Chapter 133 Eggplant

Author: Round head and round belly

Chapter 133 Eggplant

Li Yi’s ideal tacit understanding means that he can help him prepare all the ingredients by just talking about the name of the dish and helping the chef.

But obviously everyone still cannot meet this requirement, so they can only follow his instructions and follow his instructions.

So, the entire kitchen quickly turned into a game called "Where is Brother Yi?"

"Brother Yi? How do you do this?"

"Brother Yi! Did I mess up it?"

"Where is Brother Yi?"

One morning, Li Yi's temple began to hurt slightly.

He felt like a father who was taking a team of geese out on the street. If he walked faster, he would cause a panic and scream.

Although he was the commander-in-chief, he was the most tired one after all the morning and didn't even have time to go to the bathroom.

Here, as soon as he came to the front hall to receive a cup of water, Wu Lei ran out with his butt and asked, "Brother Yi, the kitchen steamer has stopped, what should I do? Do you want to open it again?"

"No, don't worry about it, I'll come right away."

After Li Yi finished speaking, he drank two sips of water and then stepped back to the kitchen.

In the kitchen, everyone was busy.

Liu Yifei and Zhao Jinmai were getting together, holding an embroidery needle each and practicing piercing bean sprouts.

[Inlaid Silver Sprouts] The bean sprouts you need to use must be worn on the same day. Li Yi alone must not be able to do it, so the ingredients for this dish must be handled by Liu Yifei and Zhao Jinmai.

Wu Lei was staring at the steamer with anticipation on his face. When he saw Li Yi coming back, he made way out of his position.

Li Yi came to the steamer, took out the insulation gloves, and reminded Wu Lei: "Be careful of steaming!"

After saying that, he opened the door of the steamer and took a step back.

A hot steam surged out and evaporated.

Li Yi looked at the steam and said, "The probability of being scalded by steam by apprentices is much greater than that of being burned by fire. The probability of being scalded by pot is second only to oil collapse."

"Why?"

Wu Lei asked casually.

"Because many people don't know that the steam will be so hot. When lifting the lid and lifting the steamer, they will get burned by accident."

As Li Yi said, he reached into the steamer and took out a disk filled with soup.

The plate was filled with eggplant, soaked in the broth with a strong aroma of mushrooms below, sucking the soup, looking full but not without being flexible.

Looking at the eggplant strips out of the pot, Liu Yifei and the others came over and looked at them curiously and asked, "Can you make eggplants this way?"

This plate of eggplant strips is the raw material used by Li Yi to make eggplant.

Many people have heard of the name of Eggplant. It is the most impressive delicacy in "Dream of Red Mansions".

It not only surprised Liu Laolao who entered the Grand View Garden, but also made countless readers who read the book salivate and curious about it.

Everyone present had heard of the name of eggplant, but they had never eaten it, and had never seen anyone make it.

Therefore, when Li Yi said he wanted to make eggplant, everyone was attracted by a strong interest and wanted to see with his own eyes how this famous dish was made.

But Li Yi looked at their curious look, but shook his head and said, "It's still early! This is the first one. You have to steam nine times in a row to be considered a good deal."

Hearing his words, Huang Xiaoming, who was helping grinding tofu, asked curiously: "I read this passage in "Dream of Red Mansions" that only said it was fried in chicken oil, and there was no step to steam eggplant?"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Jinmai also nodded: "When I saw this, I didn't seem to say I wanted to steam eggplant."

Li Yi smiled and explained: "The prototype of the dish "Eggplant" is actually "Eggplant". It is a pickled dish made of fresh eggplant shredded, dried, mixed with rice flour and fine salt.

There are these eggplants in the Two Lakes and Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan areas. When you have time, you can go to Yunsheng Province to have a look. Old Kunming people basically have this dish at home."

"Canshe?"

Liu Yifei wondered: "Why is it written as eggplant in Dream of Red Mansions?"

"The word "银" means to cut open and dried fish, and also refers to marinated fish meat. It is a noun."

While taking the eggplant strips out of the plate, Li Yi explained: "The croaker refers to a method of making food, that is, the croaker.

The croaker had appeared in the Book of Songs, but the croaker was made of fish at that time.

Since the Song Dynasty, croquette has developed greatly.

"Menglianglu" records that many kinds of fish and meat dishes are sold in restaurants in the capital.

In the Ming Dynasty, in the "Water Margin", there is a fat croquette among the wine and dishes that Yan Po bought for his daughter Yan Poxi and Song Jiang, which is a croquette made of fat pork.

In "Jin Ping Mei", Ximen Qing is also an avid fan of croquette. He and Pan Jinlian were under the grape trellis, and in the wine dish sent by the maid, there was a dish of osmanthus silverfish, which was fried with eggs.

In the Qing Dynasty, cooked croquettes appeared, that is, croquettes made of various meats.

Mr. Cao Xueqin has lived in Jinling for a long time and is rich in his family. He must have a lot of croquettes to eat. He obviously likes to eat croquettes, so he wrote it into the book.

However, the words he used were more elegant, so he wrote them as Eggplant.

Eggplant is the most scented. Steamed with broth and then dried to allow it to preserve more umami substances, so it is so delicious to make croquettes.

A rich child like Mr. Cao obviously does not have that profound understanding of cooking skills, and it is understandable that he cannot write it thoroughly."

Listening to Li Yi's explanation, everyone understood the origin and reason of the crocodile.

But the audience in the live broadcast room focused all their attention on "Jin Ping Mei".

"I like to listen to the grape trellis in detail."

"How do you eat that osmanthus silverfish? Can you tell me about it?"

"Brother Yi has studied Jin Ping Mei? He is a fellow student!"

"Don't help us feel sorry for traffic! We have to listen to Jin Pingmei!"

In front of the screen, Li Yi had already fished out all the eggplant strips from the plate, and handed them to Wu Lei, and ordered: "Find a tray, separate them, then put them in the oven, use the air-drying function to air-dry, and then give it to me after it is completely air-drying."

"good."

Wu Lei took the eggplant and turned around to find the tray.

Zhao Jinmai looked around and asked curiously: "Brother Yi, would it be better if you made this dried eggplant yourself?"

These dried eggplants were dried goods bought by Li Yi from the market. When he bought them, Liu Yifei was still wondering why he wanted to buy dried eggplants, but he didn't expect to take them back to make eggplants.

"It might be better, but the gap won't be too big."

Li Yi explained: "Dried eggplant does not have much technical content. Whether it is delicious or not depends on the subsequent treatment, such as boiling broth.

As long as the dried eggplant is guaranteed to be made from new eggplant in April and May, it will be almost done.

This thing can be bought in many places, so there is no need to make it yourself.

What I bought was Yujiang eggplant dried from Yingtan, Ganzhou. The quality is still very good, and it is not much different from what I made myself."

"All right."

Zhao Jinmai blinked and asked, "Can we taste it first if we can cook a little at noon?"

Li Yi smiled and said, "If you can wear all the bean sprouts, I will fry them for you."

"Okay! We'll finish wearing it right away!"

As Zhao Jinmai said, he happily pulled Liu Yifei back and continued to wear bean sprouts.

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