Do you know any delicacies that are “very expensive outside but can be bought at home for just a few dollars”?

There is a kind of snack that is very expensive to buy outside, but you can make it at home for just a few yuan, and it is very simple to make.

Yes, it is the "palace snack" that the Empress Dowager Cixi liked. A small plate in a restaurant costs more than ten yuan. Making it at home is easy and cheap!

Although this thing has been used as a "palace meal", the preparation is super simple, just soaking, cooking, sand making, and shaping... Let’s take a look below.

1. Soak peeled peas (available at TB) in water for several hours.

2. Control the moisture and put it into the rice cooker, add boiling water to slightly cover the beans, and turn to the rice setting until cooked.

3. Add appropriate amount of sugar and honey and mix well to form bean paste. If you want the bean paste to be more delicate, sieve it. You can also add some fish gelatin powder or agar to make the finished product smoother.

4. Spread some sesame oil or butter on the bottom of the container, put the soybean paste into the container and smooth it out, and cover it with plastic wrap. Place in the refrigerator for a few hours.

5. Take it out and cut it into small pieces and you can eat it!

I think pearl milk tea can also be regarded as the representative of Dolly. Pearl milk tea originated from Taiwan. Its elastic pearls and the smooth taste of milk tea are very popular among people. Now there are bubble milk tea shops everywhere. Pearl milk tea is relatively expensive outside, usually in the early 20s, but actually the cost is very low. Follow me and you can drink a delicious cup of pearl milk tea for a small amount of money.

How do you make my brown sugar pearl milk tea?

1. Making pearls

Materials

① 150 grams of tapioca flour

② 80 grams of brown sugar

③ 100 grams of water

Production steps

①Add brown sugar and water to a milk pot and cook over low heat until the sugar melts. After the sugar melts, turn up the heat and cook until it boils.

②Pour half of the boiled brown sugar water into the tapioca starch and stir evenly.

③When the mixture becomes thick, add the other tapioca starch and stir evenly.

④Pour out the tapioca starch and knead it on the chopping board until smooth.

⑤ Knead the dough into a long strip and cut it into small pieces of suitable size.

⑥Make the cassava pellets into round pearls, add dry cassava starch and mix well.

Tips

① If your hands are sticky, you can add some tapioca flour to prevent sticking.

② It is recommended to wear gloves to prevent burns

③ If you eat it at home, you can cut it into small pieces directly to save time.

2. Boiled pearls

Materials

①1500 grams of water

②150 grams of pearls

Production Steps

①Put water in the pot, bring to a boil over high heat, add pearls, and stir the anti-stick bottom with a spoon.

②After the pearls float, cook for about 12 minutes.

③ Soak the fished-out pearls in cold water to make them springy and more transparent.

3. Brown sugar boiled pearls

Ingredients

① 350 grams of water

② 100 grams of brown sugar

③Cook the pearls

Production steps

①Put water and brown sugar into a pot (preferably a small non-stick pot) and boil until the brown sugar is completely melt.

② Pour the pearls fished out from the ice water and cook over low heat, stirring constantly to prevent the bottom from sticking. Cook until the brown sugar water becomes thick and the pearl color becomes darker, then turn off the heat.

4. Make brown sugar pearl milk tea

①Put milk into the pot, add a little tea leaves, boil the milk for 2 minutes, turn off the heat, filter out the tea leaves, and set aside the milk tea.

② Take a cup and put the pearls into the cup. Turn the cup around so that the brown sugar hangs on the side of the cup.

③Pour in the milk tea and that’s it. If you like ice, you can add ice cubes.

You can also click on my avatar to watch the short video of making bubble milk tea that I have posted. My kids love it very much!

I feel that many things made outside are much more expensive than those made at home.

It feels like you can build a large table at home for the price of just one dish from outside.

When I invited friends to my house for dinner, I cooked a big table. The ingredients cost 200 yuan.

