A Mouthful of Sky-high Fried Rice, Lao Tang Apprenticed on the Spot Chapter 114

  Chapter 114 Cooking with ideas

   "Can gardenia be dyed?"

  Zhao Jinmai was a little surprised: "I only know that song by Teacher He..."

  Before she finished speaking, Wu Lei sang beside her at the top of her voice: "Gardenias are blooming! Gardenias are blooming!"

  Everyone: "..."

  Seeing this, Wu Lei shrank his neck: "I was wrong."

  Looked at him speechlessly, Li Yicai explained with a smile: "Gardenia is a natural dye, and in many places, gardenia is used to dye food to make all kinds of beautiful food.

  For example, there are colorful hand-picked rice in Yunnan Province, and the water boiled with gardenia is used to cook the rice. The cooked rice is golden yellow and looks very good.

  It can also be used to dye tofu. If you have golden tofu, you need to use it to dye.

  In some places, gardenia flowers are also used to color the stewed vegetables. The marinated chicken wings and chicken feet will be yellow and bright in color, which looks very appetizing.

  Including white-cut chicken in some places in Guangdong Province, gardenias are also used to add some color. "

  After hearing Li Yi's explanation, the audience in the live broadcast room also started discussing in the barrage.

   "Learned, I'll buy some stewed rice and try it later."

   "People from Yun Province explain that the colorful hand-picked rice is to deceive tourists from other places, and we locals don't eat it at all."

   "How did this Li Yi tell me my secret recipe? When I was learning how to cook boiled chicken, the master taught me the secret recipe, which is to add two yellow gardenia flowers to the soup."

   "Okay! No wonder I make white-cut chicken at home, but it's not as yellow as the ones in restaurants outside. I thought the three-yellow chicken I bought was fake. It turned out that it was because of the yellow gardenia!"

   "Huh? When I was a child, there was a kind of flower that grew near my home. I could use its petals to paint my nails. Is that gardenia?"

   "Is the upstairs also made in Yu Province? I dyed it too! I wrapped it in its leaves, and my sister dyed it for me."

   "I'm from Huizhou! I've dyed it too! Ours is called henna. When I was a child, I dyed all ten fingers orange, and I still think it's beautiful! Haha!"

Zhao Jinmai saw the audience's barrage, and said weakly: "Actually, I dyed it when I was a child. It was given to me by my neighbor's sister. She also said it was called henna, but it's not this kind of dried gardenia. flower."

   "Exactly."

  Li Yi smiled and said: "You should use impatiens, not gardenias.

  Impatiens are dyed with picked fresh petals, and gardenias are dyed with water boiled from gardenia fruit, which is different. "

   "Yes, it is dyed with petals."

  Zhao Jinmai nodded repeatedly.

  While speaking, the konjac flour in the pot had become thick again, and Sui even struggled to stir it with a spoon.

  Seeing this, Li Yi went to the storage room, found a stainless steel bucket, put a layer of soybean oil in it, and then poured the konjac powder into it for Sui Bian.

   Next, just wait for it to cool down and solidify naturally, and the konjac flour is ready.

   On the other side, Liu Yifei also peeled the bamboo shoots and brought them to Li Yi: "Is this okay?"

  She peeled it very carefully, and every bamboo shoot was intact, and the tips of the bamboo shoots were not broken.

   "Okay, very good, thanks for your hard work."

  Li Yi took it, smiled and said hard work.

  Liu Yifei smiled happily, and asked, "Is there anything else I can help?"

   "Not for now."

  Li Yi looked at the materials that had been prepared in a hurry: "It's up to me to do it next."

   After finishing speaking, he came to the sink, washed his hands carefully, and then walked back to the operating desk.

  He didn't act in a hurry, but just stood there, looking over the ingredients on the table one by one.

  But in his mind, these ingredients had already been floating in the void, and then cut by an invisible knife, turning them into ingredients of different shapes, lengths, and thicknesses.

  A thick fresh lotus root floats up.

   Swish Swish!

  A few flashes of knife light, the fresh lotus root was hollowed out, and around the outside, lotus root sticks flew up one by one, leaving only a lifelike chicken cavity skeleton.

