Chapter 391: Treading the Snow and Finding the Bear
Seven days later, Koto upstairs ......
"Everyone, Liangxi crispy eel and Daoxiang Dongpo pork! these two dishes are our signature dishes upstairs!" Li Ruonan pointed to the two dishes served by the waiter and said. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
A week later, the stars who participated in "Wild Adventure" made an appointment to shoot an advertisement for Liu Mang's winery.
The advertisement only took half a day to shoot, and Liu Mang fulfilled his promise to cook the dishes in the movie "Manchu Han Quanxi" for the stars.
"Well, that's good!" Wang Bo picked up a piece of rice-fragrant Dongpo meat and put it into his mouth, feeling the fat but not greasy taste in his mouth, and the sweet aroma of straw, and nodded again and again.
"Miss Ruonan, is Master Liu Mang really going to make bear paws for us to eat?"
"Hmm. As soon as Liu Mang came back, he went into the kitchen and studied the dishes with a few chefs upstairs. Li Ruonan nodded and replied.
"I've heard that it's illegal to eat bear paws, right? Besides, it's not easy to buy now?" asked Wang Bo curiously.
"On the surface, of course, there is none, but secretly there is. Others can't buy it, and there are still ways to think about it in some special channels. Li Ruonan chuckled and sold it first.
"It's okay to have a bear's paw, but I'm curious, how do you get the elephant pull? Do you really want to kill an elephant?" Lin An was also surprised.
"Master Liu Mang said that he would replace it with other ingredients. Andy stuck out his tongue: "To be honest, if it's really an elephant's trunk, I wouldn't dare to eat it." ”
The stars were tasting all kinds of signature delicacies in the upstairs box, but Liu Mang was busy in the kitchen at the moment.
"Master Shan, is the sturgeon fish soup hot enough?" Liu Mang asked as he took out a bear paw with a jade-like appearance from the steamer.
"It should be enough! I've been simmering over low heat for three days and three nights, and all the umami has come out. Shan Jian scooped out half a spoonful of snow-white soup from a large bucket with a spoon, tasted it first, and then sent it to Liu Mang.
"Well, it's good! The taste is very strong!" Liu Mang also tasted it and praised.
The fish used to make the soup is a farmed Russian sturgeon, not the Chinese sturgeon used in the movie. The Chinese sturgeon is now a national first-class protected animal, and Liu Mang is reluctant to commit this taboo.
"Little Five, bring a needle and brush it over. ”
"Okay!" Five-Eyes handed over a wooden brush, full of sharp spikes.
Liu Mang pricked the brush into a small hole in the bear's paw and placed it in a small clay pot.
This dish in the movie "The Complete Banquet of the Manchu and Han Dynasty" is called 'Walking in the Snow to Find the Bear', which is made by first removing the bones of the steamed bear's paws, and then injecting liquid nitrogen, which expands at high temperatures, and the soup of the sturgeon is sucked into the bear's paws.
But Liu Mang tried several times and proved that this practice was completely obscenity by the screenwriter of the movie, and it could not be realized at all.
Liquid nitrogen will indeed expand the bear's paw when exposed to high temperatures, but it will not absorb the soup, but will explode sharply. At the beginning, because of too much nitrogen added, even the pot collapsed, and almost caused an accident.
In the end, Liu Mang gave up this method, but directly pierced countless small holes in the bear's paws, and then simmered it with the hanging sturgeon fish soup over low heat, and finally dried the soup to achieve the same purpose.
Liu Mang poured the sturgeon fish soup into a clay pot, submerged it over the bear's paws, and then put it on the stove and simmered over low heat.
"This dish is almost done, let's make another one, and we'll serve it together." ”
"Okay!" Shan Jian nodded, hugged a winter melon and carved it.
Liu Mang walked to the stove and lifted the lid of the pot, two whole chickens were stewed at the bottom of the pot, and another bear paw on the whole chicken was steaming.
This is another dish that appears in the movie - a palm of the hand. The general method is to steam the bear's paw in a steamer with the whole chicken on the bottom, and then steam it with the wild beehive until soft.
Finally, the best official swallow was used at the bottom for the third steaming. When served, a high degree of white wine is poured over to scorch the skin.
After three steaming, the bear's paw is eroded and soft, and the taste of honey completely penetrates into the bear's paw, and the fragrance is overflowing.
Compared with the 'treading snow to find the bear', this 'one palm Qiankun' method is quite reliable, and the taste of the production is really good.
"Well, the soup of the sturgeon has penetrated into the palm of the flesh, and it is ready for the next step. After a while, Liu Mang walked to the clay pot where the bear's paw was stewed, looked at it, and said.
Hearing this, Five Eyes immediately took a tray, which was covered with a layer of crushed ice.
Liu Mang used a fork to remove the bear's paws from the clay pot, place them on crushed ice, and then unscrewed a jar and spread the black white sturgeon roe evenly on top.
"Let's freeze in the fridge, I'll do the carving. ”
The white sturgeon roe in the movie is to be steamed with bear's paws. But Liu Mang found that these superb sturgeon roe are still best eaten raw. Because once heated, not only the umami contained in it is lost, but also a strong fishy smell.
Although Liu Mang copied the dishes in the movie at the moment, he did not exactly follow the above interpretation, but added his own ideas and made a lot of improvements.
Sydney carved pears sit on a plate covered with crushed ice, and after fifteen minutes of rapid freezing, the skin of the bear's paws is covered with a layer of sparkling hoarfrost.
Liu Mang took the frozen bear paws from the tray and put them on the plate, and the upstairs version of 'Treading the Snow and Finding the Bear' was completed.
"Little Five, let's serve. Don't keep them waiting. ”
"Okay. Five Eyes picked up the dish and walked to the box.
"Master Shan, let's go to the second course too. After the five eyes left, Liu Mang lifted the lid, used a quick knife to cut out the flower knife on the bear's paw, and then took out a wild beehive from the pot and put it on the bear's paw.
As soon as the flame of the stove was turned on, the soup in the pot immediately boiled, and a large amount of heat came out.
Steaming quickly is the only way to quickly force out the honey in the hive and let the flavor seep into the bear's paws.
At this time, Shan Jian's winter melon cup was also carved, and she put it on a plate and set it up.
In the movie, this dish was to be steamed again with blood swallows, but Liu Mang removed the last process.
Bird's nest, like shark fin, has no taste. Steaming with bear's paws doesn't do anything at all. , so this step can be omitted completely, and only the time of steaming the bear's paw with the hive can be extended for a while.
After steaming for half an hour, Liu Mang lifted the lid of the pot, and at this moment, the bear's paws in the pot became golden after being stained with the dripping honey, like a lump of fine amber.
Liu Mang took the hive away, and carefully moved the bear's paw to the winter melon cup carved by Shan Jian.
"Chef, here you go. Shan Jian immediately handed over a wine bottle, which contained a high concentration of Shaoxing daughter red.
Liu Mang sprinkled the wine on the bear's paw and walked towards the box in person.