The two stoves are cooking pork lungs with Codonopsis lily and Huaishan Codonopsis quail soup respectively.
Although Fu Yu never deliberately looked at Liu Shaoxian and others who were standing nearby, he was actually paying attention to the movements of these people from the corner of his eye.
Seeing Liu Shaoxian and Xiao Jiping talking quietly, you didn't need to listen to know that they must be evaluating the two medicinal meals he had just made.
Such opportunities are rare.
Fu Yu took a look at the ingredients prepared on the kitchen table, and on an impromptu decision, he decided to show off his unique skills to shock Liu Shaoxian.
He picked up the small basin containing the live loach, put some flour into the basin, and repeatedly replaced it with water and flour several times to make the loach spit out the dirt in its belly.
To make this dish, the loach must have its intestines cleansed.
In fact, the loaches delivered from the seafood store have been raised in the store for a few days and have almost vomited out the internal organs. However, making medicinal meals is not like other cooking, and the requirements for the cleanliness of the ingredients are very strict.
Fu Yu would rather spend more effort in this regard than to affect the taste of the medicinal meal just because he wants to save trouble for a while.
In fact, Fu Yu has never made loach as an ingredient before.
After all, Qianlima is a seafood restaurant and uses high-end ingredients. Countryside game like loach is not on the menu at all.
In the chef school classes, there has never been any relevant cooking instruction.
The reason why Fu Yu thought of this dish was thanks to the teaching practice class. In the whole fish feast teaching class, Fu Yu suffered a lot because of this loach tofu dish.
In fact, there are many special delicacies in China that are widely recognized.
Of course, there are various reasons why these special delicacies are famous.
Some of them are recognized by everyone because the food itself tastes good and everyone who eats it praises it.
Some foods are well-known because of their special ingredients or cooking methods, which leave a deep impression on those who have seen and eaten them once. Loach Diamond Tofu is obviously the latter.
When Fu Yu first heard about this dish, he was also very interested.
The main ingredients of loach drill tofu are loach and tofu.
Loach is a game found in rural fields. It tastes very delicious, and the tofu is also very tender. The loach and tofu are used together to make soup, and the natural taste is also very delicious.
However, the taste of this dish is secondary, mainly because this dish looks very strange.
Loach is not simply cooked with tofu. In the finished dish, it can be clearly seen that the loach has got into the tofu, half of its body is inside the tofu and half is outside.
When Fu Yu first saw this dish in the teaching practice class, it was the finished product that he saw first.
At that time, he was very curious, did these loaches get in by themselves?
But how did the loach get into the tofu?
In fact, now that he recalls his experience in the teaching practice class, Fu Yu still feels quite emotional.
Because the figure at that time did not teach him step by step. In the later stage, he would be provided with the corresponding ingredients and let him cook according to the finished dishes.
At that time, Fu Yu felt tortured.
It is said that it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to simplicity.
In the beginning, when learning how to cook dishes in the practical teaching class, the figure would demonstrate first, and then he would imitate and learn.
For a beginner, it is still quite difficult.
But later, when his cooking skills improved significantly, the difficulty of the figure teaching also obviously began to increase.
Just like this loach tofu dish, Fu Yu had to put a lot of effort into it.
The ingredients provided in the teaching practice class are all fresh, and the fish is even more fresh.
However, the ingredients are not carefully selected and provided, but are the same as those normally purchased by the kitchen, in different sizes and shapes.
The large bucket of loaches provided at that time included large and small ones. Although they were all fresh and fresh, Fu Yu really put a lot of effort into selecting them.
When he tried it for the first time, Fu Yu thought that the tofu was too tender, and if the loach was too big, it would probably smash the tofu before it could get into it.
So I specially selected a relatively small wild loach, and for the tofu, I chose marinated tofu with a delicate texture.
Using the method of human shadow guidance, repeatedly use flour and water to encourage the loach to vomit all its internal organs.
Fu Yu put the loach and tofu into the pot, added cold water and simmered over low heat, then added a little salt, chopped green onion, MSG and other seasonings, then closed the lid and waited slowly.
