How to make the dough for leek pie https://static.cndzys.com/20180614/5f9cbe28f5765e1830c4cb2ddc9152a8.jpg

Leek pie is a delicious, nutritious and popular pasta. It appears frequently on the streets or in the alleys, and for breakfast or dinner. Of course, those who love cooking can also make leek pie at home. The two most important steps in making leek pie are making the filling and kneading the dough. The quality of the dough is directly related to whether the pie is delicious. So, how should you mix the dough needed to make leeks?

1. Hot noodles

Boiled noodles are made by kneading noodles with boiling water, stirring while adding water, and then kneading them into a dough after they have cooled down a little, and then making them into various foods.

2. Dead Face

Dead noodles are noodles that are cooked with cold water and used immediately. This type of noodles is more resistant to cooking and has a strong and chewy texture. Dead noodles and boiled noodles are not easy to digest and have a low glycemic index, so they can be eaten by diabetics and are also an option for obese people.

3. Leavening

Leavening means adding yeast into the dough and allowing the yeast to multiply and produce gas under certain temperature and humidity conditions, thereby causing the dough to expand. Yeast dough has the highest nutritional value. The added yeast is called an "inexhaustible source of nutrition." The yeasted pie is soft and fluffy. Therefore, people with poor stomachs, children, the elderly and other people with weak digestive functions are more suitable to eat leavened noodles. I prefer to use half-fermented noodles. You don’t have to wait a long time for the dough to ferment, and you can still enjoy a soft pie.

4. Half-hair

Half-fermented dough means that the degree of fermentation of the dough is only half of the normal degree. The famous Tianjin Goubuli steamed buns are made with semi-fermented dough. When making pies, just mix the yeast and flour into the dough, let it rest for 20 minutes, and then you can make the pies directly. After the dough slowly heats up in the pan, it will rise. The pies made will taste soft, fluffy and delicious.

5. How to make the pie dough:

1. Scoop the flour into a large bowl.

2. Turn on the faucet and let the water flow slowly.

3. Hold the bowl in your left hand and a pair of chopsticks in your right hand, and stir while adding water. The flour will gradually form lumps.

4. Continue. Keep moving the bowl and stirring to allow water to reach any dry flour.

5. Until all the dry flour is moistened, including the bottom of the bowl, and there is no dry flour left. Turn off the tap at this time. At this point the ratio of flour to water is just right. There is absolutely no need to add powder and water.

6. Start stirring the noodles with chopsticks. You can go in one direction. It is also possible to change direction midway. If you are a beginner and feel a little tired, you can stir for a few rounds and then take a break, then stir a few more rounds and then take a break. You can also use 4 chopsticks to stir, which will save effort. The dough is not smooth at first, as shown in the picture.

7. The more you stir it, the smoother it becomes. The lumps will disappear and the noodles will become more elastic. The flour stuck to the bowl was cleaned away by the dough. The sides of the bowl are clean. When the dough is smooth, elastic and has a gluteny texture, it is ready, as shown in the picture. Note that the entire process does not require the use of hands, only a pair of chopsticks.

8. At this point, the dough can be picked out of the bowl as a whole, with no residual dough in the bowl, as shown in the picture. Please pay attention to the softness of the dough. It is not a hard dough that can be shaped, but a soft dough that can be deformed and seems to flow.

9. Sprinkle some dry flour on the chopping board and use chopsticks to pick up the dough and transfer it to the dry flour.

10. Let the entire dough be coated with dry powder.

11. Cut into pieces and then make pies according to the general process.