Chapter 795 Delicious tea-flavored cuisine! Lin Xu: It’s time to practice state banquet dishes! [Please subscribe]
"Ha, tea-flavored chicken is really not difficult at all!"
Shen Jiayue put down the wok and spoon, her face full of pride and joy in making delicious food. If she hadn't been filming the video right now, she would have wanted to put her hands on her hips and laugh three times.
There is no dish that cannot be cooked by my head chef.
There is no way, who told us that we are so talented in cooking, even if we want to keep a low profile!
Lin Xu took the camera off the tripod, brought it to the workbench, and started taking close-ups.
Needless to say, this tea-flavored chicken is really well done. The chicken body is complete and red in color. The umami flavor of the chicken and the aroma of the tea are mixed together, making people greedy when they smell it.
Shen Jiayue came over, grabbed the kitchen knife and scraped it a few times on the sharpening stick:
"Xubao, is the tea-flavored chicken I made okay?"
Lin Xu: "..."
If I say no, are you going to kill people directly?
He concentrated on advancing the camera, trying to capture more details, and then said:
"It's so delicious that I can't even hold the camera now. I just want to tear off a chicken leg and taste it... Put down the kitchen knife first, don't give it to me if you get excited."
Shen Jiayue put the kitchen knife back on the knife holder with a smile:
"Aren't I worried that you won't understand the spirit?"
How could you not understand? My mother has long told me that no matter what housework Yueyue has done, regardless of whether it is good or not, she must first praise her. Even if she simply boils a pot of water, she must praise her with a flower.
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After taking the close-up, Lin Xu changed the camera to a wide-angle lens and prepared to take pictures of the food tasting.
Shen Jiayue placed a portion of tea-flavored chicken on a small table specially designed for tasting, along with chopsticks and a small plate for spitting out the bones. When she was ready, she said to Xie Baomin:
"Brother, it's time for you to come on stage!"
Xie Baomin smiled:
"Before I even got into my mouth, the tea-flavored chicken was full of your dog food... I really envy your relationship. You are so carefree as a husband and a wife. It would be great if your sister-in-law could do the same."
Shen Jiayue said:
"Senior brother, you can teach her how to make food, snacks, candies, cakes, snacks... As long as my sister-in-law is interested, it's okay. You have to stimulate her interest in cooking. Women love beauty, even if you secretly stew some white fungus for her.
As for the bird's nest, my sister-in-law must also be very happy."
Xie Baomin nodded:
"You are right, I will try it when I get back today."
He sat down and started filming the tasting.
"Today, my junior brother called me and asked me to come and take pictures of the food tasting. I thought he had cooked some amazing dishes, but I didn't expect it was my younger brother and sister. This cooking skills really impressed me. If I hadn't witnessed the whole process, I really doubted that my junior brother was doing it for me."
Lao Xie said a few words first, then raised his chopsticks and started tasting.
When cooking a whole chicken, the most delicious parts are generally the chicken legs and wings, because this is live meat, which is more flavorful and juicy.
But if you want to test cooking techniques such as seasoning and heat, you can't eat these parts, but eat chicken breasts.
If even the chicken breast is delicious, then this chicken is definitely not bad.
He inserted his chopsticks into the chicken breast, and when he saw the juice oozing out from inside, he immediately said with a smile:
"Normal chefs can't make chicken breasts so tender. The skills of my siblings are really incredible."
Both chopsticks were inserted into the chicken breast, and then they pried each other hard. The chicken breast was completely split from the middle, revealing the slightly pink chicken inside.
Lao Xie picked up a piece of chicken breast, tasted it, gave a thumbs up and said:
“The meat is very tender and already flavorful. It’s very delicious.”
As the executive chef of Diaoyutai, he naturally cannot show off the deliciousness of the dishes by gobbling them down like others do when trying them. That would not only look fake, but also inconsistent with Lao Xie's identity.
So he let the audience see how delicious the dishes are from another angle.
After talking about the chicken breast, he also used chopsticks to pierce the thigh of the tea-flavored chicken. The plump gravy immediately flowed out. You don’t need to taste it. You can tell from the sight of the gravy flowing that the chicken tastes absolutely great.
Lin Xu changed the camera, adjusted it to the telephoto mode, and took a picture of the flowing meat juice. Shen Jiayue on the side was greedy, turned around, took another tea-flavored chicken from the workbench, and twisted it off.
A thigh.
The chicken leg meat was elastic, and the juice inside burst out. Looking at her, her mouth watered. She pinched the chicken leg and put it into her mouth to take a bite.
