What is the reason why fried dough sticks become hard

Some people will find that when they are making fried dough sticks, they always taste hard, which will affect the taste. In fact, if you want to make the fried dough sticks softer, the best way is to use flour and a reasonable amount of water. If you mix them together, the fried dough sticks you make will taste better, and you won’t feel that the fried dough sticks you made are not so soft when you eat them.

Ingredients: 5000g of ordinary flour, salt in the same proportion, alkali (60g in winter, 70g in spring, 85g in summer), warm water (3000g in winter, 2750g in summer) [1]

1. Mix alkali and salt in proportion, grind them into a bowl, add warm water and stir until they dissolve into an emulsion and generate a large amount of foam with a sound. Then add flour and stir until it becomes a snowflake-like shape. Pound it to make it 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 over again. Repeat this process 3 to 4 times to allow the dough to produce gas[1], form holes and become soft.

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.

Method 2

Ingredients: 300 grams of flour, 250 ml of warm milk, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, half a teaspoon of baking soda, 1 teaspoon of salt, 25 grams of vegetable oil.

practice:

1. Dissolve baking powder, baking soda and salt in warm milk, mix with flour and knead evenly, then pour in a little vegetable oil, knead until smooth, cover with a lid and place at room temperature overnight (note that it cannot be put in the refrigerator);

2. The next morning, place the dough on an oiled chopping board. Do not knead it. Spread it out flat and shape it into long strips about 7cm wide and 1cm thick. Then use a knife to cut it into small strips 2cm wide. Then use chopsticks to press down on each small strip, and then pinch the two ends of each small strip together;

3. Pour oil into the hot pan. When the oil temperature is high, stretch the raw dough of the fried dough sticks and fry them in the pan until golden brown. Then take them out.