Food starts with noodles

The greedy worm was hooked out, and even sniffed, smelling the smell of steamed eggplant in the air.

Everyone can cook eggplant, and steaming eggplant is not difficult.

But only at the old lady's house would Xu Zhuo feel that the taste of eggplant was different.

perhaps……

This is the taste of home.

Xu Zhuo lamented while obediently began to peel the garlic.

When eating at the old lady's house, no matter who you are, you have to work.

It is impossible to sit and wait to eat, even if Yu Keke, the granddaughter-in-law, is here, she still has to boil a pot of water or something.

In the past, Xu Zhuo always felt that the old lady had a lot of things to do, and when she could do things in the kitchen, she called this and that to help.

After a meal, the whole family will not live in peace.

Now that he's grown up, Xu Zhuo understands the old lady's thoughts somewhat.

She just wanted to make the house more lively and create a sense of happiness that the whole family would cook together.

Looking back now, the old lady really worried about this family a lot.

When he was feeling emotional, the old lady who was chopping vegetables suddenly asked, "Coco, will you come back for lunch?"

"If you don't come back, she will eat at the entrance of the driving school at noon. There are many small restaurants over there. After eating, you can find an air-conditioned place to cool off for a while."

After hearing Xu Zhuo's words, the old lady raised her hand and picked up the peeled shrimp from the nearby bowl and put it in the refrigerator.

"Since you don't want to come, I won't eat shrimp today. It's really troublesome to do it."

Xu Zhuo: "..."

Grandma, tell the truth, did we hold each other wrong in the hospital back then?

When I have time later, I have to go to Yangzhou to make up for the missing family warmth.

After the garlic was peeled, Xu Zhuo washed it, cut off the garlic stalks and put them in the garlic mortar, and then put a spoonful of salt in it.

When Xu Zhuo mashed the garlic slowly, the eggplant in the pot was also steamed.

Steaming eggplant may seem simple, but it is a technical job.

If you don't pay attention, the steamed eggplant will not be transparent, or the steaming time will be too long and the eggplant will be completely rotten and can't be eaten.

If you want to steam the eggplant to be rotten and tasty, this...

Boss Xu is not too sure, he has to ask the old lady.

"Grandma, is there anything I need to pay attention to when steaming eggplant? I tried it in the store before, but it didn't steam well..."

After doing business for a long time, Boss Xu just opened his mouth to talk nonsense.

But when dealing with old people, sometimes it is necessary to tell a little lie.

The old lady wiped her hands and said with a smile: "My dear grandson wants to eat steamed eggplant, just come to the house. I can do whatever I want. It's not like I can't move."

Boss Xu was very moved by what he said, and almost said to the old lady, "Actually, I also like shrimp very much."

But right now his mind is full of how to learn how to steam eggplant, shrimp and so on, Xu Zhuo didn't take it to heart.

The old lady thought about it, and gave Xu Zhuo a brief introduction to how to steam eggplant.

If steamed eggplant wants to be delicious, the first thing is to choose the material.

Be sure to use tender eggplant, so that it tastes better when steamed, and it is easy to steam through.

The second is to cut the eggplant into slightly thicker slices, which is not only easy to steam through, but also facilitates the water in the eggplant to be steamed out.

The last point is that it cannot be steamed in a basin or a plate, but must be placed on a grate or a steamer, so as to avoid the eggplant from being steamed through.

And steaming with a grate or a steamer can also let the water in the eggplant flow out, so that the steamed eggplant is not full of soup.

As for the heat...

This is up to you to master. The most delicious eggplant is steamed until it is about to become mushy, but it still works.

Take the eggplant out of the pot at this point, decant off the excess water slightly, and let it dry for a while.

After the temperature of the eggplant has dropped slightly, pour in the mashed garlic, drizzle with some sesame oil, and mix it with chopsticks.

The fragrance will come out.

And because the eggplant still has heat, when the garlic is mixed in, it will further stimulate the taste of the garlic, and at the same time, it will further volatilize the sesame oil.

The whole dish has a strong garlic flavor and strong aroma, which makes people appetite.

Xu Zhuo looked at the old lady's skillful operation, smelled the smell of garlic, and suddenly thought of a question.

If the dish of garlic eggplant is served in the store, it looks like this...

Is it a little hard to get it out?

Chapter 792

The finished steamed eggplant is really not good enough to be on the table in terms of appearance.

The steamed eggplant is a bit black, and it is slightly out of shape after stirring, and there are no other ingredients to match...

The face value is really low.

It feels like the food of the Central Plains. Although the taste is good, the appearance needs to be improved.

For example, Hu spicy soup, bean foam, noodles with flour paste, etc., are all delicacies of this number.

Although in the eyes of real foodies, low appearance is nothing.

But most people still have requirements for the appearance of food.

So many outsiders frown when they mention the food of Central Plains: "There is no food in that place!"

Xu Zhuo grew up in the Central Plains, so he naturally knew the disadvantages of Central Plains cuisine.

So when faced with this garlic eggplant dish, his mind was full of thoughts on how to improve the appearance of this dish.

As a native of the Central Plains, we can no longer allow outsiders to view Central Plains food with prejudice. We must reverse this concept.

But how to improve the appearance of this dish, Mr. Xu didn't figure it out until the end of the meal.

"How about... resorting to the cobbler's strategy?"

