Chapter 55: Private Dishes
Qingqing looked at the dishes on the table, they were all very common dishes. However, each dish looks exquisite and the presentation is beautiful.
"Qingqing, last night's incident is thanks to you. You taste first, how the dishes taste. Zhou Jie said to Qingqing.
Qingqing first sandwiched a green vegetable, put it in her mouth and tasted it. As soon as you take the soup of the green vegetables, the rich aroma slowly spreads in your mouth. It doesn't taste like a taste, it feels like chicken, fish, and meat are mixed together.
The greens are also very tender in the mouth, with a unique fragrance of greens. I chewed it in my mouth, and there was a hint of sweetness in it.
How can an ordinary stir-fried vegetable be so delicious, Qingqing asked with interest:
"What kind of dish is this? It tastes like a mix of flavors. I don't know how this is done, but it tastes better than the greens I've eaten before. ”
Although Zhou Jie had eaten these dishes on the table before, he really didn't know how to make them. looked at Luo Xuan and said to him:
"Senior Brother Luo, this is made by your family's chef, you can introduce it to Qingqing and us. ”
Luo Xuan nodded and said:
"Then I'll give you a detailed introduction, don't say that my old king sells melons, hahahahaha. ”
"This dish is called stir-fried choy sum, and this green vegetable is choy sum. These choy sums are not ordinary cabbage sums on the market, but are specially invited by our family to grow them in the countryside. It does not use any chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and allows it to grow naturally.
This kind of choy sum itself will have a sweet taste. In order to make this dish taste tender, the chef only took the three leaves in the middle of the whole heart. ”
Luo Xuan told everyone the name and source of the material of this green vegetable.
"As for the soup used for stir-frying, it is a selection of free-range local chickens in the bamboo forest, several kinds of seafood, including sea bass, sea cucumbers, etc., freshly marinated Jinhua ham, and more than a dozen other precious ingredients, simmered in a ceramic pot over low heat.
It took a day of simmering to make a pot of soup. Remove the oil stars from the surface of the soup, and filter out all the ingredients at the bottom of the pot to remove only the most essential parts. ”
Luo Xuan carefully explained to everyone how to boil the soup for stir-frying.
"Choose a tender and sweet choy sum and pair it with this fragrant soup, so that you can retain the original flavor of the choy sum without making people feel bland. I'm right, Senior Brother Luo. ”
Zhou Jie made a summary of Luo Xuan's words, with a triumphant face.
Several people present listened to Luo Xuan's introduction and couldn't help but be surprised. This dish of 12 yuan in an ordinary restaurant, in the Luo family's private restaurant, it takes so much effort, I don't know how much it will cost.
"Senior Brother Zhou, you're on the point. Luo Xuan smiled.
"That's all I have to say, let's eat the dishes first, how about trying the chef's skills? Although there are some common dishes on the table, the more common the dishes, the more the chef's heat is tested. ”
Luo Xuan stood up and warmly invited everyone. When everyone heard Luo Xuan say this, they all ate the dishes in front of them.
Sure enough, these dishes look ordinary on the surface, but they don't taste ordinary at all, and the taste is indeed very different from the outside.
Song Ze was secretly frightened, he had invited French food once before, and the taste was okay. But compared to these dishes. It's a small thing.
One is petty bourgeoisie, and the other is luxurious inside. This kind of luxury is not something that ordinary people can do. A stir-fried choy sum uses so many ingredients to make the soup.
Sure enough, this is the real rich and celebrity, and the richest man in Qiancheng really lives up to his reputation.
A table of dishes, including meat, vegetarian, and seafood, takes into account everyone's different preferences. The chef must have put a lot of thought into the menu, and everyone ate it very comfortably.
The waiter at the door saw that everyone was almost eating, and waved his hand as if outside.
After a while, a waiter walked in with a ceramic pot.
"This is mushroom and green vegetable vermicelli soup, so please enjoy it after eating. ”
After speaking, he put down the ceramic pot, lifted the lid and took it out. The waiter at the door served a bowl of soup for everyone and placed it in front of everyone.
Everyone blew on the soup in front of them, took a sip, and picked their favorite food to eat. Some ate vermicelli, some ate greens, and some ate mushrooms. After eating, he looked puzzled.
Zhou Jie saw everyone's expressions and smiled at Senior Brother Luo.
"Senior brother, this is not an ordinary mushroom and green vegetable vermicelli soup, let's introduce it to you. ”
Luo Xuan nodded and said:
"Well, I'm going to boast again. ”
After speaking, he picked a vermicelli in the bowl and signaled to everyone.
"This fan is not really a fan, but shark fin. ”
Then he picked out a mushroom from the bowl and let everyone look closely.
"This mushroom is actually matsutake mushroom, which is produced in the Nyingchi region of Tibet. The matsutake mushrooms produced there are of the highest quality and have a hard texture, but the yield is not high, so they are generally the first choice for export.
Our family also sends people to buy them at a high price every year, and drives them into the mountains in a special refrigerated truck, so as to ensure the freshness of matsutake mushrooms. ”
"As for the soup base?" Luo Xuan thought for a moment.
"There are several kinds of soup in this soup, and I can't tell which one it is. ”
After speaking, Luo Xuan took a sip of soup, tasted it carefully, and said:
"The soup base is made from truffles and hens. Hens must be free-ranged in bamboo forests for more than three years, such chicken tastes very good, but it is very delicious when used to stew soup.
After simmering, remove the chicken and season with truffles to make the soup fragrant and rich. After seasoning, add matsutake mushrooms and shark fins, cook for a while over medium heat, and then add the greens, so that a pot of mushroom and green vegetable vermicelli soup is ready. ”
Luo Xuan stopped when he said this.
Zhou Jie heard that truffles were used in this pot of mushroom and green vegetable vermicelli soup, and his face showed a look of eagerness to try it again, looked at everyone and said:
"Let me tell you what makes truffles so special. ”
Then Zhou Jie gave everyone a science popularization of what truffles are.
Truffles grow on the shores of the Mediterranean, underneath the soft, low-light, alkaline soils. Usually grown under oak trees, it is recognized as the best of luxury in the world of cuisine, and is known as one of the world's top 3 cuisines along with foie gras and caviar.
Truffles are also known as the "daughters of lightning", if you want to eat mushrooms, you can pick them, and if you want to eat truffles, you have to go "hunting" first. Each truffle is found one by one by a hound or sow, which is very time-consuming and laborious. Truffles have a very strong aroma, and a little truffle can change the flavor of the entire dish, adding rich aroma and complexity.
When Song Ze heard this, he couldn't help but sigh:
"Senior Brother Luo, your family's style of acting is really admirable. A simple table of dishes takes so much time, effort and expensive ingredients. This kind of inner luxury, if you don't say it, who can know. It is really atmospheric to entertain guests with such an ordinary dish, so that the guests can eat satisfactorily and relaxedly. ”
Such a table of dishes, just listening to the name of the dish, the cheap ones are only a dozen yuan, and the expensive ones are only a few hundred yuan. However, the amount of thought and effort that goes into each dish, and the expensive ingredients that were previously consumed, are in stark contrast to the name of the dish. No wonder it will be used as a place for the Luo family's daily communication, and it is not open to the public.