How to cook famous Chinese meat cakes

Popular recipe

To cook real Chinese flat cakes with meat, it is better to use the original recipe. In this case, you need a special set of products:

• For the test: for 320 grams of flour 200 milliliters of warm water.
• For the filling: 800 grams of minced meat, 4 cloves of garlic, 35 grams of olive oil, 4 tablespoons of soy sauce, a few feathers of green onions, salt, a tablespoon of grated ginger root, black pepper and 35-40 grams of any vodka.
• For lubrication: 2 tablespoons butter.

When all the products are assembled, you can start cooking Chinese meat cakes.

The whole process can be divided into four stages:

1. First you need to knead the dough, and then roll it into a ball, wrap it with a film and leave it alone for a while.
2. To prepare the filling, chop the onion arbitrarily, and chop the garlic and ginger on a fine grater. After that, all the ingredients must be mixed. Salt and ground pepper are added to taste.
3. Now you can proceed directly to the formation of blanks (will be described below). From the prepared dough, 8 cakes are obtained.
4. Fry semi-finished products in a pan (without oil) for 4 minutes on each side, always under the lid.

Usually finished cakes are usually folded in a pile, smearing each of them with butter.

Molding secret

In order to make Chinese flat cakes with meat, you need to master a special technique for their molding. The work is carried out in stages:

1. First, the dough must be divided into parts. From each piece one puff cake is obtained.
2. Roll out a single dough piece in the form of a thin round layer with a diameter of about 20 centimeters. This is the most optimal size for easy molding.
3. Gently distribute the prepared filling on the circle from the dough, leaving ¼ part of it free.
4. Use a sharp knife to make an incision in the form of a radius (from the center to the edge).
5. Wrap a free piece of dough, covering them with a third of the filling.
6. Lay the same part again so that only half remains from the tortilla. At the same time, one section still remains undisguised.
7. Fold the blank in half and fasten the edges with your fingers.

It should be a neat triangle. In size, it will make up ¼ of the round dough piece. This is exactly what the Chinese chefs do their famous flatbread.

Simplified version

The composition of the filling can be simplified as much as possible. But even in this case, you get Chinese tortillas with meat incredibly tasty, juicy and very beautiful. For work, you can use the following set of products:

• For the test: 450 grams of flour and 5 grams of salt per glass of water.

• For the filling: 0.8 kilograms of any minced meat, 5 grams of salt, a large onion, a third of a teaspoon of special seasonings (for chicken), 3 cloves of garlic and a little greens.

The technology for making cakes remains almost the same:

1. Sift flour and pour it on the table with a slide.
2. Dilute the salt in warm water.
3. In the flour, make a deepening and pour the prepared solution there.
4. Knead an elastic dough that will not stick to your hands.
5. Wrap it with cling film and let it lie down at room temperature.
6. For the filling, first chop the onion with garlic in a meat grinder.
7. After that, collect all the ingredients in one container and mix them well.
8. Divide the ripened dough into pieces and form blanks in the traditional way described above. Semi-finished products need to be done gradually, since over time they begin to spread.
9. Fry under the lid on both sides for 4 minutes on low heat until golden brown.
10. Fold the finished cakes on top of each other, grease them with oil and wait until they are saturated. To speed up this process, items can be microwaved briefly.

Serve to the table such cakes are still warm. If desired, add sour cream to the plate.

With meat and dried mushrooms

There is another recipe for Chinese tortillas with meat and dried Muer mushrooms. For this option, a non-standard set of components is used:

• For the test: 2.5 cups of flour - 150 milliliters of water and 1 egg.

• For the filling: 2 packs of dried Muer mushrooms, a couple of cloves of garlic, 2 tablespoons of rice vinegar and soy sauce (one for mushrooms), ½ head of onion, as well as 200 grams of minced meat, 30 grams of starch, salt and half a glass of water.

Method of making cakes:

1. Sift flour directly into a deep bowl with a slide and make a “funnel” in the center with your hands.
2. Break the egg into a glass, add salt and fill it to the top with water.
3. Knock the mixture into the "funnel" and stir with a fork, making a circular motion.
4. Roll the dough into a lump and cover it with a film. Leave the semi-finished product in the refrigerator overnight so that the gluten swells well. But before work, you will need to first pull his hands a little. This will help the mass warm up.
5. For the filling, first you need to fill the mushrooms with warm water and leave them for 3 hours.
6. Finely chopped prepared product with a knife.
7. Chop the onion and lightly pass the pan.
8. Add the mushrooms and warm them together for just a few minutes.
9. Pour liquid ingredients (vinegar, water, sauce) and simmer for half an hour under the lid.
10. Add minced meat to a slightly cooled mass and mix.
11. For molding, the square method is used. In this case, the dough should be rolled out in the form of a rectangle.
12. Make 4 cuts on it on 1/3 of the length on opposite sides.
13. Get 9 conditional squares. Eight of them fill with filling, and one leave.
14. Then wrap the loose piece in the middle.
15. Cover it with a counter square.
16. Turn the assembled stack to the right and lay it in the middle zone.
17. Repeat the steps until the workpiece turns into a single layered square.
18. Roll it out with a rolling pin.
19. Fry on both sides in a completely dry pan.

Because of the mushrooms, such a tortilla will have a pleasant slightly smoked aroma. Before use, if desired, it can be divided into smaller pieces using a round pizza knife.

With the addition of cabbage

There is a variety of cakes that are made from custard dough. In this case, a different molding method is used. Some people like to add cabbage to Chinese meat cakes. The photo clearly demonstrates the appearance of the finished product. Here, to work, you need a different set of components:

• For the test: 320 grams of flour, a glass of boiling water, 10 grams of salt and 17 grams of vegetable oil.
• For the filling: 300 grams of minced pork, onion, 400 grams of cabbage (Peking or white), a bunch of green onions, 4 grams of sugar, a tablespoon of soy and oyster sauce, 3 cloves of garlic, 2 tablespoons of sesame oil, 60 grams of starch, tea a spoonful of grated ginger and a pinch of Malasian seasoning.

Cooking Technology:

1. Add salt and oil to the sifted flour, and then pour everything with boiling water and mix well. Roll the prepared dough into a ball, cover it with a film and let lie down for 30 minutes.
2. Chop the cabbage, add salt and mash it lightly with your hands. After that, you need to squeeze it. Juice for filling is not needed.
3. Chop the onion and garlic and rub the ginger.
4. Collect all the ingredients of the filling in a deep bowl and mix thoroughly. The mixture should lie in the refrigerator for about an hour.
5. Divide the dough into pieces, and then roll them in the form of circles of small diameter.
6. Put a little stuffing in the middle of each piece.
7. Wrap the edges to the center, and then roll out so that the diameter of the semi-finished product is not more than 7 centimeters.
8. Fry on both sides in oil.

Cakes are obtained in the form of small ruddy "tablets" with a pleasant golden crust.