Food: The super chef just wants to set up a stall leisurely

Chapter 359: Straight men can’t speak fluently, but it works

After talking for a while, the duck had become warm. Seeing Wan Yuyue obediently screwing her head with the potato strips, Zhao Xiaojing turned around and continued to process the duck.

Nie Xiuqi was probably preparing to make another serving of stir-fried pork with peppers. He took the peppers and meat and went back to the chopping board to start cutting them. However, while cutting the meat, he kept looking at Zhao Xiaojing.

Zhao Xiaojing noticed him from the corner of her eye, and turned her head to look at Yun Yongyuan and Wan Yuyue, and her gaze collided with Yun Yongyuan's. Yun Yongyuan quickly turned around and pretended to be calm as he served the eighth plate of stir-fried pork with peppers.

Zhao Xiaojing burst out laughing. These people really are worthy of being chefs. They all get excited when they see the new dishes.

"I'm learning how to be a fairy duck. If you want to see it, come and watch. I'm doing it like a thief. But let me make it clear that I'm just starting to learn and my performance is just so-so. Don't blame me if I learn it wrong."

As soon as he finished speaking, the three of them turned off the fire, put down their knives, took the food out of the pot, and then gathered around.

Zhao Xiaojing was being watched by three pairs of eyes. Her performance, which was already a low level, became even more unstable. She started frying the duck before the oil temperature reached a certain level, and put the duck into the oil pan before it was fully frying. The oil temperature was not high enough, so the color did not come out, and she fried the duck for too long.

When it was finally put into the steamer, Zhao Xiaojing had completely lost her expectations for this pot of duck.

After putting the duck in the pot and adjusting the heat twice, all that was left was a long wait.

Wan Yuyue glanced at the fresh fish under the pool and signaled Zhao Xiaojing with her eyes. Zhao Xiaojing pursed her lips and signaled back with her eyes. The two stared at each other for a long time, and finally Yun Yongyuan was confused. "Why are you two flirting with each other? Don't you want to watch Senior Brother Nie cook the fish? If you play for a while longer, you won't have time to cook the fish!"

"That's right! Senior Brother Nie still has to be a fish. It's all Junior Sister's fault. I can see the shadow on her face!" Someone finally said it, and Wan Yuyue happily gave in.

"If you don't look at me, how do you know I'm looking at you? Act like a fish, act like a fish!" The goal was achieved. Zhao Xiaojing thought to herself that although straight men can't speak flexibly, it can be quite useful sometimes.

Nie Xiuqi didn't say anything. He turned around and took out the sickest fish from the bucket. He knocked it unconscious with a knife in the pool. Then he removed the gills, scales, back and internal organs of the fish and put it into the pool to rinse.

The whole process happened in silence, and it only took a minute and a half from taking the fish out of the bucket to gutting it and laying it on the chopping board.

Nie Xiuqi cut off the head and tail of the fish, seeming a little uncomfortable with it. He glanced at the three people out of the corner of his eye, said in a slightly stiff voice that he would use a flat knife to slice off the fish breasts on both sides, then turned around and started to work.

Nie Xiuqi was seen holding the fish with one hand and holding a knife with the other, keeping the knife and the cutting board parallel, and slicing the fish into two pieces along the spine from head to tail, and then taking out two clean fish jerky.

Zhao Xiaojing noticed that the fish jerky was sliced ​​together with the bones. She was wondering if she should use some method to remove the bones if this dish was to be a soup. Nie Xiuqi put the fish jerky into a deep plate, added scallion segments, ginger slices, Huadiao wine, and salt to marinate it. Then he boiled water in a steamer and put the fish into the pot to steam it.

"Boil on high heat for six minutes." Nie Xiuqi explained, then turned around and began to process the mushrooms, bamboo shoots, and ham. He cut them into shreds and blanched them in chicken broth. He then took two eggs, taking only the egg yolk liquid and then beat them.

