Food starts with noodles

In addition, the amount of fried sugar color today is very large. Among other things, a large bowl will be filled with rock sugar alone. Only in this way can the elbows be made to be dark red and shiny, which looks very attractive and delicious.

The water in the pot was hot, and Xu Zhuo poured all the prepared rock sugar into it.

After pouring it in, he took a spoon and started to stir fry, smashing rock sugar with the back of the spoon while stirring.

After the rock sugar melts, start to use a spoon to rotate in the pot, so that the sugar solution in the pot is evenly heated to prevent the bottom from sticking.

After the sugar color was fried, Xu Zhuo put it in a small basin and set it aside for later use.

Then bring the prepared broth over, and start to make the marinated soup for the pork knuckle.

Chapter 1546

The stewed soup used for sauced elbow needs to be specially prepared. There is no such thing as old soup or old soup, because the soup used for sauced elbow is all disposable.

In fact, the whole process of making sauced elbows is very interesting. The elbows bought on the same day are soaked after deboning, and the removed leg bones are put into the pot to start the broth.

Five or six hours later, when the pork bone broth is boiled out, the elbows have been thoroughly soaked.

Then take it out, and use the pork bone broth with sugar color to start making sauced pork knuckles.

As for the spices used, the amount is very small, and there is no need for too many types, because the elbow itself is very fragrant, both in taste and texture. If you add spices, it will give the aroma of the elbow itself Hold down.

But if you don't leave it, it will easily smell fishy, ​​so just put a little bit, while suppressing the smell, it will not cover the fragrance of the elbow itself.

Xu Zhuo washed the spices to be used in warm water, and then put them into the material bag.

Then, he brought the broth to the stove, turned on the fire and put the ingredients into it, then added some chopped green onion and ginger, two tablespoons of salt and one tablespoon of rock sugar.

After the broth in the pot boils, pour in the previously made sugar color and continue to cook.

After cooking the porridge for about half an hour, the broth will become a stewed soup specially used for sauced elbows.

Because there is a lot of sugar in this kind of stewed soup, don't look at the color at the moment is just slightly red, when the elbow is made, it will form that black and red color.

In addition, because the broth is used for cooking, the water in the pot evaporates quickly, and the remaining soup will become thicker, so that the remaining soup will be completely hung on the surface of the elbow.

This is the reason why the skin of the sauced elbow has a good taste.

As for other aspects, after half an hour, Xu Zhuo turned off the fire, then picked up the pot containing the stewed soup and put it aside for later use.

The soaking time of the elbow is still a bit short at this moment, so it can't be boiled directly in the pot, and you have to wait another hour or two.

Only when the elbows are thoroughly soaked, the taste of the sauced elbows will be good.

After the camera was turned off, Xu Zhuo took a towel and sat on a chair to wipe off his sweat.

And Ji Mingyu was in a daze around the pot of reddish-brown stewed soup.

Obviously, he still doesn't understand why the color of the brine is so light, the color of the elbow is so heavy, it even looks like some asphalt has been applied.

Xu Zhuo didn't bother to explain, because after making it later, it would be more appropriate to speak with facts.

After resting for a while, Xu Zhuo started to play games, while Ji Mingyu took his mobile phone and ordered a few takeaways from the shop where he ate sesame seed cakes with elbows yesterday.

Well, smelling the aroma of stewed soup makes me hungry, so I simply order a takeaway.

Anyway, even after the elbow is put into the pot, it has to be cooked for several hours.

And even if it's out of the pot, you have to wait for the elbow to cool completely before eating it. Anyway, you don't want to eat the elbow that was cooked first before dark.

It is also because the elbow will be cooked very late, so when making the elbow today, neither Yu Keke, Sun Panpan nor Li Hao came to join in the fun.

It would be great if they can come out of the pot when they get off work, there is no need to stay here.

After the takeaway was delivered, Ji Mingyu, Xu Zhuo, and the photographers who were busy next to each other ate a biscuit with knuckles and drank a cup of milk tea before continuing to shoot.

At this moment, the water in which the elbows were soaked had completely turned into bloody water.

Xu Zhuo took out the slightly whitish elbows, washed them twice with clean water, and started making elbows.

