There is a kind of high-quality jade will show ice cracks, seemingly irregular, in fact, the most natural magic, can make people indulge in it, at this moment these soaked in ice water under the principle of thermal expansion and cold contraction, showing this beautiful pattern.

Tianxiang snow flesh ice is clear and transparent, there is no turbidity of ordinary lotus root at all, and as the lotus root meat gradually cracks apart, a faint fragrance is hard to diffuse through the ice water, some like the taste of bamboo shoots, but it is a little more tactful than the bamboo shoot fragrance, some like the taste of lotus seeds, but less a touch of bitterness, a little more sweet......

In order to highlight the natural taste of the ingredients, it is a common means for chefs to use various knife skills to change them, but it is really rare for Zhou Dong to use the principles of physics, and at this moment even the three chefs have to admit that if they learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well, even if they are a chef, they will not suffer.

Moreover, the real purpose of Zhou Dong's operation should still be on the eggplant sticks embedded in the lotus root, that is, the semi-finished eggplant; the ice water not only plays the role of thermal expansion and contraction, but also locks most of the lotus root at zero degrees and low temperatures, turning it into a cold fragrance and slowly penetrating into the depths of the eggplant.

Whether it is the eggplant recorded in "Dream of Red Mansions" or many chefs who study this dish in later generations, they have never really focused on the eggplant itself, and the 'chicken and melon seeds' with various auxiliary ingredients and dried fruits have become the protagonists, which is obviously falling into the devil's way, and Zhou Dong's approach is the real way to set things right and clean up the source!

Zhou Dong's eggplant dish doesn't seem to disappoint.

"Wu Gong, is the chicken soup hot enough? ”

Zhou Dong said as he gently fished out the lotus root in the basin and put it on the ice cubes that had been prepared a long time ago and continued to calm it.

Now it is close to the weather of early summer, this season's kitchen will not turn on the air conditioner, at most just turn on the exhaust fan, if the lotus root section is not used to be calmed by ice, Tianxiang Xueshi's unique cold fragrance is afraid that it will soon disperse.

One of the most difficult aspects of boiling soup is to look at the fire, and the second is to know when to stop the fire depending on the utensils used.

If you encounter a vessel like a yellow clay pot, it will most likely be boiled into an old pot of soup, and the pot of soup will be completely destroyed.

This is not an old soup for boiling braised vegetables, nor is it a broth for cooking stir-fried vegetables, and it is different from boiling old porridge.

Chicken soup is the most particular about 'soup to clear meat, but it is not lost',

That is to say, a pot of qualified chicken soup can not be boiled for too long or too short, while ensuring the flavor, but also to ensure that the soup is clear, there is tender meat slightly melted in the soup, it seems to be clear, but the entrance is thick and mellow, but it can never be boiled into a pot of soup paste!

When Wugong Zhengtian withdrew the fire, the chicken soup in the red mud soup can was actually missing half a minute of heat, just to use the residual heat of the soup can to continue to simmer slowly and make up for the fire.

"Well, it's just three minutes hot, and the heat is very well controlled. ”

Zhou Dong scooped up a spoonful of chicken soup and looked at it, only to see that the soup was clear and cold, not a little turbid, and even the thick layer of butter common on the soup noodles had been cleaned up by Takemiya Masata. Nodding slightly, he slowly poured the spoonful of chicken soup back into the red mud jar, only to see that the seemingly clear chicken soup was pulled out of the silk threads, which is the manifestation that the tender meat of the chicken body has been perfectly integrated into the soup after a long time of boiling!

couldn't help but praise Takemiya Masata, Takemiya Masata, who was immediately overjoyed, happy like a child who got a little red flower, and glanced at Shi Buyu proudly.

Zhou Dong put the lotus root embedded in the eggplant strips into the chicken soup with only three points of heat left, and the 'ice cracks' on the lotus root slowly opened, forming an incomparably strange and beautiful, but never repeated picture.

At this time, Zhou Dong put the red clay jar back on the stove, raised the temperature with a low fire, and at the same time, every half a minute or so, increased the fire.

"An excellent chef should understand the principle of the interplay of ingredients, lotus root and eggplant are best on a single basis, once they are combined with the broth, the taste will be more wonderful, but many chefs only know that these two ingredients can be combined with thick flavor, but do not know which one should be the first after the combination?

Chicken soup is the freshest, and it can also be thick and thick, often other ingredients once combined with chicken soup, it will be dominated by the crowd, lose the status of the main dish, but the name of this dish is 'eggplant', if the chicken soup takes away the main position, even if the taste is not bad, it is considered a failure. ”

Chef Hu smiled and glanced at the slowly warming chicken soup in the soup pot and the lotus root that began to stir gently in the chicken soup, and commented with a smile: "First use the principle of thermal expansion and cold contraction to make Tianxiang Snow produce ice cracks, which is equivalent to the growth of several times the 'meridians' in the original veins of the lotus root, which is not only easier to taste, but also easier to bring out the unique taste of this heterogeneous lotus root."

In the genus of eggplant flavor, the traces are close to none, so it can be combined with various materials, sheep, cattle, pigs, chickens and other meat materials, but if it is thrown directly into the soup, the eggplant meat is not firm enough, easy to cause looseness, not only lose the taste, but also lose the taste ......"

"Brother Hu is so right, that's why the method recorded in "Dream of Red Mansions" is 'nine steaming and nine drying', and finally the eggplant meat has to be dried into hard and crispy strips. In this way, it solves the problem that the eggplant meat will be loose, but after steaming it like this, how much delicious food is lost, no wonder the chefs of later generations have made it around, and the eggplant made will not be delicious, and it is completely dependent on chicken melon seeds to save some flavors......"

Shi Buyu shook his head and said: "I'll just say, the teacher who can be recognized by me is the god of our diligence! Look at how clever my master's methods are, not only makes the eggplant have an extra layer of the fragrance of heterogeneous lotus root, but also completely solves the problem that the eggplant may cause looseness when it is put into the soup."

Master, if I'm not mistaken, the eggplant you made probably doesn't need to be dried into hard strips, right?"

"You're smart. ”

Zhou Dong smiled slightly: "It's so troublesome to dry it into hard strips, do you still have to put it in a jar and bury it in the ground, and take it out and steam it when you eat it?" Not to mention that the taste may not be good, but no matter how good it is, it will not have a fresh taste and nutrition."

Old stone, the matter of watching the fire behind it will be handed over to you, increase the fire every half a minute, wait until ten percent of the fire and boil for ten seconds, cover and simmer for ten minutes, take out the lotus root, take out the complete eggplant strips, and cut the lotus root section into cubes for later use. ”

"Okay!"

Shi Buyu smiled and took over the job of watching the fire, with his status as a diligent person in Huaxia, if other chefs boldly let him watch the fire, I am afraid that he will be beaten to death, but this is what Zhou Dong ordered, not only did he not have any dissatisfaction, but he was happy, but he felt that he had won the old guy from Wugong Zhengtian again......