Chapter 59
After suppressing her appetite for a long time, she burst out in one breath. Looking at Xun Yu, who had turned into a cute creature, Wang Yong felt that her character began to develop in a strange direction...
"Yan, this is too ugly, restrain yourself!" Cao Cao said with a headache.
The cute foodie who had already shown off as if she was 'please give her food' heard this and suddenly returned to her serious look. She coughed gently, and then asked slowly, "So, what's good to eat?"
Well... I asked a serious question, but it felt a bit strange... It wasn't as good as before!
"I just got a thornfish, also called a fat-headed fish..." Anyway, it was nothing, Wang Yong replied directly.
"Hey?" Xun Yu immediately showed a little disappointed expression, "There are many thorns on that kind of fish, so you have to be very careful when you eat it. And the meat has a rustic smell, which is not very delicious!"
"Make the ingredients that cannot be eaten into edible delicacies, this is the chef... Of course, there is really no way to eat them, or the cost of making them is too high, and it is also said!" Wang Yong smiled.
After all, you can't try it with a piece of wood or stone, right? If one day human beings are going to eat wood and stone, then it's not far from destruction... Slowly, it seems that I've checked in my previous life... The bark of the elm tree is edible, and there seems to be edible mud cakes in Haiti... Is this considered being slapped in the face?
"So, let's try how our chef plans to cook fish!" Cao Cao signaled to everyone.
"By the way!" Wang Yong looked at the more than 20 people, "The fish is only six kilograms, so probably only the ladies have good taste."
Not counting the fish head, two or three kilograms disappeared at once. In addition to the bones and internal organs, there were only about eight kilograms of fish. In the yamen, there were eight female officials including Cao Cao, Xun Yu, Xiahou Dun, Cao Ren, Le Jin, Guo Jia, Dian Wei and Cheng Yu, especially Dian Wei, who was a foodie. Eight kilograms of fish were probably enough to eat.
"Huh?" Xiahou Yuan, Cao Hong and Li Dian immediately showed dissatisfied expressions, "Wuyou, you are so kind to you!"
"There are few people who eat pineapple fish, so it's not difficult to get it, but unfortunately I only have one on my hand!" Wang Yong spread his hands and only one fish. What can he do? If everyone has a share, everyone will not be full!
"Simple!" Cao Cao ordered Wen Ming, "Can you bring another six kilograms of thornfish?"
"Okay!" Wenming replied with a professional smile, then got up and left, and returned to the House of All Things.
"Troubleshoot the first one before!" Wang Yong didn't expect that Lao Cao would be so generous. Anyway, he didn't mind if someone paid for it. It was rare that he had a pepper, and he was in a good mood and couldn't wait to go back and cook.
Then he thought of something and turned around and shouted: "The dish you want to cook will have spicy flavor, and some people may not like this flavor!"
"Spicy, what is that?" Cao Cao was stunned. "Taste like dogwood or ginger, or even mustard?"
"It's a bit like it, but the taste is purer!" Wang Yong replied after thinking about it.
"That's okay!" Cao Cao nodded. It was actually nothing like this. He subconsciously thought of ginger. When cooking fish, he often used ginger wine to season.
Wang Yong smiled secretly. When the dishes come up, what expressions will they show after eating the taste of chili? To be honest, chili is really magical. Many women clamor for eating too much will lead to acne, but once they taste it, it will be a trend that they can't stop.
However, eating too much will lead to constipation.
There are ingredients such as sauerkraut and pepper, and sour bamboo shoots are also available directly. The tofu is just made today. Liu Li is indeed very diligent and has always been getting up earlier than him. He will help clean and make preliminary preparations together.
"The vitality of the pineapple fish is indeed very strong. Even if it has been caught for so long, it is still very lively. This means that before taking the knife, you must first slap its head with a kitchen knife and knock it out. Then remove the scales, open the abdomen and dig out the fish's gills..." Wang Yong muttered while taking action.
"If you don't kill me, will you slaughter me again?" Liu Li didn't know why, and he couldn't bear to watch this scene. After all, Wang Yong just slapped the fish out and did not kill it. It can be said that the thornfish was almost broken when he was alive.
"For the fresh fish, this is what it takes. The desire to be chewed is often based on the pain of the ingredients. There is a method of cooking carp. The fish body has been fried and the fish is still alive. The fish mouths are one by one. The chef seems to be using this to prove their knife skills and craftsmanship." Wang Yong shrugged, but he was not slow at all.
In the blink of an eye, he also chopped off the fish head, and cut the fish body twice and took out the fishing line.
"Set the fish and make soup first!" Wang Yong put down the kitchen knife in his hand, then put his hands together to see it off. Then he picked up the kitchen knife, chopped the fish head in half, and simply marinated it with ginger salt and cooking wine (yellow wine).
Add oil to the soup pot and boil it red, then add slices of ginger to stir-fry, then take out the fish head, fry it slightly, then add the prepared sour bamboo shoots, stir-fry it briefly, and add it to boil. At this time, add the tofu, usually cook for about five minutes, until the soup turns milky white.
There is no need to keep guarding at this time. Wang Yong just asked Liu Li to watch the fire and began to continue killing fish himself.
There is no waste of time to make fish head soup, and the fish meat is still very tender. Wang Yong took the fish body, cut the head, left and right from the fish tail, and push the knife forward on the spine of the fish head to the fin of the fish head, cut it with a knife, turn it over, and take another one.
Cut the fish fillet, and slice the fish skin downwards from right to left. If the fish is thin and small, in order to obtain a larger fish fillet, you can slant the fish to achieve the visual effect of the wide fish fillet. Since this fish is fat enough, cut it straight in turn.
"I didn't expect the knife skills to improve a little more..." Wang Yong couldn't help but smile as he looked at the slices of meat that were cut out quickly. He vaguely felt that when he was taking the knife, the blade seemed to touch those tiny fish bones. It was impossible to feel it before, but now he can vaguely feel it. I don't know if the next step can avoid the fish bones and remove the fish meat.
If the fish fillets do not have fine thorns, the taste will naturally be further improved. Foreigners do not like freshwater fish, largely because their resources are too rich and there are many garlic cloves to eat. On the other hand, they do not like to eat this kind of fish with a lot of fine thorns.
The cut fish fillets are made with starch, salt, and mixed with cooking oil. The starch is made by Wang Yong with wheat flour, using the old method; and for the better taste, tender meat powder is added... Maybe I don’t believe it, this is also made by hand.
The principle is very simple. Find papaya, use a special bamboo knife to cut the green fruit peels hanging on the papaya tree. The white lotion can be cut out from the green fruit peels. Collect the lotion, dry carefully, crush it, add starch and dilute it to make it into tender meat powder.
Why did Wang Yong do these things? On the one hand, it was fun, and on the other hand, after cooking a lot of dishes, I found that many finished seasonings had more or less different tastes, or even less pure. In addition, there was too much negative news, so I simply learned to make them by myself. What I made was definitely safe, after all, from the selection of materials to the production, the whole process was clear.
Chapter completed!