I fried lobster in two flavors, one with garlic flavor and one with spicy flavor. Lobsters were on the market in large quantities at that time. I bought 8 jins for 16 yuan and spent 128 yuan. Ordering a lobster outside will cost you the same price.

A spicy field snail costs 6 yuan per pound, and I bought 5 pounds for 30 yuan. A portion of the food stalls at the night market is 20.

A spicy flower shell costs 5.5 per pound. I also bought 5 pounds and spent 27.5. A night market food stall costs RMB 60 per serving. It is estimated that the sixty-year-old is still only half a catty.

A boiled edamame costs 10 yuan for three pounds, and I bought 6 pounds for 20 yuan. The night market food stalls are also 10 yuan each.

Then I bought some side dishes. One *** is more than 200 points.

Really, every dish is much cheaper than outside, and it is also clean and hygienic when cooked by yourself.

As a foodie who studies how to eat all day long, I have a strong say in this issue.

Because I like to eat, but I thought it was expensive. In order not to go bankrupt, I went home and cooked up a lot of varieties of delicious food. By comparison, there is indeed a situation where "it's expensive outside, but you can get it at home for just a few dollars". Let me share it with you today. Milk Tea

As soon as summer arrives, the number of outside orders for milk tea and ice drinks rises sharply. But this is really expensive. Compared with other places, the starting price is 15 yuan, and the normal milk tea is 25 yuan. I have experimented with several recipes myself. In terms of price, it is much cheaper. In terms of health, you can control the amount of sugar by yourself. But I’m not very good at making particularly complex recipes.

1. Basic materials: milk, tea bags. I have tried several types of tea bags, and I feel that Lipton’s are more suitable, as can black tea or green tea. Another advantage of using tea bags is that there is no need to filter, thus maintaining the purity and good taste of the milk tea.

2. Ingredients: sago, pearls, taro balls, honey beans, turtle paste, pudding, coconut, etc. These can be purchased as semi-finished products. Guiling ointment can be bought in small boxes or in powder form. It will solidify after being mixed with water.

3. Special ingredients: roses, chocolate sauce, jam, Oreos, brown sugar, these can be developed by yourself.

Basic method:

1. Brew the tea bag with water, add less water and make it stronger. If you particularly like to drink milk, you can also soak it directly with milk.

2. Add various ingredients, whatever you want to add. If you can cook sago and make pudding, you can make them yourself (there is too much to write here, so I won’t write about these methods for the time being. You can open a separate post for everyone).

3. Add embellishments. For example, sprinkle with roses, sprinkle with crushed Oreos, or put an ice cream ball on it.

Serving it in a nice-looking glass is not necessarily worse than takeout. It can be paired with breakfast or afternoon tea, it’s awesome.

Fruit drinks

Materials: various fruits, milk, yogurt, sugar, ice cubes.

Basic methods:

1. Juice: Buy fresh fruit yourself, peel it and cut it into small pieces, put it in the juicer and squeeze it.

2. Milkshake: Use milk and fruit, do not add water, so that the juice will be thicker. You can also use yogurt.

3. Fruit Smoothie: Add the fruit to yogurt and squeeze the juice. Cut the rest into small pieces and add it to the juice. You can drink or eat it. Lemons, kiwis, and strawberries can also be sliced ??for decoration.

4. You can also mix various fruits and vegetables. In short, it is very healthy.

Recipe

1. Kiwi, apple, cucumber and honey. This formula is very refreshing. It is very comfortable to drink in summer.

2. Passion fruit, avocado, milk. Avocado has no taste, but adding passion fruit makes it very fragrant.

3. Lemon and watermelon. Mainly watermelon, squeeze a little lemon juice in to add flavor.

4. Mango, banana, milk. You can add ice cubes to this to make it look like a smoothie.

5. Carrots, oranges and cherry tomatoes. The color of this juice is nice, but the taste is a bit bland. Carrots have crude fiber, if not, you can filter it.

