Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 175
"Why does the story sound so familiar?"

Chen Nian was not only thinking about it in his mind, but soon he remembered that before He Hai came, didn't He Sen, who was projected into the world by Master He's son, have reported undercover to a chain restaurant company?

It seemed to be on the news at the time.

The incident became very serious, and under the intervention of those public opinion and relevant departments, the store was forced to close down.

And He Sen took a break after that.

As a result, one day, he just happened to pass by his place, and came in by the way and worked as an undercover agent for a month.

In the end, nothing came out, and I worked for a month and left.

Of course, Chen Nian didn't say anything about it. .

Afterwards, he asked the other party several professional questions, and Xie Yu answered them all.

"That's right. Next, you need to try three dishes. All these ingredients in the kitchen can be used, but it's best to make three different types."

It is a necessary step to apply for a chef to try dishes.

But the three dishes are indeed rare, and some restaurants have to do more.

Xie Yu nodded, then went to the kitchen and asked for an apron to wrap around his body.

He washed his hands cleanly in front of the faucet, even under the nails, even though his hands didn't look dirty.

After finishing these, he first looked at the various ingredients in the kitchen.

Tofu, pork belly, pork buttocks, pork tenderloin, goose breast, peppers, garlic sprouts, lettuce tips, etc.

Soon he decided on three home-cooked dishes in his mind.

Since the ingredients here have been cleaned in advance, he just rinsed the water once when making it, and used it directly after a simple cleaning.

But before cooking, Xie Yu took a small spoon and tasted all the seasonings such as salt, soy sauce, and sugar.

When Chen Nian saw this, he couldn't help but nodded, it seemed that Xie Yu really understood.

Have this awareness.

No wonder the master there was willing to teach him how to cook after only being an apprentice for one year, no wonder he was promoted in places like the second restaurant chain.

The salt and soy sauce used in each restaurant kitchen may vary, and different brands of soy sauce and salt can vary in saltiness.

So he needs to taste it in advance, and he has a bottom line in his heart.

After tasting it, Xie Yu took a sip of water and started cutting vegetables. The first thing he picked up was tofu.

The old ones are just looking at it from the outside. The knife skills are not bad when cutting, but there is still room for improvement.

Soon after cutting the tofu into pieces for later use, start to heat the oil for seasoning, bean paste, a little sugar, salt, soy sauce, etc...

The action is quick, and the first dish is ready in about five or six minutes.

After serving it out, put it on the table and take a look at it.

"Braised tofu?"

Xie Yu nodded: "Yes, braised tofu, boss, please taste it first, I'll make the next dish now."

After speaking, he turned around and returned to the kitchen. When he returned to the kitchen, he saw that Chen Nian had already eaten a piece of tofu in his mouth, and he didn't stop himself, which meant that the tofu he made was okay.

Immediately afterwards, Xie Yu began to cut the pork belly again, and began preparations for the next dish.

The types of peppers in the old kitchen are very complete. After all, the peppers needed to make different dishes are different.

As for the chili that went with the pork belly this time, Xie Yu chose the two thorn peppers and millet peppers in the kitchen. As a cook in Sichuan, he naturally knew the special features of the two thorn peppers.

Then he cut two garlic sprouts and prepared to put them on the plate.

After all the preparations were done, Xie Yu heated the wok directly on the fire, then put all the peppers into the wok and started to dry fry.

When the peppers began to look like tiger skin and smoke slightly, Xie Yu used a pot and spoon to take out all the peppers for later use.

After it matured, I took a little water from the hot pot, then picked up the pot brush that had been worn away by one-third of the aging to clean the pot, poured out the brush water, and dried it with the fire that was always burning below. remaining water in the pot.

Then he put in the wide oil, and when the oil in the pan was hot, he directly put in the meat and started to stir-fry. He didn't add the minced ginger and garlic until the meat started to turn grayish white and the fragrance really came out.

Flames continued to spurt out from the center of the stove, making scorching sounds.

The collision of the spoon and the spatula makes a clanging sound. If there is an animism in all things, this spoon and the spatula are undoubtedly one of the happiest CPs, because they can touch, collide, and rub intimately every day.

When the scent of minced ginger, garlic and meat exploded, Xie Yu was ready to feed.

