Author: round head and round belly

Wu Lei finally realized his inferiority in IQ, accepted it readily, and continued grinding soy milk.

Liu Yifei and Zhao Jinmai, on the other hand, were particularly fond of the delicious and refreshing tofu mixed with shallots, and they quickly wiped out all the food without even a piece of tofu left.

Huang Xiaoming, on the other hand, took Li Yi with him to discuss the menu to be determined when the business officially opens.

"We are really going to open for business, so you can decide on the dishes!"

Huang Xiaoming took out a pen and paper and asked Li Yi: "Can you make your beef noodles?"

He still couldn't forget the beef noodles he had eaten that day.

“Forget it beef noodles.”

Li Yi shook his head and objected: "For the first issue, I plan to use tofu imitating meat as the theme, so the dishes should not have any meaty flavor.

Moreover, making beef noodles is too troublesome, so we should wait until after the second period!"

"Oh, forget it then."

Huang Xiaoming was a little disappointed and crossed out the name of beef noodles from the paper.

"As the staple food, let's order the soy sauce fried rice we made today! All the ingredients are ready, just stir-fry."

Li Yi decided on the staple food first.

"Okay, soy sauce fried rice is also delicious."

Huang Xiaoming nodded and wrote the name of soy sauce fried rice on the paper.

"As for the food..."

Li Yi thought for a while and then said: "Let's make the order according to the tofu banquet! Just buy four fresh fruits and four dried fruits every day. Just buy whatever is fresh. As for cold dishes..."

Before he finished speaking, Huang Xiaoming interrupted him and asked: "What do four fresh fruits and four dried fruits mean?"

"It's just a fruit plate."

Li Yi explained: "It is the snacks placed on the table before the banquet is served, such as oranges, peaches, apricots, and plums. The dried fruits are melon seeds, peanuts, chestnuts, and red dates."

"oh oh!"

Huang Xiaoming realized that he had asked a stupid question and quickly explained: "I thought it was preserved fruit or something, and it needs to be made fresh."

"No, that would be too much effort. I don't have the time."

Li Yi continued to talk about the dishes: "The cold dishes are four beautiful dishes and four side dishes. Individual customers can order them separately, but you need to write them on the menu first."

Huang Xiaoming was a little hesitant, but still asked: "What are these four beautiful discs and four matching discs?"

"I need to tell you about this."

Li Yi explained: "The four beautiful dishes are the first four dishes of the tofu feast, which are salted tofu, five-spice peanuts, garlic lettuce, and sugar-fried chestnuts.

These four dishes are homophonic to the words Fu, Sheng, Wealth, and Li, which means good fortune and wealth.

The four side dishes are the last four cold dishes, namely dried tofu mixed with soy sauce, cold tofu skin, milk tofu mixed with sugar, and tofu dregs mixed with green onion.

These four cold dishes show the four forms of tofu, which can be regarded as the official entry into the tofu feast."

"Wait a moment, I'll take note of it."

Huang Xiaoming wrote down all the dishes Li Yi mentioned on the paper, and then curiously asked: "Can you make dishes with tofu dregs?"

"certainly."

Li Yi said with a smile: "Bean dregs are very nutritious and relatively healthy. Even the elderly can eat them. It can be mixed with noodles, porridge, stir-fry, fried meatballs, and made into molded bean dregs. They are all delicious."

Huang Xiaoming asked him with a smile: "Is there nothing unpalatable in your eyes?"

"Whether it tastes good or not depends entirely on technique."

Li Yi took a sip of soy milk: "Here, as long as you can eat it, I can make it delicious."

"very nice."

Huang Xiaoming joked: "If there is a wilderness survival program in the future, I will go with you. I will never be hungry."

"Don't."

Li Yi smiled and said: "I can't bear that crime."

While joking, Huang Xiaoming finished memorizing all the cold dishes and asked: "What about the hot dishes?"

