Chapter 36: The Legendary Egg Fried Rice
That night, Lin Fengjin was summoned into the palace by Li Jian and gave a banquet.
The royal banquet is mainly based on honor, and the vast majority of people are sincerely afraid in front of the emperor, where is there any appetite? Symbolically move the chopsticks, but Lin Fengjin is different, quite jaw-dropping, eating that is snoring and happy, that is, Li Jian can see that this kid really came to enjoy the craftsmanship of the imperial kitchen!
And it can also be seen that he is really very good at studying this way, and it is definitely not pretended, such as a chrysanthemum crab soup, ordinary people can only eat it delicious, but Lin Fengjin praised it with his fingers after eating, and said that it was so delicious, it should only use the crab roe of male crabs, and then it was refined with fish fat, and it was made after a series of complex processes.
It is also said that the chrysanthemum petals are particularly finely selected, if the novice chef often has to choose the freshly opened chrysanthemum, but at that time it will have a bitter taste, and the chrysanthemum petals must be open for four days, so that the fragrance of the chrysanthemum can be integrated into the crab soup, so perfect.
Li Jian saw Lin Fengjin talking eloquently, and said it with great interest, so he stopped the chief eunuch who was crying and laughing next to him with his eyes, and he also smiled and tasted it according to Lin Fengjin's comments, and sure enough, he found that the crab paste of the male crab was viscous and thick, which was different, and it was also full of interest, and the chrysanthemum petals were also fragrant and fragrant.
After a while, when Lin Feng was going to confess his guilt, the chief eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch next to him came to kneel down with a sad face, reviewing that he had not done his job well, and he didn't know that Lin Fengjin was such a two hundred and five, and he had no etiquette in front of the king?
Li Jian's mood was very good, and he waved his hand casually:
"This son has a pure heart, just flaws, and it can't hide his talent, and it also shows that he is open in his heart - if he is a person with ulterior motives, how can he eat so fragrant in front of me?"
Next, Li Jian saw that Lin Fengjin liked food, so he asked the imperial chef of Shang Shan Jian to take action. Lin Feng must be happy, although he no longer has any appetite, but looking at the young man's interested, energetic, and appetite, his heart is also quite happy.
Lin Fengjin ate three delicacies in a row, all of them were commenting one by one, and later Lin Fengjin even had some shortcomings in the fish used in the imperial kitchen, but he said that the river group that swam out of the mouth of the Three Gorges said it, so the meat quality was worse.
Others listened to Daqi. The eunuchs waiting next to him didn't believe it, and looking at Li Jian's appearance, they obviously didn't believe it, so Lin Fengjin asked the imperial chef to come out and say it himself, but when he asked, the imperial chef really sighed and said that it had rained recently, the roads were muddy, and the best Jiang Tuan had died after it was transported, and what he was good at was fish. So in desperation, I can only use the second-class Jiang Tuan to do it
After everyone heard this, they were really amazed and asked Lin Fengjin why. It is because the river water in the Three Gorges is extremely turbulent, and the river group must fight with the river all the time, and the meat quality is of course much stronger, and the level of the Three Gorges River is slow. The amount of activity has been greatly reduced, and the taste must be inferior, Li Jian said with a smile:
"It seems that even if it is a cooking skill. It's also broad and profound. ”
Next, Li Jian lowered his face and said to the eunuch, the leader of Shang Shan Prison:
"Today I learned that there is so much to say here! If you can't satisfy the guests today, then you don't have to do it! Get out and do the chores. ”
Lin Fengjin was overjoyed when he heard this, why did he go to such great lengths, and the reason was not to break his own Qichong Gate? Now if even the strength of the Central Tang Dynasty could not help him break through a level, then it would be an unthinkable thing.
The chief eunuch was so frightened that he ran back after a while, and asked Lin Feng in embarrassment:
"I wonder what the young man wants to eat?"
Lin Fengjin has long been confident:
"Then bring me a bowl of egg fried rice and stir-fry some vegetables. ”
Listening to Lin Fengjin's words, the faces of the two cooks who followed Shang Shan Jian next to him suddenly became solemn, and Zhilu Dao met an expert, but Li Jian and many eunuchs were a little puzzled--With so many delicacies from the mountains and seas, they actually asked for egg fried rice and fried vegetables? What is the reason? Ran to the palace to eat this?
However, these people are all human spirits, and when they saw the ugly faces of the two chefs standing next to them, they knew that Lin Fengjin's request was by no means idle, and Lin Fengjin was also interested at this time, so he explained very simply:
"Everything in the world has a process from simple to complex, and from complex to simple, in the words of Taoism, it is the avenue of the world, to control the complexity with simplicity, in the words of Buddhism, it is to see the mountain is a mountain, the mountain is not a mountain, and the mountain is still the three realms of the mountain. Egg fried rice and fried vegetables are two things that everyone has eaten many times, but because of this, being able to make an unforgettable great taste in this ordinary place is the realm of a top master!"
