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Chapter 282 Mapo Chicken Cake More Delicious than Mapo Tofu!Come on, have a wide meal! 【Subscribe】

Mapo tofu without tofu?
What kind of dish is this?
Mr. Chen, who had just made an appointment with Shu Yun and Dou Wenjing to lose weight at noon, became interested.

Although the matter of losing weight is important, in order to help my brother-in-law improve his cooking skills, we can only postpone the reduction until tomorrow. After all, my cousin will need my brother-in-law to take care of me in the future, so I can't be sloppy in cooking.

Chen Yan didn't even bother to eat the spicy rabbit head at the moment, looked at Lin Xu and asked curiously:
"How to make mapo tofu without tofu, brother-in-law, are you planning to create some new dishes? Then I have to try it, so as not to cause any trouble."

Eat whatever you want, why do you have to find reasons for yourself?

Lin Xu found that once a girl decides to lose weight, the biggest difference is that before losing weight, she eats openly, but after she loses weight, she eats secretly.

In short, there is no change in appetite.

In order for the aunt to enjoy the food with peace of mind, he cooperated and said:

"I'm worried that no one will help me check it out, so please trouble Sister Yan."

"No trouble, no trouble, we are relatives, we should help each other."

Che Zai came over and asked:
"Boss, don't you just add water to make mapo tofu? Do you have to use beef bone broth?"

Lin Xu held a disposable lunch box and gave Chen Yan a spicy rabbit head while saying:
"The mapo tofu made with beef bone soup has a richer flavor, and the soup is better collected, which is stronger than water."

The task requires perfection, so every step must be perfect.

And if you eat it yourself, it must be delicious.

If you serve this dish in the store, you have to carefully calculate the cost, so as not to make a profit by losing money.

After filling four rabbit heads, Lin Xu was worried that his sister-in-law would not have enough to eat, so he filled a large box full of braised duck and chicken feet, which are more famous in Sichuan flavor.

Then put the lid on and store in an opaque bag.

In this way, everyone can't see that there is food in it, and when you hold it in your hand, you don't have to feel guilty when you see someone.

These actions warmed Chen Yan's heart.

Brother-in-law is too considerate, right?

"Thank you, brother-in-law, I'll come over to help you check after I finish my work in the afternoon, and let you make the most perfect and delicious dishes."

She took the bag and went downstairs, planning to find an old movie when she returned to the office, and watch it while eating.

When he got downstairs, he saw Dundun sleeping on the roof of the cat house. In a good mood, Mr. Chen raised his hand and rubbed the little guy's head twice:
"Stupid dundun, my aunt has gone back to work, and they all lied to me saying that I will have good luck, hum, I won't be fooled..."

Dundun, who was sleeping soundly, was woken up by rubbing, raised his paw and patted Chen Yan's arm a few times, and after the pat, he gave Chen Yan a sigh of relief, and then got into his small room.

"Why do you say you bully it?"

Shu Yun came over and reached into the cat house to comfort the irritable little baby who was full of getting up.

Chen Yan said proudly:
"The more boastful Yueyue and Lele are, the more I want to rub them."

Shu Yun: "..."

Then you are really rebellious.

Seeing Chen Yan carrying a bulging bag, she asked curiously:
"What did you mention? Food?"

"No, I just took some tomatoes from upstairs to eat as fat-reducing fruits... That's it, I'll go back first, see you in the evening."

Chen Yan originally wanted to tease Dundun again.

But being asked by Shu Yun, he immediately felt a lot guilty.

Half an hour ago, I swore that this weight loss was not a joke, but now I brought a box of lo mei to be seen by others. Where can I put my pretty face...

Mr. Chen left the store in a hurry, ready to drive back to the company to enjoy the food.

And Shu Yun couldn't help but look up in the direction of the kitchen:
"Spicy... the boss really packed a bunch of rabbit heads from Building [-], right?"

in the kitchen.

