Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 510
"It looks pretty good." After seeing the mixed couple's lung slices, Lu Xiao couldn't help but brighten his eyes.

"Of course, I'm a chef. If the food the chef cooks isn't delicious, can I still be called a cook?" Chen Nian couldn't help but say a little arrogantly. "However, it's better to stew the pig's trotters for a while. This stuff is difficult to stew. The mandarin duck milk tea will only need to be washed in a while. I'll go and make the candied apples first."

Chen Nian said and went back to the kitchen, but at this time the kitchen was already full of strong meaty aroma, it was obvious that the pot of pig's trotters was almost unbearable, and he couldn't wait to be eaten.

But now is not the time to get out of the pot, it will be refreshing to eat after steaming out of the pot for a while.

"Come on, I didn't eat at night, but I've waited until now, and I'm almost starving."

"Immediately, we can have dinner soon." Chen Nian said hastily.

As Chen Nian was talking, he took out his mobile phone and searched the Internet for how to make candied apples, and then chose a master who had been following him before.

After spending more than four minutes watching the whole thing, Chen Nian knew it in his mind.

"It's really not that difficult to do."

Then take out the apples from under the table, wash them, peel off the outer skin, and soak them in water.

Then take out four eggs, pour only the egg whites into a bowl, and beat them with an electric whisk.

"It's better to say that the current technological development is better. Otherwise, it is quite laborious to beat with chopsticks. It's not like using a machine to beat it in a few seconds, and the texture is even." Chen Nian couldn't help feeling.

"That's right. I mostly rely on machines to open a cake shop. Otherwise, my workload would at least triple." Lu Xiao nodded empathetically beside him.

Chen Nian kept beating the egg white until it could stand the chopsticks, then stopped, and then added low-gluten flour and stirred it evenly, so that the egg batter would become firmer when it came.

Then put the same amount of cornstarch in the bowl as the low-gluten flour just now, and then add water to slowly stir it up, so that the low-gluten flour dissolves in the water.

Finally, pour it into the egg white bowl just now and mix well again.

Stir until the texture is fine and there are no lumps, and it looks like thick milk at a glance.

Immediately after aging, apples were cut again, the apples that had been peeled were removed again, and then cut into strips while the cut apples were placed in water again to avoid oxidation.

For apples, if they are not soaked in water, they will oxidize very quickly when in contact with air, and the surface will turn yellow and darker in a short time.

After all the apples were cut, Chen Nian scooped up a handful in the water, cleaned the surface of the starch briefly, and then took it out.

"Sister, help me get some cornstarch."

Chen Nian's hands are still wet, so he had to ask his cousin for help.

Then pour the cornstarch into the basin containing the apples and keep moving the dustpan up and down so that the starch in the basin can fully contact and wrap the apples.

After the surface of the apples is covered with a layer of white gauze, pour the custard made from egg flour and starch into it and stir again.

After a while, after this step was completed, Chen Nian dried his hands and turned to pour oil into a clean pot.

When the oil is warmed to about [-]%.

Chen Nian uses the long chopsticks used to fry fried dough sticks in the morning to put the apples that are already moist and white on the outside into the pot.

When the apple was first put into the pot, there was no big reaction, only small bubbles were constantly bubbling around the body.

After putting all the apples into it, the temperature of the oil gradually increased, but at this time, the old man turned to a low heat and fried slowly.

Although it was a small fire, the temperature of the oil was still slowly rising. As time went by, the oil in the pot began to boil gradually, making a rattling sound, which was very pleasant to hear.

In this way, it has been fried in the pan for about 2 minutes. Chen Nian saw the apples hanging in the oil pan. The paste on the outside has been completely formed, and the apples are firmly wrapped inside.

At the same time, the surface looks extremely smooth, and the color is slightly yellowish. This is the condition for fishing in the video he watched just now.

I found a large strainer, picked up all the apples to control the oil, and put them on a plate for later use.

Then refill the pot with oil, and later he plans to add some water.

Adding water when frying sugar can use the water temperature to neutralize and lower the oil temperature, so that the oil's ability to lock heat is reduced, which is quite friendly for beginners.

