A Mouthful of Sky-high Fried Rice, Lao Tang Apprenticed on the Spot Chapter 491

  Chapter 491 Shark Fin Washing in Broth

  Dong Haiqiang didn't say anything, but just watched Li Yi's operation.

   Li Yi didn't care at all about the replacement of the stove around him.

  Seeing Dong Haiqiang approaching, Li Yi smiled and nodded at him, said hello, then lowered his head and continued to work.

  He is processing scallops.

  The scallops that Shen Han bought were relatively small. Li Yi cut the edges with a knife and broke off the old tendons on the sides, so there were not many scallops left.

  Wash the scallop meat, put it into a large bowl, add green onion, ginger, cooking wine and water, Li Yi handed the bowl to Xiao Zhang, and let him put it in the steamer to evaporate.

   "Pony, go get the chicken soup."

  Li Yi cooked a pot of chicken soup yesterday afternoon, and put it in the refrigerator to chill.

  He took a big earthenware bowl, used bamboo grates as the bottom, wrapped the soaked shark fins in thin gauze, and put them in the earthenware bowl.

   Pony brought the chicken soup and poured it into the clay bowl, added rice wine, green onion and ginger, Li Yi put the clay bowl on the stove, and started to heat it up.

   Soon, the chicken soup in the tile bowl was boiled.

  Li Yi asked Xiao Guo to turn on the fire of the small stove beside him, brought the earthen bowl over, and started to simmer over a low fire.

  After turning the fire to the minimum, Xiao Guo came back behind Li Yi, and couldn't help but ask, "Is this piece of shark fin worth a lot of money?"

  Li Yi explained casually while handling the ingredients: "This piece is only half a catty, probably over a thousand!"

   "Hiss!"

  Xiao Guo couldn't help but gasped: "One thousand for half a catty? Then two thousand for one catty?"

  Xiao Zhang exclaimed: "This small piece of shark's fin is worth a month's rent for me!"

   "This is shark fin. In ancient times, only emperors could afford it."

   Xiao Ma looked at the shark fins in Waboli, tsk-tsk in admiration.

   "It's not that the emperor can afford it, but it is indeed exclusive to the rich."

  Li Yi smiled and said: "This thing actually doesn't have any special effect, it mainly depends on the broth, and what is nutritious is the soup."

  Xiao Zhang was puzzled: "Then why do you say it is a tonic?"

   "This is the historical reason."

Li Yi chopped the washed chicken into large pieces, and put them into the boiling water pot together with the chopped elbows: "Eighty percent of shark's fin is protein, and 20% is fat and sugar. The three major nutrients are all in place." up.

  People in the past were malnourished for a long time, so drinking a bowl of shark fin can quickly replenish nutrition, which is indeed a tonic.

  Including other supplements are similar, ginseng abalone belly, nest clam, are high-fat, high-protein ingredients.

   People suffering from diseases, postpartum pregnant women and other people who are deficient in body can indeed replenish their physical fitness quickly after taking these supplements.

  But the dietary conditions of modern people are much better than those of ancient times. Even ordinary people can take in enough of the three major nutrients, so there is no need to take these supplements. "

   "So it is!"

  Xiao Zhang suddenly realized: "No wonder I spent more than 1,000 yuan to buy sea cucumbers during the Chinese New Year, and it's useless to eat them."

  Xiao Guo on the side teased: "What's the use of it?"

   "Of course it will become more violent!"

  The back kitchen was full of men, and Xiao Zhang joked unscrupulously: "That thing has thorns all over its body, and it looks very fierce."

  Xiao Guo smiled and asked: "What? Do you want to complement the shape?"

"hey-hey!"

  Xiao Zhang proudly raised his eyebrows: "It's fine if you can make it up like that!"

  Liao Wendong appeared behind him, put a card on his head, and laughed and scolded: "You talk nonsense all day long, if you grow up like that, you will be finished! That's called cauliflower!"