He put a large soup pot on the stove again, put the washed elbows in it, added half of the pot of water, then poured some sliced ​​ginger and cooking wine into the pot, and began to blanch the elbows.

If the soaking time is long enough, plus soaking in low-temperature cold water, the elbows don’t need to be blanched at all, just cook them directly in the pot.

But today, in order to shoot a video, the soaking time is a bit short, and now to shoot a food video, as long as you don’t blanch the meat, wait for it to be sprayed.

The proliferation of gourmet shows has led to the proliferation of cooking meat.

No matter what kind of meat you make, no matter what method you use, as long as there is no tide, someone will spray it.

Xu Zhuo once specifically said that meat that has been soaked for a long time and meat that is freshly killed do not need to be blanched when cooking, because blanching is not a good thing in cooking.

Not only can the umami substances in the meat be cooked, but also the nutrients in the meat will be lost.

It can be said to be a very worthwhile move.

But blanching has an obvious advantage, that is, it looks clean.

This is also an important reason why many food videos have blanching links.

Cleanliness is the key point for many people to evaluate food videos. It doesn’t matter if it’s delicious or not. We can’t eat it anyway. As long as it looks clean, it’s good food.

On the contrary, if you don’t blanch the meat and don’t wear gloves when grasping and mixing it, no matter how standard the cooking method is, the taste will be delicious.

In the eyes of most cloud chefs who are only active on the Internet, it is also a failed product and a dish that is difficult to swallow.

Even if they can't eat it normally.

It should be sprayed, it should be sprayed.

Xu Zhuo is now doing blanching, which can be regarded as a kind of anti-bar operation.

The water in the pot boiled, Xu Zhuo first used a spoon to skim off the foam, then took out the elbow from the pot, and washed it again with hot water.

After washing and controlling the moisture, it is ready to cook in the pot.

The cooking of sauced elbows is different from the usual meat cooking. When cooking sauced elbows, a layer of grate should be placed in the pot.

The reason is that the broth evaporates relatively quickly. Even though there is more than half of the pot of stewed soup, in fact, the soup can be boiled dry in a few hours during the cooking process.

If there is no grate at the bottom of the pot, the softly boiled elbows will stick to the bottom of the pot.

This will not only cause the skin of the elbow to break, but it may also burn, causing the whole pot of elbow to smell strong.

Xu Zhuo put a large iron pot on the stove. After cleaning it, he spread a stainless steel grate on the bottom of the pot. After laying it, he took some special grates and placed them in the pot next to the edge of the pot.

These grates are made of metal with some holes on them, which function like the grates at the bottom to prevent the elbows from sticking to the bottom of the pot during cooking.

And with this grate just can avoid this situation from happening.

After arranging these grates, Xu Zhuo evenly placed the elbows that hold the dry water in the pot one by one.

When arranging, these elbows should be pressed on top of each other, and cannot be completely overlapped. The elbows on the upper layer should be pressed exactly in the gaps between the elbows on the lower layer.

In this way, the elbow can be heated evenly, and the stewed soup in the pot will also flow.

After the elbows were set, Xu Zhuo brought over the stewed soup that he had prepared earlier, first picked out the onion and ginger inside with a colander, and then poured the stewed soup into the big iron pot with the elbows.

After placing it, turn on the heat.

The sauced elbows in the pot have just begun the long cooking process.

Chapter 1547

After firing, I didn't stop shooting immediately, because there was still one step after the water boiled.

Although this step is somewhat dispensable, it has to be done. Only in this way can the early steps of Jiangyaozi be considered complete.

Soon, the braised soup in the pot boiled.

Xu Zhuo beat the boiled froth with a spoon first, and then poured the prepared bowl of rice wine into the pot.

When the rice wine evaporates, it can take away the peculiar smell in the meat, and it can also add a nice aroma to the meat.

Of course, if there is no rice wine, the same effect can be obtained with white wine.

After the wine is poured, the shooting can stop, because there will be a long cooking time, and after a while, just take a few close-up shots, and then you can sit and play with your phone.

"Brother Xu Zhuo, does this really have to be cooked for several hours? I remember when I stewed the elbows, the elbows could be cooked in two hours until they were so soft that they couldn't be picked up with chopsticks.