6. Cantaloupe, grapefruit and apple. This one is so comfortable, with a sweet and sour fragrance.

7. Pears, peaches, strawberries. Remember to cut strawberries into diced strawberries and slice them for decoration.

8. Papaya milk. A classic recipe, it tastes great without adding anything else.

9. Mango, pineapple, milk. It's very viscous and greasy, but it's really delicious if you like to drink it.

I will only write about juices and drinks for now. Everyone must have better recipes than me. It's summer now, and it's the best time to do this. Do it yourself for health and hygiene, and it's cheaper than outside. Let’s all try it.

Here are a few more complicated production methods. Fruit cheese cake

This seems to be very popular recently, especially the durian cake. There are many check-ins at internet celebrity stores, and they are also common on Douyin.

Ingredients: appropriate amount of durian, flour, milk, cheese, white sugar, butter, eggs, yeast.

Method: 1. Add water, milk, yeast, eggs, and butter to the flour and knead it into a dough. If you have a dough mixer, use a dough mixer. Leave to ferment for more than an hour.

2. Chop the cheese. Stir the durian a little until it becomes puree.

3. Add cheese, durian and sugar, mix well and set aside.

4. Roll out the dough thinly and wrap it with cheese durian filling. I love cheese myself, so I always add a little more. Wrap well and press into the shape of a small cake.

5. If using an oven, brush a layer of egg liquid and butter on the surface of the cake, and the crust will turn beautiful golden brown when baked.

6. You can also use a frying pan. Use butter to fry the cake until both sides are golden brown.

This cake can also be filled with durian and replaced with other fillings. For example, banana, purple sweet potato, mango, avocado, mango, etc. If you want to achieve the effect of popping the pulp, it is best to crush the harder ingredients first and make them into a puree.

I recommend the milk recipe. Milk usually costs dozens of yuan if eaten outside. Not only is it cheap and easy to make at home. People who often cook and stir-fry can also make desserts. And you won’t gain weight if you eat more.

My colleagues came to my home as guests, so I made this dessert to entertain them. It received unanimous praise and thumbs up.

The required raw materials are also very simple. Around ten yuan. Mengniu pure milk costs 3 yuan for 250ml and 40 grams of corn starch. If you buy a bag, it costs about 3.5 yuan. Of course you need sugar. It’s best to use this zero-calorie sugar, but white sugar can also be used. The price is about two yuan. You need 3 yuan for a bag of shredded coconut, half a bag is enough.

Write down the steps.

I hope friends who see it can make it at home.

Step one. In a saucepan, stir together the milk, cornstarch, and zero-calorie sugar.

Step two. Spread a layer of shredded coconut on a clean box.

Step three. Turn on low heat, heat the milk, stir until the liquid thickens, and quickly pour it into the box containing coconut milk.

This step is quick, otherwise the milk will curdle easily.

Step 4. Shake the box to make the surface even. Place in the refrigerator for two hours.

Isn’t it very simple? In fact, in one sentence, mix the raw materials together, heat until thick, and refrigerate for 2 hours.

At this time you can cut it into small pieces or any shape you like. It has a strong coconut aroma and milky taste, and there is an indescribable feeling of happiness in your mouth. So friends, have you learned it?

There are actually many delicacies that are very expensive to buy outside but very cheap to make at home. It mainly depends on your cooking skills. If you have superb cooking skills, you can basically save about 60 RMB by cooking at home than going to a restaurant. And there are many dishes, and the cost is only one-tenth of the price in a restaurant. Which delicacies are very expensive outside but very cheap to make at home. If we continue to list them like this, someone will probably say: "You can just eat at home! Why go out to eat?" In fact, when we eat out, we should not only look at their profits. Instead, enjoy the services provided by the other party and the dining environment. The reason why the dishes sold in restaurants outside are expensive is because of various operating costs, plus profit accounting. So whether we cook it ourselves or eat it out, what we enjoy is the pleasure that delicious food brings to us, and we can’t just calculate whether it is suitable?

Let’s share two delicacies, both of which are easy to use, and A dish with a high success rate.

