sichuan pepper powder
Product Description
The first time I came into contact with Sichuan pepper powder was when making dumplings, and they must be meat filled dumplings.
My mother always said that meat filled dumplings need to be mixed with Sichuan pepper powder to taste good. When I was young, I never understood why meat filled dumplings were paired with Sichuan pepper powder. And the Sichuan pepper powder she bought is not fine enough. Now, looking at it with a professional eye, it's just crushed Sichuan pepper.
Adding Sichuan pepper powder to meat filling has the core function of removing fishy smell, enhancing aroma, relieving greasiness, and improving taste, while also enriching the taste hierarchy. It is a classic combination of Chinese meat filling seasoning, and the specific reasons can be divided into the following points:
1. Remove the fishy smell and cover up the odor. Pork, beef, lamb and other meat fillings themselves may have a certain fishy smell (such as the bloody smell of pork and the gamey smell of lamb). The volatile oils (such as limonene and Sichuan peppercorn extract) contained in Sichuan pepper powder have a strong aromatic aroma, which can effectively neutralize the fishy taste of meat and make the meat filling taste cleaner.
2. Enhance aroma and flavor, enrich taste. The aroma of Sichuan pepper powder belongs to the spicy category, with a slight tingling sensation, which can add a unique flavor layer to the meat filling. It is not as thick as the aroma of anise and cinnamon, but fresh and stimulating, so that the meat filling is not monotonous. Whether it is made into dumplings, steamed buns or Rice-meat dumplings, the taste will be more memorable.
3. Relieve greasiness and stimulate appetite. Meat filling usually contains a certain amount of fat, and eating too much can easily lead to greasiness. The pungent and numbing sensation of Sichuan pepper powder can stimulate the taste buds, relieve greasiness, and indirectly promote saliva and gastric juice secretion, helping digestion and making meat filled foods more appetizing.
4. Balanced flavor, suitable for various cooking methods. Sichuan pepper powder has strong compatibility in taste and can be paired with basic seasonings such as scallions and ginger, as well as compound seasonings such as soy sauce, oyster sauce, and five spice powder. For example, when making spicy meat dumplings, pepper flavor Rice-meat dumplings, soy sauce meat dumplings, add a little pepper powder to make the flavor more prominent.
Tip: Sichuan pepper powder can be divided into Sichuan pepper powder and blue and white pepper powder. Red pepper powder has a stronger aroma and a mellow numbing taste, making it suitable for regular meat filling; Green pepper powder has a more fresh and cool taste, and is suitable for making meat fillings with rattan pepper flavor (such as rattan pepper stuffed buns, rattan pepper Rice-meat dumplings).
