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Chapter 290 A high-end Sichuan dish with both appearance and taste - Snowflake Chicken Nao! 【Subscribe】

After eating the delicious breakfast, Baby Shen completely forgot about his stomach upset.

She was holding an oil roll, and ate fried dough sticks mixed with pickles and cucumber with great enjoyment. After eating for a while, she took a big sip of the delicious vegetable porridge, fully showing the image of the upright and unpretentious Yanjing girl.

"Xu Bao, what's the name of the dish you said just now?"

"Snowflake Chicken Nao (nào)."

"Noisy? Noisy and troublesome?"

Lin Xu originally thought that his baby was just joking and enlivening the atmosphere, but seeing the curious faces of the father-in-law and mother-in-law, he wrote this word:
"This means mud, which means to make the chicken into a snowflake-like mud."

Upon hearing this, Shen Guofu immediately slapped the table:
"Just do this. I'll see if my uncle and the others dare to laugh at me today. Wife, don't tip the news. We have to deal with them today."

He came from a poor background, and it was pretty good to be able to graduate from high school in those days.

However, compared with the Han family whose whole family is senior doctors, the gap is somewhat large, and it is normal to suffer from white eyes.

All these years, Old Shen has been holding his breath.

Now, the chance to fight back has finally come.

I don't believe that the group of doctors in white coats can accurately call out the name of the dish, and I don't believe that they can pronounce the character Nao correctly. Most likely, they can pronounce it as zhuó just like me.

Hmph, at that point, return the word "no culture".

After the meal, Shen Guofu drove back to the villa with Mrs. Shen, Han Shuzhen and Dundun, preparing to entertain relatives.

And Lin Xu went back to the store with Shen Baobao.

First make the mooncakes to be made today, then take the chicken breast, broth, Jinhua ham and other ingredients for making Snowflake Chicken Nao, and drive to the villa on the West Fourth Ring Road to prepare lunch.

Snowflake Chicken Nao needs to be decorated with ham, and Jinhua ham with a stronger taste must be used, so that the dishes are fragrant and delicious enough.

If you use Xuanwei ham or other hams, it will be almost meaningless.

Because the amount of ham used in this dish is very small, just put some chopped ham on the plate and sprinkle some minced ham. The taste of Xuanwei and other hams is light, and the saltiness and fragrance are gone after being cut into such minced ham.

It is only better to marinate Jinhua ham that is more delicious and fermented more thoroughly.

Sprinkling it on the fried snowflake chicken can not only add flavor and color to the dishes, but also the unique salty taste of ham can also add a touch of color to the bland dishes.

In Sichuan cuisine, this method of mincing ham is called ham mengzi.

In the past, materials were scarce and ingredients were in short supply. Jinhua ham was synonymous with high-end ingredients. Chefs chopped them up and put them on the dishes for decoration, just like modern chefs use black truffles.

In fact, there are chefs who sprinkle black truffles on the Snowflake Chicken Nao in order to pursue a sense of luxury.

Although it has indeed raised the grade, this approach is wrong.

Because the taste of Snowflake Chicken Nao is light, a little savory ham needs to be sprinkled to enrich the taste level of the dish, making it more charming to eat.

The black truffle has only umami taste and no salty taste.

After putting it, it will not increase the appetite, it is a waste of ingredients.

When we came to Shen's villa, the relatives hadn't come yet, Lin Xu brought the ingredients to the kitchen, while Shen Baobao went upstairs to change into the chef's uniform.

Hey!It's finally time for Chef Shen to go online again!

All the relatives are here today, so it's natural to show off your cooking skills.

Although she and Chen Yan went out to apply for health certificates in order to join the chef circle, they didn't dare to make mistakes in Lin Ji's kitchen. After all, it was a place for business and not suitable for playing.

But it's fine at home.

Putting up her jet-black hair, put on a white chef's uniform, and put on a one-foot-high chef's hat, and greeted the pretty cook in the mirror happily:

"Hello, Master Shen!"

After confirming that there was nothing wrong with the clothes on his body, Master Shen stepped on his canvas shoes and went to the kitchen.

At the door of the kitchen, don’t rush to work, but take a beautiful selfie with the pots and pans behind you as the background, and then send it to Moments:
"Today's Mid-Autumn Festival, Lin Kee Gourmet Executive Chef Shen Jiayue wishes everyone a family reunion and a happy Mooncake Festival! Today I will present an unusual and delicious dish to my family, so stay tuned!"

When Xu Bao makes that shit up, I'll take the opportunity to take a picture and post it on Moments.

Hee hee, the dishes made by my family Xu Bao, if rounded up, they are equal to those made by me. Is this in the Ganges?
After posting the news, the girl put the phone in her pocket, looked at Lin Xu and asked:

"Xu Bao, I'm here, is there anything I can do for you?"

