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Chapter 811 is gourmet food, which is also an amazing art - flower basket cold dish! 【Subscribe】

"Flower basket cold dish is not easy to cook, Xiao Xu, please watch it."

Uncle Gao cleaned up the large yellow croaker, but he didn't change the knife immediately, but first put a layer of salt on the fish skin, and then poured onion, ginger and cooking wine.

Lin Xu looked at it in a daze, and marinated it first without changing the knife. What kind of operation is this?
Xie Baomin who was busy at the side said:
"The meat of the yellow croaker is easy to taste, but the skin is not good, so you need to marinate the skin first, and then change the knife later... This dish uses fish fillets to make a flower, the white fish is the petals, and the golden fish The skin is rimmed, so I don’t know if it tastes good, but the appearance is impeccable, which is probably the reason why the flower basket cold dish is the main course.”

Damn, so to speak, Lin Xu also thinks this dish is pretty enough.

Just using fish fillets to form a flower shape is enough to become the main course of the banquet, but the master did not do this, but made it into a flower basket.

This not only demonstrates high-level cooking skills, but also expresses the theme of the flower basket symbolizing peace.

Such a chef is really high-level and really powerful.

Uncle Gao marinated the large yellow croaker and went to do other things. Lin Xu has already fried the herring and put it into the smoked fish soup to start soaking.

In addition, dishes such as cucumbers, radishes, and jellyfish have been pickled and can be served on plates at any time.

As for the duck liver, Lin Xu also deliberately put it into the boiled salt brine and soaked it over low heat.

Salt-salted duck livers should not be marinated in high heat, as it will make the duck livers old and hard. They must be cooked slowly by dipping, so that the flavor of salt-salted duck livers will gradually penetrate into the duck livers.

The duck liver produced in this way is not only softer, but also more umami-flavored.

For foreigners who like to eat foie gras, it is definitely a delicacy not to be missed.

The eight-flavored dish was ready, and the chicken was almost marinated. Lin Xu took the marinated rooster, stuffed the chicken feet into the stomach, and the wings into the throat. Shallots, ginger slices and other ingredients are placed on the soaked dried lotus leaves to start wrapping.

Put some lard on the dried lotus leaves, which is convenient for disassembly and can also make the chicken more fragrant.

Wrap two layers of lotus leaves, and then wrap two layers of tin foil outside, so that the taste can be thoroughly immersed in the chicken.

The chickens are wrapped one by one, placed one by one in the old-fashioned oven burning with charcoal, and grilled.

Uncle Gao said:
"The chicken wrapped in lotus leaves is directly boiled in stewed soup, or directly steamed in a steamer, and the famous lotus leaf stewed chicken and lotus leaf steamed chicken are made... There is no difference between these dishes. As long as you learn one thing, you can learn them all.”

Regardless of steaming or roasting, the heating method is different, and the essence is to cook the food, so this is a one-size-fits-all process.

Lin Xu adjusted the fire on the stove. Seeing that his brother was making ham and Sichuan scallops, he picked up the prepared white striped duck and started to make crispy duck.

The so-called ham and scallops are actually ham and scallop soup.

Shred Jinhua ham and boil the soup. After the umami taste comes out, thicken the sauce. After the scallops are soaked and softened, the torn shreds are sprinkled into the pot.

The ham itself is full of umami, and the scallops are added as an embellishment. This cooking method with overlapping umami flavors makes the soup more delicious and richer in umami flavor, making people unable to stop after one sip.

This was the only soup dish in the whole banquet. Compared with the hibiscus bamboo fungus soup and bean sprouts and pigeon egg soup at the two state banquets in Yanjing, it was much higher-end.

It can also be seen from this that the talks at that time have basically been finalized, so both the host and the guest need a grand banquet to relax.

It is said that in this banquet, Nixon’s toasts were improvised, unlike the two state banquets in Yanjing, where the toasts were written in advance and submitted to the staff of both parties for review, and then he made a speech after confirming that they were correct.

Lin Xu removed the duck paws and wing tips, cleaned them carefully, and marinated them with condiments such as scallions, ginger, and salt.

After a while, it is boiled first, then steamed to taste, and finally the bone is removed and battered and deep-fried. The whole production process is very cumbersome, but the taste and texture of the duck are outstanding. Also full of praise.

Busy until noon, everyone began to eat lunch.

"Chef Cheng, what are you eating today?"