I thought they would dive into the tofu regardless of their own safety when it got hot, but no loaches got in at all! ! !
In his second attempt, Fu Yu first pierced the tofu with chopsticks, then made an artificial nest and started lighting it again.
The second time, put the loach in first and heat it slightly. When the loach feels sweaty and struggling, put the slightly chilled tofu into the pot.
result
It turns out that loaches have no brains!
Don’t jump into such an obvious pit.
Only one went in, maybe it got stuck accidentally.
On the third try, Fu Yu was so crazy that he manually planted the small loaches into the tofu. He felt that this time it must be foolproof. After all, the drill had already been drilled, and the rest was just cooked. However, it still turned into loaches. Stewed tofu.
However, despite the continuous cooking failures, Fu Yu feels that this dish still has the possibility of success, but it requires tofu with a particularly tender texture, like tofu, so that loaches can dig into it as soon as they touch it. Normal tofu is Impossible to succeed.
That's what he thought at the time.
So the tofu was changed one piece and another.
Fu Yu was obsessed with finding ways to get the loaches to dig into the tofu because he understood the dish's presentation and name.
He guessed that if clean water and living loaches were put into the pot and then heated slowly, the loaches would slowly feel the rising temperature and twist their bodies and run into the tofu.
The loach itself also lives in the mud, and can naturally crawl into the tofu to escape the high temperature. However, because the tofu slowly heats up, the loach eventually keeps its body in the state of death inside the tofu, thus becoming what we see as a crawler on the tofu. It looks like a loach going in.
As a result, this idea gradually faltered as cooking failed again and again.
Because he discovered that if the loach and the tofu are heated at the same time, the loach will not get into the tofu, but will struggle hard and smash the tofu.
At that time, he finally realized that this might not be successful. There should be other secrets to cooking this dish to produce the finished product.
Fu Yu has always been very smart and reacts quickly.
When he realized that he might have thought wrong and entered a misunderstanding, he immediately changed his thinking.
He began to think that the loach would not easily get into the tofu because the loach was alive and disobedient. What if the loach was dead?
It's not soft, but hard. You can insert it directly into the tofu and then cook it.
He even used a spoon to scoop out the tofu in the finished dish as an example, carefully observing the appearance of the loach inside the tofu and the damage to the tofu.
Some things are actually not as complicated or difficult as imagined.
Just because I didn't grasp the key tips.
When he saw the dug tofu, as he had thought before, there were only regular holes for loaches to get in, and no other obvious damage, Fu Yu felt as if he was enlightened.
The feeling at that moment cannot be described in words.
Perhaps only as a chef can you understand this excitement and indescribable sense of accomplishment.
And it was precisely because he figured out the key to cooking this dish that Fu Yu successfully made the finished dish in the next operation.
In fact, the difficulty of this dish is how to let the loaches burrow into the tofu smoothly. As for the cooking steps, it is still very simple.
Seeing Fu Yu starting to pick up the loach fish, Liu Shaoxian couldn't help but turn his head and exchange a look with Xiao Jiping.
Loach fish!
This thing can be used as medicine.
It has the effects of nourishing the spleen and kidneys, diuresis and detoxification. It is often used for symptoms of spleen deficiency, diarrhea, fever, thirst, and thirst.
However, Liu Shaoxian really never used this kind of ingredient when making medicinal meals.
On the contrary, Xiao Jiping's eyes lit up when he saw Fu Yu choosing to cook loach fish, and he subconsciously took half a step forward so that he could see more clearly.
As a Chinese medicine practitioner, he is very familiar with the medicinal effects of loach.
When I was seeing a doctor before, I encountered a patient who believed in folk remedies and wanted to swallow loach raw to treat jaundice hepatitis.
There was a very young child, about six or seven years old. The family just washed the big loach bought from the market and let the child eat it alive.
Such a small child had a thin throat and was in severe pain. However, the nurse discovered it and hurriedly went to find a doctor. Finally, Xiao Jiping was alerted and came over to check in person.
