How to make snacks from various countries?

I'm a chef and I know how to make some. In order to waste more time on you, I hope you can understand the answer I gave you... Barbecued pork buns

Cuisine snacks

Basic ingredients: barbecued pork, salt, pepper, Onion, ginger, soy sauce and flour.

Method:

① Cut the barbecued pork into small pieces, mince the green onion and ginger, add soy sauce and salt and mix into a paste; add sugar, warm water and baking powder to the flour, save two hours to make a dough. When starting, add sesame oil and sugar.

② Divide the dough into portions, roll it into a thick skin in the middle and thin on both sides, wrap the barbecued pork cubes and chopped green onions and ginger into buns, steam them in a drawer for 15 minutes.

Carrot cake (radish cake)

Basic features: crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, fragrant but not sweet

Basic ingredients: radish, sausage pellets, and shrimp pellets , mushroom pellets, celery pellets, appropriate amount of MSG, refined salt, pepper, rice milk, potato starch

Folk snacks. Also known as carrot cake. Caitou is the common name for radish, and Caitou Cake is a kind of local rice cake in Chaoshan. Every household steams it during the Chinese New Year. When making it, first scrape off the rough skin of the radish, grate it into shreds, stir-fry it in a pot until soft, add sausage dices, shrimp dices, mushroom dices, celery dices, and an appropriate amount of MSG, refined salt, and pepper, and mix well with the rice milk and potato starch. , then put it into a steamer (put a cloth on the bottom of the basket first) and steam it until it is cooked when a chopstick is inserted into it and it does not stick. Another method: Stir the shredded radish directly into the rice flour and other ingredients without frying, mix well with water and then steam it in a steamer. When eating, cut the cabbage cake into pieces and fry in a pan until golden brown. The cabbage cake is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. It tastes fragrant but not sweet.

Ingredient rice roll

Basic ingredients starch, sweet chestnut powder, salt, chili sauce and coriander

Preparation method

① Add warm water to starch Make it into a paste, add sweet chestnut powder and salt, add water, mix and knead thoroughly, and let it sit for 2 hours;

② Roll the dough into strips, cut into embryos, press into skins, and roll into rolls; After putting it in the basket, leave it for 2 to 3 minutes and steam it in boiling water for about a quarter of an hour. After taking it out of the pot, garnish it with chili sauce and coriander.

Tingzai porridge:

There are vendors in Liwan area using small boats to sell porridge. The traditional method of making Tingzai porridge is to combine processed fish fillets, shrimps, seaweed, Put fried peanuts, fried vermicelli, shredded ginger, green onions and other porridge ingredients into a bowl, then scoop out the boiled white porridge and pour it into the bowl. Tingzi porridge is quick and convenient, rich in flavor, delicious in flavor, quenches thirst and satiates hunger, and is very popular among people.

Uncooked porridge:

Add fresh meat to the pre-cooked porridge base and boil it bowl by bowl, which is "raw porridge". Raw porridge is a general term. Depending on the ingredients, it includes beef porridge, meat slices porridge, fish fillet porridge, chicken porridge, assorted porridge, frog porridge, etc. The base of the porridge is white porridge cooked with Jiang Yaozhu, earth fish or pork bones.

Crab roe soup dumplings

Ingredients:

1. Ingredients for leather making: 500 grams of flour, 25 grams of fermented dough, blanched cooked noodles (use 50 grams of flour Mix well with 50 grams of boiling water), 1.5 grams of alkali, and 100 grams of water.

2. Ingredients for making stuffing: 1000g agar paste, 200g minced lean pork, 150g minced fresh shrimp, 75g minced cooked shrimp, 50g diced shiitake mushrooms, minced crab meat 50 grams, appropriate amounts of MSG, refined salt, light soy sauce, cooked lard, sesame oil, pepper, and white sugar.

Preparation method:

1. Mix 500 grams of all-purpose flour and other leather-making ingredients into a dough, rub it until smooth, then cover it with a wet towel and let it sit for 15 minutes.

2. Mix all the ingredients for making the stuffing and put it in the refrigerator for 1 hour and set aside.

3. Take small portions of the dough, roll it out until it is very thin, add 1 portion of the filling, shape it into a dumpling shape, put it into a small cage lined with lotus leaves, and steam it in a pot of boiling water over high heat. Serve.

