A Mouthful of Sky-high Fried Rice, Lao Tang Apprenticed on the Spot

  Chapter 92 Carved fish with tofu

   "Wow! It seems! It's like being alive!"

  Zhao Jinmai also saw this scene, and couldn't help but exclaimed.

   Zheng Jun, who was on the side, heard them yelling, and also came over to watch Li Yi's operation.

  Li Yi still supported the tofu with his hand, and with a knife in his right hand, he flipped over the tofu with ease.

   After a while, he swiped again, and another tofu fish swam out of the tofu and fell into the bottom of the water.

"Eh?"

   Zheng Jun was amused, and looked at it with great interest: "It's interesting!"

  The cameraman had already come to the front, taking close-up shots of Li Yi's movements.

  In the live broadcast room, the audience who saw this scene were suspicious of their eyes.

   "Is this real? Could it be a special effect?"

   "Damn it! Go against the sky! Carve fish with such tender tofu?"

   "It really seems! It feels like it's alive! It can move in the water!"

   "Isn't it? I thought it was a joke, but is it really a fish carved from tofu?"

   "Is this something humans can do?"

  The exclamation of Wu Lei and Zhao Jinmai also spread to the front hall. Liu Yifei heard the voice and couldn't help running back to the back kitchen, curiously asking: "What's wrong? What's wrong?"

   "Sister Yifei, come and see! Brother Yi is carving fish out of tofu!"

  Zhao Jinmai waved at her.

"real?"

  Liu Yifei came to the front quickly, and saw that Li Yi just pulled out a tofu fish from the tofu, and slid it into the bottom of the basin.

  The tofu fish has a head and a tail, with distinct scales, and even fins on both sides, shaking with the water waves, it is extremely agile.

   "Wow! So cute!"

   Liu Yifei praised with joy.

  Zheng Jun looked at Li Yi's hand and asked curiously, "How long have you practiced carving?"

   "I didn't count the time, I practiced for a few years."

   Li Yi said something casually.

   "Can you do this through blind practice?"

  Wu Lei looked envious.

  When the audience in the live broadcast room heard Li Yi's explanation, they made barrage jokes one after another.

   "Too Versailles."

   "Is this the world of geniuses?"

   "If you let me practice for a lifetime, I will not be able to practice at this level."

   "No wonder you dare to sell thousands of yuan a piece. This dish is really beyond the reach of ordinary chefs!"

  Li Yi's attention was all on the tofu, and he didn't straighten up until he pulled out nine tofu fish from the tofu.

  At this time, he realized that Qin Lan, Wu Lei, Zhao Jinmai, Liu Yifei, Zheng Jun, and the cameraman were standing in a row, looking at him like students participating in military training.

   "Is the sculpture finished?"

  Zhao Jinmai looked into the basin curiously, but saw nine tofu fish of various shapes lying on the bottom of the basin.

  The nine tofu fish have different postures, such as raising their heads, wagging their tails, or bowing their bodies. Each of them is swaying in the water, like a living thing, very fresh.

   "It seems real!"

   Liu Yifei eagerly asked, "Can I touch it?"

   "I'll carve one for you to play with later, these few are for cooking."

  Li Yi refused her request to touch the fish, turned around and took the big pot, turned on the fire, and added wide oil.

  Burning the bottom of the pot with high heat, the oil temperature gradually rises.

  Liu Yifei saw his intention and asked, "Do you want to fry fish?"

   "Fried red scale fish, of course fried."

   As Li Yi said, he turned around and took out a bag of pea starch from the cabinet, poured half a bowl into a bowl, then took some pure water to make half a bowl of water starch.

  Following, he carefully fished out a tofu fish from the basin.

  Tofu fish is about ten centimeters long and slender.

  Because it is carved with tender and smooth southern tofu, it has uniform flesh and no air holes.

   But also because it is carved from southern tofu, it is very fragile, and it may be damaged if it is slightly touched, so even Li Yi dare not use too much force.

  Pick it up in the air, let the water flow down as much as possible, and then, Li Yi put it into the water starch.

