Thirty-Six: The Chef's Weapon is the Top Cuisine [II]
Bamboo tube rice is a kind of food of ethnic minorities, Mingtian because of the scene at home to cook his own food, and like novel food, so for Chinese and Western cuisine has a lot of attainments.
Although Mingtian's cooking level is not strong in modern times, in ancient times, this level is definitely top-notch!
"This is ......" Yin Chan was processing the bamboo, and Ming Tian, who was preparing to marinate the barbecue, began to carefully distinguish the various condiments.
However, although this kitchen is broken, it is the mansion of a Zhengyipin official after all, and its condiments are probably the most complete in the world except for tribute-grade seasonings.
In addition to basic condiments such as salt and starch syrup, Ming Tian was surprised to open a jar and actually found vinegar!
That's right, it's vinegar, although it has a bit of a rice noodle flavor, which may be caused by poor production technology, but it's vinegar!
The record of vinegar first appeared in the Northern Wei Dynasty "Qi Min Yaoshu", which belongs to the condiment that has just been created, and now there is only one kind of rice vinegar in this era, which is simple to manufacture and easy to preserve, and has many advantages that conventional condiments do not have.
But vinegar has not been able to enter the homes of ordinary people for a long time, because the production of rice in ancient times was too low!
Modern fields, due to the development of technology, genetic improvement, etc., as long as there are no natural disasters and man-made disasters in high-yield soil a year, the yield per mu of 13,400 catties is a sparse and ordinary thing, and in ancient times, the yield of 4,500 catties per mu can already be called a bumper harvest.
In addition, since ancient times, rice has been a strategic resource of the Chinese nation, so in ancient times, ordinary people were not even willing to use lard, and they had no money to buy vinegar, a luxury condiment.
There is only Ming Tian's own home in Sumen Town, as well as Yu Taishou and here, there may be rice vinegar.
And when he opened the next jar, Ming Tian's eyebrows began to dance in surprise.
This aroma has a bit of a fishy taste, and Ming Tian is familiar with it.
It's a sauce sauce!
When I was a child, my family was poor, and in the countryside far away from the county seat, the family rarely bought soy sauce, so the family often brewed this kind of sauce by themselves, and Mingtian can be said to have grown up eating it!
Soy sauce is brewed with soybeans, while soy sauce is brewed with pork and fish, and although the flavor is spicy, it combines the flavor of light soy sauce with the richness of dark soy sauce!
It can be said that in this backward era, the sauce sauce is the perfect substitute for soy sauce!
As for soy sauce, no!
Listen to Yin Chan said that soy sauce was invented during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, but until the Song Dynasty, soy sauce was a condiment for the royal court, which is equivalent to the current state secret.
Mingtian also found leftover ginger, as well as rice wine. Other condiments such as pepper, pepper, onion and garlic are readily available.
Perfect!
Since Qi's hometown is the prince of Lanling County, he has the right to eat beef, so this time, Mingtian naturally chose the most ideal material for using a Brazilian sword to barbecue: beef cub tenderloin!
Barbecue meat must be marinated in sauce, and uncured barbecue is no different from primitive people's barbecue.
Place the tender beef tenderloin on a cutting board, beat it repeatedly with a wooden hammer to make sure the meridians are crushed, and then use a knife to draw squares on the meat pieces to facilitate the flavor.
Subsequently, because there was no wok, Mingtian boiled oil with copper ding, fried onions, garlic and Shu peppers, filtered out the excess oil, and then introduced the sauce and vinegar to simmer for 1 minute, so that the basic sauce was completed.
The marinating process is very simple, the sauce is mixed with minced ginger and rice wine, which can remove the smell of the meat, spread the sauce on the meat and stuff it in a jar, and put it in warm water in the jar to raise the temperature and speed up the marinating time, just wait for an hour.
In terms of vegetables, because there are no green peppers, Mingtian chooses carrots and callousines, which are extremely raw and can effectively relieve the oiliness of barbecue.
When marinating, Mingtian then makes bamboo rice.
The reason why Ming Tian asked Yin Chan to help was because he took a fancy to her hands-on ability, the bamboo tubes were split one by one as if they were made from abrasives, and the size and size of the openings were almost identical.
Bamboo rice is extremely simple, as long as the rice is stuffed in, pour in water, because there are no banana leaves, Mingtian replaces it with lotus leaves, the effect is similar, and then ignite the fire and throw it directly into the fire pit.
The difficulty with bamboo rice is to control the heat, because you can't open the lid to confirm its condition like cooking rice, and most of the bamboo has bamboo oil.
A moderate amount of bamboo oil can bring a fresh fragrance to the rice, but if it is overheated and the bamboo oil is squeezed dry, the rice will be greasy and disgusting like pig food.
But this is just a piece of cake for the family cook.
Finally, the beef is marinated, and the meat and vegetables are skewered with the long sword taken from the soldier in two to one, and the sauce is evenly spread by hand while roasting it against the fire.
