Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 244 The first attempt

Anyway, I have already thought about what I should think about, but after Chen Nian put down the phone, Feng Honghong asked curiously: "Son, what are you going to do with the two fish you bought today?"

And Chen Nian felt that there was nothing to hide: "Squirrel mandarin fish."

Xie Yu was stunned for a moment when he heard this. His experience was obviously richer than the others. After all, he had been a chef for three years, so he said, "This dish is a bit complicated to cook, Master, can you do it well?" ?”

"Almost." Chen Nian nodded, "I plan to launch this dish after the store is renovated, and it is limited every day. After all, we don't have that much energy, and Xiaoxie's skills are also brought up now. I can be completely independent when I have time, and I can do these things with a lot of energy.

There is also Aunt Wen and my mother at the front desk, who are a little busy during meal times, but they are completely busy after observing these few days. "

Chen Nian said slowly, and everyone nodded.

After dinner, Wen Hongxia and He Hai went to the back kitchen to clean up the kitchen and the dishes. Although washing dishes is now Wen Hongxia's job, He Hai also volunteered to help. "

On Chen Nian's side, he received some WeChat messages, which were all sent from the group chat a few days ago.

These are the design companies that were called to measure the houses before, and they must have made the design drawings for me to take a look at.

First of all, I frowned when I opened the first old store: "This is not good, it is too far from the style I want. I have clearly said it before, but it turned out like this."

After telling them that what I want is not this style, I opened the second group...

This is another company.

After looking at the pictures, Chen Nian found that the style was a bit different from what he wanted, but it was too luxurious.

After making some comments again, Chen Nian opened another group.

In this way, Chen Nian read all the pictures in the group that sent seven or eight design drawings. Among them, there are three design styles that basically do not match what he wants, and the other four belong to the kind that have some differences.

This made Chen Nian somewhat dissatisfied.

For vintage, basically this week will determine the general style, and then start work, that is to say, Honghong Hotel will be temporarily closed after finishing this week.

It's been a while since I took over Honghong Restaurant, even if it closes down and reopens, it's only a matter of time before the popularity regroups.

After all, when Lao Chen was running the Honghong Restaurant, most of the people he attracted were the neighbors and some office workers nearby. However, after he took over, the main diners besides a small number of neighbors have become the people who work in the surrounding area. Those office workers and tourists who come to travel from other places, as well as some people who come here to eat because of the name.

As a result, the number of people dining in the store every day must be more than before.

When the time comes to treat Xiao Jing and Miao Miaowu to a meal with new dishes, they will naturally promote themselves.

In the twinkling of an eye, it was night...

Everyone else gradually went back, and there was only one old one left in the store. They mopped the kitchen and the outside floor clean, wiped the table carefully, and even lowered their heads to see if there was anything missing. .

Finally, when the appointed time came, a not-too-tall man appeared outside the door as scheduled, with short hair. He looked thin and small but was wearing loose clothes. His face looked a little tired, but he walked like a A girl like the wind.

That is to say, An Hongdou doesn't have the airs of a star. She is already well-known, but she doesn't care about her image at all, and she is still the same as before.

Anyway, very cute.

"coming?"

Chen Nian poked his head out from the kitchen to ask, while the hand still in the kitchen was placed on the faucet to wash away the last trace of blood.

The fish had just been killed.

Now the corpse is lying on the chopping board, just jumping up and down from time to time, declaring its last dignity in this world.

"Yeah, I just finished work, and I almost missed it." An Hongdou said.

"It's okay, it's just in time. I just finished handling the fish and I'm ready to do it."

"Then can I come in and take a look?"

"Yes you can."

Aging during non-business hours doesn’t really mind other people coming to the kitchen, as long as they don’t make trouble, it’s fine if it’s just a friend coming in and wanting to watch their cooking.

There are several important steps in making squirrel mandarin fish. The first is to cut the fish, the second is to wrap it in flour, the third is to fry it in a pan, the fourth is to arrange it, and the fifth is to prepare the sauce and finish the final pouring.

The more important thing is to cut and fry these two aspects.

The second is to wrap the flour and prepare the sauce.

First of all, it is very particular when cutting. First of all, the head of the fish must be removed. At that time, this dish will be used as the head of the squirrel when it is placed on the plate.

The second is to use a sharp knife to cut the fracture of the fish head, and draw it close to the tail, but it cannot be cut, otherwise this dish will be considered a failure.

The second is to turn the fish over, and then ctrl-c and ctrl-v the steps just now.

Immediately after that, chop off with a knife to remove the bone in the middle. The spines cannot be eaten in the dish of squirrel mandarin fish.

Then, of course, the most critical part is to spread out the fish meat, first use a straight shave, and then use an oblique shave to shave the fish into diamond shapes one by one, but at the same time, it cannot be cut through, that is, cut under the fish skin.

With this step, this fish can be called squirrel fish.

After frying, these fish meat cut into diamond shapes can stand up.

But this knife skill is not a big problem for the current aging. The only difference is that the cut feeling of fish is not the same as that of tofu, and the scale of cutting fish must be mastered.

If it goes too deep, the fish can't stand it, and if it goes too shallow, it's not satisfying.

After carefully cutting the fish, the skin of the fish did not appear damaged.

"Yes, I didn't expect your skill to be so high. When I saw you making Wensi tofu before, it was a mass of paste before it was put into the pot, and nothing could be seen. But when I watched you cut the fish, you looked serious. What's the matter with being a little handsome?"

When Chen Nian heard this, his hands shook.

Fortunately, I have already finished cutting, otherwise, if I shake it like this, then all previous efforts will be wasted?

"It's true that I'm quite handsome." Chen Nian said.

An Hongdou actually wanted to praise Chen Nian's knife skills just now, but he didn't expect Chen Nian to answer such a sentence, and immediately laughed tremblingly.

"You're quite narcissistic."

"Of course you have to be narcissistic. To be a chef, you have to have confidence in yourself. If you don't think it's delicious, how can others think it's delicious? If I don't think I'm handsome, how can I make others think I'm handsome?"

(End of this chapter)