The first course is a classic Cantonese steamed seafood dish - steamed scallops with garlic vermicelli. At first glance, many people think this dish is high-end, and it would be at least thirty or forty to eat it in a restaurant. But in fact, the cost of doing it yourself will be much lower. Moreover, this dish is simple and easy to operate, with basically zero error rate. It is super suitable for novices to try. Share how to do it.

Steamed scallops with garlic vermicelli

Production materials: scallops (6-8 pieces), vermicelli, garlic, green onions, oyster sauce, sugar

Production steps:

1. Clean the scallops, separate the shells from the meat, and keep the shells for later use.

2. Soak the vermicelli until soft and set aside.

3. Cut the garlic into minced garlic, add oyster sauce and sugar to taste, and make a sauce.

4. Arrange on the plate, stack the shells, vermicelli, and shellfish in sequence, and finally pour the sauce on each shellfish.

5. Place the dish in the steamer and steam over high heat for 8 to 10 minutes.

6. Cut green onion and sprinkle on the shellfish.

6. Heat oil and pour it on each shell to complete.

The second dish is Western-style tomato meat sauce pasta

It is also a dish that looks very complicated but is very simple in practice. Prices in Western restaurants range from tens to hundreds of yuan. But the cost of making it at home is really only a few dollars.

Production materials: meat filling (pork or beef), tomatoes, pasta, onions, potatoes, cheese slices

Production steps:

1. Boil water , take a small handful of pasta and cook for 8-10 minutes. The standard for judging whether the pasta is cooked is unclear at first. The best way is to take out a piece and throw it on the tile wall. If it doesn't stick to the tile wall, it's just right (just kidding, you'll know it after you bite it when it's almost cooked). ). After cooking, take it out and set aside.

2. Peel and dice tomatoes. Similarly, dice potatoes and onions.

3. Heat the pan and add olive oil (why do you put olive oil? Because this is Western food that is more particular about type B. In fact, it is just as delicious with other oils, so use whatever oil is available).

4. Sauté the onions until fragrant, add the meat filling, and stir-fry until slightly cooked. Add tomatoes and potatoes and stir-fry over high heat.

5. Add water and continue to stir-fry the filling. When it is cooked, add cheese slices (or other sauces with some cheese elements) and continue to stir-fry. When medium cooked, add pasta.

6. Fully combine the fillings and sauce with the noodles, reduce the sauce over high heat, and place on the plate.

7. At this time, you can add black pepper (preferably freshly ground black pepper) and cheese powder (available online, just sprinkle it directly) to increase the flavor and complete.

Personally, I feel that egg fried rice is relatively expensive. Making it at home only costs three or two yuan. A bowl of leftover rice, one or two eggs, and a spoonful of salt are enough. Yes, the whole family loves it. But every time I eat out, a small portion costs twenty or thirty, at least two for a family. It feels more expensive than a plate of meat! Recommended 2 kinds of dishes, they are very expensive in hotels, only 1/3 of the cost at home, and easy to use

As we all know, we always invite friends to restaurants for dinner during holidays. When eating out, I always order some "hard dishes". These dishes are often attractive and expensive (the price of the dishes often exceeds 80 yuan), and cannot be prepared at home. Believe it or not, these "hard dishes" are often what businesses use to make money. Draining customers with cheap dishes and making money with hard dishes has been the business model of the catering industry for many years. Below, I recommend two cheap "hard dishes" that are easy to operate but will definitely be the most dazzling star on the table! Without further ado, here’s the practical stuff! 1. Fried dough sticks and shrimp

The price of this fried dough sticks and shrimp in restaurants is usually between 78 and 100. I made it at home last month and the cost was finally set at around 20. This dish is often only eaten in hotels and not made at home, but when I tell you how to make it, you will find that it only takes 7-8 minutes to make it

|Preparation method|

1. Prepare two fried dough sticks, cut them into 6 cm long fried dough sticks and hollow out the middle

2. 2 taels of prawns. Remove the shrimp threads and skin, add minced ginger and cooking wine and beat into a puree in a blender

3. Stuff the shrimp paste into the fried dough sticks (the semi-finished product on tb is about 20 yuan a box, which is also very convenient)

4. Heat the pan over high heat, heat the oil to 70%, reduce the heat to low and fry the fried dough sticks for 5 minutes, then remove them.