Li Jian listened to Long Yan Dayue and thought it was true, so he said the most thrilling sentence that made the eunuch the eunuch the most thrilling and the least wanted to hear:
"I only learned today that there is such a great knowledge in a small bowl of fried rice, so let the imperial kitchen also prepare a copy for me!"
After a while, two large red lacquer plates were handed over with egg fried rice and fried vegetables, and when Lin Fengjin saw the appearance, he immediately praised it!
"Outside the snow-white grains of rice, you can actually wrap them in golden egg skin when they are fried, this gold-clad silver frying method is pretentious, and you can't get it without thirty years of frying skills!"
Saying that, he was not in a hurry to eat, so he asked for a bowl of water next to him, rinsed his mouth carefully and said with a smile:
"Master works, you can't let the taste in your mouth interfere with the previous taste. ”
Lin Fengjin took a bite of rice and chewed it carefully, but found that the rice grains in his mouth were not sticky, one grain was one grain, and what was even more wonderful was that the egg skin wrapped outside was actually crispy, and there was a slight "click" sound under the teeth, and the taste was a little tender on the outside and inside.
And the fragrance of oil, eggs, and green onions are mixed together, there is an indescribable special aroma, rich and unforgettable, under the impact of such a fragrance, Lin Fengjin only felt that between his lips and teeth, there seemed to be some barrier that slowly melted all of a sudden.
Seven Rushing Doors, Tooth Passes, and Door Doors Broken!! Lin Fengjin's body immediately gave birth to some changes correspondingly, but he didn't have time to check it at this time.
At this time, I looked at the green vegetables, but I cut a few cuts very casually, and I couldn't see any knife skills, but the color was smeared with oil, and it was verdant and green, like jade, Lin Fengjin took a chopstick into his mouth and ate it, and it was bitten off with a click, it was extremely crisp and tender, and the unique juicy flavor of the green vegetables was mixed in the taste of egg fried rice, and the greasy neutralization was removed.
It wasn't until after the entrance that I realized that the seemingly messy cutting of the greens actually made a lot of sense. No matter how you use chopsticks, you can make sure that the cross-section of the vegetables you put in your mouth is quite wide, so that the juice that comes out of the bite will be rich.
And the green vegetables are like jade, the egg fried rice is golden and snow-white, and the appearance is also excellent, Lin Fengjin ate a few bites, and suddenly patted his thigh and said:
"I see! It's oil! The peculiar aroma of this egg fried rice is in the oil! This oil should be a mixture of several different meat and vegetable oils, complementing each other, but I have a shallow understanding of what kind of oil, and I can't eat it. ”
Hearing Lin Fengjin's shouting, the chief eunuch of the Shang Diet Prison also showed a look of admiration on his face, and couldn't help but cross his hands and say:
"Childe's tasting is extremely fine, it is true, the oil of scrambled egg fried rice is mixed with five kinds of oil, the first oil is the three-year-old bacon, the second oil is the black-skinned peanut oil of Cangzhou, the third oil is the slick oil on the soup cooked by the northern specialty Feilong, the fourth oil is the essential oil refined from the shrimp and shrimp paste in the sea, and the fifth oil is Xirong Qinghai Lake, the rape flowers only bloom in August and September, and the newly squeezed rapeseed oil will be harvested at the end of October!"
"These five kinds of oil are meat and vegetarian, with flying in the sky, swimming in the water, growing on the ground, growing underground, and fresh in the extreme south and the far north, missing the beauty of the season, as if the five elements are matched, circulating and relieving, and there are yin and yang, so there will be such a delicious embodiment of it, this is what He Yuchu of fried rice said. ”
Seeing that Lin Fengjin ate sweetly, Li Jian's appetite actually came all of a sudden, and he was also curious about whether it was as good as he said, and after eating it, he tasted it carefully and found that it was so, nodding slightly, but this time he ate more than ever.
He has always had a poor appetite, and this matter was also known to the queen, and when he saw the cleanly eaten dishes and rice bowls sent down, he couldn't help but sigh:
"The saint has been losing his appetite in the past few years, the state affairs are busy, and he only eats a small bowl at every meal, if this scholar can accompany the saint to eat every day, in this way, the mourning family can also save a lot of heart. ‘
After eating and drinking, he naturally removed the cups and chopsticks, Li Jian has always had the habit of walking after eating, so he motioned to Lin Fengjin to follow him to the imperial garden for a walk, the two walked out of the palace one after the other and walked more than 100 steps, Li Jian suddenly said:
"Do you know what the minister said about you when Lu Dao went to court today?"
Lin Fengjin smiled bitterly:
"Of course I don't know what to do. ”
Li Jian said lightly:
"What they mean is, if you can't be used by our country, then you will be killed. ”
Lin Fengjin:
(To be continued......)