The town's wet market also sells dried goods, and there are machines for crushing dried chilies.

Zhou An took all the fried dried chili peppers and beat them into powder, and by the way, he bought a smaller stainless steel bucket in the town, the kind with a lid.

In other words, he powdered all the spices he bought today, in addition to the reason for more flavor, but mainly to keep the recipe secret.

After the crayfish is ready and sold, even an old chef who has been cooking for many years may not be able to distinguish each spice from the boiled spice powder.

But when all the dried chili peppers are powdered, there is only one purpose - what is needed to boil chili oil.

Well, chili oil in their jargon, also called red oil.

After returning from the town, Zhou An entered the kitchen again and began to boil his secret red oil.

What do you say about the food in this place in Yinma County?

It is well known that it belongs to the Hui cuisine, but to be more specific, even the local residents do not know.

But Zhou An knows that he knows that the local food belongs to the riverside school in the Hui cuisine school.

There are two other schools of Huizhou cuisine, one is the ancient Huizhou school, and the other is the Yanhuai school. Of course, there are different statements, but Zhou An agrees with this division.

Compared with the distinctive characteristics of the ancient Huizhou school, the food characteristics here in Yinma County are difficult to explain, and the style is very mixed.

For example, when it comes to eating spicy, there are people who don't eat spicy at all, and there are also chili fans who are not spicy, and as we all know, spicy crayfish must be spicy, the difference is only in the severity of the spicy.

Therefore, people who love to eat spicy crayfish are generally spicy people.

So, obviously, if you want to make spicy crayfish well and sell well locally, the key point is chili oil!

Whether the spicy taste is strong enough, fragrant enough, and red enough is often an important measure for guests to taste a crayfish and whether it is authentic.

But Yinma County, and even the entire Liugu City, do not produce dried chili peppers, so there are really not many chefs here who boil chili oil well.

The people of Silver Horse County are pathetic!

This is Zhou An's opinion! Especially for those who like to eat hemp small! Because up to now, there is not a particularly good store made by Ma Xiao in Yinma County.

Like the big black fish, Zhou An didn't want to evaluate it at all.

Straight to the point.

In the kitchen, two barrels of soybean oil have all been poured into the pot and are burning, and it is still Tian Guifang who is burning the fire.

Zhou An is peeling garlic seeds, Zhou Jian is not there, he is still exploring snails by the river!

The garlic seeds were peeled out, a large handful was peeled, and they were put into the oil pot by the Zhou Security Department.

Tian Guifang's eyelids jumped, "You kid! If you boil chili oil, you will boil chili oil! What do you do with garlic in the oil?"

"Mom, don't worry about it! When I'm done, you can try it!"

Zhou An replied without raising his head, already peeling onions in his hands.

Peel out five onions, take a kitchen knife and cut them at random, put them on the cutting board, and leave it alone for the time being.

It was his beautiful knife work that made Tian Guifang a little dumbfounded.

After all, Zhou An was an old chef in his previous life, and the knife work must have passed, thanks to the overwhelming advertisements of New Oriental, almost everyone in ordinary people has seen the dazzling knife skills of the chef when cutting vegetables!

——It is the kind of technique in which the kitchen knife cuts continuously and continuously, and the height of the kitchen knife is not high every time, but the cut out is neat and even.

In fact, this is all basic skills, just a simple knife jumping method!

A chef who can't jump knives is obviously not a qualified chef!

What Zhou An inadvertently revealed just now was this kind of knife technique, he didn't have the heart to show off his skills, but his mother Tian Guifang was still blinded, and she suddenly had a lot of questions in her heart.

Where did my son learn these things?

To make spiced snails, you can be the method he learned from the Internet, and the method of boiling chili oil can also be explained so reluctantly, but how to explain the technique and proficiency of cutting vegetables?

Also learned from the Internet?

She didn't believe it!

Because she learned the craft of cooking little by little, she knows very well that a skilled kitchen knife can not be learned immediately by looking at it, and it takes years of practice to make progress.

And the knife work that Zhou An revealed just now is more skilled than her who has been cooking for half her life.

And this ...... Unscientific!

There was a lot of doubt, but she didn't ask, because she saw that her son was busy over there, and the person who was doing things seriously was unbearable for others to interrupt, not to mention that it was her son.

Zhou An is already choosing a handful of shallots.

After washing, cut into small pieces and stack them in the corner of the cutting board.

At this time, the oil temperature in the pot was getting higher and higher, and the handful of garlic that had been put in the oil pot before had begun to fry spots, Zhou An glanced at it, and put all the shredded onions and shallots on the cutting board into the oil pot.

Whether it's garlic, onions, or shallots, they are all good things that are often used to enhance the flavor of cooking.

No, it didn't take long for Tian Guifang to smell a strong aroma.

Zhou Chong was watching TV at home, eating watermelon while watching TV happily, and a leper dog he raised squatted at his feet, staring at the watermelon in his hand in a daze, licking it from time to time.

His house was separated from Zhou An's house by two households, but suddenly a strong aroma wafted in, Zhou Chong was stunned, looked down at the watermelon in his hand, and looked back at the door in confusion, but didn't see where the aroma came from.

He was a curious person, so he grabbed the crotch of his pants, took a bite of watermelon, and went out of the gate with his fat body like a duck stepping on water, eating watermelon while walking, and sniffing his nose.

It's like a dog looking for food.

Soon he was sure that the aroma was wafting from the west, so what else was there to say? Zhou Chong's eyes lit up, and he quickened his pace slightly and walked towards Zhou An's house.

It's not that there is no other family in the west except Zhou An's house, but recently Zhou An has been making spiced snails every day, and Zhou Zhong has become accustomed to such fragrant things that only his family can make.

The only difference is that today's aroma seems to be a little different.

When Zhou Zhong stepped into Zhou An's kitchen, it was the time when the aroma in the oil pot was the strongest, and the garlic, onions and shallots in the oil pot had been fried slightly black, and Zhou An was using a colander to fish these things out of the oil.

"Anzi, what are you cooking again? Can you give me some of it?"

As soon as Zhou Chong entered the door, he didn't see what Zhou An was doing, so he opened his mouth with a face to eat.

Zhou An glanced at him and said with a smile: "Okay! You can eat whatever you want in this pot!"

"Really?"

Zhou Zhong was surprised to speed up his pace and approached, and was stunned and disappointed when he saw that the pot was full of boiling hot oil, but his eyes quickly shifted to the garlic, onion, and shallot residue that Zhou An had just scooped up.

"No, these are the food, right? What is this, Anzi? It's so delicious......

"Do you want to eat?"

Zhou An smiled and handed the colander in front of him, seeing that Zhou An promised so happily, Zhou Zhong hesitated, looked closer and looked at it, and finally recognized what it was.

This time he was utterly disappointed.

"Anzi, what's wrong with you? Fry garlic and onions like this, and you can't eat it!"