The Royal Kitchen of the Entertainment Circle

Guan Xuyang picked up a rag to wipe off the water on the fish, held the fish tightly with his left hand, and took a kitchen knife with his right to cut off the fish head.

The knife edge is neat and uniform, as if it was cut out by a cutting machine, no more and no less, and no extra meat was cut off.

He tilted his body slightly and held the fish body with one hand, and sliced ​​the fish meat close to the bone with a sharp knife. Even the narrow thickness of the tail was perfectly controlled, without breaking at all!Then he turned over and sliced ​​another piece of fish, and sliced ​​off the thorny meat of the fish belly.

Cut the two pieces of fish meat, with the skin facing down, cut straight on the fish first, then obliquely, until the fish skin forms a diamond-shaped knife pattern.

"Wow, brother Xuyang, you are too powerful." Seeing this step, Cai Jie was completely convinced.

As far as his knife skills are concerned, he ranks first among the chefs he has seen!

Even the knife skills of the instructor of the well-known kitchen school he attended were not as good as his. The fish with a modified knife was carried in mid-air. As the fish shook, the brown fish skin showed diamond-shaped interlaced patterns. The knife pattern looks transparent, but none of the openings are cracked and transparent.

It can be seen how profound his knife skills are, it is simply the pinnacle!

If only he had half of Xu Yang's skills...

Seeing the envy in Cai Jie's eyes, Guan Xuyang smiled, "Keep practicing knife skills every day, and you will be able to use such a flower knife within ten years."

"Ten years..." Cai Jie asked curiously: "How many years have you practiced, brother Xuyang? Ten years?"

This young man is less than twenty, right?

Practiced for ten years...

Didn't he start practicing at the age of ten? ! ? !

Guan Xuyang smiled and didn't say anything, and the time was about the same. It was true that he had practiced hard for more than ten years when he stepped into the culinary art in his previous life.

"Okay, let's start the frying pan."

Putting aside the memories in his mind, Guan Xuyang set up an oil pan and poured half a barrel of freshly opened rapeseed oil. The fish fried in rapeseed oil not only removes the flavor and enhances freshness, but also has a kind of rapeseed after high-temperature heating. The unique fragrance is mixed in it.

When the oil in the pot was [-]% hot, Guan Xuyang methodically picked up the fish and hung it with batter, rubbed every corner and corner, and then patted it with dry flour.When the oil is [-]% hot, shake off the excess noodles and place it in mid-air.

Picking up a large spoon with his right hand, he scooped up a ladle of hot oil in the oil pan and poured it onto the shaking fish. After the fish was set in shape, Guan Xuyang slid the fish in along the side of the pan, and at the same time turned down the heat a little, so that The fish meat is slow fried inside.

Then take the two fish fins from the fish tail, put them into the oil pan and fry them for a while to form them; then put all the fish into the oil pan and fry them until golden brown, pick them up and put them on the plate.

The fish head is also deep-fried into golden brown. Before entering the pan, Guan Xuyang presses the fish head with chopsticks to spread out its chin, so that it can be deep-fried and shaped.Then put the fried fish head and fish meat back into the shape of the whole fish, with the head and tail raised high.

Guan Xuyang decided to adopt a modern method for the sauce that was poured on top. The ancient sauce is made directly with oil and soy sauce, and the color is definitely not as good as that made with tomato sauce.

Besides, Ning Qianzhou obviously prefers sweet and sour tastes. It can be seen that he was born in a water town in the south of the Yangtze River or that his elders were from that area.

Put an appropriate amount of tomato paste into a bowl, add fresh soup stewed in a pressure cooker, sugar, balsamic vinegar, wine, soy sauce, and a little starch to make a sauce.In another pan, heat the oil, add the scallions and stir until fragrant, then remove, add a little diced corn and peas, add the seasoning sauce and thicken it over high heat, and then top with the fried mandarin fish.

A delicious squirrel mandarin fish is ready.

At this time, the casserole rice is almost ready, and the lid of the pot is lifted, and the aroma of rice comes to the face.Place the sliced ​​Cantonese-style sausage on top and cover to let the steam seep into each rosy sausage slice.

Finally, he turned on another stove, ready to boil some hot water for blanching vegetables.

The pressure cooker that had been working on the other side also leaked steam.

Opening the top cover of the hot pressure cooker, Cai Jie and Guan Xuyang looked inside at the same time.

Through the misty water vapor, a whole three-yellow chicken inside has long been stewed until soft and rotten.The chicken soup is light and translucent, with a layer of golden chicken oil floating on top.Guan Xuyang calmly blocked the exit with a large colander, and carefully poured the chicken soup into the serving bowl.

Seeing the huge three-yellow chicken in the pot that was stewed to the point of separation, Cai Jie scratched his head and whispered in a mosquito-like moaning voice: "Brother Xuyang, do you want more chicken in the pot?"

"No, you can take it with you."

Even though Cai Jie never said anything, Guan Xuyang can still tell from the other party's clothing and mental state that he is living in a very difficult life.

This is also the reason why Cai Jie still dare not resign when he does the work of two people every day.

"Thank you." Cai Jie blushed and said thanks.

Always frugal, every time he sees Guan Xuyang wanting chicken soup and not chicken, it is a pity. However, every time there are so many people watching in the back kitchen, he is too embarrassed to ask Guan Xuyang to ask for it. If it weren't for the whole back kitchen tonight With the two of them here, Cai Jie might never make this request.

Guan Xuyang: "Help me get a piece of tofu from the shelf."

Cai Jie: "What tofu?"

Guan Xuyang: "Bring me lactone tofu, as well as black fungus and rapeseed."

