I work as a chef in the university cafeteria

Chapter 46 Drooling Chicken
"Why are there so many people tonight? It feels like there are at least [-]% more people than at noon!"

I was busy until 09:30 at night, and all the ingredients prepared in the store were used up, so I finally sent away the students who were blocking the outside clamoring for soup dumplings and hot and sour soup.

Hu Zhihai was so tired that his legs were trembling, he moved to the chair next to him, sat down on his buttocks, panting hard, the expression on his face was still a bit unbelievable,

"For this evening's meal, we sold at least three hundred steamed buns, and there were not even a drop left in three big pots of hot and sour soup!
Those steamers are even worse, they have been repeatedly tortured by high-temperature steam in a short period of time. I reckon, this life span is at least half shorter than that of other houses! "

"There are only so many people tonight."

Jiang Yu also let out a long breath. Halfway through the business tonight, he saw that there were too many people outside, so he asked Lu Shuwu to go to the front to help, and when he used up all the remaining dough, he even served himself. up.

The reason for doing this is nothing more than to let more people eat soup dumplings and hot and sour soup.

He moved his somewhat sore wrist and walked inside, explaining,

"This year's freshmen will start military training tomorrow. If they can't eat tonight, they won't have a chance to eat for at least half a month."

"Oh, I forgot if you didn't say it."

Hu Zhihai suddenly realized, he saw Jiang Yu opened the refrigerator and moved a cardboard box out of it, he was a little curious,
"Hey, Lao Jiang, what are you doing?"

Jiang Yu was still busy with his own work, and replied without looking back: "Create new dishes."

"Do you want to make new dishes?"

Lu Shuwu, who was sitting on the side without saying a word, jumped up immediately when he heard it, walked to Jiang Yu's side in a few steps, looked down,

"Is this a whole chicken? What are you going to cook?"

"Whole chicken?"

Hu Zhihai, who was a step behind, also came over at this time, and asked excitedly,

"Lao Jiang, are you planning to be a beggar's chicken?"

"Beggar Chicken?"

Jiang Yu came out with four chickens, put the cardboard box back into the refrigerator and closed it, then stood up, turned to look at Hu Zhihai, and said with a smile,

"Why, you still want to be Hong Qigong?"

"It's very troublesome to make beggar's chicken. There are no lotus leaves in the store, and there is no clay. The most important thing is that the beggar's chicken is best eaten with firewood."

Lu Shuwu also laughed, and explained to Hu Zhihai and Yan Tongtong who was listening curiously,
"Besides, the firewood is also particular about the firewood. It is best to use fruit trees such as lychee wood and longan wood. The beggar chicken produced will be more fragrant.

We don’t have this condition in our store now, maybe we can change to a bigger place in the future, preferably with an open-air courtyard or something, then it will be fine. "

"Stop it, stop it, just listening to you makes my mouth water."

Hu Zhihai quickly interrupted him, took a sip of water, stared at Jiang Yu again and asked,

"Then what are you planning to cook?"

"Seeing that your saliva is about to flow out, I think it's better to be a saliva chicken."

Seeing his greedy look, Jiang Yu couldn't help laughing. He lifted the chicken in his hand and said,
"There are four of us, let's make four chickens today, exactly one for each of us."

"Okay, then I'll go get some beer!"

When Hu Zhihai heard it, he was overjoyed immediately, and was about to run outside, when he ran to the door, he suddenly remembered something, turned around and asked,

"Xiaoyan, do you drink beer?"

Yan Tongtong was taken aback for a moment, and after realizing it, he waved his hands again and again: "Ah, I, I don't drink!"

"Then what do you drink? Milk or drink?"

"Then, let's have a bottle of yogurt, thank you Brother Hu!"

"Hey! Why are you being so polite?"

Hu Zhihai waved his hand grandly, turned his head and ran out.

After Hu Zhihai left, Yan Tongtong said with some embarrassment:

"Boss, this chicken is so big, it looks like it weighs at least two catties, I, I can eat one by myself, can't I eat it?"

"It's okay, don't you still have to bring food for your friend?"

Jiang Yu glanced back at her, and said with a smile, "If you can't finish eating, you can save a portion for her to take home."

