Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 412
Chen Nian galloped all the way, and finally stopped at the entrance of Honghong Hotel smoothly, and then handed the key to Hongdou.

Go to the side to park by yourself.

"What new dish do you want today besides noodles?" An Hongdou asked curiously.

"Small steamed buns." Chen Nian didn't hold back, and told the other party the answer straightforwardly.

"This is good. I like Xiaolongbao very much! For a period of time, I would buy a basket of Xiaolongbao every day. Once when I was eating breakfast, I found that I still wanted to eat a basket, but I wanted it again. One cage, and finally made myself uncomfortable all morning." An Hongdou recalled.

But looking at the appearance of the red beans now, even if she was uncomfortable eating Xiaolongbao before, it didn't affect her love for Xiaolongbao in her heart.

"My current Xiaolongbao is still in the experimental stage. I made it once yesterday, and today I have some improved plans. It is probably several versions away from the level that can be served on the table." Chen Nian said.

Give He Hongdou a vaccination in advance, otherwise the previous impression in the other party's mind of himself is that the cooking is delicious. If he cooks something unsatisfactory this time, he will feel disappointed in his heart.

"Then are these versions of yours big or small?" An Hongdou asked curiously again, revealing her game geek attributes with a single mouth.

"For the big version, there is at most one, and the rest should be the update of the small version." Chen Nian thought for a moment and then said.

But while talking, he has already come to the kitchen, washed his hands clean, and then dried his hands carefully with a dry towel, even between his fingers and nails.

Although when you knead the noodles with your hands for a while, you will get scabs on your hands, but Chen Nian still needs to ensure that his hands are clean before cooking, so that the food eaten by the guests will naturally be full of scabs. Clean.

This is the case with cooking. Although the chef cooks in the back kitchen and adds something to the pot, the customer may not be able to eat it, but as long as he does that, he is no longer worthy of being called a chef.

There are also some fast food restaurants that have appeared in the news using expired ingredients for cooking, completely disregarding kitchen hygiene, and overflowing with sewage. Old age is also contempt from the heart.

His tenet is that if you can do it, you should try your best to do it well, if you can’t do it, don’t do it, even if you make money, you can’t make unconscionable money. There are so many industries in the world, it doesn’t have to be catering.

But most of the time he can't control others, he can only manage himself first.

After washing his hands, Chen Nian started to make steamed stuffed buns. This time, he put various seasonings and ingredients such as minced meat, light soy sauce, and salt into the pot and stirred them evenly, and then added an appropriate amount of water.

After adding water, I found that the stuffing is much thinner, and after soaking and absorbing for a certain period of time, the steamed bun stuffing will definitely be more tender and juicy than the first time.

The stuffing of the steamed stuffed buns is adjusted, and the old ones are covered with plastic wrap.

Then put it in the refrigerator for refrigeration.

Refrigerate for better flavor.

And An Hongdou watched by Chen Nian the whole time, and chatted with Chen Nian from time to time. Although Chen Nian was busy, his mouth was not idle either.

An Hongdou watched Chen Nian take out the flour, recalled her childhood, sighed and said: "During the period when I first came out to work, I also wanted to be able to make some meals at home occasionally, so I bought some Tableware, bought noodles and rice.

One day I suddenly wanted to eat noodles, but it was too hot outside and I didn’t want to go out to buy noodles, so I prepared to make them myself, and it turned out to be exactly as the joke said, when there was too much water, I put the noodles, and when there was too much noodles, I put water again, and finally it came out A whole lot. "

Listening to Hongdou talking about his own embarrassment, Chen Nian couldn't help but feel a little funny: "Then what happened later? Was it successful? You shouldn't be able to finish a meal with so many noodles, right?"

"It should be a success. Anyway, I finally made them into noodles and put them in the pot. After cooking, I found that they were quite delicious. As for the remaining dough... I made some of them into noodles and put them in the refrigerator, and some of them were fried. It became a cake, but even so, there was still a lot of dough left. I wanted to put it in the refrigerator and wait for the next time to eat, but then I slowly forgot about it. When I remembered it, the dough had already grown green hair."

"It's a pity, but I was similar to you when I first tried to cook." Chen Nian said.