Lin Xu looked at her outfit and asked curiously:

"Let's talk about what you are going to do first, and I will make arrangements after confirming the dishes you are going to cook."

"I'm planning to steam an egg custard for each of my family, but if I use a steamer, will it be a waste?"

If there are few dishes, one egg custard per person can be easily prepared.

But today there are so many dishes, after serving the egg custard, everyone can taste at most two mouthfuls. It would be a waste if you cook too much, so Chef Shen is a little distressed.

Lin Xu straightened the girl's chef's hat and said with a smile:

"You can steam it with oranges and make it into orange steamed eggs. The quantity is small and delicious, and the appearance is good. It will definitely surprise your relatives."

Orange Steamed Egg?

Baby Shen's eyes lit up.

Thanks to Xubao, I found a new way of making custard.

On the other side, Chen Yan, who secretly ate a bunch of takeaways at night, just woke up, only to realize that it was past nine o'clock.

"It's all because of Smelly Yueyue's lack of public morality. She poisoned me indiscriminately in the middle of the night, causing me to eat so much last night...I'll settle the score with her when we meet later!"

She didn't get up immediately, but reached for the mobile phone on the bedside table.

Since it was already late, I simply played with my phone for a while before getting up.

Anyway, Lin Ji has no breakfast at this moment, and the lunch at uncle's house is not yet ready, so it is better to lie down for a while than to get up too early or too late.

Click on WeChat, read all kinds of Mid-Autumn Festival greetings first, reply to important people, and then click on Moments to see if there is anything new.

Then she saw Baby Shen's selfie.

"It's too shameless to say that I'm the executive chef without shame? I'm the executive chef of Lin Kee, okay?"

Mr. Chen was so angry with this news that he didn't lie down anymore, he immediately turned over and got out of bed, and changed into relatively plain clothes.

Well, there are many relatives today, so it is not suitable to wear clothes that are too flamboyant and too individual, otherwise it will easily become the focus of the crowd, and then a good relative gathering will become a marriage reminder meeting.

Moreover, the elders are relatively conservative, and those who show their navels are not fashionable in their eyes, but look like the four-bag elders of the beggar gang.

In this kind of casual meal occasion, it's better to keep a low profile.

A pair of wide-leg jeans, a black T-shirt that can prevent splashes of vegetable soup, and a baseball cap because she is too lazy to tidy up her hair, isn't this a beautiful girl with a casual style?

She looked in the mirror, and after making sure there was no problem, she changed into a pair of black Converse canvas shoes instead of high heels.

After dressing up properly, just as she was about to leave, Baby Shen called.

Humph, I knew you, a fake executive chef, couldn't handle it.

As soon as she chose to answer, Shen Baobao's yelling voice came from the receiver:
"Where are you, Yan Bao? Hurry up and come to my house to help!"

Chen Yan sneered, she really couldn't do it without me, she asked slowly:

"What are you doing to help?"

"To make orange steamed eggs, Xu Bao just taught me, and I plan to make one for each of my relatives, but the workload is so heavy, you have to come over and be my assistant."

what?
Orange Steamed Egg?

Chen Yan didn't expect her cousin to learn a new dish secretly.

In the past, everyone said that "if you want to learn well, you have to sleep with the master", I didn't expect this to be true. Otherwise, how could my cousin, who is so much stupid than myself, be able to learn steamed eggs with oranges?

It must be her brother-in-law who gave her a little treatment.

It's a pity that my partner is not a chef, otherwise I would have to compare with her to see who is the most beautiful cook in the family!
"Wait, we'll be there soon!"

Hmph, when I learn how to steam eggs with oranges, I will announce who the executive chef of Lin Kee Food is. My cousin's level is still not good enough.

Too bad I'm single.

If there is also a chef who can cook, it will definitely surpass my cousin's cooking skills by two blocks!
When she came downstairs, she drove her sports car to the West Fourth Ring Road at high speed.

At this time, in the kitchen of Shen's villa, Shen Baobao was washing the freshly picked oranges with a brush, while Lin Xu was seriously smashing the chicken breast on the chopping board with the back of a knife.

If it is an ordinary wooden chopping board, a piece of pigskin is needed to smash it.

Otherwise, it is easy to have sawdust mixed in.

But the material of the old man’s vegetable pier is better, and it does not shed crumbs, which saves Lin Xu the trouble of padding the pigskin.

At this time, Aunt Liu was leading two nannies to follow Lin Xu's instructions, soaking what should be soaked, changing the knife when changing the knife, and blanching what should be blanched.

