The Royal Kitchen of the Entertainment Circle

"Boom..."

Guan Xuyang closed the door of the room, and walked towards the elevator with a dazed expression on his face.

He may not have woken up today, and he was a little stimulated.

The creditor came to your door, and you still have to eat and live together these few days?

Guan Xuyang twisted his thigh vigorously twice, the soreness made him frown, and he almost cried out in alarm.

So, this is not a dream?

Seeing that there was no reply on the contact interface with Zhou Ci on WeChat, Guan Xuyang sighed and got into the elevator.The sky is big and the earth is big, and it is not as big as the starvation of one's own creditors.

Arriving at the first floor in a hurry, passing through the long hotel lobby, and turning two more turns, Guan Xuyang finally arrived at the destination, and he didn't know if the back kitchen still had fresh ingredients.

"Huh? Brother Xuyang, you are here, are you going to make some snacks?"

As soon as the door was opened, there was a crisp male voice not far away, the tone was full of surprise and excitement.

Guan Xuyang followed the voice and said in surprise, "Cai Jie, are you still off work?"

"Hey, isn't there still a bunch of things to finish, and I'll be off work when I'm done."

The person who spoke was a young man in his early twenties. The white chef's uniform on his body was slightly stained, and some places were even stained with water, making it look a little mottled.However, even though he was left alone to clean the entire back kitchen, he was still working hard without any resentment, and even had a smile on his face.

This kind of smile was even worse when he saw Guan Xuyang's figure. Cai Jie asked with a smile while wiping the greasy stove and table, "Brother Xuyang, what are you going to do?"

His tone was full of curiosity and eagerness.

As the lowest handyman in the kitchen, what Cai Jie is looking forward to the most these days is the arrival of Guan Xuyang.Although the other party is an actor, he is busy every day without touching the ground, but he still insists on coming to the back kitchen at night to cook by himself, even if he needs to pay for it himself.

Fortunately, recently, the whole hotel has been almost covered by the crew of "The Secret History of Kangxi", and the meals the staff eat are all ordered from outside, which is actually a good thing for their kitchen staff.It is enough to easily cook meals for the hotel staff every day.

And Guan Xuyang's rental request has also been approved by the management. Anyway, he just sells some rice and fresh vegetables, so he can make some money, right?There are so many stoves in the back kitchen, and few of them are in use.

At the beginning, many people watched the scene of the young boy cooking in front of the stove with the hope of watching a good show, but they were severely slapped in the face that day.

Whether it's simple stir-fried mixed vegetables or complicated pickled Duxian, each dish is full of color, fragrance, and aroma, which is comparable to that cooked by their hotel chefs, and each complex dish is prepared by a uniformly trained chef. They all taste different.

The dishes cooked by Guan Xuyang are obviously much healthier. Most of them are light and refreshing Suzhou dishes. Even the chef who is usually not easy to cook secretly said that the other party is a master of Suzhou cuisine. Go to any restaurant at this level. Star-rated restaurants can be ranked high.

As soon as the chef said this, many chefs in the back kitchen came to observe one after another. Guan Xuyang never shy away from anyone when cooking, and let them watch it openly. However, the steps are just a few steps, and some people learn to copy them. , but there is always a slight difference between what Guan Xuyang did.

Everyone understands that no matter how much you learn and copy, a delicious dish requires knife skills, heat, and seasoning.Everyone has their own unique insights into these three basic skills. To some extent, it is completely impossible to completely copy a person's dishes!

Guan Xuyang walked to the shelf where the ingredients were placed and observed carefully, feeling the freshness of the food while saying, "I don't know, let's see which one is fresh."

"Are there any other dishes besides these?"

Seeing that the ingredients on the shelf were not very fresh, Guan Xuyang turned around and asked.

Cai Jie put down the rag in his hand and said, "No, the fresh vegetables won't be delivered until tomorrow morning, but there are still a few lively fish in the water tank, and a chicken in the refrigerator, Brother Xuyang, you have to go and see ?"

Guan Xuyang: "Okay, you can help me stew the chicken later, I want chicken soup."

Cai Jie: "Okay, then do you want to go and see the fish?"

Guan Xuyang: "Okay, let's go and have a look."

As soon as Guan Xuyang heard that it was fresh fish, Guan Xuyang immediately became interested. Before he ran over, he put the rice in a casserole and soaked it in water, and cooked it when he came back.

In the past few days, all he ate was vegetables and fruits, and he basically didn't touch any meat, so he just ate it by himself. This meal was for Ning Qianzhou, and the lion's head was out of the question, so he had to serve a meat dish anyway.

Cai Jie washed his hands, wiped his wet hands on his clothes, and excitedly walked ahead to lead Guan Xuyang.

Turning a corner, in the innermost corner of the back kitchen, there are a few fresh fish swimming in a water tank separated by a neat row of glass, and it is mandarin fish.

