The cool shrimp is mainly cooked with rice pulp, and then leaked into the cold water basin with a spoon. Because the head and tail are like shrimps, it's named.
The preparation method and formula of cool shrimp
(1) First, clean the rice, soak it in water for 30 minutes, grind it into rice paste and put it into the basin. No grinding, no harm. Instead of blender, mix glutinous rice flour with cold water to make it paste. It can't be too dry. [1]
(2) Pour clear water into the pot, bring it to a boil over high heat, pour rice paste into the pot slowly, stir with a spoon while pouring, to prevent the pot from being pasted. After ripening, add clear lime water and cook it to paste with low heat. Put the cold boiled water in the basin, add the rice paste into the spoon slowly while it is hot, and then fall into the cold water to become the rice shrimp. [1]
(3) Cook over low heat.
(4) Drain the cooked prawns and put them in the cold boiled water with brown sugar. The ice can be eaten.
This is the easiest way.
The authentic way of the street is to mix glutinous rice flour with clear lime water, and add some rice flour, so that the taste is more refreshing. Why? To make cool shrimps, a certain amount of lime water must be used. Since ancient times, Yichang has produced a unique limestone. This kind of cool shrimps made of limestone is called cool shrimps, so it can be made in Yichang (Yiling).
When you make it at home, sprinkle some red and green preserves, fried sesame seeds, peanut seeds, or use fruit treasure instead of brown sugar water, it will be more delicious. Some people use black rice or corn, very creative!
It is made by boiling rice pulp and leaking it into a cold water basin. Because the head and tail are like shrimps, it's named. It's a good summer thirst quencher with brown sugar water. It's sweet, soft and tender. It's cold in the mouth.
How to make a cool shrimp to chew
Cool shrimp will be more chewy when it's cold. Let's take a look at the practice of cool shrimp.
Ingredients: 25g cold cake powder, 250g water, proper amount of brown sugar paste, a little peanut chips
Practice:
1. Pour 50g warm water into the ice cream powder, mix it into a uniform paste, and let it stand for 20-30 minutes. Pour the remaining 200 grams of water into the pot and bring to a boil. Pour half into the paste and mix well
2. Pour it back into the pot and stir well. Put on the fire, boil for 3-5 minutes, leave the fire, stir for a while
3. Pour the ice cream paste into the leaky spoon, and prepare a bowl with cold water under the leaky spoon. The paste of cold cake powder drips into the cold water from the leaky spoon and becomes a tadpole with tail. Take out the tadpole, put it into a bowl, add some red syrup, sprinkle some peanut chips for food
Where is the specialty of cold shrimp
Cool shrimp is a special snack in Yichang, Hubei Province. It's also very common in Sichuan, Chongqing and other places, but it's not common in some other places, so there are still many people who don't understand this kind of food.
Cool shrimp is a very common snack produced in Yichang, Sichuan and Chongqing. It is smooth, waxy, fresh, soft and sweet. It is made by cooking rice pulp and leaking it into a cold water basin. Because the head and tail are like shrimps, it's named after that. Then place brown sugar water. It's a dessert for people to cool down.
It is said that a long time ago, there lived a Peng's mother and son beside the Three Gorges. One winter, snow flying, old mother sick, very want to eat a river shrimp. After hearing this, my son braved the cold to come to the river and wanted to fish shrimp for his mother. Only when he got to the river did he find that the river was already frozen. No matter how hard he tried, he could not break the ice. In a hurry, he simply untied his clothes, lying on the ice and melting it with his body. Before long, he passed out. In the dream, an old man with a white beard said to him: don't you want shrimp? I'll teach you & hellip; & hellip; young man to wake up, run home to make shrimp according to the old man's method, and feed mother to drink one mouthful, and mother miraculously wakes up. Later, the method of shrimp production spread among the people, known as "pengguihua cool shrimp" or "Xiaozi cool shrimp".