Early the next morning

Bai Xiaobai still got up early in the morning, today is Monday, Lan Weihao has to go to work and can't come to help.

All the work of moving equipment can only be completed by Bai Xiaobai and Gao Chao.

After breakfast and everything, the two arrived at XX Square one after another.

Bai Xiaobai saw Jiang Wei busy in his booth from a distance, probably still cooking fish balls.

From one booth, you can smell the fragrance of fish balls.

Jiang Wei's eyes were sharp, and he also saw Bai Xiaobai, so he hurriedly put down the work at hand, ran over and said, "Master, it's early." What about moving things? I'm here to help. ”

Not to mention, this apprentice is also active with Allah, and began to take the initiative to move equipment and ingredients, faster than Gao Chao.

Bai Xiaobai thought to himself, it's really good to pick up an apprentice for nothing.

After moving things, Bai Xiaobai opened the fire in the booth and prepared for the work of cooking food.

Jiang Wei returned to his booth and brought two bowls of steaming fish balls, one bowl to Bai Xiaobai, "Master, I studied it again last night, you can see if there is any progress." It's a little hot just made, so eat it slowly. ”

Another bowl of fish balls was given to Gao Chao, "Brother, you can also taste it." ”

Bai Xiaobai was not polite, took a bite of the fish balls, and found that the taste and bite of the fish balls had improved a lot.

It is not difficult to make Chinese gourmet fish balls.

The mainstream practice is to chop the fish into minced fish, add green onion and ginger water to remove the fish, then add salt to taste, then add egg white, stir clockwise into a paste form, and finally add cornstarch to stir, and then beat repeatedly to get the fish paste.

Fish balls are divided into stuffed and non-filled, and the unstuffed direct fish paste mud balls can be formed into a ball the size of a ping pong ball.

If you have a filling, it is also simple, after making the filling, it is like wrapping rice balls, wrapping the filling with fish paste and forming balls.

A good fish ball with filling clear soup must be a clear soup, fish puree, and filling.

Among them, the production of fish paste is the most important.

The quality of the fish paste is directly related to the appearance and taste of the fish balls.

It is not easy to make a good fish paste, after adding corn starch and stirring, it must be beaten repeatedly, and the strength and number of beatings directly affect the bite and taste of the fish balls.

Depending on the type of fish, the number and intensity of the beatings varies, and it is necessary to experiment repeatedly to find the best way to make it.

After tasting Jiang Wei's fish balls, Bai Xiaobai found that this fish ball, the skin Q is elastic, the bite is tender and smooth, and it is obvious that he has tried countless times in the number of times and strength of the fish paste mud.

This taste is definitely not comparable to the hot pot fish balls in the supermarket by the pound.

Food is made with care.

Bai Xiaobai admired Jiang Wei's patience a little.

"Master, how is it, is there anything delicious?" Jiang Wei asked Bai Xiaobai, who was deep in thought.

Bai Xiaobai said sincerely, "It's a lot better than yesterday, it's really good." ”

After receiving Bai Xiaobai's affirmation, Jiang Wei was also a lot more confident, and asked casually, "Master, do you think my fish balls can win the famous snack award of the food festival." ”

Jiang Wei actually asked casually.

There are more than 200 booths in the food festival, and at least hundreds of gourmet snacks are basically the leading high-quality snacks of restaurants in Jianghai Province.

Originally, Jiang Wei was not confident, but today the organizing committee suddenly released a major decision.

Originally, the gold, silver and bronze awards of famous snacks were set up one each.

Just yesterday, the organizing committee based on the fact that there are too many gourmet snacks this year, so the number of awards was finally adjusted to three bronze awards, two silver awards, and one gold award.

In this way, the number of famous snacks in the Jianghai Food Festival has increased from three to six.

The number of places has doubled, Jiang Wei also sees a glimmer of hope, he doesn't dare to hope for the gold award, he just thinks that it would be good if he can win the bronze award for famous snacks.

Therefore, last night he had been busy late at night, constantly experimenting with the taste of fish balls, and now he came to consult Bai Xiaobai early in the morning.

Bai Xiaobai didn't want to hit Jiang Wei, but based on his many years of cooking experience, he said honestly, "Jiang Wei, it's a bit difficult for your fish balls to win awards." ”

"Master, do you have any other suggestions?" Jiang Wei asked with a serious face.

Bai Xiaobai said, "I suggest you can try it, replace the grass carp used to make fish balls with dace, preferably thinner dace, and add a small amount of rice wine to the fish puree without adding green onion and ginger water." When boiling clear soup, it is boiled in a paper hot pot, that is, it is not used in an ordinary pot, but the paper used in the paper hot pot is specially used, and I don't know if Jianghai can buy it. ”

Bai Xiaobai put forward three suggestions in a row, and finally added, "Anyway, this time in the food festival, every merchant can sign up for three gourmet snacks to participate, so you keep the grass carp fish ball you made in the morning, and then make a dace fish ball according to my suggestion, which should be an extra layer of protection, so that the chance of winning the award is also greater." ”

In fact, every booth of the food festival is a potential competitor in the selection, and Bai Xiaobai can completely ignore Jiang Wei.

However, since Jiang Wei has always respected himself as his master, Bai Xiaobai has to show his hand more or less, and he can't let him scream in vain.

Of course, Bai Xiaobai's suggestion is very general and not very clear.

This process has to be tested by Jiang Wei himself, and whether he can make a major breakthrough depends on his ability to comprehend gourmet cuisine.

"Thank you, Master. I'll give it a try in a moment. Jiang Wei looked delighted, quickly returned to his booth, and began to be busy with new products.

"Bai Xiaobai, have you ever made fish balls before?" Gao Chao said curiously.

He just heard Bai Xiaobai's three-point suggestion and said that it was true, compared to Bai Xiaobai, he must have done it before.

However, Bai Xiaobai's answer was a bit unexpected.

"No, I make suggestions based on my feelings, but I don't know what the specific effect is. Bai Xiaobai smiled bitterly.

Of course, although he has not made it himself, Bai Xiaobai's three suggestions are also based on evidence.

Dace has many bones, and the meat is very sweet, no worse than sea fish, and the umami is better than grass carp, which is very suitable for making fish balls.

Green onion and ginger water contains tannins, which will cause the fish protein to coagulate in direct contact with the fish protein, affecting the umami and taste of the fish. While changing to rice wine to remove the fish, you can also avoid this.

The paper hot pot has a light and fragrant taste, because the paper itself has the property of absorbing impurities and greasy.

The resulting broth is refreshing and not greasy, and it can also lock in the original flavor of the food, so it is most suitable for cooking fish ball consommé.

Whether Bai Xiaobai's cooking theory works or not depends on the presentation of Jiang Wei's final new fish ball product.

Today is the third day after the opening of the food festival, and it also ushers in a very critical moment of the food festival.

At half past ten in the morning, the selection of famous snacks will officially begin.

After the equipment and ingredients were transported to the booth, Bai Xiaobai began to get busy and make full preparations for the selection.

King Lingkuang Lang——