Dare to cook

Chapter 61 Tofu Feast

Cooking soup is a long and meticulous job.

Chop the chicken breast, first put it into boiling water and blanch the soup aside, then stir fry the onion and ginger in a frying pan, then pour it into the soup pot, add water, ham, and bring to a boil.

After the water boils, turn the heat to a simmer.

Generally speaking, it takes at least two hours for the chicken soup to taste delicious.

Moreover, during this period, it is not enough to keep the lid on and cook.

Because the chicken will ooze a lot of chicken oil during the stewing process.

These chicken fat and froth need to be scooped out with a spoon in time, otherwise the chicken soup will become very greasy.

Even if the oil slick cannot be removed immediately, it is necessary to open the lid every 10 minutes, skim off the scum, and add a small amount of water.

Only when the chicken soup is brewed in this way will the color of the soup not be turbid and the taste can be delicious.

After Yao Yu stewed the chicken soup, he glanced at Hong Shipu who was opposite, and found that he was also stewing soup at this time.

The difference from Yao Yu is that Yao Yu uses chicken and ham to stew the soup, while Hong Shipu uses pork bones and pork tendons to stew the soup.

Moreover, Hong Shipu also soaked at least 50 grams of Cordyceps flowers in water.

"Could it be that this guy wants to make Cordyceps Flower Tofu Soup?"

Cordyceps Soup with Mapo Tofu...

This combination of dishes is not good...

Yao Yu secretly guessed.

Because the mapo tofu has a strong taste, and the combination of Cordyceps flower + pork bone + tofu is also greasy.

If the judges ate these two dishes in a row, they probably wouldn't give a high score.

Of course, Hong Shipu may have another coup.

Yao Yu didn't speculate Hong Shipu's intention too much.He quickly resumed his business.

After the soup is stewed, it is time to refine the red oil.

If mapo tofu is to be delicious, one depends on the quality of the tofu, and the other depends on the quality of red oil.

Refining red oil is a very laborious work.

In the case of all the ingredients are complete, it will take nearly an hour to make it.

Yao Yu has refined this kind of red oil more than once, and has long been familiar with it.

Ingredients, frying ingredients, burning oil, pouring oil...

A complete set of procedures for refining red oil took up one-third of Yao Yu's game time.

But the time spent is worth it.

When Yao Yu successfully refined the red oil, the whole venue was filled with a hot aroma.

In the auditorium, many people couldn't help swallowing when they smelled it.

It feels like sitting in front of a boiling hot pot, but can't eat anything.

The more intense the aroma of the red oil, the higher the quality of the red oil.

It is even rarer for a red oil like Yao Yu's that has just been refined to cover the entire venue with its fragrance.

This level of red oil, in the words of anime fans, is a dish that will shine!

Lu Chenyu, Chu Xinmei, and several judges in the judging booth all showed surprise when they smelled it.

Opposite Yao Yu's stove, Hong Shipu was also alert.

He also understands that high-quality red oil is the key to the success of Mapo Tofu.

The red oil refined by Yao Yu made him feel a sense of crisis.

perhaps……

Maybe the mapo tofu I made is not as good as Yao Yu? ?

As soon as this idea came up, Hong Shipu himself was startled.

He shook his head quickly, throwing the thought away.

After Yao Yu refined the red oil, he scooped out a large bowl from the red oil and put it in ice cubes to cool down.

Things like red oil are best cooled before cooking.Only in this way can the taste be the best.

90.00% of the red oil chilled by Yao Yu is intended to be used to make mapo tofu.

The remaining [-]% is intended to be used to make cold sauce.

Salt, sugar, sesame oil, rice wine, plus the cooled red oil, after mixing and stirring evenly, it is a more versatile cold sauce.

This kind of cold sauce is an excellent dipping sauce for cucumber sticks and jelly.It is also perfect for pairing with preserved egg tofu.

After the red oil, broth, and cold sauce were all done, Yao Yu began to cut Wensi tofu.

Wensi tofu is a dish that most tests knife skills in Jiangnan cuisine.

To make this dish well, at least one piece of lactone tofu weighing half a catty must be sliced ​​into hundreds of thin slices, and then all the thin slices are cut into hair-thin filaments with a straight knife.

The exquisite workmanship and high difficulty of the knife are enough to drive many culinary enthusiasts and novice chefs crazy.

Even a helper chef who has worked in the back kitchen for several years may not be able to cut this dish well.

Because lactone tofu is too tender, if you are not careful, you may crush the tofu if you use more force.

Yao Yu held the Yuzang Knife given by the system in his hand, and his blade was like the wind, his weight was lifted lightly, and he was as fast as lightning.

In less than a minute, Yao Yu cut the tofu into thin strips.

Another blink of an eye, carrots, ham, mushrooms, chicken, scallions and other ingredients were also cut into extremely thin filaments by Yao Yu.

And when Yao Yu shredded these ingredients.The cameraman at the scene also zoomed in, just in time to capture the whole process of Yao Yu shredding.

In the Wanghailou live broadcast room, a large group of water friends were shocked by Yao Yu's knife skills.

"Fuck! Yao Manzi's knife skills are so fierce!"

"The veteran chef who has been making Wensi Tofu for nearly ten years said that he has never seen such a fast hand speed!"

"Yao Manzi is awesome! Kuangpu Yu is worthy of being Kuangpu Yu!"

"Brother Yu is so handsome when he cuts tofu! Suddenly I really want to ask him to be my teacher. I really want him to hold my hand and teach me to cut tofu."

"Stop the little fairy in front, I think you want to eat Brother Yu's tofu."

"Hey, Yu's fans are quarreling? Don't worry about it, Lu Chenyu is already with Yao Yu! You have no chance!"

"Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

In the live broadcast room, all kinds of sand sculptures are still happy.

At the competition site, Yao Yu was completely immersed in cooking.

Cut the beef into cubes, cut the tofu into cubes, cook in hot oil, add red oil, tempeh, green onion and ginger and quickly stir fry.

While the pot and spoon are flying, a plate of mapo tofu with red and spicy color and attractive aroma is hot out of the pot.

"Mumble..."

In the auditorium, there was a sound of swallowing.Many viewers are starving directly.

Yang Rui couldn't help complaining: "How do you feel that Yao Yu has turned into a young master? He used to make mapo tofu and it was not so delicious."

Chen Li also said: "I feel that his skills in cooking Sichuan cuisine have really improved a lot. After the competition is over, we must ask him to cook two dishes for us."

Yang Rui said: "I don't think there will be any drama today. Didn't you see Lu Chenyu coming? He will definitely value sex over friends."

"Damn it! This bastard still says he doesn't know Lu Chenyu! Lu Chenyu gave him a sachet, and he still says he doesn't know him! Damn barbarian, the love affair is hidden so deep!"

Yang Rui was indignant, full of envy and hatred.

On the side, Tang Ying suddenly said quietly: "What Lu Chenyu gave was not a sachet, but a lucky bag."

Yang Rui was stunned, and asked ironically, "Is there any difference?"

(End of this chapter)