Chapter 760 Nothing but familiarity
After the eight delicacies are prepared, you only need to take a portion of each, simmer them together with the colorful pheasant, barley, shiitake mushrooms, bamboo shoot slices and ham for four hours. Stew the colorful pheasant until crispy, and the [Golden Phoenix Soup] is ready. .
Li Yi didn't have to worry about the cooking time. After mixing, he handed the soup to Hao Libao and asked Hao Libao to arrange for someone to watch it stew.
He himself went back to work on the unfinished "Phoenix Raising Nine Youngs".
Several apprentices have prepared nine famous chicken dishes according to Li Yi's requirements.
Li Yi took a carving knife and cut off the chicken teeth from the Jiudao Chicken.
After cooking, the chicken teeth are still fresh and tender.
Li Yi cut them into very thin shreds of meat, then smeared them with the soup and seasonings of each dish, and stuffed them into the eggshells one by one.
Li Yi asked Hao Libao to do the work of stuffing the shredded pork, because he had to process the shredded pork into a ball shape in the eggshell.
This step requires him to use a hot-bent bamboo slice and a thin bamboo needle to work through the narrow egg holes to weave the shredded meat into a ball.
This operation requires very stable hands, fine control, and rich experience.
Seeing Li Yi carefully weaving meat **** into the eggshell with bamboo slices and silk, Hao Libao couldn't help but ask: "Chop it into minced meat, stuff it into the eggshell and shake it evenly, won't it form a ball?" Does it need to be so complicated?”
“Wouldn’t the sauce stick to the eggshell?”
Li Yi explained casually while knitting: "The effect I want is that after peeling off the eggshell, the egg white is as white as a hard-boiled egg, and the inside is not visible.
After cutting it open, you can find that there is meat filling inside.
Moreover, the texture of meat **** braided with shredded pork can be controlled, and the final effect will be beautiful. "
“Texture?”
Hao Libao didn’t understand.
No matter how beautiful the texture of shredded meat is, isn’t it still shredded meat?
He wanted to ask again, but his cell phone rang.
Taking out his mobile phone and answering the call, he answered a few times and then said: "Xiao Xu, the front office manager of our unit, is here. I will introduce him to you later."
With that said, he called one of his disciples over and ordered him to pick him up.
After a while, the disciple returned to the kitchen with a round-faced man.
The man looked less than forty years old, had a warm smile, was wearing decent work clothes, and his leather shoes were polished. After entering the door, he went straight to Hao Libao.
“Mr. Hao.”
After saying hello to Hao Libao, he looked at Li Yi who was busy with his eyes curiously.
After receiving a call from Hao Libao last night, he initially thought it was Hao Libao who was drunk and talking nonsense.
The standards of the State Guesthouse are already the highest in the country, so why do we still need to go to variety shows to gain experience?
However, as the front office manager of the unit, he is responsible for the front-line work of the unit, and it is his responsibility to keep learning at all times.
Moreover, it was Hao Libao who made the request. He had to give it to the executive chef, so he rushed over as soon as possible after going to the unit to arrange the work early this morning.
“Xiao Xu, this is the Master Li I told you. Master Li, this is Xiao Xu, the front office manager of our unit.”
Hao Libao introduced them to them with a smile.
“Manager Xu.”
Li Yi turned around, nodded and smiled: "I'm holding my hand, so I won't greet you. Nice to meet you!"
“No, no, no, I’m the one who disturbed you.”
Manager Xu looked at the kitchen and said with a smile: "We are not far away. I have heard that you are filming a show here, but I have never had the chance to come and take a look. I finally came this time, and it feels really good."
The State Guesthouse is also ten kilometers away from the restaurant, and you have to take the subway for five stops.
In the capital, the distance of five stops is indeed not too far, but he was obviously being polite when he said this.
“Hasn’t Manager Xu watched our program?”
Huang Xiaoming on the side asked with a smile.
Manager Xu explained with a smile: "But my daughter is a loyal fan of your program. She has always recommended me to watch your program. I also plan to watch your program again when I have free time." Then I have to thank your daughter. Support!”
Huang Xiaoming smiled and said: "We can take a photo together later and give it to your daughter."
“Taking a group photo…”
Manager Xu hesitated for a moment, then quickly glanced at Hao Libao, nodded, and joked: "Okay! I'm just not photogenic, so I can't compare with your celebrities, haha!"
Listening to their conversation at the back, Li Yi kept knitting in the eggshell with his hands steadily.
After looking at him, Hao Libao came forward and explained with a smile: "Little Xu is pretty good."
He is very familiar with Manager Xu. Although he is very polite in dealing with others, people who come out of the State Guesthouse are somewhat self-reliant on their status.
However, Manager Xu’s meaning was very obscure, and Huang Xiaoming didn’t catch it.
Hao Libao didn't know if Li Yi understood, but to be on the safe side, he took the initiative to explain.
“Well, that’s good.”
Li Yi smiled and raised his chin at him.
People who eat royal food seriously will definitely be a little arrogant. This is normal.
In the dream space, any imperial chef in the imperial dining room would have his eyes turned to the sky and his nostrils upward when he left the palace.
Compared with the imperial chefs, Manager Xu is already very polite.
Hearing what Li Yi said, Hao Libao immediately knew that he really understood.
It’s okay to explain it, but Li Yi is also a good person! It's really hard to fool.
As he spoke, Li Yi had already braided a chicken ball.
With the chicken **** sandwiched between bamboo slices and bamboo needles, Li Yi asked Hao Libao to take the egg white, use a needle to **** out the egg white, and inject it into the egg.
Looking at the egg white in the eggshell gradually covering the meat ball, Li Yi withdrew the bamboo needle and shouted stop.
Hao Libao stopped and asked: "Is it enough?"
"enough."
Li Yi pulled out the bamboo piece and picked up a spoonful of egg white from the elbow. He scooped it up and threw it back into the egg white basin.
Then, he dipped a bamboo needle into the egg white in the egg shell and applied it to the broken part of the egg shell.
Hao Libao curiously looked at the hole and saw that the chicken ball was suspended in the egg liquid. The position was neither high nor low, just right in the center.
"pretty."
Hao Libao sighed in admiration.
The ratio of meat to egg white is just right, and it’s really beautifully done.
What is Kung Fu? This is called Kung Fu.
After smearing a circle of egg white, Li Yi cut a set of egg carton cardboards and divided them into individual egg cartons.
Afterwards, he took the eggshell that he had broken and put aside before and put it on the eggshell again.
Pressing it gently, Li Yi put the egg in the egg box and placed it on the counter.
Taking a stainless steel basin and placing it on the egg carton, Li Yi turned back and continued making other eggs.
It took him a full forty minutes to make all nine phoenix eggs.
But in Hao Libao's view, it was nothing short of a miracle.
Controlling bamboo slices and bamboo needles in a hole the size of a penny, and using slender chicken wire to weave a meat ball in the center of the eggshell, the precision of this operation is no less than that of a heart surgery.
And the time it took Li Yi to make each egg actually didn't exceed five minutes?
What is this if not a miracle?
But for Li Yi, this is nothing to be proud of.
Nothing else but familiarity with your hands.
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(End of this chapter)