If you like my food articles, please click "Follow" and there will be more wonderful food articles dedicated to you!
Friends who like to make food are no strangers to "five-spice powder", especially in the 80s and 90s, "five-spice powder" is a seasoning and spice that is popular on every household's table. Whether it is to mix meat filling, or stir-fry stew soup, they like to add some "five-spice powder" to increase the aroma of the dishes. Especially for the New Year, the dumpling filling is always inseparable from the "five-spice powder", and it feels that only the meatball dumplings with five-spice powder are fragrant and mellow to eat. In addition to five-spice powder, there are also classic dishes made with these five spices, and there are countless, such as: "five-spiced peanuts, five-spice tea eggs, five-spiced crispy meat, five-spice dried beans..."
People hang on their lips every day "five spices", ask friends a question: what kind of "five spices" is the five spice powder, there are not many people who know all about it, each has a wonderful use, but it can not be used wrong. This is definitely not alarmist, there are very few people who answer correctly, it is like people after taking a few days off, suddenly ask "what day of the week", all of a sudden people are confused. I feel that these five spices are hanging on the lips, that is, it is not complete and wrong. In fact, "five spices" are: star anise, peppercorns, cinnamon, cloves, cumin, the most common five kinds of flavoring and spices. Moreover, these five kinds of flavoring and spices have their own wonderful uses, and they can no longer be used indiscriminately.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-center-line" > one, octagon</h1>
Star anise is one of the most commonly used flavoring spices, there are many aliases, also known as fennel, star anise, large ingredients, and widely used in frying, stewing, boiling, brine and other cooking techniques, especially when cooking meat ingredients, it is inseparable from the flavor of star anise. The spicy smell of star anise mainly comes from the volatile "fennel oil" component contained in it, which is the main source of its fragrance, and the main components are ether, ketones, aldehydes and other aromatic chemicals. Star anise can also be used in medicine, which has the effect of dispelling wind and qi, harmonizing the spleen and stomach, which is also the main reason for adding star anise when stewing meat. Because the meat ingredients themselves are more difficult to digest, after adding star anise, adding flavor to help digestion is a seasoning method that can be obtained in one fell swoop. "Pig is not pepper, sheep is not expected", the big ingredient here refers to the star anise, when using it, we must pay attention to the stewed lamb and remember not to add star anise.
When buying star anise, pay attention to identifying "true and false octagons", especially the wild fake octagons are mixed into the real octagons, which are difficult to distinguish between true and false. The most significant feature of the real octagon is that it has 8 corner lobes, which are generally symmetrical in length, the sharp corners are rounded and blunt, naturally free, and smell very strong octagonal spice. False octagon is generally not 8 corner lobes, which is the easiest place to distinguish, such as the ground maple skin horn petals for 10-13, red fennel has 7-8 corner lobes, large octagon, wild octagon, short column octagon generally has 10-14 corner lobes composition. If these false octagons are broken and mixed in, we must pay attention to the difference in their appearance and form: the corner flaps of the false octagon are generally slender and sharp, the thickness is thinner, and the aroma is weak, which is conducive to distinguishing the false octagons that are broken into single petals.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" > two, peppercorns</h1>
Peppercorns are another of the most commonly used spices and are one of the soul seasonings of Sichuan cuisine. Peppercorn tree for the deciduous small tree, there are more spikes, spring spit out new buds, people put the kind of fruitless fresh tender "slip" simple seasoning, hanging paste after simple frying, is the classic dish "dry fried pepper buds", has a unique fragrance. Clusters and clusters of peppercorns grow on the branches of that fruit, which are dark green at first and become clusters of purple-red peppercorns when they mature in autumn.
In addition to being used as a spice, peppercorns can also be used in medicine and have a natural aromatic smell. Peppercorns are one of the most important seasonings in Sichuan cuisine, and the soul of Sichuan cuisine is "hemp, spicy, fresh and fragrant", and the first hemp flavor is the credit of sichuan peppercorns. Strictly speaking, the "hemp" of peppercorns cannot be regarded as a taste, but a "high-frequency stimulation" formed by the chemical components contained in the mouth, which should be regarded as a feeling, not a sense of taste. Usually with peppercorns, it should be noted that when stewing pork, peppercorns are generally not added.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-center-line" > three, cinnamon</h1>
Cinnamon, also known as cinnamon, chai cinnamon, cinnamon, is a general term for the bark of various cinnamon trees, and there are 8 common varieties of cinnamon trees that can peel off cinnamon. Sometimes, when we go to buy cinnamon, we often see that there are thick and long, thin and small, which is mainly the reason for the different cinnamon bark. According to the shape and size of the cinnamon, the cinnamon is divided into three types: barrel cinnamon, thick cinnamon, and thin cinnamon. Cinnamon has a natural volatile aroma, and when added when stewed meat or stuffing, it has a wonderful use for removing fishy freshness and can also greatly increase people's appetite.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-center-line" > four, cloves</h1>
Most of the people's lilacs originally came from Dai Wangshu's "Rain Alley": holding an oil-paper umbrella, wandering alone in the long, long and lonely rain alley. I hope to meet a girl with a lilac-like grudge... Cloves are also a kind of flavoring seasoning that is also medicinal and spiced, which is dried from the unopened buds of cloves, also known as male cloves, cloves, chicken tongue, and knots. Cloves contain natural and rich flavor of clove oil, which can promote the secretion of gastric juice after smelling, making people's appetite increase. Cloves are divided into male and female, male cloves have smaller particles, and female cloves have larger particles. Because the aroma of cloves is too rich, remember to grasp the dosage when using, generally a pot of meat with 3-5 grains can be, add one more grain, it is possible to abandon the previous achievements.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-center-line" > five, cumin</h1>
Cumin is the dried seed of fennel, in the north, people often use fennel fresh stems and leaves to wrap dumplings, steamed buns, with eggs or meat pieces, fresh and pleasant, is a kind of filling variety that many people like. Because fennel prefers oil, the amount of oil used when mixing the filling should be slightly more fragrant. The dried seeds of fennel are the fragrance "cumin", which has a natural rich aroma, and the cumin is added when stewing meat ingredients, which adds a lot of flavor and color. Cumin is also one of the main ingredients for summer barbecue sprinkling, with cumin powder and dried paprika, it is the classic universal barbecue sauce.
If you like my food articles, please "follow" me, there will be more wonderful food articles dedicated to you! Welcome to your review!