Dare to cook

Chapter 96 First Grade Bird’s Nest

"Yes, very well said!" Lu Huaiwei praised:
"There is no end to learning in cooking."

"You are all excellent young people, very talented in cooking."

"So in normal times, you need to pay more attention to learning and accumulation. Only by continuously deepening your understanding of various ingredients can you achieve better achievements on this road!"

"What Mr. Lu said is true. The younger generation must remember his teachings." Yao Yu said with a smile.

This kind of skinny virtue immediately attracted Lu Chenyu's eyes.

After a little examination of the knowledge of a few people, Lu Huaiwei didn't say much, and began to teach them how to be a {first-rank official swallow}.

The first-grade official swallow is the royal dish of the Qing court, and it is also a big dish in the Manchu and Han banquets.

Except for Lu Huaiwei, few people know the traditional court practice anymore.

But even if Lu Huaiwei doesn't teach Yao Yu today, Yao Yu can still learn this dish from the recipe left by his great-grandfather in the future.

Because, Yao Yu's great-grandfather had taken in several imperial chefs who fled from the capital, and collected and recorded most of the imperial recipes from those imperial chefs.

Like boiled cabbage, the preparation of Yipin Guanyan is not complicated. The key lies in the ratio of ingredients and the preparation of broth.

Rinse the soaked bird's nest three times with clean water, do not rub when rinsing.

After rinsing, set aside the bird's nest for later use.

Then, it's time to make soup.

The traditional palace-style soup base must use fish maw, fish skin, scallops, shark fins, sea cucumbers, abalone, fish crisps (fish bones), skirts and other ingredients.

And these eight ingredients are also called Shui Bazhen.

Therefore, the first-grade official swallow of the Qing court is also called "Yipin thick soup and eight delicacies".

Among them, the skirt of Shuibazhen is the soft meat on the edge of the nail fish shell.

This thing has nothing to do with the beautiful little skirts of the young ladies.

So, don’t think wrong →_→.

Lu Huaiwei processed the Shui Bazhen in turn, poured them into the pot, cut some bamboo fungus, washed a few red dates, and put them into the soup pot after 10 minutes.

Making soup is a long and meticulous job.

Simple and not simple.

To put it simply, it is because cooking soup does not require much skill.

You just need to know how much water to add, how much ingredients to put in, and how often to lift the lid and stir a few times.

It's not easy to say, because different dishes use different ingredients for soup.

What soup to make, how much water to add, what ingredients to put first, what ingredients to put later, what ingredients to cook halfway through, what seasoning to add at what point...

The combination of these tricks and essentials is the secret and secret recipe of a soup dish.

If you master the secret recipe, the taste will not be too bad.

But if no one tells you the secret recipe, you may not be able to make the taste you want after hundreds of failures only by personal exploration.

Therefore, many chefs are willing to work and study with famous chefs.

Many things can only be mastered quickly after seeing the demonstration of the seniors.

While Lu Huaiwei was cooking the soup, Yao Yu had already activated the skill of [House Like Candlelight], engraving every step and movement of Lu Huaiwei's cooking into his mind.

After simmering the soup on medium heat for 10 minutes, Lu Huaiwei added the bamboo fungus and red dates.

The stewing process is very long.

During the waiting period, Lu Huaiwei was not idle.

Lu Huaiwei mentioned to Yao Yu and the others many kinds of derivative dishes of Yipin Guanyan, and taught them that as a chef, they must learn to draw inferences from one example and bring forth new ones.

After another 10 minutes, the soup base was ready.

Lu Huaiwei turned off the stove and was about to bring down the soup pot, when Yao Yu took two steps forward to do it for him.

A large soup pot weighs twenty or thirty catties after being filled with soup, which is heavy and hot.

As a junior, Yao Yu couldn't help but watch Lu Huaiwei do such rough work.

Lu Chenyu couldn't help smiling when he saw that Yao Yu was quite clever and knew how to step forward to help.

Yao Yu brought the soup pot to the chopping board, and Lu Huaiwei scalded the bird's nest with boiling water, and divided the bird's nest into six small soup cups.

After the bird's nest is installed, about 10 grams of rock sugar is put into each soup cup.

Then, Lu Huaiwei scooped up some freshly cooked soup with a spoon and poured it into the soup cup.

Put the soup into the soup pot, cover the lid, put the soup pot into a casserole with water and simmer on high heat.

Cook like this for another 15 minutes, take out the soup cup, sprinkle some fine salt and fish sauce, and the first-grade Guan Yan is ready.

It takes at least an hour to make this dish from preparation to completion.

By the time Lu Huaiwei finished the first-grade official swallow, it was already twelve o'clock at noon.

When the bird's nest is out of the pot, a very light and sweet fragrance spreads out.

Smelling the smell, Yao Yu, who didn't eat much this morning, suddenly became hungry.

Lu Huaiwei smiled and said, "Do you understand how this dish is made?"

"I see."

Lu Huaiwei nodded and said:
"Well, now that you understand everything, you can try the bird's nest I made, remember the taste, and show me how to make it again."

Yao Yu and the others heard the words, and they were not polite. They hurried forward to share a cup of bird's nest and began to taste.

The dishes made by master chefs on the Hongmeng List are different.

Even a person like Yao Yu, who was a skilled cook and was used to eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, turned into a refugee at this time and ate quickly, almost licking the bottom of the bowl clean.

Lu Huaiwei made a total of six bird's nests, and he gave the remaining two to Lu Tao and Ling Yuzhu who had been watching his teaching.

After everyone finished eating the bird's nest, Lu Huaiwei asked Yao Yu's people how they tasted it, and asked them to set up their own pots and start cooking.

When teaching, Lu Huaiwei explained very carefully.

Yao Yu and Lu Chenyu are extremely talented, and they all learned it after watching it once.

But when it was their turn to cook, Mu Shaoran and Ling Zhaochi inevitably made some small mistakes.

Compared with these two lacks, Yao Yu and Lu Chenyu looked like real culinary geniuses at this time.

It was the first time for both of them to cook this dish, but they were as proficient as if they had done it hundreds of times.

The reason why Yao Yu is so proficient is, on the one hand, his good talent, and on the other hand, the blessing of systematic skills.

However, Yao Yu was a little surprised when he saw that Lu Chenyu's proficiency was no longer inferior to his own.

Could it be that...Lu Chenyu also has a system?

Or is it possible that her talent is better than her own?
Thinking of this, Yao Yu also had some competitive thoughts, which speeded up the efficiency of processing the ingredients in his hands.

——Yao Yu didn't doubt whether Lu Chenyu had learned this dish before.

Because, he believed that the Lu family would not be so boring.

If Lu Chenyu had really learned first-grade official swallow, Lu Huaiwei would definitely not let her cook this dish with him.

Time is like water,
like the water in the toilet,
"Swipe" the ground, and it will be gone...

An hour later, Yao and Yu all finished cooking and brought their respective dishes to Lu Huaiwei for review.

After Lu Huaiwei tasted the bird's nest stewed by the four people, he didn't give a direct comment, but Yao Yu and the others tasted the dishes of the other three...

(End of this chapter)