Steam pot chicken is a unique delicacy in southern Yunnan.
Put the chicken and ingredients into the steam pot, steam it on the soup pot without adding any water, and use the condensed water of the steam to steam out the fresh flavor of the ingredients little by little.
This cooking method preserves most of the flavor and nutrients of the chicken.
But if it’s not cooked properly, it does have a fishy smell.
After Lin Xu exchanged his points for the Excellent-level recipe, he discovered that the recipe for this dish was not ordinary.
For example, you need to use pullets that have never laid eggs, and they must be free-range chickens with yellow fat in their bellies. Such chickens will be delicious when making steam pot chicken.
In addition, when cooking, you cannot blanch the water, add soup, or even add seasonings.
When cooking, add a small piece of ham and the seasoning will be complete.
In addition to the ham used as condiment, steam pot chicken usually contains rare ingredients such as gallinobacteria, morels or matsutake mushrooms, as well as medicinal herbs such as Panax notoginseng and astragalus.
After making it, scoop a bowl of soup and drink it hot, and your pores will feel refreshed.
Taking advantage of this feeling of comfort, I dipped it in Yunnan style and ate two pieces of chicken. The feeling was really incredible.
Unfortunately, this authentic method is very time-consuming, especially for small family stoves. The firepower is weak and the steam is small, making it difficult to accumulate a large amount of condensed water in the pot.
In order to save time and cost, most restaurants add chicken soup to the steamer during steaming.
There are even some chicken-flavored additives to artificially increase the umami flavor of the dishes.
Mrs. Huang also thought that the steam pot chicken in restaurants was getting worse and worse, so she came up with the idea of making her own.
But because of my poor craftsmanship, I failed to make it several times, so steam pot chicken became more and more of an obsession.
Now when she heard Lin Xu said that she could do it and it was guaranteed not to be fishy, she quickly said:
"Then let our Lao Huang bring the pot tomorrow. I'll give you a few pots. In addition, morels, gallinobacteria, matsutake, cordyceps, panax notoginseng...these ingredients are all available at home. Just ask for anything you need.
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As the wife of a high-end food supplier, Mrs. Huang is very particular and immediately named a bunch of ingredients that cost far more than chicken for Lin Xu to choose from.
What ingredients to use...
Lin Xu glanced at Shen Baobao, his mother-in-law and the weight loss team, and said with a smile:
"Just grab some morels and panax notoginseng."
As the saying goes, "Ginseng replenishes qi, and Panax notoginseng replenishes blood." Since there are many women around me, I would like to order Panax notoginseng to give everyone a try and study the medicinal diet.
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Huang said:
"Let Lao Huang bring some when he delivers the food tomorrow morning."
It’s open enough!
Lin Xu felt that Mrs. Huang was much better than the picky old Huang. He smiled and said:
"Thank you sister-in-law, but I probably won't have time to make them before the Mid-Autumn Festival. I have to make some mooncakes in the next two days."
The mooncakes haven't gone on sale yet, but one or two hundred copies have already been reserved.
Although the Shen Group where my father-in-law works did not reserve Lin Kee’s mooncakes, it did issue a Lin Kee Gourmet membership card to every employee and deposited a thousand yuan in it.
Let employees take advantage of the holiday to bring their families to Lin Kee for dinner.
This is a good starting point, but my father-in-law doesn’t want to think about how many people in his company will come to eat in a swarm. It’s probably not enough to add the banquet hall that is being expanded.
Back in the kitchen, he continued to make the filling.
You need to make this and freeze it tonight. Freeze it overnight before using it, so that it won’t melt easily.
There are not many ingredients required for the filling, except for the sifted salted egg yolk, the remaining ingredients are condensed milk, butter, milk powder and white chocolate.
There are several recipes for this type of stuffing.
For example, you can use gelatine chips instead of white chocolate.
You can also use cream and sugar instead of condensed milk.
You can also reduce the amount of condensed milk by half and use coconut milk instead, so that the liquid center will taste more flavorful.
But no matter how you substitute it, the caloric content of the filling is off the charts.
Lin Xu poured the condensed milk, butter, white chocolate and one-third of the sifted salted egg yolk into the milk pot and simmered over low heat, stirring evenly with a spoon.
When it's almost out of the pot, pour some milk powder into the pot.
Milk powder can not only increase the flavor of milk, but also make the liquid slightly viscous, preventing it from bursting with milk after one bite.
Stir the milk powder evenly and pour it out to dry.
Taking advantage of this time, I took out the silicone molds I bought online, cleaned them and placed them neatly on the workbench.
"This thing is really troublesome, can't you rub it with your hands?"
