From selling box lunches to becoming a famous Chinese chef

Chapter 107 Fried Sugar (please subscribe, 810)

Stir-fry the sugar color, stir-fry with water, stir-fry with oil, stir-fry with water and oil.

Feng Zhengming's method of stir-frying tonight is oil stir-frying.

"Grandpa, in fact, when frying the color of sugar, you need to be patient and the fire should not be too big. Especially at the end, when the color of the sugar changes, you must use a small fire and pay close attention."

Feng Zonggu watched Feng Zhengming put a little oil in the pot, and then poured white sugar into the pot.

"It seems that rock sugar is better for frying sugar?"

Feng Zhengming said with a smile: "Rock sugar is indeed better, but if there is no rock sugar, it is the same as using ordinary white sugar."

As the temperature in the pan rises, the sugar gradually begins to melt.

Feng Zhengming gently stirred it with a spoon to speed up the melting of the sugar.

Gradually, the sugar in the pot melted into syrup, and Feng Zhengming stirred it gently with the back of a spoon.

The sugar in the pot starts out as a white, transparent syrup.

Feng Zhengming smiled and said to Grandpa Feng: "This can be used to make some shredded dishes."

The syrup begins to take on a slightly yellow color in the slow cooker.

Feng Zhengming added: "This time can be used to make candied haws."

At this time, Feng Zhengming tilted the wok slightly to concentrate the fire on one point, and the syrup also gathered at that point, and continued to stir the syrup in the pot with a spoon.

As it heats up with stirring, the syrup gradually becomes darker in color and begins to bubble.

After soaking, the color of the syrup deepens further.

Dense vesicles began to appear.

Finally the syrup in the pot turns dark reddish brown.

And when you scoop it up with a spoon, the syrup will hang on the surface of the spoon.

Feng Zhengming said: "This way is enough. If it is braised pork or large intestine, you can put the meat and large intestine directly into the pot at this time, so that you can stir-fry and color them directly."

After saying that, Feng Zhengming poured the prepared boiling water into the pot, and the sugar color was diluted in an instant.

"Grandpa must pour boiling water at this time, and never pour cold water into the pot."

Feng Zonggu nodded: "I know, the sugar-colored temperature in the pot is very high. If you pour cold water in, the pot will fry."

Feng Zhengming poured out the fried sugar in the pot and showed it to Grandpa Feng in a small bowl.

Feng Zonggu looked at it carefully and said, "Well, the candy color is really good, a kind of maroon red."

Feng Zhengming then took out the meat that had been soaked and washed with hot water.

Cut the meat into large pieces very quickly.

Put all the large meat slices in a large basin, pour the prepared sugar color into it, and use your hands to coat each piece of meat with sugar color.

Feng Zonggu looked at the candy-colored meat, nodded and said, "Yes, it does look rosy and beautiful like this."

Feng Zhengming smiled and said: "It will be even more beautiful after it comes out of the pot."

Then the grandfather and grandson tied the pieces of meat together with cattails.

Some fat and lean meats are not very uniform, or some of the meat slices are relatively small. I cut a small piece from the meat on the side and add it, and then tie it together with cattails.

After everything was tied up, Feng Zhengming first sauteed the onions and ginger in a wok until fragrant, then poured soy sauce into the wok and fried the soy sauce until cooked.

Then pour the fried soy sauce into the prepared large pot, add water to the pot, and add the tied meat slices to the pot.

After putting the prepared seasoning into the pot, Feng Zhengming carefully seasoned the large pot of soup.

Once the flavor of the soup is adjusted, bring it to a boil over high heat and remove some of the floating oil from cooking the meat slices. Then turn to low heat, cover the prepared lotus leaves on top, and finally cover the pot.

Once everything is done, the next step is to slowly simmer.

Feng Zhengming used this time to prepare tofu, dried tofu, gluten and eggs.

After cutting the tofu, Feng Zhengming was preparing to fry the tofu.

Feng Zonggu stopped him and said, "Don't fry it. It consumes too much oil. When I used to make it, I would use a pan to brush it with a layer of oil and then fry it on both sides."

With that said, Grandpa Feng went to find the big pan he used back then.

Feng Zhengming took a look and saw that the pot was very clean. It was obvious that his grandfather had prepared it for a long time.

"Grandpa, why are you still preparing these things? Just tell me and I will prepare them."

Feng Zonggu said: "What's the matter? You think your grandpa is old so quickly? You can't do it anymore, right?"

Feng Zhengming said: "How can that be possible? Grandpa is always getting stronger."

Feng Zonggu said: "That's right. Although grandpa is old, he is in good health. Tomorrow morning, grandpa and I will go buy meat. By the way, I will ask Lao Tang if I can get you some pig's trotters."

As soon as Feng Zhengming heard about making pig's trotters, he immediately understood what Grandpa Feng meant.

"Grandpa is thinking that I can't just sell meat, but also sell some braised pig's trotters?"

Feng Zonggu said: "We sell them together. I used to sell them together."

Feng Zhengming nodded after hearing this: "Okay, I will listen to grandpa. Anyway, the place for pushing the cart is quite big. When the time comes, there will be a big pot of meat, two pots of stir-fry, and some pig's trotters. Business will definitely be good."

Feng Zonggu said: "The train station is not a long-term business. You have to make your name as soon as possible. When you move back from the South Station, you open the shop and you will naturally attract people to come to your door."

Feng Zhengming smiled and said: "Of course, our meat is definitely no problem."

As he spoke, Feng Zhengming took the big pan.

Put the big pot on the stove, heat it up first, then pour some oil into the pot, and slowly put the pieces of tofu on it and fry them.

During this process, Feng Zhengming also discovered that the kitchen in Grandpa Feng’s yard should be the place where Grandpa Feng used to make meat.

Because it is very convenient to use regardless of the space, the adaptation of the stove and pots, and even the prepared large and small briquette stoves.

After frying the tofu, Feng Zhengming asked: "Grandpa, you must have been making meat here before, right?"

Feng Zonggu nodded: "Yes, we were here before. The conditions were not good in the early days. The briquette stove you use to stew meat now was specially made by me later. It used to be an earthen stove and needed to burn firewood. At that time Grandma lit the fire for me, and I was responsible for stuffing it and seasoning the soup."

Speaking of this, the old man naturally thought of his deceased wife.

"My grandma suffered a lifetime of hardship following me. Later, when my children became successful and our living conditions gradually improved, she got sick."

Feng Zhengming fell silent. He understood that his grandfather was stuck in memories at this time.

I can feel the guilt that grandpa feels towards grandma, and the deep love that grandpa has for grandma.

That's not the passionate love of young people.

It's not all love for family.

It was a very deep and profound love that truly lasted a lifetime.

Feng Zonggu came back from his memories, wiped his face and said: "To stew meat, it is better to use a briquette stove, the firepower is more even, you remember to put the eggs into the meat pot and stew them together, then put them out A portion of the soup is used to cook the tofu, dried tofu and gluten separately.”

After the explanation, Feng Zonggu said: "At night, just put in a new briquette and seal the stove. Be sure to pay attention to safety. Grandpa is a little tired and goes to bed first. Remember to lock the door."

Feng Zhengming agreed and said: "I know, Grandpa, please have a good rest and leave the rest to me. You will get up tomorrow to inspect the results."

The old man nodded with satisfaction, turned around and walked out of the kitchen.

(End of this chapter)