Li Yi's ideal tacit understanding means that he casually says the name of the dish, and the chef can help him prepare all the raw materials.

But apparently everyone has not yet met this requirement, and can only carry out his instructions according to his instructions.

As a result, the entire back kitchen soon turned into a game called "Where is Brother Yi".

"Brother Yi? How do you get this? ”

"Brother Yi! Did I break it? ”

"Where's Brother Yi?"

By the end of the morning, Li Yi's temples had begun to ache faintly.

He felt like a goose dad with a group of baby geese out on the street, but if he walked fast, he would cause a panicked shout.

Although he is the commander-in-chief, he is the most tired one after a busy morning, and he doesn't even have time to go to the toilet.

Here, as soon as he came to the front hall to get a glass of water to drink, Wu Lei ran out with his ass and asked, "Brother Yi, the kitchen steamer has stopped, what should I do?" Want to reopen? ”

"No, leave it alone, I'll be right away."

After Li Yi finished speaking, he took two sips of water and walked back to the back kitchen.

In the back kitchen, everyone is busy.

Liu Yifei and Zhao Jinmai are getting together, each holding an embroidery needle, practicing wearing bean sprouts.

The bean sprouts to be used have to be worn on the same day, and it will definitely be too late to rely on Li Yi alone, so the ingredients for this dish have to be taken care of by Liu Yifei and Zhao Jinmai.

Wu Lei was staring at the steamer, looking expectant, and when he saw Li Yi coming back, he gave way to the position.

Li Yi came to the steamer, took out heat-insulating gloves, and reminded Wu Lei: "Be careful of steam!" ”

With that, he opened the door to the steamer and took a step back.

A scorching water vapor gushed out and steamed.

Li Yi looked at the steam and said: "The probability of being burned by steam is much greater than that of being burned by fire and pot, second only to oil collapse. ”

"Why?"

Wu Lei asked casually.

"Because many people don't know that the steam will be so hot, when they lift the lid of the pot and lift the steamer, they will be burned accidentally."

As he spoke, Li Yi put his hand into the steamer and took out a disc full of soup.

On the plate, there are eggplants that are coiled together, soaked in the broth with the rich aroma of mushrooms underneath, and the soup is full of soup, looking full and flexible.

Looking at the eggplant strips out of the pot, Liu Yifei and the two on the side also came over, looked at them curiously and asked, "Can you make eggplant in this way?" ”

This plate of eggplant strips is the raw material that Li Yi uses to make eggplant.

Many people have heard of the name of eggplant, it is the most impressive delicacy in "Dream of Red Mansions".

It not only shocked Grandma Liu, who entered the Grand View Garden, but also made countless readers who read the book salivate and were full of curiosity about it.

Everyone present had heard of the name of eggplant, but they had never eaten it, let alone seen anyone do it.

Therefore, when Li Yi said that he wanted to make eggplant, everyone was aroused with a strong interest and wanted to see with their own eyes how this famous dish was made.

But Li Yi looked at them with a curious expression, but shook his head and said, "It's still early!" This is the first course, and it must be steamed nine times in a row to be considered a good one. ”

Hearing his words, Huang Xiaoming, who was helping to grind tofu on the side, asked curiously: "I see that this section in "Dream of Red Mansions" seems to only say that it is fried with chicken fat, and there is no step of steaming eggplant?" ”

Hearing this, Zhao Jinmai also nodded: "When I watched this paragraph, I didn't seem to say that I wanted to steam eggplant." ”

Li Yi explained with a smile: "The prototype of the eggplant dish is actually eggplant, which is a pickled dish made by shredding fresh eggplant, drying it and mixing it with rice flour and fine salt.

There are this kind of eggplant in the Lianghu area and the Yunnan-Guichuan area, and you can go to Yunnan Province to see if you have time, and the old Kunming people basically have this dish at home. ”

"Eggplant?"

Liu Yifei was puzzled: "Then why is the Dream of Red Mansions written as eggplant?" ”

"The word fish means fish that has been cut open and dried, and it also refers to the meat of the pickled fish, and it is a noun."

Li Yi took the eggplant strips off the plate and explained: "Bream refers to a method of making food, that is, bream.

The bream appeared as early as the Book of Songs, but at that time the bream was made of fish.

Since the Song Dynasty, there has been a great development of the cabbage.

In the "Dream Lianglu", it is recorded that in the restaurants of Jingshi, there are many kinds of fish and meat such as jellyfish bream, large fish bream, fresh bream, sub-bream, fresh goose bream, and inch golden bream.

Including in the "Water Margin" of the Ming Dynasty, among the wine and dishes that Yan Po bought for her daughter Yan Po and Song Jiang, there is a fat bream, which is a dish made of fatty pork.

In "Golden Vase Plum", Ximen Qing is also an avid fan of the cabbage, he and Pan Jinlian are under the grape trellis, and among the appetizers sent by the maidservant, there is a wooden whitebait, that is, scrambled whitebait with eggs.

In the Qing Dynasty, there was a variety of meat dishes.

Mr. Cao Xueqin has lived in Jinling for a long time, his family is wealthy, and there must be a lot of vegetables to eat, and he obviously likes to eat eggplant, so he wrote it in the book.

However, he used more elegant words, and wrote them as eggplant.

Eggplant is the most absorbent, and steaming and then drying it in broth can allow it to retain more umami substances, so it is so delicious to make a cabbage.

A rich kid like Mr. Cao obviously doesn't have that deep understanding of cooking, and it's understandable that he can't write completely. ”

Listening to Li Yi's explanation, everyone understood the origin and reason of the eggplant.

But the audience in the live broadcast room paid all their attention to "Golden Vase Plum".

"I love to listen to the trellises."

"How do you eat that whitebait, can you expand on it?"

"Brother Yi has even studied the golden plum? Fellow travelers! ”

"Don't help us feel sorry for the traffic! We're going to listen to the Golden Plum! ”

In front of the screen, Li Yi had already fished out all the eggplant strips on the plate, then handed them to Wu Lei, and instructed: "Find a tray, separate them, and then put them in that oven, use the air-drying function to air dry, and then bring them to me after they are completely air-dried." ”

"Okay."

Wu Lei took the eggplant and turned around to find the tray.

Zhao Jinmai watched from the side and asked curiously: "Brother Yi, if you make this dried eggplant yourself, will it be more delicious?" ”

These dried eggplants are dried goods that Li Yi bought from the market, and when she bought them, Liu Yifei was still wondering why she wanted to buy dried eggplants, but she didn't expect to take them back to make eggplants.

"It might be a little better, but the gap won't be too big."

Li Yi explained: "Dried eggplant is not too technical, and whether it tastes good or not depends on the processing later, such as boiling broth."

As long as the dried eggplant is guaranteed to be made from new eggplant in April and May, it is almost the same.

This thing can be bought in many places, so there is no need to make it yourself.

What I bought was Yujiang dried eggplant from Yingtan, Gan Province, and the quality was still very good, and it was not much different from what I made myself. ”

"Okay."

Zhao Jinmai blinked his eyes and asked, "Then can we fry a little at noon, let's try it first?" ”

Li Yi smiled: "If you can put on all those bean sprouts, I will fry them." ”

"Good! We're going to be out in no time! ”

Zhao Jinmai said, and happily pulled Liu Yifei back to continue wearing bean sprouts.

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