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Chapter 217 A dessert suitable for showing off your skills—Colorful Horseshoe Cake! Excellent stew lottery! 【Ask for monthly ticket】

Lin Xu originally wanted to "test" Guo Xinghai again, but he felt that it was not appropriate to always catch a sheep picking out wool, so he took out his mobile phone and searched for the recipe of horseshoe cake.

Anyway, the difficulty of the reward tasks is quite low.

As long as Baby Shen is satisfied, he can pass.

After searching for a simple version of the tutorial, he found that it was not difficult at all to make this thing. Just beat the fresh water chestnuts into juice and filter it, then boil it with sugar and pour it into a mold to cool.

The finished product is similar to jelly. If you add some fresh chopped water chestnuts, the effect will be better.

And if you want to show off your skills, you can divide the prepared water chestnut juice into two parts, add coconut milk to one part, and keep the other part as it is.

Then put the mold in the steamer, pour a layer of slurry and steam for two to three minutes, then pour another slurry on top, and steam for another two to three minutes.

What is steamed in this way is a thin layer of water chestnut cake with one layer of transparent layer and one layer of white layer.

Although the taste is not improved much.

But the appearance will be improved exponentially.

After reading it, Lin Xu immediately took over the box of horseshoes that his uncle had brought and prepared to make them.

If you make the water chestnut cake now, it can be almost refrigerated after the meal. Then cut it into pieces and put it on the table. It will be dessert after the meal.

But today is my grandma’s 70th birthday, and all the relatives from my hometown are here.

If you want to make it, you can't simply pour it into the mold and wait for it to solidify. This method is too unchallenging, and it is easy for relatives to mistake it for pig skin jelly.

It would be a joke if any relative brought it to drink.

Lin Xu plans to use the layered steaming method to improve the appearance of the water chestnut cake and make a thousand-layer water chestnut cake.

Water chestnut powder is actually the most suitable for making water chestnut cakes.

That is, the white slurry obtained by beating the horseshoe into a paste, filtering and precipitating it, becomes the water chestnut powder after drying.

The water chestnut cake made with water chestnut powder has a more delicate texture and is more completely solidified.

But now we only have fresh water chestnuts, so we can only use fresh water chestnuts.

Peel the water chestnuts, then cut into small pieces and place in a food processor.

The amount of water chestnut cake to be used today was relatively large, so Lin Xu directly used half of the water chestnuts. The larger the amount, the less intimidating it would be to operate.

Add a little water to the food processor, then turn it on and stir until the water chestnuts become a paste.

After beating, pour it into the basin and continue beating.

After all the water chestnuts are beaten into a paste, filter it twice with gauze. This will make the water chestnut cake taste more delicate.

There is no need to throw away the filtered residue. Put it in a food processor, add water and beat it again a few times, and then filter it again. This way you can squeeze out as much of the water chestnut juice in the residue as possible.

After the water chestnut juice is prepared, the next step is to boil it.

Lin Xu found a box of coconut milk among the gifts brought by relatives, opened it and took two bottles over.

Just when I was about to start, I suddenly felt that the traditional method of making water chestnut cake with a layer of transparent water chestnut paste and a layer of white coconut milk paste was a bit ordinary and not amazing enough.

For such an important occasion, if you want to make your relatives’ eyes brighter and at the same time make your grandma happy, you have to find a way to use your brain on the color.

Try to make it more beautiful.

But how can we make it more beautiful?

When he saw that there were mangoes in the gift, he thought of a possibility. How about adding some mango juice to make it bright yellow?

But yellow alone is not enough.

You should add some cherry juice to make it bright red.

If this is the case, there should also be purple made from purple sweet potato juice.

Following this train of thought, Lin Xu suddenly slapped his head:

"Then let's just make it into colorful horseshoe cake. It will look better this way and taste better."

After deciding to make colorful, he quickly gathered the ingredients of seven colors.

