Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 661

And Chen Nian explained this matter for a long time, but Hongdou couldn't believe that she got up in the middle of the night and called Chen Nian, and even called her husband.

Also gave a kiss.

"How could I do such a thing, you are not lying to me, are you?" An Hongdou questioned.

"Really! That is, I was woken up suddenly last night. I didn't record it. Otherwise, I would have recorded it for you." What Chen Nian said here was truer than the truth.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!" An Hongdou refused to believe anything.

"Anyway, I didn't lie to you. You really said that last night. I only realized it after I woke up in the morning." There is no way to explain it to you.

In this way, An Hongdou recalled it for a while, but still didn't remember anything.

"You really didn't record it?"

"No, I would have listened to you if I wanted to record it." Chen Nian said.

"You'd better not record it, otherwise I will have your dark history here!" An Hongdou said.

Now it's Chen Nian's turn to be confused: "Black history? What black history?"

"Hehe, I won't tell you now, you'll know when you offend me in the future." An Hongdou hung up the phone after finishing speaking, leaving Chen Nian here to figure out the situation.

"What's going on now?"

"Why does everyone seem to have a handle on me? My mother has photos of me when I was a child, and Hongdou has my dark history. Will my nude photos be flying around the world by tomorrow?" Chen Nian looked at his phone in disbelief for a moment. Know what to say.

……

For the next period of time, Chen Nian would run over to help his cousin every day when the Honghong Hotel was not very busy, sometimes helping to sell goods, and sometimes helping to weigh.

Although it is also his first time working as a salesperson, with previous service experience, he got started quickly, and he is familiar with the cakes here.

Two or three days passed like this.

Xue Yan's scheduled banquet is about to start preparations, and some ingredients need to be prepared in advance, so these old ingredients are also sent over by the supplier in advance.

I have to say that the supplier that Miao Miaowu knew was quite capable, all the ingredients sent were fresh, and they were on time, without any delay in the middle.

What Chen Nian needs to prepare for is Buddha Jumping Wall. This is his only chance to sell Buddha Jumping Wall recently.

Since there are 50 servings to be prepared, Chen Nian specially bought two large jars to make them separately. If you use one, it will be too big. Firstly, your own stove is not enough, and secondly, use such a large jar to fill it with ingredients If so, transportation is also a hassle. If something goes wrong midway and the jar breaks, the hundreds of thousands of ingredients in it will be ruined.

You can't expect Xue Yan's family to eat food picked up from the ground, can you?
And for Buddha Tiaoqiang, at that level, the most important thing is not the ingredients in it, but the big jar of soup.

In the kitchen, other people are busy preparing ingredients for noon, while Chen Nian is preparing Buddha Jumping Over the Wall.

Native chicken, Muscovy duck, trotters, pig skin, pork, keel, chicken feet... first cut into pieces, and then put them in a cold water pot for blanching. Every 10 minutes of aging, the lid will be opened to skim off the foam.

These are all things formed after the blood inside is solidified by heat.

"Master, is this about to start?"

"Yes, it has already started." Chen Nian nodded.

"Then why does it take so long to skim off the froth? Generally speaking, shouldn't the froth be scooped out at any time?" Xie Yu was curious.

"It's not just for skimming the froth. Waiting for the soup will also be of great use. If the lid is opened too often, the soup will not taste good after boiling, but this step takes about half an hour."

After skimming off the scum three times, use the strainer prepared in advance to fish out the ingredients and put them in a basin, and then put them under cold water to start cleaning.

First, it was rinsed several times with cold water, and then it was washed piece by piece after aging.

"Does it need to be washed so carefully?" He Hai was also a little surprised. Although the master is very serious about every dish, it is very rare to be so serious.

"Yes, after taking it out, you must wash every piece of meat as soon as possible. Whether it's chicken or pork, it's best not to have half of the residue on it, so that it can be cooked again. You can keep the soup clean after the soup comes."

