Beef tallow: is an indispensible grease for traditional hot pot, made of melt cow fat. It plays an important role in bringing lipidation into effect under heated, and adding flavor and fragrance to hot pot. Tallow floating on the surface of the soup can maintain hot pot’s temperature and thickness, allowing the boiled food to be fragrant and tasty with luster. Tallow’s strong aroma keeps hot pot pleasant in flavor, which for certain need to adjust according to customers’ taste.
Lard oil: is a main ingredient for light soup hot pot because it can be melt in hot pot to blend flavor, remove odor and enhance fragrance. Adding appropriate lard oil also could remove odor of entrails and aquatic product.
Chicken oil: is a new and upscale grease used in hot pot with rich nutrition and fresh flavor. The way to make chicken oil for light soup hot pot is to cook with ginger slice or steam with ginger and green onion. The former is great in taste but worse in color, while the latter is better but worse in flavor. The key to make it smell good is to deep fry the ginger and onion when the oil is about to be done, and take away the remains.
Rapeseed oil: is extracted from rapeseed, and mainly used to make condiment in Chongqing hot pot. Condiment with rapeseed brings out the original flavor of food.
Sesame oil: its usage is the same as that of rapeseed oil. Adding it to all kinds of condiment can enhance aroma and repeal internal heat.
Salad oil: is an extraction from rapeseed oil or other grease but getting rid of their color. It is mainly used to make hot pot ingredient and condiment.
In conclusion, there are 4 common types of edible oil for hot pot: beef tallow, lard oil, rapeseed oil and sesame oil. Beef tallow enhances hot pot flavor, maintains soup temperature, brightens luster. Lard oil brings out original taste and saps the ingredient of odors. Rapeseed oil and sesame oil are for condiment making. What’s more, those also used for condiment are pepper oil, oyster sauce, and chicken oil, allowing hot pot to be more pleased in taste.
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