Dare to cook

Chapter 270 Boiled Octopus

After reviewing Xu Yunle’s cold shredded chicken, Xu Yunle quickly made the boiled octopus.

The main ingredient of this dish is octopus.

If you want to make it delicious, you must use fresh octopus, and frozen ones are worse.

If you use frozen octopus for cooking, it must be fully defrosted naturally. Do not rinse it with hot water, let alone heat it in a microwave oven.

One of the main dishes of Renhe Pavilion today and tomorrow is braised octopus in sauce.

Therefore, the purchase has bought a lot of live octopuses and kept them in the tank.

Xu Yunle quickly fished out more than 20 small octopuses with a net and began to deal with them quickly.

Live octopuses have a slippery layer of mucus on their bodies.

To remove mucus, apply a layer of salt and rub it repeatedly.

After removing the mucus, the octopus head, mouth, and stomach pouch must also be cut off and removed one by one.Then wash and drain.

Then boil a pot of water.

After the water boils, add octopus, sliced ​​ginger, shochu, and rice vinegar to a second boil.

After blanching to remove the fishy smell, take out the octopus and put it in the prepared ice cubes to cool down.

The purpose of icing is to make the octopus meat more crispy through thermal expansion and contraction.

Then, of course, comes the seasoning.

The cold sauce used for cold boiled octopus is different from the cold sauce used for cold shredded chicken.

This kind of cold sauce must use mustard, minced garlic, mature vinegar, salt, and light soy sauce that has been fried with millet pepper and sugar to cool.

As for the specific ingredient ratio.

Every chef has every chef's recipe, and it is also not easy to pass on and publish.

Xu Yunle had already memorized several cold sauce recipes sent to him by Yao Yu.

Now that the boiled octopus was ready, he served it to Yao Yu to taste.

After Yao Yu tasted it, he said:

"There is less vinegar and more sugar. Next time you can use hotter millet pepper. Don't stick to the existing recipe. It will be better if you add some coriander leaves next time."

"In addition, the blanching time of octopus is a little longer. Next time you do it with a stopwatch, the blanching time should not exceed 80 seconds!"

"Okay, Brother Yu, I've taken notes." Xu Yunle accepted the teachings humbly, and others around him continued to follow suit and take notes.

The boiled octopus is done, and the next step is broccoli with garlic and oil.

Oil splashing is a very classic cooking technique.

After learning this technique thoroughly, you can not only make broccoli with garlic sauce, but also crayfish with garlic sauce and double-headed razor clams with garlic sauce.

Even, it will be much easier when you learn oil-splashed noodles and boiled fish in the future.

Remove the root of the broccoli and cut it along the shape of the flower.

Then take a pot to boil water, add a few drops of oil, and a pinch of salt.

After the water boils, pour in the broccoli, cook for 2 minutes, remove and drain the water.

Then, pour all the water in the pot, heat the oil in the pot, put enough minced garlic, green onion, ginger and pepper to saute until fragrant, then add the prepared water starch, oyster sauce, light soy sauce, stir and bring to a boil.

When the garlic oil in the pot is completely boiled, you can pour a pot of hot garlic oil on the broccoli.

As far as the overall cooking process goes, this recipe for Spicy Garlic Broccoli is simple.

The key is two points, seasoning and oil temperature.

This dish can be eaten cold or hot, and it can barely be classified as a cold dish.

However, the simpler the dish, the more difficult it is to do well.

This oil-splashed broccoli dish is just like that for Xu Yunle.

Yao Yu asked him to redo it three times in a row.

It turned out that it was either too salty or too much oil was added, or too much garlic was used, suppressing the original flavor of the broccoli.

After failing to do it three times in a row, Yao Yu had no choice but to do it himself and demonstrated it twice while reprimanding Xu Yunle.

After Yao Yu's demonstration and explanation, Xu Yunle finally mastered the trick and understood the essence.

……

After guiding Xu Yunle, it was around four o'clock in the afternoon.

In half an hour, it will be time for the staff of the Renhe Pavilion to have dinner.

Letting employees eat dinner in advance is also a last resort.

After all, it is in the catering industry. If cooks and waiters are allowed to serve diners on an empty stomach, it will inevitably affect work efficiency.

