Chapter Sixty-Eight: Dongpo Vegetarian Meat
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It is not meat but it must have the taste and shape of meat, Shao An easily analyzed the questions of the retest, and finally screened out the best solution from his mind is 'vegetarian meat'.
Vegetarian meat, as the name suggests, is a meat-like food processed by cooking methods with vegetarian dishes as the main material, and generally speaking, the ingredients that can be used to make vegetarian meat are mainly vegetarian foods such as 'soybeans', 'wheat gluten', and 'shiitake mushrooms'.
Shao'an is ready to make 'Dongpo vegetarian meat' with winter melon, dried tofu and tofu as the main ingredients to pass this retest.
The audience seats around the re-examination room are full of all kinds of ingredients, such as winter melon, tofu, dried tofu and other common ingredients.
The weird Pei En staggered past Shao'an, but he looked at the ingredients Shao'an had selected in astonishment.
Shao An smiled at him and walked straight to his stove.
The whole winter melon was placed on the stove by Shao'an, he did not rush to cut the winter melon, but pressed the skin of the winter melon with his fingers, and finally squeezed the skin of the entire winter melon after some time, his move was actually to choose the softest texture of the melon flesh, after all, the role of the winter melon in the Dongpo vegetarian meat is the smooth and glutinous fat in the middle of the meat block.
After selecting the required parts, Shao An quickly intercepted the melon flesh of the part he needed with a bamboo knife, and the green and white winter melon was put into clean water by Shao An to clean, and when it was fished out again, the crystal water droplets were stained on the tender white melon flesh, giving people a very comfortable feeling.
Shao An waved the bamboo knife, with his current knife to cut this small piece of winter melon flesh into small pieces is too simple, the frequency of the bamboo knife in Shao An's hand has reached the limit, and the green blade forms a green screen under this high-speed movement.
Small pieces of winter melon of exactly the same size are placed on the plate in turn, which already shows the strength of Shao'an's knife work, this Dongpo vegetarian meat has high requirements for appearance, so the strength of the knife will directly determine the quality of the finished product.
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It is still the starting action of boiling the pot over high heat, which has been done countless times, until the hot meat boils in the pot, and the small pieces of winter melon that are neatly placed in turn are thrown into the pot by a piece of fast, and the purpose of this process is to make the head and tail ends of the small pieces of winter melon fried in hot oil until slightly charred to achieve the color similar to the Dongpo meat pieces.
While frying a small piece of winter melon, Shao'an set up another iron pot, different from when he first arrived at Ju downstairs, now he has long been proficient in the simultaneous operation of the double pot, and the other iron pot is still handled in the same way as the first pot, the only difference is that the ingredients are not the same, adding rock sugar, dried chili, ginger slices, star anise, Sichuan pepper and other seasonings, the purpose is naturally to stir-fry, under Shao'an's stir-frying, the pot soon came out of the spice into one fragrance, and the thick sauce exudes a burst of tempting fragrance.
Shao'an, who looked extremely relaxed, opened the lid of the wine bottle and poured it into his mouth, which was a habit he developed when he followed Master Shiquan to learn cooking skills at Yangquan Restaurant.
"Hey, Pei En can borrow some soup stock for me!" Shao An shouted to Pei En, who was hanging the soup stock not far away.
"Take it yourself. Pei En agreed to Shao'an's request.
Shao'an, who borrowed the broth, poured the broth and dark soy sauce into the iron pot of the stir-fried sauce, and the soup overflowed the bottom of the pot, and the preliminary process was completed, at which time less than 10/1 of the time passed.
Shao'an's speed of completion was far beyond the expectations of the rest of the candidates present, but the candidates present were not ordinary people, although they were arrogant, but it did not affect their cooking skills.
Shao'an's Dongpo vegetarian meat is two-thirds complete, and the remaining third is even simpler, just put the dried tofu, tofu, and fried winter melon in a pot with soup to cook.
It didn't take long for the three ingredients that had absorbed the flavor of the soup to be scooped up from the pot by Shao'an, and the color of the ingredients that had fully absorbed the juice also changed, almost reaching the same color as the finished 'Dongpo meat'.
Shao An smiled with satisfaction, and all that was left was to mix and match the three ingredients slightly.
The darkest tofu is placed on the bottom and top layers, sandwiched between tofu and winter melon, topped with a sauce made from the original broth, and decorated with chopped green onions.