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Chapter 461 Is there a possibility: the lion heads you have eaten are just meatballs! 【Subscribe】

The system rewarded the perfect stewed lion head during the last live broadcast of Dundun.

Lin Xu has never had a chance to make it. Now that someone is talking about this dish, let's make it.

By the way, I would like to tell fans about the origin, method, eating method and tasting standard of stewed lion head.

In short, let all those who have watched the video see the meat lumps made of starch, they can immediately realize that they have stepped on a pit, that the store has fooled them, or even been slaughtered.

"Xubao, can you make lion head with crab noodles?"

Shen Jiayue was a little surprised. My baby eats and sleeps with you every day, but I didn't know you could make a lion head. No, I won't forgive you without two lion heads!

Lin Xu picked up chopsticks of plum vegetables that were soaked in broth so oily, and took a big bite with rice:

"I know a thing or two. I originally wanted to make it as a surprise for you in the future, but since people have already mentioned it, I will make it later, and I will let my senior brother and brother Dai help me check it out."

It's past four o'clock in the afternoon. If you start making the lion's head now, it will be ready before nine o'clock in the evening, and there is still time.

However, it’s fine to record videos. After several hours of recording, it is a bit troublesome to edit the material.

Moreover, after filming and then editing, it will be released almost tomorrow, which cannot form that kind of face-slapping effect.

So the best way is to live stream.

In the form of live broadcast, the delicious dish of lion head is displayed in an all-round way, which happens to let fans watch the whole production process.

Thinking of this, he rushed to Chen Yan who had just come up to prepare a feast and said:

"Sister Yan, I'll live broadcast live in the small kitchen to make crab noodles and lion heads later, can you arrange it?"

If it was to record a video, it would be fine to let the people from the marketing department of the company come, but if it was a live broadcast, people from Joy Media had to participate. Fat Dundun Company did not have special professional live broadcast equipment.

When Chen Yan heard it, she immediately showed a surprised expression:

"Okay, I'll let them come here now. The fans will definitely be very pleasantly surprised after not broadcasting live for so long."

It doesn't matter if it's a surprise or not, but people have already called at the door, so you have to respond a little bit, so that when the senior brother visits the store in the future, someone will come out and find fault.

In addition, during this period of time, no matter on the TV station or on the personal account on the Internet, I did cook too many home-cooked dishes.

It's time to have one or two high-end dishes to widen the gap with ordinary people, so as not to give these people the impression that their cooking skills are just that.

As soon as he heard that there was going to be a live broadcast, Xie Baomin said:
"The chefs in that store didn't dare to compete with me. They insisted on talking about my younger brother. I bet they would definitely regret posting such a comment."

Don't let people tell you if it's not delicious, and you'll talk stubbornly.

This kind of behavior of sticking out your face to be beaten is of course satisfying them.

Dai Jianli shrugged:

"I've never seen anyone make such a request in my life."

Wei Qian looked at Lin Xu and asked:

"What ingredients do you need to make a lion's head? I'll let people start preparing."

"The hard pork belly between the fourth rib and the ninth rib of the pig should be the kind with three layers of streaks, not two layers of three streaks, and a piece of hard fat from the rear of the pig."

The main ingredient for stewed crab noodles and lion head is pork.

Just as Lin Xu said his request for meat, Dai Jianli immediately gave a thumbs up:
"Judging from the material of the meat, brother Lin is going to slap him in the face...I'll send Qiu Zhenhua a message and ask him to come over and comment, and see if the chef of the Huaiyang restaurant is still stubborn. .”

Since he was going to slap his face, he naturally slapped him to death, so as to save the other party from making excuses that the practice of lion head was not authentic.

Lin Xu went on to say:

"In addition to pork, crab powder, shrimp roe, chives, ginger, egg white, cornstarch, green onion and ginger water, clear chicken soup, yellow sprouts... are roughly the same."

