How to make the soup for Ban Mian

Anhui Ban Mian is delicious and is a noodle dish that people like to eat. The manufacturing process of Anhui Ban Noodles is simple, and it is a popular snack. When it is time for office workers or students to eat, they will choose a small noodle restaurant to have a bowl of Anhui Ban Noodles. In winter, this kind of hot meal is cooked quickly, cheap and delicious. In fact, we can also make a bowl of Anhui Ban Noodles at home. Next, I will introduce to you how to make Anhui Ban Noodles.

First: Authentic recipe

An authentic beef ban mian soup recipe is essential as it is the foundation of the flavor. If even the most basic recipe is not authentic, then the taste will definitely not be good. How to tell whether the recipe is authentic? First of all, if tomato sauce is added when cooking the ingredients, it is definitely not the recipe we have in Anhui. Because the birthplace of banmian is a small county in Anhui Province. A long, long time ago, transportation was inconvenient, supplies were scarce, and there was no such thing as ketchup, but there were still banmian. So, there is no possibility of ketchup in our authentic ban mian recipe!

Our authentic ban mian ingredients include some very common materials, for example, bay leaves, fennel, pepper, cinnamon, star anise, grass fruit, nutmeg, white cardamom, fragrant sand, angelica, galangal, cloves and other materials. Use common ingredients to create extraordinary flavors!

Second: Grasp the details

As the saying goes, details determine success or failure. When it comes to making beef noodle soup base, details are crucial. During the hours-long process of cooking the base ingredients, if any detail is missed, it will affect the overall taste. Among all the details, the most critical is that each material must be weighed with an electronic scale, and the oil temperature must be accurately controlled with an oil thermometer when boiling the ingredients.

Why do all materials have to be weighed electronically? Because some chefs use their hands to grab the ingredients when cooking, for example, a handful of cinnamon and two handfuls of peppercorns. But everyone's hands are different in size, so if you use your hands to grab it, it will be very inaccurate and not suitable for beginners to learn. When we cook the ingredients, all the materials are weighed by electronic scales, which standardizes the specific amount of each material.

Third, to control the heat, why is it necessary to use an oil thermometer to measure the oil temperature when cooking ingredients? Because the most difficult part of the entire beef noodles technique is controlling the oil temperature and heat. If the fire is too big and the oil temperature is high, the ingredients will be burnt. If the fire is too small and the oil temperature is low, the aroma of the ingredients cannot be fully fried out. Therefore, controlling the oil temperature and heat is of utmost importance! Many noodle chefs have been working for decades and are very experienced, judging the oil temperature based on experience. But for newbies who have never been involved in the catering industry and have no experience at all, how can they judge the oil temperature? When we cook ingredients, we always use an oil thermometer to measure the oil temperature. This way, as long as we can recognize numbers, we can judge the oil temperature. If the oil temperature is high, we will lower the heat. If the oil temperature is low, we will increase the heat. This makes it easier to control the heat.