Food: How come this boss knows everything?

Chapter 5 Let’s bake some vegetarian food today
As the saying goes, "Cut cattle and sheep horizontally and cut pigs vertically."

Lamb has large meat fibers, and cutting across the grain can break the tendons.

The meat cut in this way will taste better when grilled into skewers and will not be too hard to chew.

Li Rui put his left hand on the mutton and held the kitchen knife in his right hand. His [Expertise in Food Processing] made it very easy for him to cut the meat.

First, cut the mutton into long strips as thick as your thumb, and then cut the strips into diamond-shaped cubes.

After processing the lean meat, he cut the fat part.

When threading the skewers, use six pieces of lean meat and two pieces of fat.
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Arrange them in this way, and a skewer of lamb with alternating fat and lean meat is ready.

The rosy-colored lean meat, mixed with the tender white fat, is pleasing to the eye just by looking at it there.

There is also a faint smell of mutton.

This pungent smell is a barrier.

Only those who have no aversion to it have the opportunity to taste and enjoy the delicious mutton.

After cutting the mutton, Li Rui skewered it.

He did not choose to marinate it because the mutton he bought was very fresh and roasting it directly in the oven could restore the taste of the meat to the greatest extent.

After preparing the mutton skewers, Li Rui moved on to prepare the vegetarian dishes.

This time he plans to grill some leeks, enoki mushrooms and vegetable rolls.

The roots of leeks and enoki mushrooms need to be removed, cut neatly, and washed with clean water for later use.

For vegetable rolls, you need to cut dried tofu (called tofu skin in some places) into squares and cut the green onions into strips of equal length.

Li Rui puts the same amount of scallion whites and scallion leaves into each vegetable roll, so that each vegetable roll has the same taste.

After preparing these, you will prepare the sauce for the grilled vegetables.

Since barbecue seasoning will be sprinkled on it after grilling, the sauce here is simpler. You only need to mix garlic chili sauce and black pepper sauce in a 1:1 ratio.

After Li Rui finished all this, he looked at his watch and it was almost half past four.

The main reason is that the stringing process is too time-consuming.

[Food Processing Expertise] greatly increased his speed in threading skewers.

But fifty kilograms of mutton, plus more than a hundred skewers of vegetarian dishes, he would need both arms to swing fully.

Although the stall time is not long, but including the time of preparing the skewers, it takes seven or eight hours a day to work.

It's not much easier than working.

At this time, he was very grateful for the humanized task of the system.

Each mission cycle also leaves him with three days of rest.

After packing all kinds of food, Li Rui got on the electric tricycle and drove to Taoyuan Night Market.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Li Rui arrived on time.

Wang Aiquan, who sells beer, has already reserved a spot in advance. He has a store nearby, so he can come early every day.

Seeing the familiar electric tricycle, Wang Aiquan greeted it enthusiastically:
"Li Rui, here."

"Thank you, Brother Wang."

"Hey, I'm also doing this for the good of my business."

Li Rui parked the car, set up the barbecue stove, put on yesterday's chef's uniform, and put on a mask and gloves.

He took out the small sign he had written in advance.

It says:

Lamb skewers 10 yuan

Roasted chives 2 yuan

Grilled Enoki Mushrooms 2 Yuan

Grilled vegetable rolls 3 yuan

By the time Li Rui had finished getting the charcoal fire going, people had already come to buy skewers.

"What to eat?"

The person in front of me is the young father who failed to buy lamb skewers yesterday.

"Give me five lamb skewers and three vegetable rolls."

"Wait a minute, do you want to add some spicy sauce?"

"One lamb skewer and one vegetable roll are not spicy, the others are mildly spicy."

Li Rui first put the lamb skewers on the grill, sprinkled salt on them, and waited for the oil to drip from them.

Then dip the vegetable rolls into warm water.

The vegetable rolls that have been dipped in water will not become dry and woody when baked, and the texture of the dried tofu can be retained.

He shook off the excess water on the vegetable rolls and put them on the oven. Then he took a small brush and brushed a thin layer of oil on both sides of the vegetable rolls to make them heat more evenly and taste better.

The young father felt very happy watching the kebab boss's orderly operation.

Sometimes just watching other people work can be a pleasure.