After all, there are many novices who can't control the oil temperature and heat when frying sugar, which can easily cause the sugar to become bitter.

Although aging is not a novice, the color of the sugar fried in this way will be more pure, and the taste and color will be brighter and more transparent.

"More sugar." Chen Nian said, pouring a bowl of cotton white sugar into it.

After all, it is a candied apple. If there is less sugar, it is impossible to achieve the candied effect. Only enough sugar can produce enough syrup to adhere to the apple, and a thin layer of color will not achieve the candied effect.

After the sugar was put in, Chen Nian added the water that he had been talking about just now. Soon after touching the water, the white sugar quickly dispersed like the white snow that fell in June, and melted into the half-oil and half-water liquid.

After that, it is the normal frying sugar color step, but the process of white sugar changing color becomes slower due to the addition of water, first showing countless dense vesicles in a white state.

Aging is constantly stirring in the pot with a spoon so that every part of the sugar water in the pot can be evenly heated.

"Hey, Xiaonian, you said there are candied apples, but do you have candied grapes, candied oranges, candied bananas?" Lu Xiao suddenly asked curiously. She had been standing here since just now, nothing else. The main thing is to learn from Chen Nian.

Not all the steps can be memorized or repeated, but at least if she can learn something, then she has made money. She will not be able to eat at Chen Nian's house every day in the future. Now she just moved here, and there is no Find the right house, so stay temporarily.

If there is a suitable place, she will move there immediately.

After Chen Nian heard this, he couldn't help raising his head: "Sister, there are really such dishes, and not only can they be cooked, these dishes have also been put on the state banquet. After seeing these dishes, all the foreigners felt miraculous. Very well, the candy can be stretched long when picked up with chopsticks.”

"Are these dishes served at a state banquet?"

"Yeah, don't those foreigners prefer to eat sweet things? And the candied dishes in our country have been around for a long time, so the state banquet chefs at that time made these few dishes for them.

Lu Xiao was a little shocked. She just thought of those things just now, but she didn't expect them to exist, and they all attended the state banquet!
"I don't know when you will be able to cook for the state banquet in Xiaonian, then our family will be regarded as a glorious ancestor." Lu Xiaoxin said with emotion.

As a result, Chen Nian smiled when he heard this: "Then I guess it's enough. After all, there are no famous teachers to lead the way, and secondly, there is no such family background. Although the cooking skills are not bad, it is one of the best on our street. , but if you want to take it to other places, it will not be ranked.”

Chen Nian is still very close to himself. After all, he knows that although he has a system, it has only been more than half a year since he obtained the system back and forth.

And many masters can be regarded as living recipes. They have been cooking for a lifetime and have studied in the field of a cuisine for a lifetime, so they must have their own uniqueness.

While talking about aging, I watched the sugar in the pot change from small bubbles to fish-eye-like big bubbles, and then turned into small bubbles again, and then the color gradually turned to brown.

"Sister, help me fish out the apples and put them into the pot after controlling the water for a while."

"Okay." Lu Xiao moved very quickly, quickly drained the water in the pot, and then poured the apples into the pot.

As soon as the apples were put into the pot, they began to be contaminated with the sugar in the pot very quickly, as if a bear child went to a relative's house and met something he wanted and wanted to keep it for himself.

After the apples are put in, the aging is just a few simple stir-fry with a spoon, and all the sugar in the pot will stick to the apples.

After a few more stir-fries, the apples even started to stick together, and the apples were already hugged together after turning over and over.

"Okay, it's out of the pot!" As soon as Chen Nian finished speaking, Lu Xiao took a plate and put it next to Chen Nian.

After taking out the shredded apples, you can see the thin threads between the apples with the naked eye. At the same time, the brown sugar is as attractive as if the apples are covered with a layer of brown gauze. And sexy.

Coupled with the faint sweetness that permeates from the pot, in the eyes of those who like sweets, it is like transferring to a new class, only to find that my deskmate is a crush who transferred a day earlier than myself Objects are average.

