Chapter 703 Shen Jiayue: Hoho! I Have Mastered the Core Skills of Cooking! 【Please Subscribe】

"The little bits on the outside of the lychee are so crispy and delicious."

Shen Jiayue picked up a simple version of lychee fish covered with red crispy grains and took a bite. She originally thought that the taste would be average, but she didn't expect that those red crispy grains were fragrant and crispy, and it was better than expected.

The fish inside is tender and delicious, and there are crispy shredded water chestnuts in the middle, which makes it very enjoyable to eat.

Chen Yan said:

"Although I know they are fish balls, but with these small red particles, they seem to taste better."

The taste becomes diverse, and with the addition of psychological effects, you will naturally feel delicious.

Lin Xu tasted the authentic lychee fish. The crispy charred shell was full of fresh and tender fish meat. It was quite enjoyable in terms of texture and taste.

"Xubao, can you teach me how to make this lychee fish?"

Shen Jiayue ate two meatballs and became more determined to study.

Lin Xu said:

"Don't call it lychee fish, call it lychee fish balls or lychee fish balls. This is very simple. I'll teach you later. You can make it with an air fryer."

In front of Qiu Yaozu, it was somewhat inappropriate to say "lychee fish" on the left and "lychee fish" on the right.

After all, using opportunistic methods to make the appearance of the dish surpass the genuine one was somewhat disrespectful to the Huaiyang cuisine chef, so I changed the name to avoid Mr. Qiu's displeasure.

Shen Jiayue didn't have so many ideas. When she heard the name of the lychee fish ball, she immediately liked it:

"The name is good, lychee fish balls. It is both high-end and upscale, and it perfectly expresses the selling point. In the future, I will not only make lychee fish balls, but also lychee shrimp balls, lychee chicken balls, and lychee pig balls..."

Qiu Yaozu was very satisfied with the name change. He smiled and said:

"Girl Yue, you are an amateur. Normally, if there is chicken in the name of the dish, it will be changed to phoenix, such as lychee and phoenix balls, and pig will be changed to meat, called lychee meat balls..."

In Huaiyang cuisine, naming is also a matter of knowledge. In high-end names, low-end ingredients will be avoided. In addition, the character pig used to be taboo for the Ming Dynasty royal family, so it was directly changed to meat ball.

When Shen Jiayue heard these names, she said with a smile:

"Thank you, Uncle Qiu, I know how to name it."

At this moment, Guo Xinghai came over. He tasted two dishes and praised Lin Xu's method of using red crispy grains:

"With this in mind, I'm afraid there will be a large number of new concept dishes focusing on lychee in the future."

Lin Xu smiled:

"It's already there, I just extended it."

Guo Jichang put down his chopsticks and wiped his mouth with a tissue:

"Xiaoxu can cook lychee fish so well, so lychee meat is probably no problem... Let's make sweet and sour pork once in a while, and let me see what new surprises you can bring."

The development of cuisine has always been a process of reference and fusion. Cantonese cuisine has many shadows of Huaiyang cuisine. If you can cook Huaiyang cuisine, Cantonese cuisine is no problem.

Guo Jichang really guessed it right.

After acquiring Shunde local cuisine, Lin Xu has indeed reached a mastery of Cantonese cuisine.

He smiled and said:

"Okay, I hope Uncle Guo will give you some advice when the time comes."

It was already past four o'clock in the afternoon. Although he could take pictures of one more dish in a hurry, Lin Xu was worried that the two old men would not be able to hold on, so he did not continue.

Everyone was busy packing up the shooting equipment. Lin Xu looked at Guo Jichang and Qiu Yaozu and said:

"How about we go to Linji for dinner today? By the way, we can check the food in our store."

Guo Jichang said:

"Okay, when Xinghai came he was still talking about going to Lin Ji's kitchen to say hello."

Qiu Yaozu originally didn't want to go back and forth, but he felt that if he didn't go, Lao Guo might reach some secret agreement with Lin Xu, so he said:

"Okay, I'll change my clothes and we can go together."

When the two old men went to dinner, they naturally had to find someone to accompany them.

While Qiu Yaozu went back to the bedroom upstairs to change clothes, Lin Xu called Geng Lishan and invited him to have dinner with him in the store.

"Little friend Lin, Professor Tian and Professor Ren and I have just come out of Peking University. How about we go to the store together?"

Professor Tian and Professor Ren are also there?