The tender and juicy chicken thigh meat is delicious, with the aroma of soybean, tea and meat, plus the sweet and salty taste, which shocked Shen Jiayue.
Wow, I really made such delicious chicken?
I will make it again and let my parents, grandparents, and uncles try it.
Humph, this is tea-flavored chicken, and I made it easily. From now on, I don’t think anyone will call me a kitchen novice!
Have you ever seen a kitchen novice who can make tea-flavored chicken on his own?
Soon, Xie Baomin's tasting was over, and Shen Jiayue also chewed half of the chicken.
Lin Xu turned off the camera, and the girl quickly urged:
"I'm not boasting, this tea-flavored chicken is really delicious, Xu Bao, please try it quickly!"
In fact, the chicken itself is tender enough, but when it is stewed with light soy sauce and rock sugar, how can it taste bad?
Lin Xu tore off the drumstick of the chicken that Xie Baomin tried to eat, took a bite, and said with a smile:
"Don't tell me, the taste is really good, tender and tasty, and the tea aroma is just right. I can show off in front of my relatives later."
Shen Jiayue thinks so too:
"Haha, when Yan Bao comes back, I will let her get to know her and see what she missed during the May Day holiday!"
Xie Baomin was thinking about surprising Su Peipei when he went home, wiped his mouth and said:
"You can continue eating. I will go back first and prepare a love dinner for your sister-in-law. I hope it can bring her some surprises."
When Shen Jiayue heard this, she immediately brought over an untouched tea-flavored chicken, carefully put it in a lunch box, and poured some soup on it from the pot:
"Brother, please bring this chicken back to your sister-in-law. It will stimulate her interest in learning cooking. Even someone like me who can't make instant noodles can make tea-flavored chicken. Maybe my sister-in-law can make a table later.
There is a banquet of Manchu and Han Dynasties."
Lao Xie was immediately happy when he heard this:
"Forget it about a full banquet. As long as she is interested in cooking and occasionally gets along like you, I will be very content."
Although the relationship between Lao Xie and his wife is much better than before, one is a teacher and the other is a chef, so they don’t have much in common.
If Teacher Su can be interested in cooking, then the future life will be more harmonious and happy.
After Xie Baomin left, Lin Xu sat down and continued eating chicken, while Shen Jiayue brought some spareribs over, planning to reuse the remaining soup and make some tea-flavored spareribs.
"Xubao, can you just put the ribs in directly?"
These are fine ribs, with a little bit of crispy bones, perfect for stewing.
Lin Xu took a look and said:
"Don't just put it in, wash it with baking soda to get out the blood in the ribs, wash them again, and then put them in the pot to cook."
"Well...it turns out that we still need to wash it. Do we need to add the seasoning again?"
"Add a tablespoon of rice wine and other seasonings... Your ribs weigh about five kilograms. Add a piece of borneol, a small bowl of light soy sauce, and a pinch of tea. You don't need to add anything else."
Add some rice wine, light soy sauce and sugar to the original chicken soup, and you can reuse it to cook the ribs.
In addition to ribs, you can also cook pork belly, duck and other ingredients.
Anyway, no matter what you do, the taste is almost the same, with the aroma of tea mixed with the aroma of light soy sauce. The taste is the classic sweet and salty taste of the Yangtze River Delta region, which most people can accept.
Shen Jiayue was busy stewing the ribs into the pot. Seeing Lin Xu eating happily, she couldn't help but ask:
"Is it really delicious?"
"Yes, it's really delicious. It's completely beyond my expectation. Chicken chicken is suitable for cooking like this."
"There's one left, so I'll take it outside for everyone to taste."
"Okay, take it out."
Lin Xu ate a whole chicken and the remaining half of Shen Jiayue's chicken. Only then did he feel satisfied. He washed his hands, went to the kitchen next door and ordered a large cup of pumpkin soup, and sat in the booth.
Drink slowly.
The tea-flavored chicken brought outside has been divided up by Shu Yun, Xiaodong and the others. This kind of chicken is small and not easy to eat. In addition, the taste is really good, and several people are still a little bit unsatisfied.
"There are still tea-flavored pork ribs in the pot. You can continue to eat them at lunch later."
Girls like sweet and salty dishes, and Shen Jiayue is no exception. She looked at Lin Xu happily and asked:
"Xubao, what can I do with the leftover soup from cooking the ribs later? Is it impossible to cook it?"
Lin Xu took a sip of the smooth and sweet pumpkin soup:
"How is that possible? The more you cook this old soup, the more fragrant it becomes. You can continue to cook chicken or ribs, or duck eggs or something like that. Yes, you can put some eggs in. Boil them in clean water first, then crack the egg shells and put them in.
