Chapter 64: Pan-fried Chicken
Two days later, Su Zhongkang got up before dawn to prepare. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoToday is the day of the food selection competition, and it is related to whether he can get a ticket to the finals, so he has to be cautious.
After much deliberation, he decided to win a first-round ticket for himself at the tryouts with this pan-fried chicken chaxiang ramen.
In southern Fujian, the status of chickens is quite high. Especially in rural areas, chickens are killed at home only when guests come or worship the gods.
Nowadays, with the improvement of people's living standards, these customs have gradually disappeared, but the preference of Hokkien people for chicken still exists.
For example, in southern Fujian, women drink sesame oil chicken wine when they are confinement, and they must put nourishing ingredients such as longan, brown sugar, and ginger. Most of the patients recuperate after their illness by boiling a bowl of thick chicken soup.
In addition, the meat of the chicken is tender and juicy, which can better integrate the flavor of the seasoning, and as long as it is marinated beforehand to let it fully absorb the flavor, it is a delicious dish.
Paired with a bowl of fragrant ramen with the sweetness of tea leaves, just smelling it will make your mouth melt and forget to leave.
However, in order to make this dish that even gourmets can't resist, it still has a lot of preparations.
As early as yesterday, he started to get busy, especially his unique weapons, tea bags and tea powder, he had to prepare them in advance.
Tea bags are used to make broth, because the amount of broth he needs to boil this time will be very large, it just so happened that he dried a lot of tea embryos without buds, so he needed to remove the tea stems in the tea embryos, and then mixed in some spices, so he made more than a dozen bags of tea bags.
This tea bag not only makes the soup stock fuller, but also removes the slightest strange flavor from the stock, leaving only the flavor of the chicken soup.
In comparison, these tea powders are much more valuable. In order to make the chicken in the ramen taste more tender, juicy and tasteful, he also deliberately evened out the little fragrant oolong tea that he still had, and ground them into a very fine powder with a stone mill.
As long as you sprinkle this little bit of chicken when it is about to come out of the pan, it can make the chicken taste to the next level, and it will make people want to stop.
As for the main ingredients, chicken, bamboo shoots, shiitake mushrooms and noodles, and so on, he also prepared them early, and it took him half a night to shred them and dice them.
In order to get to Egret Square in time, he also rented a small truck.
When he arrived in this pickup truck, the food court was already full of people, and they had rented their stalls and prepared for the start of business.
Originally, Su Zhongkang wanted to rent a booth with a better location, but he didn't expect that he was really a few steps slower. In desperation, he could only pick one from the few remaining stalls.
After he went through all the formalities and moved all the ingredients to the stall, he also began to prepare.
First, he picked up the cauldron and two whole chickens that had been cleaned, turned on the heat, and began to boil the stock. In addition, fresh bamboo shoots and shiitake mushrooms were also put in.
When the soup in the pot was boiling, he switched to simmering over low heat, and also added seasonings, especially the bag of tea bags, which was the finishing touch to the whole pot of stock.
At the same time, he also marinated the boneless chicken thighs that he needed later, with sea salt and black pepper.
If you put tea powder on the chicken now, when you fry it and wait for it, the bitter taste of the tea will be brought out, and the taste of the whole chicken will deteriorate.
This time, he brought a full 10 pots of ramen, and each pot can produce dozens of bowls of ramen. If all of this can be sold out in one day, then he should be able to compete for the ticket.
If his business is very hot, and these ten pots of broth are far from satisfying the endless stream of customers, he can also make a phone call to have it delivered immediately, anyway, his tea bags and tea powder are definitely enough.
Seeing that it was still early, he took out another large pot and boiled a pot of dashi again, this dashi should be hot enough to make it taste better, after all, in ramen, dashi is extremely important.
Seeing that the people in the other stalls were busy, and the whole square was full of vitality, Su Zhongkang was also happy, he saw that he was almost ready, so he was ready to go out for a walk and take a look.
It is said that there are more than 200 food stalls in this food selection competition, among which there are many southern Fujian specialties, and there are also many creative dishes like Su Zhongkang, which can really be regarded as a food event in southern Fujian City.
At this time, it is already seven o'clock in the morning, and the time for the opening of the food court is slowly approaching.
The pace of life in Minnan is not as fast as in other cities, so the whole city has a laid-back feel, and most of the other types of shops open after nine o'clock, except for the breakfast shop.
When Su Zhongkang walked to the gate of the food street, he found that a lot of colorful banners had been pulled up at the gate, as well as all kinds of colored balls, which decorated the originally ordinary Egret Square into a very festive place.
Moreover, on the periphery of the food court, he also saw a lot of dragon and lion dance teams, who were wearing full costumes and doing some preparatory moves there.
Most of the members of these performance teams are young people under the age of 20, and the children of that age are active and energetic, and they will not feel tired no matter how much they toss, which is just very suitable for the liveliness of the dragon and lion dance performance, so when they dance, they are filled with a youthful and upward atmosphere.
There is no doubt that when the food court opens, this place will definitely be lively. Although Su Zhongkang also wanted to stay here to watch the excitement, he knew that this should be a luxury, he had a stall to take care of over there, so he just took some time to come over and take a look, and he would definitely be busy later.
So, after Su Zhongkang looked at it for a while, he walked back. The food stalls along the street are really varied and distinctive, and each stall owner has a confident expression on his face.
It looks like the competition is going to be fierce this time! Although Su Zhongkang still felt that he had a great hope of winning, but looking at these delicacies that even he wanted to try, he felt more and more that he must be full of firepower when he waited.
In addition, his current stall is not at the front, if everyone else has eaten almost in front, no matter how delicious his tea-flavored ramen is, will they still be able to eat it!
Su Zhongkang had a little headache when he thought of this question.
Although the situation is very grim, Su Zhongkang is convinced that as long as one person eats his own tea-flavored ramen, then under the reputation of one to ten, ten to hundred, he will definitely be able to successfully complete his goal.