Lin Xu took out the packaged lo mei and picked up a ruddy spicy rabbit head with red oil on the surface. As soon as he tasted it, he was immediately attracted by the spicy taste.

"Damn, this little spicy taste..."

Although the dishes I ate at noon today are all high-end Sichuan dishes, they are all delicious, but they are neither spicy nor spicy. If you eat too much, you will always feel bland.

Now that he tasted the red oil on the surface of the spicy rabbit head, his taste buds were suddenly opened.

It is said that spicy Sichuan food is eaten by Xialiba people, it seems that I am the one who said this!
He took a mouthful of the red oil on the surface of the rabbit's head, and then ate the finely minced meat around the eye sockets. After eating, he became more addicted to the spicy taste, and then opened the rabbit's mouth and broke the rabbit's head in half.

Eat the little meat on the chin first, and then try to eat the rabbit brain.

The spicy rabbit head is the skinned rabbit head. There is not a lot of meat. The main food is the fragrant, glutinous, spicy and spicy rabbit brain.

When eating duck heads in the past, Lin Xu felt that duck brains were the most delicious, but unfortunately the amount was too small, just a small bite at a time.

Now I eat the spicy rabbit head, and the rabbit brain, which is more than ten times larger than the duck brain, is eaten into the mouth, and the sense of happiness and satisfaction almost overflows from the brain.

"Damn it, no wonder so many people like to eat rabbit heads. It tastes really good."

The meat on the rabbit's head is good, except for the rabbit's brain, there are some leftover meat, but even the leftovers, these pieces of meat are much larger than the duck's head.

Therefore, compared to gnawing duck heads, eating rabbit heads gives you a stronger sense of accomplishment.

Especially picking out a small piece of rabbit meat from some ditches, it feels as exciting as picking up a third-level helmet in an inconspicuous small broken house when playing a game.

Fun fun!

After eating a rabbit's head, Lin Xu drank saliva, and was just about to have another one when he saw Shu Yun coming to the door.

"Is it really packed?"

"Chef Dai has to, and I can't refuse."

"Did Mr. Chen mention the rabbit's head just now?"

"Yes, besides the rabbit head, there are also goose gizzards and goat hoofs, which are packed in a big box."

Lin Xu filled a packing box with a few rabbit heads, then went to the door and handed it to Shu Yun who secretly swallowed:
"It's better to eat with disposable gloves, otherwise my hands will be hot, and I'm going to wash my hands."

Shu Yun took out a pocket of his clothes and took out a pair of individually wrapped disposable gloves:
"It will be ready when you go upstairs."

After receiving the lunch box, the beautiful general manager came to the booth, ready to enjoy the delicious food.

But if I eat it directly, I always feel that I can’t get over the hurdle in my heart, so I dug out the photo of washing tomatoes from the album and sent it to Moments:
"From today, start eating tomatoes to lose fat!"

After posting, the barrier in my heart finally disappeared.

Put on your gloves and eat!
In the kitchen, Lin Xu took a look at the packed rabbit heads. When he came, he felt that they had packed a lot, but if they tasted one by one later, it would probably be dry in one round.

In order to prevent Shen Jiayue from being unable to eat after get off work, he picked up a large take-out lunch box, filled it with a few rabbit heads and other lo mei, and filled it with a cup of sour plum soup and other food.

Then he packed the bag and called an errand service with his mobile phone.

Since these rabbit heads may not last until the afternoon off work, let's take advantage of working hours and arrange a Chinese-style afternoon tea for my cute, cute and beautiful baby.

It just happened to let her try the skill of making braised meat in Diaoyutai No. [-] Building.

By the way, give her a little surprise.

After running errands to take the order, Lin Xu handed the packaged lunch box to a waiter who came to deliver the food, and asked her to deliver it to the information desk on the first floor.

Then wash your hands and start cooking according to the dishes on the order list.

the other side.

Dongming Building in the West Third Ring Road.

