Stop pretending, I am the God of Cooking and I am showing off my cards!

Xie Baomin washed the lotus roots and prepared a basin of water with white vinegar.

"When making this dish, the lotus roots must be soaked in white vinegar as much as possible. Otherwise, if they change color, the appearance will be greatly compromised."

Lin Xu watched while busy with his work.

He makes ginger juice and lotus root every day, and is accustomed to this kind of operation.

After peeling.

Soak the lotus roots completely in white vinegar and rinse them with water to prevent oxidation and discoloration when you cut them later.

After soaking for three or four minutes, Xie Baomin took out the lotus root and cut the lotus root into several sections evenly, each section being about ten centimeters in length.

After cutting, soak the lotus roots in white vinegar water for a while.

Then take out a piece and put it on the cutting board.

Start slicing.

"Lotus roots have many holes, and it's easy to cut them empty when you use a knife to cut them. So when I was an apprentice, my master kept asking me to cut the lotus roots. When I cut to the point where I couldn't feel the holes, I stopped using the knife. It shows that once you have mastered knife skills, cutting other things is as easy as cutting tofu.”

Is this okay?

It feels very easy to cut.

Lin Xu felt a little frightened when he thought about how he almost cut his hand when being kissed on the face by Classmate Shen.

No wonder the kitchen is not recommended for outsiders to enter.

This is indeed quite dangerous.

I must teach Classmate Shen well when there is no one around. I was so scared that I broke out in a cold sweat. So punishing her with two more kisses is not too much, right?

Xie Baomin cut the lotus root slices and put them into the basin to continue soaking.

Some of these lotus root slices were complete or broken. He picked out the incomplete ones and continued to cut other lotus root segments.

Wait until all the lotus roots are cut.

He took out the soaked lotus root slices and began to shred them.

The cut lotus root shreds are of the same length, all 1.5 mm square. They don't look like lotus roots at all, but more like potato or radish shreds.

After all the lotus root shreds are cut.

Xie Baomin changed the basin of white vinegar and water and continued soaking.

Soaking can not only prevent the lotus root shreds from oxidizing and discoloring, but also removes the starch on the surface of the lotus root shreds, making the taste crisper.

After soaking the lotus roots for about ten minutes.

Xie Baomin prepared a basin of white vinegar and water with ice cubes and placed it next to the stove and started making it.

Boil water in a pot. After the water boils, pour some white vinegar into it.

Then put the shredded lotus roots in a large colander, place the colander on top of the boiling water pot, use a spoon to scoop up the boiling water in the pot and pour it on the shredded lotus roots.

When pouring, turn your wrist and pour the boiling water in the spoon into a circle first, so that it can be evenly sprinkled on the lotus roots in the colander.

Holy shit!

No wonder the senior brother said that this dish requires high heat.

The mere step of pouring boiling water can put many non-professionals away.

It's not just boiling water that's dangerous.

The key is not knowing how long to drizzle. If you drizzle too little, the lotus root will not be cooked, and if you drizzle too much, the lotus root will be fermented. Only when it is just right can you get crispy and delicious lotus root shreds.

What's more, you have to turn your wrist to let the boiling water pour evenly.

It's too easy to spill it on yourself or others.

After pouring several spoonfuls of water, Xie Baomin dropped the lotus root shreds in the colander into the basin of white vinegar water with ice cubes next to him.

Continue soaking.

"How about it, junior brother, have you learned it?"

Lin Xu smiled bitterly and learned it after reading it once. Are you overestimating my talent?

When Xie Baomin splashed water just now, he tried it with the cooking learning card, and the skill shown was splashing water. This made Lin Xu speechless. What's the use of learning this skill?

Going to participate in the Dai Water Splashing Festival?

"Is it time for the cold salad next?"

"Yes, it's time for the cold salad. I'll make the cold sauce first."

Xie Baomin brought a small bowl and put white vinegar, sugar, salt and a little ginger juice in the bowl.

"It's a pity that you don't have white soy sauce in the store, otherwise you can put a little bit, but it doesn't matter if you don't have it, it won't have much impact."

Stir the sauce in the bowl to dissolve the salt and sugar.

Then take out the shredded lotus root that has cooled down in the basin, control the water, put it into a basin for making cold vegetables, pour in the sauce, stir evenly, and then start plating.

