Chapter 7 The correct way to make shredded pork with fish flavor
"Shao'an! How do you cut your pork! Didn't I teach you? Cut cattle and sheep horizontally and cut pigs vertically! Cut pork vertically according to the texture of the meat! Chef Niu sternly corrected Shao'an's mistakes.
"Master Niu, I know the truth! Isn't that something you're used to? Shao An immediately changed his way of cutting meat.
Chef Niu finally showed a smile on his face after three days of torture, and Shao An tortured him alive for three whole days! It didn't stop from morning till night, but now he could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Shao'an stood on the stove, holding a kitchen knife and processing the ingredients in front of him at a glance, speaking of which there are not many ingredients that need to be processed, nothing more than lettuce, pork, black fungus, green onions, ginger and garlic, etc., the production method of fish-flavored shredded pork is not difficult, and it can even be said to be an entry-level dish, but it is this dish that even ordinary people can easily get started has become so difficult in Shao'an's hands.
In fact, this is not the case, Shao'an himself actually came into contact with the dish of fish-flavored shredded pork, and a lot of information suddenly appeared in his mind, and all of this information was information about this dish.
Including the allusions, origins, and practices of fish-flavored shredded meat, they are clearly displayed.
Shao An accepted this information very calmly, just kidding! If you don't have these benefits, then what kind of mess will the traverser have!
Mastering the recipe and information is not at all the same as being able to cook this dish, and the foundation and experience are the most important.
If there is no guidance from Chef Niu, just relying on Shao'an to teach this dish by himself, then you can imagine what the fish-flavored shredded pork out of the pot is like.
Recipes are always theories, how many grams of salt to put in, how many spoons of cooking wine, how much sugar to put in, what vegetables to put a few things, how can these things be mastered by a rookie who has just learned to cook.
In the past three days, Shao An did have the intention of deliberately making things difficult for Chef Niu, in many places he had obviously mastered it but deliberately pretended not to master it, such deliberate difficulties made Chef Niu very helpless, and the continuous repetition of the demonstration still played a great role, at least Shao'an now even sleeps and dreams are the techniques demonstrated by Chef Niu in dreams.
It's not so easy to be a chef, it's not easy to make a dish of fish-flavored shredded pork, and there are many ways to choose the ingredients alone.
There are requirements for the selection of pork as the main ingredient, and the pork should be selected to be three percent fat, seven percent lean pork to cut into silk and smooth frying, so as to make the shredded meat texture fresh and tender, and what does the pork look like with three fat and seven lean? If it weren't for Chef Niu's teaching, Shao'an might not even be able to do a good job in selecting materials.
For three days, Chef Niu was not busy letting Shao An start stir-frying, all the time he chose to let Shao An get familiar with the materials and practice the basics, I have to say that this kind of training is very useful, at least now Shao An can start to independently select good materials and process them into what he needs.
Shao'an's appearance of using the kitchen knife still looks very jerky, and the speed is not fast, but the posture of his knife is very correct, his hand is very stable, and the ingredients under his knife can still change into the shape he expected.
Chef Niu is pleased! With his tireless efforts, Shaoan finally began to move forward on the right path, and the next lesson was the moment to decide success or failure.
"Shao'an, after you finish processing these ingredients, let's start making them, you must have been looking forward to this moment for a long time." Chef Niu said.
"Master Niu, are you saying that I can finally start the fire? Can I start stir-frying? "Shao Anji. Moved.
"Yes! You can start learning to stir-fry, and I also know that you envy the apprentice of Ma Lao's family who can stir-fry for some days. Master Niu said.
"Master Niu, you wait! I'll be able to get the ingredients done in no time. After Shao'an finished speaking, the speed of cutting vegetables instantly increased a notch.
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"Yes, these ingredients are handled quite well, but you still need a lot of practice." Chef Niu said as he looked at the ingredients that Shao'an had processed.
"Well, Master Niu, I remember, are we going to start stir-frying next?" Shao'an has a huge urgency to be able to stir-fry.
"Don't be in a hurry! I haven't even done the preparation yet! Chef Niu said
"Master Niu, then what should we do next!" Shaoan asked
"You go and prepare the black fungus, lettuce, green onion, ginger and garlic first, and then you go to find an empty bowl and put the shredded meat in it separately." Chef Niu commanded.
"Master Niu, I have already done as you instructed." Shao An was busy for a while, and completed the matters arranged by Chef Niu properly.
"Shao'an, the next process is the most important thing, let me show you in person! This time you have to be attentive. "Chef Niu is colorful.
"Yes!" Shaoan replied.
"You can see clearly that this is dry starch, and after mixing it with water starch, mix it with shredded meat, which can make the fried shredded meat more smooth and tender."
Chef Niu explained to Shao'an while demonstrating: "Idea: don't put too much water, just use these to mix water starch, remember to mix the water starch and shredded meat evenly, and make sure that each shredded meat is wrapped with water starch, just wait for it to marinate for five minutes." ”
"Next is the configuration of the sauce, which is the soul of the unique taste of the fish-flavored shredded pork! Take a closer look at it. ”
"The amount of soy sauce, vinegar, cooking wine, sugar, salt, sesame oil, and minced green onion is the same, and then mix them together."
"The preparations are complete, and the next step is the last step you said you were looking forward to, stir-fry!"
Chef Niu lit the stove, the flame rose, the raging flame continued to scorch the bottom of the big iron pot, Chef Niu estimated that the iron pot was already hot, and took the big spoon upside down to scoop out a third of the vegetable oil, and the yellow-orange-orange fragrant cold vegetable oil flowed into the iron pot that had been fully heated.
"Shao'an, you remember that the first step in stir-frying is like I did just now, heat the pan beforehand, and then put cold oil." Chef Niu explained
Shao An silently wrote down the first step to heat the pan and cold the oil.
"It's almost time, and the oil temperature during this time period is the most suitable for stir-frying shredded pork, and stir-frying shredded pork at this oil temperature can maximize the effect of the water starch wrapped in the shredded meat, and it won't let the starch stick to the bottom of the pot."
"The shredded meat has changed color, at this time you have to quickly scoop up the shredded meat, otherwise the meat will become old."
"Then put the minced ginger, chopped pepper, and minced garlic into the iron pot and stir-fry, you can already smell the fragrance! That's it. ”
"The last step is coming, put the shredded lettuce, shredded fungus and the sauce just prepared into the pot and stir-fry together, look! Now that the sauce has thickened, it's time to pour shredded meat into it."
"Done!" Master Niu picks up the shredded fish-flavored pork with an attractive aroma from the iron pot and puts it on a plate.
"It smells so good!" Shao An said with sincere admiration.
"Taste it, you have half the credit for this dish." Chef Niu said with a smile.
Shao An hurriedly took a pair of chopsticks and picked up the fish-flavored shredded meat that exudes an attractive fragrance on the plate, after the entrance, the shredded meat is soft and tender, salty, sweet, sour and spicy, the taste buds of the tongue are amazingly active under the stimulation of this taste, and a large amount of saliva is surging in the mouth, he picked up a chopsticks of fish-flavored shredded meat again and put it in his mouth, again and again, such a delicious taste is simply unstoppable! In addition, this dish also has its own credit, and the happiness of food and labor instantly moved Shao'an.
"Delicious! It's so delicious! ”