Although there is a box lunch every day, the dishes are different every day, which makes many people look forward to the lunch box at noon.

Cheng Jianshe, who came to say hello, heard everyone's questions and said with a smile:

"Today I'm eating rice with pork meat. I've been eating rice from the south a few days ago. Today I'll try the rice from the north."

Just as he was talking, several kitchen assistants came in carrying large thermos basins.

After opening it, a strong aroma immediately came out. Lin Xu looked at it, and there was a big pot of meat, and a big pot of stewed vegetables in the broth, including green peppers, eggplants and so on.

The other pot is a variety of soy products and meat dishes, including dried tofu, big meatballs, fried rolls, sausages, tofu skin, vegetarian sausages, large intestines and so on.

In addition, two other kitchen helpers came, and they delivered well-packed lunch boxes, each of which had a spoonful of meat broth poured in advance.

Lin Xu felt that with this spoonful of broth, even if he didn't eat a bite of vegetables, he could still eat two boxes of rice.

The broth is the essence of the meat, and it is also the root of the Shandong Dahan's endless appetite for this delicacy.

He filled a piece of meat, two green peppers, two meatballs, one fried in rolls, and one piece of bean curd skin, poured a spoonful of dark broth on it, and started eating.

He sat down next to Shen Jiayue, and ate rice with big mouthfuls of meat on the table.

The meat is stewed until soft, with the unique freshness of cattail grass.

Take a bite, the aroma is strong, and then take a bite of the rice, and the joy of dry rice will come back all at once.

People from Joy Media and CCTV were chatting while eating:

"In the past, when I went out to shoot programs, I was not used to climbing mountains and wading, and I was not used to eating. I almost lost a lot of weight every time. I didn't expect that this time, instead of losing weight, I gained a few pounds."

"Me too. My girlfriend has always wondered if I made a mistake and transferred to work in the CCTV cafeteria."

"The new pants I bought were tried on yesterday, but they were a little tight. I wasted hundreds of dollars."

"It's no wonder that those people like to go out to work when they used to shoot the tip of their tongues. It seems that they have tasted the sweetness of taking pictures of food."

"You Joy Media has signed so many chefs, can you usually eat the meals they cook?"

"We usually eat Lin Kee's boxed lunches. The company has signed an agreement with Lin Kee. As for the craftsmanship of the masters, we can occasionally taste a bite or two when filming food shows."

"Damn, I really envy you guys who can eat Lin Kee's boxed lunch..."

At the dining table, Shen Jiayue was looking at the hot issues being discussed in Lin Kee Food Topics:
[Why hasn't Boss Lin updated the video for several days]

At the beginning, a fan counted the update frequency of Lin Xu’s several accounts, and found that although it was claimed to be updated weekly, in fact Lin Xu would update at least four vlogs every week.

Some netizens analyzed that they were holding back some big moves, some said that they were preparing for pregnancy, and some even said that they were traveling abroad. Everyone guessed wildly, and asked Ait Lin Xu and Shen Jiayue to know what was going on.

Just when Shen Jiayue was about to answer, a netizen named "mysterious person" secretly posted a picture of the state banquet shooting scene:

"Boss Lin is cooperating with CCTV to shoot a large-scale documentary. The specific content is kept secret. Anyway, let's wait and see, it's absolutely wonderful!"

Although there is only one picture, Lin Xu who is wrapping the chicken in lotus leaves, Mr. Gao who is playing with the big yellow croaker, and Xie Baomin who is changing the ham into a knife are all taken.

The three of them are all wearing chef uniforms embroidered with the national emblem, which is not simple at first glance.

Netizens suddenly boiled:

"Wow, the teachers are in the same frame!"

"The three master and apprentice cook together, this battle is powerful enough."

"This mysterious person, can't you reveal the inside story?"

"I'm so anxious, what program should I say? Even if it airs at 03:30 in the morning, I will wait in front of the TV."

"Hey, hey, are you sure that the food show broadcast at 03:30 in the morning is for living people?"

"..."

Shen Jiayue clicked on the avatar of the mysterious person, and found that there was no information and no record of answers. It seemed that it was a newly registered trumpet.

She looked at the scene again, and just as she was wondering who this mysterious person was, she suddenly found Chen Yan looking at the phone with a mysterious smile.

Could this mysterious person be Yan Bao?
Shen Jiayue tentatively sent a private message to that mysterious person:

"Yan Bao?"