Features: This product has a color like egg yolk, thin skin, soft and smooth texture, and is delicious and fragrant. It is a good Cantonese snack in the tea market.

Waters Hoof Cake

Ingredients: 750 grams of water chestnut powder, 250 grams of water chestnut meat, 250 grams of white sugar, 15 grams of lard, and a small amount of edible red coloring.

Preparation method:

1. Cut the water chestnut meat into thin slices.

2. Add white sugar and water to water chestnut powder and mix well. Divide into 8 bowls. Add a little red food coloring to 4 bowls, mix thoroughly and set aside.

3. Take a square plate, brush it with a layer of lard, pour a bowl of water chestnut powder without pigment, put a layer of water chestnut slices on top, steam it in a steamer for about 7 minutes, take it out and then Pour into a bowl of red water chestnut powder and steam until cooked; spread it layer by layer according to this method, steam until cooked, take out and serve.

Features: This product is red and white in color, with a sweet, crisp and refreshing taste.

Chicken cake

Preparation method

Cut the sugar-fat meat into granules as big as white beans. Almonds, walnuts and olives are cut into pieces as big as red beans. Put the white flour, sugar, mung bean flour, and fat meat cubes on the table and mix well, then add the olive seeds, melon seed meat, walnut meat cubes, sesame seeds, southern milk, young salt, Shaoxing wine, etc., and knead into a ball. Pieces of filling.

The method of making cake crust is to mix white flour and maltose into a dough, then divide it into small dough balls. Knead each small dough ball into a round pastry, wrap it with a portion of filling, and seal the seams. Wrap tightly to prevent the filling from spreading out.

After wrapping, put it into the chicken cake mold, press it firmly with your hands, and then tap the mold lightly, and the chicken cake will come out of the mold. Finally, place the chicken cakes in the iron baking pan, coat the cake surface with a layer of egg yolk water, and place it in a heated oven at 250 degrees for about 15 minutes. When the cakes are golden brown, you can take them out. .

Talk about Chaoshan snacks

There have always been two attitudes towards eating, one is "eat well" and the other is "delicious". "Eating well" means eating well, nutritiously, and able to meet people's physiological needs. "Delicious" refers to the taste of food, which is a kind of enjoyment and belongs to the spiritual level. Snacks are “delicious” foods. What are snacks? Snacks are snacks other than dinner, also known as "snacks". They only touch the heart, not the stomach. When it comes to snacks other than dinner, you can choose to eat them, or you can choose not to eat them. You don’t have to care about the quantity or quality, just the deliciousness. From this perspective, delicacies in a pure sense should be snacks.

In the past, Chaoshan people used to say "Hai Hao Wei" to greet people, which shows that whether there was anything to eat was a problem at that time. Nowadays, not many people greet people like this. With the progress of the times, we have basically solved the problem of food and clothing. People are no longer satisfied with filling their stomachs, but want to eat more tastefully and emotionally. Therefore, now let’s talk about consumption after food and clothing, snacks, and food, which are fashionable topics.

Looking back at the history of Shantou’s Chaoshan Food Festival, we can also see the development trend in food consumption. In 1988, Shantou began to hold the Chaoshan Food Festival, which has been held for 8 times so far. At first, the highlight of the event was the Chaozhou cuisine served as dinner, with cooking techniques exchanged and tastings conducted in various restaurants. Of course, we are dealing with the industry and the high-end consumer class. In 1999, the fifth Chaoshan Food Festival began to focus on Chaoshan snacks. In the flavor hall of the hotel, snacks from all over Chaoshan were displayed and sold to the public, and they unexpectedly became popular. As a result, it got out of hand, and the next few Chaoshan Food Festivals held Chaoshan snack temple fairs and tasting activities in the open square. Every time there was a packed scene. This shows that on the premise of "eating well", people have become more and more inclined to pursue delicious food enjoyment.