Chen Yan, who had just finished the phone call, asked curiously:
"What are yellow sprouts?"

Lin Xu smiled:
"It's Chinese cabbage with yellow leaves. This kind of cabbage is more tender and has a stronger fresh taste, so it is called yellow sprouts."

There are several types of Chinese cabbage. Green leaf Chinese cabbage is suitable for pickling, white leaf Chinese cabbage is suitable for stuffing, and yellow leaf Chinese cabbage is full of fresh flavor, which is an excellent match for some high-end dishes.

Zeng Xiaoqi, who came to eat after get off work with Chen Yan, asked curiously:

"Don't let the horseshoe go?"

Lin Xu shook his head:

"There are specialties in making lion heads. Spring bamboo shoots or clam meat are used in spring, horseshoes are used in summer, crab powder is used in autumn, and wind chicken is used in winter. But we didn't prepare wind chicken, so we used crab powder."

"What is a wind chicken?"

"It's chicken made in the way of bacon. Because it's ready to be hung up to blow air, bacon is called Nanfeng Meat, and salted chicken is called Nanfeng Chicken, or Fengji for short."

"What are the shrimp roe for?"

"To add freshness, no matter when making lion head, shrimp roe is essential, otherwise the umami taste will be almost meaningless."

Lion head is a representative dish of Huaiyang cuisine, and it is also a famous literati dish. If this dish is compared to a song, the pork as the main ingredient is the middle note of the song.

It is not enough for a piece of music to have only the alto, but also the treble. The treble in the lion head is the shrimp roe.

The fresh aroma of shrimp roe can make the pork feel elegant and ethereal.

As for the bass, it is the clear chicken soup that underpins the umami taste. The rich and timeless umami fragrance in the lion's head comes from the chicken soup.

Shen Jiayue, who was eating rice, looked at Chen Yan and asked in a low voice:

"Yan Bao, I can't finish this bowl of rice, why don't I give you some?"

Chen Yan was not fooled at all:
"Come on, you must have saved your stomach to eat the lion's head... No, I have to save some stomach too. If I can't eat the lion's head later, it would be a pity."

Hmph, trying to trick me into eating first, there is no way!
After dinner, everyone started busy preparing for the live broadcast.

Lin Xu also took a screenshot of the comment questioning himself and posted it in his personal feed:

"Since there are doubts, I will simply make a high-end dish to respond. At 17:00 in the afternoon, I will officially make stewed crab meat lion head in the live broadcast room, and explain to you how to eat lion head and taste. Here are a few key points to save everyone from being fooled by unscrupulous merchants with meatballs."

After the news, a link to the live broadcast room was also posted.

As soon as it was posted, many netizens responded under the news:
"The answer is coming, hahaha!"

"It seems that Boss Lin taught everyone how to cook too many home-cooked dishes recently, which made some people misunderstand."

"The biggest joke I heard today is that the food and beverage director of Yanjing Hotel only cooks home-cooked food."

"Probably shredded white jade lotus root, steamed silver shreds, clear water hibiscus, vermicelli in clear soup, snowflake chicken nao, silver shredded squid soup, goose palm in abalone sauce, sea cucumber in abalone sauce, and stewed silver carp head are all home-cooked dishes. Anyway, my family can't eat them." to these."

"Coincidentally, I can't eat it at home."

"I feel that Boss Lin needs to keep a distance from his fans, otherwise he will easily be regarded as a kitchen novice."

"Get started now, can't wait!"

In order to make the live broadcast more effective, Lin Xu deliberately changed into a new chef uniform.

When Qiu Zhenhua drove to the store, the live broadcast officially started.

Today's live broadcast is operated by a professional team, the clarity is no problem, and several far and near camera positions are used. Through the switching of the director station, the practice of lion head is perfectly presented.

Xie Baomin, Qiu Zhenhua, and Dai Jianli also changed into work clothes, and helped explain and evaluate.

