From selling box lunches to becoming a famous Chinese chef

Chapter 224 One cabbage can make two dishes

While the restaurant was busy, the food stalls at Feng Zhengming Railway Station were also very lively.

Although only Chen Anbang came tonight, the two of them still ran the food stall very well.

Around this time, the square in front of the train station began to become deserted, and the food stalls saw off another wave of passengers.

Li Zhifeng, the president of the Culinary Association, and several directors of the Municipal Culinary Association appeared in front of the food stall.

Feng Zhengming was a little surprised to see Li Zhifeng and the others.

"President Li, why are you here?"

Li Zhifeng laughed and asked, "What's wrong? We can't come? Our culinary association should have come to support the food stalls created by the best young chefs in Quancheng."

Feng Zhengming also laughed: "If you want to try my craftsmanship, you can work in the restaurant."

Li Zhifeng said immediately: "I have inquired, but I couldn't find you at the restaurant at night."

Feng Zhengming asked: "Who did President Li ask?"

At this time, another figure walked out from behind Li Zhifeng and the others.

Feng Zhengming took a closer look and saw that it was his senior brother Li Huidong.

"Brother, why are you here too?"

Without waiting for Li Huidong to answer, Li Zhifeng answered helpfully: "Hahaha, tonight our cooking association is here specifically to try your craftsmanship, Master Xiao Feng."

Feng Zhengming immediately smiled and invited everyone to come in and sit down.

"Anbang, go and tidy up the inside."

Naturally, Chen Anbang hurried into the food stall to clean up.

Li Zhifeng and the others said it was okay as they walked inside.

"No need to bother, it's not the first time we've come to eat at a food stall."

"That's right, when we come to the food stall, what we eat is the smoke of fireworks. It's not good for you to clean up too cleanly."

"As soon as I walked in here, I immediately remembered what I had done before, setting up a stove on the street to cook for people. At that time, cooking dozens of dishes a day was very hard."

"Hahaha, then you have finally gained the reward after all your hardships. Let the young man cook for us two of the dishes you cooked at the beginning."

Hearing this, the director of the association who also cooked vegetables on the streets immediately said: "Okay, the best dish I sold back then was either a meat dish or a vegetable. I wonder if Master Feng can cook it today." Want to do it?"

Feng Zhengming agreed: "As long as I have any dishes here, I can cook them. Just tell me."

The other party nodded and announced the name of the dish: "Vinegar cabbage."

Feng Zhengming promised seriously: "Okay, I will make one tonight, and you can give it a review."

Li Huidong asked: "What you did back then was very traditional, and you only used vegetables, right?"

The other party nodded again: "Yes, it's a very traditional way to make vinegar. Only the vegetables are used. The vegetables in front are used for other dishes at that time."

Then Senior Brother Li Huidong glanced at Feng Zhengming's food stall stall and said: "Zhengming, then you can have two of them, cabbage with vinegar, and a vegetable roll with pickled vegetable leaves."

Feng Zhengming understood as soon as he heard this that his senior brother was helping him.

On the one hand, he asked what the other party did originally, and on the other hand, he also wanted to prevent Feng Zhengming from wasting materials.

Feng Zhengming smiled and agreed: "Okay, a vinegary cabbage and a pickled cabbage roll."

Then Feng Zhengming asked Li Zhifeng: "President Li, do you want to order any other dishes?"

Li Zhifeng said: "You can do the rest. Just give us four or five dishes. Don't have too many. It's not good to waste more than you can finish."

Feng Zhengming naturally agreed: "Okay, Chairman Li."

After agreeing, Feng Zhengming first took out a big cabbage.

Peel off all the outer leaves and choose leaves that are closer to the inside but not the innermost layer.

Stack the vegetable leaves neatly together.

First, cut off the lower part of the vegetable with one knife.

Then Feng Zhengming asked Chen Anbang to use a small pot to boil the water for him.

Chen Anbang had never seen Feng Zhengming make this dish of braised cabbage rolls, so he did it exactly according to Feng Zhengming's instructions.

While Chen Anbang was boiling water, Feng Zhengming quickly took out a piece of pork belly, some shrimps and eggs, and cut some winter bamboo shoots by the way.

Peel the pork belly and cut into small cubes, then roughly chop into minced meat.

The shrimps are also chopped into relatively coarse shrimp paste.

Then cut the winter bamboo shoots into small dices.

These are ready, and the water in the pot over there has boiled. Feng Zhengming added salt and cooking wine to the pot, and then put the cabbage leaves into the pot and boiled.

He told Chen Anbang: "You watch them cook. When the vegetable leaves are soft, take them out and remember to soak them in cold water."

Chen Anbang immediately nodded and agreed.

