Chapter 10: A House of Gold and Jade (I)
Among the fried rice, the most widely spread is Yangzhou fried rice, according to legend, Yang Su, the prince of Yue in the Sui Dynasty, loved to eat egg fried rice, which was also called broken golden rice at that time. When Emperor Yang Guangnan toured the Jiangdu, this fried rice was also introduced to the land south of the Yangtze River. After the gradual innovation and improvement of later generations, it has become the current Yangzhou fried rice.
Let's not talk about whether there is a factual basis for this legend, after all, it was thousands of years ago, and it is really not easy to find out who is ugly. But Yangzhou fried rice does exist, and it is widely loved by food lovers from all over the country.
Since you have to compete with real guns, the ingredients naturally have to be prepared. Thanks to Ye Qi, he has always considered it very well, and when he first rented a house, he chose the closest place to the company, school, supermarket and vegetable market. It was only a few minutes' walk from the vegetable market where they lived, and the three of them acted separately and quickly bought all the ingredients they needed, and Ye Qi bought back half a catty of dried shiitake mushrooms by the way.
The ingredients are ready, and then it's time for the two of them to show their skills, this food judge, of course, is temporarily served by Ye Mo's little sister.
It's just that the kitchen space at home is really limited, and if the two of them start the stove at the same time, they will definitely not be able to let go, so they can only be carried out in a sequential manner.
In the case of a one-to-two ratio of men to women, Ye Qi still took the initiative to carry forward the gentlemanly spirit and let Miss Wu start first.
"I hope you're as good at cooking as your mouth, or you're going to lose badly." He reminded in a whisper as he passed by Ye Qi. After saying that, she squirmed gracefully and walked into the kitchen.
"Brother, I believe in you, because your porridge is better than your mother's." Ye Mo winked at Ye Qi with a smile, and then followed her sister Zihan into the kitchen.
Most people think that egg fried rice is a plate of cold rice with eggs stir-fried and then sprinkled with some toppings and you're done.
In fact, it is not so simple to really make egg fried rice.
The first is rice, which is usually used overnight rice as the main ingredient for fried rice. But Ye Qi only came back from a business trip yesterday, not to mention leftovers at home, not even freshly cooked rice.
However, these are not difficult for Wu Zihan, a senior chef, as long as there is rice, she can make a plate of fried rice, and it is the same as the effect of grains made with overnight rice.
I saw that she skillfully picked up a bowl of rice from the rice bag, put it in the rice basket, washed it under the faucet, and then opened the rice cooker to fill it with water, plugged in the power and turned on the switch, all the actions were extremely coherent.
Ye Mo, the little girl, was very fascinated by it from the side, and in her eyes, Sister Zihan's movements were even more skilled than her mother.
After waiting for a few minutes, Wu Zihan picked up a cucumber and put it on the cutting board, and before Ye Mo could see it clearly, it had already been slashed with two knives, removing the head and tail of the cucumber and leaving only the middle section. Immediately, the cucumber was cut into cubes, and the size of each one was exactly the same, which was more accurate than the size of a ruler, which showed that his knife skills were amazing.
She also diced the ham and carrots in the same way, again with the same amount of money.
Put the diced dices on a plate, then take out the prawns, use scissors to quickly cut open the belly of the shrimp and take out the shrimp meat inside and cut it into a meat puree.
After cutting the accessories, Wu Zihan took out two eggs from the shopping bag, touched the egg white and egg yolk in the air and fell into the bowl below, broke the eggs, and mixed the shrimp paste into it while beating.
She came up with this practice of mixing shrimp meat with eggs on the fly, so that the smell of the eggs in the eggs can be masked by the umami of the shrimp.
After the preliminary work is ready, the rice is just cooked, remove the lid and put the rice into a white porcelain bowl, and then put it in the microwave to evaporate the excess water, so as to ensure that the freshly cooked rice can also achieve the effect of separating the grains.
At this point, all the preparations before starting the stove are completed, and the next step is to light the stove, heat the pan to a certain temperature over low heat, and add a little oil. When the oil in the pot came out, I saw Wu Zihan quickly grab the bowl containing the eggs, and drew a beautiful arc in the air against the pan, and the egg liquid in the bowl fell like a goddess scattering flowers.
The egg liquid that fell into the pot touched the oil and instantly played a moving melody, and Wu Zihan began to shovel up and down with the main melody. The egg mixture wrapped in the shrimp puree, and with the shovel, it turned into a tender yellow flower bone in the pot.
Wu Zihan saw that the egg flower was formed, and poured the dehydrated rice and ingredients into it, and then increased the heat and stir-fried it over a fierce fire. As the spatula in her hand flipped, grains of rice magically adhered to the egg flowers.
It's just that in just a dozen seconds, the spatula in his hand has turned over no less than ten times.
Finally, cut a green onion into green onion flowers and scatter it on top, and a plate of egg fried rice exuding heat and aroma is freshly baked.
Ye Mo stared closely at the plate of fried rice in Wu Zihan's hand, secretly swallowing his saliva, the snow-white rice stuck to the tender yellow egg flowers, like a blooming snow lotus, just looking at the shape made people's appetite move.
Wu Zihan smiled and said, "Let's go, Sister Xiaomo." ”
Since the rules had been set before the competition, when one of them entered the kitchen, the other had to stay outside and not observe, so Ye Qi had to wait in the living room bored.
Just as he was bored watching the equally boring TV to pass the time, Wu Zihan walked out of the kitchen with a piece of egg fried rice that looked very tempting. And Ye Mo's girl was holding a hara, staring at her, staring at the egg fried rice in her hand and following closely behind.
"Taste what it tastes like in my snow." Wu Zihan brought the plate to the table in front of Ye Qi.
Hidden in the snow-white and crystalline rice is a little bit of tender yellow eggs, which does live up to its name of hiding in the snow.
But before Ye Qi could make a move, he saw a phantom flash, and Ye Mo girl stepped on the steps of the legendary Lingbo Fairy, and grabbed a cluster from the plate and put it into the small mouth with lightning speed.
"Hmm~~" Sister Xiaomo's whole body was shocked, and she only felt a fishy smell coming to her face, like a sea breeze blowing on the beach in summer. This was followed by the scent of green grass and fruits and vegetables, which made her move from the golden beach to the countryside in an instant, breathing the air of nature and resonating with the heavens and the earth.
"Great~~" Ye Mo called softly, still closing his eyes and immersed in the wonderful artistic conception.
"This little gluttonous cat." Ye Qi scolded with a smile. But it's all about the elders' doting on the juniors.
"Why don't you taste it?" Wu Zihan stood opposite him and raised his eyebrows.
Ye Qi picked up a chopstick casually, as if admiring an artistic flat, "Yes, there are five rice grains stuck to each egg drop." Then put the chopstick in your mouth and chew it slowly.
"And it's really rare to be able to think of using the umami of shrimp to cover up the fishy smell of eggs." His review was like that of a food critic.
"So, you're going to throw in the towel?" Wu Zihan is very confident in his craft.
"Hehe, I'm just saying it's rare, I'm afraid it's too early to decide whether you win or lose now." Ye Qi got up with a smile and walked to the kitchen.