heat after the oil is hot, put the wrapped batter into the oil pan and fry, the batter will just be put into the oil pan, it will bulge, in the process of frying, stir and stir with chopsticks to prevent sticking together, so that the upper and lower sides can be heated evenly, so that they mature at the same time, and finally fry until the color is golden.
6. Let's do this oil lump, add pepper leaves, eat a special fragrance, the method and materials are very simple, friends who like it can try it at home.