There was a lot of lotus root today, so Xie Baomin served two plates.

The white jade-like lotus root silk is served on a white plate, which is very attractive visually.

"Is this okay, senior brother?"

"No, there's still one step left... Where is the cooking oil? We need to burn some cooking oil."

Still need fuel?

Then isn’t this just boiled lotus root mixed with shredded lotus root?

Lin Xu took the cooking oil over curiously and continued to watch his senior brother's performance.

Xie Baomin set up the wok, poured a spoonful of cooking oil into the pan and heated it up.

Then he brought a clean fine-mesh sieve and put a small handful of green peppercorns into it. He held the fine-mesh sieve with his left hand and placed it on top of the shredded lotus roots. With his right hand, he scooped up a spoonful of hot oil from the pot and poured it on the green peppercorns little by little.

When the hot oil hits the green peppercorns, it splashes out. Through the mesh of the fine-mesh sieve, tiny bits of oil fall on the lotus root shreds.

The lotus root silk has the fragrance of cooking oil, but there is no trace of oil flower.

Lin Xu looked at it and called him a senior person.

Damn it!

I really learned a lot today.

I originally thought it was a soy mix, but this is much more difficult than a soy mix.

As expected of a master of state banquets, a simple cold dish was surprisingly made so high-end and classy.

“Use the cooking study cards!”

You must learn to master such high-end dishes. Even if you don't go to Shin Kong to show off, it's still worth learning.

"Learning object: Xie Baomin. Current skill is: White Jade Lotus Root Silk. Do you want to learn?"

"study!"

A golden light flashed through my mind.

Then the system beep sounded:

"Failed to learn. The current skill requires that the knife skills must be above the excellence level. The host please keep up the hard work and improve the basic skills as soon as possible."

Lin Xu:? ? ? ?

Why failed?

"This is a dish created by our master back then. Now it has become a reserved dish of Diaoyutai. Many foreign guests who have eaten it will specially order this dish when they come."

Xie Baomin finished frying the oil and wiped off the oil stars on the plate with kitchen paper. The dish was officially completed.

Master created it himself?

No wonder there is a threshold for this dish.

I have to find a way to lift the knife maker later so I can learn this dish.

While Xie Baomin was talking, his cell phone rang. After he answered the call, he went out and brought back a foam box not long after.

Open the box.

There was a lively mandarin fish in it, about three pounds, as well as a piece of tofu, a steaming beef tenderloin, a pack of asparagus and other ingredients.

"This is the ingredient I asked a supplier to deliver to Diaoyutai. One day when you are not busy, I will introduce you to him. If you need high-end ingredients later, just contact him."

Lin Xu thought that a dish of shredded white jade lotus root was enough, but he didn't expect that the senior brother would actually prepare a whole table of dishes.

"How are you going to cook this fish, senior brother? Make sweet and sour mandarin fish?"

Xie Baomin said with a smile:

"Foreign guests don't like to eat thorny things, so now we usually fillet the fish to make sweet and sour fish dices. Of course, the fish bones are not wasted. They can be boiled into milk soup later and mixed with tofu to make milk. Soup tofu, as for the beef, let’s simply make the beef tenderloin with chilli pepper..."

After saying that, he took the fish to the pond and slaughtered it.

Lin Xu took the opportunity to take a picture of the white jade lotus root silk on the table and sent it to his classmate Shen:

"Senior brother made the white jade lotus root silk specially for you. It is a dish for entertaining distinguished guests at Diaoyutai. Would you like to come over and try it?"

On an office building in Wangjing.

Shen Jiayue looked at the pictures sent by Lin Xu and couldn't help but swallow her saliva.

"No, they will definitely laugh at me if I go."

"That's such a pity. In addition to this white jade lotus root shreds, there are also sweet and sour diced fish made from mandarin fish meat, beef tenderloin with chilli pepper made from fresh beef, and tofu in milk soup made from mandarin fish bones..."

"Don't read it, don't read it, I'll go right away!"

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If you think your cooking skills are good, you can try this dish. There is absolutely nothing to say about the taste. Just be careful not to get burned... Let’s roar again and ask for monthly recommendations, brothers!