Chapter 17: Yes, Mapo Tofu!

Xiao Er went up and came down after a while, followed by a person who looked very kind, about 30 years old, wearing a navy blue robe, his hair was pulled up, and he was only fixed with a simple wooden hairpin, slightly fat, if he held a whisk in his hand, and his beard was a proper Taoist.

Xiao Er brought the shopkeeper to Xiang Tianqi and them, and the three of them hurriedly got up and said hello to the shopkeeper.

"Three little friends, I heard that you have a vegetable recipe to sell?"

It's not a fight, it should be easy to deal with, this is the first thought in the hearts of the three of them.

"Yes, this is also a gift from others, but our small family can't even afford the ingredients, so we plan to sell the recipe so that we can buy some food for our younger brothers and sisters at home." It's still Heqiang who said.

"Oh? I don't know what this recipe is made of? The shopkeeper asked curiously, the recipe that he got unintentionally, and the ingredients are not available to ordinary farmers, which is indeed surprising. And since the ingredients are not ordinary, I don't think they came from ordinary people. Although their restaurant is the largest restaurant in the town, no one will be afraid of the money, if this dish is really as precious as they say, then the business of the restaurant will definitely be better, so this is also the reason why the shopkeeper is down.

"Don't hide it from the shopkeeper, the main material of this recipe is Bai Shuitian He" He Qiang and Xiang Tianqi have just said it, so now they are talking to the shopkeeper with Heqiang.

"White Paddy? That's true, usually people who are more honest will buy this to cook and eat, no wonder you take it out and sell it. "Hearing what they said, the shopkeeper also understood.

In this era, the white paddy field was only circulated among the upper class because of the small yield due to the fact that the workmanship and technology were not passed on, so the price was also expensive, so it was only circulated among the upper class, and ordinary farmers really could not afford it.

"What else can you do with the white water field besides eating it raw?" The shopkeeper asked.

Now it's Xiang Tianqi, and He Qiang looked at Xiang Tianqi and signaled that it was time for her to go out.

"In fact, there are many ways to cook this white paddy field in the shopkeeper, in addition to the raw food you just said, it can also be used for stir-frying, frying, stewing, etc." Xiang Tianqi really didn't expect that the tofu was there, and it was only eaten raw, what a waste!! It's all distressed to death! I don't know if she Xiang Tianqi likes tofu the most?

"Oh? Does this little friend know how to do it? When the shopkeeper saw Xiang Tianqi speak, he was secretly surprised, thinking that it was the man in charge just now, but he didn't expect it to be a younger looking girl.

"I know that the person who gave us the recipe at that time only showed us how to fry once because of the limited ingredients, but he told us how to fry, fry, and stew. It's just that we don't have the opportunity to practice, so we can't say what the specific taste will be. Xiang Tianqi was afraid that saying too much would arouse suspicion, so he only said that he would fry.

The shopkeeper thought that they said that they could do frying, frying, stewing, etc., but it turned out to be just stir-frying, and he suddenly hesitated.

"Shopkeeper Zhang, Zhenwei Restaurant, how can there be no delicious food? And no one is too delicious. ”

After speaking, Xiang Tianqi stopped talking, and the four of them were silent. However, only Xiang Tianqi knows that the shopkeeper will not refuse, even if the fried and fried ones are not delicious, he will not give up the item of stir-frying, just like she said, no one will think that he is too little.

However, the three of them did not speak, but the person next to them spoke.

"I said Lao Zhang, you can try it, there is no fried one horizontally and vertically, even if the taste of the other items is not good, there is a fried one, we have been eating these dishes in the restaurant for several years"

The speaker was a middle-aged man of about 40 years old, wearing an inky green shirt with a belt of the same color around his waist, and a white jade pendant hanging from it.

The man spoke, and the four of them turned their heads to look at where the voice had come from.

"Master Qi, it's here again today, why don't you remove your dining room and run to the restaurant every day." As soon as I heard it, I knew that the relationship between the two was good, and there were not so many politeness between words.

"Hmph, why did you withdraw it, if I was tired of eating your dishes that day, I would still need it. As soon as I came downstairs after eating, I saw a circle of people around you, and when I came in, I realized that you were discussing a new dish. Master Qi said to the shopkeeper.

Hearing this, the four of them looked around, but it was the same as what Master Qi said, I don't know when the people eating at the surrounding dinner table had already gathered around, but they didn't make a sound, so everyone in the conversation didn't realize it.

"Alas, why don't you say let Xiao Er bring it up, and when you come to the lobby, you can talk about it directly, and you can't do it if you don't try it now" The shopkeeper Zhang was depressed in his heart.

