Chapter 720: "Garlic Chicken"
Recipe text, Xia Yu dared to say that he could memorize it word for word. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Didn't make much fuss.
Putting on an apron and washing his hands carefully, Xia Yu swept around the kitchen environment and silently remembered the scene in his head.
It is important to be familiar with the environment, such as the location of the knife holder, the specific order of the large and small stoves, and the location of refrigerators, microwave ovens, etc., so that you can keep this information in your mind, and when you devote yourself to cooking for a while, you can be much more relaxed and greatly reduce the mistakes caused by the unfamiliar environment.
"First of all, prepare for the most time-consuming soup boiling process!"
His eyes flashed, Xia Yu's eyes swept to the table where the ingredients were stacked, walked over, and picked up the chicken and chicken bones.
The ingredients were washed quickly.
Just as he looked up to ask the servants to bring the charcoal stove, there was a movement outside the kitchen, and four male servants moved in a special charcoal stove, the stove was two meters in size, it seemed to be made of marble, and the surface was smooth, and it looked very magnificent.
The next few manservants brought bags of charcoal and piled them at the door.
The stove looks like it is newly made, and there are no traces of use.
Xia Yu looked up at the Nagi Senzaemon in the outer room and gave a thumbs up, "I'm really well prepared!"
"Lecturer Xia, these are your things!"
The maid also sent over the kitchenware he had put in the bedroom, including bellows, kitchenware boxes, and a small wooden storage freezer called "Sifang Sheep Warehouse", which was unveiled once in the Sapporo event.
Tonight, Xia Yu naturally moved all the equipment to Nagiche's house, and he didn't plan to throw it into the inventory for the next few days.
"Great!"
Make a U-turn at the top of the marble stove and set up a stock pot.
Hot water first, don't worry about the stock pot, use another pot of hot water to boil the chicken and chicken bones.
Blanching is a treatment that is suitable for many vegetables and meat ingredients with a fishy smell.
Vegetables aside, at this time, chicken bones and chicken are boiled into soup, and through the step of "blanching", the blood stains in the raw materials can be discharged, making the soup clearer.
However, when Xia Yu washed the chicken bones and chicken with boiling water, set up a second pot on the stove of the gas stove, and waited for the water to heat up, Erina and Alice were surprised.
"Do you want to blanch it twice?"
"In this case, if the meat is too cooked, will the taste be seriously lost?"
Nagi Senzaemon put down the teacup, his eyes lit with interest.
It seems that he knows very well the characteristics of those chickens and chicken bones. ”
Well?
Hearing this, Erina and Alice were stunned.
Could it be that in addition to some "blue star algae", chicken and chicken bones are also taken from some kind of fantasy poultry?
I only heard Nagi Tsungai explain very calmly: "Father, it's not enough to blanch the water twice, right? That's the meat and bones of "garlic chicken", which naturally carries an excessive garlic flavor, if it is not handled well, a pot of chicken soup is choking with garlic flavor, how to eat it?"
There was a hint of playfulness in his eyes.
"I think at the beginning, I learned the recipe of this demon king, and I was also stuck in the step of boiling chicken and chicken bone soup for half a year. "In the end, I found a very out-of-the-way method, barely alleviating the stubborn garlic smell of the meat and bones, but ......"
"But what?"
Alice and Erina asked urgently.
"Umami, it's lost!" Nagi Sowei's tone turned low, "It's chicken consommé, but if the umami doesn't meet the standard, the whole bowl of ramen will be mediocre, don't talk about the ramen of the demon king!"
During the conversation, Xia Yu had successfully blanched for the second time.
Chicken and chicken bones are heated in water at 30 degrees Celsius until 90 degrees Celsius, remove and wash with cool water.
But it's only a second blanching.
"What?!"
Seeing Xia Yu turn around and throw all the steaming wild garlic-flavored chicken and chicken bones on the plate into the soup pot on the charcoal stove, the crisp sound of water was also heard in the outer room.
