Chapter 2 Kung Pao Chicken
Ma Wenbing was about to stand up and say something to Liu Ling'er, but Liu Ling'er turned around and returned to his place and began to continue cooking.
After an embarrassment, Ma Wenbing quickly came back to his senses, and first took a look at the common characteristics of his brothers' cooking: they kept sending food to their mouths, all of which made Ma Wenbing think of Bailai's past, when he was cooking in the restaurant, he often ate a piece of cucumber and radish or something, but they didn't eat it so quickly. Their mouths are like the mouths of worms, chewing on leaves.
It's a foodie world!
Ma Wenbing didn't have any strangeness about all this, the scene just now was just a mistake for others, for Ma Wenbing, it was two people from different worlds who merged, and it was so natural and peaceful, the two sides seemed to have discussed it.
Ma Wenbing quickly returned to his position and began to cook, as for what to do, Ma Wenbing thought for a while, first thought about what he was good at, and finally shook his head helplessly, so he had to pin his hopes on Bai Lai's experience, fortunately Bai Lai is not an excellent but also a top-notch cook.
Ma Wenbing decided to make one of his favorite dishes: Kung Pao Chicken.
This dish is well-known in the world of Bailai, suitable for all ages, and the first dish to practice when I was in the Chef Academy was this, and Ma Wenbing has made it thousands of times so far, so it can be said that it will not be wrong with his eyes closed.
Once he had decided what to do, he began to choose the ingredients, trimmings and ingredients: a piece of fresh chicken breast, cucumber and sautéed peanuts, green onion and ginger, starch, salt, vinegar, oil, soy sauce, sugar, cooking wine, pepper and peppercorns.
Ma Wenbing quickly prepared these materials and began to light the fire to cook, this time Ma Wenbing had to do the most serious one, otherwise he would be ridiculed by the master and brothers as a "square mallet".
First of all, Ma Wenbing quickly cut the chicken breast into small dices with superb knife skills, each piece of small dices is the same size, if you want to know whether a chef has the ability, first look at the knife work, cut more skilled and perfect, then the cooking skills are not much worse.
Then he took a small bowl and put half a spoon of oil, cooking wine, pepper, stirred with diced chicken, then added starch and water, and finally set aside to marinate for ten minutes.
In this ten minutes, he quickly cut the cucumber into small cubes and cut the green onion into sections. Bring another small bowl and add salt, soy sauce, vinegar, sugar cooking wine and ginger slices, mix and stir.
At this time, a black pot was already hot, Ma Wenbing poured a little oil into it, added Sichuan pepper, burned out the spicy smell, put in the green onions, and then put in the marinated chicken, and began to stir-fry.
Finally, when the chicken is golden brown, add peanuts, stir-fry a few times, and finally thicken with water starch.
A bowl of Kung Pao chicken with attractive color is ready, and Ma Wenbing also personally ate a piece of diced chicken, which is very smooth, tender and delicious, and he is very satisfied.
At this time, the dishes of several brothers and sisters were also ready, and they all looked at each other, only Ma Wenbing's dishes were not seen by everyone.
"Yo, what kind of bullshit is this? Why haven't you seen it?" Zhao Datou said with a smile first, he had always looked down on this junior brother, and as usual, the dishes he made were bullshit.
Ma Wenbing's face was expressionless, and he seemed to smile, but he was already unconvinced, "I'll know if it's bullshit later." ”
"Bang mallet, you don't know how to do it, don't do it blindly? Mess up a chowder and try to fool the master? I think you better not serve it, and the old man will scold you. Qian Feng squinted his eyes and continued to laugh, and as soon as his words fell, the four of them laughed.
"Grandma's, I'll shut you up later!"
Although Ma Wenbing said this in his heart, he was still expressionless.
At this time, Liu Ling'er was indignant, and came over and said, "Hey, what are you doing? Everyone is a senior brother, can't you be more harmonious? What are you capable of? What you do is taught by the master, and you have the ability to create a new dish?"
After Liu Ling'er said something, the four of them pouted and didn't speak, not understanding why the junior sister had been protecting Ma Wenbing?
"Let's go, don't stick to it here, let's serve all the dishes quickly?" Liu Ling'er then urged.
So everyone came out of the kitchen with their own dishes, and there was a small courtyard outside, but the flowers and plants were luxuriant, and the cultivation was very beautiful.
Walk through the middle of the courtyard, and then turn left to a small room, the furniture is worn and painted, but it is neatly clean.