That's great. It's not enough for a gourmet to entertain a Huaiyang cuisine master like Qiu Yaozu. After all, the cultural heritage of Huaiyang cuisine is too profound.

If we add two experts in ancient Chinese, it would be perfect.

Qiu Yaozu talked about food, and Geng Lishan took over and talked about the culture behind food. The two professors could participate in the discussion.

This combination is just right.

Lin Xu said:

"Then please ask Professor Tian and Professor Ren to come together. I learned a new dish of lychee fish today. Let's all try it."

Since you invite people to the restaurant for dinner, you must show sincerity.

And the greatest sincerity is naturally the food.

Lychee fish is a dish that most Huaiyang restaurants no longer make because it is too complicated to make. So when he heard about this dish, Geng Lishan immediately said:

"Then let's get there as soon as possible to avoid missing time."

After hanging up the phone, Qiu Yaozu also took the elevator down from upstairs. He changed into casual clothes and said with a smile:

"Come on, let's leave now."

The group of people came to the door and were about to get in the car when an Alfa commercial vehicle drove over.

The car door opened, and He Guangchang poked his head out:

"Oh, what are you doing here?"

Guo Jichang said:

"Let's go to Xiaoxu's restaurant to eat. Lao He, why are you here at this hour?"

"What can I do? Just make a meal... Since I'm going to Lin Xu's place, I'll go too. I haven't tasted Xiao Xu's cooking for a long time."

Qiu Yaozu was amused by these straightforward words:

"Next time, if you don't bring some tea or something, you won't be able to enter our house. If you come here all day to eat, our family will be almost broke."

Everyone got in their cars and drove back.

Shen Jiayue hugged Dundun and sat on Chen Yan's car, while Guo Xinghai and Hao Qingfeng got on Lin Xu's car.

As soon as he got in the car, Guo Xinghai said:

"When will the filming of the state banquet documentary start? Can I show my face then?"

Lin Xu started the car, put it into gear, and slowly followed Chen Yan's Panamera:

"Okay, let Sister Xiaoqi plan it. Not only will you show up, but also Wei Qian and Huo Yifan. It's best for them to appear on the scene. There aren't many opportunities like this, so you have to seize it."

If it were another program, it would be fine if I didn't participate, but the filming of the state banquet documentary might be just such an opportunity, so I had to seize it.

When he arrived at the store, Lin Xu first led a few elderly people around the kitchen, instructing everyone on their cooking skills and introducing the dishes in the store.

Seeing the Cantonese dishes one after another, Guo Jichang, who was still in the mood of eating, drinking and having fun, finally felt the sudden panic that Qiu Yaozu had before.

Roast suckling pig, roast goose, roast pig, suckling pigeon, black bean sauce pork ribs, black bean sauce chicken feet, steamed sea bass, boiled chicken, boiled shrimp, salt-baked chicken...

Good guy, if you don’t know, you might think that your restaurant has opened a branch in the capital.

He Guangchang was not sensitive to these. Seeing so many Cantonese dishes, he even threw a spoonful of oil on the fire with a smile:

"Hey, there are so many Cantonese dishes. They are so popular in the north. I have to go back to Yangcheng to open a branch. I can't even lift the hotel in Yangcheng... Oh, I forgot. Lao Guo, your hotel is also in Yangcheng. , that’s okay, let Xiaoxu go to Xiangjiang to open a branch later, instead of going to Yangcheng.”

Guo Jichang: "..."

I can tell, Lao He, you came here this time to either take advantage of Lao Qiu or to bury me. You are obviously here to fan the flames.

In order to prevent the old man from saying anything outrageous again, Guo Jichang said:

"Lao He, I plan to shoot some cooking-related videos with Xiaoxu in the past two days. If you have nothing to do, let's shoot them together so that we can get to know the boss of Building No. 1."

Upon hearing this, He Guangchang immediately became happy.

He had been waiting for a long time, just waiting for the two old men to invite him to shoot a video with Lin Xu. Now he had been laying the groundwork for a long time and finally achieved a satisfactory result.

Ever since I watched Lao Qiu and Lin Xu shoot a video together two days ago, I have been thinking about this.

Not long after, Geng Lishan and the others also arrived.

After chatting for a while, everyone went to the banquet hall upstairs. After the waiter brought the braised meat and some cold dishes, everyone raised their chopsticks and started tasting.

Downstairs, Guo Xinghai was greeting everyone in the kitchen, while Lin Xu was in front of the stove, starting to cook.

