156: Insect Cuisine [II]
In terms of condiments, there is no shortage of oil, and the oil and meat of the cows, donkeys and mules killed in the past few days may be useful, so they have been collected, and the meat oil can be squeezed completely.
Salt is also sufficient, after all, no one will eat salt directly, it will become a mummy.
Mingtian himself has a bottle of self-ground pepper, which was brought out of the palace, and was only used once when he was doing a practice banquet in Yangzhou, and if it was used for two thousand people, although it was a little less, it should barely be enough.
As for the rest, don't ask for extravagance, things like caramel peppercorns have long been eaten.
There is a lot of wine, Mingtian prohibits anyone from drinking during the march, otherwise how can the drunk hurry?
There seemed to be two catties of ginger, which seemed to be his father's private snack, but of course it was confiscated by Ming Tian.
Take ginger as a snack, what kind of taste structure is this?! This is something that Ming Tian has never understood since he crossed over, and he doesn't want to understand.
In short, the cooking begins.
Women are responsible for handling earthworms, monkeys and frogs.
Ming Tian taught them a simple lesson.
Earthworms have mud in their bodies, which must be excreted before they can be eaten, but the conventional excretion method is too slow, so the earthworms must be cut into two pieces from the middle and then passed through clear water.
It's not clean, but it's much cleaner than not treating it.
Health issues can now only be put on the back burner, and the first thing is to fill the stomachs of this group of people.
The frog is cut open from the middle, skinned, gutted out, chopped off the head and thrown away, and the body can be chopped into several pieces.
Knowing the monkey is more troublesome.
The lower abdomen must be carefully dissected, and the internal organs must be dug out without damaging the body, which is also the most difficult process, and must be handed over to the woman with the best knife skills.
Amanita is the simplest, it only needs to be washed and the mud washed away.
What Ming Tian wants to do is a self-created Anhui dish, which he named: Insect Feast!
A qualified chef must not only cook the dishes he has learned, but also be able to make high-quality dishes with limited ingredients in a specific environment
Although it is in such an extreme environment, the taste can definitely not be called delicious, but if Ming Tian is given a good environment, then these dishes, Ming Tian is sure to make it to the level of being able to serve a large banquet.
First of all, know that the monkey and earthworm are fried, fried until crispy, and take out and set aside.
Next, stir-fry the frog cubes with the sliced Amanita phalloides, with minced ginger, a small amount of rice wine and salt.
When the frog meat is medium-cooked, stir-fry it with the earthworms and monkeys, and sprinkle with pepper.
Ming Tian is very good at cooking, and in his previous life, he also worked as a cook for the wedding and funeral of his relatives in the countryside.
Even if the wok is full, it can be stir-fried very smoothly.
Every time you turn the wok, a lot of vegetables in the pot are thrown into the air, beating as if they are alive, and they can fall into the pot accurately.
Stir-frying is the greatest technique in Chinese cooking, and it is also the most challenging technique of a chef's fire skills, especially the cooking of frog meat.
Frog meat should not be overheated, otherwise the taste will be as hard to chew as cardboard, and it can not be raw, even if it is nine ripe, because wild frogs have parasites in their bodies, and if they are not fully cooked, in case they are infected with parasites, it will lead to the disease of a large number of people.
Walking in the field, illness means dragging down the whole team.
Even in an extreme environment, you must pay attention to the details that you can pay attention to, which is a necessary quality for a qualified chef.
At the beginning, the civilians who watched Mingtian cook vegetables were still suspicious of this kind of dish made with insects and frogs.
After all, in their impression, these things are inedible, even if they eat the roots and bark of trees, they must not eat these things, especially Amanita phalloides, which is highly poisonous!
But as the first pot of dishes came out, the wafting fragrance permeated, and their faces froze one by one.
That taste...
Fragrant!
Earthworms and monkeys have six times more protein than beef, and this classic line of Bei Ye is not nonsense.
The high-protein insects are stir-fried and peppered, and the aroma is staggering.
The men closest to Mingtian couldn't help but drool.
The first one came out, and Ming Tian used an empty medicine jar and filled it with a full jar and handed it over.
"Well, it tastes pretty good."
In order to reassure them, Ming Tian picked out one of each ingredient for tasting in front of them.
The crispy monkeys, the resilient earthworms and frog meat, and the Q-elastic and smooth Amanita phalloides make mouth-watering chewing sounds.
Goo.
Watching Mingtian try the dishes, everyone swallowed their saliva in unison.
"Let's try it too." Handing the jar up, Ming Tian handed it to the closest men.
Several men looked at each other, as if they were still a little apprehensive, and looked at Ming Tian timidly to see if he had a reaction to poisoning.
Of course not.
At the time of collection, Ming Tian instructed Yin Cicada to teach the apprentices of the Tai Hospital how to distinguish poisonous frogs from earthworms and let them do quality control.
After all, the apprentices of Tai Hospital are also traditional Chinese medicine, and they can understand it at one point, and there will be absolutely no problem with quality control by them.
Although there is still a poisonous psychological shadow of Amanita phalloides, in the end, in the face of the fragrance that comes to the nose, the man closest finally couldn't help it, and stretched out his hand to this first bowl of insect cuisine with trepidation.
Some are suspicious, some are afraid.
Watching the man shudder and stuff the frog meat into his mouth, Ming Tian smiled.
There was silence at the scene, and everyone was waiting for the man's reaction.
One second...... Two seconds...... Followed by......
"Ahh!!!!h It's so delicious!!!!! ”
The thin man with ribs burst out with a roar that didn't match his shape, and it was hard to imagine that this thin body could let out a roar like a brown bear.
The man was already in tears at the moment.
"It's delicious, why can bugs make it so delicious?! I've never eaten such a delicious dish in my life! ”
The man with a lack of vocabulary suddenly went crazy.
He drilled his head directly into the jar, buried his whole face in the dish, and ate like a dog grabbing food.
Seeing this, several people nearby were even more shocked, and hurriedly rushed up and began to coax the insect food in the medicine jar.
Followed by!
"This ...... What is it? Is this an imperial meal?! ”
"Oh my God, why is it so delicious!"
"Mom, I feel like I'm dying without regrets!!"
Everyone who ate it burst out with incomparable praise for this dish.
Looking at this scene, Ming Tian smiled.
Succeed!
This dish is actually not delicious, no, it should be said, it is not actually delicious for Ming Tian, but for these civilians, it is a new world that has never been tried.
Coupled with the fact that they have been hungry for so long, they have already been hungry and crazy, as the saying goes, hunger is the best condiment, and this sentence is not wrong at all.
In just twenty seconds, this can of vegetables that Ming Tian could eat for two days was snatched away, and several men still grabbed the medicine jar and kept licking the remaining oil stains on it.
Because there are too many people, the people around who don't eat are even more envious.
A pair of eyes, where is there still distrust at the moment, and there is only pleading.
Let's make some more, we want to eat too.
It's as if all eyes are saying this.
Ming Tian looked at the mountains of materials and said with a smile: "Everyone is lined up, it's time to eat!" ”
Before the wok, it was busy.
This insect dish was a huge success!
The sentence that it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice was completely broken by Mingtian!
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