There was already an old man with big shoulders and a round waist sitting in the room, no hair, a long beard, a camel, it was the master Liu Yikou, he was a famous cook in Shilong Village on the southwest border, and there were no less than ten people who studied with him.
Master Liu Yikou is famous because he once worked as a cook in the palace, can cook hundreds of kinds of dishes, has cooked for the emperor Lao'er, and is rumored to have learned from the chef palace neck, and later retired to his hometown because of old age, in order to pass on his cooking skills, so he opened a small cooking school, Ma Wenbing's gang was the first batch of apprentices.
Maybe it's because I believe that strange looks are geniuses, or maybe it's because I have a flaw, so it's also very strange to accept apprentices, and there must always be a flaw.
But a year ago, Liu Yiyi looked away, regretted it, and accepted an apprentice like Ma Wenbing, who was really stupid, had no memory, always couldn't teach, and regretted helplessly, one was to prevent him from smashing his reputation, and the other was to see him pity the orphan, so he still kept him.
Every time he saw Ma Wenbing, Liu Yikou was unhappy, so he made up his mind, when this apprentice opened his head, then he would never accept apprentices again.
"What did you cook? Tell me the name of the dish. ”
Liu Yikou has a habit, that is, every time he eats a dish, he has to report the name of the dish, either others or himself, this habit is left in the palace, and every time he sends a dish to the chief eunuch, he has to report the name of the dish, so he follows it to himself.
Then everyone began to report the dishes they made, and Zhao Datou reported a pot of stewed meat, and the whole room was fragrant with meat after opening the lid.
Qian Feng reported the pea pig intestine, this dish is a dish created by Liu Yiyi, there is a vegetarian meat, the taste is salty and fresh, there was a little princess who was sick and had no appetite, it was Liu Yi's self-created pea pig intestine that made the little princess have a great appetite.
Sun Lei and Li Yu reported sour and hot duck soup and stir-fried foie gras respectively, both of which were Liu Yi's proudest works.
Then there is Liu Ling'er, she reported the peony fish flower, cut the fresh fish into slices, fried until golden brown, and then arranged in the shape of a peony flower, poured with red sauce, from a distance it looks like a lush peony.
Liu Yikou saw that his daughter made peony fish flowers, and had his own eight or nine points of true biography, and nodded with satisfaction, although Liu Ling'er was his daughter, but Liu Yikou was the same strict and never took special care.
In the end, Liu turned his eyes to Ma Wenbing's hand, and asked unhappily, "Bang mallet, what have you done?"
"Kung Pao Chicken. Ma Wenbing replied, and then opened the lid of the bowl for the master to taste.
"Kung Pao Chicken, have I ever taught this dish?" asked Liu in confusion, having never heard of it before.
"The master has not taught, this is the apprentice himself...... Self-created. In order to cause unnecessary things, Ma Wenbing can only say that he created it himself, hoping that this dish does not exist in this world.
No wonder you haven't been able to learn my skills, your mind is not on me at all, you ...... You...... You have to be angry to be a teacher!" Liu stood up and scolded angrily, but he couldn't lift it in one breath, so he had to give up.
"Daddy, since my junior brother has made it, you should try it, if it is not delicious, it is not too late to scold him. Liu Ling'er hurriedly relieved the siege, and at the same time motioned to Ma Wenbing to say something good to comfort his father.
"Yes, the apprentice is very confident in this dish, master, can you try it?" Ma Wenbing personally sent a spoonful of uterine chicken to Liu's mouth.
Liu was also very helpless, who made him his apprentice?
The smooth and tender taste of the chicken, the crisp sweetness of the cucumber, and the aroma of peanuts, plus the spicy taste, this mixed delicacy instantly subdued the taste buds of Yanagi Ichi, and the delicious taste made me want to shed tears.
"It's so delicious, I didn't expect Ma Wenbing to make such a delicious dish? It seems that I have been misunderstanding him? No? It is impossible? He can't even make an egg fried rice, what the hell is going on? God?...... "Liu's heart was extremely complicated, if it weren't for the fact that he was in front of everyone, he couldn't wait to finish the kung pao chicken in one go.
"Daddy, how does it taste?" Seeing that Daddy was silent for a while and didn't speak, Liu Ling'er asked suspiciously.
"It's not bad, but there's still work to be done. Liu said lightly, and then began to taste other people's dishes, although they were delicious, they were not as novel as Kung Pao Chicken.
"Okay, stay with the dishes, you guys go out, and tomorrow I'll tell you who I'll choose to go with me to the food contest. Liu tasted all the dishes in one bite and finally said, in fact, he already had the answer in his heart at this time, but he was not very relieved.