Chen Yan, who was looking at her mobile phone, suddenly put away her smile, and looked over in horror:

"How do you know it was me?"

"Tch, just looking at this kind of mysterious person, you can tell that it's a method that media companies like to use. They use a trumpet to release specious news, and by the way, make a wave of positive hype and stir up the topic... Over the years, almost all celebrities are similar. Routine, we eat melons and develop drug resistance."

But this hype method of secretly releasing inside information is not bad, otherwise those celebrities would not persist in using this method of hype.

After the meal, Uncle Gao officially began to make flower basket cold dishes.

He first brought a piece of beef and stewed it with condiments such as sugar dark soy sauce.

Then cut this piece of beef into petal-shaped thin slices, cut it into a pan and fry it to make Dengying beef slices.

Bring another rainbow trout, steam the fish, and cut it into thin slices like petals.

Then there are carrots, Xinmei radishes, tomatoes and other ingredients, or carved, or sliced ​​to make petals, all in preparation for making flowers.

Lin Xu was surprised:

"Master, are you going to use all the ingredients to make flowers separately?"

"Flowers are decorations, and the most important thing is the shape of the flower basket. It is troublesome to use fish rolls and cucumber slices as the border, and to add the handle of the flower basket."

Since the message of peace is to be conveyed, it is necessary to make the flower baskets lifelike, so that although the guests pay attention to the flowers, they should pay more attention to the flower baskets themselves.

Because flowers are a symbol of peace only when they are placed in flower baskets.

Uncle Gao prepared the ingredients for the flowers, took a kitchen knife, cut two cucumbers into thin strips, and put them into sweet and sour sauce for pickling.

Obviously, this is to be the border of the flower basket.

After finishing all this work, Uncle Gao finally remembered the big yellow croaker.

He sliced ​​off one side of the large yellow croaker, changed the knife at a slant, and made petals of different sizes, put the fish fillet in a basin, mixed it with seasoning, then added egg white and a little dry starch, Continue to grab and mix.

Put the oil pan on the shelf, when the oil temperature is [-]% hot, put the fish fillets into the pan, and the specially cut petals will be fried to make the shape more obvious.

Remove from pan and set aside.

The other half of the large yellow croaker meat is cut into evenly sized fish fillets with an oblique knife, wrapped with shredded green onion, shredded ginger, shredded ham, and other ingredients, and steamed in a pot.

This kind of fish roll is easier to cook, and it takes about seven to eight minutes to steam.

When all ingredients are ready, set aside.

Uncle Gao brought two tender cucumbers, split them from the middle, and cut them into three-millimeter-thick slices, each four-centimeters long. down.

Fold the two sliced ​​cucumbers towards the middle to form a peach heart.

In this way, the pieces are folded and put together on a plate one by one to form the outline of the flower basket.

Arrange the flower basket, and then place the fish roll at the bottom to shape the bottom of the flower basket.

Then cut the pickled cucumber strips, put them on the fish roll next to the skin of the large yellow croaker, and then decorate them with shiitake mushroom slices, sea cucumber slices, sweet and sour carrot slices, seaweed slices, etc., and decorate sections of fish rolls as Colorful borders on flower baskets.

Finish the bottom edge, and then make the colored edge of the upper half of the flower basket.

Then take out the pickled long cucumber strips and arrange them staggeredly on the side of the flower basket to form a diamond-shaped grid. A fish roll is placed in each grid, which is both beautiful and very attractive.

Now that the flower basket is finished, it's time for the handle part.

Uncle Gao soaked cucumber strips in sweet and sour sauce, served with carrot strips, fish skin rolls, and beef strips rolled together to make colorful rings and placed on top of the flower basket.

The part where the handle connects to the flower basket is decorated with flowers carved from tomato skins and carrots.

Then put the petals made of different ingredients together to make flowers.

These flowers vary in size, some are fully bloomed, and some are just about to bloom. They look not only realistic, but also very beautiful, especially the deep red roses made of Dengying Beef, which are exactly the same as the real ones.

All these flowers are dotted around the flower basket and the handle, and the whole dish looks like a cross-section of the flower basket, but it is very three-dimensional.

Seeing this, Shen Jiayue couldn't help but take a deep breath.

Yan Bao is right, this dish is really hard to understand...

