Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 809 Surprise for Girlfriend
This time, Chen Nian's participation in the Kitchen King Contest is essentially to be famous and make money, but if there is any meaning, it must be to win glory for the country.

First of all, this program is sponsored by domestic companies, and the main audience is also domestic audiences.

If it was just for exchange and learning, the program team would not come up with a name like Kitchen King Fighting Hegemony, but since it is called such a name, it is bound to separate out some high-ranking ones.

In the previous competitions, Chinese and foreign chefs basically had their own winners and losers, but when it came to Chen Nian, he didn't want to lose to foreigners in the programs he participated in, even though he knew that there were many foreign chefs Great guy.

It's just that the opponent is strong, but winning or losing is another matter.

However, Chen Nian has also made full preparations for this. As early as last year, Chen Nian would find time to practice some western food, including in the last dream in Lingma County, when Chen Nian had nothing to do, he would also I will think about the deeper methods of some ingredients.

He has read the script before, although it will not be too specific, but there are general rules, when the time comes, both Chinese and foreign parties will have to choose the existing ingredients.

That is to say, if a plate of pork is placed there, and the foreign party chooses, the Chinese party will lose this plate of pork.

However, besides having to select the ingredients successively, each team of the Chinese and foreign teams also needs to give the ingredients they brought over to the other party after the selection of the ingredients, and the other party must not refuse.

That is to say, if the Chinese side chooses chicken feet first, but then gives the chicken feet to a Western chef who is not very good at cooking this kind of food, it is tantamount to setting a trap for the other party.

So Chen Nian has been thinking about this issue all the time, but what he needs to think about now is all kinds of western food. After all, his position in the current team is western food.

Go and help others if you have time.

But Chen Nian may be better at helping other people process ingredients than cooking by himself, because every time he enters the dream space, he starts as an apprentice.

And what is different from other chefs is that Chen Nian not only understands Chinese food, but also has a deep understanding of Western food. Coupled with several big shots from InterContinental, Chen Nian feels that the probability of victory here is actually quite high.

But now that the competition is about to start, Chen Nian also intends to let himself relax, not to get too entangled in this aspect, otherwise sometimes there will be a situation of caring and chaos.

But seeing the days getting closer, Chen Nian also learned that Hongdou was coming back soon.

They can’t say they are going to get married this year, so they are in closer contact every day than before. In addition to making phone calls and video calls when they have time to talk to each other, they also make phone calls every night when they are sleeping. sleep this repertoire.

An Hongdou took an evening flight and said that Chen Nian didn't have to run back and forth at night, because when she came back, the brokerage company would send someone to the airport to meet her.

But when Chen Nian heard this, he naturally expressed some regrets, after all, it was a very happy thing for him to be able to pick up his girlfriend at the airport.

It's just that An Hongdou said so now, and Chen Nian couldn't say that he had to go, so he planned to make the same snack as Hongdou said before in the store as a midnight snack.

Before, when Hongdou had nothing to do on the Internet, he saw a video of a food blogger eating Bo Bo Chicken in Leshan.

So at that time, she forwarded this video to Chen Nian to watch, and Chen Nian immediately understood what his girlfriend meant, and kept this matter in his heart.

But because he was busy before, he never had time to do it. He just asked some friends, and then checked some information on the Internet, and learned about the relevant methods.

But today, Hong Dou came back to eat supper here, Chen Nian also planned to give Hong Dou a surprise.

He wanted to make Bobo Chicken before Hongdou came back, because in fact, Chen Nian also liked this kind of snack.

Chen Nian remembered eating Leshan Bobo Chicken once when he was very young. It happened that Chen Nian’s elementary school was on summer vacation, so Lao Chen took him and Feng Honghong to play in SC province, one of which was Leshan.

I ate the most delicious Bobo chicken in my life there, but it was a pity that I forgot about it for a long time.

