Chapter 89—The Horse's Cooking Skills (4)
The materials have been prepared, and Xu Chen is also gearing up and eager to try.
Xu Chen no longer paid attention to everyone's surprised gazes, and put the refined lard in the pot and fried it, in fact, the lard is still relatively fragrant when fried, and it can completely replace peanut oil.
At the same time as frying the oil, Xu Chen began to adjust the juice, cantaloupe instead of tomato is completely feasible, this Xu Chen has tried before, two large spoons of cantaloupe juice, a large spoon of sugar, two large spoons of vinegar, and a little aged wine, add a little water, and stir together.
Everyone looked at it intently, to be honest, Xu Chen's knife technique of cutting fish just now was really shocking, you must know that as a professional chef, knife work is definitely a necessary quality, which also aroused everyone's strong curiosity, this person's basic kung fu is so bad, he even has to cook for the prince.
However, the next series of steps seem quite confident and familiar, really, sweet and sour fish home cooking, Xu Chen has done it dozens of times, and he must be familiar with it, and these chefs who can be said to be the top chefs in the world are watching cooking, Xu Chen really didn't feel pressure, on the contrary, he was more excited.
Then put the marinated fish pieces into the lard and fry them for two minutes, until they were golden brown before the fish was fished out and put on the plate, and then the ginger and garlic were put into the pot to cook, and there were a lot of seasonings specially used in the palace, although Xu Chen had not seen it, but he still tasted it, and put it in the pot if he thought it tasted good.
When the ingredients in the pot are almost fried, Xu Chen poured the prepared juice into the pot, and after boiling, he grabbed the fried golden fish by the tail and slowly put it in, and the dish was finished.
Xu Chen's expression of success was very relaxed, and everyone was also very curious, what did this fish look like, the fat imperial chef was very disapproving, from the moment Xu Chen cut the vegetables, he had already concluded that this kid was a novice who was like a fake, and the dignified East Palace, and even the entire palace, there was really no knife technique compared to this dish.
A chef without excellent knife skills is like a driver without a steering wheel, and he can't make the climate.
After about two or three minutes, Xu Chen felt that it was almost boring, so he got out of the pot, fished out the fish and put it in the long dish, and then used a spoon to get up the soup in the pot, slowly splashed it on the fish, repeated a few times, and the sweet and sour fish was completed.
As soon as the cooks saw that the fish was to be done, they all came over to see what was going on, and it looked good, but they couldn't smell anything, and the smoke in the kitchen was too big, and they didn't know the smell, so if they wanted to know how the fish was done, they could only taste it themselves.
But after all, this was done for His Royal Highness, and no one dared to speak, so they turned their eyes to the boss here, the fat imperial chef.
The fat imperial chef was surprised that the fish looked good, and the appearance had certain considerations, but it was only a little, and the chefs in the palace were still very particular about the appearance of the dishes, not only to be delicious, but also to look good, and to please the royal family. Although there was a little surprise, the fat chef still didn't want to believe that there was anything different about this fish, so he didn't talk about it if he didn't follow the crowd, and relied on the appearance of the tricks to get by, which was definitely not good.
According to the mood of unbearable, the fat imperial chef picked up the chopsticks and prepared to taste it, the imperial chef has the right to move the chopsticks, after all, they have to ensure the quality of the dishes, who would have thought that this fat imperial chef just wanted to pick up a piece of minced meat in the past but was slapped back by Xu Chen.
Xu Chen didn't know that the imperial kitchen had this rule, so he said with a smile: "Hey, this is made for His Royal Highness, if you want to eat, you can drink the soup and taste the saltiness." ”
Angry, there is an urge to vomit blood, the fat imperial kitchen has been rampant in the East Palace for more than ten years, but now he has lost his old face, this young man is too bad to save face, the dignified imperial chef was wiped by a small back, this is going to be spread......
Everyone was not too surprised that this young man actually slapped the chopsticks in the hands of the imperial chef, this person was too Meng Lang, young and vigorous, and he was too tiger, and he dared to let the imperial chef refine lard for him and beat him with chopsticks, which was a trivial matter.
"Okay, I'll taste the salty!" The fat chef's face was flushed, and he was ready to taste Xu Chen's fish soup, the fat chef understood that if he wanted to save face, he had to drink the soup, and then according to this kid's broken soup, he scolded him well, scolded him for not being able to find his father and mother, scolded him for not being able to go back to the hill, scolded him for the stars, and the sun and moon were gone
So with a revenge mentality, a belly of fire mentality, the fat imperial chef picked up the spoon and scooped a mouthful of soup, but his eyes were fierce and murderous looking at Xu Chen, with the entrance of the spoon, the fresh soup entered the mouth, and you could see that the originally indignant face had changed drastically at the moment, like a chemical reaction with a catalyst, and it was smoking.
The fat imperial chef obviously had wide eyes, and looked at Xu Chen in horror with a textbook surprised expression, as if he was too surprised, too surprised, so the fat imperial chef scooped up the fish soup again, quickly put it in his mouth, and almost drank it all, his expression was still incredulous, so he scooped it up again...... So ...... again Thereupon...... In......
I can't say what I feel, but I feel that this taste is quite unique, sour, sweet, very fragrant, very tender, the fat chef wants to describe this taste in his mind, but he can't think of it for a while.
Everyone was dumbfounded, the result was already obvious, you look at his expression and fish soup, yes, just fish soup, the fat boss was conquered......
Xu Chen also didn't expect this fat man's reaction to be so big, isn't it just a sweet and sour fish, how can he be as excited as eating Tang monk's meat.
In fact, sweet and sour fish is still irritating to people who have never eaten it (now I am starting to reminisce about the scene of eating sweet and sour fish for the first time), and there is a reason why the first imperial chef in Beijing is so pompous and pretentious.
One is the above content, and the other is that Xu Chen's practice with a stir-fry mode has never been seen by the fat imperial chef, and the taste is obviously different, even if he claims to be a fat boss who eats all the food in the world, and he is a fat imperial chef who has eaten all the food, he is shocked to taste such a fresh taste for the first time.
What could shock such a skilled chef? Of course, it's a unique taste that has never been seen or heard, and that's it, what is professionalism? This is called professionalism.
"Who did you learn this craft from?" The fat imperial chef couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, and had already put aside his anger towards Xu Chen, not because he changed his face quickly, but because of this matter, which aspect he valued more, that's all, what is professional?
"I never deceived my predecessors, but I learned from the master of the hunters in the mountains." Xu Chen saw that the fat imperial chef spoke a lot more politely, so he didn't care about him, Xu Chen has always respected me, and I respected you. If you pretend to be forced against me, I will put you in the middle of it.