Since we are going to make steam pot chicken, we naturally have to let everyone in the family try it.
Although chicken is not important, the medicinal materials such as Panax notoginseng and Astragalus membranaceus added to it are still very friendly to women, especially during the tonic season in autumn. If you eat it several times, the body's resistance can be significantly enhanced.
In order to avoid not having enough food, Lin Xu specially took out the largest steam pot that Lao Huang sent.
The diameter of this pot is nearly 40 centimeters. It is very large and can hold a lot of ingredients, even if many people eat it together.
The steam pot is not a cooking utensil that can be used alone, but must be used on a soup pot.
In order to prevent the pot from being crushed or causing excessive condensation in the pot to tip over during cooking, Lin Xu specifically asked the driver to weld an iron frame based on the diameter of the pot.
When cooking, the pressure of the steam pot is fully applied to the iron frame and will not exert pressure on the pot below.
After arranging the steam pot, Lin Xu washed his hands and went to the TV station to shoot a video all afternoon, so that he could concentrate on making steam pot chicken in the store tomorrow.
Early the next morning.
When Lao Huang came to deliver the food, he said to Lin Xu:
"I have a friend who contracted an orchard in the suburbs and raised a group of pullets. He has never been fed any feed. They usually eat bugs from the orchard and scattered wheat grains. They don't grow fat, but their meat is very strong and they have butter in their bellies.
There are so many... When will you start cooking? I drove to his place in advance and slaughtered the chickens and brought them over."
The fresher the pullets used to make steam pot chicken, the better.
Because chicken cannot be washed or blanched, the longer the time, the worse the taste and texture of the chicken will be.
Authentic steam pot chicken requires that the chicken be put into the pot when it is warm and twitching, so as to ensure that the nutrients and umami substances in the chicken are not lost.
However, now, the slaughter and processing of live poultry is prohibited in all catering workplaces within the urban area of Beijing. They can only be slaughtered and brought over in the suburbs.
In order to ensure freshness, the time for slaughtering and cooking should be shortened as much as possible.
Lin Xu thought for a while and said:
"Just bring it over at around two o'clock in the afternoon, and we'll cook it right away."
"Two o'clock? Is this time enough? Normal steam pot chicken takes more than four hours. If you cook it so late, you won't miss the dinner, right?"
Lao Huang looked worried, fearing that the reserved cooking time would be short.
Lin Xu smiled and said:
"Don't worry, I have a trick for making steam pot chicken. I can cut the cooking time in half."
These words made Lao Huang stunned:
"What's the trick? My son-in-law from southern Yunnan doesn't know this. Where did you learn it? It's not like adding chicken soup and chicken essence, right? That would be a waste of ingredients. I tell you..."
The steam pot chicken we are going to make today will cost at least four figures just for the medicinal ingredients.
If this was cooked the way restaurants add chicken broth and chicken essence, it would be completely ruined.
"Don't worry, Lao Huang, we are on our own, how could I do that? This is a method taught by my master and is generally not taught to others."
Once he heard that it was the method taught by Uncle Gao, all the doubts in Lao Huang's heart disappeared immediately.
There is no way, this old man is so famous that he is simply a legend in Diaoyutai.
After finishing the business, Lao Huang winked and asked:
"Brother, are those moringa seeds okay to use?"
Use?
This is really unclear, because neither the senior brother nor the father-in-law can open their mouths to ask.
"I don't know, my friend took it. It must have a good effect, because I haven't been as gloomy as before these two days."
Frowning?
Lao Huang's eyes lit up. The word "buzhan" was used too vividly, and it was much better than the sluggishness that others could understand at the first glance.
Brother Lin is worthy of being a graduate from a university of finance and economics, he is well-educated!
He looked around and saw that no one was paying attention, so he whispered:
"A friend of mine asked someone to buy some maca. It hasn't arrived yet. When it arrives, I will ask my friend to give you some. They say that foreign monks can chant sutras. Find out whether it is true or not."
Lin Xu:??????
