This time, the sound of swallowing saliva was a little loud, and Dai Long was a little embarrassed.

Fortunately, Wu Lei and a few people who came back from serving the food smelled the aroma of this [Golden Eyes and Fire Brain], and ran over in surprise to hide his embarrassment.

"It smells so good!"

Wu Lei smelled the smell, ran to the desk in small steps, looked at the tofu brain flowers covered with golden cooking oil in the soup cup, and asked in amazement: "Why is this dish so fragrant?" ”

Zhao Weizhuo also followed, sniffing the aroma and exclaiming: "Of all the dishes today, this dish seems to smell the most fragrant." ”

"Big vegetarian should be made with big meat, otherwise the taste won't come up."

Li Yi explained casually, and then signaled: "Hurry up and serve!" This dish has to be served hot, otherwise it will come out with a bean flavor when it is cold. ”

"Hmm."

Wu Lei answered and picked up the soup cup, but he didn't turn around, but said to Li Yi: "Brother Yi, can we eat this dish tonight?" ”

"Yours are indispensable, one for each person."

Li Yi smiled and waved his hand, urging: "Go quickly!" Don't be cold. ”

Watching Wu Lei and them send the dishes out, Dai Longcai smiled and praised: "The seasoning of this dish is really good and amazing." ”

There is a direct correlation between smell and taste, and skilled chefs can even distinguish the taste of a dish, the ingredients used, and the proportions just by smelling.

But in the same way, once the sense of smell fails, the sense of taste will also fail, the lips and teeth will be cold, and the smell will disappear.

After smelling this rich aroma, Dai Long could already be sure that the taste of this dish was definitely the most outstanding among today's dishes.

As Li Yi said, Dasu should be made with large meat, and the ingredients of this dish are tofu and a spoonful of hot oil.

If you want to make it delicious, you have to work hard where you can't see it.

This dish doesn't have any other side dishes other than that lion's mane mushroom, and there are no obvious seasonings.

Therefore, Li Yicai used the broth to soak it, simmered it over water, and stewed all the umami into the tofu.

But in Dai Long's view, the spoonful of cooking oil that Li Yi poured on was the essence of this dish.

The original piece of tofu monkey brain, although it definitely smelled good, did not exceed Dai Long's cognition.

But after the spoonful of cooking oil was poured on the tofu monkey brain, a unique aroma suddenly appeared.

This smell has a special aroma, and Dai Long has been a chef all his life, but he can't tell where it comes from.

It seems to be a unique fragrance formed by a mixture of more than two spices, and when he suddenly smelled it, Dai Long couldn't say whether it smelled good or bad, but he subconsciously secreted a large strand of saliva in his mouth.

Li Yi was still holding tofu monkey brains, and the cooking oil in the pot was simmering over medium-low heat.

Dai Long couldn't help but take a step forward, guided the aroma of the oil with his hand, sniffed it a few times, and carefully distinguished.

Seeing his movements, Li Yi smiled and asked, "Master Dai, can you smell what I use to boil this oil?" ”

Dai Long didn't speak, but his expression was a little more solemn.

"The oil is camellia oil, and the smell is fragrant."

He groaned, and replied cautiously as if he was in an exam: "You didn't use green onions, you used old ginger, and you also added bay leaves, peppercorns, grass fruits, cloves, nutmeg, ......."

He said eight spices in one breath.

But then he fell silent, frowning and meditating.

"Awesome, worthy of being the god of food."

Li Yi smiled: "I used ten spices, and you got eight right in one breath." ”

Dai Long didn't speak, still thinking.

Ten kinds of words are not very powerful for eight kinds, if he can't even tell the taste of just ten kinds of spices, what qualifications does he have to be called the god of food in Xiangjiang?

But there were still two flavors of spices, and he pondered for a long time, but he couldn't find a clue.

Both of these spices have a special taste and are not very commonly used.

There was one that he probably had a guess, but the other was a little strange to him.

After thinking about it for a while, he still couldn't think of what the last spice was, so he could only try to guess the ninth first.

"And the blind is...... Cinnamon seeds? ”

Dai Long tentatively said his guess.

"Huh? Terrible! ”

Li Yi was a little surprised, raised his hand and applauded gently: "In the end, it is the God of Food, you can guess it." ”

Hearing Li Yi's words, Dai Long breathed a sigh of relief: "Sure enough, it's it, no wonder I smell a little familiar, many years ago, I went to the northwest region of the mainland, and in the soup stock of Lanzhou beef noodles in Gan Province, cinnamon seeds would be used." ”

"Yes."

Li Yi said with a smile: "Cinnamon seeds are one of the secret ingredients in Lanzhou beef noodle soup, and each local beef noodle restaurant has its own secret recipe, but at least 9 out of 10 families will put cinnamon seeds." ”

Dai Long nodded, then looked at the cooking oil in the pot, sighed unwillingly, and said: "The last spice, I really can't smell it, its taste is a little familiar, but I really can't guess it, I can't remember." ”

Li Yi smiled and directly announced the answer: "It's the dried fruit of mountain yellow peel." ”

"Mountain yellow skin?"

Dai Long was stunned for a moment, the memory in his mind surfaced, and he was suddenly surprised and asked, "Is it chicken skin fruit?" ”

"Yes."

Li Yi nodded: "You should have eaten it." ”

"Oops!"

Dai Long smashed his palm and said with a smile: "I've eaten it, no wonder it's so familiar, it's fragrant!" ”

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand again to draw the aroma in the pot, sniffed it a few times, and then nodded with satisfaction: "Yes, this is the fragrance!" Gui Province uses it to mix dipping sauces and stir-fry vegetables.

Its aroma is indeed a bit special, but when mixed with other spices, it is really difficult to distinguish.

I didn't expect it to be used for frying oil? I really didn't expect that. ”

Seeing him exclaimed, Li Yi smiled before explaining: "The dried fruits of mountain yellow peel are generally used for medicine, and sometimes some are put in the marinade, which is indeed relatively rare.

It is in the mountains, it is one of the favorite fruits of macaques, and it has a similar eating habits, so I added it to flavor it, does it smell like a mountain forest? ”

"That's right! The breath of the mountains and forests is right! ”

Dai Long clapped his hands and smiled: "Wow! I really can't guess you with this material, it's really imaginative!

Use dried fruits from mountain yellow peel to increase the flavor of fried oil, I have been cooking for decades, and I have never tried it, amazing! Terrible! ”

Dai Long was sincerely amazed and smiled happily.

For a top chef like him, knife skills and stir-frying skills are just basic skills, which are no longer enough to surprise him.

Only the wonderful heat control of [Treading Snow and Finding Bears], as well as this kind of whimsical material creativity, will make him as happy as he is now.

This is a dazzling skill that only a top chef can understand, and the layman can't understand it, but in the eyes of the insider, it is an operation that can't be done.

"It's really the back waves of the Yangtze River pushing the front waves!"

Dai Long was amazed, and then quipped: "I learned it today, I'll try it when I go back, and I'll make a dish." ”

"Yes!"

Li Yi smiled calmly: "I can never make progress from the broom, I hope to taste the new flavor of Master Dai's innovation." ”

This sentence was said in an atmospheric manner, and when Dai Long heard this, his expression couldn't help but become a little serious.

Although Li Yi was young, after saying this, he already had a bit of the bearing of a grandmaster.

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