Zhuang Yizhou looked at the silicone molds on the workbench and felt that mooncakes with this kind of filling were too troublesome.
If it is filled with double yolk lotus paste or the five-nut filling that is common in the north, it will be much simpler than this. Even the Su-style thousand-layer pastry mooncake has a simpler production process than the custard mooncake.
Lin Xu said:
"Trouble is trouble. Let's just set the price higher. Besides, mass production is not as complicated as imagined."
This mooncake seems to have many steps and is a complicated process, but in fact it is not as difficult as imagined as long as you follow it step by step. You can even make it during work breaks without taking up a lot of time.
When it is almost dry, pour the boiled slurry into the pattern bag, and then pour it into the mold one by one.
The molds are small balls with a diameter of 2.2 cm. When converted into weight, it is exactly 5 grams, which is exactly the amount of a mooncake.
The weight of the custard mooncake is relatively strict. The custard filling weighs 5 grams, the custard filling weighs 25 grams, and the cake skin weighs 25 grams. The entire mooncake weighs 55 grams, which is just over a tael.
Although this small mooncake only weighs an inconspicuous one or two, the calories contained in it far exceed two bowls of rice.
The name Thermal Bomb is no joke.
After injecting into the mold, place the plate-shaped mold into the freezer for freezing.
The firmer the filling is frozen, the better, so as to effectively prevent it from melting during the making process.
After finishing these tasks, Lin Xu walked out of the kitchen, holding a glass of water. Just as he was about to sit down and take a break for a drink of water, Shen Baobao, who had eaten and drank enough, came over:
"Xubao, I want to solemnly announce something to you."
Lin Xu asked curiously with a serious expression:
"What's wrong?"
"I'm taking a day off tomorrow to make custard mooncakes in the kitchen of the villa. Please don't call me if you have nothing to do, so as not to distract me while making them."
What?
Do you want to make custard mooncakes?
Lin Xu almost choked on a mouthful of water. This was so unexpected.
He coughed dryly and said insinuatingly:
"It's best to have a helper when making this kind of dim sum. Who are you going to ask to help you? Aunt Liu?"
As a nanny for a wealthy family, even if Aunt Liu doesn't know how to make this kind of snack, she should be able to get started quickly. With her help, the custard mooncakes made with heart-shaped custard may not look pretty, but at least they are edible.<
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As a result, Shen Baobao pointed at Chen Yan, who was chatting with Zeng Xiaoqi about autumn skin care not far away:
"Yan Bao, she will do something for me tomorrow."
She?
Although he didn't want to use the word "crouching dragon and phoenix chick" to describe his baby and sister-in-law, the only thing that Lin Xu could think of in this situation was this combination.
A few minutes ago, Zhuang Yizhou, a senior chef from Yanjing Hotel, found it troublesome to make custard and liquid mooncakes. As a result, he had to challenge Wolong Fengxiao, who only knows how to make fruit dumplings and egg custards.
He also looked confident that he could succeed.
Sure enough, newborn calves are not afraid of tigers.
He put down the teacup, took Shen Baobao's weak and boneless hand and asked:
"If you don't call or send messages...then what if I miss you?"
These words directly touched Shen’s heart:
"Ah, you're flirting with me again, Stinky Xubao. We'll come back for dinner tomorrow at noon. Don't worry, Mua~ be good, I won't run away."
She happily kissed Lin Xu on the face.
Hee hee, I like Xu Bao’s inadvertent teasing best.
Lin Xu originally planned to persuade this girl not to do it, and just stay in the store and be the boss's wife comfortably, but seeing her confident look, he held back what he wanted to say.
Just do it if you want to, just think of it as playing a game.
Call Aunt Liu tomorrow morning and ask her to pay attention to what's going on in the kitchen.
As long as it doesn't cause a fire, let the sisters do whatever they want.
While the young couple was kissing me, Chen Yan came over:
"Brother-in-law, I'm going to make custard mooncakes tomorrow. Yueyue can help me. Do you think we can make them?"
"The Point Guard Is Here"
I think it would be better for you two to use rock, paper, scissors to decide on the choice of chef first... Lin Xu complained silently, and then raised the tea cup like a toast:
"It will definitely work. Remember to bring some to me when they are ready tomorrow. I'm waiting to eat them."
“No problem, no problem, I guarantee you’ll want to eat it again!”
At this moment, Shu Yun happened to be on the second floor, and Lin Xu said to her:
"Remember, I was reminded to make steam pot chicken after the festival, and I agreed to it. By the way, I was reminded to ask him for two pullets that have never laid eggs."
There are a lot of things going on now, so Lin Xu asked Dou Wenjing and Shu Yun to remind him of some important things.