Chaoshan is one of the regions famous for snacks. Many snacks are not only loved by locals, but also popular in other places. At the "Chinese Famous Snacks Certification Meeting", a national evaluation meeting for outstanding snack varieties, 8 Chaoshan snacks have won the title of "Chinese Famous Snacks". Why are Chaoshan snacks so charming? What are their characteristics?

1. Born in a poor and humble background

Countless local snacks or snacks in our country were either born out of the palace , or produced among the people. Almost all Chaoshan snacks are original creations among the people and have been spread among the people. This is historically determined by the fact that Chaoshan was located at the "end of the province and the corner of the country", far away from the political center of the country, and that the commercial society was formed late and the social affluence was not high. There are a few Chaoshan snacks at hand: Xitianxiang oyster braised, Gonggu goose meat, Laojie pig's trotter rice, Lao Ma Gong rice dumplings, which name is not simple and straightforward, with a local flavor. Looking at Chaoshan snacks, there are roughly three channels for their formation.

1. Tributes to worship gods

The climate along the Chaoshan coast is hot and humid, making people prone to diseases. In addition, offshore operations are risky, the work and harvest are disproportionate, and there are many accidental factors. When people cannot predict their own destiny, they often place their hope in the blessing of gods. In addition, in times of material scarcity, with activities of worshiping gods, people can also give themselves a reason to improve their lives. Therefore, the old Chaoshan folk beliefs were sometimes characterized by many festivals and gods. Many Chaoshan snacks were originally tributes to gods, such as "Caitou Cake" (meaning, colorful head) and "Sweet Cake" for the Spring Festival, "Noodles" (meaning, longevity) for Mazu's birthday, and "Zongzi" for the Dragon Boat Festival. "balls", "moon cakes" during the Mid-Autumn Festival, etc. As the saying goes, "make cakes at the right time". At that time, there were certain rules for what snacks to eat at any time.

2. Desserts to supplement the meal

This part of Chaoshan snacks is not like Cantonese dim sum, which is a refreshment for the leisure class to pass the time when they have nothing to do. It is a snack in rural towns. The coolies used snacks to satisfy their hunger. Trendy people are accustomed to eating porridge. One reason is that there was not enough food in the early days, and the other is due to the climate. People who do menial work eat several large bowls of porridge in the morning. They can't stand a burst of sweating due to exertion. They are already hungry before the main meal. At this time, encountering the snack stalls walking through the streets was like finding a savior. He could spend a few cents to replenish his energy and make up for his temporary needs. At that time, there were grass cakes (jelly), tofu puddings, various sweet soups, etc. to relieve the summer heat. In winter, there are hot beef ball soup, leek cake, water cake, etc. You don't need a spoon to eat grass cakes. You just pick up the shallow bowl, swirl your mouth around the edge of the bowl "Hulu, Hulu", wipe your mouth with a cloth of water, it's great! Beef balls were originally a Hakka snack. After Shantou was opened as a port, local goods were exported overseas and foreign goods were imported into the mountains, resulting in busy water traffic. The Handi area in Shantou used to be a berthing place for Hakka cargo ships, and many Hakka cargo ships parked there overnight. In the evening, there are Hakka people rowing boats selling beef ball soup to the boss of the cargo ship as a late-night snack. Later, beef balls were reformed and innovated by Chaoshan people, who added rice noodles to the soup to become beef balls rice noodles. To this day, it is still the favorite snack of Chaoshan people. Later, fish balls, shrimp balls, cuttlefish balls, pork balls, etc. were cloned, creating Chaoshan's "meatball series".

The "Xinxing Street Beef Balls" among the "Chinese Famous Snacks" are made by Shantou people. Nowadays, when talking about beef balls, everyone thinks they are named after Chao. In fact, they are the product of Chao people’s appropriationism. The ingenuity of the trendy people is vividly expressed in a small meatball.

3. Home-made snacks

The snacks with the most gourmet significance are the various home-made snacks made by the clever wives of Chaoshan to satisfy their children's cravings. Such as pumpkin baking, autumn melon baking, tomato baking, etc. In the old days, before the season came, children would clamor for "kueh", and the wife at home would have to think of some way to kill these greedy children. Every household in rural Chaoshan has sweet potato flour. They pick the fruits and vegetables grown in their fields, mix them together, and fry them in oil to make a snack with a unique flavor. When I was young, I had my grandmother's "cold porridge" made by mixing sweet potato flour with overnight cold porridge. It was really unique.

