Chapter 68 Stir-fried Vegetables
"This is so fragrant, I can't bear it..."
Zhao Suqing couldn't sit still anymore. She was about to get up and go to the kitchen to smell it to the fullest, but suddenly she saw the kitchen door open, and Ye Rongyao walked out with a tray with a smile: "Hehe, are you anxious?"
"What dish are you cooking? Why is it so fragrant?" Zhao Suqing stared at the three cover bowls on the tray, his eyes almost turning green.
"Fish and vegetables, please be sure you want to have the next meal after eating this meal, haha..."
Ye Rongyao smiled and placed three covered bowls on the dining table, and said with a smile: "Uncle and Aunt, we can have a meal."
"What kind of dish have you cooked? It's so fragrant?" Ye Tianya asked curiously.
"Yes, it's so mysterious, covered with a bowl."
Ye Yingying stared at the three covered bowls and said with some dissatisfaction. Her stomach was almost unable to bear it, so she didn't lift up the cover and let everyone have a meal quickly.
"Everyone is ready to sit down. I'll introduce to you the three dishes I've made." Ye Rongyao said to everyone with a smile.
"But these two dishes and one soup taste in sequence. First of all, the first dish is fried small vegetables."
"Fried small vegetables?"
Everyone stared at the cover bowl that Ye Rongyao was about to open.
As Ye Rongyao unveiled the first cover bowl, Zhao Min and Ye Zi were both stunned. They saw dozens of green vegetables spread out on the white porcelain plate. The knife skills were first-class. Each green vegetable was the size of a bamboo leaf, just like measuring it with a ruler.
But let alone common ingredients such as chili and shredded ginger on the plate, there are not even a slice of green onion leaves. Can this be delicious? Ye Tianya and Zhao Min are very confused.
"Why, I look down on this plate of fried vegetables?"
Ye Rongyao smiled slightly and said, "Have you seen the Legend of the Condor Heroes? The nine-fingered beggar Hong Qigong once said that a true cooking expert is not to make big fish and meat, but to see his skills in green vegetables and tofu."
“Is it difficult to stir-fry vegetables?”
This was the first time Zhao Min heard this theory and asked in confusion. After all, the dish of stir-frying vegetables is very common, and almost all housewives will make this dish.
"Of course, it's a big difference between doing it and being able to do it well."
Ye Rongyao said with a smile. Ye Rongyao is now a god-level chef. How can ordinary people compare the food they make with what they make?
"The vegetables are sweet and light, so they can be cooked with almost all vegetables and meat. When they encounter meat, they are meaty and fishy, and they are fragrant. Making vegetables well this tests the cooking skills."
"My cooking dish is about the heat, and I only use salt as a seasoning, but there are some tricks. You can tell if you taste it..." Ye Rongyao said confidently.
"Really?"
Zhao Min, Ye Yingying and Zhao Suqing's three girls were curious by Ye Rongyao's words, and quickly picked up a piece of green vegetables and put them in their mouths.
"Ah, this taste is so...so delicious. Is this still a vegetable?"
As soon as she chewed her, the three girls seemed to be struck by lightning, with a dull expression on their faces. The seemingly ordinary green vegetables immediately had a sweetness unique to green vegetables, which was extremely crisp and without a slight astringent smell.
The chef-level fried skills are really not enough. In Ye Rongyao's hands, it ensures that the vegetables are cooked thoroughly without losing their taste.
When the three girls had just enjoyed the crispy feeling of their teeth, a stream of delicious soup suddenly radiated from the vegetables, hitting their taste buds hard. At the same time, the whole piece of vegetables was like a good pastry, melting in the mouth, and it was filled with fragrance, which made people's spirits cheer up and their appetites were greatly improved.
This fragrance is exactly the mellow and fragrant smell that Zhao Min and the others smelled before. It is upright and refreshing. If you take a bite, you will be shocked.
"It seems to be mushroom sauce. How did he get it into the vegetables? And how can the vegetables be so crispy, and there is no vegetable gluten... This craft is not necessarily possible even if the imperial chef in the capital."