Brother, you won’t think of me as a depressed person like you, right?
He wanted to tell the truth, but he felt that it was not good to betray his senior brother like this. After all, his senior brother was surrounded by enemies every day and had few of his own.
It’s better not to betray it.
However, I still have to find a way to clarify it later to prevent this misunderstanding from getting deeper.
After Lao Huang left, Lin Xu grabbed a small handful of Panax notoginseng and rinsed it twice to wash off the dust on the surface, then put it in clean water and started soaking it.
Although the steam pot chicken will only start cooking in the afternoon, the preparations must be carried out now.
Medicinal materials with a hard texture like Panax notoginseng need to be soaked several hours in advance so that the medicinal effects can be evaporated when cooked.
In addition to Panax notoginseng, other ingredients such as astragalus and morels also need to be soaked and raised in advance. Only in this way can they be cooked in the pot at the same time when the chicken comes.
However, ingredients such as astragalus and morels are not as hard as Panax notoginseng, so there is no need to prepare them too early. Soak them around 11 a.m., so that they will not delay their use in the afternoon.
After soaking the Panax notoginseng, the breakfast in the store is almost ready.
Today’s breakfast is hot dry noodles.
The amount of dough I made last night was a bit large, and the pastry chef practiced more vigorously, so there was about twenty kilograms of dough left that was not used up.
In order to prevent waste, Ji Minghui directly processed the noodles into round noodles using a noodle machine.
Boil it directly after processing, then mix with rapeseed oil, let it cool, pack it, and store it in a cold storage.
Dough and noodles are easy to ferment after overnight. Even if they are stored in a cold storage, they will still have a sour fermentation smell, so they are boiled directly and processed into semi-finished hot-dry noodles.
It's ready to eat after blanching it a little this morning.
In order to get closer to the "too early" that Wuhan people are obsessed with, Ji Minghui and several pastry chefs came here an hour early today.
Make sesame sauce, stir-fry sour beans, fried noodle nests, fried bean curds, and also cook some rice wine and egg drop soup to go with it.
Let everyone truly feel the joy of Wuhan people eating breakfast.
"Boss, it's time to eat. Would you like a big bowl or a small bowl?"
Lin Xu said:
"You guys eat first, I'll wake up the boss lady."
After saying that, he picked up a fried noodle nest and walked outside while eating. When he arrived at the door of the kitchen, he didn't forget to take out the dried chicken breast. This was breakfast prepared for Dundun.
Not long after, the sleepy Baobao Shen followed Lin Xu over, holding a small half of a noodle in his hand and gnawing on it.
Apparently, the noodle box that Lin Xu took when he left was robbed by this girl.
"I ate the tofu skin first. I really liked the taste of the tofu skin. When I went on a trip with my dad last time, we bought a whole one, which made the people in line so angry..."
As soon as Shen Jiayue saw the food, Shen Jiayue truly "awoke".
Seeing that her baby needs delicious food every day to maintain her energy and energy, Lin Xu dotingly went to the kitchen and served her some pieces of cut tofu skin.
This is for my own consumption, so the appearance of the tofu skin is very average.
However, the ingredients are very solid, there is a large amount of meat filling inside, and the fried tofu skin on the outside is crispy and crispy, making it enjoyable and delicious to eat.
After receiving the plate, Baby Shen picked up a piece and took a big bite:
“Wow, it’s so delicious!”
She immediately took out her mobile phone, took a photo and posted it under Linji Food:
"The staff meal of Linji Food has reached the sky. Who would have thought that eating a staff meal can also experience premature happiness? I have tried it for you, authentic three-fresh tofu skin. I have lost weight recently, so I started by eating five big pieces.
Let’s do it!”
It's only seven o'clock in the morning, when many people are rushing to work.
This photo of Baby Shen suddenly made many netizens who had not had time to eat breakfast break their guard.
Especially the piece of bean curd with a bite, completely revealing the solid filling inside.
"Ah ah ah ah, boss lady, you've violated the law!"
