Dare to cook

Chapter 15 Titanium Alloy Straight Man

All dishes are inseparable from the harmony of the five flavors.

Sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, salty, with the combination of a skilled chef, it can show thousands of flavors.

As the system says:

“A jar of wonderful red oil is the essential soul of Sichuan cuisine.”

This is not a joke.

In fact, many dishes have to use special compound seasonings to show the ultimate flavor.

For example, Shencheng snacks - noodles with scallion oil, and scallion oil chicken in Cantonese cuisine must be made with specially boiled scallion oil to be delicious.

For another example, salt and pepper pork ribs and salt and pepper frog must be seasoned with fried salt and pepper.

There are also all kinds of sweet and sour sauce, sand tea sauce, pickled pepper sauce, marinated sauce, sweet garlic sauce, fish sauce, crab paste, bean paste and so on.

Without these compound seasonings, the dishes that the chef can cook will be reduced by more than half.

same.

The more complex seasoning recipes a chef masters, the bigger the cooking stage for him to display.

Why can the old godmother sell so well?
Why can hot pot and Haidilao be opened all over the country and even the world?

It's not because of their unique secret recipe of ingredients.

Yao Yu is a cook.

Three generations of his ancestors were cooks.

Therefore, he understands how much an exclusive secret recipe means to a chef.

After receiving the secret red oil rewarded by the system, Yao Yu's exhaustion from a busy day seemed to be swept away.

He gave up his plan to go home from get off work, turned around and entered the back kitchen again.

At this time, there was no one else in the kitchen but Yao Yu.

Yao Yu came to the food storage warehouse and began to search for materials to boil red oil according to the instructions in the oil refining manual.

The first step is to wash and soak bay leaves, star anise, cinnamon, fennel, etc. for 15-30 minutes; put angelica dahurica, grass fruit, cardamom, and licorice into a cooking machine and grind them into powder.

Then, wash and cut the onions, scallions, celery, and artichokes.

To heat the oil in the pan, rapeseed oil must be used.

Heat the rapeseed oil over high heat until it is [-] to [-]% hot, then turn off the heat and set aside.

Prepare another pot and pour a little oil.

Put the scallion, celery root, onion, and the drained bay leaves, cinnamon, etc. into the pot in turn and stir fry.

Then add a large handful of green and red peppers and sauté quickly.

After frying the fragrance, turn to low heat, and remove all the residues such as scallions, bay leaves, onions and so on.

Then, pour the mixed powder of Angelica dahurica and Caoguo, and then add 400 grams of chili powder and 200 grams of pepper powder.

There is no fixed amount of mixed powders such as pepper, Chinese prickly ash and Angelica dahurica.

According to the amount of refined red oil, adjust according to the ratio of 4:2:3.

After adding these seasoning powders, you can add some fresh pepper leaves, oyster sauce sauce or crushed peanuts according to your personal taste, and then add 100 grams of white sesame seeds.

Stir this all together in the pot, just about to turn off the heat.

At last,
Pour in the heated canola oil in another pan.

This step is very important.

Rapeseed oil must be poured three times.

When pouring the oil for the first time, the oil temperature must be [-]-[-]% hot, and the second time it is [-]-[-]% hot.

When the oil is poured into the pot for the third time, the oil temperature of the rapeseed oil will drop to [-]-[-]% hot.

While pouring the oil three times, you have to keep stirring the pot with an iron spoon to ensure even heating.

After finishing this step, a pot of red oil is ready.

For the rest, just wait for the oil to cool down, then seal it and let it stand for 24 hours.

……

After Yao Yu finished refining the pot of red oil, the kitchen was filled with an alluring aroma.

Afterwards, Yao Yu used the [Clearness] skill on the pot of red oil.

Knowing the details, you can not only quickly distinguish the quality of the ingredients, but also quickly rate the ingredients and the finished dishes.

Yao Yugang used his foresight.The system gives feedback:
[One pot of secret Sichuan-flavored red oil, rated 9.46]

This score did not surprise Yao Yu.

Because he also knows that what he uses is only the common chili powder on the market, neither Chaotian pepper nor Erjingtiao.

And he didn't add kaempferol to the ingredients, and used a very small amount of garlic.

"Well, if we gather all the seasonings, this red oil can be even better."