Once you have it, let’s make a squirrel mandarin fish!

Mandarin fish is also called mandarin fish, also known as Aohua fish. Its body is flat on the sides, its back is raised, and its body is thick.The mandarin fish has tender meat, few thorns and more meat. Its meat is petal-shaped and delicious. It is really a good product among fish.

Guan Xuyang observed for a while, and quickly grabbed the biggest one.I weighed it in my hand, and it was about two catties. After the fish got out of the water, its tail swayed from side to side like crazy.Seeing this, he quickly stuck three fingers on the gills of the fish and carried it back to the stove.

"Cai Jie, can you cook squirrel mandarin fish?"

"Ah?" Cai Jie, who was being called while making soup, was in a daze, and finally said weakly, "It should be."

Guan Xuyang frowned dissatisfied and asked: "What do you mean you should? If you do, you will, if you don't, you won't."

Cai Jie scratched his head aggrievedly, and muttered: "But Brother Xuyang, your approach is different from what we teach in our school..."

Guan Xuyang: "..."

Why!Fallen!

In the past, cooking skills have always been passed down from family to family, and a signature dish is enough to make a family last for a hundred years. However, most modern chefs go to culinary school for a year or two and get out of it. What can they learn?The steps of a dish are all detailed and handed over to the apprentices, so that they can learn and fry step by step, so that the dishes they eat in any restaurant now have the same taste.

What's more, there are many dishes that look very appetizing, and they are all flavored with spices or essences.

No wonder people nowadays are so addicted to spicy food. If you eat too many dishes fried with spices and essences, your taste buds will slowly dull and degenerate. In the future, you can only feel the taste when you eat spicy dishes, and all light dishes will be clear soup in your mouth. Odd water.

"Cai Jie, come and help me."

"Hey, I'll be right there!"

Cai Jie quickly washed his hands, took ginger, starch, eggs, tomato sauce and other items from the shelf not far away and ran over.

Guan Xuyang quickly removed the viscera, gills and scales of the two-pound mandarin fish, cut a few slices of ginger and stuffed them into the belly of the fish.

Cai Jie: "Yes! I took starch and eggs!"

Guan Xuyang: "Switch the starch into flour, and make egg paste."

Cai Jie: "Oh, yes."

The always obedient kitchen handyman didn't ask why, he just stuffed the starch back and replaced it with an unopened packet of flour.

Guan Xuyang washed his hands and opened the casserole to look at the transparent rice grains that were slightly swollen due to soaking in water. When he picked up a grain and pinched it with his hands, he knew it was time to fire.Pour out the excess water soaked in the rice grains in the casserole, take the olive oil you bought on the side and pour a small circle along the side of the pot, add an appropriate amount of water, cover the lid and put it on the stove, slightly shake your right hand Twist, and cook slowly over medium-low heat.

The casserole rice is cooked, but the side dishes haven't been cut yet.

He turned around and took out a clean chopping board and kitchen knife, cut the cleaned Cantonese-style red sausage into medium-sized slices and placed them in a bowl aside, and washed a few pieces of rapeseed and put them aside.

"Brother Xuyang, is this how you made the paste you want?"

Cai Jie's voice was heard not far away, Guan Xuyang turned his head and smiled immediately, and saw that Cai Jie's face was full of pleading expressions, and when he looked down, the chopping board was a mess.There was a bowl of glutinous rice in the bowl in front of him, but Guan Xuyang knew that the glutinous rice would not be needed just by glancing at it.

"You can't do that, come here and let me teach you."

After taking the unsealed flour and eggs on the table, Guan Xuyang brought a large clean bowl and poured flour into it.

"There are many ways and proportions of squirrel mandarin fish paste, and everyone's method is different."

"For example, my method is to directly hang the custard mixed with flour and eggs. The ratio of flour, eggs and water is also very important."

Guan Xuyang patiently taught Cai Jie the tricks of hanging paste, and concentrated on watching the amount of flour in the bowl.

"Like the batter you just made, there is too much water. It looks very viscous, but when you really start to hang the batter, you will find that you can't hang it, and there will be uneven distribution. Once fried in the pan, the batter will be separated, and the fish will be out of shape.”

"But there is too much flour, it doesn't work. The fried mandarin fish tastes like fried batter in your mouth."

"The best amount is like this one. A moderate amount of flour, add three eggs, add a little water to mix them evenly, and break up every lump of powder."

"The mixed batter should have a suitable consistency and a slightly bright yellow color. It is best to use a spoon to scoop it slightly in the air and fall down evenly to form a texture."

In line with Guan Xuyang's words, after the batter in the bowl was made, he turned aside, took the mandarin fish and put it on the cutting board, turned his head and said, "Pay close attention to how I make the flower knife."

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