Chapter 3 I'm a little hungry
High-end ingredients often only require simple cooking methods, so ordinary ingredients require more high-end cooking skills.
The girls who realize their dreams by mining in the mountains of Yunnan Province can use the simplest barbecue method to make a delicious matsutake, but what if it is replaced by potatoes? I am afraid that only in the hands of a chef can such ordinary potatoes be given
The ingredients have the best taste.
Everyone loves to eat shredded potatoes, but this simple dish, like egg fried rice, has become the dish that best tests a chef's basic skills.
But this kind of food is something that everyone can cook, even if your knife skills are average. Stir-fried potato strips and fried meat with potato slices are dishes that ordinary people can get started with, so people have become interested in the dish of shredded potatoes.
More picky.
As if by magic, Zhou Zhou quickly peeled more than twenty potatoes. According to the amount of the train lunch, these potatoes were enough. Then he put most of the water for soaking the shredded potatoes into the stainless steel basin on the water table.
Start shredding.
When holding the kitchen knife, Zhou Zhou suddenly felt a hundred times more confident, as if as long as he had this kitchen knife in his hand, he could go anywhere in the world even though it was a big place!
When the potato was held in his free left hand, his mind immediately showed the shape, hardness and other information of the potato in his hand, as well as the best position for cutting.
‘Shua, swish, swish...”
The sound of the knife was dense but rhythmic, like an exciting march. In just two or three minutes, ten potatoes were cut into thin strips of very even length and thickness, and then were cut into pieces.
Zhou picked it up and put it into the basin to soak.
Zhou Zhou, who had been waving the kitchen knife rapidly, not only did not feel sore hands or numb arms, but felt so relieved that he was almost obsessed with this feeling.
'Can love be found even when chopping vegetables? And this is only the skill level of a third-level chef. If my cooking skills continue to improve, will I have to sleep with a kitchen knife in my hand in the future?'
Zhou Zhou was secretly surprised. In his original world, he disliked cooking the most. His two specialties were instant noodles and scrambled eggs, and the eggs were often burnt.
Chen Yan was not only surprised, she was stunned.
"Zhou Zhou, when did your sword skills become so powerful?"
I rushed to the water basin and gently picked up a few potato filaments that were almost the same length and thickness. Under the light, the roots seemed to be transparent. Is this the same Zhouzhou that always made the lotus root look like bricks when it was cut into pieces?
Even though Chen Yan is just a green train conductor, she has seen it before. When Zhou Zhou cut the shredded potatoes just now, he only made a swishing sound, which shows that his control over the kitchen knife has reached that of a senior chef.
Standard, every time you cut the knife, you can just cut the potatoes without gravity touching the dish.
How could such sword skills appear in Zhou Zhou? Could it be that this kid has always been hiding it?
"Chen Yan, help me, put the rice first."
Zhou Zhou didn't answer her question. He continued to cut the potatoes and cut the green and red peppers into shreds that were slightly wider than the potato shreds. He then heated the pot and immediately poured in the oil when he felt the steam coming out.
, heat the oil to about 90%, add onion and ginger, stir-fry a few times with a frying spoon, when the aroma of onion and ginger begins to rise in the pot, first stir in shredded chili pepper, then take out a few handfuls of shredded potatoes from the water basin, and lightly stir-fry
Place gently into the pot.
If you are frying shredded potatoes at home, you can add the shredded potatoes first and then add the chili peppers. This is because it is impossible to cut the shredded potatoes very finely in ordinary home-cooked dishes. Compared with the peppers that tend to become bitter at high temperatures, the shredded potatoes are more difficult to cook.
So it is correct to put the pot first.
However, it is different if the potato shreds are cut by a chef who has good knife skills. Because the potato shreds are cut very finely, they cannot stay in the pot for too long. Therefore, the chili peppers need to be popped in first to let the spiciness and aroma of the chili peppers mix with the potato shreds.
The onion and ginger are fully integrated to form the most important pot gas for cooking.
