Chapter 239 A table of surprises
The two dishes and one soup are now ready, and all that remains is the hot and sour shredded potatoes.
There is no great difficulty in making sour and hot shredded potatoes, but Lin Xiaoxiao still does not take it lightly. She understands this truth better than anyone else, and only by being more meticulous can she reflect the true strength of a chef.
In many cases, the reason for mistakes in cooking is not because of the basic skills of the chef, but because he does not do every step carefully.
Only enough meticulousness can ensure that nothing goes wrong.
Now that the production of the last dish of sour and hot shredded potatoes has begun, Lin Xiaoxiao has prepared the ingredients first according to her habits.
Almost 500 grams of shredded potatoes and 30 grams of dried chilies, a small amount of vinegar and chili paste, and of course garlic, ginger and green onions. After preparing all these ingredients that might be used later, Lin Xiaoxiao began her production.
She started by handling the potatoes.
After carefully peeling all the three small potatoes, Lin Xiaoxiao cut all the potatoes into slender and long strips. If you want the taste of sour and hot shredded potatoes to be good enough, then there are actually high requirements for knife work.
Only when the cut shreds are thin and long enough, can the flavor be better and the taste will be better. Therefore, if you want to make a good dish of sour and hot shredded potatoes, then the knife work must also be strict.
It is precisely because of this that although the potatoes were simply cut into thin strips, Lin Xiaoxiao still did not relax at all.
She is extremely meticulous and extremely serious.
The sound of the knife rising and falling is regular and rhythmic, which is a very good proof of Lin Xiaoxiao's knife work.
With the rhythmic sound of chopping vegetables, Lin Xiaoxiao had already finished chopping vegetables. She put a basin of cold water and put all the shredded potatoes in it.
The step of soaking shredded potatoes in cold water must not be removed.
There are always people who feel that although sour and hot shredded potatoes are a home-cooked dish, the reason why they will always taste better in a restaurant than at home is here. When making sour and hot shredded potatoes at home, many people forget to soak the shredded potatoes in cold water.
There is a lot of starch in shredded potatoes, which is why the taste of potatoes will be softer, and soaking in cold water is to remove the starch content in shredded potatoes and make the shredded potatoes more crispy.
During the time when the shredded potatoes were soaked in cold water, Lin Xiaoxiao was not idle.
She washed one dried chili pepper and one green chili, and cut the two chili peppers into thin shreds in the same way she had just cut the shredded potatoes. After chopping, she then chopped the garlic, ginger and green onions.
Everything is ready, whether it is the main dish or the ingredients, and by this time, the shredded potatoes soaked in cold water are almost ready.
Next, it's time for the stir-frying.
Stir-fried sour and hot shredded potatoes, in order to taste crisp enough, the initial heat must be large. After Lin Xiaoxiao turned up the heat, he poured in golden peanut oil.
As soon as the oil was hot, Lin Xiaoxiao immediately put the dried chili peppers, peppercorns, garlic, ginger and green onions that had just been cut into them. Lin Xiaoxiao did this in order to be able to burst incense.
Under the combined force of hot oil and hot fire, the shredded potatoes can be more crispy while being fried.
Under the public action of green onions, ginger, garlic and Sichuan pepper, the aroma in the pot is already very strong, and at this time, it is the best time to pour shredded potatoes into the pot.
She put the shredded potatoes in a large bowl of cold water into the pot and stir-fried them quickly in the splash.
Although the high heat helps to fry the shredded potatoes to a crisp, there are drawbacks. That is, if you don't stir-fry quickly, shredded potatoes are easy to stir-fry. This requires that Lin Xiaoxiao's stir-fry must be fast, and the faster the better.
After stir-frying for a while, Lin Xiaoxiao added salt and vinegar to the pot and turned off the heat. After turning off the heat, Lin Xiaoxiao did not immediately put out the hot and sour potato shreds that had been fried.
She chopped a handful of fine chives and sprinkled them on the surface of the shredded potatoes. After stir-frying evenly with a spatula again, Lin Xiaoxiao brought out the shredded potatoes.
The shredded sour and hot potatoes came out of the pot, and the few dishes that Lin Xiaoxiao was preparing to make were all ready. Lin Xiaoxiao looked around and felt a sense of accomplishment.
Grilled sand tea tenderloin, Huaiqi stewed rabbit broth, braised prawns, sour and hot shredded potatoes, for these dishes, Lin Xiaoxiao is very satisfied.
Actually, because he hadn't been in the kitchen for a while, Lin Xiaoxiao still muttered a little in his heart before cooking. said that if she didn't learn, she would quit, she didn't know that she had wasted so much cooking skills, and her cooking skills would not be unfamiliar.
But now it seems that her dishes are still very remarkable.
Lin Xiaoxiao put a few dishes on the table outside, and then when he was about to take a break, Lu Hongshen came back.
Hearing the sound of the door opening, Lin Xiaoxiao was stunned at first.
These days, in order to recuperate, Lin Xiaoxiao has actually been sitting in a wheelchair. Now she suddenly stood up, and she didn't know what Lu Hongshen would think.
Lin Xiaoxiao subconsciously held on to the table, she looked at Lu Hongshen, and her moist eyes kept blinking.
Compared with Lin Xiaoxiao's surprise, Lu Hongshen obviously didn't expect Lin Xiaoxiao to be able to stand up. He glanced at Lin Xiaoxiao, and then walked over quickly.
Perhaps because he was afraid that Lin Xiaoxiao would not be able to stand steadily, Lu Hongshen directly grabbed Lin Xiaoxiao's arm.
"Why did you suddenly stand up, now is the time for you to recuperate."
Whenever he encounters problems related to Lin Xiaoxiao's legs, Lu Hongshen will always say again and again that Lin Xiaoxiao now needs to recuperate, and he must sit down and rest.
But the days of being in a wheelchair have made Lin Xiaoxiao extremely bored, and she is nostalgic for the busy life she used to have in the restaurant every day and night.
So as soon as Lin Xiaoxiao heard Lu Hongshen say that he wanted to recuperate, he immediately shook his head: "No, I'm really fine." If I was in a wheelchair, I would be really crazy. ”
Lu Hongshen didn't speak, but the hand holding Lin Xiaoxiao's arm was a little harder than just now.
Probably because his strength has increased a lot, Lin Xiaoxiao already feels a little pain. Her brow furrowed: "Hiss...... You let me go, I'm really almost recovered. At least I can still do it on my own. ”
Hearing Lin Xiaoxiao say this, Lu Hongshen slowly let go of the hand that grabbed Lin Xiaoxiao's arm.
Since he walked into the villa, Lu Hongshen only paid attention to Lin Xiaoxiao's injury, and he didn't even notice the table full of dishes.
Now that Lin Xiaoxiao was released, Lu Hongshen found that a large table of dishes had been set up on the original huge dining table.