The chef of the state banquet personally interprets all the steps and ingredients of the dishes. There is no other company with such specifications in the entire live broadcast circle.

"Hi everyone, I'm Lin Xu. Welcome to my live broadcast room. Due to well-known reasons, today I will teach you how to cook a classic Huaiyang dish - stewed crab meat and lion head."

After the simple opening remarks, Xie Baomin and others also greeted the camera.

Zeng Xiaoqi, who had enough to eat and drink and had nothing to do, even deliberately changed into formal clothes and played a guest role as the host.

Just listening to everyone's discussion has already made me hungry, so I will contribute my strength now, and I will be the first to taste it when it is ready later.

In front of food, everyone has their own caution.

Time was running out, Lin Xu briefly introduced the ingredients, and then started making with a kitchen knife.

He swiftly removed the skin of the pork belly, then laid the meat flat on the chopping board, and slowly sliced ​​a piece of meat with a kitchen knife on the side. Law began to layer the meat.

Qiu Zhenhua looked at the camera and said:
"Do you know what this step means just now? It's called knife testing. It uses the frustration of cutting meat to judge the tenderness of the meat. If the meat is getting old, the granules should be smaller later, otherwise it will taste bad. If the meat is tender, the granules should be properly large, otherwise the meat will be easily boiled."

The biggest difference between the lion head dish and meatballs is that it cannot be chopped, and it must be cut with a knife throughout the process.

The so-called thousand knife meat refers to this dish.

And when cutting, the fat and lean meat should be separated.

The fat part should be cut into roughly the size of soybeans, and the lean part should be cut into mung bean sizes. The two parts should be cut into pieces separately, and then processed separately, and finally they can be beaten together for strength.

Seeing Lin Xu's skillful use of a flat knife to separate fat from lean meat, Qiu Zhenhua recalled the scene when he was an apprentice:

"At that time, my uncle was still young and was keen on playing bridge. After assigning me the task of making a lion's head, I went to play cards. I felt that no one cared, so I used a knife to chop the meat into minced meat..."

Dai Jianli smiled and asked:

"Is your palm swollen?"

"It was swollen and painful. My uncle said very seriously that ordinary people can chop meatballs at home, but as a master of Huaiyang cuisine, chopping with a knife when making lion heads is disrespectful to the patriarch. "

After Lin Xu separated the fat and lean meat of the pork belly, he began to cut the lean meat into cubes.

As he cut, he said:
"Why do we use pork belly to make lion heads? The lean meat in the pork belly has only a thin layer without any tendons, and it grows next to the fat meat, with a strong fragrance. Only this kind of meat can melt in the mouth."

For other meat dishes, melt in the mouth generally describes fatty meat.

But the lion's head refers to lean meat. The lean meat is full of aroma, soft and tender, and melts in the mouth, which is the criterion for judging the whole dish.

Cutting meat seems to be a very simple thing, but when you actually do it, you will find that it is really difficult.

Because it is not only necessary to cut into cubes, but also to be cut into uniform sizes. Even when placing pieces of lean meat on the chopping board, the texture of the muscles must also be considered, so that the cut meat will be uniform and easier to taste.

When Lin Xu was cooking, the three of Xie Baomin were chatting about this dish, and they seemed to be in harmony.

The fans in the live broadcast room posted all kinds of bullet screens, and they were all surprised by this delicate approach:

"I'm going. Could it be that the lion heads I've eaten since I was a child are all fake?"

"It's not fake, it might just be meatballs."

"How much is a lion's head like this, and telling me makes me give up?"

"If you have money, you must change to a mobile phone that can smell."

"Obviously it's just the meat-cutting stage now, but my saliva is uncontrollably secreted."

"Me too, just listening to the chats of a few chefs of the state banquet will make people greedy."

After cutting the lean meat, Lin Xu began to cut the fat meat.

Diced fatty meat, the size of soybeans, is theoretically easier than diced lean meat, which is the size of mung beans.