"Oh, that's fine."

Yan Tongtong responded in a low voice, secretly thinking, the boss is such a warm man, I didn't expect Xiao Qi, he still remembers...

Jiang Yu didn't know what Yan Tongtong was thinking. It was getting late, so he had to start doing it quickly.

Saliva chicken is a famous traditional dish in Sichuan cuisine. It is spicy, delicious, tender and refreshing.

When making this dish, the soup used when cooking the chicken is very particular and needs to be just right, so that the soluble protein of the chicken can be preserved to the maximum extent, the deliciousness of the chicken can be increased, and it can also have its unique aroma and taste.

Wash the four whole chickens with clean water, remove the chicken heads and buttocks, then put all four chickens into the soup pot, add water to cover the chicken body, then add ginger slices, green onion knots and peppercorns, and start to simmer boiled.

After a while, after the water in the soup pot boiled, Jiang Yu turned the heat to medium-low heat to let it cook slowly, then turned around and started making the sauce.

After chopping the shallots and mincing the garlic, he turned on another stove, heated up the pot, poured in the raw peanuts with coats and roasted them slowly until the peanuts' leather coats burst and gave off a fragrance.

After pouring out the roasted peanuts and letting them cool, Jiang Yu peeled them again, chopped them and put them aside for later use.

This process seemed to be busy, but it didn't take long, and Lu Shuwu also stood by and stared intently.

Jiang Yu didn't care either. What he was doing now was known to all chefs, and there was really no need to hide it.

As for the formula that really needs to be kept secret, he has already dealt with it in advance.

It wasn't that he was stingy and deliberately kept the formula from being known to others, but the formula provided by the system, the effect was really astonishing.

Once it is leaked, it's fine if the other party is an honest gentleman, at most it's used to open a shop, if someone with a bad mind gets it, who knows what consequences it will cause.

After a while, the smell of chicken came out of the soup pot. Jiang Yu felt that it was almost done, so he turned off the fire, took out all four chickens, and put them into the ice water prepared in advance.

Immediately afterwards, he took out four chilled cucumbers from the refrigerator, washed them, cut them into strips of equal size, and placed them on the bottom of four large plates.

Then, take out the four chickens that have been cooled thoroughly in ice water, drain, chop and arrange on a plate.

Four chickens, each weighing nearly two catties, fully filled four large plates.

After finishing all this, Jiang Yu turned on the fire again, poured cooking oil into it, and when the oil was hot, put in the chopped green onion, peppercorns and some minced garlic and kept stirring.

After frying the aroma, he turned off the heat again, waited for the oil in the pan to cool down a bit, separated the onion, peppercorns, and minced garlic with a spoon, and poured the hot oil in the pan into the bowl containing the chili powder middle.

After stirring the hot oil and chili powder in the bowl, Jiang Yu filtered the red oil in the pot and poured it into another empty bowl.

Immediately afterwards, he added minced garlic, the secret sauce that he had prepared in advance, and the chicken broth that he had cooked before, into the red oil. After stirring it evenly with chopsticks, he set it aside to cool.

When I saw this, I couldn't bear it anymore by standing on the sidelines staring at Lu Shuwu, and asked, "You, what is the dark sauce you just added to it?"

"what?"

Jiang Yu looked back at him in some surprise, then reacted, and said with a smile,
"Of course it's the secret sauce that's been handed down from the ancestors, not from the outside world."

"..."

Having said that, Lu Shuwu couldn't ask any more questions.

People have said that it is an ancestral secret sauce that is not passed on to the outside world. If you ask again, you will appear to be too naive, and if you ask, you may not be able to get the answer.

However, at this moment, he understood that why Jiang Yu's soup dumplings and hot and sour soup are so delicious, most likely it has something to do with it.

The only thing that puzzles him is that he seems to have never heard of any secret sauce that can be used in any dish, and it is delicious.

This also seems too unscientific!
But before he could figure it out, Jiang Yu had already sprinkled crushed peanuts on four large plates of chicken, poured the prepared red oil sauce on top, and sprinkled some chopped coriander on top.

At this point, the saliva chicken has been completed.

(End of this chapter)