Food: How come this boss knows everything?

Chapter 51 Pancake Fruit
At half past five, Li Rui arrived at Jianghai University early.

It was just dawn at this time.

The campus is very quiet in the early autumn morning, with a breeze blowing on your face and a hint of coolness.

There are not many people in the school.

After arriving at the eighth canteen, it was still early and only the staff were busy in the canteen.

Li Rui changed his clothes and first took the ingredients for today to his window.

Food safety incidents occur frequently on campus nowadays and often become hot topics. Jianghai University attaches great importance to this issue.

Therefore, all the ingredients Li Rui needed were provided by the canteen, and samples of the pancakes and soy milk he made were also kept.

Li Rui first washed the soybeans and soaked them in water.

He also brought over the flour made from mung bean and millet.

At this time, a big brother from the window next to him also came to the cafeteria.

He looked at the soybeans that Li Rui was soaking in the basin and asked curiously:
"Brother, what are you doing? Cooking porridge?"

"Soak the beans and make soy milk later." Li Rui replied.

The breakfast sold at the window next to it also includes soy milk, but this chef just took out a few bags of packaged soy milk powder.

He tilted his head and said in confusion:

"Are you serious, bro?"

“It tastes better when it’s freshly made.”

Li Rui continued to be busy.

While the beans were soaking, he started making the batter for pancakes.

The main raw material for pancakes is mung bean flour, but the pancake skin made with only mung bean flour is too loose and not tough.

Therefore, you should add a small amount of millet powder in a ratio of about 5:1.

Mung beans are meat, and millet is tendon.

The pancakes made from mung bean flour and millet flour are delicious.

Add the two kinds of powder in a bowl, add a small amount of salt and five-spice powder to add a base flavor, and then start adding water to make a paste.

The pancake batter should not be too thick, otherwise it will not spread;

It also cannot be too thin, otherwise it will flow down the edge of the pot.

The best state is when the batter becomes sticky, cannot be picked up with chopsticks, but slides off easily with a spoon.

After the batter is ready, start frying the sauce.

The sauces for Jianbing Guozi mainly include sweet noodle sauce, fermented tofu sauce and chili sauce.

However, sweet noodle sauce is made from fermented starch and needs to be heated in a pot to remove the raw taste.

After preparing several kinds of sauces, the soybeans over there are almost soaked.

The soaked soybeans need to be put into a pressure cooker and simmered for a few minutes to allow the soybeans to be fully cooked, and then put into the soy milk maker to make soy milk.

This kind of soy milk is more fragrant.

Fried dough sticks (guozi) and crispy dough (guozi) in the pancake

It was provided by the canteen.

The cafeteria opens on time at 6:30 in the morning.

Finally, the first student customer arrived.

The college student is wearing a plaid shirt and jeans.

He was wearing a pair of black-framed glasses and carrying a heavy backpack with a thermos cup in the side pocket.

Standard engineering guy outfit.

Qiao Wenshuai stood in the middle of the cafeteria and took a quick glance at the breakfast at each window.

The handwritten words "Jianbing Guozi, Soy Milk" attracted his attention.

He took a closer look.

The light green batter made him very satisfied.

As a senior student, he is now facing the choice of taking the civil service exam or the postgraduate entrance exam.

However, test-taker Qiao Wenshuai does not think this is a question that requires making a choice.

In his short life, all problems could be solved by doing exercises.

If you can't solve one set of questions, try another one.

As an adult, of course you have to take both the civil service exam and the postgraduate exam.

That's why he gets up at six o'clock.

Prepare to kill others.

Breakfast is a must during a long day of preparation. Many of the windows in the cafeteria sell exquisite food, such as steamed buns, porridge, fried dough sticks, noodles, cakes, etc.

This kind of food that raises blood sugar quickly will make Qiao Wenshuai feel sleepy after eating breakfast.

Affects learning efficiency.

Therefore, mung bean flour pancakes became his first choice.

"Boss, give me a pancake." Qiao Wenshuai came to Li Rui's window and said.

“Youtiao or thin crisp?”

"I don't want any of that. I just want a pancake skin, two eggs, and a bowl of soy milk to go."

The standard package of pancake + fried dough sticks/crispy dough + an egg is five yuan, soy milk is two yuan, and the egg and fried dough sticks/crispy dough are each one yuan.

"Okay, seven pieces in total, wait a moment."

As Li Rui spoke, he started to operate with his hands.

He first used an oil brush to brush a thin layer of oil on the surface of the pan, and then put about three or two spoonfuls of batter in the center of the pan.

With the other hand, he held a large bamboo helicopter and started making circles on the batter.

One circle, two circles, three circles, four circles.

The batter becomes larger and rounder as it spreads.

Until it almost fills the entire baking pan.

With almost no unnecessary operations, a pancake crust of even thickness was quickly spread out.

Qiao Wenshuai was very surprised when he saw the boss's operation. The crust of the pancake was almost a standard circle.

What a great craft.

Qiao Wenshuai smelled the faint bean fragrance and decided to take out his mobile phone to memorize a few words during this time.

On the other side, Li Rui had already beaten two eggs with one hand.

Bamboo Dragonfly quickly beat the eggs, spread them on the pancake skin, and pushed them to every corner.

Under the high temperature of the pancake griddle, the egg liquid quickly turns into a thin layer of yellow and white, tightly fitting together with the light green pancake skin.

Make the originally slightly rough skin look very tender.

This softness immediately struck Qiao Wenshuai's heart.

He had originally planned to use this opportunity to memorize a few words, but now he began to stare at the book intently.

It's such a pleasure.

After spreading the eggs, Li Rui sprinkled some sesame seeds on the pancake.

The small black particles bounced on the hot pancake and got stuck to the eggs after just a few bounces.

At this time, Li Rui took out two small spatulas and shoveled them into the gap between the pancake and the griddle.

The surface, which had been brushed with oil in advance, did not stick to the pancake.

With a slight flick, he picked up the pancake.

then,

With just a slight "pop" sound, one side of the egg liquid was turned over.

What followed was the aroma of sesame, mung beans and eggs, slowly wafting out from the window.

Even without applying any sauce, the simple aroma of the food is already very tempting.

"It smells so good." Qiao Wenshuai said unconsciously.

"Classmate, do you want to add some spicy food?"

"Just a little spicy is fine."

Li Rui began to spread the sauce on the pancakes.

First, apply the sweet noodle sauce evenly as a base, spreading it evenly in every gap of the pancake to ensure that every bite is flavorful.

Then use a small brush to lightly apply a few swipes of pink fermented tofu sauce to give the pancake an authentic traditional flavor.

Finish with hot sauce.

Without fried dough sticks and crispy dough, Li Rui simply folded the pancake a few times with a spatula.

Then he put it into a paper bag with openings on both sides and handed it out.

This paper bag with openings on both sides is not only convenient for eating, but also does not burn your hands when you pinch the sides of the bag.

Then Li Rui made another cup of hot soy milk, "Do you want to add sugar?"

"A little bit."

Qiao Wenshuai had originally planned to eat it on the way, but now he couldn't wait to take a bite of the pancake.

(End of this chapter)