"Lao Zhang, let them go, I have paid for the ingredients, if Bai Shuitian is enough, let them make a copy of what they just said, I am hungry for it."

"Yes, yes, shopkeeper Zhang, it's time for your restaurant to add some new dishes." The onlookers around also said.

"Okay, but the money for ingredients is not needed, and our restaurant is still out of the way. If everyone is not in a hurry, you might as well wait and give a review of the new dishes in a while. Xiao Zhao served tea. Shopkeeper Zhang said to the onlookers.

The crowd was even happier when they heard this, and they found a spare seat and sat down. The tall and thin Xiao Er immediately went to the back room to serve tea.

After speaking, the shopkeeper took Xiang Tianqi to the back kitchen, Xiang Tianqi asked He Qiang to wait in the lobby, and took Cuiying there.

When he arrived in the back kitchen, Shopkeeper Zhang gave an order, and then returned to the hall to wait for Xiang Tianqi's results.

Xiang Tianqi in the back kitchen.

Xiang Tianqi looked around, the ingredients for making mapo tofu are not too complete, but if the soup is not too complicated, it can be made. However, mapo tofu can only be made in a simple version.

Stewed soup Xiang Tianqi planned to make a vermicelli tofu soup, this was made by Li Jia for her, and she thought it was delicious at the time, so she studied it. However, there are no fans here, but there are vermicelli, so I use vermicelli instead. Xiang Tianqi asked Cuiying to cut the tofu into pieces, cut it into three parts, two smaller parts, and another part of the tofu cut a little bigger, soak it in salted water after cutting, during the cutting of tofu, she soaked the vermicelli in a basin with cold water, and took an egg to boil, and waited until the egg was boiled and peeled and cooled for later use, at this time the vermicelli was almost soaked, and then took some fresh green leaves and washed them aside, boiled them in a small pot of water, and then put in the soaked vermicelli, and put in the relatively large tofu after boiling again, Finally, when the pot is raised, put in the greens and boil them a few times, so that you don't need to eat lettuce, and maintain the umami of the greens. Finish with salt to taste. Because this soup wants a fresh, there is no extra condiment, as for salt. Find a large porcelain basin and put the soup in it, and cut the cold eggs into it. That's it.

During the stewed soup, Xiang Tianqi asked people to find green onions and ginger and chop them, put oil in the hot pot, put the chopped minced and the sauce similar to bean paste that was found just now into the pot to fry the fragrance, and then add the clear soup, salt, soy sauce, put the tofu in, stew it slightly, and finally thicken it, copy the plate evenly out of the pot, and put it on the plate.

After these two are done, Xiang Tianqi asked the chef to bring a steamed bun and slice it, and then bake both sides dry over low heat, after the steamed bread is baked, first break it into small pieces, and then wrap it in a sticky cloth on the cage drawer, and use a rolling pin to crush such homemade breadcrumbs.

Dip the tofu just cut in flour, then break the eggs, wrap the egg with egg liquid, and finally wrap the breadcrumbs just made, heat the oil pan, heat over low heat, because not the pan oil is in Guo Di, so you can only put the tofu in batches, and wait until it is golden brown on both sides, drain it and put it on the plate in turn.

When the dishes were ready, Xiang Tianqi found a tray for serving, and after placing them, he took two or three shallots and only used green onion leaves, chopped them, and sprinkled them on mapo tofu and fried tofu.

Xiang Tianqi and Cui Ying cleaned their hands and went out with the prepared dishes, and the people in the lobby were already waiting for them, just to taste this new food.

When Xiang Tianqi put the prepared dishes on the table where the shopkeeper was sitting, and opened the upside-down plate, the fragrance wafting out shocked the spirits around him.

Just smelling this smell, Shopkeeper Zhang concluded that this business would not be lost! Then he instructed Xiao Er to take another plate and divide the three dishes into four portions and put them on everyone's table. Sitting at this table were the shopkeeper Zhang, Master Qi, and Xiang Tianqi.

"Shopkeeper Zhang, let me introduce it, this soup is called stewed white paddy field, the fried one is called mapo white paddy field, and the other one is fried white paddy field." Forgive Xiang Tianqi for being completely lazy, and directly changed the name of the tofu in modern cuisine to Baishuitian, not wanting to bother thinking of a poetic name at all, and she thinks that this name is also very good, why change it.

(Well, it's tormenting!) Is this poisoning? Isn't everyone about to leave work? It's just the right time to whet your appetite. Ha ha. )