I work as a chef in the university cafeteria

Chapter 215 Famous Imperial Dish: Palace Wanfu Meat
Of course, Jiang Yu couldn't know what Du Guangning was thinking.

At this moment, he left the No. [-] canteen with a few boxes of Qingming fruit and walked along the campus path.

The breath of spring has come.

A few days ago, the big tree was still bare. After a burst of spring rain, the green branches and leaves have quietly sprouted. In the flower garden by the roadside, countless tender green grasses are scrambling to get out of the soil. It looks very gratifying. .

In the artificial lake not far away, a few water birds flying from nowhere floated on the water, swimming around leisurely. From time to time, they lowered their heads to take a sip of water, and turned their heads to arrange their bright feathers , I don’t know if I think this feather is not beautiful enough?
Looking at the green in front of his eyes, and breathing the fresh and humid air after the rain, Jiang Yu felt that his whole body was much lighter, and even his steps became lighter.

Spring, what a wonderful season!

All the way to the administrative building, Jiang Yu came to Xiong Tiansheng's office door familiarly, raised his hand and knocked on the door lightly.

"Please come in!"

Jiang Yu opened the door and walked in. Looking up, Xiong Tiansheng was the only one in the office, who was leaning over the desk, writing something with a pen.

After entering, Jiang Yu gently closed the door. He didn't know if Xiong Tiansheng was writing something important, so he didn't bother him. He gently walked to the side sofa and sat down. The two plastic bags she was wearing were placed on the coffee table.

After a while, Xiong Tiansheng finally finished writing. He breathed a sigh of relief, looked up, and found that Jiang Yu was sitting opposite him. He quickly got up from his seat, walked around the desk and walked over , said with a smile on his face:
"Oh, Xiao Jiang is here! Why didn't you call me when you came in, and let you sit here for so long! It's all my fault. It took me so long to write a material, and the older I get, the harder it is to use my big head! "

Since Vice President He asked him to "help" book a box from Jiang Yu last time, it seemed that everyone realized how close Xiong Tiansheng and Jiang Yu were. Some colleagues who were not very close also became more polite.

Because no one knows, maybe one day I will need to reserve a box in the Seventh Canteen for business. If I offend Xiong Tiansheng and I don't know Jiang Yu well, who should I ask?

What's more, Jiang Yu and the Seven Canteens are becoming more and more famous in the outside world, and they have become "treasures" in Jiang Da's hands. Xiong Tiansheng and Jiang Yu are so close, maybe they will be able to rely on this relationship sometime Go up a walk.

Everyone is a smart person, and in this situation, it is even more impossible to have a bad relationship with Xiong Tiansheng.

This inadvertent change also made Xiong Tengsheng deeply moved. He has self-knowledge, and all of this is naturally not because of himself, but because of Jiang Yu!
If it weren't for Jiang Yu and his Seven Canteens, how could I, as a pure nerd, have such a good popularity?
At this moment, seeing Jiang Yu coming, Xiong Tiansheng was not only happy, but also grateful from the bottom of his heart.

Although he is much younger than himself, he is a real nobleman of himself!

"Mr. Xiong, you are too polite. I just came here to sit and sit. It's fine."

Jiang Yu also stood up from the sofa, and said with a smile, "I saw you were busy just now, and I was worried that I would affect your work."

"Oh, no, no, it's just a summary material, no big deal."

Xiong Tiansheng waved his hand, just about to sit down on the sofa, he stood up suddenly, shook his head with a smile,

"Look at me, I was so confused when I wrote the materials, I even forgot to make tea, Xiao Jiang, wait a moment, I'll make you a cup of tea!"

"Mr. Xiong, don't bother me. I just came over from the cafeteria for breakfast, so I won't drink tea."

Jiang Yu quickly stopped him, and said with a smile,

"I'm actually fine this time. Isn't it spring? The Seventh Canteen purchased a batch of Qingming grass, so I made some Qingming fruits. Since I'm a little free, I'll send some over to Mr. Xiong." Taste it."

It was only at this time that Xiong Tiansheng noticed that there were two large bags on the coffee table. It turned out that they were the Qingming fruit that Jiang Yu sent him.

