gourmet chef

Chapter 397 Selection of Famous Snacks
the next morning
Bai Xiaobai still got up early, today is Monday, Lan Weihao has to go to work and can't come to help.

All the equipment moving can only be done by Bai Xiaobai and Gao Chao.

After breakfast, everything was settled, and the two arrived at XX Square one after another.

Bai Xiaobai saw Jiang Wei busy at his booth from a distance, probably still cooking fish balls.

Across a booth, you can smell the fragrance of fish balls.

Jiang Wei's eyes were sharp, and he also saw Bai Xiaobai. He hurriedly put down the work at hand, and ran over and said, "Master, good morning. How about moving things? I'll help too."

Not to mention, this apprentice is really proactive, and started to move equipment and ingredients on his own initiative, faster than Gao Chao.

Bai Xiaobai thought to himself, it's really good to have picked up an apprentice for nothing.

After moving the things, Bai Xiaobai started the fire at the booth, preparing for the work of cooking food.

Jiang Wei returned to his booth and brought two bowls of steaming fish balls, one for Bai Xiaobai, "Master, I studied it last night, see if there is any progress. The ones just made were a bit hot, slow down." eat."

Another bowl of fish balls was given to Gao Chao, "Brother, you should try it too."

Bai Xiaobai was not too polite, took a bite of the fish balls, and found that the texture and bite of the fish balls had improved a lot.

Huaxia gourmet fish balls are not difficult to make.

The mainstream method is to chop the fish into minced fish, add onion and ginger water to remove the fishy smell, add salt to taste, then add egg white, stir clockwise to form a paste, finally add cornstarch and stir, and beat repeatedly to get fish paste.

Fish balls are divided into those with or without filling, and those without filling can be made into balls the size of ping-pong balls.

The ones with fillings are also simple. After the fillings are made, it is like making glutinous rice balls. Wrap the fillings with fish paste and form them into balls.

A good fish ball in clear soup with stuffing must be clear soup, fish puree, and stuffing.

Among them, the production of fish paste is the most critical.

The quality of fish paste is directly related to the appearance and taste of fish balls.

It is not easy to make fish paste. After adding raw flour and mixing, it must be beaten repeatedly. The strength and frequency of the beating directly affect the bite and taste of fish balls.

According to different types of fish, the number and strength of beating are different, and the cook needs to experiment repeatedly before finding the best way to make it.

After Bai Xiaobai tasted Jiang Wei's fish balls, he found that the skin of the fish balls was elastic, tender and not falling apart when biting. Obviously, he had tried countless times in terms of the number and strength of the fish paste.

This taste is definitely not comparable to the hot pot fish balls weighed by the catty in the supermarket.

Food is prepared with care.

Bai Xiaobai admired Jiang Wei's patience a little bit.

"Master, how is it? Is there something delicious?" Jiang Wei asked Bai Xiaobai who was in deep thought.

Bai Xiaobai said honestly, "It tastes a lot better than yesterday's, it's really good."

After being affirmed by Bai Xiaobai, Jiang Wei became more confident, and asked casually, "Master, do you think my fish balls can win the famous snack award at the Food Festival."

Jiang Wei actually asked casually.

There are more than 200 booths in the food festival, and there are at least hundreds of gourmet snacks, which are basically the top quality snacks of restaurants in Jianghai Province. If you want to stand out from the crowd, it is not easy to win the gold, silver and bronze awards for famous snacks.

Originally, Jiang Wei didn't have much confidence, but today the organizing committee suddenly announced a major decision.

Originally there was one gold, silver and bronze award for famous snacks.

Just yesterday, because there were too many gourmet snacks this year, the organizing committee finally adjusted the number of awards to three bronze awards, two silver awards, and one gold award.

In this way, the Jianghai Food Festival's Famous Snack Awards increased from the original three to six.

The number of places doubled, and Jiang Wei also saw a glimmer of hope. He didn't dare to hope for the gold award, but only thought that it would be great if he could win the bronze award for famous snacks.

Therefore, he has been busy late at night last night, repeatedly experimenting with the taste of fish balls, and now he came to ask Bai Xiaobai again early in the morning.

Bai Xiaobai didn't want to hurt Jiang Wei at first, but based on his many years of cooking experience, he said honestly, "Jiang Wei, it's a bit difficult for your fish balls to win."

"Master, do you have any other suggestions?" Jiang Wei asked with a serious face.

Bai Xiaobai said, "I suggest you give it a try. Replace the grass carp used to make the fish balls with dace. The thinner dace is better. Also, don't add green onion and ginger water to the fish paste, and add a small amount of rice wine to remove the fishy smell. Cook clear soup When cooking in a paper hot pot, it means whether to use an ordinary pot, but I don’t know if Jiang Hai can buy the special paper for the paper hot pot.”

Bai Xiaobai put forward three suggestions in a row, and finally added, "Anyway, this food festival, every business can sign up for three gourmet snacks, so you keep the grass carp fish balls you made this morning, and then follow my suggestion Making dace fish balls should be an extra layer of guarantee, so the chances of winning the prize will be higher.”

In fact, every booth in the food festival is a potential competitor in the selection process, and Bai Xiaobai can not teach Jiang Wei at all.

But since Jiang Wei has always respected himself as master, Bai Xiaobai has to show his hand more or less, and he can't be called for nothing.

Of course, Bai Xiaobai's suggestion is very general, not very clear.

In this process, Jiang Wei has to experiment by himself. Whether he can make a major breakthrough depends entirely on his ability to comprehend food and cooking.

"Thank you, Master. I'll try it out right away." Jiang Wei looked delighted, and hurried back to his booth, and started busy with new product matters.

"Bai Xiaobai, have you made fish balls before?" Gao Chao asked curiously.

He heard Bai Xiaobai's three suggestions just now, and he said it clearly and logically. Compared with Bai Xiaobai, he must have done it before.

But Bai Xiaobai's answer was a bit beyond Gao Gao's expectations.

"No, I made suggestions based on my feelings. In fact, I don't know the specific effect." Bai Xiaobai smiled wryly.

Of course, although I haven't made it myself, Bai Xiaobai's three suggestions are also based.

Dace has many bones, but the meat is very sweet and fresh, not inferior to sea fish, and better than grass carp in umami taste, so it is very suitable for making fish balls.

The scallion and ginger water contains tannins, and direct raw contact with fish protein will cause the fish protein to coagulate, affecting the umami taste and texture of the fish.This can be avoided while changing to rice wine to remove the fishy smell.

The paper hot pot tastes light and delicious, because the paper itself has the characteristics of absorbing impurities and greasy.

The boiled clear soup is refreshing but not greasy, and can also retain the original deliciousness of the food, so it is most suitable for cooking fish ball clear soup.

Whether Bai Xiaobai's cooking theory works depends on Jiang Wei's final presentation of the new fish balls.

Today is the third day after the opening of the food festival, and it is also a very critical moment for the food festival.

At 10:30 in the morning, the selection of famous snacks will officially start.

After the equipment and materials were transported to the booth, Bai Xiaobai started to get busy, making full preparations for the selection.

King Spirit Mine Lang——

(End of this chapter)