Golden Sand Pumpkin(金沙南瓜)
Today's home-cooked dish is one of the amazing ways to eat pumpkin. It's a favorite of children. Make it at home quickly. It's sweet, glutinous and extremely delicious!
What is Golden Sand Pumpkin?
Golden Sand Pumpkin is a delicious and creative dish. It is made with pumpkin as the main ingredient and combined with salted egg yolks and corn starch. Golden Sand Pumpkin has a golden color shining like golden sand. It tastes sweet and salty and is deeply loved by people in daily life.
Why do I like this recipe?
Why do I like this recipe? First of all, of course, it is because of the sweet and crispy taste of Golden Sand Pumpkin. The taste of Golden Sand Pumpkin is very rich. Pumpkin is sweet. After being wrapped with salted egg yolks and corn starch and fried, it is golden and crispy. It is very delicious.
Secondly, the ingredients used in Golden Sand Pumpkin are very simple. Pumpkin is nutritious and healthy and also contains rich vitamins, cellulose, etc. While salted egg yolks contain a large amount of protein. The combination of the two is both delicious and nutritious.
Another reason is that the method of making Golden Sand Pumpkin is very simple and does not require complex skills and hard-to-find ingredients. Even if you are a novice in the kitchen, you can easily make it. At the same time, the taste is not inferior to that outside at all. It greatly satisfies my desire to make delicious food by myself.
Ingredients Needed and Substitutions
Main ingredients
Pumpkin: The main ingredient for making Golden Sand Pumpkin, providing sweetness and rich nutrition.
Salted egg yolks: One of the main ingredients, providing saltiness and at the same time helping to enhance the taste of the dish.
Corn starch: Used to wrap pumpkin to form a thin and crispy outer skin on the surface of pumpkin.
Seasonings
Oil: Used for frying pumpkin to form a golden crispy skin on the surface.
Substitutions:
Pumpkin: Can be replaced by sweet potatoes or sweet potatoes.
Corn starch: Can be replaced by potato starch or wheat flour.
What are the nutritional values of Golden Sand Pumpkin?
Golden Sand Pumpkin has very high nutritional value. Among them, pumpkin contains a large amount of vitamin A, vitamin C and vitamin E. These substances are good for human skin and can play an antioxidant role and make human skin smooth and shiny.
At the same time, pumpkin also contains a large amount of dietary fiber. These substances can promote the peristalsis of human intestines and stomach and help promote human digestion.
Salted egg yolks contain a large amount of protein, fat, vitamins A, D, E and minerals such as iron and calcium. Appropriate consumption has certain effects of protecting the liver, supplementing calcium and strengthening brain and improving intelligence.
Corn starch contains a large amount of vitamin E, linoleic acid, calcium, iron and other nutrients, which helps to reduce cholesterol and prevent arteriosclerosis.
Tips for Success
Techniques for handling pumpkin
To make Golden Sand Pumpkin delicious, the handling of pumpkin is very important. When cutting pumpkin strips, try to cut them as evenly as possible so as to ensure that the pumpkin is heated evenly when steaming and frying. It is recommended that the pumpkin be cut to about 1 - 1.5 centimeters.
Steaming skills
When steaming salted egg yolks, it should be noted that the time should be controlled within 10 - 15 minutes to ensure that the salted egg yolks are completely cooked, which is convenient for mashing the salted egg yolks later; pumpkin only needs to be steamed for about 3 minutes. The time should not be too long, otherwise the pumpkin will become too soft and lose its taste.
Techniques for coating with powder
When using corn starch to wrap pumpkin, pay attention to making the pumpkin strips evenly coated on all sides. After that, you can put the pumpkin strips in a plate containing corn starch and gently turn them over or grab them evenly with your hands to ensure that each pumpkin strip is like wearing a uniform "powder coat" to ensure that the fried pumpkin skin will be crispy.
Frying skills
When frying pumpkin, the oil temperature is very important. It is recommended to fry pumpkin when the oil temperature is 60% hot. If you are not sure about the oil temperature, you can insert chopsticks into the oil. When you see small bubbles around the chopsticks, it means the oil temperature is appropriate.
When frying pumpkin, turn the pumpkin strips regularly to make them heated evenly. Fry until the skin is golden and crispy and then take it out to ensure that the inside of pumpkin is soft and glutinous and the outside is crispy.