For red, use red cherries; for orange, use carrot juice; for yellow, use mango juice; for green, simply use matcha powder; for cyan, use cucumber juice; as for blue, the blueberries bought by my aunt can come in handy; and for purple , give it to Thanos...oh no, give it to Zisha.

After all the colors of ingredients are done.

Thinking that it would be difficult to distinguish the colorful colors directly next to each other, Lin Xu decided to use the white color of coconut milk to separate them.

In this way, the colorful colors are clearer, and the white coconut milk paste can also make the water chestnut cake look more upscale.

Next, he placed a small milk pot for making desserts on the stove, poured a large bowl of filtered water chestnut juice into the pot, then put a handful of rock sugar into it and started to cook it over low heat.

This step originally required adding borneol, which is common in Cantonese sugar water.

But the born sugar will be dyed with a yellow color.

In order to make the coconut milk slurry more beautiful, Lin Xu replaced it with rock sugar.

After boiling, the unique fresh flavor of water chestnuts soon floated in the pot, and the soup became slightly thicker.

This is due to the starch in the horse's hooves.

After simmering for a while, when the soup in the pot turned into a slightly viscous transparent liquid, Lin Xu opened two boxes of coconut milk and poured it in.

The transparent slurry in the pot suddenly turned into the color of milk.

After simmering for a while and confirming that the water chestnut slurry and coconut milk were completely integrated, Lin Xu turned off the heat and poured out the milky white slurry in the pot.

This slurry is called cooked slurry in the making of water chestnut cake.

Correspondingly, there is raw juice, which is water chestnut juice that has not been boiled.

When making water chestnut cake, the cooked pulp is responsible for setting the shape, and the raw pulp is responsible for enhancing the fresh taste of the water chestnut. When the two pulps are mixed together, the water chestnut cake will be more delicious.

After all the cooked slurry was poured out, Lin Xu took a spoonful of raw slurry, poured it in, and quickly stirred it evenly with a spoon.

When making thousand-layer water chestnut cake, do not pour too much raw pulp, otherwise it will affect the solidification effect of the water chestnut cake.

Mix well.

Lin Xu combined the squeezed juices and ingredients of various colors and began to cook the colorful slurry.

After everything was done, he put a steamer on the stove, then took several sets of molds suitable for steaming desserts, cleaned them, wiped them dry and then applied a layer of grease to facilitate demolding.

When ready, start steaming.

After the water in the steamer boils, pour a layer of white coconut milk slurry on the bottom of the mold.

Then put it in a steamer and steam it for two to three minutes.

When he took it out again, the coconut milk slurry had solidified. Lin Xu scooped a spoonful of water chestnut slurry made from purple sweet potato juice into it, and continued to put it into the steamer to steam.

Then steam another layer of coconut milk paste.

After finishing the coconut milk syrup, it’s time to make the blue water chestnut syrup made from blueberries.

By analogy, after layers of slurry are poured into the mold, the finished horseshoe pulp has just been used up.

"Er smash, why did you make so much colorful liquid? Are you planning to give your grandma a surprise?"

Chen Meijuan looked curious, feeling that her son was mysterious.

"Didn't my uncle just give me a box of water chestnuts? I was thinking of making some water chestnut cakes for everyone to try, but ordinary water chestnut cakes couldn't show off your son's craftsmanship, so I made colorful water chestnut cakes."

Colorful water chestnut cake?

Chen Meijuan looked around at the seven colors of liquid at the bottom of the bowl and couldn't help but praise:

"You can actually make such a water chestnut cake. My son is amazing."

"It's my mother's genes."

Lin Xu flattered his mother, then took out the mold from the steamer and put it in the freezer to speed up the cooling.

At this moment, the water chestnut cake is too sticky and soft to eat. Only when the temperature drops will it solidify and its texture will become as bouncy as jelly.

It's already past eleven in the morning.

All the relatives have arrived.