Xiong Tiansheng became excited immediately. It's not that he has never eaten Qingming fruit, but the Qingming fruit made by Jiang Yu is obviously different, and it must be much more delicious.

Thinking of the meals made by Jiang Yu that he had eaten before, he couldn't help but start to salivate, but there was still an embarrassing expression on his face:

"Oh, Xiao Jiang, look, I haven't given you anything yet, and you even specially gave me Qingming fruit. I'm, how embarrassing!"

"It's just a little snack, and it's not worth a lot of money."

Jiang Yu waved his hand and said with a smile,

"Originally, I wanted to give Vice President He, Minister Niu and some other leaders a taste, but I don't know them very well, and it seems inappropriate to rush to the door, so I just sent them all to you. gone."

Compared with Vice President He and Niu Wenlin, Xiong Tengsheng is a little slow in interpersonal relationship, but it doesn't mean that he is not smart. Jiang Yu just finished speaking, and he understood what it meant.

However, he also declined, and agreed with all his heart:

"Your cafeteria is so busy, you don't need to run around for such a small matter, just let me come."

Jiang Yu wanted to send some Qingming fruit to Vice President He, Niu Wenlin and the others to taste. Even if he was not familiar with it or had no time, he could just find a little girl who was working and studying in the cafeteria and send it to him, but he didn't do that and ran away Come to yourself.

This shows what?
It shows that Jiang Yu has a good relationship with him, otherwise why didn't he go to Niu Wenlin to send him off?Why not go to Fan Chuliang?
Moreover, Jiang Yu asked himself to give Qingming fruit to other people. Although the things were not worth a lot of money, it was obvious that he had found a good opportunity for himself to get closer to other leaders.

Thinking of this, Xiong Tiansheng felt even more grateful to Jiang Yu in his heart.

"That's it, then it's hard work for Mr. Xiong to make a trip."

Jiang Yu smiled at him and breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, he didn't think as much as Xiong Tiansheng. He just felt that the leaders he was familiar with, Vice President He and Niu Wenlin, had more or less helped him in the process of opening the Seventh Canteen. Up to now, I may still be in the second canteen, guarding that small stall selling soup dumpling.

Making Qingming fruit and giving them some to taste is just a kind of gratitude from him, and there are not too many complicated thoughts in it.

As for why he didn't deliver it to the door in person, it was indeed as he said to Xiong Tiansheng, one was because he was not familiar with him, and the other was because he was worried that people would bump into him and have a bad influence on the leader.

And Xiong Tengsheng had a private dinner with Vice President He and Niu Wenlin a few days ago, and the relationship between them should be very good in private, which is why he brought these Qingming fruits to find Xiong Tengsheng.

Seeing that Xiong Tiansheng took over the matter now, Jiang Yu was fine. He stood up from the sofa and said with a smile,

"Mr. Xiong, then I have to go back to the cafeteria. There are still many things waiting for me to do over there. If you are free someday, remember to come and sit in the cafeteria!"

"Okay, I'll definitely go find you when I'm free."

Xiong Tiansheng nodded repeatedly. In fact, during this period of time, he often went to the first floor for the toothbrush ceremony, but he didn't go to Jiang Yu.

Jiang Yu is so busy, why are you always looking for him when you have nothing to do?

He is not a young man with a stunned head anymore, so he wouldn't do such disgusting things.

He personally sent Jiang Yu to the stairs, watched him go downstairs, and then Xiong Tengsheng turned back to the office and closed the door by the way.

As soon as the door was closed, he couldn't wait to run to the coffee table and carefully opened the top fast food box.

This fast food box is not big, it can only hold four Qingming fruits, two sweet ones and two salty ones, neatly placed in the box.

Xiong Tiansheng looked at the Qingming fruit that was still steaming in front of him, couldn't help swallowing, picked up a pair of disposable chopsticks and hurriedly opened it, then picked up a Qingming fruit and stuffed it into his mouth.

Bite down, his eyes widened in an instant, and he tried his best not to let out a cry, and Xiong Tiansheng ate a Qingming fruit in two or three bites.

