Chapter 711： Loach Drilled Tofu

  Chapter 711 Loach Drilled Tofu

In the two stoves, pork lung with codonopsis lily and quail soup with yam and codonopsis are respectively boiled.

Although Fu Yu didn't deliberately look at Liu Shaoxian and others who were standing by and watching, in fact, he kept paying attention to their movements from the corner of his eyes.

Watching Liu Shaoxian and Xiao Jiping talk in a low voice, you don't need to listen to know that they must be evaluating the two medicinal meals he just made.

Such an opportunity is really rare.

Fu Yu took a look at the ingredients prepared on the kitchen counter, and on a whim, decided to show off his unique skills to frighten Liu Shaoxian.

He picked up the small basin containing the live loach, filled some flour into the basin, and repeatedly replaced the fresh water and flour several times to let the loach spit out the viscera in its abdomen.

To make this dish, loach must be cleared.

In fact, the loach delivered from the seafood shop has been raised in the shop for a few days, and the internal organs have been almost vomited. However, unlike other cooking, the requirements for the cleanliness of the ingredients are very strict.

Fu Yu would rather spend more effort in this regard than to affect the taste of the medicinal food in the end because of saving trouble for a while.

Actually, Fu Yu had never cooked loach as an ingredient before.

After all, Maxima is a seafood restaurant, and it uses high-end ingredients. Country game like loach is not on the menu at all.

And in the class of the chef school, there has never been any relevant cooking teaching.

The reason why Fu Yu came up with this dish was because of the blessing of the teaching practice class. In the teaching class of Quan Yu Ban, Fu Yu suffered a lot because of this dish of loach and tofu.

In fact, there are many special delicacies in China, which are widely recognized.

Of course, there are many reasons why these special delicacies are famous.

Some are recognized by everyone because the food itself tastes good, and people who eat it are full of praise.

Some foods are known to everyone because of their special ingredients or methods, which leave a deep impression on those who have seen and eaten it once, and loach tofu is obviously the latter.

When Fu Yu first heard about this dish, he was also very interested.

The main ingredients of loach and tofu are loach and tofu.

Loach is game in the rural fields. It tastes very delicious, and the tofu is also very tender. The combination of loach and tofu in soup is also very delicious.

However, the taste of this dish is still secondary, mainly because this dish looks very strange.

Loach is not simply mixed with tofu for cooking. In the finished dish, it can be clearly seen that the loach is drilled into the tofu, half of the body is inside the tofu, and half of the body is outside.

When Fu Yu saw this dish for the first time in the teaching practice class, it was the finished product that he saw first.

At that time, he was very curious, did these loaches get in by themselves?

But how did the loach get into the tofu?

Actually, recalling the experience in the teaching practice classroom, Fu Yu still has a lot of emotion.

Because the figure at that time was not a hand-in-hand teaching, but in the later stage, he would be provided with the corresponding ingredients and let him cook according to the finished dishes.

At that moment, Fu Yu felt tortured.

It is said that it is easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to simple.

At the very beginning, when learning to cook dishes in the teaching practice class, the figure first demonstrated, and he then imitated and learned.

For him at the beginner level, it is still quite difficult.

But later, after his cooking skills improved significantly, the difficulty of teaching silhouettes also began to increase.

It's like this loach-drilled tofu dish, Fu Yu had to toss it very hard at the beginning.

The ingredients provided in the teaching practice classroom are all fresh, especially the fish.

However, the ingredients are not carefully selected and provided, but are the same as the ingredients normally purchased by the back kitchen, with different sizes and shapes.

The large bucket of loach provided at that time contained large and small ones. Although all of them were fresh, Fu Yu really worked hard to choose them.

When he tried it for the first time, Fu Yu thought that the tofu was too tender, and if the loach was too big, it would smash the tofu before it got into the tofu.

So I deliberately chose the relatively small wild loach, and the tofu chose the tender brine tofu.

Using the method guided by the figure, repeatedly use flour and water to make the loach spit out the abdominal viscera.