There is a snack called "Pig's Head Zong", which is said to be an unintentional creation of Chenghai people. In the early years, during the Lantern Festival in Chenghai rural areas, there was a custom of racing pigs. Every seafood family had to kill pigs to worship their ancestors. One family had finished offering sacrifices to their ancestors, but could not eat the remaining pig heads for a while, so they chopped the pig head meat, added seasonings, and made it. It becomes "Pig's Head Zongzi", which is very delicious even if you don't want it. So it spread and became a snack.

Chaoshan snacks entered the market as commodities in the 1920s and 1930s, which was the period when Shantou’s commercial economy was at its peak. At that time, small parks, shops, restaurants, and hotels gathered together, forming a typical consumer market. As a kind of delicacy, Chaoshan snacks can naturally find their place here, such as the time-honored Aixigong Noodles, Piaoxiang Snacks, and Xitianxiang Oyster bake, Lao Mama Palace rice dumplings, etc. all entered the small park during that period. As mentioned above, in the diet, snacks have more cultural significance, so they can easily become a symbol of local culture and be deeply imprinted in people's minds. You see, when many trendy people living overseas arrive in Shantou, the first thing they do is go straight to the small park and go to a time-honored snack bar to have a delicious meal of Chaoshan snacks, but they still feel the lingering homesickness.

Chaoshan snacks are rooted in the folk. It is not attached to official culture or scholar-bureaucrat culture. From the day it was born, it has been spread among the people with a natural attitude and in compliance with the natural law of natural selection. Therefore, Only now can we taste so many local flavor snacks.

2. Simple ingredients and unique taste

Cantonese-style dim sum is famous for its western style, such as custard buns, egg tarts, barbecued pork buns, etc. Shanghai snacks are famous for seafood, such as crab roe soup dumplings and fish paste spring rolls. Northern snacks are mainly pasta. Chaoshan snacks are nothing without rice. The main ingredients of Chaoshan snacks can be summed up in the Chaoshan dialect word "粿". In the Chaoshan dictionary, "kueh" is explained as follows, a kind of fruit with rice flour crust and filling. Because the skin of leek cake is made of sweet potato flour and the filling is vegetables, it is commonly known as "riceless cake", which shows the role of rice in snacks. In the early days, the ancestors of Chaoshan migrated from the Central Plains to Chaoshan. According to the custom of their ancestral home, pasta was used as fruit when worshiping ancestors. Wheat does not grow in the south, so rice can only be used as fruit. This is the origin of "Kui". Later, the raw materials and methods of sacrificial food were constantly updated and became a custom. People called all sacrificial dumplings "kueh". Trendy people are really amazing at using rice to make snacks. They can actually use the same raw material for both skin and filling - "rice wrapped in rice". For example, there is a snack called "Peach Cake", which uses glutinous rice flour as the skin and glutinous rice as the filling. Not only is it not boring, it is also very fragrant and delicious.

Chaoshan is rich in sweet potatoes. This humble and cheap crop is also widely used in snacks. Sweet potato flour can be used as the skin of snacks, such as "crystal balls" and "leek cakes" with sweet and salty fillings. It can also be mixed with melons and fruits and steamed into "Maling potato cakes", "taro cakes", "horseshoe cakes", etc. It can also be made into "roasted sweet potato cake", "sweet potato soup" and so on. Despite its humble origins, sweet potato is a big family in Chaoshan snacks.

Unlike coastal areas such as Shanghai, Chaoshan snacks use relatively few seafood, and rare seafood such as lobster, shark fin, crab, etc. are rare. One of the reasons is that Chaoshan has a hot climate and it is difficult to store seafood. In addition, it is also due to its civilian characteristics.

All coastal areas are rich in oysters, but Chaoshan is the only place where oysters are made into a delicious snack called "oyster baked". The preparation is also very simple, that is, sweet potato flour and oysters are mixed together and fried into pancakes, and then topped with duck eggs. The taste is extremely unique, crispy on the outside, soft on the inside, rich and tender, and has become a famous snack.