"In the past, we only used poison during meals, but I didn't expect it to be done earlier and earlier."
"This poison has reached all-round coverage in the morning, noon, evening and late at night. What else can we do besides surrender?"
"I suddenly felt homesick after seeing the three fresh tofu skins. I didn't have time to go home during the Mid-Autumn Festival. I went back during the National Day holiday. When I got off the high-speed train, I went to show off two bowls of hot dry noodles."
"Wow, fellow upstairs, I'm also ready to go home during the National Day holiday."
"I'm curious, is the store looking for interns? The staff meals that change every day really make me hungry."
"Every time I go to the restaurant to eat, I am reminded that I cannot order dishes that are not on the menu, but the employees themselves eat so richly and fancyly. You really don't regard your customers as God at all!"
"..."
Lin Xu came over with two bowls of mixed hot dry noodles, handed one bowl to Baby Shen, and started eating the other bowl himself.
I have to say that the sesame sauce and chili oil wrapped in the noodles taste really good. It is so satisfying to take a big bite.
The noodles are mixed with diced mustard and pickled beans, which also play a role in relieving greasiness.
After eating the noodles, take a big bite of the noodle nest.
Carbohydrate plus carbohydrate, double happiness, double surprise!
This is what men eat for breakfast. If you eat it firmly, you won’t know what it feels like to be hungry all morning.
"Xubao, do you want to eat steam pot chicken for lunch today?"
"No, let's eat it in the afternoon. Our parents can come and try it after get off work in the afternoon, and if we eat it at lunch, we won't have enough time."
"Then I'll wait until the afternoon to eat."
At eleven o'clock in the morning, Lin Xu grabbed a handful of dried morels and rinsed them to remove the dust on the surface.
The roots of these premium morels have been removed, so there is no need to clean them up.
If it is not removed, you cannot rinse it. Instead, scald the morels with slightly hotter water, remove the roots, and wash away the sediment inside.
After rinsing, put the morels into warm water at about 40 degrees Celsius, then add a handful of sugar and start to grow.
The umami substances in morels will evaporate when heated, so the water temperature during the growth process should not be too high, and cold water does not have a good growth effect, so the water temperature of about 40 degrees is just right.
As for the white sugar, it is to make the morels more flavorful.
Then soak astragalus, dried dates, wild black wolfberry, adenophora and other ingredients and medicinal materials respectively to prepare for the afternoon steam pot chicken.
At 1:30 in the afternoon, Lao Huang's car stopped at the door of Linji Food Store on time.
He carried two plastic bags and jogged into the store.
"Brother, there are six of them in total. They are all fat and strong pullets. They were killed just over an hour ago and they are still warm."
In order to let his wife eat authentic steam pot chicken, Lao Huang didn't even bother to have lunch.
After placing the chicken at the door of the kitchen, I asked the driver for a few sesame-seed pancakes and prepared some beef dumplings.
"Thank you, Old Huang!"
Lin Xu took the chicken to the kitchen and began to prepare steam pot chicken.
Although the chicken used to make steam pot chicken cannot be washed, it still needs to be treated, at least the outer skin of the chicken needs to be treated.
Put the chicken in a basin, put a handful of salt on the chicken and scrub it vigorously. The salt can remove the dirt in the pores of the chicken skin and the dirt and impurities on the surface of the chicken skin.
For chefs, there are two different concepts: not washing with water and not washing.
You can't wash it with water. You can wash it with salt. You can also use starch, flour, buckwheat husks, etc. As long as you want to wash it, there are many ways to wash the chicken skin.
Soon, the white salt was rubbed dirty.
The chicken has become noticeably whiter and tenderer.
After all six chickens were cleaned, Lin Xu cleaned the chicken feet and chopped off the toenails of the chicken feet.
Then cut off the chicken butt and throw it away. This part cannot be stewed in the steam pot, otherwise the soup in the steam pot will be stained with a fishy smell.
After cutting it off, skim the chicken legs vigorously and cut off the chicken legs, the lower half of the chicken body and the chicken skin, just like the pistol legs in fast food restaurants.