Nagi Zong Wei couldn't calm down, "It's only the second time, and he started to boil the soup?"
"The second time, just right!
But there was a calm voice on the side, and Nagi Sowei turned around and found that it was his father Senzaemon who was saying, "The first time, the blood foam was not clean enough. The second time, when the blood foam is gone, the flavor of the "garlic chicken" will be appropriately reduced and tend to be eased, and this time, the "freshness" of the chicken and chicken bones can be properly locked!"
"Kill three birds with one stone!"
There was a deep admiration in Senzaemon's eyes, "In the step of blanching, he grasped it very well!"
"But!"
"But!"
Thinking of his sad learning experience in the past, Nagi Tsungai couldn't help but be excited, and his tone was slightly high: "If you put the chicken and chicken bones in this way, put them in the stew, so how should you deal with the flavor of "garlic chicken" in the future?"
Hearing this, Senzaemon just pointed to the original stove in front of Xia Yu.
"Just the stove. ”
Nagi Sowei had a question mark on his face.
"Zongwei, you just rely too much on equipment!" Senzaemon said lightly, with a hint of rebuke in his words, "Modern kitchen stoves, the flame is stable, but for ambitious chefs, this flame, this kind of fire, is too tame, too stable, and too easy to control!"
"Heat, it's still your culinary weakness!"
Nagi Sowei lowered his head.
There's no denying it.
As a chef who uses sophisticated scientific instruments to cook molecular cuisine, not to mention the use of primitive charcoal stoves, even the gas stove seems outdated. Microwaves, light waves, and electromagnetic heating technologies can do better.
"Then ...... Take a look!" Pushing the frame of his glasses, Nagi looked up and looked at the young chef in the inner room, who was busy pouring charcoal and agitating bellows.
What, "garlic chicken"?
In fact, when carrying chicken and chicken bones, Xia Yu knew that the ingredients were wrong.
The second fantasy ingredient? It doesn't matter at all.
Compared with the "Blue Star Algae", which does not know the purpose and effect, the wild garlic flavor of "Garlic Chicken" is too easy to deal with in Xia Yu's eyes.
One word –
Boil!
Just boil, through boiling, the excess flavor is discharged, isn't it okay?
And that's exactly what he did.
"Whew, whew, whew......"
Bellows, with the flame rhythm of the charcoal stove.
Every time the wind blows, the charcoal stove is gasping heavily, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the whole pot of water is boiling, and a large white mist invades half of the kitchen.
This scene is not like boiling soup at all, but more like a so-and-so wizard refining some terrible potion.
An indescribable smell of garlic, followed by a white mist, diffuses the air.
"What a choking taste!"
In the outer room, Alice and Erina covered their mouths and noses tightly, their eyebrows tangled.
Nagi Sowei was shocked.
"Got it? That's a derivative of heat. ”
Senzaemon looked sideways at his son.
Nodding his head and shaking his head again, Nagi Sowei was completely confused by Senzaemon and the boy who was boiling chicken soup.
"Tell me what you think is the heat. ”
"In the process of cooking the ingredients, the strength of the heat source and the length of time the ingredients are heated...... "Nagi Nagi replied, "and finally the ingredients get the desired ripeness!"
"Oh, it's a standard, textbook-like answer. ”
Nagi Senzaemon put down his teacup and stood up.
"Come here—"
Nagi Soe followed his old father all the way to the stove where the heat was bubbling and he saw Senzaemon pointing to the soup pot in the mist, "What do you think now?"
Hearing this, Nagi Sowei could only keep his eyes open as much as possible, and through the mist, he could see the soup churning in the pot.
Wow –
Suddenly, speckled sparks appeared in the field of vision.
"W-...... this?"
Nagi Sowei saw the situation inside the pot clearly, but it was as if he had witnessed a magic trick, and he was dumbfounded.