Yao Yu tasted it with a spoon, only to find that it was very spicy.

He poured the pot of red oil into a stainless steel dish basin, intending to seal it with plastic wrap.

At this time, a slim figure appeared at the door of the back kitchen.

"Brother Yu, you haven't gone back yet? Are you trying to cook new dishes?"

Liu Yiran sniffed the fragrance in the air, and Pingping walked in.

"No, it's just a pot of red oil." Yao Yu smiled and asked, "Why haven't you returned so late?"

Liu Yiran was a little annoyed:

"Don't mention it, I left my things in the changing room. I didn't remember it until I was halfway, so I had to come back to get it."

As soon as the words fell, Liu Yiran's stomach growled.

This voice was exceptionally clear in the back kitchen with only two people.

Liu Yiran's face turned red immediately, a little embarrassed, feeling that this was really unladylike.

Yao Yu smiled and said, "What? Didn't you have enough to eat tonight?"

Liu Yiran said embarrassedly:

"No. I planned to eat hot pot at night, so I didn't eat much with my stomach. I didn't expect that now..."

Yao Yu looked at the time and said:
"It's getting late, and there doesn't seem to be any hot pot restaurants nearby. If you're hungry, how about I cook some noodles for you?"

Liu Yiran's eyes lit up, and said: "Okay, okay, anything is fine, as long as it's spicy enough."

"I can't tell you still like spicy food."

"Yes, I am from Nanhu Province. I have loved spicy food since I was a child. Later, when I went to university and worked in Shencheng, I was not used to it at first."

"That's really hard for you." Yao Yu said, walking towards the ingredients cabinet:

"Shencheng's eating habits are thick oily red sauce, with moderate sweetness, and small restaurants on the street usually don't cook too spicy dishes."

There are still some ready-made doughs in the ingredient storage cabinet, which are left over from making crab noodle dan dan noodles today.

Yao Yu took out a part, put it on the chopping board and quickly kneaded it into long strips, then cut it with a knife.

After the noodles are cut,
Prepare some pork, peas, green onion and ginger, and green vegetable leaves.

Yao Yu saw that there were still a few pieces of marinated beef and broth in the ingredients cabinet, so he simply took them out and used them.

Wash the pot and cook the noodles, and boil the vegetables while cooking the noodles.

After the noodles are cooked, remove them from the water and put them in a bowl with the vegetables.

Then wash the pot and heat the oil. After the oil is hot, add minced garlic and sauté until fragrant, then add minced pork and peas and stir fry.

After stir frying, add salt, high heat and cook quickly.

When it is almost cooked, put in the beef slices and pour in a spoonful of red chili oil that Yao Yu has just boiled.

Pour the fried toppings into the noodle bowl, sprinkle chopped green onion, sesame paste, sesame oil, etc., and a spicy and delicious Sichuan-style Dandan noodles is ready.

"Here, try it, be careful it's hot." Yao Yu offered the noodles to Liu Yiran and said.

Liu Yiran's saliva almost drooled looking at the red, spicy and tempting dan dan noodles.

She quickly picked up the noodles and blew them, and happily ate two mouthfuls.

"Mmmm, delicious!"

"Brother Yu, the noodles you made are so delicious! Spicy and fragrant, refreshing and appetizing. If such spicy Dandan noodles are promoted, they will definitely be very popular!"

Yao Yu smiled:
"It's fine if you think it's delicious. Don't worry, eat slowly."

In the empty restaurant, in the empty back kitchen, only Yao Yu and Liu Yiran were there.

The atmosphere seems a bit delicate.

Liu Yiran took a few mouthfuls of noodles, and her movements slowed down.

She looked at Yao Yu who was cleaning the stove, half-jokingly: "Brother Yu, you are good-looking, and your cooking is so delicious, there must be many girls chasing you, right?"

"Why are you chasing me?" Yao Yu was stunned, and said with a smile, "I don't owe anyone money, who will make things difficult for me."

"Just pretend. I don't believe you haven't had a girlfriend before."

"It's okay if you don't believe me." Yao Yu shrugged, "Yue Lao wanted to tie me steel bars before, but unfortunately I tore them off."

"Haha, so you are a straight man of steel?" Liu Yiran asked with a smile.

"No!"

"I'm a straight titanium man..."

(End of this chapter)