The chicken legs and the meat around the chicken legs are live meat, which is made in a steam pot and is fragrant, smooth and chewy.
The meat from chicken breasts and other parts is dead meat. It tastes dry and woody when cooked in a steam pot, so it cannot be put there.
After removing the two chicken legs, Lin Xu cut off the chicken wings and the meat around the roots of the chicken wings, leaving only three parts of the chicken: the head, chicken rack, and breast.
There is only skin and no meat on the chicken neck. It is full of lymphoid tissue and cannot be put into the steam pot.
However, the chicken body, head and neck are not wasted. In the afternoon, Wei Qian or Zhuang Yizhou can add a few potatoes to make potato stewed chicken nuggets, which will still be delicious when served with rice or steamed buns.
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Remove all the chicken legs and wings from the six chickens, and the main ingredients for the steam pot chicken are ready.
Although it is said to be the main ingredient, it is actually the cheapest ingredient in the entire steam pot chicken.
Chop the chicken into pieces that are slightly smaller than mahjong. After chopping, take all the ingredients and bring the steam pot that was cleaned yesterday and start loading it.
The shape of the steam pot is very unique, with a tapered air hole in the middle, a bit like a copper pot for shabu-shabu.
Lin Xu spread the chopped chicken evenly in the steam pot.
Then, stuff some sliced Xuanwei ham against the wall of the pot. Use the dripping part of the lower half of the ham, which has a stronger salt flavor and can effectively add salt to the soup.
Ham has a strong aroma, and in this dish, the aroma of ham cannot overwhelm the flavor of chicken, so the amount of ham should be as small as possible.
Since it’s less, it’s natural to use the saltiest part.
In order to prevent the flavor of ham from being too strong, stuff the ham slices into the gaps at the very edge.
Stuff the ham, and then add the soaked Panax notoginseng, morels, astragalus, cordyceps, black wolfberry, and adenophora root respectively. The herbs with strong flavor should be in appropriate amounts.
As for the red dates, you need to cut them open, take out the date cores, and only use the skin and meat of the dates.
After putting these in, put a small handful of Cordyceps flowers.
Cordyceps flowers can make the soup golden in color and make it look better.
Fill the pot with these ingredients, almost filling the pot.
After closing the lid, Lin Xu brought over a large pressure cooker and added enough water to the pot, about two-thirds of the way up.
When making steam pot chicken, it should be done in one go without stopping to add water.
Although the steam pot chicken eats the ingredients in the steam pot, the water boiling pot below also needs to be adjusted. In the past, people who were very particular used to cook it with chicken soup.
Let the umami flavor of the chicken soup gradually penetrate into the steam pot along with the water vapor, and the soup will be made with a richer umami flavor.
If you find the chicken too greasy, you can also use the water in which morels are soaked to make the soup. This will make the soup more flavorful.
However, there are a lot of ingredients today, so there is no need to be so extravagant.
Lin Xu added a few pieces of Angelica dahurica, which is more effective in removing fishy smell, into the pot, and added a large spoonful of green onion and ginger water and a large spoonful of rice wine.
Onions, ginger and wine cannot be added to the steam pot, but they can be added to the soup below, which also has a good effect of removing fishy smell and foreign substances.
However, when it comes to onion and ginger, you can only add onion and ginger water, not onion and ginger, because the onion and ginger will produce a smell if they are stewed for a long time.
Relatively speaking, green onion and ginger water is more suitable, and it will be gone after evaporation.
After adding all the ingredients, Lin Xu closed the lid of the pressure cooker, removed the air valve of the pressure cooker, and then brought it to a boil over high heat.
The trick he told Lao Huang this morning was to use a pressure cooker.
Compared with ordinary pots, the steam in pressure cookers is more concentrated and the amount is more abundant. As long as you unplug the air valve, you don't have to worry about the pressure in the pot being too high. It is really a must-have for home and travel...Ahem, I digress.
Not long after, the water in the pot was boiling.
