You Tiao

You Tiao

1. The leftover piece of sponge dough from the previous making of fried buns, refrigerate it in the refrigerator, this is the old noodles.

2. Give it a stir to remove the air. This old noodle acts as yeast, so you don’t have to use yeast powder for old noodles.

3. Add flour, salt, baking soda

4. Add water to make a soft and sticky dough

5. Add a tablespoon of vegetable oil

6. Knead the oil into the dough and knead evenly. At this time, the dough is very soft and still a little sticky

7. Relax for about ten minutes, then knead, the dough will be more delicate and smooth

8. Start to arrange the dough into long strips and apply oil on the surface

9. Wrap the dough loosely with plastic wrap to leave room for fermentation

10. To prevent odor, put the dough in a fresh-keeping bag and put it in the refrigerator to ferment overnight

11. This is the made dough

12. Remove the plastic wrap, without rubbing, directly press the rectangular dough sheet, the thickness is about 0.5 cm.

13. Cut into two-finger-wide noodles

14. Each segment is divided into two

15. Stacked in pairs

16. Use chopsticks to press in the middle, but don’t break, relax for a few minutes

17. Heat the oil in the pot (put the chopsticks in and make small bubbles around), stretch the loose fried dough sticks and put them into the oil pan, deep fry until low heat, turn over repeatedly, let it heat evenly and expand rapidly

18. Fry until the dough sticks swell, golden and crispy, then remove

19. Stand on the kitchen paper to absorb excess grease

20. Homemade safe fritters, delicious and safe to eat