"Boss, you don't know that yesterday in our community chat group, several neighbors said that your barbecue skewers are delicious. I came here as soon as I got off work today."

Li Rui smiled and said, "You can take it back today and let your daughter have a good taste."

He remembered that last night their family of three came to buy skewers, but he had already sold out.

In fact, for people like Li Rui who sell barbecue at night markets, many customers only buy a few skewers, it is not like in a barbecue restaurant.

So there will be more customers.

While the two were talking, the skewers were almost done.

The mutton skewers are colored, the fat part is golden brown, and the vegetable rolls are also golden on both sides, looking very appetizing.

Li Rui turned the lamb skewers over and sprinkled the barbecue seasoning on them, then applied a layer of sauce on both sides of the vegetable rolls.

The rich aroma of meat, the spicy seasoning, and the light bean curd flavor of the vegetable rolls mixed together in the smoke, slightly charred, and steamed by the heat of the fruit charcoal in the stove, drifting away in all directions.

The young father swallowed secretly.

Wang Aiquan from next door also came over and said, "Brother, I'll buy two skewers of lamb and two skewers of grilled leeks to satisfy my craving first."

Li Rui finished grilling the skewers for the young father, and at this time a few young girls who were shopping came over.

They could smell the barbecue from a distance.

When they came to Li Rui's barbecue stall, their eyes lit up.

"When did such delicious barbecue appear in this night market?"

"Let's have three skewers of lamb, three skewers of grilled enoki mushrooms, and three skewers of grilled leeks."

One of the girls whispered to her friend, "This boss is quite handsome."

The best friend smiled and nodded. It was a rare occasion that the two of them had the same aesthetic taste.

After asking about their tastes, Li Rui took out enoki mushrooms and leeks.

He is particularly careful when roasting vegetables.

Because if the vegetables are not roasted properly, it can easily cause diarrhea.

When people get stomach upset after eating barbecue, sometimes it’s because the ingredients are not fresh, but many times it’s because the vegetables are not grilled well.

He first put the leeks and enoki mushrooms on the oven, waited for the moisture to dry up slightly and the surface to turn golden brown, and then brushed oil on both sides.

In this way, the moisture is baked out in advance, giving the leeks and enoki mushrooms a crispier texture.

It avoids the unpleasant watery taste and gastrointestinal discomfort.

Li Rui stared intently at the grilled skewers in front of him. The fat on the lamb and vegetable skewers was bubbling slightly.

Sometimes just looking is not enough to understand the barbecue temperature. He also has to listen carefully to the sizzling sound. Only a master who can control the temperature precisely can hear the signals given by the barbecue itself.

After a while, Li Rui had already prepared the skewers for the three young girls.

He packed three of each into a bag and handed it to the customer in front of him.

The three girls couldn't hold back after smelling the scent.

They all chose to let go of their reserve and eat skewers in the streets and alleys.

The skin of the enoki mushroom has been baked crispy, but the inside still retains its original taste.

The chewy enoki mushrooms play hide-and-seek with the teeth in the mouth, but unexpectedly the unique flavor of the barbecue ingredients and sauce pleases the taste buds on the tip of the tongue.

The girl bit off another bunch of grilled leeks.

Unlike the elasticity of enoki mushrooms, roasted leeks stick to teeth, which may damage a girl's image.

But it also brings a taste combination of fragrant, sweet, spicy and hot.

The girl who saw that Li Rui was handsome at first glance had a naturally vicious look in her eyes. She chose to go straight to the point and picked up the big skewer of mutton.

The fat and lean meat skewers are evenly sprinkled with seasonings. The unique slight mutton smell, wrapped in the rich meat aroma and paired with the secret seasoning, has become a delicacy in the world.

The charcoal-grilled aroma finally arrived, only faintly revealed in the girl's mouth.

She chewed gently, greedily savoring the deliciousness and enjoying the unique taste of the lamb skewers.

The lean meat is chewy and firm, while the fat slides easily in your mouth.

The combination of three thin people and one fat person is a timeless classic after all.

It smells so good~
The delicious taste of the skewers took away their minds, and the owner of the stall occupied the girls' eyes.

It’s not that idols are hard to chase, but men who know how to grill skewers are more cost-effective.

(End of this chapter)