   After letting it go in and roll around, Li Yi carefully fished it out again.

   At this time, a thin layer of water starch has been hung on its body.

  Put his hand on the top of the oil pot to sense the oil temperature, and after waiting for a few seconds, Li Yi slid the tofu fish in his hand into the pot along the edge of the pot.

  The oil in the pot is only 50% hot. After the tofu fish was put into the pot, it quickly sank to the bottom of the pot, and a lot of air bubbles appeared around it.

  Li Yi didn't wait too long, turned around and quickly cooked in the same way, scooped up every tofu fish, coated them with water starch, and slid them into the pot.

   This is a quick dish, which requires very high control of time and heat. One second earlier or one second late will affect the product.

   Soon, the nine tofu fish were all in the pot.

  As the oil temperature rises, the tofu fish gradually floats up from the bottom of the pot, and the color of the surface gradually changes to brown.

  Seeing that the surface of the tofu fish had turned a light burnt yellow, Li Yi immediately scooped them up with a rake.

   Then, he increased the firepower to keep the oil temperature rising.

  At the same time, he started a pot next to him, filled the pot with two spoonfuls of vegetarian seafood soup, and set it on fire.

   Soon, the broth boiled, and the rich umami taste permeated.

   Zheng Jun sniffed it twice, and said in surprise: "It smells so good!"

   Qin Lan on the side didn't speak, but couldn't help sniffing twice.

   "Xiao Lei, help me get a plate, the one with a high circle on the outside and a deeper one in the middle, with blue and white."

   Li Yi gave Wu Lei an order.

"coming."

  Wu Lei found the plate that Li Yi wanted from the disinfection cabinet, and put it beside the pot.

  Li Yi used a frying spoon to stir the broth in the pot to heat it up quickly.

  After the broth boiled, he added the water starch that had just wrapped the tofu fish into the broth and stirred it quickly with a frying spoon.

  When the water starch is heated, it quickly becomes viscous, and the original clear soup becomes a slightly viscous thick soup.

  At this time, the oil pan here is already 80% hot.

  Li Yi quickly turned off the fire of the vegetarian soup, turned around and put the tofu fish into the oil pan.

  The oil temperature exceeding 200 degrees causes the tofu fish to change color quickly, and the water starch on the surface quickly turns brown due to the Maillard reaction, forming a thin layer of crispy shell.

  After the surface of the tofu fish turned an attractive burnt yellow, Li Yi took out the strainer, controlled the oil, and shook the tofu fish into the dinner plate with a backhand shake.

  The watery starch wrapped around the tofu fish is fried until it is browned and crispy, forming a thin and crispy shell, which looks very attractive.

  Li Yi put down the strainer, immediately turned around and picked up the pot containing the broth, scooped up a spoonful of thick broth with a frying spoon, and poured it on top of the tofu fish.

   Chick!

  The tofu fish just out of the oil pan is still at a high temperature. When it encounters the water in the broth, it makes a sound instantly, just like the sound when the rice is poured with juice.

  The high temperature further arouses the freshness of the broth, and the tofu fish rolled up by the gravy juice seems to be really alive, swimming in the gravy gravy, which is very beautiful.

After taking a pinch of chopped green onion and sprinkled it on the plate, Li Yi urged Qin Lan, "[Kirin Offers Blessings] Alright, hurry up and serve this dish while it's hot, so that you can enjoy the crispy outside and tender inside. .”

"okay!"

  Qin Lan responded, and when she closed her mouth, she swallowed subconsciously.

  She picked up the plate and walked quickly towards the front hall.

   But after she left the back kitchen, everyone else followed her and ran out to the entrance of the corridor, looked towards the front hall, and watched curiously as Qin Lan delivered the [Kirin Blessing] to the table.

   "Kirin offers blessings, please eat while it's hot."

  Qin Lan put down the plate, stepped back a few steps, and stood aside.

  Following, she was like everyone else, looking at the diners with implicit expectation, wondering what this [Kirin Blessing] tastes like.

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  (end of this chapter)