Until he grew up and went to university, although there were many shops selling Bo Bo Chicken in the north, Chen Nian always felt that the taste of these chickens was not as good as the one he ate in Leshan when he was a child.

Including Chen Nian went to Leshan on purpose during the university holidays, but he stayed there for two days and visited all the places he could, but he couldn't find the restaurant where he ate when he was a child.

Because the store where he ate when he was a child was not big, and even a little dilapidated. The walls were dark, and there were spider webs on the corners. Even the tables were often greasy. People can't tell which is dirtier, the rag or the table.

But it is such a store that Chen Nian remembers for more than 20 years.

"It's a pity. If I have a chance, I would like to go there again and try their Bo Bo Chicken."

Chen Nian couldn't help thinking of it with some regret.

But then he looked at the time, and it was already 09:30 in the evening, and the stall closed earlier today, and he didn't know if it was an agreement between the customers or what, there were no customers in the store 15 minutes ago.

And Chen Nian also arranged for everyone to go back to rest early, but he stayed here to prepare Bo Bo Chicken.

Except for some of the ingredients needed to make Bo Bo Chicken, some of them are already in the store, and the rest was agreed with Brother Liu yesterday when Chen Nian, and asked the other party to send them over.

Now there are chicken feet, chicken gizzards, chicken hearts, kelp, potatoes, tofu skin and even two pig's trotters in front of the aged.

Although it is said that the orthodox Bobo Chicken is mainly chicken, but it is not necessary to follow the fixed method for cooking and eating at home.

You and the red beans can put whatever you like in it.

First wash and cut the vegetables, soak the potatoes and kelp in water separately to avoid oxidation or dryness.

Then he also washed the meat to be used and put it into the basin.

Add salt, pepper, ginger, onion, and cooking wine into it and mix well. The purpose is to marinate and give the ingredients a base flavor.

Although it is okay not to marinate in advance, but after this kind of snack is made, it will have more fishy smell, and it will feel a little thin when you eat it.

It's like some moments when you eat a certain food at the beginning, it doesn't feel so delicious, but after you eat it, you feel that the food seems to be okay to eat.

This is not because there is no stirring evenly, but because these foods are not marinated in advance when they are made, and there is no bottom flavor.

The taste of the first bite is usually normal, but after eating it, the taste of the juice itself and the taste of the food in this bite are superimposed in the mouth, so I feel that the food is getting better and better .

If it is described in a more easy-to-understand metaphor, some people of the older generation like to drink water from tea mugs. Over the years, a thick layer of brown tea stains will form on the walls of those tea mugs. .

So that even if they didn't put tea in the tea mug later, it still tasted like tea when they poured water into it.

But Aged Nian will strive to make the dishes perfect every time, that is, the high-quality level of a certain version of a dish, so naturally he will not cut corners on these basic steps.

After marinating these ingredients, the aging will prepare the sauce.

The main taste of Bo Bo Chicken is spicy, so Chen Nian also prepared three kinds of peppers in advance for this purpose. These three types are available in the store, and Chen Nian bought them back a long time ago.

After all, he always has to study new dishes, and he will prepare several more of these long-lasting seasonings.

The peppers to be used in this season are Ervittia, Chaotianjiao and Bell Pepper. The function of Erjingtiao is to add color, Chaotianjiao is used to increase spiciness, and Lantern Pepper is used to increase aroma.

When these three seasonings are used together, the red oil will be ruddy in color, spicy and fragrant.

After cutting these three kinds of peppers into sections, turn on the low heat on the stove, add a little oil into the pot, and put the peppers in and stir-fry slowly after the oil is slightly hot.

Due to the small fire, the oil temperature is only rising slowly. If the fire is turned on, the oil will heat up very quickly. After adding the pepper, let alone the pepper seeds that have not been removed, even the pepper skin It will also be fried into a black burnt shape in a short time.

The purpose of turning on a small fire is to better release the characteristics of these three peppers.