After all, there were no sauce brushes for barbecue in this era.
… In the lobby...
After an hour of waiting, Wang Jingze and the three of them were obviously a little impatient.
"Brother Jing Ze, it's been an hour, why haven't you come yet?" Although Chen Xianda seemed very personable, he couldn't bear to be tired, and as soon as he arrived, he yawned again and again.
Qi Guli even hammered his old waist, coughing constantly: "Ouch, my body is bones, as soon as I stay up late, my back hurts, and if I wait, I really can't bear it, I see him, he can't make things in the kitchen, worry, right?" ”
As soon as these two sentences were said, Wang Jing also pursed his lips again and again, looking at An Luo, who was shrunk in the corner of the table like a giant chicken.
"General Anluo, has Ming Tian been cooking for so long?"
Feeling the oppression of Wang Jingze's arrogant mountains and rivers, An Luo looked a little flustered: "Yes...... Yes, it took an hour to cook for the county lord. ”
"Oh?" These words made Qi Guli interested in Ming Tian: "Then what do you think, how about the dishes made by that little doll?" Honestly, don't lie to the old man. ”
Qi is the oldest person here, and at the same time the most knowledgeable.
In the face of this old man's questioning, An Luo's honest heart couldn't help but tighten.
But thinking of He Mingtian's birth and death, and a sandwich he ate that day.
Trusting, and at the same time telling the truth, Anluo took a breath and spoke solemnly.
"Ladies and gentlemen, although Brother Ming Tian is the county lord who handpicked the county horse, but on the way to Jiankang, I was born and died with him, and I have long regarded him as a brother, and he has eaten his dishes."
As he spoke, An Luo got up and stood as immovable as a statue: "Brother Ming Tian's cooking skills can be described as the god of food, I An Luo dares to use the head of Xiang Shang as a guarantee, the three adults here will definitely not find fault with his dishes!" ”
As soon as these words came out, the three well-informed bigwigs couldn't help but sigh.
Fang Cai's impatience disappeared in an instant, especially Qi Guli, who touched his beard hanging down to his navel without listening, and nodded again and again.
"The old man has lived for sixty-five years, and he has not eaten any delicacies from the mountains and seas? I'm going to have a long experience, what qualifications does this little doll have to be called the god of food? ”
Although Yu Nizi on the side has been silent as a woman, there is also a trace of jealousy in her eyes for An Luo's words just now, and she calculates that Ming Tian and the others will make a fool of themselves in front of the three adults.
However, An Luo bowed confidently to the three of them, and arched his hand: "With all due respect, Lord Qi, I'm afraid you are really going to have a long experience this time." ”
"Oh? It's... Well? What does it taste like? ”
Qi Guli still wanted to say something, but suddenly, his nose full of blackheads and nose hair shrugged twice, and his two longevity eyebrows suddenly raised high.
It's some kind of unusually strong scent.
Not only Qi's hometown, but also Wang Jingze and Chen Xianda next to him obviously smelled this strong fragrance.
This thick smell should be meat, but they have never smelled such a strong aroma of meat.
Just sniffed a few times, and the three of them immediately swallowed their saliva instinctively.
The smell was so strong that it seemed to hook people's souls out of their noses, so mellow that the three of them hallucinated, as if a fairy descended to earth, and the ribbon representing the fragrance floated all over the room!
"Your Excellency, you've been waiting for a long time!"
Listening to Ming Tian's long shout, he walked quickly into the door with a long sword full of meat and vegetables, and then poked the long sword.
Bang.
That's a divine soldier...... No, the gods ate from the sky, and a large string of long sword barbecue with the thickness of a calf slammed into the table like King Arthur's sword in stone!
The three bigwigs and Yu Nizi looked at each other and sniffed slightly.
Rumble!!
The four of them felt that the sky was rolling in their heads!
What does it taste like? Why is it so fragrant? Barbecue? Why does barbecue have such a fragrant aroma?
The four of them felt like they were about to faint from the aroma.
At the same time, Yin Chan also stepped forward with a large plate, on which were sections of charred black bamboo, although it looked ugly, but at the same time, it also exuded the aroma of barbecue meat that was not inferior to the large string of barbecue in front of him, which was enough for four people!
If the fragrance of the barbecue is that the fairy descends to earth, distant and mellow, then the fragrance of this bamboo tube is to send all the souls of the four people into a paradise that no one cares about, which makes people linger and enjoy themselves.
It's just the fragrance, which has already stunned the three bigwigs and Yu Nizi.
Looking at the reactions of the three of them, Ming Tian turned his head and saw An Luo smiling and nodding to himself, as if to say: Brother, I really didn't mistake you.
Of course you read me right! Who am I? Although I was a stinky dick in my previous life, but in this life, I am a man who wants to aim for the great cause of the god of food!
Three big guys, are you ready, let me subvert your perception of cuisine!
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