After eating a Qingming fruit, he was still a little unsatisfied, and said to himself secretly:
"Eat one more, and don't go after eating another one, take the rest home for your wife and daughter to taste!"

"..."

"This sweet one is really delicious, but I don't know what the salty one tastes like. Well, I'll try another salty one, mainly to taste what it tastes like!"

"..."

"This salty one is so delicious, I... I'll just eat the last one. Anyway, there are two boxes for each person. I eat one box, and the other box is for my wife and daughter!"

"..."

"How about I eat this box too? No, no! You can't be too selfish, I have to think about my wife and daughter!"

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Dining room No. [-], second floor.

"Boss, it's just in time for you to come back, come and have a look!"

As soon as Jiang Yu returned to the kitchen, Du Guangning greeted him with a frown, pointed to the menu copied from the box reservation book at the reception desk, and said to Jiang Yu,
"What kind of dish is this Wanfu meat? I don't think I've ever heard of it. It shouldn't be our Jiangzhou dish, right? And what is this stir-fried dish?"

Jiang Yu took the menu and looked at it. This is the dish ordered in advance by the guests of the "Mei" private room. In addition to this Wanfu pork dish, there are also dishes such as shredded pork with Beijing sauce, fried fish fillets, chicken wrapped in vegetables, and white fungus. Braised, stir-fried vegetables and other dishes that look strange.

Among these dishes, there is probably only one shredded pork with Beijing sauce that is relatively familiar, and it is often seen in some restaurants in Jiangzhou.

Some people say that this dish is Sichuan cuisine, while others say it is Beijing cuisine, but in fact, shredded pork with Beijing sauce is found in many cuisines, and the recipe varies from person to person.

Jiang Yu looked at the menu in his hand and thought about it for a while, and he could be sure that the dish ordered by the guests in the "Mei" private room was undoubtedly a Beijing-style shredded pork with Beijing sauce.

Because on this menu, several other dishes including Wanfu meat, such as fried fish slices and stir-fried vegetables, are all authentic Beijing dishes.

From this point alone, Jiang Yu could basically tell that even if the guest in the "Mei" box was not from the capital, he must be from the north.

"This Wanfu pork dish is similar to braised pork, but the process is more complicated and the ingredients are more."

Jiang Yu reached out to order these dishes on the menu, then turned to explain to Du Guangning, "Oh, by the way, Wanfu meat is still a court dish, and it is said that it is also a dish that is very popular with the Empress Dowager Cixi."

It is said that at the birthday feast of Empress Dowager Cixi’s [-]th birthday, all the chefs in the imperial dining room showed their talents and presented longevity products. An imperial chef surnamed Zhao from Shandong cooked this dish. After the first process, all the fat in the pork belly is refined, so that the pork belly is fat but not greasy, and even if it is eaten often, it will not make people fat.

Since the ingredients of this dish include pork belly, red dates, chestnuts and lotus seeds, which also have the meaning of "Zao Lizi", it is very popular with the Empress Dowager Cixi and her concubines, and she nominated "Wanfu meat" impromptu.

"So it's court food, no wonder I haven't even heard of it."

Du Guangning scratched his head, and asked again, "Then what kind of dish is this stir-fried dish?"

"Stir-fried combined vegetables is also a famous traditional dish in Beijing. It is a dish that stir-fries chives, shredded pork, vermicelli, bean sprouts, and baby spinach."

Jiang Yu handed back the menu to Du Guangning, and said with a smile, "The way to eat this dish is very particular. It's best to eat it with spring pancakes, so that you can enjoy the taste."

"Tsk tsk, if you don't tell me, boss, I don't even know what kind of dish it is, how can I know how to eat it?"

Du Guangning couldn't help shaking his head. He is a native of Jiangzhou. He didn't have any chefs with him when he was learning to cook, and he has been focusing on the production of Jiangzhou cuisine. In addition to some well-known dishes that are widely spread, he also knows something about it. In addition, he has never even heard of some of the dishes that are not very famous.

What's more, it's still these capital dishes that don't quite meet the tastes of Jiangzhou people.