Shen Jiayue was sitting at the desk, wearing earphones and watching the online custard mooncake tutorial with great interest.

Hmph, if you don't let me learn, then I will do it secretly.

Wait for me to make the moon cakes and surprise your jaw, Xu Bao!

She showed the concentration of the fourth-level exam, and kept writing and drawing in the notebook, recording the ingredient ratio and baking time of the custard mooncake.

While he was busy, a shout came from the door:
"Shen Jiayue, your things!"

Ok?
what's the situation?
Shen Baobao took off the earphones, confirmed that the errand boy at the door was calling him, and ran over in a bumpy manner.

this bit...

What will the errands give me?

When she arrived at the door, she was overjoyed when she saw the packed bags. Isn't the way of fastening the buttons the same as Xu Bao's way of packing food?

Could it be that there is food in it?

Back on the seat, Shen Jiayue quickly opened the tightly sealed packing bag.

"Yueyue, didn't you just come back from Lin Ji, did Boss Lin cook something delicious for you again?"

Many of my colleagues have officially become Lam Kee Boys and Lam Kee Girls.

Seeing Shen Jiayue unpacking the packaging bags of Lin Kee Food, she couldn't help joking.

"I don't know either. It's strange. He hasn't delivered me food recently, and he's not in the store today. He went to Diaoyutai to learn how to make dipping sauce..."

While speaking, the package was opened.

After taking out all the contents, everyone saw that there was actually a large box of lo mei, a drink, and two snacks.

There was also a small note written on a kitchen post-it:
"I brought some food from Building No. [-], and see if I like it. If I like it, I will find a way to practice and make sure you can eat it every day. I didn't buy you the first cup of milk tea in autumn at the beginning of autumn, so I will give it to you today. It's the first rabbit head in autumn, there are new surprises after get off work, okay?"

Looking at the two words, Shen Baobao couldn't help laughing:

"This kind of name has long been out of fashion, Smelly Xubao, I won't cry for you after get off work!"

She took out an Hermès wallet from her bag, and was just about to stuff this note into the innermost part of the wallet, when she suddenly felt that it should be dried.

My Xubao handwriting is so beautiful, it deserves a wave of praise, right?

Under the envious eyes of her colleagues, she put the note on some meals, took a photo and posted it on Moments:

"I've already drank the 99th cup of autumn milk tea, and my family, Xu Bao, just remembered this. I love you, and I really want to fly to you and fall into your arms right now."

After sending out, Shen Baobao stuffed the note into his wallet as if it were a treasure, and said to his colleagues:

"Come, come, everyone who sees it will have a share. This is the lo mei made in Diaoyutai No. [-] Building. Everyone, try it. If it tastes good, I will ask Xubao to write a new one in Linji!"

She no longer cared about the smell of the rabbit's head.

Because the touch and love brought by that note are more important than how many lo mei.

When everyone was sharing the lo mei, she secretly took out the note and looked at it again.

There are new surprises after get off work... what kind of surprise will it be?

Really been waiting!

Brilliant Building.

Chen Yan sat in front of the computer, eating delicious rabbit heads, watching "Your Name" played on the 32-inch 4K monitor.

When she was watching it vigorously, she wiped her hands, picked up her phone, and planned to share her understanding and emotion about the movie with her circle of friends.

However, as soon as I opened it, I saw the news sent by Shen Baobao.

The note with a sugar content of more than a thousand plus signs, and the cousin's love overflowing the screen, made the emotion in Mr. Chen's heart disappear without a trace.

Even the rabbit's head on the table didn't smell good anymore.

After a while, Mr. Chen, who was choking on the dog food and finally recovered, silently posted a post in Moments:
"The tomatoes these days are so sour!"

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the back kitchen staff were tasting braised meat and rabbit heads, while Lin Xu moved half a box of chicken breast meat and several catties of pig fat from the cold storage, and soaked some pea starch by the way, preparing to make chicken cakes.