The so-called cobbler's strategy is to mobilize the people in the back kitchen to brainstorm and discuss the method, and then boss Xu will do it.

Because this method is suspected of cheating, Xu Xuzhuo has never implemented it.

Moreover, the direction of his recent research is home-cooked dishes, not hard dishes, and he is embarrassed to call everyone to discuss together.

But now...

The task is short of this trembling, and the taste of this dish with garlic and mashed eggplant is really good.

So Xu Zhuo decided not to wait.

"Grandma, I'll bring Ke Ke to visit you again this weekend, and I'll give Xiong Zai some dried fish. It's hot these days, so you'd better not go out."

Saying goodbye to the old lady, Boss Xu drove back to the shop with his mouth full of garlic.

After rinsing his mouth with mouthwash, he brushed his teeth. After three o'clock, when the kitchen was not busy, he called all the chefs together and began to discuss steaming eggplant.

The chefs in the store are from all over the world, and they can talk about the method of steaming eggplant in their hometowns.

But they didn't understand why the boss called everyone together to discuss a home-cooked dish so solemnly.

Is this necessary?

At a critical moment, Boss Xu...

Tell a white lie.

"I went to my grandma's house today. She taught me how to make garlic eggplant. She also said that she would come to the store to try my cooking in a few days... so I had no choice but to ask everyone for advice."

This reason can be easily rounded up.

The old man's culinary skills are obvious to all, so they take it for granted that the old lady who has lived with the old man for a lifetime must have good cooking skills.

After all, if you are close to vermilion, you will be red, and if you are close to ink, you will be black.

And everyone understands that the old lady and elders took Xu Zhuo's culinary arts exam.

The children who go to school, the elders will ask about the test scores at the end of the term. Now that Xu Zhuo is in charge of such a big restaurant at a young age, the elders must be worried.

Some exams and spot checks are also taken for granted.

After figuring this out, everyone started a heated discussion.

It is a matter of face for the boss, so everyone will naturally not take it lightly.

Soon, a steamed eggplant with a good color and fragrance, which can bypass the system, came out.

But at the moment, it's only theoretical. It's hard to say whether it can be made, or whether it tastes like everyone thinks.

Xu Zhuo is not in a hurry, at best, he will try a few more times, anyway, it will take a long time, and he has a lot of time to improve.

A week later, when the old man and the others finally returned from Shanshan, the capital, Boss Xu also welcomed the good news brought by the system.

"Ding, the host has successfully completed the task of the sixth ring of [Test of the New Store], and a special reward for the B-level Central Plains famous dish-scallion grilled lamb, congratulations to the host."

"Ding, the mission of the seventh ring has started in advance, please click on the mission panel for details."

Because the steamed eggplant is the result of the hard work of everyone in the back kitchen, when Xu Zhuo made it, everyone agreed that it could be a new addition to the store.

That steamed eggplant... To be precise, it should be called steamed eggplant strips.

The method is very simple, that is, cut the eggplant with the skin into strips, steam it on the grate for about ten minutes, and then put it on a plate.

First pour the seasoning sauce made of soy sauce, salt, white sugar and other condiments, then sprinkle the rings cut from millet pepper and minced garlic, pour hot oil on it, and it's done.

This dish is completely different from the old lady's recipe, and the taste is also different.

But there is nothing to say about the appearance, it is definitely eye-catching.

And the taste is not bad, pepper rings and minced garlic are splashed with hot oil. This method can satisfy people no matter what the ingredients are.

Xu Zhuo didn't have much hope for the task reward of the sixth ring.

The task requirement is to cook home-cooked food, and the task reward must also be home-cooked food, so there is nothing to look forward to.

After hearing the system prompt, Xu Zhuo was a little confused.

"The dog system's brain is convulsed? It's really unexpected to give such a hard dish!"

It's no wonder Xu Zhuo was so surprised, it's because this dish is so famous.

Not only has it been rated as one of the top ten famous dishes in the Central Plains, but it has also been featured in the promotion of various Central Plains dishes.

Even the skill of grilling is called the only cooking skill in the Central Plains by chefs of Central Plains cuisine.

For this reason, I specially made up a jingle: "Grilled vegetables don't thicken, they will stick to themselves."

It means that the grilled vegetables in the Central Plains do not need to be thickened, and the soup can be thickened.

Xu Zhuo knows that grilled vegetables don’t need to be thickened, but it’s a bit too much to say that grilled dishes are a unique cooking skill in the Central Plains...

Because grilled is a cooking technique of Shandong cuisine, red grilled elbow, white grilled abalone, Dezhou grilled chicken... These are all famous products in Shandong cuisine.

Of course, the Central Plains also has delicious grilled dishes, such as grilled mutton with green onions and white grilled wide belly, which are the best among grilled dishes.

Xu Zhuo was particularly impressed by the dish of grilled mutton with green onions.

Chen Guifang said since she was a child that she married Xu Wenhai because of a dish of grilled mutton.

In a sense, this dish is similar to Wei Junming and Yao Meixiang's eight-treasure stuffed pears, and it is a love dish.

"Why don't you... go and learn from Dad? By the way, repair the broken father-son relationship."

The dish I got this time is a B-level signature dish. If you cook it rashly, someone will definitely be curious.

If you go to learn from Xu Wenhai for two days, and then do it, it will be a matter of course.

and……