Main Ingredients:
Chinese chives: as needed; Eggs: 4; All-purpose flour: as needed; Yeast: as needed.
Additional Ingredients:
Salt: as needed; Oil: as needed; Water: as needed.
Taste: Savory; Cooking Method: Other; Time: Several hours; Difficulty: Moderate.
Detailed Steps for Cooking Chinese Chive Box with Egg and Fermented Dough
Use an appropriate amount of flour, dissolve yeast in warm water, slowly pour into the flour, stir with chopsticks until the flour and yeast water form lumps without loose powder, then knead the flour into dough.
Place the kneaded dough in a rice cooker, cover and let it ferment. In hot weather, it usually takes about 2 hours for the dough to ferment to twice its original size. While waiting for the dough to ferment, go to the market and buy some Chinese chives.
The dough needs 2 hours to ferment. After buying and cleaning the Chinese chives, try to dry them as much as possible.
Chop the cleaned and dried Chinese chives, add some peanut oil to prevent the chives from releasing water.
Beat 4 eggs, fry and chop them into small pieces.
Add the beaten eggs to the chives with oil, and add some salt. If salt is added first, it may release the water from the chives, causing the filling to fall apart when wrapping, so oil should be added first to seal the moisture in the chives.
Fermented dough.
Knead the fermented dough on a cutting board to remove air, then divide it into equal portions and cut into small pieces.
Take one piece and roll it out thinly with a rolling pin.
Place the well-mixed chive and egg filling on the dough.
Wrap the chive box tightly, pinch the edges, heat a little oil in a pan, place the chive and egg box in, cover and cook over low heat until both sides are golden brown.
The cooked Chinese Chive Box with Egg and Fermented Dough. Crispy crust with the fresh aroma of chives.
The crispy crust paired with the fresh aroma of chives.
