Niu Rou Bing (Crispy Beef Pastry)
Dozens of layers of crispy fabric! Golden saucer filled with spicy beef
Description
A famous street food generating massive lines in Xi'an's Muslim Quarter (Huimin Jie). Wheat dough folded with oil into dozens of layers, wrapped around a spicy filling of beef and scallions seasoned with Sichuan pepper and Five-Spice. Shallow-fried on a griddle into a 'golden meat pie'.
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Wheat flour
- Minced beef
- Scallion
- Sichuan pepper powder
- Five-Spice
- Veg oil(or Beef fat)
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe]
- (Dough) Knead flour, water, and oil into a soft dough. Coat with oil (or beef fat) and rest for hours.
- Stretch the dough into a massive, paper-thin, translucent rectangle.
- (Filling) Knead minced beef with salt, soy, sesame oil, Sichuan pepper powder, Five-Spice (Shi San Xiang), and massive 'chopped scallions'.
- Place the beef filling at one end of the ultra-thin dough.
- [The Layering Pro Skill]: Using the filling as a core, tightly roll the paper-thin dough into a long cylinder (trapping oil between every layer).
- Coil this long cylinder into a 'snail shell' spiral, then smash it flat with your palm into a 'disc'.
- Shallow-fry in generous oil on a griddle until both sides are beautiful golden brown, and the pastry shatters into dozens of flaky layers.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Complex Five-Spice aroma and refreshing Sichuan pepper sting、花椒の爽やかな刺激
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
(Wrap spicy minced beef in frozen puff pastry and bake)
Pairing
Soy Milk / Sour Plum Drink
Trivia
[Trivia] Chinese Muslims (Hui) possess genius-level skills in handling wheat flour. This technique of 'rolling oil into dozens of layers to bake flaky pastry (Su)' is the ultimate weapon of Silk Road street food.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Handed over in a paper bag, bitten into while piping hot. The outside crumbles 'CRACK! CRUNCH!' like a flaky pie. Inside, boiling meat juices—a perfect fusion of scallion aroma and beef fat—gush out.
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