No wonder the Chinese and foreign journalists praised it at the time. If you hadn’t seen it with your own eyes, it would be hard to believe that it was made with various ingredients.

In the end, Uncle Gao also held a stick of Xinmei radish soaked in sweet and sour water, and tied a bow on the handle.

After the whole flower basket was finished, everyone in the audience stopped their work and couldn't help but come over to watch.

So beautiful, too beautiful to be a dish.

Even a real flower basket may not be so delicate.

Not far away, Wu Chunjiang, who came to join in the fun, held up his mobile phone and used the telephoto mode to observe the structure and arrangement of the flower basket at close range, and couldn't help but sigh:
"This is even more beautiful than the flower baskets in the expansion pack... Lao Gao's craftsmanship is beyond words."

Although the culinary circle likes to emphasize the past and the present, and always stick to the old tradition, but as far as this flower basket cold dish is concerned, the one made by Mr. Gao is more neat and beautiful than the one at the state banquet back then. The shape of the flower basket is more prominent, and the state of the flowers is also better. .

Dai Yuefeng put down the binoculars in his hand, and couldn't help muttering:

"Tell me, why don't Lao Gao's hands shake? He can still piece together roses with tweezers. If it were me, I guess none of the petals would be complete."

Although the other elderly people did not speak, they basically felt the same way.

Seeing the appearance of these uncles, Dai Jianli couldn't help saying:

"What's the state of Chef Gao? He's still full of tendons. He can run ten kilometers without panting. He has better physical fitness than Lao Xie. If he wants to be like him, he needs to exercise more. Isn't it... ...Oh uncle, why did you hit me?"

Dai Yuefeng put down the crutch in his hand, and said angrily:
"Who are you insinuating, kid?"

Dai Jianli rubbed his shoulders and said helplessly:
"I said Uncle Qiu, but not you."

The other old men were immediately overjoyed. Today, Qiu Yaozu didn't come, so the stinky boy from the Dai family didn't grow up.

Going back, I have to tell Lao Qiu that this boy is lawless, and he is either ruining Diaoyutai's reputation or on the way to ruining his reputation all day long. It's time for Lao Qiu to clean up.

In the field, Chen Yan took a mobile phone and took a photo of the flower basket cold dishes on the preparation table:

"I will use this dish as a screen saver in the future. It is so beautiful and has a strong sense of art."

Shen Jiayue also took a picture and said with a smile:

"When your child is born later, I'll ask Xubao to make you a flower basket and hors d'oeuvres to celebrate."

"Really? Then you give me a written proof!"

Chen Yan was not polite to her cousin at all. Instead, she took out a pen and paper, began to write a receipt, and then asked her cousin to sign it.

But after thinking about it, she can't eat this kind of raw and cold food after giving birth, at least she can only eat it after confinement. Thinking of this, she took a paper and brush and wrote:

"Myself, Shen Jiayue, promised to urge Lin Xu to make a flower basket cold dish when Chen Yan's child is full moon. If there is a breach of the contract, Dundun will be fattened by three catties."

After writing, put the note in front of Shen Jiayue:
"Sign and print!"

On the other side, by the side of the reservoir, Dundun, who was lying on a folding chair and dozed off, opened his eyes, and there was a hint of surprise in his eyes.

Good aunt, you actually secretly cursed me, let's see how I will revenge you in the future!
At this time, the water not far away stirred, and a fisherman on the bank suddenly shouted:

"It's hit, it's at least [-] catties! Hurry up, give me a hand, my fishing line is a little thin today, and I can only pull about [-] catties, so I have to take it easy."

When the old grandson saw this scene, his eyes were full of envy.

In fact, he caught a lot of fish today. He has caught at least [-] catties of fish until now, but they were all three to five catties, not particularly big.

Almost all the other fishermen around knew each other. After seeing this, they rushed to Lao Sun and asked:
"Uncle Sun, why don't you catch fish? Aren't you always number one?"

The old grandson said with a smile:
"Fishing is about self-cultivation. It's boring to compete for rankings. You catch yours and I catch mine. There's no need to compete..."

The old grandson, who was about to promote friendship first and second in the competition, suddenly felt a huge pulling force from the fishing rod in his hand. He immediately clenched the fishing rod with both hands, stood up and laughed loudly:
"Haha, I'm sorry, my big fish is here too, definitely over fifty catties!"

Dundun: "..."

According to Ben Meow's many observations, fishermen's faces are like this...

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