After Ling Rui left for the chicken pen, everyone at the mushroom house asked what exactly eggplant was.
"Many chefs have tried this dish in the Red Mansion and thought it couldn't be made. Many people thought it was a fabrication." Huang Lei said with a smile, "So I'm not sure whether Xiao Rui can make it."
"Actually, I think it should be possible. Fish exists in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. "The Autobiography of Wang Yingxia" writes about a Zhejiang dish that Yu Dafu likes to eat: eggplant fish.
Use marinated catfish and eggplant shreds to cook together, add a little Shaoxing wine and sugar. Every time he eats this dish, Yu Dafu will drink and get drunk." Hu Ge said, "But, I also looked at it carefully.
The eggplant fish Yu Dafu ate does not seem to be the eggplant fish in the Red Mansion."
"Yes, this method in the Red Mansion is more complicated. Of course, it is also possible that Wang Xifeng deceived Grandma Liu." Huang Lei said with a smile, "Okay, let's get to work quickly."
"Anyway, it's a dish that hasn't been finalized yet?" Yang Mi and others understood.
"right."
"It's ready to be taken orally!"
"happy!"
Driven by the delicious food, everyone worked very hard.
Ling Rui, on the other hand, caught the chickens and ducks and came back and packed them up.
As for the eggplant, peel it off, cut it into slices, and pickle it with vinegar. Then Peng Peng and Zifeng prepare a small box, wrap it with tin foil, spread out all the slices, and leave a hole for the hair dryer.
Two workers went to dry eggplant slices.
Peng Peng and Zifeng were having fun.
Ling Rui also thought about it. The dish of eggplant and fish is actually controversial, because in different versions, what Sister Feng said is different.
One version of Sister Feng's statement: To peel off the freshly harvested eggplants, clean the flesh, cut it into pieces, fry it with chicken, then add the chicken breast meat with mushrooms, new bamboo shoots, mushrooms, and five-spice tofu.
Dried, dried fruits of various colors, cut into nails, simmered in chicken soup, add sesame oil, mix with vinegar, seal tightly in a porcelain jar, take it out when you want to eat, mix with fried chicken and melon.
And another version: This is not difficult. You pick off the new eggplant buns in April and May, remove all the skin and rinds, clean the meat, cut it into hair-thin shreds, dry it in the sun, and take a piece of it.
A fat hen cooked the eggplant shreds with the chicken broth steamed in the steamer, and then took it out to dry in the sun. After nine steamings and nine dryings, it must be crispy, so put it in a porcelain jar and seal it tightly. You are going to eat it.
At that time, he took out a plate and mixed it with fried chicken and melon seeds." After hearing this, Grandma Liu shook her head and stuck out her tongue and said: "My Buddha, I got more than a dozen chickens to match him, it's so delicious.
The first version was said to be simple, but after many people tried it, they felt that Cao Gong was wrong because they couldn't make the flavor at all and could only make a hodgepodge similar to Kung Pao Chicken.
As for the second version, some people seek truth, but they always feel that the eggplant ends up being soft and rotten, and the essence cannot be captured.
Therefore, later generations thought that when Cao Gong wrote this paragraph, it was actually Sister Feng who made a big joke about Grandma Liu.
Ling Rui is just trying, not sure whether it can be done well, but at least, the taste will not be too bad. As for whether this means anything, he is really not sure.
The eggplant slices blown by the wind in the cardboard box soon turned into dried eggplant.
Then Ling Rui hung up the chicken soup and used the chicken soup to steam the dried tomato. When it was soft, he threw it into a cardboard box and blew it dry, repeating this process.
In the live broadcast room, netizens also started to discuss the dish Ling Rui was cooking. They read articles one by one, quoted classics, and discussed happily.
Of course, what netizens watched most was the guests working, so soon the building tilted again and the guests laughed.
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Ling Rui spent three hours preparing the lunch meal.
All the dishes look perfect, duck pot, braised fish, leek and shrimp, eggplant fish...
Along with the eggplant, the sweet and sour taste is floating around.
"Wow! So this dish is done?"
Ling Rui shook his head, "It doesn't count, because I realized later that steaming eggplants with chicken soup doesn't actually add much of the flavor of chicken soup to the eggplants."
Everyone raised their eyebrows.
"I think the eggplant should be soaked in chicken soup, then dried, soaked in chicken soup, and dried again." Ling Rui explained his thoughts, "For now, I don't think this eggplant is standard.
.”
Huang Lei took a chopstick and took a bite, "Sure, it doesn't feel like it, but...it's still delicious."
Ling Rui also nodded, "However, time is tight and it's too late, so we can only make do."
"Hi, it's okay, it's okay." Hu Ge waved his hands.
"Okay, let's eat."
But this eggplant fish dish is everyone’s first choice.
"Isn't this a tomato?"
"Isn't it such a delicious dish? How delicious is it really?"
"Oh My God!"
The eggplant in everyone's mouth is relatively soft and delicious, but you can tell it is eggplant.
"According to Red Mansion, you can't tell that this eggplant is an eggplant." Ling Rui smiled, "So next time I plan to use chicken soup to try it."
"Actually, Brother Rui... it's a bit too complicated." Peng Peng raised his hand pitifully, "My sister and I have been working on dried tomatoes for a long time."
"Hehe, it's a good thing that Xiao Rui can come up with such a method!" Huang Lei chuckled, "I've never seen it before."
"Well, I've just seen a video like this before. The principle is actually the same as that of an air fryer." Ling Rui explained.
"Although Chef, you said this dish was a failure, I think it was a success because it was delicious!" Yang Mi said, "The eggplant is very delicious, although I can still taste the eggplant, but this
It no longer affects our perception of this dish.”
"Mimi is right."
"right."
Ling Rui also smiled, "As long as everyone likes it."
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After eating, everyone was taking a rest and chatting.
Suddenly, the phone rang.
Peng Peng quickly stood up and ran to answer the phone.
"Hello, hello, this is the mushroom house, who are you?"
"Hello, I am a friend of Mushroom House."
"Okay, hello friends from Mushroom House, would you like to order some food?" Peng Peng raised his eyebrows slightly, feeling that this voice was quite familiar.
"Yes, I'd like to order the roasted chicken hamstrings and enoki mushrooms in a bun."
"Wait a minute, make roasted chicken hamstrings?"
"Yes."
Seeing Ling Rui nod, Peng Peng immediately agreed, "Okay, does anyone else want to order?"
"there is none left."
"How many people?"
"two."
Peng Peng raised his eyebrows, "Okay, then when will you come?"
"We'll be there in another hour."
"OK."
Putting down the phone, Peng Peng looked at Huang Lei.
Huang Lei smiled and nodded, "It's a girl!"
"Sounds like an honest guy!"
"The package of roasted chicken hamstrings is not expensive. I think he is really an honest person!" Huang Lei laughed loudly, "It's just two people. The program team is so kind in this episode?"
"I think there should be a phone." He Jiong shrugged.
"Hey, I didn't expect that before the old man left, the new man was about to come!" Hu Ge sighed.