"Has the chicken soup been skimmed off the fat?" Zhao Xiaojing took a look at the chicken in the casserole. The chicken soup was clear and shiny, without any fat at all. Although it was a local chicken bought specially in the morning and had less fat, it was not completely free of fat.

"Don't use chicken fat when cooking the chicken. After cooking for a certain time, skim off the fat on the soup surface." Nie Xiuqi stopped what he was doing and replied.

The three of them nodded. Zhao Xiaojing turned to look at the timer on the side. The timer had already started counting down, and the fish was almost ready.

Nie Xiuqi took a look and turned off the fire the moment the timer rang. After simmering for a while, he opened the lid of the pot.

The two slices of fish jerky had turned from crystal pink to mature jade white. Nie Xiuqi took out the deep plate and took out the pointed bamboo chopsticks that Zhao Xiaojing had just bought from the cupboard. He picked out the scallion and ginger slices and threw them away, then drained the fish soup at the bottom of the plate and poured it into a bowl on the side.

The fish meat in the dish was thin and tender, and became very easy to separate after being steamed. Nie Xiuqi carefully used the tip of his chopsticks to gently peel off the fish meat, removing the fish skin and fish bones.

Mandarin fish has few bones and thick meat. Although it is a delicate job, Nie Xiuqi's hands seem to be particularly dexterous. In less than two minutes, the fish meat, skin and bones have been completely separated.

"Master Cai said that even though the shaved meat doesn't look good, it's going to be used to make soup anyway, and it tastes better if it's kept in chunks." After a long while, Nie Xiuqi managed another sentence.

Without waiting for the three to respond, Nie Xiuqi walked back to the stove, scooped out the chicken soup from the casserole, filtered it, poured it into another pot, waited for it to boil, and then added blanched shredded mushrooms, bamboo shoots, and ham. The color of the soup gradually became richer.

"Is this what you want?" Nie Xiuqi stirred the soup. Just as he put down the spoon and turned around, Zhao Xiaojing handed him a plate of fish and a bowl of soup.

Nie Xiuqi was stunned, then quickly took it and gently poured the soup and fish into the pot.

"Junior sister, you can even understand Senior Brother Nie's ventriloquy!" Wan Yuyue was poked by Yun Yongyuan, and her eyes turned around to look at Zhao Xiaojing in surprise.

"When you learn to read the hints, you will understand." Zhao Xiaojing stared at the pot intently without even glancing at it.

After Nie Xiuqi added the fish into the pot, he began to season it.

Steam fish soy sauce, salt, pepper, a little MSG, then thicken with water starch, pour in egg yolk liquid and mix well.

After the soup boiled again, Nie Xiuqi poured in half a spoonful of rice vinegar, then removed the pot and poured it into a soup bowl, added a little minced ginger, and finally a few drops of sesame oil.

"Beautiful, exactly the same as what the chef made!" Yun Yongyuan said excitedly.

"It's worthy of being called an eyeball... Ouch!" Wan Yuyue sighed in a low voice that everyone could hear, but was pinched by Zhao Xiaojing.

After Zhao Xiaojing pinched Wan Yuyue, she didn't bother to scold her and opened the quality inspection module to scan with great interest.

[Song Sao Fish Soup: Level 3, one of the more suitable methods among many. The fish is cooked incorrectly, the ham is of the wrong type, and the auxiliary ingredients are not handled correctly.]

Uh...it's worthy of being a famous folk dish. Even the system's evaluation is so vague.

One of the more suitable practices among many. The word "suitable" seems to mean neither good nor bad?

Moreover, this is wrong and that is wrong, but it doesn’t explain why they are wrong?

Zhao Xiaojing was at a loss for a moment.

"Try it! Can you tell what this fish soup tastes like just by looking at it?" Zhao Xiaojing was staring at the fish soup in a daze when something was stuffed into her hand without her noticing. She was startled and quickly lowered her head.

It turned out to be a spoon.

"Eat!" Wan Yuyue glanced at him with a puzzled look on her face.