"Okay boss, I remember."
Shu Yun opened the memo on his phone and wrote down the matter.
The next day.
Shen Baobao, who had just finished breakfast and put on sportswear, said goodbye to Lin Xu with Chen Yan, and drove home to prepare custard-filled mooncakes.
Lin Xu finished the sweet potato porridge in the bowl, took out the filling that had been frozen overnight, and began to unmold it.
After freezing overnight.
These fillings all turned into small balls.
After removing from the mold, place these balls into a tray lined with baking paper and continue freezing.
The white chocolate in the filling melts very easily, so when making it, keep these balls frozen at all times.
In fact, using gelatine chips is stronger than white chocolate, but the filling effect is not as good as white chocolate, and once too much gelatine chips are used, they will turn into jelly, and the filling will only melt when heated.
This completely loses the essence of the custard mooncake.
After putting the plates of balls back into the freezer, Lin Xu prepared the ingredients and started making the custard filling, which is the second layer of matryoshka dolls for the mooncakes.
This one uses slightly more ingredients, including sifted low-gluten flour, cornstarch and milk powder, as well as cream, milk, fine sugar, egg liquid, unsalted butter and the remaining salted egg yolk.
Wash the large wok, slide the wok repeatedly to pour out the fat, and then pour all the ingredients except the salted egg yolk into the wok.
When making custard filling, make sure the bottom of the pot is not sticky.
Otherwise, all the ingredients in this pot will be wasted.
The reason why Lin Xu slid the pan twice was to prevent the bottom of the lake caused by sticking to the pan.
After all the ingredients are poured in, use a wooden spatula to stir the pot continuously.
At first, these ingredients were the same as gruel, but as the temperature increased, the golden ingredients in the pot, which exuded a rich milky aroma, became more and more viscous.
"What are you doing? Isn't it three sticky?"
Wei Qian, who was carrying a riding helmet, walked into the kitchen and looked curiously at Lin Xu's operations:
"It's a bit greasy to eat three-stick noodles so early in the morning. It's all lard and sugar. You'll gain three kilograms in one bite."
His words made Lin Xu realize that this custard filling is indeed somewhat similar to San Bu Tiao.
Even the final product is quite similar to San Bu Nian.
"This is the custard filling for the custard mooncake. Aren't you working late today? Why are you here so early?"
Lin Xu found that Wei Gan seemed to have lost some weight in the past two days. It seemed that riding a bicycle to and from get off work every day was indeed helpful for his fitness.
It's a pity that I live too close to the store. It's just a leg-lifting distance away, so I can't do it even if I want to work out by commuting.
If you have money, you should buy a villa like my father-in-law’s, and convert the basement into a gym. After get off work, you can play billiards and keep fit. It’s very comfortable just thinking about it.
"I...Lin Xu, please analyze it for me. I haven't offended Tiantian, right?"
Lin Xu: "..."
You are stuck in a dead end and can't get out.
He asked while stirring the ingredients in the pot:
"What happened again?"
Wei Qian took out a small transparent sealed bag from his pocket and waved it in front of Lin Xu:
"After I rode back last night, Tiantian gave me a pack of this and asked me to take one pill every day, saying it could cure physical weakness... She was so good that she actually said I was weak. How could this happen to a colleague?"< /p>
Looking at the moringa seeds in the sealed bag, Lin Xu showed a helpless expression.
Is the friend Song Tiantian was talking about Wei Gan?
However, Moringa seeds only have the effect of strengthening the waist and are not helpful for physical weakness. A bachelor like Wei Qian may get a nosebleed after eating them.
Lin Xu said:
"Wei Gan, if you think about it seriously, a girl suddenly cares about a boy. What do you think her purpose is?"
Wei Gan scratched his head, thought for a moment, and then said with conviction:
"I want to borrow money!"
Lin Xu: "..."
My brother, what kind of experiences have you had that would lead you to have such an idea?
In order to prevent this guy's thinking from getting further and further wrong, Lin Xu gave an example:
"Since I went to college, Yueyue has always been nice to me. She would always bring me snacks and so on, and eventually we became a couple. Now Tiantian is treating you like this, why do you think she does it?"
Wei Qian became more energetic:
"Want to keep me!"
Lin Xu:??????
Suddenly I feel a little tired, so I’d better advise Tiantian to change to someone else later. Wei Gan’s brain circuit is as elusive as a ball of hemp rope.
He didn't want to talk to Wei Gan anymore and stood in front of the stove concentrating on playing with the ingredients in the pot.
As the water evaporates, the lake-shaped ingredients in the pot become thicker and thicker.
