Chapter 912: The Mystery of Salt
Fan Xianggong and Lu Xianggong looked at each other and smiled, holding the wine jug in their hands, but they did not immediately pour wine for Yang Huairen.
"Yang County Gong ......"
Fan Chunren opened his mouth, and Yang Huairen immediately interrupted him, "Don't shout like that, you two are higher than students in terms of age and experience, and you can't stand it when you call students like this, so that outsiders can hear it, maybe they will scold me for being arrogant and rude." ”
Fan Chunren pouted and smiled, "If you don't shout like that, how can you shout?" Call you a little minister? ”
Yang Huairen laughed out loud, he was still a young man, what about playing mahjong? Still curse my little father-in-law?
"No, this is even more unpleasant, and besides, I can't stand this as a student."
"Afford it, stand it!"
Lu Dafang said as if adding oil and vinegar to the side, "Yang Xiaoyou is young and promising, his official fortune is prosperous, and it is not very difficult to really enter the court in the future, and now it is not impossible to call him a little minister in advance, hehe......"
Yang Huairen had no choice but to sigh, just talk to others, quarrel with these two talented people, he had to be convinced, the compliments people said were better than the others, but no matter how they listened, they were more uncomfortable than scolding people on their faces.
Yang Huairen didn't plan to continue arguing, but changed the topic and said, "Are the two prime ministers reluctant to drink this little wine?" ”
Fan Chunren pretended to be surprised, "Reluctant, how can you be reluctant?" This wine was sent by your family, and a lot of it was sent a year ago, but I sent some more today, hehe......"
Yang Huairen then remembered that there were several dishes on the table, including tomato scrambled eggs and potato stewed short ribs, which were all Suiyuan's signature dishes this year.
Although Yang Huairen was not at home a few years ago, several adults who had befriended him, Yun'er had always followed Yang Huairen's meaning, and whatever fresh vegetables came down from the vegetable greenhouse at home, they had to send a lot of them to the house, not to mention Suiyuan Spring wine.
Fan Chunren said again, "It's not that I am reluctant to give you wine to eat, but we two old men haven't eaten Yang Xiaoyou's craftsmanship for a long time, and our mouths are tight, so ...... I want Yang Xiaoyou to come to the house to cook a few specialty dishes to eat. ”
Yang Huairen rolled his eyes, "I said Fan Daxianggong, you always lied to me to come to your house on the first day of the new year, just for this?" ”
Fan Chunren didn't mean to hide it at all, and nodded happily, "Of course, but it's not all for this, I want to talk to you about something, I don't know that you are a busy person, I am afraid that I will not move you, so I made this decision." ”
Yang Huairen suddenly laughed, "Then you are too much to promote students, no matter how busy the students are, the two ministers are invited, I don't dare not come, right?" Why bother me to turn around? ”
Lu Dafang frowned impatiently and said, "What? Can't tease you anymore? The two of us old men are just for the sake of having fun, can we succeed? ”
Then he saw Li Heiniu and Ke Xiaochuan standing outside the door in a daze, not daring to come in, so he waved his hand to signal them to come in, "You are all the generals of the county mansion, right?" Don't stand stupidly, come in and sit down. ”
Brother Hei Niu and Ke Xiaochuan knew that the two elders sitting at the table had special identities, and they were still a little hesitant in their hearts, so they looked at Yang Huairen in embarrassment.
Yang Huairen knows that the two are people, and they are actually very easy-going in private, even if he is a little unable to get off the stage by saying some clever words now, but in fact, the intention is still obvious, just like the elders knocking on the juniors from time to time, which is a manifestation of care.
Yang Huairen didn't dare to deny Lu Xianggong's statement that he was "just for the sake of fun", so he had to silently say that you said that it was successful, and then nodded slightly to Brother Hei Niu and Brother Xiaochuan, and asked them to come in and sit down, without seeing each other.
After the two of them sat down, Yang Huairen pointed to the two dishes on the table and said, "The two ministers laughed, aren't these tomato scrambled eggs and potato roasted short ribs already on the table, why do you want me to cook?" ”
Fan Chunren also pointed to the two dishes, "It's different, it's different." No matter what, the cook at home can't make the kind of flavor you make.
Forget about this dish of potato roasted short ribs, we have never tasted your dish, but another dish of scrambled eggs with tomatoes, we have tasted it in our own hands at home, and for some reason, the cook at home just can't make that kind of taste. ”
Yang Huairen thought about it for a while, then picked up the chopsticks and took a bite of the tomato scrambled egg and put it in his mouth, chewed it carefully, and found that the taste was indeed worse.
Ordinary people eat this dish, and the feeling is similar, but if a real gourmand tastes it, you can clearly feel the subtle difference between how good and bad this simple dish is.
In fact, the more simple the cooking technique is, the more difficult it is to make it perfectly.
Whether to put eggs or tomatoes first, what accessories are needed, how much salt to add and how much salt you want will affect the final texture and taste of a simple dish.
For the dish of scrambled eggs with tomatoes, between the ordinary taste and the deliciousness, the biggest influence on the cooking technique is the heat and amount of salt.
It is also difficult to express this kind of thing clearly, for the chef, it is not according to the weight of the ingredients to carefully weigh the amount of salt added, when stir-frying, it is completely based on experience and feel.
The two main ingredients of this dish are completely different in terms of characteristics, and the requirements for the process of adding salt are actually very high.
The main components of eggs are moisture and protein, and the flavor of protein needs salt to bring it out.
On the other hand, tomatoes are one of the rare vegetables that will destroy the original taste when encountering salt, and everyone has heard of various ways to eat raw vegetables, but no one uses tomatoes to add salt to eat raw, which is the reason.
However, in cooking, in order to ensure that the salt does not affect the taste of the tomatoes, one is to add the right amount of salt, and the other is to use cooked salt to reduce the impact on the taste of the tomatoes.
Specifically, the eggs and tomatoes are fried separately and finally mixed together. The most common method is to beat out the eggs and put them in a bowl, then add salt and stir well, without adding any other flavorings, first fry them in oil until the outside is charred and tender on the inside, and then put them out for later use.
In the same pot, at this time, there is still salt in the scrambled eggs, put a small amount of base oil, only need a pinch of salt, let the salt heat and ripen with the heating of the oil, then fry the tomatoes, and finally add the scrambled eggs to let the two flavors blend, so that the impact of salt on the taste of the tomatoes is minimized.
Of course, it has to be said that the iodized salt of later generations should be added after the stir-fry is half-cooked, because this kind of salt heats the mature salt, which will destroy the iodine added to the salt, and it will not serve the purpose of ingesting iodine.
In ancient times, sea salt was used more, and this effect was very small, but today, in order to pursue the taste of this tomato scrambled egg, the cooking method of cooked salt is used, and the amount is very small, so it will not affect the health of the person who eats this dish.