Lin Xu took the iron frame that the car boy welded yesterday and placed it on the pressure cooker.
Five minutes later, when the impurities in the water vapor evaporated, Lin Xu brought the steam pot up so that it was facing the gas nozzle of the pressure cooker.
Soon, rolling water vapor entered the steam pot, and the condensed water on the pot lid began to drip down.
"Damn it, no wonder you asked the car guy to weld an iron frame yesterday. It turned out to be for the steam pot chicken."
Zhu Yong and Zhuang Yizhou came over with their mobile phones and took a photo.
The two of them really didn't expect that a steam boiler could do this. The steam in a pressure cooker is much more concentrated than an ordinary water boiler. No wonder they started making steam boilers at this time. It turns out that the boss has mastered the steam boiler accelerator technology!
Lin Xu said:
"Today's steam pot is big, so I specially built an iron rack. If it's a small steam pot, it can be placed directly on the lid of the pressure cooker."
"Damn, I have to remember it and learn another trick."
"I will also remember to buy a steam pot and try it where I live. If it is done, it will be much more convenient to eat steam pot chicken in the future."
While the two were talking, Lin Xu turned down the heat on the stove to prevent the steam from being too strong and pushing the lid off the pot.
After doing this, he came outside. Lao Huang, who had been eating sesame seed cakes just now, was holding a bowl of tomato and egg noodles, and was pulling the bottom of the bowl into his mouth.
After eating, he gave Lin Xu a thumbs up:
"Brother, the hand-made noodles in your shop are really amazing!"
"If you like to eat, eat more."
Lao Huang put down the bowl and said:
"No, no, I'm planning to eat steam-pot chicken in the afternoon. I have to save some space. By the way, brother, I'm planning to have a group dinner for the company's people in your banquet hall. Who is the best person to talk to about this?
”
Who should I talk to?
Lin Xu pointed downstairs:
"Just ask Mr. Shu, she can make arrangements."
"Okay, then I'll go down and find her."
Lao Huang stood up and strode downstairs.
At this moment, Shu Yun was playing with Dundun at the entrance of the stairs. The little guy really liked the feeling of each step on the stairs. After running halfway, he turned his face and meowed at Shu Yun, signaling to hurry up and not fall behind.
"Mr. Shu, I'm going to book a group meal for about eighty or ninety people. I'm going to make it more generous. How much will it cost?"
As soon as he heard that there was business, Shu Yun immediately picked up Dundun and put it on his shoulder, and asked as he walked towards the service desk:
"Can you confirm the specific date?"
"Yes, let's do it on Wednesday night. You haven't decided to go out on Wednesday night, right? If you have decided to go out on Thursday, it's fine. We are all on our own, so we can come to the store as convenient as possible."
Shu Yun smiled and said:
"If you are like Mr. Huang, our work will be much easier."
Lao Huang smiled and waved his hand:
"Your store has purchased so many high-end ingredients, so it's only right that we reciprocate."
The two of them were summing up, and suddenly Dundun's eyes lit up at the service desk. Then the store door was pushed open, and Ren Jie, wearing a sports suit, stepped in:
"Excuse me...is your chef Chen here?"
Shu Yun looked up, and a series of exclamation marks suddenly appeared on his head:
"!!!!!!!!!"
Mr. Chen actually hooked up with a handsome guy without saying a word!
If it weren't for the fact that I don't have a sports car, I would have to cut him off.
She cleared her throat, and just as she was about to say something, Chef Chen was busy upstairs preparing the dishes for the evening. Lao Huang, who was idle beside him, suddenly said with a shy belly:
"Young man, are you looking for the wrong place? From the opening to now, I go to the kitchen several times a day, and there is only Brother Wei behind me as the head chef. How can I always..."
Just as he was talking, Lao Huang saw Shu Yun winking at him crazily, and realized that he had spoken to the wrong person. He quickly coughed twice to cover up his embarrassment.
"What's going on?"
Ren Jie frowned, a trace of vigilance flashed across his face...
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