Chapter 337: Medicinal Diet
Returning to Shibu, Shen Anyan was still chatting with Su Zifang about what had just happened.
"What did Master Sun say to you in the end?"
"It's just some of the treatment methods of medicinal diet, which really subverted my previous cognition. Su Zifang was a little surprised.
"So powerful?" said Shen Anyan in surprise.
"Well, according to Master Sun, the essence of medicinal diet is actually the homology of medicine and food, food is both medicine and meal, and many of the current medicinal diets are biased, either too biased towards medicine or too biased towards food. ”
"Medicine suffers in the throat, and the food is sweet but not medicative. None of them are the most suitable methods for medicinal diets. ”
"So what?"
"So Master Sun told me how to make an authentic medicinal diet. Su Zifang smiled and didn't continue.
"Isn't Dr. Luo's medicinal diet ready to heal soon?"
"Not necessarily, Master Sun just told me how to do it, and I still have to study it carefully. ”
As he spoke, he had already entered the door and saw a table full of dishes on the table, which was the roast tail banquet that lacked the few dishes he should make.
"Why did you eat so late today?" Su Zifang had some experience.
"Master Xue said wait for you, it won't take long for you to go to Kaiyuan Restaurant, so it was delayed for a while, but I didn't expect it to be just in time. ”
"Then I'll do mine. "Su Zifang is going to the kitchen.
"No need, it's not bad for these two dishes, you wash your hands and eat first. Xue Yi commanded, looking like he had something to say.
"How about going to Kaiyuan Restaurant this time?"
"I feel like I've learned a lot. Su Zifang replied truthfully.
"Well, that's good. Xue Yi nodded
"As the No. 1 restaurant in Guangdong Province, New Century Restaurant has a particularly complete culinary heritage, and I met their chef a few days ago, how did I talk to you when you went. ”
"I didn't see their head chef, only the second chef, Chef Sun, was there, and I had a discussion with Chef Sun, and he taught me how to make medicinal food. ”
"Sun?" Xue Yi frowned, and suddenly asked as if he remembered something, "Inheritor of medicinal diet?"
"Master, do you know him too?"
Xue Yi responded: "You said that your surname is Sun, and you are a chef in Guangdong Province, and you also teach you medicinal food, then I probably know." ”
"Their line specializes in medicinal diets, which has a history of thousands of years, and it is lucky to have him teach you!"
On the side, Kong Yan, Zhao Xiaoman and others were a little envious.
The recipes of the Su Xing Dynasty are taught in the summer, cold and autumn, Huaiyang cuisine has Xue Yi watching, Yu cuisine also has Ye Jiawen's friends, and Northeast cuisine has Zhao Xi...... Even if you want to learn a Cantonese medicinal diet, there can be thousands of years of medicinal food heirs.
As a chef, Su Zifang's luck in learning cooking can be called against the sky.
However, after expressing envy, several people also knew that Su Zifang was able to get the favor of these giants because of his own strength, and he was more than envious.
This is an experience that ordinary people can't learn.
But fortunately, as Su Zifang's close partners, Mu Fei and Zhao Xiaoman are not less touched.
At least the noodles of summer and autumn and Xue Yi's Huaiyang cuisine are all fully learned.
Several people were discussing, but Su Zifang had already entered the kitchen and began to ponder the method that Sun Guoxing told him to deal with the medicinal diet.
"The most important thing in medicinal diet is dietary therapy, to ensure the efficacy of the medicine, and at the same time not to taste good. ”
"Soup and stew are just the most basic aspects of a medicinal diet, because it retains most of the medicinal effects, like traditional Chinese medicine, and at the same time neutralizes the flavor of the ingredients. ”
"Actually, if you look closely, you will see that many snacks can be used as medicinal diets. ”
"For example, autumn pear paste is a good medicinal diet that has been inherited to this day, which began in the Tang Dynasty, with selected snowflake duck pear as raw materials, with raw land, kudzu, radish, wheat winter, lotus root, ginger juice, fritillary, honey and other cough, expectorant, shengjin, and lung moisturizing medicines. ”
"The finished honey yellow, with a pleasant aroma, the color is like amber, slightly sweet, melts in the mouth, it used to be the imperial medicinal diet, and then it was introduced to the people. ”
"This kind of medicinal diet is only famous in the medicinal diet industry, and as for the soup you just drunk, it is called nourishing soup, which is already very face-saving. ”
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After a conversation resurfaced, Su Zifang suddenly realized that his previous definition of medicinal diet was a bit narrow.
I just thought that it had to be made into soup and vegetables, but I didn't expect that there could be other changes.
According to Sun Guoxing's tips, pills, powders, soups, pastes, and blocks can all be in the form of medicinal food, and you don't have to worry about how to mix those ingredients together to make soup, as long as you find a way to make a delicious dish that does not affect the medicinal properties.
He took out the list given by Dr. Luo again and began to check the medicinal properties of each medicinal herb.
Honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, hawthorn, mung bean, licorice, bitter gourd, mint, sophora, gardenia......
After checking around, it seems that they are all medicinal materials that clear away heat and detoxification, reduce inflammation and swelling and defeat fire, and clear the eyes and heart, as if they are to get rid of the liver fire in the body.
Su Zifang was not very sure, so he went to Dr. Luo's clinic to ask again.
After getting a definite answer, I came back and began to ponder the combination of these ingredients and herbs.
"Paste?" Su Zifang's first thought was autumn pear paste.
As a cough suppressant, he still knows the taste and effect of autumn pear cream, and it seems that there is no problem if he also refers to it.
However, looking at these medicinal materials in his hands, how to make them into ointment is a difficult problem.
After thinking about it, Su Zifang decided to set up a pot to boil water, and boiled these things to taste the taste first.
Pour it into the pot and boil the water, and in less than half an hour, a pot of Chinese medicine is considered to be boiled.
The soup is not so dark, but a bit like tea soup, and the mint added at the end smells a little cool, just smelling the taste is very defeating.
After taking a bite, Su Zifang closed his eyes and stopped talking.
The sourness of hawthorn and the bitterness of bitter gourd are mixed together, coupled with the sweetness of chrysanthemum and licorice, the top of mint, and the bean aroma of mung beans.
Silently poured out the bowl of water in his hand, and Su Zifang began to study it again.
The taste of bitter gourd is the most difficult to get rid of, and it is usually used for steaming or blanching when cooking, if it is eaten raw?
Su Zifang suddenly thought of a treatment method and picked out the bitter gourd first.
It doesn't matter if the mint is garnished, you can put it on a plate when the time comes, so you don't have to worry about it.
For the rest of the things, Su Zifang thought about it and decided to try to deal with the frozen substances in the Japanese way.
It just so happens that there is also a mung bean paste method, so it's no problem to try a few more times.
Thinking of this, Suzi put the water to boil again, add honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, licorice, gardenia and start boiling the water, wait until the water in the pot changes color, filter the Chinese herbs to remove the water, put it to room temperature, add ice powder, mix well and put it in the refrigerator.
In addition, peel and cut the bitter gourd into thin slices, marinate it with honey and spread it on a plate, and put it in the refrigerator together.
Half an hour later, the amber jelly was poured from the mold and cut into cubes, exactly the size of a bitter gourd.
Su Zifang put the bitter gourd and the jelly on the table, and put a mint on top of the jelly, and nodded with satisfaction.
This medicinal dish seems to be ready!