From selling box lunches to becoming a famous Chinese chef

Chapter 26: Add two more difficult dishes (please follow up)

Before frying the Sixi meatballs, Feng Zhengming specially prepared a small pot of dry starch.

Li Huidong took the small scale from the canteen and put a plate on the scale.

Then Li Huidong started first, scooping out a ball of meat paste from the big basin with his hands. He used his two hands to roll the meat paste alternately, and rolled the meat paste in his hands into a ball shape.

The technique is a bit like making snowballs in winter.

Li Huidong first put the big meatballs on the plate of the scale, and then moved the weight of the scale.

Finally determine a weight, then take the meatballs out of the plate, continue to ball them up on your hands, wrap a layer of dry starch on the outside, and then put them in the oil pan for frying.

After the first meatball was put into the pot, Li Huidong pointed at the scale and explained to his two apprentices.

"Look at this weight, you can grab the meat filling according to this weight. Don't exceed it, and don't leave it less. In this way, the size of the meatballs we make will be more consistent. When the time comes, we will stew them out and serve them to people's birthday banquets. Use four meatballs on a plate, all of the same size, and they will look better."

Feng Zhengming put some oil on the scale plate: "Brother, I'm going to teach you how to make Sixi meatballs."

After applying oil, Feng Zhengming reached out and grabbed a ball of meat paste from the big basin, and formed it into meatballs very skillfully in his hands.

When Feng Zhengming put the meatballs on the scale, Zhang Lei and Yang Peng instantly saw that the weight was almost exactly the same.

Feng Zhengming picked up the meatballs again, put them into a starch basin and coated them with a layer of starch.

Then carefully lower the pan almost against the oil surface of the pan.

Li Huidong saw his two apprentices dumbfounded and smiled and said, "Did you see it? You guys, this is Kung Fu. You can almost accurately judge how much meat to catch. You two can't control it so accurately yet. So don’t bother, use a scale to weigh each item one by one.”

As Feng Zhengming rolled the second meatball, he said, "Practice these slowly and you will definitely do better in the future."

Zhang Lei and Yang Peng naturally did not dare to be lazy. According to their master, every time before making balls, they were weighed on a scale to ensure that the weight of each ball was almost the same.

As the meatballs were put into the pot one by one, the first batch of meatballs were fished out again.

It didn't take long before the fried and shaped meatballs were completed.

The fried meatballs also need to be stewed in braised broth.

There are not many spices used in braised broth, they are relatively common spices.

Cinnamon, star anise, cloves, cumin, angelica angelica, Sichuan peppercorns.

Of course, the five-spice braised pork soup in the back kitchen of the canteen is prepared in advance.

It is usually used by the canteen's back kitchen to braise some dishes.

And because it is an old stewed soup, it has been continuously braised and cooked, and soaked with various meat fats, so the stewed meat soup has a very rich flavor.

Therefore, when you use it to stew Sixi meatballs, you cannot throw them directly into the braised pork soup pot. Instead, you can only scoop out some soup, mix it with some new clear stock, and some new spices to stew.

Use a large bucket and place a bamboo raft at the bottom to prevent the meatballs from sticking to the bottom during the stew.

Then, first bring the soup in the pot to a boil over high heat, and then put the meatballs into the pot one by one.

It is still better to burn it with high fire for a while.

Li Huidong asked his two apprentices to carry the bucket of stewed meatball soup to the briquette stove next to it.

After putting them away, Li Huidong put the lid on the pot and said, "Okay, the next step is to stew these Sixi meatballs slowly."

Feng Zhengming explained to his senior brother’s two apprentices: “This stewing process must not be omitted. It must be simmered slowly over low heat to simmer the flavor of the stew into the meatballs to make delicious Sixi meatballs.”

Li Huidong said: "To put it simply, stew for me, stew for me, stew for me. Do you two remember it?"

Zhang Lei and Yang Peng nodded quickly to show that they had remembered. In addition to Sixi meatballs, Feng Zhengming and Li Huidong also prepared some crispy meat.

Cut the pork belly into thicker slices and then marinate.

After marinating, put the crispy batter on the surface of the pork belly, then put it in the pan and fry it.

The fried pork is crispy on the outside and juicy and delicious on the inside.

These are also the dishes that will be served at the birthday banquet tomorrow.

In addition to these, Li Huidong also cleaned the beef tendons he bought and put them into the stew pot to marinate them.

Braised beef is naturally an indispensable dish on the cold cuts.

Feng Zhengming took Zhang Lei and Yang Peng and prepared some vegetables.

The vegetables need to be cleaned, and all the better ones need to be selected, and then they should be stacked neatly so that they can be brought to the birthday banquet tomorrow and used directly.

It can be said that Feng Zhengming, his senior brother and his two apprentices were really busy all afternoon for the birthday banquet.

It was even dark, and the brewery workers were getting off work and leaving one after another.

They were still preparing in the backyard of the cafeteria.

When most of the dishes were ready, Li Huidong asked his two apprentices to pack them while counting them.

At this time, Lin Jiacheng suddenly pushed open the big iron door and came to the cafeteria.

"Oh, luckily you haven't left yet, Dongzi. Come and help quickly and clean up these things."

Zhang Lei and Yang Peng hurried over to take what Lin Jiacheng put forward.

Li Huidong frowned slightly and asked, "Brother-in-law, what did you get back?"

Lin Jiacheng said: "I asked Mr. Liu before and he said that his father likes kidneys and large intestines. I forgot about it when I was buying it. I went home at night and then I remembered it and hurriedly bought these kidneys and large intestines. Thanks to my connections, I bought these the freshest ones. Dongzi, please hurry up and take care of them and bring them over tomorrow."

Li Huidong was a little surprised: "Why are there still kidneys and large intestines? What kind of dish are you going to make?"

Zhang Lei couldn't help but murmured in a low voice: "No way, you still want us to make "Nine Transformations of the Large Intestine"?"

As a result, Lin Jiacheng immediately asked: "Can you do it? Dongzi and you brothers are all from Yanxi Tower. You two brothers should be able to do "Nine Transformations of the Large Intestine", right?"

These words made Feng Zhengming and Li Huidong look at each other in confusion.

The two brothers were really helpless.

Li Huidong sighed: "Brother-in-law, are you really going to make it more difficult for us? Do you want to make "Stir-fried Kidney" for your waist?"

Lin Jiacheng said: "Yes, this old man's birthday banquet is so good."

Li Huidong looked helpless: "Brother-in-law, do you know how difficult these two dishes are? Stir-fried kidney beans require very high stove fire. Are you sure there will be a stove with enough firepower in the countryside tomorrow?"

Lin Jiacheng was confused for a moment: "I really didn't ask about this."

Feng Zhengming was also a little helpless: "Brother-in-law, if the firepower of the stove is not good enough, it will be really difficult to make stir-fried kidneys."

Lin Jiacheng hesitated for a moment, but insisted: "In this way, you two brothers and sisters prepare the things first, and we will go over there tomorrow morning to see the situation there, and then decide whether to do it or not. I really can't do it then. I Go explain to Mr. Liu."

Hearing what his brother-in-law said, Li Huidong was a little helpless, but he could only agree.

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