Looking at Chaoshan snacks, they are mainly vegetarian and fish is rare. The ingredients are simple and mostly made from common crops that can be seen everywhere - rice, sweet potatoes, and vegetables. However, they win people over with their unique pastoral flavor. It is favored by people from all walks of life because of its low price.

3. Beautiful, delicious and full of fun

Since Chaoshan snacks are not about "eating well", but about "deliciousness", people naturally pay attention to their delicious taste. Pay attention to the beauty of its form. In the past, when people in Chaoshan rural areas worshiped gods, they liked to put paper-cuts on various tributes. Some of the animal patterns we see in the traditional Chaoshan folk paper-cuts were used to decorate specific foods such as geese, fish, and pigs in the old days. of. The purpose is nothing more than to make God favor those decorated things and hope that your prayers will come true. This is also one of the origins of human culture and art.

The trendy custom of worshiping the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival has the content of praying for scholars to succeed in their studies, so the cultural flavor of the Mid-Autumn Festival is relatively strong. Reflected in the worship food, the Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes are particularly beautiful in appearance. People use glutinous rice, mung beans, sesame seeds, peanuts, etc. as raw materials, and print patterns such as pomegranates, aquariums, butterflies, and magpies that symbolize good luck, peace, happiness, and wishes to make cakes. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, every wealthy household would place offerings to admire the moon. Mooncakes of various colors and shapes, including peach, pink, green, and snow-white, and various fruits were bathed in the soft light and shadow. It was nothing short of an art exhibition in heaven and on earth. The Mid-Autumn Festival is also the happiest festival for children. Making moon cakes, placing sacrifices, admiring and worshiping the moon, and eating moon cakes and fruits are both fun and delicious. Nowadays, people not only like these beautiful-looking mooncakes, but some people are even fascinated by the woodcut-like mooncake impressions and collect them as collections.

In addition, the rice dumpling balls shaped like sachets, jasper-like peach cakes, crystal clear crystal balls, etc. are also very elegant and interesting in appearance.

The form is inedible, but the form can stimulate people's appetite. Trendy people have long understood the principle of "beautiful and delicious".

4. Pay attention to health and pursue fashion

Chaoshan snacks advocate nature and pay attention to health. While people can satisfy their food addiction, they don’t have to worry about consuming too much fat, calories, etc. . As mentioned above, the ingredients of Chaoshan snacks are mainly vegetarian, and fish is rarely seen. Some snacks also add Chinese herbal medicines to become medicinal meals. For example, Shuqu Kueh, Pu Zi Kueh, etc. are snacks made with herbs added, which are very in line with today's dietary fashion. Not only that, the cooking methods of Chaoshan snacks are also very scientific, with more light and less spicy, more steaming and less frying. Hipsters also invented a way of cooking in oil, which is the most unique cooking method I have ever seen. The method is to heat the peanut oil over a warm fire, then put the pre-steamed snacks in and cook over a slow fire until the inside and outside are thoroughly heated. The snacks on the plate have the fragrance of peanut oil without the dryness of frying, which is really a must-have.

The Chaoshan proverb "eat seasonal fruits in season" means that when the season comes, you should eat the food at that time. The food in season is not only delicious, but can also achieve the purpose of health preservation. For example, eating rat cakes and cabbage cakes during the Spring Festival, gardenia cakes on the Dragon Boat Festival, and Pu Zi cakes on the Tomb Sweeping Day are not only delicious, but they can also clear away heat and relieve internal heat, achieving the purpose of "preventing seasonal diseases during the season."

In recent years, Chaoshan snacks have been reformed and innovated in terms of raw materials and shapes in response to fashion needs. More varieties of fruits and vegetables are added to the raw materials, such as spinach cakes, gorgon cakes, pumpkin cakes, etc.; the shapes become smaller and smaller, allowing people to taste more diverse delicacies without changing their food intake.