Feng Zhengming quickly mixed the stuffing.

Add salt, pepper, MSG, onion, ginger and cooking wine to the pork and shrimp paste and beat. Then add the diced winter bamboo shoots and half an egg together, and add a little dry starch and beat.

The stuffing is ready, and the cabbage over there is almost done.

Feng Zhengming took the vegetable leaves out of the soaking water.

After squeezing out some of the water on it, let Chen Anbang watch how he wrapped it.

"You see, unfold a vegetable leaf, which is about the stuffing of a finger, and then roll it up a little like this, then tuck the two sides in, finally roll it up, and then wrap it around with a green onion like this. "

After giving Chen Anbang a demonstration, Feng Zhengming asked: "Do you understand?"

Chen Anbang nodded: "I understand."

Feng Zhengming watched Chen Anbang wrap another one, making sure that he could wrap it well, and asked Chen Anbang to wrap the remaining vegetable leaves.

At the same time, Feng Zhengming began to process the cabbage gangs he had cut before.

The leaves are used to make cabbage rolls.

Cabbage gang is used to make vinegar cabbage.

First, put the vegetables on the cutting board one by one, and cut them all with knives about two finger widths.

Then Feng Zhengming began to slice the cabbage with a spatula diagonally.

And when slicing, the first blade cannot cut through, and the second blade can completely cut through.

In this way, each piece of cabbage has a pinch opening.

This is to make it easier for the vinegar to soak in after a while.

The Baicai Gang film is ready, but Feng Zhengming sees that Chen Anbang hasn’t finished filming yet.

So I told him: "After you finish wrapping, place it on a plate, then put the steam in the steamer and steam it for about ten minutes."

Chen Anbang agreed while making the package: "I know about Master Feng."

At this time, Senior Brother Li Huidong came over to take a look. I heard Chen Anbang call Feng Zhengming "Master Feng".

Li Huidong smiled and said: "Not bad, Xiao Chen is going to become a disciple."

Chen Anbang said quickly: "No, Master Feng hasn't said that he wants to accept me as his apprentice."

Feng Zhengming continued to do his work, cutting the onions, ginger and garlic into mince, and chopped more of the minced garlic.

While responding to the senior brother: "I am accepting a disciple, and I will definitely inform the master and senior brother."

Before the senior brother could speak, Feng Zhengming added: "At the moment, Anbang has not yet reached the standard for accepting disciples."

Li Huidong watched Feng Zhengming busy from the side and said with a smile: "Don't ask too much of Xiao Chen. I think Xiao Chen does a good job without complaining. If he knows everything, why would he want to be your master?" "

Over there, Chen Anbang immediately said: "I know how to do it, and I am willing to become Master Feng's disciple."

Li Huidong immediately became happy when he heard this: "Hahaha, you kid, can't you see that I'm speaking for you?"

Chen Anbang said seriously: "Thank you, Master Li."

When Li Huidong saw that his junior brother did not take up the challenge, he could only say to Chen Anbang: "Okay, you work hard. I believe that one day you will impress your boss and let him accept you as his apprentice."

Then Li Huidong took a few steps closer to his junior brother and whispered: "President Li and the others have basically decided tonight that you will be the representative of our young generation in Quancheng at the provincial youth chef exchange competition at the end of the year."

Feng Zhengming continued busy with his work and prepared the bowl of juice.

Vinegar cabbage, vinegar is definitely the key.

Feng Zhengming first added a tablespoon of rice vinegar to the bowl, then added soy sauce, salt, sugar, and finally water starch. After mixing thoroughly, he also added minced garlic into the bowl of juice.

While doing these preparations, Feng Zhengming heard the senior brother's words, thought for a while and responded in a low voice.

"I am not the only one among the younger generation of chefs in Quancheng. Last time, the younger generation of Jubinyuan took action, and Taifenglou and Jufengde did not take action. There is no guarantee that they will not have experts."

Li Huidong couldn't help but laugh after hearing this: "Did you do it on purpose? If President Li and others were better than you, would they still regard you as the representative of the young generation in Quancheng?"

After a slight pause, Li Huidong added: "Don't worry, you are not asked to go to the exchange competition alone. Jubinyuan, Taifeng Building and Jufengde will all send young chefs. You can be regarded as the back-up of our generation of young chefs in Quancheng. At the last critical moment, you need to step up and at least be in the top three."

Feng Zhengming said while rinsing the pot: "It's not easy to get into the top three. There are so many people in the province."

Li Huidong smiled and said: "You are really humble. This is not your style."

Feng Zhengming moistened the pot, added peanut oil and onion and pepper oil to the pot. After the oil was hot, he first added the onion, ginger and rice to the pot and sauteed until fragrant, then added the cabbage to the pot and stir-fried.