Up to now, Chen Nian still remembers that it took him an hour to wash the meat for the first time on the Platinum Star, but with the accumulation of experience, basically more than 40 minutes is enough.

After washing, the aging will start to put these ingredients into the prepared earthen jars in advance, prepare two portions, and put them into the two earthen jars respectively.

And the proportion of these ingredients has long been familiar with the aging, because the protein and fat contained in each ingredient are different. If there is too much pork, the soup will become too greasy, but if the chicken is too much, the whole The taste will almost mean again.

The more advanced the dish, the more attention should be paid to the details.

And although the others were busy with their own work during this process, they still couldn't help but glance over there, because except for Qiao Zhaomei, no one else had seen Buddha jumping over the wall, and even Qiao Zhaomei had eaten it before. This dish, but it was also eaten in a restaurant, and I have not seen the specific steps.

"Master, how many days will it take to do this well? Then how far should we go today?" Li Ting was also curious about this. He had worked in a five-star hotel before, but there was no such thing as Buddha jumping over the wall in that hotel. vegetable.

"Normally speaking, this dish does take a few days to prepare, but today's task is nothing else, just to make the soup milky white, and the rest will be done tomorrow."

"Today is just hanging soup?"

"Yes, this soup is the most important in the whole process. Buddha Jumps Over the Wall can eat the precious ingredients in it, but in the end, the value of that soup may be higher than the ingredients in it." Chen Nian said.

"However, master, I have always had a question, that is, why do these soups turn milky white when boiled, and some things will turn white after being fried in oil?"

Now it's within Chen Nian's professional field.

"The fat of bones and meat will be emulsified when heated, which is an emulsification reaction. Of course, when making baby dishes with soup, you also need to add some ingredients in advance and fry them with oil.

However, vegetable oil will also have the same reaction. After the emulsification reaction, the oil will form a stable fat suspended in water, just like you pour sugar into water and stir it. No matter where you drink it, drink it It sounds sweet, right? "

"Yes." Xie Yu nodded.

"It's just that it has no color, and the emulsified fat I mentioned is white, so it seems that the soup is also white, and after adding crucian carp, the color of the soup will be more beautiful and the taste will be softer. Some."

After Chen Nian explained the others, they suddenly realized: "It turned out to be like this. Seeing that there is no Xiaohai, people have to study hard to live. If you don't study hard, you can't even know how to cook. Look at Master's key university. It's not the same. !"

After hearing this, He Hai was stunned for a moment, and then replied: "Brother Xie, how can your education be higher than mine?"

"I'm in high school, what education do you have?"

When He Hai heard this, he immediately became discouraged: "I am in junior high school."

"Look, isn't that the difference? I have studied three years longer than you, and what I learned in high school is so profound that you won't understand it even if I tell you!" Xie Yu immediately stood up.

Li Ting didn't even need to ask, that was his cousin, so he knew very well that Li Ting's education was actually a junior high school, no different from He Hai.

"Zhaomeier, what education do you have?" Xie Yu looked at Qiao Zhaomei again.

Qiao Zhaomei raised her head and glanced at Xie Yu: "I, I went to a college because I didn't study well back then."

Upon hearing this, Xie Yu immediately fell silent. A college education is indeed better than his high school education.

But Xie Yu held back, and the others laughed.

At this moment, Wen Hongxia rounded up the situation and said, "Speaking of going to school, I haven't even finished elementary school, and I only learned to read and count later."

"Auntie, it's different for you. In your era, you might be able to assign work after you graduated from a technical secondary school, and it is no different from us after you graduate from a technical secondary school." Xie Yu said. Slightly older, so know something of the past.

"That's true, but my family was poor when I was a child. I couldn't even afford junior high school, let alone a technical secondary school. I went home to help farm before finishing elementary school." Aunt Wen said.

Then they listened to Aunt Wen and Feng Honghong talking about the past.