"Impossible? You cook such delicious food, how could it be similar to mine?" An Hongdou couldn't believe it.

"It wasn't half a year ago when I first learned how to cook, it was when I was preparing to open a restaurant.

When I was in college, every time I came back from vacation, I would discuss cooking with my dad, but at that time we compared cooking dark dishes, including the black goat cub you ate last time. I was also there Researched for several years. "

Speaking of this past memory, An Hongdou also had a very deep impression in his heart: "But to be honest, that dish is quite delicious, if you don't consider its shape... Of course, for Cthulhu lovers like me Saying that this dish was nothing short of a surprise.”

"That's when I met the right person. You must know that my parents didn't take a bite after seeing this dish, and my father took my mother to the hotel for a day on the spot." Chen Nian said helplessly.

Hearing this, An Hongdou giggled, covering her mouth to stop laughing, but how could it be so easy to restrain her emotions?

Kean Hongdou smiled and suddenly remembered another memory.

"By the way, Chen Nian, I suddenly remembered that I had eaten steamed three smells at your place before. Is this also the dark dish you cooked at that time?"

"Steaming three smells is not right, this dish was made by my father at the beginning, it seems that he learned it when he traveled to Shaoxing, and then I learned it from him. I still remember the first dish you ate at that time. I just vomited in my mouth." Chen Nian also vividly remembered this experience.

"Haha, it's not that I thought the tofu was broken...and I ate it later, but this dish is actually quite delicious if you eat it, and it goes well with meals, but to be honest, for me personally, I eat it once in a while. It’s okay to eat as a novelty, but if you eat it as a home-cooked dish, it may be a bit unacceptable.”

Chen Nian deeply agrees with An Hongdou's opinion.

"But didn't you compete with your uncle in cooking like this at that time? Uncle made steamed three smells, so what did you do?"

"Breaded fish in garlic oil." Old age still remembers the name of that dish very clearly, because when I think about it now, the smell still burrows into my nose like maggots attached to the bone.

"It doesn't sound very dark, does it? And to be honest, I still want to try it..." An Hongdou was thinking of the dark dishes he had eaten here three times before.

And to be honest, these three dishes are actually not bad, especially the soy milk tastes very pure, and the smell is quite right.

Although the black goat cub looks curious, it tastes sour and sweet.

So she subconsciously thought that the fish in garlic oil was one of those dishes that looked or smelled like dark dishes, but tasted very delicious.

Then he asked curiously, "What ingredients are you using for this dish?"

"Soybean juice, stinky tofu juice, canned herring, Laoshan snake grass water, sour bamboo shoots, black garlic..." Although it has been so long, this dish is still a treasure in the past.

An Hongdou's face changed when he heard it.

Is this cooking?

This is clearly a crime!

"I didn't expect you to be so rebellious." An Hongdou couldn't help but sigh, as if she knew Chen Nian again.

After all, it is not easy to be able to make this kind of thing at home and survive until now.

"Your parents really love you..." An Hongdou said seriously.

"Yeah, I always felt that my parents were very kind to me, but even so, I was locked up at home for several days, and my parents lived in hotels during those few days, and the money was paid by me. Living expenses for the next semester.

In order to get rid of those smells, I specially bought dozens of packs of activated charcoal, five kilograms of tea leaves specially used to remove the smell, and ten pots of green baskets.

By the time the smell dissipated, the green radishes were already dying. "

An Hongdou's stomach hurts from laughing at this very tasteful and substituting description. She herself has a particularly low point of laughter, and coupled with the vividness of the old description, An Hongdou can't help it.

"But in the end, the smell at home disappeared, and the smell on my body was still there. I had to wash in the bathroom at home for two hours, but I could still smell the stench faintly after I came out. Finally, I went to the bathhouse I soaked it all day, almost swollen my whole body, and finally I asked a back rubbing master to rub it hard, and then the smell dissipated."

"Don't say it, don't say it, I'm going to die laughing... why are you so cute..."

"Cute?" Chen Nian thought to himself, does this count as cute?

He even felt that if he wasn't the son of Feng Honghong and Lao Chen, he might be tied up and sent to the police station on the spot.

