Chapter 15 The Shape of Chinese Cuisine
Change the herring liver into a small diamond shape, heat the oil in a pan, add cold oil, and stir-fry the ginger and shallots!
"Boom!" a few feet tall flames rose from the pot, like an erupting volcano!
Liu Mang's family now uses a Cantonese double-eye battery stove, which is used in large hotels, and once the ventilator and air valve are turned on, the temperature can soar to more than 1,800 degrees. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Only such a fierce fire can ensure that the ingredients can be heated in an instant, without destroying its structure and maintaining its taste.
This is also the reason why many diners will complain that they cook at home, but the same methods and ingredients are not always as delicious as restaurants.
"Handsome!" Li Ruonan couldn't help but stop the movements in his hand, looking at Liu Mang's appearance of stir-frying, he couldn't help but launch a in his heart.
Although the chefs in her own group will stir-fry like this, no one has Liu Mang's figure, and every movement is clean and neat, without dragging the mud and water.
But the most attractive thing is the expression on his face, his eyebrows are slightly furrowed, and his lips are tightly pursed, which looks particularly focused.
It was as if he was wielding a shield and sword not a spoon or a wok, but a warrior on the battlefield who was fighting to the death against the enemy on the other side.
Cooking wine, light soy sauce, rice vinegar, bamboo shoots, green beans... Add the ingredients one after the other.
Liu Mang's eyes and right hand are like the most sophisticated instruments, as long as the amount of each spice flashes in his mind, the stir-fry spoon in his hand will immediately reach over, and the score is exactly the same!
Hook in the sauce!Collect the juice on high heat!Put the whole dish on the plate!Arrange and decorate!The dish is complete!
"Ding!" With the completion of this herring bald lung, Liu Mang's mind sounded, and a piece of information was immediately transmitted.
"Fifty percent of the primary bounty task has been completed! Reward 50,000 sentiment points, and give away a beginner recipe - flame fried dumplings!"
Hearing the hint given by the space, Liu Mang breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that this dish has been recognized by the space, and the hard work of the past few days has not been in vain. I just don't know what's going on inside the space now, so I'll take a look at it later.
"Is this really a dish?" Li Ruonan and Wuyan came up, staring at the plate of herring bald lungs, and their eyes didn't want to blink.
The cod liver wrapped in sauce is piled up in a round plate, dotted with green garlic and purple-red perilla leaves, and the bamboo shoots are cut into small boats, with spilled green beans and steam, as if a fleet of boats are avoiding the reef and braving the wind and snow, and the water is surging against the clouds.
In the winter night, the blue fish and snow fall on the orange camelina, an ancient poem outlined with sauce on the edge of the disc, which expresses the charm of the whole dish.
"Beautiful! It's so beautiful! Do you know? If this dish is won at the International Chef Competition, those judges will definitely be so shocked that their eyes will fall! Liu Mang! You are really a genius!" Li Ruonan is like those crazy fans seeing their favorite idols at the moment, and there are little stars flashing in his eyes.
Chinese cuisine pays attention to color, fragrance, taste, and shape!
And it is precisely this form that is the most difficult to grasp, and it is also something that other countries cannot experience at all.
In today's society, most chefs classify it as color, thinking that it is nothing more than putting the dishes in a better place, the color is more beautiful, and the knife skills are neat.
As everyone knows, this shape has nothing to do with the dish itself, it is related to a chef in addition to cooking skills, should also have his own artistic accomplishment and an understanding of his own country's culture, but also about the essence of a nation's civilization that has been precipitated for thousands of years.
It's as if the world only knows the Manchu and Han banquets, thinking that this is the most prestigious banquet in the whole of China, but how many people know about the roasted tail banquet?
The roasted tail banquet is just a banquet held by scholars or officials in ancient times when they were promoted. The Wenhui Banquet had a very important position in ancient times, and was the main form of literary creation and communication among ancient Chinese literati, and many famous poems and paintings were created at this banquet, such as Wang Xizhi's "Orchid Pavilion Collection Preface".
It is conceivable that the banquet that can be appreciated by these great writers and calligraphers cannot be satisfied by color and fragrance alone, and must also have its own heritage.
Compared with this banquet, the Manchu and Han banquets are just canteen meals made by the Qing Dynasty emperors.
There is no China after Yashan, since the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, many of these banquets have been lost, and the essence of this shape has also been lost in the long river of history.
And the reason why Liu Mang knows is because his grandfather has always been talking about it, and the regret in his life is that he failed to make a dish that has both color, flavor and shape at the banquet.
Therefore, when Liu Mang was very young, his grandfather taught him to memorize various ancient books and poems, and forced him to practice calligraphy and painting, hoping to cultivate his understanding of the artistic conception of 'form' in Chinese cuisine.
Today, he finally did! But only that.
This kind of thing is like a flash of inspiration for Liu Mang now, and it is impossible to have it all the time. If he had to do it again next time, he might not be able to do it again.
"Don't move! let me take a picture first!" Li Ruonan took out his mobile phone from his pocket and slapped at the dish.
"Oops! This broken phone doesn't have enough pixels!" Li Ruonan looked very dissatisfied after taking a few photos, slapped the fruit 6 in his hand on the table, and ran out in a hurry.
"Wait until I get back! I have a DSLR in the car, I'll get it! Don't move!"
"Boss, you're really my idol!" "Five-eyed swallowed his saliva vigorously while twitching his nose: "You make the dish like this, how will you tell me to give up my chopsticks?"
"Dead fatty, you still don't want to get out of the way for the old lady!" Li Ruonan, who ran in panting with a SLR, saw Wuyan leaning on the side of the plate, looking like a pig brother, so angry that he even shouted the word old lady.
"If this dish can be preserved for a long time, I am willing to buy it for any amount of money!"
Li Ruonan muttered in his mouth, and the SLR in his hand was even more "clicking".
"Is it okay? Miss, the food won't taste good if it's going to be cold. After waiting for a while, seeing that Li Ruonan was still holding the SLR and refused to let go, Wuyan asked with some grievances.
"Alright, so be it. Li Ruonan took a deep look again, and put down the SLR with some reluctance.
"Mom and Dad, the dish is ready, you can come in and taste it!" Liu Mang shouted.
probably thought that Li Ruonan was here, and the two old people were afraid that the young people would not be able to let go, and his father and mother stayed in the front room and didn't come in.
"Son, if only your grandfather were here, he doesn't know how happy he would be!"
Seeing the beautiful plate on the table, like a Chinese landscape painting, the blue fish bald lungs, Liu Mang's father was about to fall into tears.
"Wife, bring me a drink! I'm going to drink two glasses of anything today!"
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