In the process of cooking, how are starch, cornstarch, and sweet potato powder used?

Hello everyone, welcome to my food Q&A. I am a creator in the field of food: "Focus on food and make life more flavorful." In the process of cooking, starch, cornstarch, and sweet potato powder How to use each one?

Chinese cuisine has endless variations, rich raw materials, numerous seasonings, various cooking techniques, exquisite heat, etc., which brings a lot of fun to our lives and countless pleasures to our taste buds. Today we will talk about cornstarch, starch, and sweet potato powder at the request of the subject. It can be said that it is difficult to distinguish them in our daily life, because they are all in white powder form and difficult to identify with the naked eye. And starch is a general term. Starch includes mung bean flour, potato flour, sweet potato flour, pea flour, water chestnut flour, etc., which can all be called starch. In fact, cornstarch and starch refer to the same type of cooking condiments, but they are called differently in different regions. But there is a difference between sweet potato powder. It is easy to understand literally, it is a white powder made from sweet potatoes.

Nowadays, Cantonese cuisine is active in most hotels. If you pay attention, you will find that cornstarch usually appears in Cantonese cuisine, mainly used for sizing and thickening. Generally made of potato starch, it can increase the tenderness of food, soften meat, and make ingredients float and become translucent. The starch commonly used in Sichuan cuisine is made from sweet potatoes and is called sweet potato starch. The starch commonly used in Shandong cuisine is made from corn and is called corn starch. In terms of materials, there is a slight difference between corn starch and starch. For example, corn starch is usually potato starch or corn starch. But there are many starches, usually sweet potato starch, kudzu starch, tapioca starch, pea starch, etc. Cornstarch is mainly used for thickening, sizing and battering. But starch can also be used to make food. For example, the taro balls we often eat now are made from cassava flour. Cassava flour is the main raw material and is indispensable. There are also jelly made from pea flour and so on.

Next let’s talk about sweet potato powder. As the name suggests, sweet potato powder is made from sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes. It is widely used in our Fujian area. It can be used for sizing, thickening, and To make some Chinese snacks, my family likes to knead sweet potato powder and steamed sweet potatoes together to form a dough, then roll some into a round and stuff the middle with eight-treasure sweets to make sweet potato balls, an authentic snack. It can also be kneaded with taro paste to make snacks. Sweet potato powder is also outstanding in frying, usually showing a crispy texture, and the frying effect is better than other starches.

Then let’s talk about their respective uses in more detail: Corn starch: It is the most widely used in daily cooking. The ingredients are crispy after being wrapped and fried, and can be stir-fried, vinegared, fried, etc. In cooking techniques, corn starch is suitable for the tender parts of chicken, duck, goose, pork, mutton, and seafood. Tapioca starch: Due to its unique properties, it is very popular in Chinese snacks and can be used to make taro balls, pudding, sago, etc. It becomes transparent after being cooked with heat, has no taste, and has a chewy texture. Sweet potato powder is versatile and can be used in various ways. It can be used for sizing and making snacks. The most famous snack in Fuzhou is meat swallow, whose skin is made from sweet potato powder and meat. After the sweet potato powder is coated in the ingredients and fried, the skin will be crispy but a little black, but when it is simmered, it will not become rotten after being cooked for a long time, and the skin will be chewy and delicious.

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