5. Prepare your favorite fruits and cut them into pieces, and serve with the fried dough sticks in a salad Stir all the sauce and serve

This fried dough sticks and shrimp dish can be eaten as a meal or as a snack. Quickly put down your phone and go into the kitchen to show your friends and family!

2. Black Pepper Beef Ribs

Speaking of this dish, the hotel owner laughed and said he likes it the most. Low cost, high price and simple preparation are the most notable features of this dish. Moreover, ordinary small restaurants do not have this dish. If you want to eat it, you can only go to restaurants with a per capita consumption of more than 100, and the price of a portion is also around 100. Today, to break the deadlock, I will teach you this "beef" dish that only costs about 30! Do it well and you will be the center of attention.

|Preparation method|

1. Purchase marinated beef ribs (20-25 per box) from the supermarket and defrost them at home

2. Prepare a A spoonful of black pepper sauce (1 yuan)

3. Take out the steamer, put the beef ribs on a plate, put on the steam and steam for 30 minutes (do not fry, steam directly, it will be more tender and more flavorful)

4. Cut an onion into cubes

5. Prepare a pan, add corn oil, black pepper sauce, and a little water and fry for 2 minutes to allow the oil and sauce to fully blend

6. Add the onions and stir-fry for 4 minutes. When the onions become soft, add the beef ribs

7. Add salt, chicken essence, sugar, and a small spoonful of dark soy sauce and stir-fry for 5 minutes.

This "hotel dish" only takes 10 minutes to cook, but it can become your own private dish, so hurry up and learn it

Went there with friends yesterday For dinner at the restaurant, I ordered a piece of Mapo Tofu. I won’t say how it tasted, but this Mapo Tofu didn’t have minced meat. I didn’t dare to tell or ask (it was crowded at the time and I didn’t have the nerve to take a photo). photo). When I was checking out, I paid attention to the order. This mapo tofu was 38 yuan.

Mapo Tofu is a Sichuan dish. The main ingredients are tofu and minced meat (it can be minced beef or minced pork). The main ingredients are chili and Sichuan pepper. Other ingredients include tofu, bean paste, and soybean paste. Salt, oil, sugar, starch, ginger, green onions, etc.

Tofu costs RMB 50 in my hometown, and one piece of tofu is enough to make a portion. Here in Lhasa, it costs two or three yuan to make a portion, which is no problem at all. Mapo tofu only requires a little bit of minced meat, and with other condiments, the cost of making it at home should be less than ten yuan.

The preparation of Mapo Tofu is not complicated and can be easily completed by anyone without kitchen experience.

1. Chop the minced meat. Wash the meat and chop it into minced meat, just into fine particles.

2. Blanch the tofu. Add water to the pot, add a little salt, and bring the water to a boil. Cut the tofu into cubes of about 2 cm, pour the tofu cubes into a pot of boiling water and blanch them to remove the beany smell, take them out and soak them in clean water. By the way, wash the green onions and cut them into chopped green onions, and cut a small piece of ginger into minced ginger.

3. Fried minced meat. Heat the pan and add oil, add the minced meat and stir-fry until the minced meat is dry, add the bean paste and stir-fry until the red oil comes out, then add the tofu, minced ginger and chili powder and stir-fry.

4. Boil tofu. Stir-fry the minced meat in the pot until it turns color, add water and bring to a boil (it's best to use stock if there is stock). The amount of water doesn't need to be too much, just enough to cover the tofu. Add the tofu and cook over low heat for about 3 minutes. Add salt, soy sauce, and sugar to taste (you have already added bean paste before, so be careful when adding salt and soy sauce. It is best to taste it before adding as appropriate). Thicken with a little more wet starch.

5. Load the disk. After serving, sprinkle with peppercorns and green onions.