The practice of chicken cake is relatively not difficult, but it is very cumbersome and requires enough patience to make it.

Fortunately, Lin Xu has the skills to make Qingshui Furong, and the step of smashing the chicken paste is done quickly and well.

And when the minced chicken is made, the remaining steps are relatively simple.

Thinly smash the fat of the pig into a meat paste. After smashing it, it is like smashing a chicken breast. Squeeze the meat paste into thin slices with a knife, and check whether there are small particles that have not been smashed into a meat paste.

Once checked, toss with the chicken breasts.

In order to prevent the chicken cakes from cracking during cooking, Lin Xu deliberately added a little more starch to make the chicken cakes form better.

But don't add too much, otherwise these chicken cakes will not be tofu-like, but jelly-like.

Although it is not easy to rot, it loses the soft and tender characteristics of the chicken cake.

And today the dish to be made with chicken cake is mapo tofu, not mapo jelly. Too much starch will only have the opposite effect.

But... mapo jelly?
This is a new research direction.

If the mapo chicken cake is not well done today, it can be directly changed to mapo jelly, so as not to drop the perfect technique to the excellent level at night, and let the [-] points be in vain.

After the meat paste was prepared, he brought some small trays, brushed them with lard, covered them with plastic wrap, and then put the small trays into the steamer on the wok to start steaming.

Chicken cakes cannot be steamed over high heat, so forget about steaming cabinets.

Even the steamer is not suitable, so Lin Xu simply placed the cage on the wok, which is not tightly sealed and the steam leaks everywhere.

This steamed bun may not work, but the steamed chicken cake is just right.

Not long after, the chicken cake was steamed.

Lin Xu took it out and looked at it. It was steamed well, and it was tougher than Dai Jianli's at noon. In terms of texture, it was closer to the gypsum tofu used for making mapo tofu.

Chicken cakes are steamed and set aside to dry.

Taking advantage of the time, he grabbed a handful of peppercorns and put them in a frying pan without oil, slowly roasting them over low heat.

When the pepper is fragrant, put it on the chopping board, crush it with a rolling pin, and put it in a bowl, so that it becomes the pepper noodles that must be sprinkled before the mapo tofu is out of the pot.

When the pepper noodles were ready, Lin Xu cut a small piece of beef from the cold storage and brought it over.

This dish of mapo tofu requires beef to stir-fry the simmered meat. The flavor of the dish will be more intense. If minced pork is used, the effect will be much worse.

Slice the beef and then shred it. Finally, arrange it and cut it into mung bean-sized particles.

Although many tutorials mention chopping beef into minced meat, the exact method is to cut it into small particles the size of mung beans, and fry it in this way to meet the requirements of "crispy" in the eight-character motto of Mapo Tofu.

The beef cubes are crispy and delicious, and the tongue will melt when you sip it. Only this kind of taste can be called "crispy".

Eight-character proverbs, also called eight-character requirements, are the rules that need to be followed in making Mapo tofu. These eight characters are:

Numb, spicy, hot, fragrant, crisp, tender, fresh and live!

The first seven words are basically not controversial, but the latter "live", some say "wrap", some say "bundle", some say "whole", and some say it should be "brittle". ".

A good eight-character mantra has thus become a twelve-character mantra.

Well, since there can be more than a dozen universities in the top five, there seems to be nothing unacceptable for the eight-character motto to have twelve characters.

After the beef is cut, put it in a bowl, sprinkle a little salt, then add a little light soy sauce, cooking wine and pepper, stir and beat a few times, and put it aside for marinating.

When cooking beef normally, you can't put salt and cooking wine directly, because this will make the beef hard and burnt.

But this dish pursues crispy meat. Instead, salt and cooking wine are added to dehydrate and ferment the meat to achieve this effect.

The way of cooking is really changeable.