And it just so happened that Lu Xiao was a loyal lover of sweets.

"No, no, I have to taste one first, it looks so beautiful!" Lu Xiao couldn't wait to take the chopsticks and went up to pick up a piece of apple, but it didn't matter, a few slender sticks of candy when he lifted it up The silk was pulled out directly from between the apples.

She kept lifting it up like this, and the sugar thread was constantly stretching and stretching.

"It's silky, it's silky! It's so long!" Lu Xiao shouted in surprise.

It was the first time for Chen Nian to make this kind of dish, and he was very surprised to see it.

"It really came out!"

As a result, the cousin gave me a blank look as soon as the words came out: "Look at what you said, what do you mean by pulling it out, it's too ugly, you have said it all! Can La Sier understand? You are still a chef , if you talk like this every day, don’t you think all your guests have run away?”

"We are actually relatives. If I told outsiders, I would definitely not say that." Chen Nian argued, although he had never thought of this before.

But after a few seconds, Lu Xiao found that the silk could still be pulled. She even pulled the chopsticks to the top of her head, and the sugar silk hadn't completely broken.

"It's absolutely amazing!" Lu Xiao had indeed eaten candied sweet potatoes before, but that was eaten in a restaurant when BJ was in school, but the candied sweet potatoes at that time did not have such long shreds.

In the end, Lu Xiao directly raised his hand to the highest point, and managed to tear off the thread.

"It's really good enough." Then she took a chopstick and picked up the candy under it and turned it around, until it was near the apple, and finally brought the candy and the apple to her mouth.

The candy was put into his mouth, but Apple Lu Xiao still took a small bite.

"It's hot, it's hot! It's so sweet, it's so sweet!" Lu Xiao sucked, with a look of joy on his face, "The inside of the apple is still crisp! You are so good at it! I will do this again when I turn around." Give it a try, I really like this!"

When Chen Nian heard his cousin's praise, he was naturally flattered, but seeing how delicious his cousin's food was, he couldn't help but pick up his chopsticks.

And his chopsticks were no different, it wasn't until he lifted the apple over his head that the candy strands broke.

Then he took a small bite: "Well, the taste is good, and the texture is good. It's silky while eating, and it's sweet, but it's not that greasy sweetness. It also has apple fruit acid in it. If it's the same as A table of big fish and meat is placed on the same table, so you can't be rushed to finish it?"

Chen Nian also spoke highly of this plate of candied apples.

"Sister, help me take this out. I think the pig's trotters are almost stewed. Let's have dinner after I make the mandarin duck milk tea!"

"No problem, hurry up, I'm going to starve to death!"

Chen Nian nodded, and then continued making mandarin duck milk tea.

Take out the coffee pulp that my cousin made before from the refrigerator. It is actually very simple to make coffee pulp, that is, use about ten grams of coffee powder and about twenty grams of white sugar, add about ten grams of boiling water, and then use a spoon clockwise. Stir.

Until the coffee in this cup is stirred into a dense and fine mud, it is considered a success.

After taking it out, pour half of the coffee slurry in the cup into another cup.

Immediately after Chen Nian took a few ice cubes from the refrigerator and put them in the two glasses respectively.

Finally, pour in the black tea that has been completely cooled naturally before, add evaporated milk and stir it evenly, and a cup of mandarin duck milk tea, which is popular in Hong Kong and Macau, is ready.

But Chen Nian thought that he used a straw to stir in the cup just now, does this process count as beating mandarin ducks?
After taking out the milk tea, Chen Nian went back to the kitchen and turned off the fire that was stewing the pig's trotters. Finally, he took out the pig's trotters and some soup inside. When he was taking out the trotters, Chen Nian's stomach was protesting wildly , It seems to be complaining why it takes so long to make delicious food every time.

The soft and extremely colored braised pork knuckle exudes a rich aroma of meat. The soft and smooth skin shines brightly under the light of the kitchen. It shakes tremblingly from side to side with a slight movement, like a jelly generally.

"Cousin serves dinner!"

(End of this chapter)