Homemade Chinese Wheat Gluten Mian Jin 自製麵筋
I'm very pleased to report that making your own Homemade Chinese Wheat Gluten Mian Jin or 自製麵筋 is actually much easier than I thought it was going to be, very tasty and you can make all kinds of mouth watering Chinese 'mock' meat vegetarian dishes with it. Definitely a must have skill in your repertoire if you are wanting to go for Vegetarian Domestic Goddess!
- Prep time
- 30 min
- Cook time
- 6 min
- Yield
- 24 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 3 1/2 cups all purpose flour, 454g
- 1 1/8 cup lukewarm water
Instructions
- 1
Mix flour and water together in bowl. Stir and knead until a rough mass of dough comes together.
- 2
Cover bowl with a kitchen towel and let dough rest for 10 mins.
- 3
Knead 10 times and then cover and rest dough for another 10 mins.
- 4
Knead dough again, it should be quite smooth and elastic this time.
- 5
Now cover and let rest for 1 hour.
- 6
Place bowl in sink and fill to cover dough with room temp water. Knead and squish the dough in the water in the bowl until the water turns milky white. Dump water out and refill with fresh water.
- 7
Repeat until the water no longer turns milky white but is only slightly cloudy. The mass left in your bowl, the wheat gluten, will be a tan color with a springy elastic texture and should clump together in one lump.
- 8
If you want at this point to keep the washed main jin for another day, submerge in cool water and keep in the fridge, changing the water everyday.
- 9
Heat a pot of water.
- 10
Tear and twist apart the wheat gluten mian jin into approx 24 pieces, placing each piece onto a plate without touching.
- 11
Take one mian jin in your fingers, stretch it and drop immediately into the water. Boil for 5-6 mins at high heat or until expanded and floating on top of water.
- 12
Remove, drain and the wheat gluten mian jin is ready for braising or stir frying.