Lin Xu said while busy:
"If you try to make it at home, you can put the peeled pork belly in the refrigerator for half an hour, so that the fat meat will be easier to cut. I have a good knife skill and I am in a hurry, so I didn't freeze it, so I started directly."

As soon as this was said, there was a piece of the word improvise with the title of the book floating on the bullet screen, which was obvious.

Everyone still vaguely remembers the last cooking competition, Lin Xu carved two fish with lactone tofu.

Such a beautiful knife work, you tell me to do it?

"Boss Lin said that he is good at knife skills, just like Liu Guoliang said that he can barely play table tennis."

"Jordan: I can play basketball!"

"Schumacher: I can drive."

"Messi: I can play football."

"..."

Lin Xu cut up the fat and lean meat, took the kitchen scale, weighed the lean meat and the fat meat respectively, and said:
"The fat-to-thin ratio of the lion's head is between 7:3 and 6:4. If there is too much fat, it will taste greasy. If there is too little fat, it will not achieve a gluten-free taste. If you are particular, you can adjust the ratio. Strictly controlled at 6.18:3.82, this ratio is the best ratio in theory.”

Soon, some viewers calculated the numbers obtained by this ratio:

"I'm going, it's actually 0.618, the golden ratio point."

"Oh my god! I'm just learning how to cook, but it involves mathematics and aesthetics. I didn't expect that."

"Sure enough, the golden ratio point can be seen everywhere in life."

Lin Xu weighed it, and then picked up the hard fat on the rear of the pig and cut some of it.

This time he didn't weigh himself and started doing it directly.

"The weighing just now is for you to see. For a professional chef, the hand is the scale."

When he was talking, he held the fat diced meat and said:

"For example, this ball of diced meat is 13 grams."

After finishing speaking, I put it on the electronic scale, and it really showed 13.

He also casually said a few numbers, and they were all correct. Not only did the audience startle, but even Qiu Zhenhua and the others praised him again and again, thinking that the weighing ability of this hand is really amazing.

Lin Xu smiled and didn't say much. Instead, he put the diced fat meat into a basin, sprinkled some salt, stirred it evenly and put it aside to start marinating.

When table salt melts, it has a strong water-killing effect.

Lean meat is most afraid of direct contact with salt grains, so it should be seasoned in diced fatty meat to let the salt dissolve, and at the same time use the water-killing property of salt to kill the moisture in the fat meat, so that it is easier to glue when beaten.

Then I took the lean meat, put chopped shallots and sesame-sized minced ginger into it, poured some green onion and ginger water, and started pouring water into the meat stuffing.

If lean meat wants to be tender, it must be watered so that the fibers of the lean meat can absorb the water, so that the lean meat can melt in the mouth.

"Scallion and ginger add flavor to lean meat and water absorbs lean meat, but these two have no effect on fatty meat, but will also affect fat meat, so lean meat should be beaten first , beat it and mix it together and beat it."

Lin Xu stirred the lean meat in one direction, and then added water after stirring for a while to let the lean meat absorb it.

When the lean meat feels moist, tender, and even elastic, the whipped meat is considered finished.

Then bring the fat meat over, pour the two kinds of meat into a large ceramic basin, then add the prepared crab powder, egg white, and shrimp roe rolled over with a rolling pin, stir well and start beating.

Seeing this, Qiu Zhenhua said:

"When Lao Dai called me, he said he was coming to check on Master Lin, but when I saw this, I realized that I am not qualified to check, I can only learn from each other... Many masters of Huaiyang cuisine don't know it. When making the head, you need to crush the shrimp roe, which is also my uncle's secret, but I didn't expect it to be mastered by Master Lin."

Shrimp roe is added to the lion's head to increase the aroma, but the whole stewing process of the lion's head is simmered, and the shrimp roe is sealed in the meat, the temperature is not enough, and the umami taste cannot be released.

