flstandardbreds Chapter 128 Part 1 Mostly due to competition
Chapter 128 Part 1 Mostly due to competition
The second dish was also quick to prepare. After blanching the black fungus, let it cool, then tear the large pieces into small pieces of uniform size, drain the water and put them in a bowl, and cut the ginger and onion into shreds.
Next, add the chili peppers, minced garlic, shredded onions and minced ginger that were just chopped into the bowl with the fungus, and pour hot oil on them.
Then add salt, sugar, chicken essence, light soy sauce, aged vinegar, sesame oil and coriander and mix well.
At this time, the refreshing black fungus is ready, but Zhao Xiaojing is not in a hurry to serve it out. She soaks it in the seasoning basin and starts to make the next dish, salt and pepper pork ribs.
Because it was a food tasting, Zhao Xiaojing didn't make a large amount, just a small bowl of each dish. After Gu Shanfeng took a few bites of the stir-fried beef, only the chili peppers were left in the bowl.
Gu Shanfeng sighed with emotion, a complex expression in his eyes. After a long time, he looked up again and looked at Zhao Xiaojing who was still busy in an orderly manner.
Seeing this, I couldn't help but nod secretly in my heart.
This kid is good, he has excellent knife skills, reasonable time management, and good flavor. It didn't take long for him to learn how to flip the wok, and he can even make dishes like stir-fried beef look good. He really has a bright future.
Zhao Xiaojing, who has a bright future on the stove, has already fried the ribs and put them aside to drain the oil.
While controlling the oil, use the remaining oil in the pan to stir-fry chopped green and red peppers and onions. After the aroma comes out, add the ribs, stir-fry evenly and turn off the heat. Then take out the pepper and salt prepared by Zhao Xiaojing, pour it in while stirring the pan so that each piece of ribs is evenly coated with the seasoning.
"Master Gu, try it." Zhao Xiaojing served the salt and pepper pork ribs and the refreshing black fungus at the same time, filled two small bowls and brought them over.
Gu Shanfeng looked at the two small bowls of dishes and smiled. He saw that Zhao Xiaojing had already prepared the refreshing black fungus, and she kept it until the salt and pepper pork ribs were cooked. He also noticed this small detail.
After she cooked the black fungus, she was not in a hurry to serve it. I guess one reason is that the seasoning was not heavy, so it would be more flavorful and have a richer taste after soaking for a while. The other reason is that the salt and pepper short ribs are fried food, and although they taste good, older people would feel sick after eating a few pieces. However, eating them with black fungus can alleviate the heavy taste and greasiness of the short ribs, and also highlight the refreshing taste of the cold black fungus.
Cooking skills are all about details, and Gu Shanfeng gave Zhao Xiaojing a few more points in his heart.
Both dishes look quite good. The fried golden ribs look crispy, and the surface is covered with red, white and green ingredients. The shiny black fungus and white and slightly purple onions are mixed together, and they look so crispy that water may drip out of them at first glance.
Both dishes have rich colors, which means that at least from this point of view, the dishes are acceptable.
Gu Shanfeng was looking at the appearance of the dish when a strong burnt aroma wafted into his nose. He unconsciously glanced at the salt and pepper pork ribs, then he stretched out his chopsticks with interest, picked up one and put it into his mouth.
He was stunned for a moment after eating it, then his eyes widened slightly, looking at the bowl of pepper and salt pork ribs and remembering Sun Dehai's words.
"Hey, Lao Gu, I'm not going to brag to you, my apprentice is an expert at deep-frying. In front of her, all the people you've taught combined can't compare to her."
"Okay, there's nothing I'm afraid of. Just ask her to come. When she's there, I'll let you see if I'm bragging or not. Don't mind if I get slapped in the face!"
At this moment, Gu Shanfeng just wanted to cover his face.
At that time, he asked Sun Dehai for help, in fact, a large part of the reason was to compete. Although he was indeed short of people, he had been running the business in Jiangcheng for many years. If he couldn't even find a temporary rescuer, wouldn't he have worked in vain?
Who made Sun Dehai start to act like a Versailles man from time to time and attack him and Lao Jia ever since he posted a video of an apprentice learning to flip the wok in a month?
Although he and Lao Jia often used a bunch of videos of their apprentices to poke Sun Dehai in the past few years, none of them poked him as frequently as Sun Dehai!
He also thought that Sun Dehai must be very good at cooking to make him brag like that, but he was an old chef after all, and he had eaten too many good things and seen too many good things in the past few decades. He took it for granted that fried food was delicious, but how delicious could it be? It was just the taste of fried food!
But as soon as he ate it, he realized he was wrong.
He has made this salt and pepper pork ribs countless times himself, and his apprentices have also made it countless times, and they don't think it requires any technical skills at all.
It's nothing more than controlling the oil temperature and frying time. But now there are special constant temperature fryers, which can be controlled by machines, just set it up.
After frying, return it to the wok, add the auxiliary ingredients, sprinkle with the purchased pepper and salt powder, turn it over a few times, and it is ready to serve.
But he watched the whole process of the girl cooking. She didn't use a special constant temperature frying pan to set the oil temperature and time directly, but used an iron pan throughout the whole process. She made everything by herself, even the pepper and salt were prepared by herself, instead of using ready-made ones they bought directly.
At the time, he just thought that she was a down-to-earth person who was willing to do these things herself, and he didn't think that the food would taste good if she did so.
But after just one bite, he completely changed his mind about this fried food.
First of all, the taste of the fried pork ribs is very crispy, but the outside is crispy and wrinkled while the inside is still very tender, not dry at all and even juicy, which shows that the manual control of the oil temperature has reached an extreme.
The second is the flavor. The pepper and salt seasoning not only retains the salty and fragrant taste of the dish, but also sets off the meaty aroma of the ribs very well, and it seems to have a slight numbness, but it is looming.
After taking a bite, you will feel that you are still not satisfied, it is very enjoyable, but not the kind of enjoyment that is strong in taste. The seasoning is not strong, it is just a foil. But at the same time, it does not dominate the main flavor, and you can always taste the unique pepper and salt flavor, which makes people unforgettable.
"Xiao Zhao, is this your exclusive ingredient? Is there anyone else in your family who is a chef?" After a while, Gu Shanfeng looked up and asked.
"Yes, these are my exclusive ingredients. I don't have a chef at home, so I set up a stall to sell these myself."
"Set up a stall?" Gu Shanfeng was surprised again. With this level of skills, he could set up a stall? If nothing else, he could just become a chef in his restaurant.
Moreover, his talent level is too high. He can figure out the ingredients by setting up a stall by himself and can beat the chefs who have been working in his restaurant for decades.
But anyway, there are top talents in every profession, and being able to set up a stall to this level is not necessarily a success. If it is really good, the salary of the chef in his restaurant may not be as high as others.
"Your stir-fried beef was taught by Old Sun, right? You made some slight changes yourself, right?"
Gu Shanfeng no longer worried about the issue of setting up the stall, but instead asked about the first dish, the stir-fried beef that brought him familiar memories.
"Yes, Master Gu's tongue is really powerful, you'll know once you taste it." Zhao Xiaojing nodded with a smile. "Master Sun told me about this dish in detail when we were in the cafeteria before."