How to make Shanxi fried pancakes

Are you bored at home on weekends and want to study delicious food but don’t know where to start? Are you busy with work every day and your cooking skills are not as good as before? The preparation of Shanxi fried pancakes is extremely easy and takes very little time. For beginners, it is a simple and easy-to-learn home-cooked dish, allowing you to enjoy the delicious taste even if you are not a good cook.

1. Add a little sugar to the flour and stir evenly. Then add an appropriate amount of salt and stir evenly. Finally, add yeast and stir evenly. Then add an appropriate amount of water to the flour.

2. Put the flour into a large bowl

3. Stir it into a snowflake shape, knead it into dough with your hands, then cover it with plastic wrap and ferment it.

4. Pour in an appropriate amount of water and stir until it becomes snowflake-shaped (the water temperature can be cold water in summer and 40°C water in winter)

5. When the fermentation is twice as large, use your finger to dip in some flour and poke a hole. If it does not shrink or collapse, it is fermented.

6. It is also OK to ferment completely (as shown below)

7. Roll the dough into long strips (it doesn’t matter if it’s not smooth)

8. Sprinkle an appropriate amount of dry flour on the chopping board, release the air from the fermented dough and knead it with your hands.

9. Roll into long strips and divide into small pieces using a scraper or knife.

10. Sprinkle a little flour on both sides of the knife and press them flat with your hands (the cut side faces up).

11. Fold the cut surface inward with your hands and roll it into a round shape just like you normally roll steamed buns.

12. Then flatten it with your hands and roll it into a round shape with a rolling pin.

13. After all the dough is rolled, you can heat the oil pan and fry the dough cakes (in summer, you don’t need to let them rest after rolling, but in winter, the room is cold, so you can let them rest for 10 minutes before frying) (Sprinkle less flour when rolling, sprinkle flour frequently, and sprinkle too much flour, and there will be a lot of flour in the oil pan when frying. If you fry too much flour, it will burn and taste bitter)

14. Fry the pan in hot oil (use chopsticks to turn the pan over and fry the other side after it expands completely) until golden brown and then remove from the pan.

15. During the frying process, you will know that a good oil cake will be fully expanded (just like a pocket cake with two skins)

16. When eating, tear it open and turn it inside out so that there won’t be any oil on your hands (it’s especially delicious when paired with cold dishes)

In order to make the taste better, restaurants usually add a lot of seasonings, which can easily affect health. The method of Shanxi fried pancakes uses less seasoning and is good for health.