Techniques for stir-frying salted egg yolks
Leave a little base oil in the pot and stir-fry slowly over low heat. Keep stir-frying until the salted egg yolks foam and gradually melt to form a delicate "golden sand" shape, so that the pumpkin strips can be better coated with salted egg yolks.
INGREDIENTS
Main Ingredients
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·300g pumpkin
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·5 salted egg yolks
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·Appropriate amount of corn starch
Seasonings
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·Appropriate amount of oil
COOKING STEP
Step 1
Prepare ingredients:
Remove the seeds from 300 grams of pumpkin and cut it into uniform strips. Prepare 5 salted egg yolks.
Step 2
Steaming salted egg yolks:
Pour 800 milliliters of hot water into the pot. Put in a steaming bowl. Put the salted egg yolks into the pot and steam them over water for 10 - 15 minutes until they are completely cooked.
Step 3
Steaming pumpkin:
Put the cut pumpkin strips into a steaming bowl and steam them for about 3 minutes until the pumpkin becomes slightly soft.
Step 4
Coating with corn starch:
Take out enough corn starch. Evenly coat the steamed pumpkin strips on all sides with corn starch to ensure that each pumpkin strip is fully coated.
Step 5
Frying pumpkin:
Pour enough oil into the pot and heat it to 60% hot (about 180 degrees Celsius). Put the pumpkin strips coated with powder into the pot and fry until the skin becomes crispy and then take them out and drain the oil.
Step 6
Stir-frying golden sand egg yolks:
Leave a little base oil in the pot. Put the steamed and minced salted egg yolks into the pot and stir-fry over medium-low heat until the salted egg yolks foam and gradually melt.
Step 7
Stir-fry and take out of the pot:
Then pour the fried pumpkin strips into the pot and quickly stir-fry to make the pumpkin strips evenly coated with salted egg yolks.
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Serving Suggestions
Staple food combinations
White rice: Golden Sand Pumpkin has a salty, fragrant and crispy taste. The inside is soft and glutinous. It is sweet and salty. It is a perfect match with white rice and is very delicious with rice.
Steamed buns: Steamed buns have a strong wheat fragrance. Eating with Golden Sand Pumpkin, the rich taste of pumpkin can add more flavor to steamed buns.
Green tea: Green tea has a fresh and elegant taste and can help neutralize the greasiness of Golden Sand Pumpkin.
Soy milk: Soy milk contains rich plant protein. Paired with Golden Sand Pumpkin, it can not only supplement protein but also enjoy the unique taste brought by pumpkin.
Stir-fried broccoli: Golden Sand Pumpkin has a strong taste. Paired with refreshing seasonal vegetables, it can balance the taste.
Cold cucumber: The taste of cold cucumber is refreshing and forms a sharp contrast with Golden Sand Pumpkin.
Eating suggestions
Eat while hot: Golden Sand Pumpkin tastes delicious. The taste is the best just after it is out of the pot. The outer skin is more crispy and the fragrance of salted egg yolks is strong, and the eating taste is better.
Eat in moderation: Although Golden Sand Pumpkin tastes very good, be careful not to eat too much. Otherwise, it may increase the burden on the human gastrointestinal tract and cause discomfort symptoms such as abdominal pain and diarrhea in the human body.
People with special needs should eat with caution: Pumpkin contains a certain amount of sugar. Diabetics should eat it in moderation. At the same time, people who are allergic to pumpkin or salted egg yolks should avoid eating this dish.
FAQs:
To avoid this situation, steam the pumpkin strictly according to the time in the steps. You can poke the pumpkin with chopsticks. If it can be easily inserted, it means it is steamed well.
Therefore, try to keep the pumpkin strips evenly cut when cutting. The width can be controlled at about 1 - 1.5 centimeters to ensure that each pumpkin strip is heated evenly during the cooking process.
Steam the salted egg yolks for 10 - 15 minutes until they are completely cooked. You can judge by observing the color and texture of the egg yolks. The cooked salted egg yolks will become darker in color and the texture will be tighter.
You can use a thermometer to accurately measure the oil temperature. The oil temperature of 60% hot is about 160 degrees Celsius. You can also insert chopsticks into the oil. If there are small bubbles around the chopsticks, it means the oil temperature is appropriate.
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