Halloween plate painting

Overview

Today, I would like to introduce to you a method of making a Halloween-themed dinner plate painting. In it, I will introduce you to some common production techniques and problems encountered in dinner plate paintings. Finally, I would also like to tell you how to solve the problem of handling leftovers that you often encounter. You can chop the leftovers into dices, simmer them with oil, add rice and stir-fry, add a little light soy sauce, salt, MSG, and chopped green onion. The fried rice will be very fragrant! You can also use the leftovers to make some batter porridge and add a little bit of chopped green vegetables, shrimp skin or dried shrimp, or shrimp meat. It tastes delicious.

Tags

• baking
• children
• festival customs
• halloween
• chive moss
• chopped green onions
• egg
• enoki mushroom
• ham sausage
• onions
• pumpkin
• rice
• seaweed
• spring rolls
• squid
• tomatoes

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Nowadays, more and more mothers are keen on making plate paintings and fun meals for children. This is a good thing, and it shows that more and more of us are paying more attention to the art of food. However, I still want to say one thing: Plate painting is not as simple as using ingredients to create a beautiful painting that can attract the taste buds. I remember the first time I saw some children's meals made by skilled mothers on the website, I was shocked. I started to imitate them on the Internet. At the beginning, every time I made a plate painting, I felt a sense of accomplishment and was intoxicated. Of course, every time when appreciating the dinner plate paintings, many people would question: "Can this fill you up?" "Does this taste delicious?" "Is it a work of art just for appreciation?" At the beginning, I was very opposed to such voices. But as I’ve been working on it for a long time, I’ve also been thinking deeply about why dinner plate paintings are questioned by people. Are some of the plate paintings made by those plate painting experts on the Internet and myself really delicious? What is the purpose of plate painting? The purpose of making plate paintings is to not only taste delicious but also let diners enjoy the pleasure of the food through beautiful picture decoration. Dinner plate paintings also require good food-making skills, and then the produced food can be combined and decorated into beautiful pictures. Although the decoration and beautification of plate paintings is very important, it is after all an external packaging and beautification method of food. It is the food itself that determines its edible value. Therefore, we must not reverse the relationship of priority simply for the sake of decoration, making the food a mere display that is not pleasing to the eye but not edible. No delicious food, external

   

2. 2 Cast iron pot (I personally feel that you must use a cast iron pot when frying this home-cooked dish, the stir-fried dishes are very fragrant). Heat the cold oil in the pot, add chili, Sichuan peppercorns, and ginger to stir-fry for a while. Add cooking wine, soy sauce, and a little white vinegar and continue to stir-fry for a few seconds. Then add diced onion slices and stir-fry until semi-soft, not completely soft. Add salt and MSG and stir-fry for a few seconds. Remove from the pot and set aside.

   

3. 3 I usually use two methods to make homemade spring rolls. One is to mix the batter, and then smear the batter on a hot and oiled spatula to get a palm-sized pancake skin. Use this pancake skin to wrap the mixed fillings and roll them up until they are fried and golden. Another method is to scald the noodles and roll out the thin skin, then steam it layer by layer in a steamer. This is our common method of making lotus leaf cake skin. The resulting lotus leaf cake is wrapped in fillings, rolled up, and fried until golden brown. Pay attention to the amount of oil you need to fry the spring rolls. First, heat the oil over high heat. Put in a scallion to test the oil temperature. If the scallion does not burn immediately, add the spring rolls. Then reduce the heat to medium-low. The slowly fried spring roll filling will be easy to cook and crispy on the outside. However, spring rolls fried over high heat can easily burn on the outside and remain raw on the inside.

   

4. 4 When spreading the egg pancake skin, you can put less egg white in order to make the color darker. Don't stir the egg liquid too fast to prevent air from entering and causing more foam. The egg pancake skin will have many small holes. The stirred egg liquid can be prepared in advance and left for a while to reduce foaming. For the omelette, pay attention to the heat of the pan and lower the heat to low. Use an oil wiper to rub a little oil on the pan, pour in the egg liquid, pick up the handle of the pan and slowly shake the pan without using a shovel. Don't worry, the egg skin will not stick to the pan at all.

   

5. 5 Fry the onions. Heat the cold oil in the pan and fry the onions until they are slightly brown on both sides. Do not fry them until they are soft. Sprinkle with an appropriate amount of salt, pepper, cumin powder and chili powder. Take them out and serve on a plate

   

6. 6 Now we are going to start the process of making dinner plate paintings. First, cut out several cats and birds with seaweed. You can also use a marker to draw them on oil paper first, and then cut them together with the seaweed to make this step easier.

   

7. 7 You can add some seasonings to the warm rice and mix well. Because the dinner plate comes with salty dishes, the rice can also be shaped directly without adding any seasonings. Wear disposable plastic gloves, remember to apply a few drops of cooking oil on the gloves, rub your hands, and then knead the rice balls. The rice balls will obey your words! You won't get your hands dirty at all. Knead the rice and shape it into a hat shape.

   

8. 8 Wrap the hat with seaweed. Be careful that the seaweed is not too dry. If it is not sticky, you can dip it in a little water and apply it. Decorate the hat with ham cut into thin strips.

   

9. 9 The facial rice ball is a bit difficult. First, roll the rice ball into a ball, then press it slightly to form a slightly flattened circle, and then use your fingers to pinch out the outline of the face. Then use egg skin and seaweed to cut the hair, eyes, eyebrows, mouth, face, etc.

   

10. 10 For the body parts, first knead the rice into a ball and then shape the belly, wrap it with seaweed, then roll a thin strip of rice and wrap it with seaweed, cut it into four parts to make the arms and legs. Cut out spears from cucumber strips, and decorate the flags with egg skin ham sausage.

    

11. 11 Arrange the pre-cut cats and birds

    

12. 12 Slice the tomatoes to make the face of the sun, cut out the egg skin to create the halo of the sun, place the pre-cooked vegetables, blanched and pickled chives and okra, then add pumpkin paste and a bowl of spring rolls. Do you think this kind of plate painting will make you feel full and not delicious?