After ordering these things, he lowered his head and focused on the second treatment of the chicken soup in front of him. He was going to make another Wensi tofu.

The golden layer of fat on the chicken soup is absolutely unacceptable. Although it looks appetizing in color and oil, what you want in this dish of Wensi tofu is the broth mixed with white jade.

Wensi tofu is a famous dish in Huaiyang. It was created by the monk Wensi of Tianning Temple on the right side of Meihualing in Yangzhou. He is good at making all kinds of tofu dishes, especially the tofu soup made with tender tofu, day lilies, fungus and other raw materials. The taste is very delicious Buddhist monks who go to burn incense and worship Buddha like to taste this soup, and later generations call it Wensi tofu.

In his previous life, Guan Xuyang was also lucky enough to drink it twice. The traditional Wensi tofu is actually very light. Tofu shreds as thin as hair, shredded fungus, and shredded day lilies are cooked together with water.After all, it was created by monks. It has a light taste and full color. When you drink it, you can feel the delicate shredded tofu melt in your mouth. It is no different from drinking soup. The novelty lies in its appearance.

Shredded side dish ingredients are easy, but the difficulty lies in shredded tofu.

Q The soft and tender inner fat tofu will break if you use a little force, let alone shredded.The most test of this dish is the chef's knife skills.

Although Wensi tofu is a vegetarian, Boss Ning is not a monk. He simply used chicken soup to make soup, which tastes more delicious. Guan Xuyang thought about the miserable appearance of Ning Qianzhou leaning on the hospital bed before, Still decided to let him make up more.

After all, he is his own creditor!

Cai Jie, who handed over the ingredients, asked curiously, "Brother Xuyang, what are you going to cook?"

Guan Xuyang: "Wensi Tofu."

Cai Jie: QAQ! ! !

What?It turned out to be Vance Tofu!

This dish is extremely harsh on the chef's knife skills, but if anyone with unsteady hearts and hands tries it, the tofu will definitely be broken and out of shape.

Curious about what Guan Xuyang would do next, Cai Jie deliberately took a turn and went to the opposite aisle to carefully observe Guan Xuyang's every move, for fear of missing a step.

How can there be any accidents in the soup for creditors?

Guan Xuyang carefully took out the whole piece of tofu from the box, and removed the uneven leftovers. The rectangular shape of inner fat tofu turned into a square shape.

The four fingers of the young man's left hand were clasped on the tofu fast, and the four knuckles were close to the back of the knife, while the right hand held the kitchen knife, took a deep breath, and then used the straight knife method to continuously undulate from right to left at a constant speed.

"Da da da... da da da..."

The frequency of the sound made by the kitchen knife clasped on the cutting board is extremely uniform, and the hands that move slightly are also on the same horizontal plane, which is too stable.

After the boy finished cutting it once, he quickly wiped the slightly collapsed tofu with his left hand to the left, and the whole tofu was lying on his side as if he was going to sleep.Guan Xuyang repeated the operation from beginning to end, and then put the whole "tofu cube" into a bowl filled with boiling water with the blade of a knife, scalded it lightly, and then quickly took it out for later use.

This small step is to remove the beany smell in the tofu.

Since there was no daylily in the back kitchen, Guan Xuyang cut the soaked black fungus into shreds, scalded them slightly with boiling water, and fished them out.

After all the preparations were done, Guan Xuyang lifted the frying pan to the fire.Put in the second-processed chicken clear soup and bring to a boil, add the freshly cut fungus and tofu and gently slide it on the soup surface with a round spoon twice, and the 'tofu pieces' just put into the pot seem to have received something Like a signal, it automatically decomposes into filaments.

The white tofu shreds and black fungus shreds are mixed with each other as if they are in a strong communication, black and white are distinct, as thin as hair!

Add a little salt to taste, and then add shredded green vegetables. The three colors are fully mixed in the chicken soup, and the color is extraordinarily beautiful.Finally, add a little starch soup, and a dish of Wensi tofu with a good color, flavor and taste is ready.

Seeing the effect of starch thickening, Guan Xuyang fell in love with this thing, maybe he needs to learn more about cooking methods.

Cai Jie stared at Guan Xuyang's every move. He had never experienced such a close learning opportunity. Even if he practiced for ten years, he would not be able to achieve such a knife skill and level!

The last step is also extremely simple. Guan Xuyang took the remaining rapeseed leaves on the table and put them into the pot. There are also some tricks in this hot vegetable.

Leaf vegetables such as lettuce and lettuce can be put into the pot together for blanching or stir-frying, but some vegetables with a large difference in the proportion of stems and leaves, such as rapeseed, need to be boiled first , Wait until it is almost ripe and then throw the leaves on the head into the hot water.

Only in this way, the vegetables that are blanched will be crisp and green, and the taste is just right.

Put a few slices of boiled rapeseed on the rice casserole and spread it in a layer, Guan Xuyang wiped the sweat from his forehead and exhaled deeply.

It can be regarded as completed!

He struggled to put the prepared dishes, soup and claypot rice on the iron plate, and after thinking for a while, he asked for help: "Cai Jie, can you help me move it?"

The weight of these together is not light, and he really can't carry it by himself.

Cai Jie nodded vigorously, stepped forward and placed Wensi tofu and squirrel mandarin fish on another iron plate, lifted it up easily and walked towards the exit.

Guan Xuyang: "..."

No one came for a while, Cai Jie turned around and said in surprise: "What's wrong? Did you forget to take something?"

Guan Xuyang: "...No."

It's just that I suddenly feel that my body is so useless.

Even Cai Jie, who is a few centimeters shorter than him, is stronger than him!

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