Jiang Yu understands this very well. His situation is actually somewhat similar to Du Guangning's. He has never been a teacher or attended any culinary school. If he didn't have a gourmet system, he might still be in a restaurant outside the school. Serving someone else's plate.

However, it is precisely because of the food system that Jiang Yu can practice good cooking skills, and he can also learn many dishes and their preparation methods that others do not know.

"Actually, it's okay if you don't know. After all, we are in Jiangzhou. Even if you know how to cook capital dishes, you can't cook them a few times. How can Jiangzhou people order non-spicy capital dishes?"

Jiang Yu smiled at him, then waved his hand and said,

"Okay, let's prepare the dishes quickly. It takes a lot of time to prepare this table of Beijing dishes, especially this palace Wanfu meat. Roasting, boiling, frying, stewing, and steaming, these processes have to be done again. It will take an hour or two for this dish alone."

Du Guangning was stunned when he heard it. This dish is very troublesome just by listening, and the complexity of the process is comparable to the "Tengwang Pavilion Red Crispy Pork" that he and his boss made before!

I just don't know what the taste of this Wanfu meat, which even the Empress Dowager Cixi likes to eat...

I really hope that when the boss cooks, he can make more portions. In this way, maybe he and others can take the opportunity to try something new.

He couldn't help swallowing, quickly stopped his wild thoughts, turned and left to pick out ingredients.

After sending Du Guangning away, Jiang Yu washed his hands in the sink and started to get busy.

Spring has come, and the temperature is starting to rise gradually. The two hot drinks he made before are already a bit inappropriate, so he plans to make a few more new drinks.

One is rock sugar horseshoe drink.

Water chestnuts, also known as water chestnuts, are known as the "underground Sydney" hidden in spring. They are crisp and juicy, nutritious and delicious.

In early spring, the weather is still relatively dry. Eating more water chestnuts at this time can moisturize dryness and relieve internal heat, which is good for the body.

The other is kiwi cucumber juice.

Many people often get angry in spring and have mouth sores. Drinking some kiwi fruit and cucumber juice can just reduce the fire.

This drink is not only nutritious, fresh and refreshing, but also has the effects of invigorating the spleen and appetizing, clearing heat and dampness, cooling blood and detoxifying.

The preparation of these two drinks is not complicated, especially the kiwi cucumber juice. You only need to put cucumber, kiwi fruit, and cold boiled water into a juicer to make juice, and then add honey to taste.

The horseshoe drink with rock sugar is relatively complicated. After washing the horseshoe, peel and chop it, then put it in a pot with rock sugar, add water to boil, change to a low heat and simmer until the soup starts to turn yellow.

Jiang Yu moved quickly. When the two drinks were ready, Du Guangning had already prepared the ingredients.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Jiang Yu didn't delay any longer and was ready to start cooking.

Except for Jiang Yu, neither Du Guangning nor Pei Guofu can control the Beijing dishes ordered in the private room of the "Mei" brand. Naturally, they can't help much. This table of dishes will ultimately have to be Jiang Yu himself to get it done.

Of course, Du Guangning and the others were not idle. Apart from the "Mei" box, there were three other boxes that needed to be prepared. Therefore, when Jiang Yu started to process the ingredients, they also got busy.

Wanfu pork is a well-deserved main course for this table in the private room of "Mei". It is originally a palace dish, which is particularly exquisite in color, quality, taste, shape and utensils, with royal elegance and luxury. Very artistic and beautiful.

One of the biggest characteristics of imperial cuisine is "thick soup and rich taste" without losing "soft, glutinous and elegant". To achieve this, many secrets are needed from the selection of ingredients to the operation.

For example, this palace Wanfu meat dish needs to be cut with a multi-character knife when making it, and no coloring and monosodium glutamate is added. It is only made with spices such as star anise, cinnamon, sweet noodle sauce, soybean soy sauce, etc., and is simmered over a low fire to taste.

The finished product is graceful and majestic, just like the Wanfu meat of a flower, the color is bright and the meat is fragrant, soft and glutinous, and it will not feel greasy even if you eat it, except for the fragrance.

Nowadays, many shops are promoting this dish, but some chefs brine the meat directly after flushing it with blood. Little do they know that this dish has a total of six processes, and if one of them is missing, the Wanfu meat will not be perfect.