After the soup was simmered, Chen Nian had nothing else to do, so he had time to cook.

It happened to be noon at this time, and after two hours of busy work, Chen Nian started frying fish again when everyone was resting.

Heat the pan with cold oil, put the crucian carp in after the oil is hot, the muscles of the fish shrink rapidly, wait until both sides are fried until golden, put the fish into two crock pots and continue to cook.

In this way, Chen Nian has been focusing on these two altars of Buddha jumping over the wall for the past few days. During the cooking interval, Chen Nian will also help with the work in the store.

But when other people said they wanted to help, Chen Nian still refused, not because he looked down on these apprentices, but mainly because it was the first time Chen Nian did this in reality.

He himself was sure, but if the disciples accidentally broke the jar when they went up, it would be the end of the calf.

"Wait for the future, this time you take a look first, remember the general steps, next time if someone decides again, you can get started." Chen Nian said.

And it was indeed the first time for them to see Chen Nian cooking a dish so carefully, so they didn't say anything, and they also knew that Master was not that kind of stingy person.

In order to ensure the quality of the finished dishes, Chen Nian did not go home to sleep in the past few nights, but went out and bought a foldable recliner, which becomes a chair when folded up, and a bed when folded down.

It's been a full three nights on this.

Before the last step is to freeze the soup to make the soup solidify, and then skim off the fat on it.

Chen Nian also planned to take advantage of this step to transport.

Today is the birthday of the old lady. Originally, Chen Nian planned to call a car, but after communicating with Xue Yan, Xue Yan planned to drive over by himself and pull the two altars of Buddha over the wall.

After all, he also knew that Buddha Jumping Over the Wall was the hardest dish in today's banquet.

It would be bad if something went wrong with another car, he might as well do it himself.

At least he has more cars, and luxury cars are more stable than other cars.

In this way, Chen Nian sat in the luxury car driven by Xue Yan, pulled the two Buddha altars over the wall, and came to the opponent's villa garden, and the others rushed over after him.

Today's Honghong Hotel is closed, everything is for this banquet.

The current time is only five o'clock in the morning, and they will have to be busy until night.

I have to say that the kitchens of rich people are as big as hell, not to mention the old age, I feel that such a kitchen is as big as my entire storefront!
Such a large space is completely enough to operate, and before the aging, I also said what kind of things to prepare, and Xue Yan has prepared them in advance, and some other utensils and ingredients brought by the aging are also made by the apprentice. Let's bring them here together.

When he came to the kitchen and put everything in place, Chen Nian continued to make Buddha Jumping Over the Wall. He put the previously made soup jelly back into the two earthen pots, and then turned on a small fire to melt them into Soup.

Immediately afterwards, I started to color and season the soup, but there is no need to add other things in these two processes, only fish sauce and dark soy sauce are needed.

After the soup turns golden, the ten kinds of precious ingredients will be added into it, that is, abalone, Liao ginseng, yuan scallops and the like.

However, these ingredients have been wrapped in bamboo weaves for aging, so it will be easy to distinguish them at that time.

This is already the final step, the next thing to do is to wait quietly.

While waiting, Chen Nian began to prepare other dishes, such as sea cucumbers with green onions, which also needed to be prepared in advance. Although it is not necessary to start in the morning for serious cooking, since there is enough time, it is okay to prepare for a while.

And it can make the taste more intense after a long time, so why not do it?

Every time I do a job, I will set an alarm clock for aging. These are all hot dishes, which are time-consuming and labor-intensive.

Others have also been busy all the time. A banquet for fifty people requires a lot of ingredients, and there are many things that are quite troublesome to handle, such as king crabs.

Even at noon, they just ate something casually, and then devoted themselves to work in the afternoon.

Whenever the alarm clock sounds in the middle, Chen Nian will immediately go there to start the next step of processing the ingredients.

But in the afternoon when he was processing the ingredients, Xue Yan suddenly ran over and walked around.

(End of this chapter)