Xiao Jiping, who has been a doctor for many years and is a kind-hearted doctor, can understand the patient's family members who are anxious to seek treatment, but the current situation is simply nonsense.
This is why Xiao Jiping is famous. When they heard that he was here, the patient's family members were willing to listen.
Xiao Jiping made a point of educating them on the subject.
In fact, this loach can indeed cure diseases, and it can also be regarded as a medicinal herb.
However, the way to take it is not to swallow it whole, but to put the live loach in clean water for 24 hours and then rinse it.
The loach is dried and ground into powder, and an appropriate amount of mint and spices are added as flavoring agents. Taking it 3 times a day, 10g each time, after meals can treat acute infectious jaundice hepatitis.
However, in general, it is not recommended to swallow it raw because it is easy for parasites to enter the body.
Now that Xiao Jiping saw Fu Yu making medicinal meals using loach, Xiao Jiping suddenly became interested.
He was quite curious. If this loach was to be made into medicinal food, how would it be cooked?
You must know that this loach is not like other ingredients. Many people find it ugly and slimy, which makes them sick to look at, let alone eat.
Liu Shaoxian and Xiao Jiping have been friends for many years and know each other's preferences very well.
Seeing that his old friend, who was indifferent by nature due to his work and had always been in a calm state, was staring at Fu Yu cooking with great interest.
He couldn't help but become interested.
Looking at Fu Yu who was handling the loach calmly, he saw that he had a calm posture and quick movements. It was obviously just simple cooking, but it was done by him, but it seemed like a cooking tutorial edited online.
Needless to say, it’s quite pleasing to the eye.
Liu Shaoxian moved forward quietly for a long time. He stared at Fu Yu's movements and secretly said:
Is it possible that this loach can really make flowers?
However, this idea suddenly turned into a jaw-dropping sigh when he saw Fu Yu's operation.
Good guy!
This, this is okay too.
In fact, Fu Yu didn't think too much when he was operating. He just cleaned up the loaches and wanted to select a few of the right size from the pile for cooking.
However, during the operation, he subconsciously reached out for a pair of chopsticks, then quickly picked up a loach with his chopsticks, and then casually placed it in the storage box prepared in advance.
This is something Fu Yu has gradually gotten used to since he received the reward of universal chopsticks last time.
The universal chopsticks are really easy to use. No matter what ingredients are picked, they really won't slip or fall off. They are also accurate in picking up the ingredients. It is so convenient to pick up whatever you want.
Moreover, as the number of uses increased, Fu Yu gradually discovered that during the use, he could actually clearly feel that the operation was more proficient and smooth than when he first started using it.
Maybe it has something to do with the flexibility of your fingers?
Although the finger flexibility has only increased by 10%, it is obviously much better than before.
When operating various kitchen utensils, fingers play a very important role. Many operations during cooking test the flexibility of fingers.
Because he was close and observed carefully, Liu Yunong was almost the first to notice that every time Fu Yu picked up a loach fish, his chopsticks would hit one-third of the fish body.
This place happens to be the location of the internal organs of the loach fish. When pinching, the support of the internal organs can effectively prevent damage to the surface of the fish skin when the chopsticks are used hard.
Not to mention, Fu Yu picked up the loach fish with chopsticks. This unique skill left several people dumbfounded and secretly sighing.
Just the fact that he could place the chopsticks at the same position on the fish's body with just a pinch was surprising enough.
This is a loach fish, so slippery that it would be very difficult for ordinary people to catch it directly, let alone using chopsticks.
Seeing Fu Yu put the loach fish into the storage box one by one, if it hadn't been for the loach fish that struggled wildly when being picked up, people would have mistakenly thought that the loach fish was already dead, and The fish body has actually been specially treated to make it less slippery.
When picking up loaches, Fu Yu relied entirely on his hands. He stared at the loaches in the basin, quickly judged the most suitable one, and then stretched out his chopsticks to pick it up.
This operation became more and more proficient as he performed it, and his movements became faster and faster.
In terms of absolute feel, Fu Yu has already mastered the use of it.
