Food: How come this boss knows everything?

Chapter 273 There are fish every year, but please no thorns

On the 31st, it was New Year's Day holiday and it was also a weekend that did not require an adjustment, so a lot of people came out to eat, drink and have fun.

The shop is open all day today.

After selling breakfast, we also have to prepare ingredients for lunch.

Therefore, Li Rui and the other two were almost always busy.

But the two employees in the store, Xiao Ma and Xiao Han, were still full of energy, even more excited than Li Rui.

Because the boss just fulfilled his promise and gave out a generous year-end bonus.

Comrade Ma Jinge, who has two ponytails, commented:

"Mr. Li has been so kind to me."

The young man nodded: "Me too."

New Year's Day is coming soon, and rice cake has been unlocked in the new seasonal recipes. Li Rui also plans to make some during this time.

The rice has been soaked in advance and needs to be taken out and beaten into rice paste at this time.

And I heard that the store wanted to make their own rice cakes.

Xiao Ma rolled up his sleeves consciously.

"What are you doing?" Li Rui asked puzzledly.

Xiao Ma: "Boss, where is the mill? I want to grind it."

Comrade Ma Jinge's work in the kitchen is usually repetitive mechanical labor, and she has now learned to immerse herself in the role.

But graphite is too big.
There is really not enough space in the kitchen.

Not long ago, Li Rui was still thinking that the kitchen at home was too narrow, but now this small shop has been open for some time.

"boss?"

Xiao Ma called out to Li Rui who was in a trance.

Li Rui came back to his senses and handed her a wall-breaking machine with a smile, "Where can you find a grinder? Use this. You can supervise the work."

"it is good!"

Put the soaked rice into a blender, then add a small amount of water and beat it into fine rice paste.

Then add glutinous rice powder into the rice paste.

If you put two kinds of rice into a blender together, the rice paste cannot be mixed into dough.

So glutinous rice flour needs to be added at this time.

After kneading the dough, put it into the steamer and steam it.

When the dough is steamed, you can find that the dough has a translucent texture.

"It's white and tender, and quite beautiful."

At this point, the rice cake is basically formed.
Next, you need to continue kneading the dough repeatedly while it is still hot, so that the surface of the dough becomes smoother and more delicate, and the inside becomes more resilient in the process.

Cut the kneaded rice cake into small strips and brush them with oil to prevent them from sticking together.

Rice cake is a very adaptable ingredient.

It can be grilled, stir-fried, or directly put into the hot pot.

It is a good omen to grow taller every year.

It is very appropriate to put it recently.

"Hey, hey, there's no smell now." Li Rui reminded the eager pony:
"At least you have to dip it in some sauce."

In this way, the shop now has a new festive snack available at noon.

Written in a prominent place, many customers want to taste it.

"Boss, give me some fried rice cakes."

The steamed rice cake has a soft and glutinous texture. Fry it in a frying pan to get golden and crispy crusts on both sides, which makes it more interesting to eat.

It is then paired with sweet or savory sauces and is very delicious.

It was around one o'clock in the afternoon, and the shop was about to close for lunch.

Brother Long and Xia Mingming came over again.

This was the first time Li Rui saw them outside of midnight.

When Brother Long came in, he had a cigarette in his mouth. He had just stuck half of his body in when he suddenly realized that this was not a good idea.

He turned and went out again.

After finishing his cigarette, he walked back to the store.

Xia Mingming followed him in and out of the store, "Brother Long, you've been smoking a lot lately."

Zhao Zhenlong: “I basically don’t smoke at home.”

"Are you afraid your house will catch fire?"

"What's on fire?" Brother Long was a little confused about this kid's train of thought.

Then he reminded Xiao Xia: "Don't learn to smoke like me, it's a bad habit from the past." "I couldn't afford to smoke before, and I won't in the future. I need to save money."

This point about Xia Mingming made Brother Long feel at ease.

The two walked back into the store.

Li Rui noticed that Xia Mingming was holding a black plastic bag in his hand.

It seems like it’s homemade food.

As soon as Brother Long saw the boss, he greeted him:

"Boss, you haven't eaten yet, have you?"

"No, I just finished my work this afternoon and haven't had time to eat yet."

"Then make a fish and have it together at noon?"

Customers came to eat for free, some of them were blatant.

But Brother Long had a good relationship with the shop, so Li Rui joked, "In that case, I feel embarrassed to charge you for the processing fee."

"Hey, we're here just to take advantage of your skills."

Brother Long smiled, then asked Xia Mingming to take the fish into the kitchen.

Li Rui opened the black bag.

I found a big grass carp inside.

When it arrived at the store, it was already cleaned and looked very good.

After holding it in your hand, you can also feel the firmness of the fish meat.

In terms of species alone, grass carp is almost the most common freshwater fish.

There are many small thorns on the meat and the taste is a bit earthy.

But the grass carp in front of him didn’t look like an ordinary fish.

Li Rui asked Brother Xiang Long:

"wild?"

"It's purely artificially bred, but it should be pretty clean."

"I can see there's nothing dirty. What do you want to eat for lunch?"

"It's all up to you, Boss Li."

"How about spicy grilled fish?"

"Okay."

Grass carp itself has a certain fishy smell, so it is fried first and then stewed, and the seasoning is heavy and spicy, so as to cover up the taste of the ingredients.

As the young man was cutting the grass carp, he felt more and more that something was wrong with the fish.

It stands to reason,

There are dense small spines on the back of grass carp.
But when he modified the knife, he didn't find any thorns at all.

"Boss, am I seeing things? This fish doesn't have any bones?"

"what?"

Li Rui went over to check.
When the fish is not cooked, you can see small, almost transparent bones in the meat, and you can easily feel them out with your hands.

But this grass carp really doesn't have any bones at all.

The pony, who had originally been uninterested in grass carp because of the many bones in it, also ran over to see after hearing the news.

"That's true."

She has an impatient personality and what annoys her most are the tiny bones hidden in the meat when eating fish.

Such a rare grass carp reminded Li Rui of the news some time ago.

But I haven't heard of any news about this kind of fish being cultivated and put on the market.

Li Rui was puzzled, so he asked Brother Xiang Long:

“Is this fish a new species?”

Brother Long smiled and nodded, "Why not say it was artificially cultivated."

Xiao Ma also asked him,
"Brother Long, where did you buy this fish?"

When asked this question, Brother Long became mysterious:
"Debt collection. If you can't collect the money, you will receive various things at the end of the year." Brother Long will certainly not expose the privacy of his customers.

He continued:
"I thought that good things should not be wasted, and you are the only one I can trust."

The trust of customers encouraged the shop owner.

Li Rui touched the young man's shoulder with the back of his hand, signaling him to give up his seat.

Then he took the knife from the boy:

"Let me do it."

(End of this chapter)