So when making it, you have to use a rolling pin to crush the shell of the shrimp roe, so that the umami taste can be perfectly released.

Like playing with clay when he was a child, Lin Xu kept digging up the stirred diced meat from the basin, and then kept dropping it to the bottom of the basin.

In this way, the fat meat can be glued, and the fat and lean meat can be glued together.

This is physical work, and people with insufficient physical strength can't persist at all. Therefore, the chefs who appear on the stage, especially the master chefs, will deliberately simplify the steps.

This is not only for the convenience of shooting, but also to save energy.

After beating for about ten minutes, all the diced meat has become like minced skin jelly, full of gelatin, trembling around in the basin.

And those fat diced meat, because of the gelatin being punched out, looked a little translucent.

Netizens have given up the idea of ​​learning after seeing this:

"The meat is ready, and I'm just waiting to make it with Boss Lin. Now it seems that I should make Dongpo pork. This is not a dish I can get my hands on."

"That Huaiyang restaurant came out and was beaten. Originally, I could learn a few tricks from Boss Lin, but because of your provocation, we couldn't learn."

"That's right, get out and get beaten!"

Seeing a lot of barrage, Xie Baomin took his mobile phone and started interacting with everyone.

He looked at a barrage and read:
"Why don't you put chicken powder, monosodium glutamate, rice wine and other seasonings... My friend, the standard lion head is only seasoned with salt. If you put chicken powder, it's chicken soup. If you put MSG, it's meat. Crab powder and shrimp roe cut corners, if rice wine is added, it means the meat is not fresh..."

He revealed the core technology of the whole dish in a few sentences.

Qiu Zhenhua smiled helplessly:
"Old Xie, you are ruining the jobs of those restaurants. Be careful when you go out in the future, and don't be beaten with a sap."

Xie Baomin waved his hands nonchalantly:

"Dry catering can pursue profit, but you have to be conscientious. Take me for example. Today I spent hundreds of dollars to eat a meatball. Do you think I can feel at ease?"

Just as he was talking, the special effects of the carnival floated by.

Xie Baomin looked at the tipper's name:

"Die Lianhua... Thank you for the carnival, my wife, and thank you for my younger brother. Tomorrow, my younger brother will take wedding photos. Then I will send you some pre-release versions, so that you can have a look and check."

Uncle Gao, who was resting in Xi'an Hotel, scolded with a smile:
"This bastard is really eye-catching when he sees money."

Luo Shan was very satisfied with Xie Baomin's teacher's wife, and donated more than a dozen carnivals.

The live broadcast room suddenly became crazy.

"Stone hammer, handsome Gao is Uncle Gao!"

"Master Gao, what do you think of the lion head made by Boss Lin? Please leave a review."

"They provoked your apprentice, saying that Boss Lin can only cook home-cooked dishes, and he is very upset with Chef Xie. Are you just watching and not making a sound?"

"Master Gao, Boss Lin has been bullied, show up and support him!"

"..."

Just now, the bullet screen was full of praises for Lin Xu's cooking skills, but Xie Baomin's call of Mrs. Ma made the whole live broadcast room into a mess. Many netizens who watched the excitement and didn't think it was a big deal asked Mr. Gao to show up one after another.

The apprentice has been squeezed out, so it's normal to be the master, right?

Looking at these bullet screens, Uncle Gao couldn't help being happy:
"This group of children really don't think it's a big deal to watch the excitement. Well, for the sake of my apprentice, today I will put this old face on the line!"

After finishing speaking, he switched to Gao Xiaoshuai's account...

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After quitting carbohydrates, my brain became much duller, and I couldn’t concentrate. Fortunately, my blood sugar has stabilized a lot, and it has dropped from around 5700 to about [-] o’clock on an empty stomach. When it drops again, I will add some carbohydrates, otherwise I'm so sorry for everyone's subscription and monthly pass... This chapter is [-] words, please ask for a monthly pass, brothers!
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