Duran's cooking broth filled several large wooden barrels, and then she began to make sweet and sour fish, although sweet and sour fish is no stranger to the people here, but sweet and sour fish is what she Duran led everyone to eat, and it can be said that it is a precedent for the food industry here, so she is the ancestor of this dish, and this dish must be had.

If it weren't for her bringing the sweet and sour fish here, the people here would probably just steam and stew the fish to eat, and the work of killing and washing the fish would still be done by the sous chef, and the cooks all knew that Duran was the originator of making sweet and sour fish, so everyone stared at her and carefully watched how she made authentic sweet and sour fish.

I saw that she cut a few knives on the back of the cleaned fish, wiped the water on the fish, evenly smeared cooking wine, pepper, salt, green onion and ginger shreds in the belly cavity of the fish, and set it aside for a quarter of an hour.

She boiled the fish in the pot, and when it was seven minutes hot, she picked up the tail of the fish and hung it over the hot oil, scooped up the hot oil with an iron spoon and poured it on the fish one by one, and the fish skin at the cut of the knife was turned outwards to set the shape.

The sound of sizzling could be heard clearly in the kitchen, and the cooks couldn't help but exclaim, it was the first time they had seen so many detailed steps in making sweet and sour fish.

The sound of sizzling was clearly heard in the kitchen, and then Duran put the fish into the pot and made a curved arc in the iron pot, during which she kept tarning the fish until the whole fish was set, and then turned the fish to high heat, and fried it again when the oil temperature rose, the skin of the fish was visible to the naked eye, and the skin was crispy and tender, she fished it out and put it on a plate, and the whole fish showed a kind of beauty of leaping over the dragon gate.

The cooks sighed again and gave Duran a thumbs up, which was an eye-opener for them.

Duran hooked his lips and smiled: "You can all see it, in the future, customers ordering sweet and sour fish must make the shape of the dish more beautiful." ”

Next, Duran began to boil tomato juice, leaving a little oil in the pot, adding tomato paste, an appropriate amount of sugar, salt, an appropriate amount of water, adding potato juice as starch, until the soup is thick and shiny, and evenly poured on the fish.

At this moment, the pleasant sizzling sound sounded again, and all the cooks couldn't help but lift their spirits, the red tomato juice flowed to the plate, like a red sea, and the fish body showed a jumping arc, and a fish leaping dragon gate was completed.

Duran looked at the cooks proudly, "Have you learned?" ”

The cooks nodded vigorously, and Master He was even more admiring, and said ashamedly: "I thought it was very simple to make sweet and sour fish, but I didn't expect there to be such a pivotal detail, no wonder since you didn't supply sweet and sour fish to the restaurant, the restaurant's sweet and sour fish orders have decreased, we didn't know why, but now we really understand that the taste is far worse than yours." ”

The other cooks nodded vigorously and began to discuss enthusiastically, they had only learned the skin of sweet and sour fish, not the essence at all, and now that they saw Duran doing it with their own eyes, they realized that there were still so many details to pay attention to.

Master He even noticed why Duran wanted to add potato juice to the soup, and he asked Duran suspiciously.

Du Lan Wan'er smiled, "Master He is asking about the point, although this potato has little juice, it has a high starch content, and thickening it with this juice will make the soup thicker." ”

"Oh!" After hearing this, the cooks were like an initiation, it turned out that there was so much knowledge in cooking, although they couldn't understand what Duran said about starch, but the meaning was understood, almost similar to flour.

Master He nodded understandingly, suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly asked Duran: "Isn't it a bit of a waste to make such a good sweet and sour fish in the self-service house?" Besides, if one diner takes it, the other diners are gone, unless you make many of these sweet and sour fish. ”

Duran chuckled: "Master He really cares for me, I am very grateful, this sweet and sour fish really can't be put in the buffet house whole, it is so beautifully shaped, it must be in the à la carte menu in order to be able to afford a high price." And if such a whole one is taken by a diner, he will definitely not be able to eat it all, and he will have to waste it, although the cost of the fish is only a few taels of silver. My self-service house also has a clear rule that all the food taken out of the self-help house must be eaten and must not be wasted. Waste will be fined according to the corresponding amount. The so-called no rules do not form a circle, otherwise customers spend 20 taels of silver to take it casually and empty all the food inside, we will not lose money, and besides, it is shameful to waste food. ”

Everyone was immediately relieved when they heard this, it is good to have this regulation, if there is no conditional constraint, the diners will take it casually, and it is strange if they don't lose money.