Lin Xu went out to greet them and then started cooking.

Spread the marinated fish head with the fried red millet chili sauce and green chili pepper sauce. Then take out the marinated eel, place the head in the middle, and coil the body on the plate to make a standard coiled dragon shape. .

Then stuff the eel and fish head into the steaming cabinet and start steaming.

Then he started busy making other dishes.

It didn't take long.

Platefuls of food were delivered upstairs.

"Grandma, this dish is called white jade lotus root. It is a designated dish for entertaining foreign guests in Diaoyutai. Last time Xubao participated in an internal competition in Diaoyutai, he won the championship with this dish."

"Oh, then I have to try it."

In the restaurant on the second floor, Mrs. Lin, who was wearing a longevity hat, happily tasted the white jade lotus root and couldn't help but give a thumbs up:

"It's delicious, crispy and crispy, and it tastes good. You guys should try it quickly. My eldest grandson's craftsmanship is really good."

Hearing the old lady's praise, everyone raised their chopsticks and started tasting.

Then they were all impressed by the crispy texture of lotus root silk:

"Our Xiaoxu is awesome!"

"I didn't even realize it was made from lotus root."

"This skill is so amazing. He deserves to be a graduate of Central Finance and Economics. His cooking skills are excellent."

"Our family, Xiaoxun, is also planning to apply for the Central Bank of Finance later. Then he will work as a chef for Xiaoxu."

"Our family's Shaokang will also repay."

"And Jasmine, female chefs are becoming popular now..."

Bao Baobao Shen listened to the discussion of his relatives dumbfounded.

The reputation of my alma mater has been affected!

Not long after, steamed rice noodles were served.

"Grandma, this is steamed rice noodles made with shredded radish. President Liu who came last time said that this is a lost dish recorded in ancient books, and was reproduced by Xu Bao."

Mrs. Lin was even more happy when she heard this, and immediately took a chopstick and tasted it.

The soft and glutinous texture coupled with the faint aroma of garlic made her like it immediately:

"It's delicious, it's really delicious! I didn't expect that I, an old man, could actually eat such good food. It's all thanks to my eldest grandson."

The relatives tasted it and were amazed.

In terms of cooking method, this dish is not much different from the homemade steamed shredded radish.

But the texture and taste that enters the mouth can throw the steamed radish strips a few blocks away. After eating, I can't help but wonder, can the large radish that can be seen everywhere in rural areas really be so delicious?

Then, dishes such as sweet and sour pork tenderloin, braised prawns in oil, rock sugar elbow and other dishes were brought to the table one after another.

Every dish can arouse the exclamation of relatives.

And when Lin Xu came in with the white-robed shrimps specially prepared for Mrs. Lin, everyone was already a little tired of aesthetics.

What I was thinking in my mind has changed from whether it tastes good to how delicious this dish is.

"Grandma, I always heard you talk about the dish of white robe shrimps when I was a kid. This time in the capital, I specially learned it from someone. Try it and see if it tastes exactly the same as in your memory."

Mrs. Lin said with a smile:

"You don't have to taste it at all. It must be delicious made by my eldest grandson."

She tasted it and found it was crispy, fresh but not bland, with just the right umami and salty aroma.

Baby Shen was a little surprised.

I don’t know when my Xu Bao learned this dish.

"During this competition, I learned it from Huo Yifan."

After Lin Xu talked to Shen Baobao, he went back to the kitchen and brought out the prepared water hibiscus.

After pouring the soup, he looked at Shen Jiayue who was eager to try next to his grandma and said:

"Baby, come and snap your fingers."

"Okay!"

How can I, Shen Jiayue, be left out of this kind of limelight thing?

She walked over, made a pretentious gesture, and then snapped her fingers, causing the flowers in the basin of clear soup to bloom.

None of these relatives could watch the video online, and more than once.

But when I saw it at the scene, my face was still full of shock.