Add it to the broth and soak it overnight, and the result will be braised tea eggs."
Shen Jiayue didn't expect that the soup for cooking meat could be used in this way, and thought cooking was really magical.
At dinner, she brought out the cooked ribs for everyone to taste.
The ribs are all ribs, without joints or pork bones. They are evenly chopped into five or six centimeter long sections. They are cooked until the bones are exposed at both ends. The red meat exudes a rich aroma of meat and tea. You can smell it.
It makes people greedy.
"Haha, try it quickly, these are the tea-flavored pork ribs made by me."
Shen Jiayue's face showed excitement, and she finally discovered why the chef likes to watch everyone eat. It's so wonderful to feel that the dishes made by one's own hands are being eaten by everyone.
Lin Xu had eaten half a piece of tea-flavored chicken and drank a large cup of pumpkin soup before. He was completely full, but in order to cheer up his baby, he still picked up a piece of ribs and tasted it carefully.
Although from a professional point of view, the ribs should be soaked for a while to make them more delicious, it is really rare for a person without cooking experience to be able to do this.
So he can only continue to praise and satisfy the vanity of the good baby.
"Wow, this pork rib is really amazing, fragrant and delicious. It's a pity that I didn't try the tea-flavored chicken."
Zeng Xiaoqi, who didn't get up until dinner, was holding rice and eating pork ribs, sighing that this was stewed with tea leaves worth two thousand yuan per tael.
Let’s not talk about whether it tastes good or not. For such a high cost, you’ll make a profit if you eat it.
Now she is in the mood to share her travel experiences with everyone:
"This trip made me realize that the food in the scenic spots is becoming more and more homogeneous. The various peripheral accessories in the scenic spots are all Made in Yiwu, and the various ancient streets are almost the same. It's really boring."<
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The special forces tours that have emerged this year are all for people like Zeng Xiaoqi, who punch in and leave at one place. The homogeneous products make this kind of tourists have no interest in staying.
Lin Xu said:
“Not only has tourism become homogeneous, but catering is also almost the same. Nowadays, mid-range catering in big cities is almost all about hot pot, barbecue, grilled fish and other dishes. The kitchen does not cook, and all the ingredients are processed and sent by the head office.
Traditional Chinese food is either concentrated in high-end restaurants, or it's a fly restaurant..."
In fact, many Chinese food practitioners have not thought about sinking, but to sink the market, prices will have to be lowered. In big cities, the rent, water, electricity and manpower are so high, and they will eventually end up losing money and making a living.
This is a natural choice for society. After all, in big cities where rents start at tens of thousands, the business philosophy of small profits but quick turnover is not suitable. You must either improve the taste and take a high-end route, or open a fly restaurant in a remote place. The other is really
There is no good solution.
Shen Jiayue asked curiously:
"Xubao, if we open some fast food restaurants or lunch boxes, can we make money?"
Lin Xu shook his head:
"Probably not, and Ziqiang Shengjian is doing well, so we can't take away our own business."
He actually has an idea, but he needs to wait for his master to come back and communicate with him to make sure it is mature before implementing it.
The next morning, Lao Huang delivered the duck.
Five hundred ducks, a frightening amount, and baskets of ducks that had just been slaughtered and shed their feathers were still slightly warm. Lin Xu came to the store and started working without even having breakfast.
Soaking, cleaning, shaping, rubbing salt... After a set of procedures, the ducks were stacked layer by layer on a table. There were diversion troughs around the table to facilitate the squeezed blood to flow into the sewer.
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"With so many ducks, wouldn't it be too risky to add new ones until the Mid-Autumn Festival?"
Lao Huang was a little worried about Lin Xu's method. Under normal circumstances, duck marinated for two days and steamed directly with tea oil would taste OK.
"Quick pickling is indeed possible, but it is not pure enough. Duck meat that has not been soaked in camellia oil for four months will taste delicious... Boss Huang can rest assured that as long as the duck is new, it will definitely sell out and it will not be unsalable."<
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This is not Lin Xu’s big talk, but his intuition as a chef.
The quality of the duck is outstanding. After four months of production, the taste is also outstanding. There is no reason why it cannot be a big seller.
After all the ducks were taken care of, Lin Xu washed his hands carefully and started eating breakfast.
Today's breakfast was salted tofu with fried pancakes. He went to the kitchen and filled a bowl of tofu, topped it with fried prunes, added some chili oil and salted beans, stirred it slightly and took a spoonful of it into his mouth.<
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Well, the aroma of tofu brain is completely stimulated by the prunes.
After taking a bite of tofu and taking a bite of the soft fried pancake, it feels so satisfying.