But you need to be more careful at this time, because the ingredients in the pot are very sticky at this time and can easily stick to the bottom of the pot, so you have to use a wooden spatula to scrape the bottom of the pot and turn it.
While he was busy, Wei Qian came over again and asked in a low voice:
"Lin Xu, you said Tiantian... likes me?"
"Otherwise, why would she ride a bicycle with you every day?"
"Then what is she trying to do? I have no money, and I don't have a house in the capital. Although my family has a little money, it is only enough to buy a small house in my hometown..."
Wei Gan's face showed an expression of anxiety and hesitation.
It's a good thing to be liked by others, but do you deserve to be entrusted by such a girl?
Lin Xu patted his shoulder and said with a smile:
"You need to find the answer yourself. Maybe she likes that your fat body doesn't irritate her hands when playing, or maybe it's because your craftsmanship appeals to her. Anyway, the girl has already taken the initiative, so you should try to deal with it. For example, let her urge you to lose weight or something. This can not only deepen your relationship, but also reduce your anxiety about your body shape."
Wei Gan is a good cook and a loyal person. Although he once used his holidays to retaliate against others in Diaoyutai, that was because the other party bullied him first.
The only drawback may be that he eats fat, which makes him extremely unsure of his personal charm.
This situation is particularly suitable for a vigorous weight loss.
Losing weight not only reshapes the body, but is also a process of rebuilding self-confidence.
Making the most imperfect aspect perfect will greatly improve your personal image and heart.
Wei Qian was deeply touched by these words, and he went outside thinking about it.
At this time, the egg yolk filling in the pot has completely solidified, and the surface is slightly shiny, which is a symbol that the filling is fried well.
Lin Xu poured the solid fillings into a large basin, then poured the remaining salted egg yolk in and started stirring.
Don't add salted egg yolk when stir-frying, because long-term heating will stir out the oil in the salted egg yolk, resulting in a greasy custard filling, which not only tastes greasy, but also easily breaks the skin when wrapping.
Stir the ingredients after they are fried, so you don't have to worry about this happening.
Moreover, stirring at this time can also speed up the drying of the custard filling, and the temperature will drop faster.
Finally, after the fillings are completely mixed, cover the mouth of the basin with a layer of plastic wrap and put it in the cold storage to cool down.
Taking advantage of this time, Lin Xu began to make the mooncake crust, which is the outermost matryoshka doll.
The dough is as simple as the custard filling. In addition to sifted low-gluten flour, you only need egg yolks, powdered sugar, milk powder, cream, and butter.
If you want the baked mooncakes to have a better color, you can also add a little bit of water, which is a very important additive in the making of Cantonese-style mooncakes. The color of the baked cakes will be more attractive and they will look more appetizing.
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However, don’t overdo it, just add a little bit.
After the pie crust is ready, cover it with plastic wrap and let it rest. Now the custard filling has cooled down. Take it out from the cold storage, open the plastic wrap, and use your hands to break the custard filling into small portions weighing about 25 grams.
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Grip it and roll it into a small ball, then hold the ball and press a small dimple on it with your thumb like making a dough ball.
This makes it easier to roll frozen squidgy balls inside.
After making these, place them on the tray and continue to put them in the cold storage to refrigerate.
At this time, the pie crust has also relaxed enough, rolled into a long strip, and then pulled into small 25-gram portions.
After pulling it, rub it again, cover it with plastic wrap and continue to relax.
Start filling.
Take the frozen jelly balls out of the freezer, put them into the small pits of custard filling while they are cold, then quickly tighten them and knead them into small balls again.
After kneading, continue to freeze.
The flow core pellets should be kept in a low-temperature freezing state.
This way there will be no spills or leaks.
After wrapping all the filling into the custard filling, take the loosened pie crust, press it into a pie shape with your hands, and wrap the custard filling in like a bun.
After wrapping, roll it into small balls again, then put it in the refrigerator to continue to relax.
Don't press the mold in a hurry at this step. You need to put it in the refrigerator to chill and relax. Otherwise, the crust will easily crack, which will not only affect the beauty of the finished product, but also cause the core to leak.
When the prepared mooncake balls are refrigerated, they should be coated with a layer of cornstarch to prevent them from sticking, otherwise the crust will easily stick to the tray.
After finishing all this, Lin Xu came outside and saw Wei Qian walking downstairs as if he had made some important decision.
He was just about to go over to watch the fun and made an appointment not to contact Shen Baobao during the day when he suddenly called:
"Xubao, the mooncakes may not be made!"
"What's wrong?"
"Just now, Yan Bao and I boiled the ingredients for the Liuxin stuffing, and found that it was good to eat with a spoon (kuǎi), so... we accidentally finished it..."
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