Add an appropriate amount of oyster sauce, a little light soy sauce, a little sugar for freshness, and a little pepper for flavor.

Finally, add a little old extract color.

After putting the seasonings in place, he kept pushing and pulling the iron pan while stirring with the spoon in his hand.

After these seasonings had fully entered the pork belly under the effect of high temperature, Xie Yu put the peppers that had been sautéed in advance into the pot and stir-fried until evenly distributed. Finally, he added garlic sprouts and sautéed until they were raw, then turned off the heat.

From the beginning to the end, there has been a big fire, and the actions of putting ingredients into the pot and seasoning are very neat, just like during an exam, a student who is a top student knows what questions will be asked after seeing the first few sentences of the question. Those who brushed wrote the answers on the test paper.

After making this dish of fried pork, Xie Yu also brought out these plates.

At this time, the braised tofu has been half eaten by the people outside.

Although I was very full at noon, after all, this tofu was made by other people, and it was the first time when I was recruiting chefs to try the dishes, and everyone was a little fresh. Besides, the braised tofu was good, so everyone tasted it and ate it Quite a lot.

But when Xie Yu brought out the fried pork and put it on the table, they realized that if they wanted to continue trying this dish, they might need rice.

Afterwards, the three of them served the rice separately, and each took a chopstick to taste it.

The taste buds began to jump violently in an instant, and the strong spicy taste made them quickly lower their heads to pick up the rice.

"Okay, you can go to the third course first."

Chen Nian still didn't say much, and asked Xie Yu to prepare the third dish.

For the third dish, Xie Yu is going to cook twice-cooked pork.

That's right, because he saw this dish on the menu, he planned to make this dish.

But in this way, the tofu in one dish is braised in brown sauce, the second dish is stir-fried, and the third dish is re-cooked, which is another new method.

Moreover, the ingredients used are basically different, but they can show their own level in the red case.

But these three dishes are basically the three dishes he is best at, and they were considered signatures when he was in the restaurant.

Although he is also good at other things, but this Honghong restaurant does not seem to have many dishes, so the ingredients are not so complete.

After he took out the hot pot meat.

"Xie Yu, have you had lunch yet?"

"have eaten."

"It doesn't matter if you have eaten, we have eaten too, why don't we sit down and eat some more, and tell you while I eat."

Chen Nian winked as he spoke, and asked He Hai to serve the rice.

To be honest, Xie Yu is not hungry at all now, but when the rice is placed in front of him, he has nothing to do. After all, he has to come to work here, and the boss seems to have something to say.

"First of all, the taste of the few dishes you made is actually pretty good, and there are two dishes that are not available in the store, but some of these three dishes are not very good. If you come to work, these few dishes Although the dishes can be put on the menu, they all need to be improved."

When Xie Yu heard this, he felt a little unconvinced.

Empty mouth and white teeth, why do you say I can't do it?
"Boss, which dish are you talking about?" Xie Yu looked very humble at this time, but in fact he also planned to see how the old man was.

Finding a job is a process of mutual selection.

The owner and chef of Honghong Restaurant are all aged, so he also needs to see how the level of aging is. If the level of aging is not as good as his, then he will naturally ask for more salary even if he comes to work.

If Chen Nian is the kind of person who is not good enough and still likes to point fingers, then he would rather change to another restaurant to work.

Chen Nian knew what the other person was thinking by looking at the other person's appearance, but he didn't mind too much, but pointed to the first braised tofu first.

"Eat this first, and I'll tell you when you're done."

After hearing this, Xie Yu directly picked up a piece of braised tofu with chopsticks and put it in his mouth.

Although it is a little cold, the taste of this tofu is still very good, but it is not as good as when it was just out of the pan.

But at this level, Xie Yu was already very satisfied.

"First of all, the color of this stewed tofu is fine, but there is too much oyster sauce. Although it enhances the taste, it is too fresh, and when you add water, you also add too much water, so it takes time to collect the juice. It needs to be used longer, you can see that there are a lot of impurities in the soup now, and some of the tofu has begun to fall apart."

Xie Yu originally wanted to refute a little bit, but he listened to Chen Nian while looking at the board.

I found that the soup inside seemed to be a little cloudy, and some tofu had cracks in the middle.