If the elbow is boiled in the pot for several hours, it must be completely cooked, right? "

Xu Zhuo smiled and said: "About three or four hours is enough, but the specific time has to be calculated according to the evaporation of the broth. Simply put, when the soup in the pot is boiled, when will the elbow come out of the pot.

And after being out of the pot, the elbows have to be air-dried, and the little broth left in the pot has to be heated and spread on the surface.

The reason why the sauced elbow is heavy is because there is a step of spreading the sauce at the end. "

After saying this, Xu Zhuo flipped through the phone boredly: "I can't go now, let's discuss what to have for lunch first."

Here in the capital, as long as you have money, there is nothing you can't eat, even if you order takeaway.

It doesn't matter what Xu Zhuo eats, it's mainly Ji Mingyu and a few cameramen.

Although it wasn't long before the few of them ate sesame seed cakes, it was almost twelve o'clock, and they still had to eat.

Irregular diet is very bad for the body, so try to avoid it.

I just ate pork knuckle, so everyone discussed it and decided to eat something light.

However, when everyone opened the takeaway software and started searching, the original idea of ​​eating something light gradually went astray.

Half an hour later, Xu Zhuo looked at the spicy chicken, spicy hot pot, Maoxuewang and other dishes on the table, turned his face to look at several cameramen and asked, "Is this what you call light?"

Everyone ate together, and then continued to watch the elbows cooked on the stove.

At this moment Xu Zhuo has turned the gas stove to low heat, but the stewed soup in the pot is still evaporating quickly.

After lunch, the elbows in the pot were boiled for an hour and a half at most, but the stewed soup inside was less than a third.

If it goes on like this, it's hard to say whether this pot of stewed soup can last for four hours.

After Xu Zhuo took a look, he covered the pot and let the elbows in the pot continue to cook.

He can't leave right now, he has to keep watch, so he can only reluctantly open the mobile game to pass the time.

As your career gets bigger and your work gets busier, there's less and less time to play games.

When he came from the provincial capital, Xu Zhuo deliberately packed his computer with him, but after the computer was installed, he played it twice before the opening, and he didn't even have time to turn on the computer after the opening.

Hey……

When I think of these things, Xu Zhuo feels melancholy, and I always feel that while I am gaining something, I am also losing something.

Ji Mingyu is not so sentimental, he is happily helping a girl on WeChat to get a score, saying that he will soon be able to raise the other girl's level to Xingyao Five.

As for the others, they were not so busy. Some of them were copying video materials, and some were studying the title design.

After all, this is working time, the boss can sit down and play games, but as a worker, he still needs to be conscious.

At 03:30, Xu Zhuo went to the stove to have a look, and then said to everyone: "The elbow is almost done, let's start."

At this moment, the soup in the pot was completely invisible, and the elbow, which was white and tender before, also showed a dark red color.

However, there is still a certain distance compared to the black and red of the finished sauce elbow.

Xu Zhuo calmly changed into the chef's uniform again, then sucked his hands clean, turned his face to Ji Mingyu who was still sitting on the sofa and said, "Hey, don't be dazed, start filming the show."

Ji Mingyu lifted his eyelids feebly, like a wronged child.

Xu Zhuo asked curiously: "What's the matter? Was it raped by the Internet?"

Ji Mingyu shook his head, stood up and said, "Just now I swipe the glory of the king level for a little girl on WeChat, and after a few hours of hard work, I got Singyao Five, and guess what she said?"

Xu Zhuo asked, "Have you made a promise with your body?"

"She said that your level is really high, can you help my boyfriend to swipe it too, he has been stuck in Diamond [-] for a long time."

Ji Mingyu pointed to his chest and said to Xu Zhuo, "Brother Xu Zhuo, I'm in pain here."

Xu Zhuo smiled: "It's all right, don't take it to heart, you have so many female fans, it's not easy to find a girlfriend, there's no need to be a licking dog."

Ji Mingyu sighed softly: "I'm not a licking dog, I just feel that I'm being used by others, and I just feel unhappy."

Xu Zhuo gave him an idea: "Then you can promise her, and then log in to her boyfriend's account, disassemble all her boyfriend's runes, then enter the game and hang up and scold teammates all the time, and get a [-]-game losing streak." What."