Staying Home for 20+ Days: A Potato's Many Transformations, Loved in Every Way
I have been staying at home for over 20 days. This time of staying at home has changed many things. The teacher has become a live streamer, and the friends in my circle are all chefs, from Chinese to Western, from dumpling making to baking, and every ingredient is used to its full potential. The potential of ingredients is being vigorously developed.
Potato is one of the most popular ingredients, especially for children. They have no resistance to small potatoes. It canboil, stew, bake, fry, and pan-fryeach method brings a different taste experience.
Potato cakes are one of the potato dishes that can appear as a breakfast. The method is very simple, it takes less than ten minutes to make, which is very suitable for busy office workers. The ingredients only need potatoes and eggs. There are also different ways to make potato and egg pancakes. One is to add some flour, and the other is not to add any flour, just use eggs and potatoes.
This potato cake that can replace breakfast doesn't need to mash potatoes into mashed potatoes, it needs to be steamed and then mashed into a paste, and then pan-fried, which takes a lot of time. Let's try a new approach, grating potatoes with eggs, which takes less than 10 minutes and can be used as a main course, especially loved by children.
The simple potato and egg pancake, to make it well, the secret is to grate the potato and then soak it in water to make it a bit crispy;
▲After draining the grated potatoes, squeeze out the water; Mix the eggs with potato, salt, black pepper, chili powder and pepper;▲
Pour the potato and egg mixture into a pan and fry until golden brown on both sides. Some people add chopped coriander to make the potato and egg pancake look more beautiful. When flipping the potato and egg pancake, pay attention not to scatter it.
The whole production time takes less than ten minutes to come out of the pan. It's a good choice to replace breakfast with it.
▲Potato dumplings▲
Potato dumplings are very common in Gansu, and even some places consider potato dumplings to be a morning snack. In the northwest of Longchuan, the most eye-catching street in a snack street is selling potatoes, and the men are busy hammering potatoes. Hammering potatoes is a physical labor, and women on the snack street wash and peel the steamed potatoes and put them into the hammering potato trough, and men use wooden hammers to hammer the potatoes until the potatoes slowly become a sticky and viscous lump.
To make potato dumplings, you need to go through: washing, steaming, peeling, slight drying, beating, flavoring, etc. processes.
Ingredients:
: potatoes, high-gluten flour, salt, eggs, black pepper, cheese
-Cooking steps-First, peel and cut the potatoes into pieces and put them in water to boil until a fork can easily penetrate, then mash the potatoes into a paste.Mix the flour, eggs, salt, black pepper, cheese and knead into a smooth dough;
Divide the dough into several parts, shape it into long strips, and then cut it into 3cm long pieces. Use the palm of your hand to press a side of the dough, and use a fork to press the back of the dough into the dumpling shape, and enter the boiling water when it floats up, and take it out immediately.
▲Crispy Potato Fries▲
Crispy potato fries are delicious when paired with cumin. Cumin is a magical spice, and only it can add the most delicious touch to grilled meats. Crispy potato fries are best made with small potatoes, and if there are none, you can cut large potatoes into slices and use the same method, and the taste is still fragrant and soft.
Crispy potato fries have no technical difficulty, just press the potato into a paste and fry it with some seasonings.
▲Potato Balls▲
Potato balls are very common in Gansu, and even some places consider potato balls to be a morning snack. In the northwest of Longchuan, the most eye-catching street in a snack street is selling potatoes, and the men are busy hammering potatoes. Hammering potatoes is a physical labor, and women on the snack street wash and peel the steamed potatoes and put them into the hammering potato trough, and men use wooden hammers to hammer the potatoes until the potatoes slowly become a sticky and viscous lump.
To make potato balls, you need to go through: washing, steaming, peeling, slight drying, beating, flavoring, etc. processes.
Ingredients:
: potatoes, soy sauce, salt, vinegar, chili powder, scallions, peppercorns, garlic
-Cooking steps-
Prepare the potatoes, peel and cut them into pieces and put them in water to boil until a fork can easily penetrate, then mash the potatoes into a paste.
After boiling, take out the potatoes and mash them into a paste.
Add the seasonings, garlic paste, pour hot oil over it and drizzle, then add soy sauce, salt, and chopped scallions;
Use a spoon to scoop the mashed potato paste into ball shapes;
Pour the prepared flavoring sauce on the balls, and you can also add chopped peanuts, sesame seeds, and chopped coriander. It's really delicious!
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