Gourmet food starts from the green leather train chef

Chapter 50
The Yanchitan mutton produced in Yinxia is the first-class top grade even if you look around the world.

Because the shallow water here is of good texture and rich in minerals, and the grassland here grows licorice, bitter bean, ten lixiang, mint, capillary, bupleurum, astragalus, sand ginseng, terrestris, anemarrhena, There are hundreds of kinds of Chinese herbal medicines, such as Baijiangcao and plantain seed, and Xiaoyangmen in Yanchitan has naturally become a world-famous "medicine sheep".

It is very simple to distinguish the authenticity of Yanchitan sheep. Its meat is bright red and has low acid content. The lean meat and fat are evenly distributed. The cut section is very similar to the top-quality Snowflake Wagyu. Novices will never miss it.

Such top-quality lamb is not suitable for grilling with cumin peppers, it is simply wasteful!The best way to eat it is to cut it into thin skin and fry it raw on an iron plate, or stew it directly, and you only need to add some salt, even the onion and ginger are redundant.

Zhou Zhou chose to bake!

It's just that what Zhouzhou uses is not the ordinary roasting method, but a method called 'clear roasting'.

This is also one of the secret methods of making roasted lamb chop porridge. Modern chefs probably have never even heard of it. What they pay attention to is "roast without roasting color!" '

Under normal circumstances, lamb chops must be grilled until golden brown, which has even become the primary criterion for gourmets to judge whether a lamb chop can pass the test.

But there are exceptions to everything. If the lamb chops are roasted until golden when making roasted lamb chops porridge, then this pot of porridge can’t be seen. All kinds of different colors must not be allowed to appear in the top-grade porridge bottom.

Because there must be a peculiar smell if there is a different color!Even the charming aroma of barbecue should not appear in a pot of good porridge, just like a woman with excellent temperament should not appear in the red light district at night.

This kind of clear roasting method has a lot of requirements on the chef, and the emphasis is on a quick hand and a quick eye.

Zhouzhou first cut the lamb chops into two-inch square pieces, and then thickened it with water. The amount of gorgon powder was controlled at one-third of the normal amount, so that the lamb chops could be thickened just enough, and the gorgon powder was not thick enough. will be too thick.

Put the thickened lamb chops into the oven, set the temperature at 75 degrees, and then Zhou Zhou stared at the lamb chops in the oven. After about 20 seconds, the thin thickened lamb chops just started to change color. Take it out immediately, quickly cool it with an air gun, and then gently wipe off the gorgon powder layer on the outside of the lamb chops with your fingers.

Then thicken it again and put it in the oven, repeat the above operation.
After repeating this six times, the lamb chops that have been stripped of the thin outer layer still look fresh and tender, just like fresh lamb chops that have not been cooked at all, but they have actually been roasted to six mature, and the bones of the lamb ooze The bone oil is also tightly locked under the meat layer.

At this time, if you take a magnifying glass to observe Zhou Zhouqing's roasted lamb chops, you will find that [-]% of the fat that is evenly distributed among the red muscle and lean meat like snowflakes has disappeared, and has completely penetrated into the lean meat.

Yanchi Tan sheep is famous for not having too much smell, but more of a faint fragrance, but ordinary grilling and stewing methods cannot completely lock in this kind of fragrance, and it will be lost more or less; but in With Zhou Zhou's slow roasting method, the most precious Naixiang is completely locked in the meat layer and preserved.

Gently wiping off the fine sweat on his forehead, Zhou Zhou was still very satisfied with his 'work'; one must know that the experience left to him by the masters of the past dynasties is to use charcoal fire to realize this 'clean baking' method, but he Due to the constraints of the conditions, I had to choose an electric oven.

Although the salt flat lamb chops baked in this way will lose some of the smoke and fire flavor of the world, the modern technology of the electric oven allows him to control the heat more accurately, which can be regarded as a gain and loss.

Once the grilled lamb chops are finished, this 'roasted lamb chops porridge' is ready to come out.

Zhou Zhou evenly distributed the grilled lamb chops in the porridge, turned on the slow fire and continued to cook, and at the same time used a long-handled soup spoon to stick to the wall of the pot and gently probe the bottom of the pot, and then gently shake it layer by layer from left to right .

This is because the bottom of the porridge is already very thick at this time, and the previous stirring method is no longer applicable. This special method must be used to distribute the heat from the bottom of the pot evenly in the porridge, and at the same time, be careful not to touch the lamb. Row.

This is something that those Michelin-starred western food chefs can't even imagine; even Western food chefs who have to weigh every condiment and produce it like an assembly line would never believe that someone can sense the food hidden in the food with a long-handled spoon. Lamb chops in thick porridge.

This kind of operation relies entirely on unbelievable feelings and unspeakable experiences.

Half an hour later, the rich aroma of porridge filled the entire kitchen. Zhou Zhou smiled and looked at Chen Yan who was in a daze: "Don't be in a daze. Tell Brother Li and Xiao Zhang to prepare the meal."

Chen Yan, who was dazzled by Zhou Zhou's operation, hesitated for a while: "Old Zhou, you don't seem to use any seasoning, even salt?"

It is not uncommon for meat dishes to be used in porridge. Guangdong Province and Xiangjiang, who love to cook porridge, even have salted fish porridge. Pig blood, pork liver, preserved egg and lean meat porridge are even more famous, but you have to add salt?This is not vegetarian porridge, and it uses mutton, so it's too strange not to add salt?
"Top-level ingredients often only need the simplest cooking method, so I don't put any seasonings in this pot of roasted lamb chops except rice and lamb chops!"

Zhou Zhou smiled and said, "Why, you don't doubt my cooking skills, do you?"

Chen Yan nodded very seriously: "I doubt it very much, so for the benefit of the passengers, I need to taste it in advance, this is the duty of a people's servant!"

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Zhou Zhou was a little speechless. If you want to eat, you can say that you want to eat. What are you talking about so much?
When Chen Yan pushed the shopping cart into the soft sleeper compartment, her head was still dizzy.

It's like just waking up from a hangover, and I'm still in a daze; it's like I'm not getting enough sleep, and everything looks like a flowered pillow.

It seemed that the beautiful scene when the porridge noodles were broken in front of her eyes, and the aroma of roasted lamb chop porridge seemed to linger in her mouth, and the aroma lingered for a long time, making her a little reluctant to open her mouth.

"Old Zhou is a devil, right? How could a person make such porridge?
What kind of fairy porridge is that? There is really no salt or any seasoning, and it tastes so good."

The tongue turned around in the mouth, as if every turn could still touch the unspeakable mellow fragrance.

Chen Yan, who kept her mouth tightly shut, quickly attracted the attention of the passengers. As soon as she walked to the door of a double soft sleeper box, someone called her from the box door that had been opened early.

"Miss Chen, is the grilled lamb chop porridge on your cart? Why don't you sell it?"

Lu Meiqi leaped out of the soft sleeper box, went to the shopping cart and looked through the lunch box, frowned and said, "Why didn't you see any oil on the porridge? Didn't you say you used roasted lamb chops?"

(End of this chapter)