Chapter 21: A Little Show
"Now everyone is a person who has eaten at the same table, they are all friends, if you think there is anything that needs to be improved in this meal, I hope you two will tell me truthfully."
Shopkeeper Zhao looked at Qi Ling and Gu Jinfeng with a sincere face and said.
Seeing him so honest, Qi Ling was embarrassed to remain silent.
So he told him: "Shopkeeper Zhao, I think that this wild fish stew is very fresh, but the earthy smell of wild fish is relatively heavy, although it retains the freshness of the fish made by this method, but it also highlights its fishy smell." ”
After a pause, Qi Ling pointed to the empty plate left over from eating the bear's paw just now and continued.
"Especially after we have just eaten a dish with a strong flavor like bear's paw, and then we taste this fishy smell, this fishy smell will be more prominent, so I think you can actually cook it in a different way, which can not only ensure the deliciousness of the fish, but also hide its fishy smell, so that wouldn't be better."
After listening to this, Shopkeeper Zhao also went to pick up a chopstick fish and put it in his mouth and smacked it carefully, indeed as Qi Ling said, after eating the bear's paw, the fishy smell became heavier, which I hadn't noticed before.
"I wonder what the girl's plan is? If there is, I hope to tell you, Zhao must be grateful. ”
Qi Ling was pondering in his heart how to tell Shopkeeper Zhao how to deal with the fish would be better explained.
Gu Jinfeng suddenly spoke: "The shopkeeper might as well let her go to the back kitchen to make one, she cooked a dish called sauerkraut fish last time, and the taste is indeed unique." ”
Okay, Gu Jinfeng turned out that you wanted to eat the fish I made!
When Meng Huan heard that Qi Ling could also cook, his mouth opened wide in surprise.
He Gu Jinfeng is really good at picking up people, how can he pick up a person who can cook, it's too blessed. God doesn't let me pick up someone who can cook!
"What, Zhao didn't see that the girl was also a good cook, disrespectful and disrespectful, why don't the girl follow me to the back kitchen to have a try, how about it?" Shopkeeper Zhao stood up and asked Qi Ling to arrive.
"Okay, I'll get an axe in front of Shopkeeper Zhao once, show my hand, and hope that Shopkeeper Zhao won't be surprised." Qi Ling said modestly.
Shopkeeper Zhao immediately took her to the kitchen in the backyard on the first floor, and then went to the kitchen chef to explain the situation.
It was the chef of the game house who made the fresh fish stew, he was very complacent about his cooking skills on weekdays, and now he heard that the shopkeeper Zhao said that he was not very satisfied with his cooking skills, looking at Qi Ling, he opened his mouth and said in a weird way.
"So this is the person who is not satisfied with the fish I made, I want to see what you can do with a yellow-haired girl!"
Qi Ling ignored his provocation and took out a big fish from the fish tank and threw it on the board.
After slashing the fish with the back of the knife, she began to deal with the scales and the internal organs of the fish in an orderly manner, although her movements were not skillful, but her every move was very calm, but very calm.
But after the chef saw Qi Ling's movements, he decided in his heart that Qi Ling was a person with small skills and only big words, and they were chefs, who didn't learn from the kung fu on the board first, and could be called a chef, and the knife skills would not be bad.
Qi Ling's movements didn't look like they had learned knife skills, so he didn't think the dishes she made were delicious.
However, this chef has fallen into the misunderstanding that in modern times, when handling ingredients, people have many tools to make up for the lack of knife skills.
There are meat grinders for cutting meat, and there are various vegetable cutters for cutting vegetables, even if people can't do knife work, they can make up for it with other places.
Just like Qi Ling, she rarely even cooked in her previous life, but she watched her mother cook since she was a child, when to put what ingredients, when to turn down the heat, and when to start the pot, she knew it clearly.
There are some food shows on TV every day, even the most stupid person will have a trick and a half, and Qi Ling is also a bit talented in cooking, so the sauerkraut fish she made for Gu Jinfeng for the first time was decent.
With the experience of the last time, Qi Ling did it very well this time.
When he saw her take the sauerkraut out of the sauerkraut jar, the chef couldn't imagine what it would taste like when the sauerkraut and fish were paired together, and he felt that Qi Ling's final dish would definitely be a difficult dish to eat.
Qi Ling didn't know what he was thinking, so he just followed the steps, carefully sliced the fish into pieces, and then added some seasonings and began to marinate.
Put the oil in the pot and heat it, add a large handful of peppercorns and peppers, green onions, ginger and garlic, just listen to the sound of "stinging", the kitchen will be filled with a spicy fragrance, after stir-frying, add the cut sauerkraut to stir-fry, add water.
Finally, when the pot began to boil and bubbled, Qi Ling put the fish fillets he had just slipped into the pot one by one, rolled them for a while, sprinkled them with chive foam, and finally came out of the pot.
Qi Ling put the sauerkraut fish into a large white porcelain bowl, and saw the snow-white fish, fiery red peppers, black-green sauerkraut and green chives, and the color gave people an impact.
"Shopkeeper Zhao and this chef, please try it first," Qi Ling said as he took off his apron.
"Well, I can't wait." The shopkeeper Zhao took a pair of chopsticks and sandwiched a chopsticks of fish meat.
The fish felt a spicy sensation at the beginning of her mouth, Qi Ling didn't put a lot of chili peppers this time, she felt that since it was not easy to make it once, she would simply make it into the taste she liked, the spicier the better!
Zhao shopkeeper closed his eyes and tasted carefully, the two flavors of numb and spicy preemptively occupied the taste on the tip of the tongue, but then they were replaced by the unique sourness of sauerkraut, just like a trio of several musical instruments, each with its own taste, but it is very harmonious, and the earthiness of the fish meat is covered by these flavors, and it is not tasted at all, and the rest is only its own freshness.
"It's delicious, it's delicious, the girl's little show is really amazing!" After eating, Shopkeeper Zhao couldn't stop praising on the side.
The chef was surprised to see his reaction, and immediately took a chopstick to taste it.
As soon as he tasted the taste, his eyes widened suddenly, and he was silent for a long time, then put down his chopsticks.
"It's because I didn't know Taishan just now, this fish girl is indeed a little better than me, teachable, teachable!" He threw his fist and apologized to Qi Ling.
Qi Ling waved his hand disappreciatively, "Chef doesn't have to be modest, I just happen that this dish is not bad, but it's the chef, that braised bear's paw has an extraordinary taste, and it is not something that ordinary people can make." ”
The two of them went back and forth, and the atmosphere was much better.
The cook also put down his pride and humbly asked Qi Ling for advice, Qi Ling was also a little hidden, and explained all the things that need to be paid attention to when making this sauerkraut fish.
The main thing is that there is no skill in this dish, and those who have seen it once will make it a few more times, and they will make it almost the same, and it is not good to hide it.