Dare to cook

Chapter 45 Learning to be a Lion Head

Among the many cuisines in China, Huaiyang cuisine is undoubtedly the most exquisite cuisine.

As the best and most expensive Huaiyang restaurant in Shanghai, Lu Yuan's dishes are naturally of good quality.

Lion head with crab powder, pine nuts and barley, squirrel mandarin fish, boiled dried shredded, Pingqiao tofu, Huangqiao sesame cake, three sets of duck...

But Li Xungui ordered all the dishes that Lu Yuan sold well.

Nearly twenty dishes were packed to the table, which looked very rich.

"Everyone has worked hard in today's scene. Come on, let me toast to everyone."

After the dishes were served, Li Xungui toasted.

Li Xungui ordered this big table, firstly with the intention of rewarding everyone, secondly, it can be regarded as a practice for Wu Sizhao.

After the filming of this scene, there will be nothing left for Wu Sizhao in the follow-up.

And Wu Sixing had to fly to Singapore in five hours to join another crew.

It took nearly an hour to eat and drink a meal.

After the meal was full, the crew left one after another.

Before leaving, Wu Sizhao and Feng Ziyi exchanged contact information with Yao Yu.

After Li Xungui and the crew left, Yao Yu also came to Lu Yuan's back kitchen.

In the back kitchen, Lu Yuan's chef was already busy preparing the evening dishes.

The business area of ​​Luyuan is five times that of Renhe Pavilion.

Correspondingly, the back kitchen staff of Lu Garden is much more than that of Renhe Pavilion.

In the back kitchen of Lu Yuan, which covers an area of ​​more than [-] square meters, all kinds of kitchen stoves, kitchen utensils, cutting boards, and chopping boards are neatly stacked.

As soon as Yao Yu entered the back kitchen, he saw a dozen cooks lined up, chopping meat and vegetables standing by the cutting board.

With that posture, at first glance, he thought he had come to New Oriental.

Going further in, on the right side, there are the roast meat room, pastry room, food refrigeration room and freezer room of Lu Yuan's back kitchen.

At this time, Lu Tao was instructing the apprentices to make roast recipes in the roasting room.

Roasted Fang is a famous Yangzhou traditional dish, which is improved from barbecued pork.

The "Fang" in Roast Fang refers to a large piece of pork that is cut neatly and squarely.

As for the specific method of baking, it is very complicated to say.

To sum up, there are roughly four main points:

First, the selected pork must be a whole piece with skin. After cutting with a knife, the length of each piece of roasted square must be 30 cm and the width must be 20 cm.

Second, the charcoal fire for grilling must be bamboo charcoal. If other charcoal is used, the taste will be wrong.

Third, when using a steel fork to grill the grill, use a brush made of steel needles to poke air holes on the skin.In this way, the heat of the charcoal grill can fully penetrate into the interior of the barbecue.

Fourth, and the most troublesome point.That is to always pay attention to the temperature.Every one or two minutes, you have to turn the roast square so that all sides of the roast square can be heated evenly.

A roast of exceptional quality is baked four times and scraped three times before being sliced ​​and served.

Therefore, it is difficult for a chef without skill and patience to make this dish well.

Yao Yu's appearance caught the attention of Lu Yuan's cooks as no surprise.

"Damn, what is Yao Manzi doing here?"

"Isn't it because you want to discuss with the eldest lady?"

"It shouldn't be possible. Haven't you checked the post on Hailou? Maybe Yao Manzi came to chase Senior Sister Lu."

"Hiss~~~~ Can't you? Go to our back kitchen to chase after the eldest lady? Isn't he afraid of being chopped into a crabmeat lion's head by Master Lu?"

Listening to these discussions, Yao Yu felt nothing but wanted to take Mu Shaoran out and beat him up.

After Lu Tao instructed the apprentices, seeing Yao Yu coming, he walked out of the roasting room and said with a smile, "Is filming in the morning fun?"

Thinking of the scene of being hung up and down by Wia as if shaking his nose... Yao Yu's face froze immediately, and he said with an embarrassed smile: "It's not fun, it's easy to get dizzy, but cooking is more interesting."

Lu Tao chuckled and said:
"I thought you would change careers and become a star. Since you still want to cook, come with me."

While talking, Lu Tao brought Yao Yu to a stove, and asked someone to bring a piece of pork belly over.

Because it is a demonstration teaching, Lu Tao will start from chopping meat, and demonstrate the process of making a lion's head to Yao Yu from the beginning to the end.

Lion head is a very representative famous dish in Chinese cuisine.

In Huaiyang cuisine, there are three kinds of lion heads, which are braised in soy sauce, stewed and steamed.

But no matter which method is used, if you want to make the lion head authentic and delicious, the key lies in two steps: making the filling and filling.

Don't think that making traps is just chopping up the meat.

Many people don't know that lion head is actually a dish that pays attention to knife skills.

Making lion heads is not chopping dumpling stuffing, nor is it making meatballs.If you are making meatballs, you can chop them randomly with a knife Xia Jiba.

But not being a lion head.

The lion head stuffing is cut out with one knife.

First slice the pork with a flat knife, and then cut into cubes with a straight knife.

As the saying goes, roughly cut into shreds, finely cut into cubes, without chopping at all, but trivially chop, until a complete piece of pork is broken down into bean-sized minced meat, the job is not over.

The minced meat cut out by this method can fully preserve the texture of the meat and the adhesion of fibrous tissue.

Only with this kind of meat filling can we make a lion's head with a perfect combination of taste and appearance.

Yao Yu came to ask Lu Tao how to make lion heads today, mainly to learn the knife skills when cutting lion heads.

When Lu Tao showed him the saber technique, Yao Yu used the system skill [A Hole Like a Candle].

The skill effect of [Penetration Like Candlelight] is - you can observe and analyze other people's cooking techniques, and perfectly master the dishes that others are good at.

After activating this skill, the world in Yao Yu's eyes completely changed.

He's like having a supercomputer in his head,

Not only can you see every minute change in the ingredients, but you can also accurately calculate the angle and strength of each cut by Lu Tao.

After a while, Lu Tao cut the minced meat.

Then it's time to subside.

When adjusting the sink, use scallion and ginger water, that is, warm water soaked with scallions and ginger slices.

Then add cooking wine, salt and a little pepper and stir.

Note that when stirring the meat stuffing, it should be stirred in one direction, so that the taste of the meat stuffing is strong.In the jargon, it means working hard.

In fact, it's not just about being a lion's head.

That is, when making dumplings, making meatballs, fish balls, fish paste and various dim sum fillings, the direction of stirring is always in one direction.

Like that three circles left and three circles right, the messy mixing method, if the stern chef sees it, he will definitely be scolded bloody.

After the meat filling is adjusted, you have to cut some water chestnuts and mix them with the meat filling.

Lu Tao taught Yao Yu to make lion head with crab powder, so he added some shrimp meat and crab powder to it.

After the filling is prepared, the remaining steps are to roll the meat into a ball, fry it in a pan, remove the oil and cool it, then add the prepared stock and simmer for one to two hours.

Of course, whether it is rounding or frying, every subsequent process is also very particular.

However, Yao Yu has already learned those key points from his grandfather's recipes, so there is no need to list them in detail at this time.

It took Lu Tao a total of twelve minutes from chopping to stewing in broth.

He demonstrated the teaching once, and asked Yao Yu: "Have you remembered all the tips I just described?"

Yao Yu nodded: "I remember."

"Remember everything?"

"I remember it all."

When Lu Tao heard this, he was a little surprised, but also a little unbelievable.He said: "Then you can do it again and show me."

(End of this chapter)