After the beef cubes were marinated, Lin Xu scooped two spoonfuls of bean paste on the cutting board and finely chopped it into fine pieces with a kitchen knife.

In this dish, the bean paste plays the role of coloring, flavoring, and aroma. In order to make the effect appear quickly, the bean paste needs to be finely chopped.

The finer the chopping, the faster the bean paste will be fragrant and flavorful, and the effect of red oil will be better.

When the bean paste is ready, wash and cut a garlic sprout into small pieces.

Garlic shoots correspond to the "living" in the eight-character proverb. The color is emerald green and the taste is fresh, which gives vitality to the dishes and reduces the greasy feeling of the dishes.

Finally, Lin Xu put some thick chili noodles in a small plate.

Chili noodles and bean paste correspond to the "spicy" in the eight-character proverb.

The spiciness of the watercress and the chili pepper finally converge into the spiciness of the tofu. The spiciness is neither strong nor dry. You can feel the strong fragrance in the spiciness when you taste it carefully. This is the "spicy" in Mapo tofu.

After all the ingredients were prepared, Lin Xu set up the frying pan, poured some salad oil and lard into the pan, and prepared to oil the chicken cake.

When making mapo tofu, there is a step of boiling the tofu.

However, chicken cakes cannot be boiled in water, so they can only be boiled in hot oil. This can not only increase the flexibility of the chicken cakes, but also make the chicken cakes more fragrant.

Taking advantage of the time of burning oil, Lin Xu cut the chicken cakes that were almost air-dried into squares with a side length of [-] cm, which is the standard requirement of Mapo Tofu.

Carefully put the cut chicken cakes into a large colander, then put them into a [-]% hot oil pan, and start deep-frying.

Don't rush this step, fry it slowly to dry up the moisture on the surface of the chicken cake, otherwise it will really become "can't eat hot tofu in a hurry".

When it is almost fried, take it out, and then wash off the fat on the surface of the chicken cake with hot water.

Rinse and set aside for later use.

Next comes the cooking part.

Lin Xu set up the frying pan, moistened the pan first, and then added cooking oil to the pan.

After the oil is hot, put in the beef cubes and stir-fry quickly. While frying, pat the beef cubes in the pot with the back of a spoon to let the moisture inside come out faster, so as to achieve the purpose of frying quickly.

Don't be in a hurry when frying the beef cubes, and stir fry patiently until there is a rustling sound when turning, which means that the surface has been fried.

You can proceed to the next step.

Lin Xu poured the prepared chili noodles into the pot.

Continue to stir-fry to bring out the dry and strong flavor of the chili, as long as it is fragrant and spicy.

Stir-fry the aroma, add the bean paste.

Add bean paste at this time, which can not only prevent the chili noodles from being fried, but also make the red oil better.

After frying the red oil, add a large bowl of beef bone broth.

The broth is used to increase the aroma of Mapo Tofu, which is the "fragrance" required in the eight-character proverbs.

But the aroma of beef bone broth alone is not enough, it is too thin, and there must be the aroma of beef cubes, watercress, tofu, garlic sprouts, peppers, etc.

Only when all the fragrances are combined can they become the real "fragrance".

After pouring in the beef bone soup, add some dark soy sauce to the pot to increase the base color, and then add a spoonful of white sugar to make the taste blend.

Give it a stir and pour in the chicken cakes from the large colander.

The most critical step is coming.

Lin Xu slowly pushed the chicken cakes in the pot with the back of the spoon, for fear that the fragile chicken cakes would be scattered by the back of the spoon.

Fortunately, he has a good grasp of strength, and the steps of sliding the pan before frying are well done, so the chicken cakes just slipped on the bottom of the pan, and then they were mixed with the soup.

The first step was successful!

Lin Xu covered the pot and let the soup in the pot completely soak into the inside of the chicken cake.

It also allows heat to transfer in.

The "hot" in the eight-character proverb requires that every bite of tofu after it comes out of the pan must be hot, so it must be cooked properly when cooking.

