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How to eat Erba Sauce

Erba Sauce can be used to mix noodles, cold, as a hot pot or shabu-shabu dipping sauce.

Erba Sauce refers to the proportion of sesame sauce, 20% sesame, 80% peanuts, commonly known as Erba Sauce. There are also three seven sauce, etc., the meaning is the same. Because the proportion of peanut butter inside the sauce is large, so that the flavor of peanuts in the sesame sauce is relatively strong. Nowadays, the market is called 50-50 sauce, which means that the ratio of sesame sauce and peanut butter is half and half in that sesame sauce. The two-eighths sauce is a very unique, authentic food in the hutongs of old Beijing,

The production method of the two-eighths sauce: the ratio of peanut butter and sesame seed paste is 2:8, that is, 2 parts of peanut butter and 8 parts of sesame seed paste are mixed well, and then put into the "material water" for mixing. The recipe for the water is to use: aniseed, cinnamon, allspice and cumin, boil in water, boil for a few minutes after boiling. Then wait for the temperature to cool down, and then slowly poured into the above with a good two eight sauce inside, stirring in one direction, until you reach the consistency of their own satisfaction on the line, this method of preparation of sesame paste flavor more fragrant, more delicious.