Hunan Spicy Snacks

The food in Hunan Province is mainly spicy, and Hunan also has many special spicy snacks. Generally, Hunanese people like to make some Hunan spicy snacks by themselves to eat in their spare time. It is a very relaxing thing to eat homemade Hunan spicy snacks and drink cool beer in the hot summer. Here are some methods for making Hunan spicy snacks. You can make some for yourself according to these methods.

1. Secret spicy dried tofu

Ingredients: 500g dried white tofu, 10 bright red chili peppers, 8g chili powder, 2g Sichuan peppercorns or Dahongpao peppercorns, 60g ginger, 9 cloves of garlic, 40g June fresh soy sauce, 2g pepper powder, some cooked sesame seeds, a pinch of salt, 6g cumin powder

2. Cooking steps:

1. Prepare one pound of white tofu

2. Boil water and cook white tofu (use a larger pot to prevent overflow)

3. Cook until small honeycomb-like holes appear and remove from the water

4. Cut into strips or squares

5. Deep fry until golden brown.

6. Prepare the seasoning as follows (I used a few dried chilies because I didn’t have enough fresh red pepper)

8. Deep-fry the peppercorns

9. Add chopped chili pepper, ginger and garlic, stir-fry until fragrant, then add pepper powder and cumin powder and stir-fry until fragrant

10. Stir-fry over low heat until fragrant

11. Add dried tofu and stir fry evenly

12. Add soy sauce and a little salt, stir fry for a while, turn off the heat, add cooked sesame seeds and serve.

2. Spicy Beef Jerky

[Ingredients]: 2 spoons of cooking wine, some soy sauce, 3 slices of ginger, 1 portion of star anise, 3 spoons of chili powder, 1 spoon of pepper powder, some cooked sesame seeds, some sugar, some salt, 2 tablespoons of pepper oil, some chili peppers

【Method】: 1. Cut the beef into pieces and clean them;

2. Put it in a pot, add water and boil for 1 minute, skim off the blood foam and wash it clean;

3. Fill a pot with water again, add the ingredients (cooking wine, soy sauce, salt, ginger, spices), bring to a boil over high heat, add the beef and simmer over low heat for about 40 minutes;

4. Take out the braised beef, let it cool, and cut it into long strips

5. Pour oil into the pan and heat it up. Add the beef and turn to low heat. Fry for 5 to 7 minutes until the beef turns black and has almost no moisture.

6. Pour out some of the oil, leave some, pour in cooked sesame seeds, chili powder, pepper powder and chili, stir-fry over medium-low heat until fragrant;

7. Pour the fried beef strips in and stir-fry over low heat to coat the beef evenly with sesame and chili oil. Add appropriate amount of sugar, salt and soy sauce to taste.

3. Spicy lotus root slices

1. Ingredients

Ingredients: 5 lotus roots

Accessories: oil, salt, bay leaves, 5g fennel, 5g cloves, 10g green pepper, cinnamon, star anise, 20g sugar, 5g chili powder, soy sauce, soy sauce

2. Steps:

1). Prepare the necessary materials.

2). Cut the lotus root into 5 mm thick slices and rinse them in clean water.

3). Add oil to the pan, heat it up, then pour in bay leaves, fennel, cloves, green peppercorns, cinnamon, star anise and stir-fry evenly.

4). Pour in the lotus root slices and stir-fry evenly.

5). Add light soy sauce, soy sauce, sugar and chili powder and stir-fry evenly.

6). Add water almost level with the lotus root.

7). After boiling, turn to low heat and cook for about 30 minutes.