Why do frosted peanuts taste bitter? What should I do if frosted peanuts taste bitter?

As we all know, peanuts are a common food, and there are many ways to eat them. Frosted peanuts are a popular home-cooked dish. They taste good and are very delicious. Many people make frosted peanuts at home. So why are frosted peanuts bitter? Let's take a closer look!

Why do frosted peanuts taste bitter?

The reasons and solutions for making frosted peanuts bitter are as follows:

1. The peanuts you choose have gone bad and rotted, making the frosted peanuts bitter. It is not easy to see the condition of the frosted peanuts. You often find that the peanuts are rotten when you bite them and find the bitterness. This is often the case with the frosted peanuts you buy. To avoid this, it is best to make frosted peanuts yourself and be sure to choose good quality peanuts.

2. Failure to control the heat when frying peanuts will cause the peanuts to become mushy and bitter. When frying peanuts, keep the heat low and stir-fry slowly and patiently until the peanut skins break when you pinch them and have a peanut aroma, then scoop them out. If you are still worried about not frying well, you can use more salt and fry the peanuts on low heat, which will make it less likely to become mushy.

3. When boiling sugar syrup, the fire is too high, which makes the sugar syrup partially caramelized and bitter. When boiling sugar syrup for frosting, be sure to use the lowest fire.

How to make frosted peanuts

Ingredients: 500g peanuts, 200g white sugar

Accessories: half a bowl of water, two tablespoons of starch

Production steps:

① Pick out the peanuts to remove the bad and worm-eaten ones, rinse them and put them into a wok without adding oil. Rinse the peanuts on low heat until they are dry and fragrant, then take them out and spread them out to cool down. Then put the starch into the wok and fry them on low heat until cooked, take them out and let them cool for later use;

② After washing the wok, add sugar and water, and heat over low heat until the sugar particles are completely dissolved. Continue to heat over low heat until white, dense bubbles as big as fish eyes appear in the sugar liquid in the pot.

③When the bubbles described above appear, immediately put the fried peanuts in, stir-fry quickly until the peanuts are evenly coated with sugar liquid, keep stir-frying on low heat until the water is almost completely gone, and sprinkle in the starch we fried in advance;

④Finally, stir-fry evenly until the residual moisture almost disappears. Then you can serve and let cool. The delicious frosted peanuts are ready.

Tips for making frosted peanuts

1. It is recommended to use red-skinned peanuts. The snow-white icing attached to the red peanut skin will bring a stronger visual effect.

2. Peanuts are very easily contaminated by Aspergillus flavus, which is a very dangerous substance. Therefore, you must choose high-quality peanuts with full grains and no mold spots or discoloration.

3. Granulated sugar is the best choice. It is much easier to use than granulated sugar and rock sugar. Granulated sugar caramelizes too quickly, and rock sugar takes more effort to dissolve.

4. When making frosted peanuts, basically do it on low heat throughout the process, so that the tolerance for error is slightly higher. Otherwise, once the sugar liquid is overheated, it will become "candied peanuts".