Fu Yu put the loach and tofu into the pot, add cold water and cook slowly over low heat, add a little salt, green onion, monosodium glutamate and other seasonings, cover the lid and wait slowly.

I thought they would dive into the tofu when they were hot, but no loach got in at all!

During the second attempt, Fu Yu used chopsticks to pierce the holes in the tofu this time, artificially made nests and then restarted the ignition.

Put the loach in for the second time and heat it up a little. When the loach feels sweaty and struggling, put the slightly chilled tofu into the pot.

result

Facts have proved that loaches have no brains!

Don’t jump into such an obvious pit.

Only one went in, maybe it got stuck accidentally.

For the third attempt, Fu Yu was so frantic that he manually planted the little loach into the tofu. He felt that this time it must be safe. After all, the drill had already been drilled, and the rest could be cooked. However, it still turned into loach Tofu stew.

However, although the continuous cooking failed, Fu Yu felt that there is still a possibility of success in this dish, but it needs tofu with a particularly tender texture, like tofu nao, which can make loach sink into it when it is touched. Normal tofu is impossible.

He thought so at the time.

So the tofu was changed to another piece, and another piece.

Fu Yu was obsessed with finding ways to get the loach to drill tofu because of his understanding of the dish's shape and name.

He guessed that if you put clear water and live loach in the pot, and then heat it slowly, the loach will slowly feel the rising temperature, so it will twist its body and run into the tofu.

The loach itself also lives in the silt, and naturally it can drill into the tofu to avoid the high temperature, but because the tofu is also slowly heated, the loach eventually keeps its body in the state of death inside the tofu, so it becomes the tofu that we see. Go in like a loach.

As a result, this idea gradually faltered with repeated cooking failures.

Because he found that if the loach and tofu were heated at the same time, the loach would not actually get into the tofu, but struggled hard, smashing the tofu.

At that time, he finally realized that doing so might not be successful. There should be other tricks to make this dish look like a finished product.

Fu Yu has always been very smart and quick to respond.

When he realized that he might have thought wrong and walked into a misunderstanding, he immediately changed his mind.

He began to think that the loach would not easily get into the tofu because the loach was alive and disobedient. What if the loach was dead?

It is not soft, but hard, which can be directly inserted into the tofu and then cooked

He even used the finished dish as an example to dig up the tofu with a spoon, and carefully observed the appearance of the loach in the tofu and the damage of the tofu.

Some things are actually not as complicated and difficult as imagined.

Just because of missing the key trick.

When he saw that the dug up tofu, as he thought before, there were only holes where regular loach drilled in, and there was no other obvious damage, Fu Yu seemed to be enlightened.

The feeling at that moment cannot be described in words.

Perhaps only a chef can understand this excitement and indescribable sense of accomplishment.

And precisely because he figured out the key to cooking this dish, Fu Yu made the finished dish very smoothly in the next operation.

In fact, the difficulty of this dish lies in how to let the loach penetrate into the tofu smoothly. As for the cooking steps, it is still very simple.

Seeing Fu Yu start to pack up the loach, Liu Shaoxian couldn't help but turned his head and exchanged a look with Xiao Jiping.

Loach fish!

This thing can be used as medicine.

It has the effects of nourishing the spleen and kidney, diuresis, and detoxification. It is often used for symptoms such as spleen deficiency diarrhea, fever and thirst, and diabetes.

However, Liu Shaoxian really didn't use this ingredient much when making medicinal meals.

On the contrary, Xiao Jiping, when he saw Fu Yu choosing to cook loach, his eyes lit up, and he subconsciously took half a step forward, so that he could see more clearly.

As a Chinese medicine doctor, he is very familiar with the medicinal effects of loach.

When I was seeing a doctor before, I also met a patient who believed in folk remedies and wanted to eat loach raw to treat jaundice hepatitis.

A very young child, about six or seven years old, the family insisted on washing the big loach bought from the market and letting the child eat it raw.

Such a small child, with thin throat and eyes, was in excruciating pain. The nurse found out, and hurried to find a doctor. Finally, Xiao Jiping was alarmed and came to check it out himself.