"These two are more important points. In addition, the size of your tofu cuts is inconsistent, so it is a little less interesting in terms of aesthetics, but this is not a big problem. Knife skills can be practiced."

After Chen Nian finished speaking, seeing Xie Yu nodded, he agreed with his point of view, and then pointed to Xiao Chaorou.

"Eat this dish again, and feel for yourself where the problem lies."

Xie Yu nodded, first took a mouthful of meat, and then another mouthful of pepper.

"The frying time of the meat is a bit long, and the heat is a bit overdone?" Xie Yu said tentatively, having fully entered the rhythm of aging.

Chen Nian nodded: "But not only the meat, but also the chili is a bit too hot. I saw that you used a big fire from the beginning to the end when you cooked it just now...

But when you start frying peppers, you should use medium heat. If the heat rises too fast, it will easily cause the peppers to be heated unevenly, so you can see that the edges of some peppers are slightly burnt. The heat of the peppers is not enough to produce flavor. If it is too spicy, it will be lost.

"Secondly, when you are ready to put the meat in, put the oil directly into the pot, and start frying the meat after the oil is warm. Pour out the oil and use only the oil left on the wall of the pot to fry the meat.

Although you need heavy oil and spicy food to make this kind of dish, your oil is too much after cooking. It’s okay to eat it at the beginning, but you will feel greasy after eating it, it’s too oily.

The last thing is that the sliced ​​meat is a bit thick. Of course, this problem is the same as that of twice-cooked pork. The thin slices are easy to burst out with fragrance, so the thinner the better when cutting. "

The problem with twice-cooked pork is that the meat is not cut thick enough, so you can see that the degree of curling is far from enough, and the second is that there is still too much Pixian Doubaner.

However, I guess it may be because you used ordinary Pixian Douban before, and the Pixian Douban here is three years old, so you may not be sure about this point, and you may not be fully used to it. "

From the beginning, Xie Yu heard Chen Nian said that there were several problems. He thought that Chen Nian wanted to suppress his salary. After all, many places do this now. In order to lower the salary, so Just find out all kinds of reasons to attack the interviewer.

This made him feel frustrated.

Then at this time, the interviewer will recruit the interviewer with a lower than expected salary on the grounds that your current ability is not enough, but we are willing to give you the opportunity to learn.

He has also worked in this industry for four years. He can't be said to have a complete understanding of this industry, but he also understands some industry rules, so he is naturally not the kind of idiot who believes what others say.

But after Chen Nian finished talking about these questions, Xie Yu thought about it carefully.

He felt that what Chen Nian said was reasonable, and he couldn't even find a way to refute these questions.

But being belittled like this, he felt a little dissatisfied.

After all, since he first entered the industry, he has been called by many people as a godsend.

After Chen Nian finished speaking, he looked at Xie Yu with a bad expression and said: "You have passed the test now, I can give you a normal chef's salary if you stay, but you can't cook right away, you need to pay your current salary. Only after the dishes on the table are up to standard can they be served independently.”

When Xie Yu heard this, he meant to give himself the salary of a capable cook first, but even if the salary was paid to him, he could only do the work of preparing dishes first.

He admits that he may indeed be lacking in some areas, but since you say so, you must be better than me.

Sometimes work is not just for making money, so Xie Yu said directly: "Boss, this is my first time here, since you are willing to let me stay, can I also taste the dishes you cook, and learn Huh?"

Just now He Hai just kept his head down and ate the food. He thought the food tasted really good.

But compared to the master, it is still quite a bit worse.

However, Master has been commenting since just now, and he didn't have much room to interrupt, so he kept his head buried in cooking.

But when Xie Yu said this, he suddenly raised his head!

Good guy, the happy part is here!
The new employees are unconvinced and want to see the boss's craftsmanship!
A look of anticipation suddenly appeared on his face!
And Chen Nian nodded after hearing this, it seems that this is someone who wants to see his own ability.

"Okay, then you can choose two dishes from the menu."

Xie Yu looked at the menu. The first dish was twice-cooked pork, and the second dish was mapo tofu.

When He Hai saw these two dishes, his heart became more stable.

Mapo tofu is the boss's famous dish!
It is said that when the Honghong Restaurant reopened, the boss relied on the mapo tofu one by one, and the business exploded in a short period of time!
(End of this chapter)