Sichuan Pixian Doubanjiang
1.
Rinse the mouldy bean curd under running water for a while, pick out the blackened and bad bean curd, wash it gently, keep most of the yellow mould, and then remove the dried water. Fill a pot with water, add 3 star anise, a short section of cinnamon, 3 bay leaves, and a handful of peppercorns. Bring to a high heat and turn off the heat. After the seasoning water cools down, pour in the dried moldy bean curd and let it soak for more than 3 hours
2.
Take advantage of this time, start preparing fresh peppers. 2 jin of red pepper, rinse with clean water, spread out and dry. Prepare a few bottles and cans, wash them and boil them in boiling water for 7 or 8 minutes, remove the oil and sterilize them, then buckle them up and let them dry
3.
Then chop the peppers, pay attention to the chopping board without oil, no raw water, do not chop too much when chopping. Then wash and dry Lao Jiang, then break it with a food processor
4.
Take a large pot, put the chopped fresh chili and chopped ginger into the pot, add 150g salt, 100g dried chili noodles, 50g pepper noodles, a large handful of rock sugar, 5 chopped garlic, and mix well.
5.
Remove the soaked moldy beancurd and put it in a few stirs. Then pour a part of the seasoning water that soaked the moldy bean curd, and submerge the bean paste. Pay attention to grate the star anise, cinnamon, and bay leaves, and then stir again.
6.
Pour in 30g of high white wine (wine over 50 degrees is fine), then pour in half (250ml) of lettuce oil, and then repeatedly stir until all the seasonings, chili and rapeseed oil are mixed evenly
7.
Fill the bottle, don’t fill the bottle too full, add lettuce oil again, so as to completely submerge the bean paste and 3 or 4cm higher, it will seal the bottle mouth.
8.
If it is a metal bottle cap, it is best to cover it with a layer of plastic wrap and then screw the cap tightly. Let it ferment in a sunny place for a week, then open the lid and stir at intervals of a few days. Finally, move to a cool place to ferment for about 1 month, and finally it is done