Zhao Min looked at Ye Rongyao in surprise, puzzled. There were vegetable tendons in the leaves of the vegetables. Even if they were stewed with the meat until they were so thin, the vegetable tendons would not disappear, and they would even be more prominent. However, the vegetables she had eaten were crisp and crispy, and she couldn't eat any vegetable tendons in it?
Ye Yingying and Zhao Suqing didn't understand so many reasons. They just thought it was delicious. They cut the chopsticks for a moment, and in a blink of an eye, they stuffed more than a dozen pieces of vegetables into their mouths, and they ate one-third of them.
In the face of such top-notch delicacies, Zhao Min could no longer remain reserved, so she simply gave up her awareness of being an elder and even competed with her daughter and niece, and she would go back and forth.
"Even if it tastes delicious, there is no need to be so exaggerated, right?"
Ye Tianya was frightened by the eating behavior of his wife and daughter and niece. This was like a refugee who came out of a refugee camp and hadn't eaten in three or five days. Where was his proud wife and daughter?
"Dad, stop talking, eat quickly. After you don't have it, you will regret it to death." Ye Yingying was still filial and did not forget to remind her father.
“This is so delicious.”
Ye Tianya was stunned when a small vegetable was in her stomach. Ye Tianya was so shocked that he could become a deputy department-level cadre. I don’t know how many delicacies he had eaten, but those delicacies were simply scum compared to this small vegetable.
This stir-fried green vegetables are better than thousands of delicacies. Ye Tianya is definitely sure that this is the best dish he has ever eaten.
"Why is it gone? You are too quick to start?" When Ye Tianya came to his senses and was still trying to pick up vegetables, he saw that the plate was empty and there was no residue left.
"Dad, who made you so slow? The fried vegetables you made by Ye Rongyao are really delicious. Your cooking skills are so amazing."
Ye Yingying wiped her mouth with a tissue and praised Ye Rongyao for her, but her big eyes were staring at the remaining two cover bowls, and her small tongue licked her lips, like a greedy little cat.
Zhao Min swallowed, secretly glanced at the two covered bowls, and tried hard to maintain her image as an elder: "Glory, how did you do it? Is there mushroom sauce in the vegetables?"
"Yes, Aunt San didn't have the idea of eating it out by you."
Ye Rongyao smiled and nodded and continued, "Yes, this stir-fried vegetable is filled with mushroom soup. After all, the vegetable vegetables themselves do not taste much, so you must borrow external things. Uncle San cannot eat meat, so I use mushroom soup to taste it. In vegetarian dishes, mushroom tofu can all be used to make meat flavor."
Although what Ye Rongyao said was simple, in fact, to make this dish of stir-fried vegetables, you must first use the shaking formula in the knife to smash the tendons in the vegetables, and then use the ultimate carving technique to dig out the space for storing mushroom sauce in the vegetables.
However, the thickness of green vegetables is very limited, far less than that of winter melons and pumpkins commonly used in food carving. Therefore, to dig out the space for storing soup in green vegetables the size of bamboo leaves, it requires extreme carving and being able to dig out a tortuous "soup path". It is impossible for chefs without a master's level or above to make it.
The technique Ye Rongyao used is the top carving worker in the legendary kitchen world today, "Nine Curved Yellow River". If you look carefully with a magnifying glass, you can see that there is a tortuous and nine-turn soup in every piece of vegetable, just like a smaller version of the Yellow River.
This is just the first step. After pouring the soup into the vegetables, you must quickly wrap it with egg white and put it in the pot to stir-fry. You cannot use a stir-frying spoon and spatula when stir-frying. It depends entirely on the skill of turning the pot on your hands.
So this dish of stir-frying vegetables looks simple, but it will test the chef's skills such as hanging stock knife and carving and controlling fire. If any of the procedures are wrong, it will lose its taste. Even Ye Rongyao has to do his best.
It is not an exaggeration to call Ye Rongyao the fried vegetables "the world's number one fried vegetables".
Chapter completed!