Shen Jiayue looked at the messages on her phone and said:
"Yan Bao stayed in the uninhabited land for another night. He will fly back from there early tomorrow morning. The car will be transported to Yinzhou by a towing company. He does not plan to drive it back."
Shipped to Yinzhou?
Lin Xu became a little curious:
"Isn't it a new car? Why send it to Yinzhou?"
"I applied for a local temporary license plate. It was too troublesome to apply for the license plate in Beijing, so Yanbao simply gave it to the scenic spot for everyone to use as a scooter..."
Tsk tsk tsk, is this how rich people do self-driving travel?
Nearly a million cars are as good as disposable slippers.
But if you think about it carefully, even if you drive to Beijing, you will most likely end up eating dust in an underground garage.
Ren Jie's Wrangler and Land Rover Defender are the same type of car. The Wrangler can go wherever the Defender can go. Moreover, the Defender is much more expensive, which is not suitable for the low-key Ren Jie to drive, so there is no need to get one back to the capital.
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Relatively speaking, this kind of vehicle with strong off-road capabilities is more suitable for placement in scenic spots.
My sister-in-law sent nearly a million cars to the scenic spot without blinking an eye. She couldn't help but express that when her child was born, she would give her a big red envelope.
Relatives have to come and go. If you blindly ask for or give, this kind of relationship is destined to not last long.
Lin Xu ate a bowl of tofu and a large piece of fried cake, which was quite satisfying.
After eating and drinking, he ordered the car boy:
"Remember to find someone to clean those large vats you bought in the warehouse. You will use them later for marinating the ducks. After washing, be sure to wipe off the water and don't leave any raw water, otherwise it will easily become moldy."
"Okay!"
Che Zi agreed, then put away the dishes and started working.
Shen Jiayue edited the video of making tea-flavored chicken yesterday and uploaded it to the Internet.
Now is not a good time to upload videos, because the traffic is low right now. It should be before lunch or after get off work in the afternoon, which is the prime time for updating.
But she was eager for netizens to watch, so she didn’t think too much about it.
And with regard to today’s content, netizens are still going to blow it up one by one?
Sure enough, soon after the video was uploaded, the comment area became lively:
"I'll go, the boss lady is awesome!"
"I used to laugh at her for being a novice in the kitchen. Who would have thought that she could even make tea-flavored chicken."
"Grandma was beaten when she came home. Look at the tea-flavored chicken made by the landlady, and then look at the tea-flavored chicken you sell. Don't you feel ashamed?"
"Brothers upstairs, calm down. The boss lady stole this tea from Boss Shen. You can tell from the color of the tea soup alone. The price is definitely not cheap. It will be a great addition to the chicken."
"Yes, yes, what I was about to say is that the chicken made from such expensive tea is absolutely extraordinary, at least it won't have the bitter taste of inferior tea."
"I haven't eaten it, so I will treat it as not delicious [呲呲]"
"Even Chef Xie came over to try the food. The proprietress is really proud of her."
"After all, Mr. Gao dotes on his young apprentice. If you dare not come, you may be punished."
"..."
Everyone was talking about it, and Shen Jiayue happily liked it one by one.
After watching netizens' rainbow farts, she had nothing to do. When she saw a brown paper envelope in Lin Xu's bag, she asked curiously:
"What is this?"
"The invitations and menus for the four state banquets during Nixon's visit to China were photographed with my master and brother when work started. Now I will familiarize myself with them."
Four times?
Shen Jiayue was a little surprised, thinking that there was only one state banquet.
Lin Xu told her:
"From the time when Nixon arrived in Yanjing at noon on February 21, 1972 to the morning of February 28 when he left Shanghai to return to China, China and the United States held a total of four formal banquets, namely China's welcoming state banquet on the evening of February 21, and China's welcoming state banquet on February 25.
The U.S.’s thank-you state banquet in the evening, and the dinners held by the Chinese side in Hangzhou and Shanghai on February 26 and 27 respectively.”
Shen Jiayue blinked:
"So you are going to cook for four tables by then?"
"Yes, the dishes on the four tables are the most abundant in Hangzhou, and they are all authentic Hangzhou cuisine."
When Shen Jiayue heard this, she immediately took out the invitations inside and read them. They were all saved back then. Although they had been used for decades, no matter the cover paper, they all looked high-end.
She looked through the invitation to the Hangzhou state banquet and saw a snack called chrysanthemum cake, and asked curiously:
"Xubao, what is chrysanthemum cake?"
Lin Xu said:
"This is a traditional snack. Do you want to eat it? If you want, I will make it for you!"
"Okay!"
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