"Liangzi, you're talking about hot pots, right?" said his brother-in-law Wang Fagen.

"Hot pot?" Li Liang patted his head, it was really a hot pot.

There is a dish called 'hot pot' in the traditional cuisine of Hek County, but this local hot pot does not use the popular Sichuan spicy hot pot as the base material, basically only uses broth or chicken soup to adjust the bottom, and when eating, the ingredients are directly sandwiched into the shabu, and the food is more original, which is different from the traditional taste of heavy oil and spicy in Hek County, so there are not many people who eat it. Li Liang had eaten this dish when he was a child, and he didn't think about it for a while.

"Ryoko, if you say hot pots, then I don't think there is much future, and there are not many people who like to eat. The monkey also said.

Li Liang shook his head and said: "What I said is very similar to a hot pot, but it is not a hot pot, so let's do it, I will make it for you in the evening, and you will know after you have eaten." ”

"Okay!" Wang Fagen and Zhang Meng said at the same time, "Liangzi, the spicy crayfish you invented is delicious." ”

Wang Fagen and Zhang Meng have both eaten the spicy crayfish first invented by Li Liang, and that dish is really delicious. The monkey also followed his brother-in-law Song Liangren to eat many times in the store, but he didn't know that this dish was invented by Li Liang.

It's just that now in winter, the crayfish are all burrowed and hibernating, and Zhang Meng can't receive enough crayfish from the surrounding villagers, so he has to give up this dish for the time being.

There are more materials needed to boil the spicy hot pot base, but fortunately, Wangkelai itself is a restaurant, and the chef in the store will now marinate some pig's head meat, pork belly, pork intestine and other appetizers every day, and the store often has some spices for marinated vegetables.

Li Liang has never been a cook in his previous life, but he mostly lives alone when he teaches in township primary schools and works in the township government, and he works in the city at that time, Li Liang only goes back to the city to accompany his wife and children during the holidays.

To make the hot pot base, you need butter, soybean oil, Z County watercress, white wine, mash, dried chili, ginger, garlic, Sichuan pepper, black bean sauce, salt, monosodium glutamate, chicken essence, sugar, star anise, cinnamon, cumin, white pepper, orange peel, sand kernel, bay leaf, cumin, angelica, lily, shallot, lotus seed, gourd, cloves, longan, nutmeg, grass fruit, black sesame, coriander, wolfberry, licorice and other things.

There are too many things needed, and too much time has passed, and Li Liang doesn't remember it too clearly. But anyway, people nowadays are not like the later generations who have been raised by the restaurants and food stalls in the streets and alleys, and now as long as the taste is passable, Li Liang believes that he can win the reputation of customers.

He went to the back kitchen to take a look, and the kitchen had soybean oil, Z County bean paste, liquor, mash, dried chili, ginger, garlic, Sichuan pepper, tempeh, salt, monosodium glutamate, sugar, star anise, Sichuan pepper, cinnamon, shallots, coriander, orange peel and other common spices and spices. He asked Zhang Meng to go to the grocery store opened by Chen Shuangcheng, the son of Chen Dongbao, the village party secretary of Huanggang Village next door, to buy some cumin, white pepper, sand kernels, bay leaves, cumin, angelica, lily, lotus seeds, seeds, cloves, longan, nutmeg, grass fruit, black sesame seeds, wolfberry, licorice and other things. Maybe not all the grocery stores have them, Li Liang told him to buy a few if he could.

The two chefs in the back kitchen heard that Li Liang was going to boil the hot pot base and make a hot pot for everyone to eat in the evening, so they were also interested.

One of the two chefs is named Chen Junhua and the other is Kang Xinghua.

Chen Junhua was invited from the village shortly after the opening, and he was about 40 years old, not tall, and quite thin. He is younger than Chen Chunhua, and he is Chen Chunhua's younger brother by generation. Chen Junhua has learned good cooking skills from his family since he was a child, and the villagers in the surrounding villages will ask him to help with stir-frying. But now the countryside asks him to help stir-fry vegetables is generally stuffed with two packs of good cigarettes for him every day, he has many children, and his daughter-in-law gave birth to three daughters in a row, and it was not until the fourth child that she gave birth to a handle. There are many children, and the days are tight, often rice porridge mixed with vegetable porridge, hungry and full. Since Laiwangke came to work in the store, Chen Chunhua gave him a high salary of 40 yuan a month, which is higher than the income of ordinary workers in the city. With a high income, the living conditions of his family improved rapidly, and he was honest and honest, so he did his best to take care of the kitchen.

The other chef is Chen Junhua's apprentice, named Kangxing H County, who was recruited before the opening of the main store. At that time, another chef who came in with Chen Junhua took another new chef to follow Chen Chunhua to the county seat, Chen Junhua's wife and children were in Huanggang Village, he was unwilling to go to the county seat, so he took his apprentice to stay in a branch.

Kang Xinghua followed his master to take care of the back kitchen of a branch, and his income was not low.

The master and apprentice followed Zhang Meng in a branch, and when they learned that the turnover of Wangkelai in the county town exceeded that of a branch here after the opening of the main store, they were holding back their strength. It's just that a branch is located on a traffic artery, but the customer flow is still much less than the main store located opposite the county department store, and it has been pressed by the main store.

The two of them worked hard to practice their cooking skills, knowing that Li Liang was going to boil the hot pot base, and with Li Liang's invention of spicy crayfish in front, they intuitively thought that this might be an opportunity for a branch to turn around, even if the head office would follow the launch of hot pot in the future, it would also follow behind the butt of a branch. The two of them wanted to take the initiative to help Li Liang, but they were worried that Li Liang didn't want to reveal the secret.

Li Liang looked at the hesitant appearance of the two of them, and said with a smile: "Master Chen, Master Kong, you are the chefs of our Wangkelai, today's hot pot base boiling technique, I hope you learn to keep it secret in the future, maybe in the future, we Wangkelai will still point to this secret recipe to develop and grow." ”

Chen Junhua is honest, he said with a smile: "Liangzi, don't worry, Xinghua and I are not people who forget our roots, and this technique will not be exposed after we learn it." As he spoke, he said to his land, "Xinghua, if you hear it, keep it a secret." ”

Kang Xinghua is taller than his master, he has been apprenticed with Chen Junhua for several years, and he already knows his master's temper, and he can enter Wangke or rely on his master's recommendation, he hurriedly promised: "Master, don't worry!"

The other two handymen who helped in the kitchen walked out of the kitchen very tacitly, they knew the urine nature of rural craftsmen, and they were generally reluctant to pass on their skills and skills to outsiders. In addition, they have only been in the store for a short time, so they take the initiative to leave the kitchen.

Li Liang stopped them and said with a smile: "Brother Zhong, Brother Yong, you don't have to go out, just remember that even if you learn it, don't spread it." ”