When the color of the chili starts to become rosy and bright, and when it begins to emit a faint fragrance, add a handful of peppercorns and continue to sauté until fragrant.

This move is also to increase the fragrance in the sauce. The main thing in Sichuan cuisine is a compound seasoning, which will not be ignored even if it is just a snack.

During the frying process, Chen Nian kept turning the chili and Chinese prickly ash in the pot. He didn’t add much oil before. If he turned it slowly or didn’t stir it for a long time, the temperature of one side of the pepper would drop. It becomes extremely high, and the zoom becomes blurry.

But aging only needs the fragrance in the pepper, if it is fried, it will be bitter.

In this way, the old age has been stir-frying until almost all the water in the peppers has completely evaporated, and even a piece of pepper can be crushed with a little force.

At this time, Chen Nian poured the sesame seeds prepared in advance into it again, and waited until the stir-fry was even, then took it out and put it aside.

At this time, Chen Nian looked at the ingredients that had been marinated before, and found that they were not fully flavored, so Chen Nian continued to make red oil chili.

After these peppers are cooled, they are put into the stone mortar together with the prickly ash and sesame seeds in the old age.

After aging, some sesame seeds were added to it.

At this time, the chili noodles are preliminarily ready, and then oil is needed to be poured, but the oil used for pouring is not simply the peanut oil or corn oil commonly used at home, heated and poured on it.

First of all, in the choice of oil, rapeseed oil is used for aging, and in the oil for aging, a proper amount of ginger, onion, green onion, and a good proportion of cumin, star anise, cinnamon, bay leaves, and angelica are added to it. , white cardamom, algal ginger, and grass fruit that has been patted and the seeds removed.

For these seasoning spices, aging has long known their characteristics and usage.

After all, this is what Chen Nian mainly learned in the last dream space.

So when I was making Bo Bo Chicken, I thought about it for a while, and I had these spices in my mind, and then I finally determined the following ratio after consulting some information.

First add rapeseed oil into the pot, turn on the fire until it smokes, and then turn off the stove directly after Chen Nian.

At this time, Chen Nian first poured ginger, onion and scallions from a plate into it. Although the fire had been turned off, the temperature of the oil was extremely high. After pouring these ingredients, there was a crackling sound in the pot instantly.

Yellow bubbles came out, which is the characteristic of rapeseed oil itself.

In an instant, most of the flavors of these seasonings entered the rapeseed oil, and at this time, the aged directly poured the spices soaked in water into the pot of rapeseed oil.

There was another crackling sound.

These spices also release their flavor quickly in the canola oil.

The reason for soaking in water is also because under such high temperature, these dried spices that have been processed before they are sold will be easily fried.

After soaking in water, this kind of thing will be avoided. The reason why ginger, onion and green onions are not soaked in water is because they have a lot of water in their bodies.

After these materials and spices initially released their own flavors, Chen Nian turned on a small fire and slowly let the oil pan roll and gurgle until the onion, ginger, and dried yellow spices were fragrant, then turned off the fire directly, and put the inside Remove the material.

The next thing he will use is this oil.

After turning off the fire, the oil temperature began to drop slowly. When it dropped to about [-]%, Chen Nian first poured this part of the oil into the chili noodles that had been adjusted before.

At the same time, use chopsticks to stir the oil and chilli evenly.

Then when the oil temperature drops to [-]% hot, pour the oil in for the second time.

The aroma of pepper is stimulated again. You don't need to taste it at this time, you can smell the rich aroma just by smelling it with your nose.

But this is not over yet, the last part of the rapeseed oil is still flowing in the aging pot, and when the oil temperature drops to [-]% hot, the aging will pour all the last oil into it.

At this time, the prepared chili oil looks red at first glance, with white sesame seeds floating on it, and a strong chili fragrance wafts out continuously between stirring.

Just to further enhance the fragrance, Chen Nian put a lid on the basin filled with red oil.

Only the chili that is smothered in this way will taste better.

(End of this chapter)