161. Ordinary cabbage
Boiling water cabbage, which belongs to Sichuan cuisine in terms of cuisine, was created by a Sichuan imperial chef in the Qing Dynasty. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
At that time, someone ridiculed the imperial chef and said that Sichuan cuisine would only be spicy and rustic, and the Sichuan cuisine master was very unconvinced, so he had this boiling cabbage.
Later, another master of Sichuan cuisine carried forward this dish and ranked it in the Chinese state banquet, even in the state banquet, it is also a fine dish.
It's just that at first glance, this boiling water cabbage is a bowl of boiled water with a cabbage in it, which looks extremely simple, but in fact, it is not, the method of this dish is not simple, it seems to be very simple but it is extremely complicated.
Boiling water cabbage, boiling water cabbage, boiling water refers to the clear soup that is as clear as boiled water, the clear soup is ready, and the next time is to cook the cabbage.
These cabbages are carefully selected before the white night, ripe but not thorough, peel off the layers of skin, the color of this cabbage will change from green to tender yellow, this tender yellow is the cabbage heart of this cabbage.
The cabbage sum is extremely tender, so tender that there is almost no trace of vegetable tendon, crispy and tender, and it is already extremely delicious when eaten raw.
However, although it is delicious when eaten raw, it is naturally even better when cooked.
Throwing the cabbage heart, which was only wrapped in a few small leaves, into the boiling water and scalding, Bai Ye hurriedly fished it out.
Vegetables are always easy to cook, and this blanched tender cabbage will be five or six minutes ripe later.
After taking out the cabbage, this is not over, Bai Ye called again to touch the cold water, put the five or six medium-cooked cabbage into the water, wash it with water, and wait for it to cool down.
After the cabbage cooled again, Bai Ye found a large colander, put the cabbage hearts on top of the colander, gently peeled off the last few leaves that wrapped the cabbage hearts, and arranged the cabbage leaves like water lilies blooming.
The whole action was carefully completed by Bai Ye, for fear of hurting the cabbage's roots and destroying the quality of the vegetables.
Posing, Bai Ye placed the colander with the cabbage on one of the two pots of broth, then picked up a spoonful of the broth from the pot and poured it over the cabbage from top to bottom.
The soup stock is always kept warm by fire, so it is still warm at this time, and the temperature is not low, but this is the temperature that is required.
The cabbage of boiling water cabbage is not cooked, but blanched in a warm broth.
Bai Ye scooped the broth spoonful by spoonful and gently poured it on top of the cabbage.
Although vegetables are easy to cook, they are easy to cook when they are cooked in a pot, which takes a lot of time if they are hot, and it is actually very tiring to scoop up this spoonful of broth.
However, Bai Ye didn't feel tired, and only the cabbage was left in his eyes at this time, and the strange cooking method of this cabbage made him feel the joy of cooking again.
It turns out that the dish can still be cooked like this, interesting, and sure enough, I'm still far away.
The smile on Bai Ye's face was full of anticipation.
However, the cabbage leaves are thin and easy to ripen, but the fat roots are not easy to cook.
Even if you use the soup stock, it will be blocked by the outer layer of vegetable skin, and you will not be able to burn the innermost heart.
So, at this time, the silver needle that Hakuya had prepared for Dojima Silver was useful.
The needle is the kind of silver needle used for acupuncture, which is extremely thin, and it is basically invisible to the naked eye of the person who the needle and takes the needle hole.
The needle that Dojima Silver gave to Bai Ye was obviously a new pair of needles that had never been used before, and Bai Ye picked up one of them, gently pierced into the root of the cabbage, and then moved his fingers slightly, and quickly pierced one after another air holes in the root of the cabbage that were invisible to the naked eye.
Although people can't see it, these pinholes are real, and at this time, they are drizzled with the warm broth, and along those small holes, the fragrant broth flows into the cabbage sum, and the cabbage sum is cooked thoroughly.
Spoonfuls of the broth were poured down, and the cabbage gradually cooked, and the rich aroma of the broth mixed with the fragrance of the cabbage, and there was a delicious aroma that filled the entire kitchen.
There were several lecturers who had been standing next to them quietly watching Bai Ye's movements, and at this time, there was no contempt in their eyes at the beginning, but with a little solemnity, even if they were as arrogant as Shinomiya Kojiro, they had nothing to say at this time.
His Adam's apple moved slightly, and Kojiro Shinomiya, who was already good at vegetable cooking, knew at this time that the cabbage that was about to be ripe must be very delicious.
And Fuyumi Mizuhara and Donato Ogura, who had originally gone to class and returned from class at this time, were attracted by the fragrance as soon as they approached the kitchen.
But no one in the room said anything, everyone was a chef, so they naturally knew that it was rude to disturb others while they were cooking.
So, the only sound in the silent kitchen was the sound of spoonfuls of broth pouring over the cabbage and flowing down the funnel back into the pot.
After a long time, Bai Ye picked up the chopsticks and gently poked the skin of the cabbage, which felt extremely soft, and he nodded.
Put the cabbage in the colander into a large bowl, and Shiraya scoops out the broth from another pot that has not been used until and pours it into the bowl.
The previous pot of broth with blanched cabbage can no longer be used, and only this pot of clean broth can be used.
"It's done, so please give me some advice. ”
Bringing the finished boiling cabbage to the stage, Bai Ye said with a smile on his face.
There was a bit of confidence in his smile, because he was going to do his best in this dish.
And Shinomiya Kojiro and others looked at the bowl of boiling cabbage on the stage, and everyone was stunned.
There was a big bowl of water, and there was no oil in the water, like a bowl of boiled water, and there were a few cabbages floating in the water, although the color of the dish looked good, but there was no other decoration.
And as soon as the dish is put into the bowl, the strong fragrance that was still overflowing just now gradually dissipated, and the slightest aroma can not be smelled at this time.
It is said that the dishes are full of color and flavor, but this dish is really colorless, not even fragrant, neither colorless nor fragrant, so who will taste its taste?
In all fairness, if they hadn't just seen the whole cooking process of Bai Ye with their own eyes, and put this dish directly in front of them, they probably wouldn't have even looked at this extremely humble dish.
It's just that they have all seen the tedious cooking process of this dish, so at this time, no one really thinks that this ordinary looking boiling water cabbage is really ordinary.
Hehe,Sure enough, the things that look ordinary in this year are less ordinary.,For example, an ordinary elementary school student.,You don't know if he's a rejuvenated Grim Reaper detective.,Or a magical girl who can get a revenge.,Or for example, an ordinary middle school student.,Who knows if he drove the Gundam to fight monsters and defend the earth by the way between classes.。
After a long time, Kojiro Shinomiya was the first to pick up the spoon and take a sip of the soup, and then the others made a move.
And then ......
"Put down those cabbages, it's mine. ”
"Senior of the Fourth Palace, you usually eat so many dishes, you must not be rare in this bowl of cabbage, let it be given to me......"
"Dojima-senpai, you are shameless, how can you drink secretly?"
............
A bowl of cabbage, let the lecturers scramble, outside, looking at this scene in the white night, not to mention the satisfaction and sense of accomplishment in my heart.
Well, I'm Bai Ye, an ordinary person who hasn't been learning cooking for a long time, and besides, cooking is really interesting.