I am Qinxing No.1

Chapter 558 Why do you need to steam nine times?

There is a kind of high-quality jade that will show ice cracks, which seem to be irregular, but in fact, it is the uncanny workmanship of nature, which can make people addicted to it. At this moment, these lotus root segments soaked in ice water are under the principle of thermal expansion and cold contraction , showing such a beautiful texture.

The meat of Tianxiangxueshi is clear and transparent, without the turbidity of ordinary lotus root, and as the lotus root meat gradually cracks, a faint fragrance just diffuses through the ice water, somewhat like the taste of bamboo shoots, but more fragrant than bamboo shoots. It is obviously a little more euphemistic, a bit like the taste of lotus seeds, but it lacks a touch of bitterness and a little more sweetness.
In order to highlight the natural taste of ingredients, it is a common method for chefs to change them with various knife skills, but it is really rare for Zhou Dong to use physical principles. Mathematics, physics and chemistry, even if you are a chef, you will not suffer.

Moreover, the real purpose of Zhou Dong's operation should be on the eggplant sticks embedded in the lotus root meat, that is, the semi-finished eggplant; Most of the lotus root fragrance is locked, and it turns into a series of cold fragrances and slowly penetrates into the depths of the eggplant strips.

Neither the eggplants recorded in "Dream of Red Mansions" nor many chefs who studied this dish in later generations really focused on the eggplants themselves. Instead, the "chicken melon seeds" with various auxiliary ingredients and dried fruits became the protagonist. This is obvious. If he has fallen into the evil way, what Zhou Dong did is the real way to set things right and clear the root cause!
It seems that Zhou Dong's eggplant dish will not disappoint.

"Wu Gong, is the chicken soup hot enough? It needs to be three minutes hot. You should test the temperature before giving it to me."

While Zhou Dong was talking, he gently took out the lotus root segments from the basin, put them on the ice cubes he had prepared earlier, and continued to cool them down.

It is now close to early summer. The kitchen in this season will not turn on the air conditioner. At most, it will only turn on the exhaust fan. Will go away quickly.

The most difficult part of making soup is to watch the fire, and the second is to know when to stop the fire according to the different utensils used.

Cease the fire by observing the color of the fire?If you encounter utensils such as yellow clay pots, most of them will boil into a pot of old soup, and then this pot of soup will be completely ruined.

This is not the old soup for stewed vegetables, nor the broth for stir-fried vegetables, and it is different from the old fire porridge.

Chicken soup is the most particular about 'soup clear meat, but not lost',
That is to say, a pot of qualified chicken soup should not be boiled for too long or too short. While ensuring the taste, it is also necessary to ensure that the soup is clear and tender meat slightly melts in the soup. It looks like a clear soup, but it is thick and mellow , but it must not be boiled into a pot of soup!

When Takemiya Masada removed the fire, the chicken soup in the red clay soup pot was actually half-drained, just to use the remaining heat of the soup pot to continue to simmer slowly to fill up the heat. Hearing Zhou Dong's call at this time, he hurriedly glanced at the color of the soup , and hugged the soup can in front of Zhou Dong.

"Well, it's just three points of heat left, and the heat is well controlled."

Zhou Dong scooped up a spoonful of chicken soup and looked at it. He saw that the soup was clear and not cloudy at all. Even the thick layer of butter on the soup surface had been cleaned up by Takemiya Masada.Nodding slightly, he slowly poured the spoonful of chicken soup back into the red clay pot, and saw that the seemingly clear chicken soup was pulled out with silk threads, which was the performance of the tender meat of the chicken body being perfectly integrated into the soup after a long period of cooking !
Couldn't help but praised Takemiya Masada, Takemiya Masada was overjoyed immediately, as happy as a child who got a little red flower, he glanced at Shi Buyu triumphantly.

After Zhou Dong put the lotus root segments embedded with eggplant strips into the chicken soup that was only three minutes hot, the "ice cracks" on the lotus root meat slowly opened up, forming a series of extremely strange and beautiful pictures that never repeat themselves. While the eggplant strips are soaking up the chicken soup, the just-cooked chicken soup also begins to slowly melt into the lotus root meat along the cracks in the ice.

At this time, Zhou Dong put the red clay pot back on the stove, raised the temperature with a low fire, and at the same time increased the firepower by one layer every half minute or so.

"An excellent chef should understand the principle of mutual growth of ingredients. Lotus root and eggplant are good alone. Once they are combined with broth, the taste will be even more delicious. However, many chefs only know that these two ingredients can be combined with thick taste, but they don't Which one should be the leader after knowing the combination?

Chicken soup is the freshest, and it can still taste delicious. Often, once other ingredients are combined with chicken soup, it will be overwhelmed and lose the status of the main dish. However, the name of this dish is 'Eggplant'. The main seat, even if the taste is not bad, it is still a failure. "

Chef Hu smiled and glanced at the slowly heating up chicken soup in the soup pot and the lotus root segments that were gently turning in the chicken soup, and commented with a smile: "First use the principle of thermal expansion and contraction to make Tianxiangxueshi produce ice cracks, which is equivalent to In the original veins of lotus root, several times of "meridians" have been born, which not only makes it easier to taste, but also brings out the unique taste of this different kind of lotus root.

The taste of eggplant is medium, and there is almost no trace, so it can be used with various materials, and it can also be used with various meat materials such as sheep, cattle, pigs, and chickens. However, if it is directly thrown into the soup, the eggplant meat will not be firm enough. It is easy to cause loosening, not only loses the taste, but also loses the texture”

"Brother Hu is so right, that's why the method recorded in "Dream of Red Mansions" is 'steaming nine times and drying nine times'. Finally, the eggplant meat must be dried into hard and brittle strips. This solves the problem There is a problem that the eggplant meat will be loose, but if it is steamed and dried in this way, all the deliciousness will be lost. No wonder the chefs of later generations fiddled with it, and the eggplant meat they made would not be delicious. Rely on the chicken and melon seeds to restore some of the taste.”

Shi Buyu shook his head and said: "Let me just say, the teacher who can be recognized by me is our diligent god! Look at how clever my master's method is. Not only does it add a layer of fragrance of lotus root to the eggplant, it also thoroughly Solved the problem that eggplants might become loose when put into the soup.

Master, if I'm not wrong, the eggplants you make don't need to be dried into hard bars, right? "

"You are smart."

Zhou Dong smiled slightly: "It's so troublesome to dry it into hard bars. Do you have to put it in a jar and bury it in the ground, and then take it out and steam it when you eat it? Not to mention that the taste may not be good, even if it is good, it will lose the freshness and taste." Nutrition.

Old Stone, I will leave it to you to watch the fire later. Increase the firepower by a layer every half minute, wait until the firepower is 10% and cook for ten seconds, cover and simmer for [-] minutes, take out the lotus root segment, and take out the inside Whole eggplant strips, diced lotus root for later use. "

"okay!"

Shi Buyu took over the job of watching the fire with a smile. With his status in Huaxia Qinxing, if other chefs dared to let him watch the fire, he might be beaten to death, but this was what Zhou Dong ordered. Any dissatisfaction, on the contrary, can't be happy, I just feel that I have won another match against that old guy Masada Takemiya.
(End of this chapter)