Such an exquisite dish, Jiang Yu naturally had to work hard to make it, not because he was worried that his reputation would be ruined if he failed, but as a chef, he had to always be in awe of the ingredients.

Only when you have made the ingredients first, the ingredients will make you.

After pondering over the method of making this palace Wanfu meat several times in his mind, Jiang Yu took a deep breath and started to make this palace dish.

He first washed a large piece of pork belly with skin selected by Du Guangning, and then used kitchen paper to dry the moisture on the surface of the pork belly, and then started the first process of "roasting".

This process refers to putting the pork belly on a high fire and roasting the skin side of the pork until the skin is browned and the fat in the fat drips out.

The purpose of "roasting" is not only to remove impurities such as pig hairs that are not cleanly scraped from the skin, but also to refine part of the fat in the pork belly, making the pork belly more fragrant and not greasy.

After the pork belly is roasted, soak it in edible alkaline water for 30 minutes to scrape off the yellow skin and impurities.

Afterwards, Jiang Yu put the scraped and cleaned pork belly into a pot under cold water, added appropriate amount of onion, ginger, rice wine and other seasonings, brought to a boil on high heat, then turned to medium heat, and cooked until it was half mature, that is, the iron chopsticks could be easily inserted through. The extent of the whole piece of meat.

The next process is "fried".After the cooked meat was allowed to cool and dry the surface moisture, Jiang Yu used a small brush to brush a layer of caramel on the skin of the meat, and fried it in a [-]% hot oil pan until golden brown.

After cooling the fried pork belly, Jiang Yu used a knife to cut the whole piece of pork belly into cubes about four centimeters in length and width, and then sliced ​​it horizontally with a knife on one side of the small meat piece, but it could not be broken into pieces. Slices, all the way to the center.

This is to make a swastika flower knife. After cutting the meat, and then roll it back in the original shape. When you look at it at this time, the meat is still a lump of meat, but layered on top of each other, it looks like a swastika.

After processing all the meat pieces, Jiang Yu heated up the oil again. After the oil was hot, he added shallots, ginger, and sweet noodle sauce and sautéed until fragrant. Then he added two pieces of white fermented bean curd, an appropriate amount of soy sauce, rock sugar, and rice wine, and finally poured water , and then put the meat with the swastika knife into the pot, add an appropriate amount of salt, bring to a boil on high heat, cover the lid and simmer for 10 minutes on low heat until the meat tastes delicious.

Immediately afterwards, Jiang Yu neatly placed the stewed meat pieces skin down into a large bowl, put the pre-soaked jujubes, chestnuts, and lotus seeds on top of the meat pieces, and poured a little of the previously stewed meat soup juice, and steamed in a steamer for 30 minutes.

After the Wanfu meat was steamed, Jiang Yu took another white dish, first put the washed and drained lettuce on the bottom, then put the Wanfu meat in the big bowl upside down in the middle of the plate, and then put the soup that had been poured out in advance Drizzle over the meat.

At this point, the court Wanfu meat dish is finished.

This dish has just been cooked, and the smell of meat, chestnut, and dates is mixed together, filling the entire kitchen, making Du Guangning, Pei Guofu and others in the kitchen swallow their mouths, and the two young apprentices are even more unbearable. , The "cuckoo" sounds in the stomach kept coming and going, and those who didn't know thought they had a frog hidden in their pockets.

It was the first time for Jiang Yu to make this dish, and he didn't know how well he did it, so he made a little more in terms of portion, except for the one that was already on the plate, there was at least a small bowl left .

At this moment, seeing that everyone was so greedy that they almost lost their mind to do things, he couldn't help but shook his head and said with a smile:

"I don't have much left, let's all taste the taste, and do things quickly after eating, there are still a lot of dishes to cook today."

When Du Guangning, Pei Guofu and others heard this, their eyes lit up instantly, and Jiang Yu didn't need to say it a second time, they turned around and ran to get the chopsticks.

Everyone can see clearly, there are not many pieces of Wanfu meat in the small bowl like a flower, this time it is really fast, but slow!
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