  Following that, a slender fresh lotus root floated up, and with the flickering light of the knife, a complete chicken skull appeared above the skeleton of the chicken cavity.

  The beak, head, sunken eye sockets, and the chicken neck bones at the back are all carved vividly.

   In the void, the chicken neck bone floated towards the chicken cavity skeleton.

   At the end of the chicken neck bone, there is a horizontal protrusion, which can perfectly coincide with the depression at the front end of the chicken cavity skeleton.

   Click!

   With a muffled sound, the chicken skull and the chicken cavity skeleton are perfectly connected.

   Perfect, that's all.

  Li Yi nodded lightly, thinking again.

   Click!

  A radish was cut in half, and with a flash of the knife, two lifelike chicken leg bones appeared.

  Next, five peeled fresh bamboo shoots appeared, which were cut from the top third, and the tips of the bamboo shoots converged to the thicker part of the rear end of one of the bamboo shoots.

   Immediately, a chicken claw bone appeared in the void.

   Li Yi turned his eyes, and a sliced ​​lotus root came to him, and it was quickly cut into a shape with two sides concave.

   That's the joint where the chicken thigh bones join.

  Then, the joints below the chicken leg bones and the joints above the chicken feet were inserted into the depressions of the lotus root joints at the same time, and the joints were seamless and successful.

   It was processed according to the law, and the other five bamboo shoots also gathered into another chicken foot, which was stuck behind the chicken cavity skeleton together with the chicken leg bone.

  Before he stopped thinking, a few bamboo shoots floated up again, split, butted, and became two chicken wing skeletons composed of bamboo shoots, which were inserted on both sides of the chicken body.

  In an instant, a complete chicken skeleton appeared in the void.

  The next moment, the chicken skeleton made of lotus root, radish and bamboo shoots came alive.

Snapped! Snapped!

   The chicken feet made of bamboo shoots stepped on the void, took two steps, and scratched the ground twice.

  Following that, it raised the chicken wing bone, which was also made of bamboo shoots, and shook it in the air, as if it was flapping its wings.

   "Clack!"

  It opened its beak carved from lotus root, croaked twice, then lowered its head and pecked at its feet, vividly.

   The first step can be completed here.

  Li Yi nodded secretly, and changed his mind.

   Next, it's time for the musculature.

  As he thought about it, a piece of gluten floated up in the void.

  With a burst of extrusion, it was cut into countless strips, thin slices, cones and other shapes of various shapes.

  The next moment, the gluten floated up and attached to the chicken skeleton, like muscles wrapped around the bones.

  The cone-shaped gluten passes through the bone of the chicken leg, and is tightly wrapped around the top, forming a strong and big chicken leg.

   Next is fat, Li Yi looked at Nan Tofu.

  The piece of fresh and tender southern tofu floated up, and the skin was peeled around and at the upper and lower ends, and the tenderest part in the center was pulled out.

   The knife was still shining, and the tender tofu was cut into countless thin slices, which were automatically attached to the chicken.

  Abdomen, buttocks, chicken wings, the yellowish and tender tofu seems to be the fat of the chicken, trembling, wrapping the abdominal cavity of the chicken.

   Next, chicken skin.

  Li Yi glanced at the konjac bucket that was cooling in the refrigerator aside.

   A whole piece of konjac flew out of the barrel and came to Li Yi.

  Following that, a fine knife light flickered, and the konjac was quickly carved into the shape of a chicken.

   There was another burst of knife light, and the inside of the konjac chicken was hollowed out, leaving only a complete chicken skin.

   "Clack!"

  The vegetarian chicken walked up to the konjac chicken skin, put its head into the chicken's buttocks, and then the whole chicken got in.

   It's like putting on a chicken skin coat, and the whole chicken has a new look.

   "Clack!"

  It shook its wings happily, raised its head and let out a cry.

  The last step, coloring.

  Li Yi turned his gaze and looked at the gardenia fruit.

  A few gardenia fruits flew into the pot and quickly boiled into a pot of dark yellow soup.

   "Clack!"

  The chicken jumped into the pot.

   Wow!

  The water splashed, it jumped out of the pot and landed on the table.

  The original white skin of the chicken has been dyed golden yellow. This chicken seems to have really turned into a freshly cooked three-yellow chicken, with its head held high!

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