"Yeah, I thought that after you happily made your breaded fish, you were locked up at home to clean up, and in the end you were wronged and tried your best to wash yourself, but you found that you still smelled, so you had to soak in the bathhouse. Afterwards, I went to find a back rubbing master again, and it was very cute to see the pain and still have to grit my teeth."

Chen Nian felt that An Hongdou had quietly awakened some attribute?
But just as they were chatting, Chen Nian also reconciled.

After the noodles are reconciled, they need to be left to proof for a period of time. In addition to adding water, noodles, salt, and yeast, sweet baking powder is also added to the aging.

"You said in the afternoon that you wanted to eat small beef noodles. I specially reserved some for you. How about I cook the noodles for you when the buns are almost ready? Are you hungry now?"

"I'm fine. I ate late at noon and stayed at home for a whole day without going out in the afternoon. I feel okay now."

"Then I'll make the noodles later, and then eat the noodles with the steamed stuffed buns."

"no problem."

Just wait for the time to pass by every minute and every second, until the dough is proofed and the filling is fully flavored.

Only then did Chen Nian prepare to make steamed buns.

After yesterday's attempt, Chen Nian is quite proficient at making buns.

Although the speed is still a bit slow, at least the buns that are wrapped are all in good shape.

And An Hongdou looked at the old-fashioned buns, and couldn't help itching for a while.

"Can I pack a few?"

"Of course." Chen Nian nodded, "But can you make Xiaolongbao?"

"No, I only know how to make dumplings and wontons. Our family used to make these two things a lot, but we seldom make buns. We usually eat them from relatives or go out to buy them, so I haven't learned how to do them." Someone Hongdou said, "But I don't think it's difficult for you to wrap it. You can teach me how to do it."

"Okay."

Chen Nian began to teach An Hongdou how to make steamed buns, but An Hongdou found that making buns looked simple, but in fact it was quite difficult, especially since An Hongdou hadn't cooked by herself for a long time.

No matter how many times I wrapped it, I couldn't make the buns what they should look like.

Looking at Chen Nian, I was a little anxious, obviously I was doing every step very slowly, but what An Hongdou made was different from her own.

"You have to pinch this crease first, and don't let it loose...it's the kind of pushing it away...the thumb pushes behind, and the index finger pinches the crease in front."

Chen Nian talked about the main points carefully, but An Hongdou still didn't make it.

In a hurry, Chen Nian put down the bun skin in his hand on the spot, and grabbed An Hongdou's hand directly.

"Look, this thumb of yours should be placed in this place..."

"Then push it forward slowly. This finger should do this first, and then do this again, and you can pinch the crease...Pinch it together with the thumb side...Isn't it good? The back That's the repetitive action." Chen Nian taught An Hongdou hand in hand.

An Hongdou didn't expect Chen Nian to teach herself like this at all, and her face flushed instantly.

There are many thoughts in my heart, thinking whether Chen Nian did this on purpose or...

But seeing that Chen Nian still looked normal after teaching him, and even looked at him with some expectation.

"Have you learned it? Try it yourself?" Chen Nian asked.

Hearing this, An Hongdou couldn't tell for a while whether Chen Nian did it on purpose.

But at least on the surface, it seems that he really wants to teach himself how to make Xiaolongbao.

But in this way, I was the only one who was thinking about it.

So at this moment, where is she thinking about pinching the folds of the steamed stuffed bun?
"Forget it, this is too difficult. I can't learn it. You should make dumplings. I'll show you off next time you make dumplings." title.

But what she didn't know was that Chen Nian was indeed as she had imagined in the beginning.

Chen Nian was really anxious when he started directly just now, but when he held the opponent's hand, his mind instantly cleared up.

How did he grab An Hongdou's hand?
Now how to do?
Letting go in a hurry makes it appear that I have a ghost in my heart, it is better to just make mistakes like this, and use tricks...

Chen Nianqiang held on and taught the other party to pinch three or four folds, then let go very calmly, and then pretended to be expecting and waited for An Hongdou to repeat the action just now.

In fact, a group of panicked.

He finally breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that An Hongdou said that he planned to give up making dumplings and wanted to show off his skills in making dumplings next time.

Because that would change the subject.

(End of this chapter)