Dishes are prepared one after another and brought upstairs for everyone to taste.

In the small kitchen next to it, Shen Jiayue rolled up her sleeves, looked at the small bag of red crispy grains sent by Che Zai and asked:

"Are these small particles that can be fried?"

"This is called red crispy grains. They usually stick to the outside when making red fried dishes. They should be the ingredients used by the boss today."

Shen Jiayue had just returned to the store. Shen Jiayue had nothing to do and planned to cook it by herself. It was not difficult anyway. As long as there were those small particles, she could make lychee dishes that looked just like real ones.

So she asked Che Zi to go to the warehouse and get a pack.

But because I didn’t know the name, I kept describing it with gestures for a while, and even showed Che Zai the photo of lychee fish balls I took earlier.

Now that she saw these small red particles, Shen Jiayue immediately felt like having these small particles in her hand was the same feeling I had in the world.

She knew that her basic skills were not good, so she didn't do it directly. Instead, she asked the kitchen to prepare some meat filling for wontons.

Fresh pork is mixed with shrimp paste and minced lotus root, and then rolled into small balls with some starch to form meatballs.

Put the meatballs on top of the crispy red lychees and roll them around, and you’ve got a lychee that’s hard to distinguish between real and fake.

In order to make it look better, Shen Jiayue kneaded it a few more times with her hands before gluing it on with the crispy red kernels, and rolled it into standard small balls.

Not to mention eating such meatballs, even just looking at the appearance makes people very appetizing.

While he was busy, Chen Yan walked in:

"Yueyue, what are you doing? Dinner is served upstairs, aren't you going to eat?"

After Chen Yan finished handling the company's affairs, she was planning to go upstairs to have dinner with her father-in-law and mother-in-law, but found that Shen Jiayue hadn't gone there, so she planned to see what was going on.

It was a bit awkward for her to be the only young person in a group of old men having dinner, so she had to find someone to support them.

However, as soon as I came to the small kitchen, I was attracted by the red meatballs in front of me:

"Wow, it's so beautiful. Did you do this?"

"Yes, it's so simple. All you need is hands. Do you want to try it?"

Hum hum, we can finally say this sentence, it’s really enjoyable.

Chen Yan immediately rolled up her sleeves and started washing her hands:

"How do you do it? Teach me. It just so happens that my father-in-law and mother-in-law are eating upstairs, so I can show off."

Shen Jiayue said:

"It's very simple. Ask the kitchen to make some wonton filling and bring it over. I'll add some starch and shrimp paste, stir it, then roll it into balls, and then roll it on top of the red crispy kernels. Isn't it very simple?"

"Don't you need any seasoning?"

"The fillings are already prepared, just make them."

Chen Yan:? ? ? ? ? ? ?

When you co-author, you just use your hands, there is no technical content at all.

She was a little disappointed. She originally thought she could learn some incredible skills, but she didn't expect that all the most difficult steps would be left to others. Isn't this just opportunistic?

Shen Jiayue glanced at her:

"Just tell me if you want to show off your cooking skills in front of your mother-in-law?"

"think!"

"Then why don't you learn quickly?"

Chen Yan immediately put her thoughts aside and started rolling meatballs with Shen Jiayue.

Without Lin Xu present, the two of them did not dare to use the oil pan for fear of getting burned, so they directly used the air fryer. After adjusting the temperature, they put the meatballs covered with red crispy kernels into the pan one by one and started frying.

In order to prevent it from being fried, the two also opened and adjusted it many times.

When the meatballs were about to become cooked, Shen Jiayue took one out of the air fryer and put it into a bowl, then handed it to Chen Yan and said:

"Yan Bao, please try to see if it's cooked. If it's cooked, you can bring it upstairs for everyone to taste."

"Why don't you taste it?"

"I am the master, how can the master taste the food?"

Chen Yan thought this was reasonable, but after thinking about it, she felt something was wrong:

"You can't even control rawness and ripeness, what kind of master do you think you are?"

While the two were talking, Lin Xu walked in:

"I didn't see you two when I went to eat upstairs. What are you doing?"

Shen Jiayue said with a smile:

"I made lychee meat balls and wanted Yan Bao to taste them to see if they were cooked, but she refused."

"Nonsense, what if eating raw meat spoils your stomach?"

Lin Xu didn't expect the two of them to be in such a hurry. He came over, looked at the meatballs in the bowl, and rolled them again:

"It feels light and airy. It's most likely already cooked."

