Shaanxi Roujiamo

Overview

I fell in love with Roujiamo in the 1980s, when I was a student. In Shaanxi, Roujiamo only cost 30 cents each. For students, it was both a satisfying and affordable option. But even though it's very cheap, you can't eat it every day, so you only buy one when you're greedy. Later, when I got married, I started to learn how to make it myself. Later, it became my family’s reserved food. Because I love making braised pork, eating Roujiamo is very convenient. In the past, relatives and friends also liked to come to my house to eat this. Three or five friends could finish more than a dozen cakes. Now I rarely invite friends to eat. After all, I have to be busy for a long time. Now when friends get together, unless they are special guests, they usually don’t eat at home. They are hosted by the hotel, which saves trouble. Nowadays, when I eat Roujiamo at home, I will only make it unless my loved one wants to eat it. Others basically don’t have this privilege.

Tags

• staple food
• home cooking
• alkaline surface
• braised pork
• flour
• rice wine
• green pepper

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Mix rice wine with 70 grams of water, add 100 grams of flour and mix into a paste. Keep warm and ferment until the batter is completely fermented and looks like a honeycomb

   

2. 2 Add all the remaining flour, add one gram of alkaline flour, and knead into a relatively hard and smooth dough. Don’t let the dough rise again this time. Let it rest for 30 minutes (if it’s a hot day, let it rest for 10 minutes), because the Baiji bun used for Roujiamo is a semi-risen dough

   

3. 3 After the dough is ready, divide it into about 80g pieces

   

4. 4 Roll out to grow

   

5. 5 Roll it up from one end and press one side of the end to the bottom

   

6. 6 Flatten the dough and roll it into a round shape

   

7. 7 Flatten the dough and roll it into a round shape

   

8. 8 Put it into the pan, press down the middle and cover it

   

9. 9 After searing one side, turn it over and sear both sides before setting aside.

   

10. 10 Braised meat in the pot

    

11. 11 Take out a piece and add green pepper

    

12. 12 Add a green pepper and chop

    

13. 13 Cut the cake from the middle

    

14. 14 Just put the meat in it. Since I have ready-made braised pork at home, I did not post the process of braised pork. You can refer to my previous braised pork post. I will definitely write down the process of cooking the meat next time.