COOKING TECHNIQUES-
HOT SALT FRYING AND
HOT SAND FRYING
1. HOT SALT FRYING:- is a cooking technique used by street-side food vendors in China/India.
Coarse sea salt is placed in a large wok and heated to a high temperature. Dry food items, such as eggs in shell, are buried in the hot salt and occasionally turned with a spatula.
This technique is also seen in India, where street vendors sell shelled peanuts or popcorn cooked in salt heated in an iron wok
2. HOT SAND FRYING:- is a common cooking technique for street-side food vendors in China and India to cook chestnuts and peanuts. A large wok is filled with black sand and heated to high temperature. Nuts are buried in the hot sand and occasionally turned with a spatula, then the sand and nuts are separated through a wire-mesh screen
… excerpts from Wikipedia Images from cooking varieties photo file
HOT SALT FRYING AND
HOT SAND FRYING
1. HOT SALT FRYING:- is a cooking technique used by street-side food vendors in China/India.
Coarse sea salt is placed in a large wok and heated to a high temperature. Dry food items, such as eggs in shell, are buried in the hot salt and occasionally turned with a spatula.
This technique is also seen in India, where street vendors sell shelled peanuts or popcorn cooked in salt heated in an iron wok
… excerpts from Wikipedia Images from cooking varieties photo file
the tecnique of hot salt frying is used in Italy too, it is called "crosta di sale"
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you should checkout the bread cooked by burying in the desert sand by the arabs..
ReplyDelete@chica mala..thanks for giving the italian name- crosta di sale, my be i will learn your way of doing it.. any marinade or seasonings ?
ReplyDelete@ alfandi.. since you were a chef, may be you can teach me that desert style sand cooking technique, sure will publish it here.
I have not tried this before, should actually and see what happens.
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