How to Make Old Beijing Noodle Tea

How to make Old Beijing Noodle Tea

Old Beijing Noodle Tea

Raw materials: 100g millet or millet noodles, 10g cooked sesame seeds, 10 peppercorns, salt, 5g ginger powder, 30g sesame paste, sesame oil

How to make Old Beijing Noodle Tea and the steps to do it

1

Peppercorns and salt put into a pot, dry-roasted out of the flavor, take out the rolling pin to roll out; cooked sesame seeds with a rolling pin to roll out, with pepper and salt and ginger powder together with the mix to be used; if the sesame paste is relatively thin can be used directly, if dry, to the appropriate amount of sesame oil is hot, pour into the sesame paste and stir well; millet flour + water, adjusted to a thin paste; pot of water, bring to a boil, pour in the adjusted millet flour paste;

2

Boiling again, turn the heat to a low flame, and cook for about 15 minutes. After boiling again, turn down the heat and cook for about 15 minutes, stirring constantly; cook until the consistency you like, turn off the heat; put it into a bowl, pour a layer of sesame sauce on the surface, and then sprinkle sesame pretzels, and start eating.

3

Noodle tea is a traditional Han Chinese snack from old Beijing. Noodle tea is not tea soup, is corn flour or millet flour cooked into a paste, the surface of the sesame paste, sesame paste should be lifted up and pulled into a silky circle poured on the noodle tea.

4

The flavor is another thing, the way to drink it. Old Beijing preaching drinking noodle tea without a spoon without chopsticks, but to take the bowl in one hand, the first mouth together, close to the edge of the bowl, turning in a circle to drink, noodle tea is very hot, in fact, with the suction is more appropriate. Bowl of noodle tea and sesame sauce together to the edge of the bowl and then into the mouth, each mouthful is both sesame sauce and noodle tea, to be this feeling, this flavor.

5

In the past, noodle tea was usually sold in the afternoon and eaten in the afternoon: "hot noodle tea in the afternoon when you wake up from a dream, dry ginger and sesame sauce must be added". Today do not have to be subject to time constraints, when you want to eat, can be hot to a bowl, I think, on the contrary, the morning is more suitable for eating.

6

Noodle tea is very easy to do, and it is very easy to prepare the material in advance, the next morning directly boil millet noodles, a moment to eat hot noodle tea, as a winter breakfast, comfort!