If the tofu you eat still has cold heart, it means a super failure.

According to the nature of the system, it is estimated that it will not even reach the qualified level.

While it was simmering in the pot, Lin Xu brought over the pea starch that had been soaked when making chicken cakes.

After cooking, it is the most classic step of the mapo tofu dish, and it is also the most difficult step-thickening.

For those who know how to cook, thickening is not difficult.

The difficult thing is that you have to check it three times, and each time has a different effect.

As for the interval time, the amount of thickening and the concentration of thickening each time, it is also different from time to time.

Without the help of the master chef, this dish can't be eaten at all.

Lifting the lid of the pot, Lin Xu scooped the starch water with a spoon. At this moment, the pea starch in the pot had precipitated and the water and powder were separated, so it needs to be stirred before use.

When stirring for the first time, scoop up half a spoonful of starch, and stir the water in the upper layer into starch water.

After stirring, scoop half a spoonful and pour it into the pot in a fan-like shape.

This step is to make the soup thicker, so the amount should be more and the splash should be even.

After pouring, use the back of the spoon to push the chicken cake to mix the soup in the pot as soon as possible, so that the water and starch can play a role.

Wait for the soup in the pot to become thick, and then use a spoon to dip into the starch water, dig out the starch precipitated below and stir it with a spoon to make the slightly thick starch water thicker.

Scoop up a small half of the frying spoon and pour it into the pot again.

This step is to make the ingredients tender, so splash as much as possible on the chicken cakes in the pot.

Let the pieces of chicken cakes be covered with starch to lock in moisture and at the same time make the surface of the ingredients tender and smooth. This is the "tenderness" in the eight-character proverb.

Lin Xu pushed and turned the pot a few more times, and finally used a spoon to dig out a little starch from the bottom of the pot. After digging out, he decanted the excess water on the spoon, and then hooked the thick starch in the spoon into the pot.

This step is to make the soup coat the ingredients.

It is also a well-known "wrapping sauce" technique in Sichuan cuisine.

The so-called Baozhiqian is a cooking method that wraps the soup on the surface of the ingredients. The fish-flavored shredded pork in Sichuan cuisine is a typical representative of this type of dish.

After this step, the soup in the pot has been completely tightened, and it is all tightly wrapped on the chicken cake.

The rosy color and strong fragrance make you want to try it.

But I can't taste it yet.

Lin Xu poured the chopped garlic into it, stirred it twice, and then poured the dishes in the pot into a large bowl.

The authentic way of mapo tofu dish must be served in a bowl. Only in this way can it achieve the "hot" in the eight-character proverb, and it will keep burning your mouth when you eat it.

If it is served on a plate, the heat will dissipate early, and the feeling of burning your mouth will disappear in a few minutes, and the essence of Mapo Tofu will be lost.

After serving, use a small spoon to scoop up the freshly ground prickly ash and sprinkle it on. The word "ma" in the eight-character proverb returns to its place, and it is ready to be served on the table.

"Damn it! What kind of dish is this?"

When Lin Xu was cooking just now, although Zhuang Yizhou and the others were watching, no one dared to speak for fear of disturbing Lin Xu.

Now that the dishes are out of the pan, everyone feels like they can finally breathe.

"Damn, it's amazing to use chicken cakes to make mapo tofu!"

"I witnessed a miracle!"

"This smell is absolutely amazing!"

Wei Gan sniffed, and shouted not far away:

"Che Zai, have a wide meal, today you have to taste the boss's craftsmanship!"

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I'm sorry, everyone, when I wrote it, I just wanted to write this dish for everyone to enjoy, but I accidentally wrote it until now, and the number of words is nearly [-].I wanted to put a poison in the Easter egg chapter, but I couldn't find a satisfactory mapo tofu picture after searching for a long time. I was very disappointed.

Ask for a monthly pass, brothers, continue to update the [-]D tomorrow!

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