Duran is very grateful to the cooks for her interests, she said: "Food for the sky will not treat everyone badly, as long as there is food for the sky, everyone will have a job, as long as the food for the sky business is in full swing, everyone will not be shy, I Duran patted his chest and promised, I make money, I will take everyone to earn, so let's work together to stabilize the rice bowl!" ”

The cooks were moved to tears by these heartfelt words, as cooks, they were most worried about the poor business of the restaurant, seeing that Duran was so motivated and so smart to operate, their hearts were immediately steady.

But all the cooks who have worked in the first-class restaurants, none of them are willing to accommodate the restaurants that do not enter the stream, and everyone is looking forward to the glory of food.

"Well, without further ado, not only sweet and sour fish is this method, but there are many similar sweet and sour dishes, sweet and sour loin, sweet and sour pork ribs, sweet and sour ...... Wait, you just need to pay attention to the heat, don't fry the sweet and sour sauce, once the paste is fried, the taste will become bitter. ”

Everyone nodded yes and yes.

"Okay, then you can make sweet and sour fish pieces, let's put them in the buffet house." Duran's enthusiastic eyes swept over every chef present, and she was very satisfied with the situation.

"Yes." The cooks are full of confidence and drive.

Duran came out with sweet and sour fish, there were already two diners in the store, and the restaurant generally does not operate breakfast, but Duran opened the self-service house after all, and the self-service house was not limited to the duration, and he could eat as much as he could for twenty taels of silver, so the restaurant opened in the morning.

As soon as the two diners entered, they smelled an unprecedented sweetness, they sniffed vigorously, and their eyes instantly fell on the sweet and sour fish in Duran's hand.

"Hey, what's in your hand?"

"Guest officer, this dish is called Fish Leaping Dragon Gate." Duran explained with a smile.

"Carp jumping over the dragon gate? Haha, there is still such a dish name in the world? Bring it to us to taste. The diners shouted.

Du Lan raised his feet and walked over, turned his head to Gu You'an and said, "Xianggong, you post an eye-catching poem in front of the self-service house, and I will read it to you." ”

Duran turned his face back, smiled at the diners, and put the sweet and sour fish on the dining table, inevitably the guests didn't know the price of the dishes, she deliberately pushed the price sign in front of the two diners, and asked them to browse the prices above, "Guest officer, there are still many delicious and delicious meals in the store, you two still need to order something, I will tell the kitchen to prepare it for the two of you." ”

The eyes of the two diners followed Duran's action as he pushed the menu, and when they saw the price of the sweet and sour fish, they immediately recognized it.

The two of them glanced at each other, but they didn't expect this dish to be so expensive, nearly twice as expensive as ordinary steamed fish stew.

I wondered, why is this fish so expensive?

I saw that this fish had a peculiar shape, the whole fish seemed to jump up, and the smell made people can't help but flow a lot, sweet and sour, and it felt very refreshing, and they swallowed their saliva unconsciously.

"This dish does look like a fish crossing the dragon gate."

"It should taste good, too."

Both of them looked greedy, and their eyes were fixed on the sweet and sour fish for a moment.

Seeing that they had been aroused by their appetite, Du Lan did not immediately urge them, but turned his head to read Tang poems to Gu You'an, who had already prepared pen and ink.

"At noon on hoeing day, sweat drops into the soil. I don't know the Chinese food, every grain is hard! After the minister finished writing the poem, he wrote another ordinance and posted it together. ”

"Okay." Gu Youan replied.

"Okay." Gu Youan replied.

The two diners couldn't resist the discount of the food, so they ruthlessly took out the silver and slapped it on the table, "Let's try it, what is the difference between this sweet and sour fish and the outside." ”

Duran couldn't help but want to laugh when he saw their heartache, but this proved that his dishes were very successful, and he could make people who were reluctant to spend money pay for it, which would achieve the purpose of making money.

Du Lan instructed the shopkeeper to serve high-quality jasmine tea to the two diners, and then thought of the punishment regulations in Gu You'an's heart: "The self-service house rules, in order to carry forward the Cangli country's love for food and waste shameful excellent virtues, those who violate the following regulations will be fined as follows, those who waste a small bowl of grain will be punished with one tael of silver, those who waste a bowl of sea will be punished with two taels of silver, and so on...... Food is hard to come by, please cherish it! Tips, take less many times! ”