  Listening to their jokes, Li Yi shook his head helplessly.

   These guys really dare to say anything!

   "Master, this is the first time I know that we can make shark's fin in Hunan cuisine. Why haven't you done it?"

   Xiao Zhang asked Liao Wendong with a smile.

   "I really want to do it, I have to know how to do it!"

   Liao Wendong rolled his eyes.

  At this time, Dong Haiqiang, who had been silent all along, suddenly asked Li Yi, "Who did you learn this [Zu'an Shark's Fin] from?"

  Li Yi glanced at him, and said with a smile: "Since it is Zuan shark fin, it must have learned from Zuan."

  Dong Haiqiang frowned when he heard this.

  He doesn't like people with hippie faces and laughing.

  【Zu'an Shark's Fin】Originated from Zu'an cuisine, Tan Zu'an's family banquet.

   And Tan Zuan was born more than a hundred years ago, how could Li Yi learn this dish from Tan Zuan?

   Seeing him frown, Li Yi also looked away, and started to work on his own.

  He has no obligation to answer the little old man's doubts.

   Seeing that Li Yi ignored him, Dong Haiqiang couldn't continue to ask, so he could only go back to the stove and deal with his own ingredients.

   This dish needs to simmer for at least four hours, and it will be too late without processing time.

   But while he was dealing with it, he was also looking towards Li Yi.

  However, he found that Li Yi's cooking technique was very professional, completely in line with the recipe of this dish, even more delicate than what he knew.

  It's like the pot of chicken soup that Li Yi used to wash the shark's fin. Obviously, not only the old hen was put in it, but also duck, pig bones, and a few other ingredients that he didn't smell.

  Before the shark fin is officially stewed, the impurities on it must be cleaned.

  But it can't be washed with clean water, and the grease on it needs to be stewed at high temperature to be washed off.

  The process of high-temperature stewing is also a good opportunity to feed the bottom flavor.

  So when cleaning shark fins, use chicken broth to stew to feed the bottom flavor.

  However, the stewed chicken soup will contain the impurities washed off from the shark's fin, so it can't be drunk, so it can only be discarded.

  When Dong Haiqiang made [Zuan Shark Fin], he always used old hen soup to wash the shark fin.

  But Li Yi's soup is obviously more than just old hen soup, there are other things in it.

   After sniffing carefully a few times, he still couldn't smell the ingredients, he could only tell that they were medicinal materials.

  Hesitating for a while, he couldn't help but ask, "Master Li, did you put any medicinal ingredients in that pot of chicken soup?"

   Seeing that he was willing to call Master Li, Li Yi also replied casually: "Ginseng and Tianma."

  Hearing this, Dong Haiqiang's stern face was a little moved.

  It's just to wash shark's fin, do you need such a high-configuration soup?

   Isn't this a bit too extravagant?

   There are chicken and duck bones, and ginseng and gastrodia elata, so how high is the cost of this [Zu'an shark's fin]?

  As if aware of his surprise, Li Yi didn't turn his head, and explained casually: "Shark's fin itself has no taste, wash it with broth, the bottom flavor can be fed more.

  Washing a piece of shark fin is indeed a bit extravagant, but if you wash dozens of pieces together, it will be much more cost-effective. "

  Listening to his description, Dong Haiqiang silently settled the account.

  If fifty shark fins are washed together, then ten catties of broth will be enough.

  The cost of ten catties of broth is only a few hundred yuan. After sharing it, the cleaning cost of a piece of shark fin is only a dozen yuan, which is not too high.

  But this kind of arrogant approach really has nothing to do with the Jianghu faction!

  Jianghu faction has always tried to save costs, but never tried to increase costs just to improve the taste a little bit.

  This kind of attitude of not treating money as money is not something that a city chef can have.

  Li Yi's demeanor must be that of an official cook.

   Could it be that he is someone next to a big leader?

  Dong Haiqiang was silent on the surface, but his mind had turned several times.

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  (end of this chapter)

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