"Xiao Xu, I'm done here, is there anything else I can do?"

Aunt Liu has received professional cooking training, and her cooking skills are not bad, otherwise she would not have been hired by the Shen family as a full-time cooking nanny.

Lin Xu said:

"Auntie, help me beat ten egg whites and whip them into foam."

One chicken breast is just enough to make one serving of Snowflake Chicken Nao, and each serving requires five egg whites.

There are many people today, and this dish is eaten with a spoon. One serving is not enough, so Lin Xu directly prepared two servings.

There are two uses for the egg whites in this recipe.

One is to add the egg white directly to the minced chicken without whisking. The dish produced in this way is in the shape of fish roe, and the grains are relatively broken.

After the egg whites are sent, the dishes will be in the shape of clouds, which will look better.

Upon hearing this, Aunt Liu went to beat egg whites in a small basin.

Lin Xu carefully poured the smashed chicken breast into the basin with a kitchen knife, and then added a teaspoon of salt and a teaspoon of white pepper.

After stirring well, add the broth brought from the store.

Adding broth can make the taste of the dish better and the aroma more intense.

If there is no broth, you can use scallion and ginger water instead, but relatively speaking, scallion and ginger water is a little bland.

Add small amounts of broth several times, and beat the minced chicken into a white paste.

When he was done, Aunt Liu also used an egg beater to beat the egg whites.

Master once said, never refuse the convenience brought by technology, and Lin Xu has always kept these words in his heart.

Although things like smashing minced meat cannot be replaced by technology, it is no problem to beat egg whites. If you have to stick to the dogma of pure handmade cooking, then Chinese food will never be able to develop.

Pour some pea starch into the stirred chicken, stir well, let the meat paste and starch fully blend, and then pour the meat paste into the beaten egg white.

After the egg whites are whipped, they are all fine foams, the color is white and delicate, and it looks a bit like cream.

Pour the meat paste into it and stir well to make the two pastes blend together.

With the addition of egg white, there was only a little bit of meat paste on the bottom of the basin, but the volume suddenly increased a lot.

This is why a piece of chicken breast can make a dish, and the addition of egg white to the volume is too much.

Without egg whites, a dish would require at least two chicken breasts.

After making the meat paste, Lin Xu put the prepared ham into the pot and boiled it with water.

Boiling in clear water can volatilize the fermented smell in the ham, and at the same time precipitate excess salt, so that the ham has a stronger aroma and tastes better.

As soon as the ham was cooked, Chen Yan, dressed like a supermarket orderer, walked into the kitchen:
"It seems that everything is ready, then wait, I will go upstairs to change clothes, and let Chef Chen lead you to complete today's hospitality task."

She strode upstairs like a middle school girl.

Shen Baobao, who was washing the oranges, pouted:

"I don't even know how to cook orange steamed eggs, so I'm ashamed to say that I'm the head chef, and I'm almost a waste chef."

After muttering, she asked Lin Xu:
"Xu Bao, from which part are you speaking? I forgot again!"

Lin Xu came over, picked up an orange, pointed to the upper third of the orange and said:
"About this position, after cutting it open, dig out the pulp inside with a spoon, put some sugar and beat it into juice, then beat the egg liquid and juice together according to the ratio of 1:1.5, and then pour the stirred egg liquid into In the peel, put it in the pan and steam for a few minutes."

The practice of steamed eggs with orange is relatively simple.

Of course, it can be more complicated, such as peeling off the orange pulp and adding it to the egg liquid, so that the steamed egg tastes better.

But considering the culinary skills of Shen Baobao and his sister-in-law, he wisely did not suggest this.

Not long after, he fished out the cooked ham.

After cooling, cut the lean meat into thin slices of about [-] mm, then cut into filaments, and finally arrange the filaments and cut them into small particles slightly larger than sesame seeds.

This step cannot be chopped, it has to be cut, the more finely it is cut, the better the effect will be.

At eleven o'clock in the morning, after all the dishes were ready, Lin Xu put on the wok and started cooking.

In order to prevent black stars from cooking other dishes in the pot, Lin Xu fried the Snowflake Chicken Nao first.

In Chinese cooking, this kind of minced meat dish is more difficult than ordinary dishes, because during the frying process, the minced meat is easily gelatinized and sticks to the bottom of the pot.

And with the continuous heating of the stove, the minced meat sticking to the bottom of the pot will eventually be burnt and become black stars and black spots mixed into the dishes. Muddy.

This kind of dish is best prepared on a restaurant stove, which has strong firepower and fast heating, which can minimize sticking to the pan.

In order to prevent the pan from sticking, Lin Xu put the wok on the stove until it was red hot, and then added a spoonful of salad oil to smooth the pan.