There may even be an unsightly appearance in front of customers.

In the past, the staff meals of Renhe Pavilion were always served after the business peak.

That's because, before Tang Ying took over the Renhe Restaurant, her father, Tang Deren, allowed the staff in the restaurant to eat at any time other than the meal time to fill their stomachs.

Therefore, eating later has little effect on everyone.

But after Tang Ying took full control of Renhe Hall, she gradually adjusted the original employee meal time to the current schedule.

Moreover, it is also expressly stipulated that employees are prohibited from eating in the restaurant during non-employee meals.

Seeing that it was time to prepare the staff meal, the melon skins in the back kitchen immediately looked at Yao Yu eagerly.

His expression was like that of a little piglet waiting to be fed.

Yao Yu couldn't laugh or cry, so he had no choice but to cook a staff meal that everyone in Renhe Hall hadn't seen for a long time.

But at this moment, Zhang Xiaohan went into the back kitchen and said to Yao Yu, "Brother Yu, there is a man named Qin Ming looking for you outside, and he said you asked him to come."

Qin Ming?

Did the guy arrive early?

Yao Yu heard the words, put down the spatula he had just picked up, and walked out.

After defeating Qin Ming at the Culinary Association last time, according to the agreement, Qin Ming had to work for Yao Yu for two years.

Yao Yu has already made up his mind.

Except for taking Qin Ming to Tong Neighborhood in two days, let him stay in Renhe Pavilion to cook in other free time.

As for the salary, it should be given by an ordinary chef.

Guaranteed to make a steady profit without losing money.

After Qin Ming lost that day, he went back to Jinyang to pack his things.

Because Yao Yu was in Yanjing before, he was not in a hurry to urge him to come to Shencheng.

It wasn't until he planned to come back yesterday that he informed Qin Ming that he must come to Shencheng to meet up before tomorrow.

When Yao Yu came out of the back kitchen, he saw a tall, fair-skinned guy wearing a headscarf, carrying a backpack, and a fashion brand guy standing in the front hall and looking around.

From the appearance point of view, Qin Ming is not much worse than the forensic medicine student.

This guy was simply standing there, but he forcibly supported the aura of the president of the abstinence department, causing some waitress girls in the Renhe Hall to secretly drool at him.

After Yao Yu saw Qin Ming, he smiled and said, "Are you here? Is there no traffic jam on the road?"

"No..." Qin Ming was still not used to dealing with Yao Yu, "Yao Yu..."

Before he finished speaking, Yao Yu raised his eyebrows: "Huh?"

Qin Ming understood it in seconds, and called out reluctantly, "Brother Yu."

"Hey. What's the matter?" Yao Manzi's evil taste was immediately satisfied.

"Is this your restaurant?" Qin Ming asked.

"Not really, but I have shares." Yao Yu smiled, "Put your luggage at the front desk first, and follow me to the back kitchen to get familiar with the environment."

Since Qin Ming arrived earlier, Yao Yu didn't cook any more staff meals, but gave Qin Ming the chance to do it.

No matter at home or abroad, when a new chef arrives in a new restaurant, he will always show his hands and show off his muscles.

Qin Ming had worked in many restaurants before, understood what Yao Yu meant, and didn't refuse. He immediately used the existing ingredients to fry chicken nuggets with potatoes and fried octopus with onions for 50 people.

Although Qin Ming's cooking skills are far inferior to Yao Yu's, he is still a strong man who can be selected for the national team.

The dishes he cooked naturally conquered the taste buds of everyone in Renhe Pavilion immediately.

When Tang Ying knew that Yao Yu had tricked all the national team members into cooking at the Renhe Hall, her pretty face was so overjoyed that she was almost so excited that she hugged Yao Yu and gnawed on it.

Everyone in Renhe Hall had a staff meal and was busy again.

The restaurant didn't close until after 08:30 at night.

A group of employees got off work and left one after another. Yao Yu stood at the door of the restaurant, looked at Qin Ming who came out with a travel bag, and asked, "Is there a place to live?"

"I haven't found it yet. I plan to find a hotel to stay in first." Qin Ming replied.

"Then don't bother, just stay with me. Anyway, I still have a few guest rooms in my house." Yao Yu said after hearing the words.Poached Octopus
(End of this chapter)