Old Mrs. Lin didn't care about eating at the moment. She patted the place reserved next to her and said:

"My dear grandson must be exhausted. Come here quickly and sit down to eat. Don't cook the rest of the dishes. You won't be able to finish them anyway."

Lin Xu said:

"There are only two dishes left. I'll start eating as soon as I serve them."

He returned to the kitchen.

Take out the big fish head and eel from the steaming cabinet.

The fish head was poured with hot lard, and uncle Shi Wenming took it upstairs.

As for the remaining eel, we have to fiddle with it a little more.

Lin Xu used chopsticks to pick out the green onion and ginger inside, and then poured out the steamed soup.

These soups have a strong fishy smell and are not suitable for eating.

Then pour a little steamed fish with soy sauce, then put onion, ginger and red pepper shreds cut into thin strips, burn a little lard and pour it on, and the eel version of the eel in black bean sauce is ready.

When it was served to the dining table, the relatives were full of praise:

"I didn't expect eels to be able to do this. I'll try it later."

"Then I have to let Xiaoxu tell me how to make it, otherwise it will definitely be fishy when we steam it."

"Yes, yes, Xiaoxu, teach us later."

"Let's learn from Wenming. If you learn how to make new things in the restaurant, you can make money."

"Learn, I must learn. During this time, I have regarded myself as Xiaoxu's apprentice. I will learn every dish he makes. Once I learn it, I will sell it in the restaurant for money."

"..."

Lin Xu sat next to Mrs. Lin, took a mouthful of eel meat and put it into his mouth.

Well, the fish skin is smooth, and the eel meat inside is delicious, with a hint of black bean sauce.

And because the backbone has been cut, it is very convenient to pick up a piece and gently pull the meat to separate it when eating.

This dish is good.

If you have the opportunity to upgrade, you can buy new ones in the restaurant.

But this is an eel dish after all. If you want to eat eel in the future, you still have to find a way to go to Diaoyutai Building 6 to learn how to cook eel from Chef Qiu.

I heard that Jiangsu cuisine chefs can make 108 different dishes using eel, which is simply enviable.

The Cantonese cuisine that Guo Xinghai studies all day is also very powerful. It is said that an excellent Cantonese chef can make 108 unique dishes using chicken.

Relatively speaking, my own division is simple.

It will only offend one hundred and eight different colleagues...

When I'm almost done eating.

Lin Xu went to the kitchen and cooked a small bowl of hand-made noodles for grandma.

To celebrate a birthday, you have to eat noodles.

After the old lady finished eating with a smile, Da Bolin Hongjun and his father Lin Hongqi pushed a three-layer cake over.

Start eating cake.

This is the children's favorite part.

The adults continued to drink and chat, occasionally praising Lin Xu's craftsmanship.

"My dear grandson, I'm full. Your craftsmanship is so good. Grandma has lived for seventy years. This year is the happiest birthday she has ever had. Thank you for your hard work, my dear grandson."

"This is what I should do. Wait a minute, grandma, there is some snacks, I will bring them to you."

besides?

Mrs. Lin's eyes flashed with distress.

This kid has been busy in the kitchen all morning, how much food has he prepared?

If I had known earlier, it wouldn't have been such a troublesome thing. Wouldn't it be nice to steam some steamed buns and cook some big pot of food? It was because of this meal that the two boys from the Chen family agreed to let Meijuan marry.

Come to the kitchen.

Lin Xu took out the molds from the freezer.

The temperature has dropped completely, and it's even cool to the touch, making it perfect for dessert.

He opened the lid and turned the mold upside down on the chopping board.

Knock twice, then slowly lift the mold away.

A whole piece of water chestnut cake that looked like a solidified rainbow appeared in front of him.

"Holy shit! It's so beautiful!"

Lin Xu admired in his heart.

He knew it would be beautiful when made, but he didn't expect it to be this beautiful.