In order to test his guess, he picked up the meatballs in the bowl and broke them open with his hands. They were filled with pink meat filling and delicious flavor.

"It's indeed cooked. It's ready to be cooked."

Lin Xu put half of the meatballs into his mouth and fed the other half to Shen Jiayue.

The meat filling is salty and delicious, the minced lotus root inside adds texture, and the shrimp paste not only adds a rich umami flavor to the meatballs, but also gives the meatballs a softer texture.

It's quite delicious with the red crispy bits on the outside.

"Wow, this tastes so good. I am indeed a genius in cooking!"

Shen Jiayue was so excited about her genius idea that she poured the meatballs from the air fryer onto a plate and handed them to Chen Yan:

"Disciple, help me serve the dishes!"

"Gungun, I did half of this."

Chen Yan took it, picked one up with chopsticks and tasted it. It tasted really good.

I can finally show off my cooking skills in front of my parents-in-law. Haha, I really want to record it so that netizens can listen to the praises of cultural scholars. All kinds of quotations from classics are like ready-made papers.

She put down her chopsticks and was about to go upstairs when Lin Xu asked:

"That's it? This kind of creative dish needs to be plated... Car boy, bring me some mint leaves."

Presentation?

Chen Yan didn't expect that such beautiful meatballs would be put on a plate.

But just put it out there and see what flowers you can create.

Shen Jiayue said from the side:

"Don't look down on plate presentation. This is the core cooking skill of a Michelin restaurant, and it takes a lot of money to learn."

Lin Xu smiled. Although it was a bit sarcastic, this girl was really right.

I heard that the Michelin restaurant rating criteria account for a very high proportion of appearance, so all Michelin restaurants at home and abroad put great effort into the presentation, just to get high scores.

From a certain perspective, the presentation of dishes in the Michelin system has the same effect as "technology based on shell replacement".

Soon, the driver brought a small basket of freshly washed mint leaves.

Lin Xu took it, took another plate, scalded it with hot water to make it slightly hot, and then wiped the water with kitchen paper.

Place a few lychee meatballs on one side of the plate, and then place a few green mint leaves on top of the meatballs.

The green leaves not only make the meatballs more beautiful, but also make these meatballs look like freshly picked lychees, with a higher degree of simulation.

Then, Lin Xu placed a few more clusters on the plate, which looked like they had picked a few bunches of washed lychees, which could arouse people's curiosity at once.

"Wow, this is no different from the real thing!"

Shen Jiayue held her cell phone and took a few photos, feeling as if she had mastered the core secret of cooking.

And Chen Yan went from being nonchalant at first to looking shocked.

The freshly fried meatballs already look like lychees, but when paired with a few mint leaves, they immediately turn into real lychees. Just looking at them makes people want to pick one up, peel it open and taste it.

"Let everyone taste it upstairs. If you want to make it later, don't just focus on the meat. You can also make it into sweets, such as yam paste, taro paste, etc. It is more convenient and easier to operate."

Although there is no danger in using an air fryer, to be on the safe side, don’t cook meat.

Relatively speaking, sweets are simpler and safer. If you want any fillings, just ask the pastry department to order them, and then you can roll them into small balls, wrap them in red crispy bits, and fry them.

When Shen Jiayue heard this, she looked at Chen Yan in surprise:

"Wow, why didn't I think of that? I'll make it later, haha. I'll make a big table of lychees of various flavors for you to enjoy."

"I'll try it too. My mother-in-law likes purple sweet potatoes. I'll see if I can make some purple sweet potato balls."

After the two of them went upstairs with the plates, Lin Xu tidied up the small kitchen, and then went to the big kitchen. Seeing that the eel meat steamed in the steaming cabinet was already cooked, he took it out and put it on the ceramic plate that Dundun was eating on. .

After letting it dry for a while, it was probably no longer hot, and then I carried it downstairs.

At this time, Dundun was lying on the small roof and soundly asleep.

A vague fragrance wafted in, causing the little fat cat to wake up instantly. It got up and opened its eyes. When it saw Lin Xu coming over with a plate, it called out softly:

"Meow~~~~"

Lin Xu raised his hand and rubbed its big head:

"Didn't you enjoy eating at Grandpa Qiu's house this afternoon? I steamed some eel meat, let's eat it quickly."

"Meow~~~"

Dundun agreed, lowered his head and started to cook.

At this moment, the rich lady, dressed in high-end clothing, walked into the store...

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