Today's recipe is vinegar-flavored peanuts. You can buy raw peanuts in shells or raw peanut kernels without seasoning, which will save you a lot of time. Since the recipe uses a lot of Chinese black rice vinegar (Zhenjiang or Chinkiang), please eat this dish as soon as possible and try not to leave it until the next day. The color of ingredients soaked in black rice vinegar for a long time will become stale. This dish can be served as an appetizer on the table or as a dish to drink.
Prepare the sauce. Add black vinegar, soy sauce, oyster sauce, salt and sugar. Mix well. Set aside.
35 ml Zhenjiang black vinegar, 10 ml light soy sauce , 10 ml oyster sauce, 4 ml salt, 10 ml sugar
Fill your wok about 1/3 full with oil and heat it to 90°C (194º F). Reduce the heat to low and add the peanuts, stirring several times to allow the peanuts to be evenly heated.
400 g raw peanuts
After the peanut kernels float on the surface of the oil, continue to fry them on low heat for 4 minutes. When the surface of the peanut kernels turns yellow, remove them and drain the oil into a heat-safe container.
Add the fried peanuts, onions, and cucumbers into the sauce and mix well.
100 g red onion, 100 g cucumber, 400 g raw peanuts
Transfer to bowl and serve.
Notes
I think everyone's stovetop heat varies, so if you use the cooking time marked in the recipe and it doesn't work, let me tell you a little trick. When frying the peanuts, drain them when you see the surface of the peanuts is yellow. The retained heat in the peanuts will make them to continue to cook and darken after removing them from the oil. If you fry the peanuts to a darker color in the oil, the peanuts will become very dark while you perform the other steps.