From selling box lunches to becoming a famous Chinese chef

Chapter 123: Pot Collapse Yellow Croaker (Third Update)

Pan-tapping is a technique in which the vegetables are first fried and then simmered in soup, which can also be called "pan-tapping".

Feng Zhengming didn't expect that his senior brother would make pot-stuffed yellow croaker today.

The main ingredient of this dish is large yellow croaker.

The ingredients are also very simple, just eggs and onion and ginger.

Of course, if you want to make this dish delicious, you must prepare some things.

Prepare scallion oil in advance for frying large yellow croaker.

Today, Li Huidong specially prepared clear soup for when he collapses.

Although it was done at home, the senior brother also prepared various things in advance.

Including the clear soup, he brought it from the cafeteria.

It can be seen that the senior brother has made sufficient preparations for the dinner tonight.

After breaking open the large yellow croaker, clean the belly of the fish and make a cut on the fish meat inside the belly.

After cutting the fish knife, you also need to cut the fish meat with the tip of the knife a few times to penetrate the skin. This will prevent the fish skin from curling during the frying process, which may cause the fish skin to break and affect the quality of the entire fish. Beautiful.

Li Huidong cut the onion and ginger into thin strips, put some of it on the large yellow croaker, poured some onion and pepper cooking wine, and added some salt to let the fish get the flavor.

Watching the senior brother do this, Feng Zhengming used a bowl to knock out the eggs.

Li Huidong watched Feng Zhengming crack two eggs and said, "Add the remaining egg yolks from Leizi and Xiaopeng."

Just before, Zhang Lei and Yang Peng used egg whites in cooking, leaving the yolks unused.

Feng Zhengming added the remaining egg yolk to the two beaten eggs.

Use chopsticks to beat the egg liquid evenly, then add 1:1 flour and starch into it.

Also stir evenly so that the flour and starch are completely integrated into the egg liquid. Do not add water to it during this process.

While Feng Zhengming was stirring the paste evenly, Li Huidong had already moistened the pot.

Clean the green onion and ginger shreds from the pickled yellow croaker, and then wipe the water from the fish.

First pat some flour on the inside and outside of the fish body, and then spread Feng Zhengming's mixed paste on the surface.

Add scallion oil to the pot, slightly more oil.

Then the senior brother took the fish and slowly lowered it into the pot.

When Feng Zhengming saw his senior brother putting the fish in the pot, he immediately reached out to help turn down the heat of the liquefied gas stove.

During the frying process, the heat must be low throughout, and care must be taken not to burn the surface.

Li Huidong picked up the pot and moved it very carefully so that the fried side would be heated as evenly as possible.

Feng Zhengming watched the elder brother frying slowly, with a hint of expectation in his eyes.

At this time, Zhang Lei and Yang Peng came back after serving the food.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Feng Zhengming turned his head and asked the two of them to speak softly.

Then the three of them looked at Li Huidong together, and suddenly made a huge move.

The large yellow croaker fried in the pot was turned over directly in the pot.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Lei and Yang Peng were shocked.

Having followed Master for so long, I have seen many of Master’s cooking processes.

It's not like Zhang Lei and Yang Peng have never seen such a big turn of the spoon today.

But the fish today is relatively large. It is still difficult to turn the fish flat in the pot, especially since there is still oil in the pot for frying the fish.

Li Huidong was very steady, without any hesitation, and made a big turn very neatly.

After flipping the spoon, fry the other side as well.

Before taking it out of the pan, Li Huidong turned the spoon again to confirm whether the other side was cooked.

Make sure both sides are fried, and the large yellow croaker is officially out of the pan. After the large yellow croaker is out of the pot, put a little oil in the pot, stir-fry the onion and ginger shreds until fragrant, add cooking wine, and then pour the clear soup prepared in advance into the pot.

Add salt to taste, and add the previously fried large yellow croaker into the pot.

The soup in the pot is almost the same as that of the large yellow croaker.

Also use chopsticks to prick the fish a few times to help the fish absorb the soup and flavor.

Then place a large round plate on top.

Just enough to cover the whole fish.

Li Huidong saw the two apprentices coming back and standing nearby, so he took the opportunity to say something to them.

"This is a technique for making a pot collapse. Remember, when the pot collapses, you must put a plate on it, so you have to prepare the plate before doing it, because if you put the plate on like this, the water vapor will be trapped inside. It forms an internal circulation to better absorb the fish’s flavor.”

While the pot collapsed, Li Huidong took out some other dishes he had prepared in advance and asked his two apprentices to serve them.

By the time all the dishes were served, the pot had probably collapsed for about seven or eight minutes.

Li Huidong uncovered the plate, added a little MSG and cooking wine, and turned up the heat to reduce the soup.

When it's almost done, put the plate on top, turn off the heat and pour out the soup in the pot.

Then put the large yellow croaker collapsed in the pot onto a plate.

Return the soup that was poured out in advance to the pot, add some scallion oil to reduce the juice and brighten it, and pour it on the surface of the large yellow croaker on the plate.

This plate of large yellow croaker is complete.

Li Huidong smiled and picked up the plate and handed it to Feng Zhengming.

"You've been here for a long time, go and serve this plate of rice."

Feng Zhengming took the pot of yellow croaker and said, "Brother, please don't clean up the kitchen. Let's eat first. After dinner, I will clean up the kitchen slowly."

Li Huidong patted his junior brother: "You go first, I'll clean up a little and then go over."

Seeing that Feng Zhengming didn't move, Li Huidong urged: "Hurry up, are you tired of holding it like this? The food will get cold after a while."

Feng Zhengming had no choice but to hurry to serve the food.

Carrying the large yellow croaker in the pot into the living room, Feng Zhengming greeted everyone with a smile: "Come on, the fish is on the table. Grandpa can sit down and eat."

Feng Zonggu stood up and called everyone to sit down. At the same time, he said to Feng Zhengming: "Go and get your senior brother over. Don't let him be busy in the kitchen. We can't eat all the dishes."

Feng Zhengming turned around and hurried to the small courtyard kitchen.

Sure enough, the senior brother was cleaning and packing things.

Feng Zhengming rushed forward and grabbed his senior brother: "Brother, please leave it alone. Let's go eat first. Grandpa has spoken. If you don't go, we won't start the dinner."

After hearing what his junior brother said, Li Huidong had no choice but to put down what he was holding.

I washed my hands, took off my apron and placed it by the stove.

After carefully checking the things in the kitchen, Li Huidong and Feng Zhengming walked out.

The two brothers came to the living room together.

Feng Zonggu greeted: "Come on, everyone, sit down."

Feng Zhengming and Li Huidong went over and took their seats.

The big table in the living room of Grandpa Feng's house was almost full of people.

Seeing everyone, the old man was very happy: "It's a great day today. It's a great honor for me to invite you, Senior Brother Zhengming."

Li Huidong quickly said: "Grandpa, don't say that. It's an honor for us to be our guests."

Feng Zhengming raised his glass with a smile: "We are all my family members. There is no need to be so polite. Let's raise a glass together to celebrate that we can gather at grandpa's house tonight."

Everyone immediately toasted together, and everyone's face was filled with happy smiles.

(End of this chapter)