"Knock! knock!" there was a knock on the door outside the store.

Liu Mang had woken up at this time, was brushing his teeth, heard a knock on the door, walked to the door with a toothbrush in his mouth, and opened the roller shutter.

"You ......" opened the door and saw that it was Liu Chang and Cui Niu'er.

"Boss, excuse me. ”

"Do you want me to help with anything?" asked Liu Mang.

"Yes. Cui Niu'er rubbed her hands and said shyly.

"Come in and talk about it. ”

Walking into the store, Liu Mang made a pot of hot tea and sent it to Cui Niuer and Liu Chang: "Wait a minute, I'll finish rinsing." ”

After rinsing his mouth, Liu Mang pulled a towel and wiped his mouth: "What do you want me to help with?"

"That's right, boss. Cui Niu'er thought for a moment: "Is there a dish in this world that can be tasted without taste?"

"Dishes that you can taste without a sense of taste?" Liu Mang was stunned.

"Boss, it's like this, my mother had tongue cancer three years ago, and she lost her sense of taste after the operation, so in order not to make her sad, I had to pretend to like her dishes every day. ”

Speaking of this, Cui Niuer clenched her fist and slammed it on the bar: "It's fine, it's all because of those two guys last night." If it weren't for them, my mom wouldn't have known about it. ”

"That's ......" Liu Mang suddenly realized.

No wonder Cui Niu'er didn't let the two young people taste her mother's soup last night, it turned out that there was another reason.

"Last night my mother came home suspicious and took the soup behind my back and gave it to my neighbor to taste, but she sighed all night and is still sullen. ”

"Boss, your cooking skills are so good, can you think of a way?" Liu Chang also said.

"I know that my master also lost his sense of taste for a long time, but then recovered. ”

"Huh, how did you recover?" said Cui Niu'er.

"I don't know. Liu Mang shook his head: "Probably because his old man used to have a knot in his heart and liked to drink, so he couldn't recover for a long time." Later, the knot in the heart was untied, and after conditioning, the sense of taste was naturally restored. This is different from Auntie. ”

"Hey......" Hearing Liu Mang say this, Cui Niu'er showed a disappointed look on her face.

"Boss, we are thinking if we can make a dish that Auntie likes to make her feel better. As for the treatment, there wasn't much hope. Liu Chang said.

"yes, so let's see if there's any food that you can taste without having to taste it. ”

"There are definitely no dishes that can be tasted with a sense of taste. Liu Mang thought for a while: "But you don't have to use taste to taste dishes, you can also use your eyes, nose, and heart." ”

"That's right, there are three kinds of color, aroma and flavor in Chinese food, and the taste is the same. Liu Chang nodded in agreement.

"You bring your aunt over in the evening, I'll try. In the end, Liu Mang replied.

"That's fine. Cui Niu'er pulled Liu Chang and left.

After the two of them left, Liu Mang touched the short stubble on his chin and thought about it.

"It's a real problem to be able to taste a dish that you don't have to taste. ”

"And Auntie's situation is even more serious, Master is just a dull sense of taste, and the general saltiness can still be tasted. And Cui Niu'er's mother seems to have no sense of taste at all. ”

Liu Mang closed the door of the store and entered the kitchen god space.

"It seems that there is really only one way to start with the two places of color and fragrance, and then supplement it with numb and spicy. ”

Strictly speaking, numbness and spiciness, not a sense of taste, but a burning pain of nerves, so even if the taste buds on the tongue are ineffective, people can feel it from the skin on the gums and the walls of the mouth.

"Sichuan cuisine is a good choice, choose its spicy food, supplemented by the texture of the ingredients themselves, should make people who have lost their sense of taste feel the deliciousness of the dishes as well. ”

Liu Mang thought as he picked various vegetables from the vegetable patch in the space.

There are long red and green peppers, purple eggplant, yellow corn, white green onions, verdant cucumbers......

After the vegetables were picked, Liu Mang instructed Xiaobao to catch a half-sized rooster that had not yet begun to crow, and then he got out of the space and began to prepare.

In the evening......

"Boss, we're here. Cui Niuer pushed open the wooden door.

"Hello Auntie. Liu Mang put down the teacup and said with a smile.

"Mom, this is the boss, his cooking is delicious. ”

"Auntie, please sit down. Liu Mang hurriedly made a few cups of tea and sent them to the bar.

"Boss, have you figured out what to cook?" Liu Chang pulled Liu Mang aside and asked quietly.

"Well, I figured it out. ”

"What dish?"

"Spicy chicken. Liu Mang replied.

"Spicy chicken, is there anything special?"

"Yes, this Sichuan dish 'Spicy Chicken' has been improved by me, and it should be in line with my aunt's taste. ”

Liu Mang said as he took the slaughtered chicken out of the refrigerator, put it on the cutting board and began to change the knife.

"Okay, then I won't bother you. ”

"Cui, why do you keep hiding it from me?" asked Cui'er's mother, grabbing Cui'er's hand.

"I'm hiding it from you, I like to eat the dishes you make. Cui Niu'er shook her mother's arm and said coquettishly.

"Nonsense. Yesterday I gave the soup to my sister-in-law next door to taste, but she also said it was too salty. Cui Niu'er's mother obviously didn't believe Cui Niu'er's lies.

"Mom, people are people, I'm me, can I just like it?" Cui Niu'er pouted.

"Hey!" Cui Niu'er's mother let out a long sigh: "In the past three years, I don't know how you survived." And every time you say it's delicious, why are you so stupid?"

"Mom!" Cui Niu'er hugged her mother and said emotionally: "The dishes you cook have a happy taste, this taste is the best taste in the world, how can it be unpalatable?"

Liu Mang, who was cooking in the stove, heard the conversation between their mother and daughter, raised his head and looked, and there was light flashing in his eyes.

After the slaughtered rooster plucks the meat from the bone, only the layer of meat near the skin of the chicken, and finely cuts it into Go-sized cubes.

The reason why this part of the chicken meat is chosen is because the meat near the chicken skin is full of fat, the taste is the most tender, and the chicken skin is elastic, and it is the most fragrant in the mouth.

In addition to the diced chicken, cut the green and red peppers and green onions into sections, and the eggplant and cucumber into cubes.

The traditional 'spicy chicken' is a famous Jianghu dish in Bashu, eastern Sichuan, with a brown and red color, soft texture, and strong spicy flavor. Salty, fresh and mellow, with a slight sweetness back.

The general practice is to add a large amount of dried chili peppers, diced water chestnuts, and chicken breast to stir-fry together.

And today Liu Mang has made improvements, using various ingredients to give this dish a richer color.

After chopping the diced chicken, add egg whites, salt, soy sauce, cooking wine, and starch and stir together to starch and heat the oil at the bottom of the pan, and then you can start making.