Just like what's happening in Zhouzhou now, just stir-frying the shredded chili peppers, green onions and ginger a few times in the pot will immediately give off the flavor of human fireworks.
At this time, you must not use a colander to pick up the potato shreds soaked in the water basin, otherwise it will be easy to break the potato shreds and affect the dish. The correct way is to quickly pick it up with your hands, gently put it into the pot, and put it in the potato shreds.
The moment it enters the pot, it immediately absorbs the aroma of spicy, onion and ginger, and is cooked to 60%.
The details of these specific operations are not something that anyone with basic cooking skills or even a senior chef can understand at the same time. Fortunately, Zhou Zhou’s favorite food in the original world was Uncle Li’s potato shreds next door. Uncle Li, the former king of food stalls, once took the trouble to
He once explained to him the secret of frying hot and sour potato shreds.
Zhou Zhou studied very hard at that time, and even thought about surprising his parents by showing off his skills when he went home, but he naturally failed...
There are already about five plates of shredded potatoes in the large wok. If converted into a lunch box, it would be the amount of 20 lunch boxes. If such a large amount of food is stir-fried directly with a frying spoon, it will be difficult to heat evenly.
It is easy to break the potato shreds in the pot.
Zhou Zhou picked up the wet cloth that had been prepared by the pot and wrapped it around one of the pot ears. He turned the pot 90 degrees counterclockwise. When the pot ear stayed in front of his chest and abdomen, he used a strong enough stove as a support.
Click, use your left hand to hit the magic button!
The green and red peppers and five large plates of shredded potatoes in the pot were suddenly knocked out of the pot by him. A wisp of oil and gas leaked out of the pot, arousing a fire dragon and covering the flying potato shreds. Zhouzhou
While continuing to toss the shredded potatoes with chocolate, add the prepared vinegar sauce, salt and MSG into the pot shrouded in flames.
I was in a hurry and didn't have stock, so I had to make do with MSG.
Immediately, the spicy, sour and delicious smell filled the entire kitchen. The conductors who were cracking eggs in the dining car were stunned for a moment, and they all wiggled their noses in dissatisfaction. I thought, this smell is a bit right? It's like the smell of a restaurant, and
It's still the kind of delicious food that can only be made in restaurants with superb craftsmanship...
Isn't that boy Zhou Zhou in the kitchen? Just him? I must have a taste disorder!
Chen Yan desperately twitched her snow-white nose and was about to let out her signature scream. Zhou Zhou had already picked up the lid of the pot and put out the remaining fire in the pot: "Put the rice in, I'm going to start cooking!"
"Oh, okay, okay!"
Chen Yan nodded desperately, feeling that being ordered by Zhou Zhou was a matter of course. She packed more than a dozen boxes of rice in a row before she realized: "Hey, my job is to sell the lunch boxes you made, not to do anything for you.
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"I won't let your work go in vain. Why didn't the train conductor give me an assistant?"
Zhou Zhou frowned and said, "I'll leave a box for you later. Anyway, I'm not contracting a food truck now, so I don't feel bad."
"Tch, your lunch box can't be sold in the first place..."
I wanted to say that your lunch box could not be sold out, but Chen Yan couldn't continue talking about it halfway.
Only now did she realize that today's lunch box seemed a bit nice, huh?
Plus, it smells delicious!
Not only was the rice she packed into the lunch boxes white and crystal clear, every grain of it looked like polished white jade particles, but the potato shreds Zhou Zhou spread on the rice were also crystal clear, like strands of topaz.
The green and red chili shreds are mixed in the potato shreds, just like a natural couple, as they should be.
After being steamed by the hot rice below, there seemed to be grease flowing on the surface of the potato shreds, but when she looked carefully, each one was very clean and did not feel greasy at all.
Being hit head-on by Mi Xiang and Cai Xiang, Chen Yan felt a little confused. She had obviously eaten a large bag of chocolate biscuits, but her stomach growled unsatisfactorily.
Chapter completed!