The colorful colors are uniform and the thickness is the same. Each color is separated by white, which not only looks neat, but also gives people a very high-grade feeling.

He patted it gently with his hand, tremblingly.

It's like a big ball of jelly is stuck here.

After sighing with emotion, Lin Xu took a kitchen knife and evenly cut the large piece of water chestnut cake into diamond-shaped pieces that were more attractive and visually impactful.

Cut and place on a plate.

Then he carried it to the restaurant upstairs.

As soon as they entered the door, whether they were children grabbing cakes or adults drinking or chatting, they all looked at the door unconsciously.

To be precise, he looked at the plate in Lin Xu's hand at the door.

Colorful colors are distributed on the uniform diamond-shaped blocks, and each color is mixed with a milky white color. This presentation is simply amazing.

After putting it on the table.

Lin Xu smiled and said:

"Grandma, this is the colorful horseshoe cake I made for you, please try it."

Even though he knew that his good grandson would bring him new surprises.

But Mrs. Lin was still attracted by this beautiful horseshoe cake.

Beautiful!

It's so beautiful!

"With my great grandson's skills, it's no wonder he was hired as Diaoyutai's dietary consultant. I'm not even willing to eat it."

Picking up a piece of trembling horseshoe cake, Mrs. Lin seemed to be admiring the exquisite porcelain in a museum. It was not until her relatives urged her that she gently put it into her mouth and took a bite.

"Yeah, it's delicious. Each layer seems to taste different. It's so delicious."

After the old lady praised it, others gathered around and took a piece each. However, they did not taste it, but took a photo with their mobile phones.

After taking the photo, he put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly.

While eating, he admired Lin Xu's craftsmanship.

Seeing that all the relatives were already eating, Lin Xu took a piece and handed it to Shen Baobao who was still taking pictures:

"Didn't I promise to make you water chestnut cakes on the day of the Diaoyutai competition? Today I finally fulfilled my promise... Give it a try and see if you like the taste."

like!

I like it so much!

There were so many people at the moment, Shen Baobao didn't have the nerve to throw himself into Lin Xu's arms.

But in my heart, I was already so excited that I was looking forward to getting dark, so that I could hold Xu Bao and kiss her hard without restraint.

Phew...calm down.

Baby Shen took a deep breath to get rid of the disturbing thoughts in his mind, then took the horseshoe cake that was handed to him, brought it to his mouth and took a bite.

She immediately widened her eyes:

"Grandma is right, each layer has a different flavor, it's so delicious!"

The girl had just finished speaking.

The system prompt sounded in Lin Xu's mind:

"The host has the courage to practice, complete the reward task [Watershoe Cake], and win a draw for excellent stew."

"Because the host creatively made the colorful water chestnut cake with outstanding appearance, the outstanding stew lottery reward has been upgraded to the excellent stew lottery reward. Congratulations to the host!"

What?

What about such a good thing?

Lin Xu was overjoyed for a while, never expecting that the reward mission could be upgraded.

It seems that if you encounter this kind of mission again in the future, you have to go all out!

He looked around. Everyone was praising the appearance and taste of the water chestnut cake. Only Dundun was lying boredly in front of the cat bowl in the corner, waiting to eat the meat.

Ouch, my son is hungry.

He quickly picked up a piece of eel meat and put it in Dundun's cat bowl. The little guy smelled it, then rubbed his big head against Lin Xu, then lowered his head and started eating seriously.

Lin Xu squatted aside and gave it some mutton after it finished eating.

Dundun started eating again.

He was humming happily while eating it.

Obviously, I had a great time eating meat today.

When the little guy was almost done eating, Lin Xu held it in his arms.

After playing around for a while, I said silently in my mind:

"lottery!"

The inside of the lottery board appears in the mind.

Start the lottery.

Not long after, the system prompt sounded in my mind:

"Congratulations to the host for winning an outstanding stew dish - tomato stewed beef brisket!"

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