“Hot dishes…”

Li Yi thought for a while and said: "The Taishan Tofu Banquet is divided into three specifications: the Imperial Banquet, the Emperor's Banquet and the Emperor's Banquet. They are six hot dishes, nine hot dishes and twelve hot dishes respectively. Since it is made in the palace, then

Nine hot dishes!

I asked you to write down that these nine dishes are Tai Chi Fortune and Longevity Soup, good fortune and blessings, blessings with heaven, blessings from the Jade Emperor, blessings from Qilin, blessings like the East Sea, heaven and earth, nine turns of blessing sausage, and Taishan Sanfu Soup."

"Wow! So many blessings?"

Huang Xiaoming was amazed while writing.

"Tofu and tofu are homophonic for blessing. Otherwise, why would the emperor have a tofu feast when he conferred Zen status?"

Li Yi explained, and then continued: "For the snacks after the meal, let's serve two dishes first! Don't make too many almond tofu and fairy tofu, otherwise you will be busy."

"What is fairy tofu? It sounds like a fairy."

Huang Xiaoming is very curious.

"You'll know when it's done."

Li Yi gave it a try first, then wiped his hands and stood up: "Okay, here's the menu for now. I have to go and get busy. There's a lot of work waiting to be done."

"Okay, I'll help you right away."

Huang Xiaoming hurriedly wrote the menu and asked again: "How should the prices of the vegetables be determined?"

Li Yi said casually: "When we go out to purchase, every transaction is accounted for. Yifei has records there. Calculate the cost and decide how much it should be."

"okay."

Huang Xiaoming responded and continued to write with his head down.

The cameraman on the side turned his lens to the paper in front of him and took a picture of the menu on it.

In the live broadcast room, barrages were flying.

"This name sounds delicious!"

"It's worthy of being hosted in the Forbidden City. The name of this dish has a strong aura."

"The program team has really spent a lot of money, and the quality of this season is so high."

"I really want to try it! Everything else is easy to say, but I just want to try the soy sauce fried rice."

Amid the exclamation of the audience, Li Yi had already started to get busy.

He opened a bag of Tianshan flour produced in the Western Region Province and poured it on the counter.

25kg of flour occupies the entire countertop, filled to the brim, like a mountain of noodles in Heaven in Journey to the West.

Li Yi dug a hole in the center of the mountain, poured a bucket of water into it, and immediately created a "volcano" made of water and flour on the table.

After adding another ladle of salt water to the "crater", Li Yi started kneading the noodles.

Dip the flour into the water little by little and stick it into a dough. Then, Li Yi started to push the dough hard from left to right.

It wasn't until the dough rolled into a huge dough that Li Yi stopped and covered it with a layer of plastic sheeting to let it rise.

By this time, an hour had passed.

Among the kitchen equipment equipped by the program team, there is a dough mixer, which is a machine provided by the sponsor.

But Li Yi had relatively high requirements for the dough, so he still didn’t use a dough mixer.

Although a dough mixer can quickly and effortlessly mix flour into dough, it cannot mix it as finely as hand-made dough.

If you cut the dough produced by the dough mixer, you will find that there are still lumps of dough on the cross section, which are uneven and uneven areas.

Therefore, when you use a dough mixer to make noodles such as ramen noodles, the noodles will break more easily and cause damage, and the gluten properties of the noodles will not be comparable to those of hand-made noodles.

This is also the reason why many machine noodles taste soulless.

What Li Yi needed was a ball of dough that was completely kneaded to a uniform and fully kneaded dough, so he couldn't save the effort and could only knead it by himself bit by bit.

But the effort is always worth it, and the dough that comes out in the end meets his needs exactly.

When he was kneading to the end, he could even feel the gradually strengthening muscles and bones in the dough, which was a sign that the gluten in the flour was gradually awakening.

At this time, if this ball of noodles is used to make ramen, it will not bounce to the point where it can't be chewed. If you just eat the noodles, it will be delicious.

But Li Yi doesn't plan to make ramen.

He worked with this dough to get the gluten in it.

Brothers, editor's notice, it will be released on May Day. Without further ado, I am prepared to take advantage of it every month. I hope brothers will support it, clasp your fists!
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