How to make fried dough sticks without getting hard

Fried dough sticks are a traditional Chinese delicacy, so they are deeply loved by the Chinese people. This food is especially suitable for breakfast because its production process is very simple. Many people will go to the small vendors selling fried dough sticks to eat one or two fried dough sticks when they are in a hurry to go to work. In this way, all the energy needed for the morning can be absorbed from the fried dough sticks. So how to make fried dough sticks not become hard?

The correct way to make fried dough sticks: Ingredients: 5000 grams of ordinary flour, alkali (60 grams in winter, 70 grams in spring, 85 grams in summer), warm water (3000 grams in winter, 2750 grams in summer).

Preparation method

1. Mix alkali and salt in proportion, grind them into a bowl, add warm water and stir to dissolve into an emulsion, and generate a lot of foam with sound. Then add flour and stir into snowflake shape. Pound it into a smooth, soft and strong dough. Cover it with a warm cloth or quilt, let it rest for 20 to 30 minutes, pound it again, and fold it. Do this 3 to 4 times to make the dough produce gas, form holes, and become smooth. 2. Apply oil on the chopping board, take 1/5 of the dough and put it on the chopping board, drag it into long strips, use a small rolling pin to roll it into 1 cm thick and 10 cm wide strips, and then chop it into 1.5 cm wide strips with a knife, stack two strips together, press and tighten them from the middle with bamboo chopsticks along the length, pinch the two ends lightly with both hands, rotate and pull it into a strip about 30 cm long, put it into an 80% hot oil pan, fry and turn it over while making the strips bulge, become plump, expanded, crispy and golden.

How to make fluffy dough sticks

Preparation method: Mix all the ingredients and knead until smooth. Let it rest for 20 minutes, pour in appropriate amount of cooking oil and knead it again. Beat until the tendons are formed, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight. When you get up in the morning, take out the dough and remember not to knead it. Sprinkle flour on the chopping board and roll the dough into a thickness of about 0.5 cm. Cut into 3 cm wide slices. Press the two pieces together with chopsticks. Stretch it appropriately, add oil to the pan and heat it, put in the fried dough sticks, and use chopsticks to turn them over so that they are evenly heated. Fry until fluffy and golden.