Dried Rice Fried with Sugar(Tangchaomi)
 2016-12-20 16:46:14   Zhangjiajie Tourism Information Website  

ZJJ Dried Rice Fried with Sugar, specialty of Zhangjiajie, tastes sweet, fragrant and crisp. Adults and children favor it very much.

On method of making the fried rice, it is a little complicated. The first step is to dry the boiled rice in the sun. Then, stir-fry the rice with oil sometimes tea oil in iron pat. Such rice is called fried rice. Later, decoct sugar into sirop; mix sirop with fried rice, peanut kernel, sesame and so on. Then put them into a timber frame and compact them. At last, cut it into rectangle patches.

There are some tips on proportion of ingredients and the duration and degree of fire when decocting sirop. If not well dealt with, it won’t become bulk and taste bad. Generally, a bushel of rice should at least mix with 2.5 cattySichuansugar. The degree of fire requires great attention. Fire off immediately whenSichuansugar is decocted into sirop. Thus, making of the snack is a skillful and complex job and seldom people can make it nowadays.

By Brenda