Stir-fry over high heat until the surface of the cabbage becomes oily and becomes slightly translucent.

After stirring the bowl of juice, cook it directly into the pot along the edge.

Stir-fry quickly over high heat so that the juice from the bowl evenly coats the surface of the cabbage.

When the vegetables and juice in the pot are completely integrated, turn off the heat and pour in some peppercorn oil, then quickly remove from the pot and put on a plate.

The vinegared cabbage was fried. Feng Zhengming took the dishes and went to serve them with his senior brother.

"Here you go, jealous cabbage."

Seeing Feng Zhengming serve this dish on the table, the eyes of the Culinary Association members instantly lit up.

The director who ordered this dish praised: "Okay, okay, it looks like this, a light brown color, this color, and the right aroma, no problem."

Li Huidong also sat down and introduced Feng Zhengming.

"This is Director Zhang, who can be regarded as our big brother. He also worked in the back kitchen of Yanxi Building back then."

Feng Zhengming smiled and said hello: "Hello, Director Zhang."

Director Zhang waved his hand and said, "Director Zhang, my name is Zhang Liqiang. If Master Xiao Feng doesn't mind, just call me Senior Brother Zhang."

Li Huidong also went on to introduce: "By the way, Zhang Lei is Senior Brother Zhang's nephew."

Zhang Liqiang said with a smile: "Yes, I recommended Zhang Lei to Huidong. I heard that he caused you a lot of trouble. Last time I went to his house, he told me that after the junior uncle left, They worked hard in the cafeteria, and all day long Master felt that he and Yang Peng were not doing well."

Feng Zhengming didn't expect that Zhang Lei would have such an uncle.

"So Senior Brother Zhang is Zhang Lei's uncle? Then we are really family members."

Zhang Liqiang said: "Yes, my family."

Feng Zhengming pointed to the dishes on the table and said: "President Li, Senior Brother Zhang, you eat first. I will continue to cook the rest of the dishes and come back to accompany you later."

Li Zhifeng said: "Okay, you go first."

When Feng Zhengming came back, he saw that Chen Anbang had just finished wrapping all the cabbage rolls and put them into the steamer to steam.

So he quickly started preparing several other dishes.

I gave President Li and Senior Brother a piece of osmanthus meat.

Turning around, I saw that they seemed to have brought a bottle of wine, and Feng Zhengming made another coriander fried belly silk to go with the wine.

Because the stomach is prepared in advance, these two dishes are faster to prepare.

By the time these two dishes are ready and served, the cabbage rolls are almost ready to be steamed.

Li Zhifeng and Li Huidong saw the dishes on the table.

Each one of them made them full of praise.

Especially the first dish of vinegared cabbage made everyone in the cooking association think it was delicious.

“It’s crisp and refreshing, and the vinegar flavor is really good.”

"Yes, the last time I was at Jubinyuan, it was also the vinegar and pepper fish soup with fried conch slices made by Master Xiao Feng, right? The vinegar and pepper flavored soup made me feel particularly delicious."

"Master Li, your little junior brother is really good at seasoning."

Zhang Liqiang said: "Yes, today I have experienced that Junior Brother Feng is indeed very good at seasoning."

Li Huidong naturally followed up with praise: "Junior brother is really good at seasoning. He seems to be born with a keen sense of taste. His seasoning always makes people feel very flavorful, but not too strong."

Li Zhifeng also agreed with this: "Yes, you are really a master of seasoning."

Zhang Liqiang added: "Looking at it this way, Junior Brother Feng will definitely stand out again in the province's young chef exchange competition at the end of this year. It shouldn't be a problem to enter the top three."

Li Zhifeng is not so confident: "It's hard to say. In this provincial young chef cooking exchange competition, there are still many young talents in the province. I heard that the successors of Confucius cuisine will also come. They are not only seasoning The food is very good, but the key is that the presentation of their dishes is also very good.”

When they heard that Kong Fucai would also show up, everyone including Li Huidong looked a little serious.

When it comes to Confucius cuisine, everyone is more or less nervous.

After all, Confucius cuisine is a truly inherited government cuisine, and it truly has a complete set of processes.

The most important thing is that Kongfu cuisine not only tastes great, but is also the best among Shandong cuisine in terms of sophistication.

If the successor of Confucius cuisine comes, it will be a great challenge for Feng Zhengming.

After worrying for a while, Li Huidong said: "Don't worry, everyone at Kongfu Cuisine can't be great. This is an exchange competition for young chefs after all. I still believe that the junior chef can enter the top three."

When Li Huidong said this, several people from the Culinary Association thought it was reasonable, and the atmosphere slowly became calmer again.

(End of this chapter)