Xiao Jiping has been practicing medicine for many years, and the doctors are benevolent, so he can understand the feeling of the patient's family members rushing to the doctor, but the current situation is simply nonsense.

This means that Xiao Jiping has a great reputation. Hearing that he came, the patient's family members are willing to listen to him.

Xiao Jiping deliberately popularized science with them at that time.

In fact, this loach can indeed cure diseases, and it can be regarded as a kind of medicinal material.

However, the way to take it is not to swallow it whole, but to put the live loach in clean water for 24 hours and then rinse it off.

Loach is dried and ground into powder, and an appropriate amount of mint and spices are added as flavoring agents. Take it 3 times a day, 10g each time, after meals, it can treat acute infectious jaundice hepatitis.

But under normal circumstances, it is not recommended to swallow it raw, because it is easy for parasites to enter the body.

Now seeing that Fu Yu used loach as a medicinal meal, Xiao Jiping immediately became interested.

He is quite curious, if this loach is made into medicinal food, how should it be cooked?

You must know that this loach is not like other ingredients. Many people see it as ugly and slimy, making it disgusting to look at, let alone eat.

Liu Shaoxian and Xiao Jiping have been friends for many years, and they know each other's preferences very well.

Seeing that because of work, he is indifferent by nature, and has always been an old friend who has always been in a calm state. At this time, he is staring at Fu Yu cooking with great interest.

He couldn't help but also became interested.

Looking at Fu Yu who was calmly handling the loach, he saw his calm posture and quick movements. It was obviously just simple cooking, but it was made by him, but it seemed to be an appreciation of cooking teaching edited online.

Don't say it, it's really pleasing to the eye.

Liu Shaoxian also moved forward calmly for a long time, staring at Fu Yu's movements, secretly annoyed:

Could it be that this loach can really make flowers?

But this idea turned into a dumbfounded exclamation when he saw Fu Yu's operation later.

Good guy!

This, this is also OK.

Actually, Fu Yu didn't think too much about it when he was operating it. He just cleaned up the loach and wanted to pick out a few of the right size from the pile of loach for cooking.

However, during the operation, he reached out and touched a pair of chopsticks completely subconsciously, and then quickly grabbed a loach with the chopsticks like a god, and then put it in the storage box prepared in advance.

This is also something that Fu Yu has gradually gotten used to since he was rewarded with universal chopsticks last time.

Universal chopsticks are really easy to use. No matter what ingredients you pick up, they really won’t slip and fall off, and they can be pinched exactly.

Moreover, with the increase in the number of times of use, Fu Yu also gradually discovered that in the process of use, in fact, the operation can be clearly felt, and the operation is more proficient and smooth than when it was first used.

Maybe it has something to do with the flexibility of your fingers?

Although the dexterity of the fingers has only increased by 10%, it is obviously much better than before.

When operating various kitchen utensils, fingers play a very important role. Many operations during cooking will test the flexibility of fingers.

Because of the close distance and careful observation, Liu Yunong was almost the first to notice that every time Fu Yu picked up the loach fish, the chopsticks landed on one-third of the fish body.

This place is just the location of the viscera of the loach. When picking it up, with the support of the viscera, it can effectively prevent the chopsticks from damaging the surface of the fish skin.

Not to mention, Fu Yu picked up the loach with chopsticks, this unique skill made several people dumbfounded and sighed secretly.

Just that he was able to precisely place the chopsticks on the same position of the fish body with just a quick grip is surprising enough.

This is a loach fish, slippery and not slippery, it is very difficult for ordinary people to grab it with their hands, not to mention using chopsticks.

Seeing Fu Yu put the loach fish one by one into the storage box, if it weren't for the loach fish struggling crazily when being picked up, it would make people mistakenly think that the loach fish is dead, and The fish body has actually been specially treated so that it is not so greasy.

For the action of pinching the loach, Fu Yu relied entirely on the feel of his hand. He stared at the loach in the basin, quickly judged the most suitable one, and then stretched out his chopsticks to grab it.

This operation became more and more proficient, and his movements became faster and faster.

In terms of absolute feel, Fu Yu has already mastered the use of it.

(end of this chapter)