【Guangzhou】Always smile

Overview

The laughing mouth jujube is also called smiling mouth. Due to the explosion of flour during high-temperature frying, it looks like a person laughing. It symbolizes a happy family and expresses good wishes for the future life. Xiaokou Zao is a must-have Cantonese New Year snack and is sold in every street and alley. Every household seeks good luck and eats happily. When I was a child, every Spring Festival, every household would fry jujubes, fried dumplings, and dumplings in oil... The aroma floated far in the alley. Grandma's cooking was the most delicious. The neighborhood children were all attracted by the aroma. Grandma shouted, don't eat it, it's too hot, you'll get angry, little ancestor, let's eat it tomorrow...

Tags

• snacks
• afternoon tea
• baking powder
• cake flour
• peanut oil
• white sesame
• white sugar
• yeast
• baking soda

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Prepare ingredients: low-gluten flour, white sesame seeds, white sugar;

   

2. 2 Pour 100ml of drinking water into the pot, add 70g of white sugar, cook until combined and let cool;

   

3. 3 When the sugar water cools down, mix the cake flour, yeast, baking soda and baking powder and sift together;

   

4. 4 Pour the cooled sugar water into the sifted flour and mix well;

   

5. 5 Knead into a ball, cover and let stand for 20 minutes;

   

6. 6 Use the folding kneading method to knead the dough into long strips and divide it evenly into small balls. PS: Do not knead the dough back and forth to avoid kneading tendons.

   

7. 7 Wrap in sesame seeds and knead them again to prevent the sesame seeds from falling off; PS: You can dip an appropriate amount of water into the sesame seeds to make them easy to wrap,

   

8. 8 Wrap the Xiaokou dates in sesame seeds and let them rest for 10 minutes;

   

9. 9 Heat the pot until it is warm, pour in an appropriate amount of oil, and when the oil temperature reaches about 140 degrees, add the prepared Xiaokou jujube embryos.

   

10. 10 Fry until it opens and turns slightly brown, then take it out and use absorbent paper to absorb excess oil. PS: The fire should not be too big. If it is too hot, you will not be able to speak.