5. The current situation and development of Chaoshan snacks

At present, the current status of Shantou snack market is that there are various business forms and complete varieties. The business outlets are mainly scattered and appropriately centralized, which can basically meet the needs of the food industry. consumer demand in the local market. In terms of business form, the first is a takeout-only shop. It is operated by bakery stalls, snack bars, food market snack stalls, grocery stores, etc. They provide customers with finished or semi-finished products, such as easy-to-carry rice dumplings, siomai, crystal balls, etc., which can be bought and eaten at home. Meatballs, cabbage cakes, taro cakes, etc. are often provided as semi-finished products for customers to take home for processing; secondly, they are mainly eaten now and taken away. It is operated by snack restaurants, time-honored snack bars, etc. For example, there are beef ball snack bars located in every corner of the city. They are shops that make beef ball soup, beef ball rice noodles, and takeaway beef balls. The time-honored "Piaoxiang" snack shop and "Aixi" dry noodle shop also have this business model; the other is the snack restaurant, which mainly sells and eats now. For example, China Travel Restaurant’s Chaoshan snack buffet set menu costs 25 yuan per person, free to choose. Chaoxiang City is a snack supermarket. You can purchase with your card and eat now. Nowadays, it is not difficult for locals to have gatherings at home or outside, or to entertain foreign guests to taste Chaoshan snacks.

Although Chaoshan snacks are very popular in Shantou, for outsiders who have never been to Chaoshan, they are hard to find after hearing its name. Many guests who come to Shantou have tasted Chaoshan snacks and are full of praise for the deliciousness of Chaoshan snacks. However, when they want to buy some to take away, they often return with regrets because the store cannot provide convenient packaging. In major supermarkets in Shantou, you can often see Cantonese, Shanghai, and northern snacks, but snacks from this region are rarely seen. However, the Chaoshan snacks sold in cities such as Guangzhou and Shenzhen are often not authentic enough. This shows that the degree of productization of Chaoshan snacks is low. Many operators are still stuck in the traditional business model of small traders and hawkers, lacking modern marketing concepts. They are relatively lagging behind in terms of publicity, packaging, circulation channels, etc., making it difficult to compete. Exiting Chaoshan, entering foreign markets, broadening business channels, and forming economies of scale.

Secondly, most of the time-honored Chaoshan snack brands have outdated business concepts. They muddle along with their old signs and are unwilling or afraid to add gold or silver to the time-honored brands. For example, the time-honored snack bars such as Laoma Gong Zongqiu, Aixi Dried Noodles, and Piaoxiang (White Peach Cake), which have been awarded the title of "Chinese Famous Snacks", still have the same simple old appearance, the same single variety, and the same old age. business practices. As a result, the sales scope is getting narrower and narrower, and some are even unsustainable. How to correctly handle the relationship between inheriting tradition and reform and innovation is an issue that these time-honored brands urgently need to face.

"Fuhecheng Beef Shop" is a snack shop that only became famous in the 1990s. It mainly sells beef snacks, such as beef hot pot, beef balls, beef ball rice noodles, etc. In order to expand operations and occupy the market, in 1998, the store took the lead in registering a trademark for its store name with the State Trademark Administration and creating a well-known brand. At the same time, it changed its business model and expanded and renovated the store. It has hot pot in winter and air conditioning in summer. It adopts flexible and diverse business methods such as selling and eating now, taking out, and door-to-door delivery. In response to market demand, business was booming. In just a few years, it opened 6 chain stores, each of which was popular, and became the leader of Shantou snack bars. Its business model is worth learning from.

Chaoshan snacks have only developed as a category of food in recent years. After continuous exploration, promotion, publicity and promotion by the catering industry, tourism industry and the media, the business market has developed steadily and its popularity has also increased. Upgraded, Chaoshan snacks have won the honor for two consecutive years at the Chinese Famous Snacks Certification Conference, my country's top snack competition. So far, 8 Chaoshan snacks have won the golden sign of "Chinese Famous Snacks". It is reported that in December this year, the 3rd Chinese Famous Snacks Certification Meeting and the Chinese Famous Snacks Cultural Festival will be held in Shantou, and the 9th Chaoshan Food Festival and other activities will also be held this year, including our "Eating in Shantou·Chaoshan Food" and the World” forum, the holding of these activities will promote the innovation and development of Chaoshan snacks and open up broader prospects for the promotion of Chaoshan cuisine.