After sliding the pan, pour out the oil, reheat, and re-slide the pan.

Repeat three times in a row.

Finally, Lin Xu poured out the fat in the pot, and poured a large spoonful of glistening lard into it.

If this dish wants to present a rich egg flavor and snow-white color, it must use lard, because lard is a colorless fat with a rich taste, which can improve the quality of Snowflake Chicken Nao.

Soon, the lard in the pot has melted.

When the oil is hot, pour half of the prepared meat paste into the pot.

The firepower of small household stoves is weak and it is easy to burn the pot, so it must be done separately when frying.

When the meat paste was poured into the pot, it began to push along the bottom of the pot with a spoon.

This method can push out the meat paste formed by the hot oil at the bottom of the pot to make room for the unformed meat paste.

If you use a professional stove in a restaurant, the meat paste will be formed by now.

But now, it is still half solid and half liquid, and it will take a while for the meat paste to completely solidify.

"Wow, is this Snowflake Chicken Nao? It really looks beautiful."

Baby Shen leaned over to take a look, and immediately fell in love with the snow-white color.

Lin Xu quickly turned the pot with a spoon. It didn't take long for the fat that was still a lot before to be completely absorbed by the meat paste, and there were signs of sticking to the bottom of the pot.

Fortunately, all the meat paste has been formed at this time.

He stir-fried the chunky meat paste a few times, and then pressed it lightly with the back of the spoon a few times to make sure that there was no unformed meat paste, and then he took it out of the pan and put it on a plate.

These meat pastes are presented in lumps like scrambled eggs.

But it is white, and the appearance looks more attractive.

Lin Xu grabbed the chopped ham and sprinkled it on it. The white pieces of meat and the dark red ham complemented each other, making it look very high-end.

Lin Xu handed the dish to Shen Guofu who was waiting outside:

"Dad, this dish is ready, you can let everyone try it first."

"Okay, just wait."

After taking the plate, the old Shen Xing rushed to the living room where relatives gathered together. After waiting all morning, he finally waited for this moment.

Back in the kitchen, Lin Xu saw that Chen Yan and Shen Baobao had stopped their preparations, and asked curiously:

"what happened?"

"There are several oranges that have been cut up and it's not enough to count. We plan to go out and buy a few."

"Go ahead, I'll steam these for you first."

When the two sisters heard this, they didn't even bother to change their clothes. They excitedly drove the X1 and went to the nearby large supermarket to buy oranges.

At the entrance of the supermarket, Chen Yan saw a stall selling pancakes in the alley not far away when parking the car. Thinking that the meal at home would take a while, and she hadn't eaten in the morning, she said to Baby Shen:
"Go in and buy it. Just pick the big one. I'll go buy a pancake."

"Okay, let's meet here in the car later."

After the two sisters separated, Chen Yan, wearing a chef's uniform and a chef's hat, walked quickly to the stall selling pancakes.

When I got closer, I realized that the pancake seller was tall and big, about [-] years old, wearing a stylish Bluetooth headset on his ears, his head was shaking slightly, as if he was listening to music.

He looks good, and the stall is pretty clean. Maybe he is a good-looking and culinary expert like his brother-in-law.

But it lacks a bit of business acumen, and people come and go outside, but they are placed in the alley. Is this an enmity with money?

Fortunately, I spotted it with keen eyes, otherwise I might not be able to open it this morning.

She walked to the stall while thinking, and said to the tall stall owner in front of her:

"Give me a set of pancakes, add two eggs, and put more crisp."

After speaking, she took out her mobile phone and began to scan the money.

The little brother selling pancakes was a little embarrassed, but he still took a spoonful of miscellaneous grain batter and poured it on the griddle.

Next, turn the griddle and spread the batter with a scraper.

But when it was spreading, he was obviously absent-minded, looking left and right all the time, and he didn't scrape hard enough, and the batter was scraped out of the griddle.

Chen Yan frowned, she looked very agile, how could she be worse than her cousin?Bai blind has such a good looks.

She pouted dissatisfied.

The stall owner also noticed something was wrong, and immediately smiled apologetically:
"Just out of the stall, I'm sorry, I'll redo it for you."

After speaking, use a shovel to scrape off the unformed pancakes on the surface, and start spreading again.

Although the little brother did it seriously this time, due to poor craftsmanship, he didn't grasp the strength when scraping, and the pancakes spread out again.

Chen Yan looked at this person with a troubled face, my brother, if we don't know how to do it, we don't need to set up a stall, there is no need to force ourselves so much.

She was just about to ask for a refund, when she suddenly thought of the jokes on the Internet, and asked in a low voice:
"Comrade, are you an undercover agent?"

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