Stop pretending, I am the God of Cooking and I am showing off my cards!

Chapter 329 The ultimate pigeon soup—steamed squab! Xie Baomin’s battle to clear his name! 【Ask for monthly ticket】

Ever since the store tried to serve steam pot chicken, Lin Xu has been troubled by one thing.

That is, the steam pot chicken is not exquisite enough, and it is served in a big pot, which is completely inconsistent with the exquisite and small-portion aesthetic of high-end restaurants.

But if you switch to a small steam pot, you can't put a few pieces of chicken in it, so the steam pot chicken can't be sold at a high price.

Now if pigeons are used instead of chickens, a pigeon can be easily put into the smallest steam pot, and even several beauty and beauty medicinal herbs can be put in it.

There has always been a folk saying that "one pigeon is worth nine chickens".

It is also recognized that pigeon soup is more nutritious than chicken soup.

If you use a small steam pot and serve one cup per person, then the steam pot squab in the store will definitely be very popular.

For those ladies who love beauty, who wouldn’t want to have a delicious soup made from pigeons, especially if it contains notoginseng, astragalus, Codonopsis pilosula and other blood-tonifying and qi-tonifying medicinal materials.

This is simply irresistible.

Of course, if the medicinal ingredients in the pot are replaced with velvet antler, cordyceps, epimedium and other ingredients that can nourish the kidneys and strengthen the waist, then it will be the male customer's turn to lose control.

But these can only be thought about. The Chinese herbal medicines used in cooking should be mainly Zhongzheng and balanced.

It is better to use as little as possible the medicinal materials that are too strong and overbearing.

To prevent customers from having bad tastes.

Lin Xu asked Che Zi to carry the pigeon to the kitchen, and then asked Lao Huang to wash his hands and eat:

"Boss Huang, wash your hands quickly and come to eat. After dinner, I will try the steamed squab that my senior brother mentioned. Just wait and try it."

If steam-pot squab is really feasible, we should immediately open up a place in the back kitchen and install a steam cabinet dedicated to cooking steam-pot dishes.

This kind of cabinet can freely prepare steam water and can make dozens of pots of steam pot chicken at a time, which can definitely meet the needs of customers.

Lao Huang washed his hands, sat down with a bowl, took a bite of cauliflower and said:

"When they went to buy pigeons, the couple was beaten and scolded. The reason was that the man secretly sent a Happy National Day red envelope to another woman on WeChat, and his wife discovered it."

He spoke vividly, and Cui Qingyuan interrupted him with a smile:

"There are children here, so don't talk about this kind of topic."

Lao Huang said seriously:

“The younger people are, the more they have to learn. The people they can chat with online may not be men or women. Don’t involve money transactions. Maybe they are opposite a big guy who controls dozens of WeChat accounts at the same time. "

After speaking, he explained to Xie Yufei and Xie Yuhang:

"Although this girl Lele is less than two years older than you two, she was specially recruited by Tsinghua University. Ordinary people will definitely not be able to deceive her. The key is you two. Be careful when making friends online. Your father often talks to leaders of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and even foreign countries. If you are dealing with political figures, please don’t talk nonsense online.”

Xie Yufei and Xie Yuhang looked at each other. They had never heard their father say this before.

I heard that he is a chef who cooks in Diaoyutai. Doesn’t he still have a certain status?

Seeing a trace of doubt flash in the eyes of the two brothers, Lao Huang said with a smile:

"I don't believe that one day I will take you two to the Diaoyutai, and you will be able to intuitively feel how powerful your father's position is in the Diaoyutai."

As soon as he finished speaking, Xie Baomin said:

"Forget it, that kind of place is not suitable for children to go there."

Just kidding, the kids have to be taken to Diaoyutai, and the head chefs have to reveal all the disgraceful things they have done.

Old Huang is also a rotten and rotten dog. He obviously wanted to speak for himself, but in the end he secretly took him into the ditch.

In order to change the subject, Xie Baomin said:

"You can't use all these pigeons to make steam-pot squab? I'll make a stir-fried squab tonight. Since both children like this spicy, fat and plump dish, I'll also show off my Sichuan cooking skills."

Stop pretending, I am the master of state banquets and I am showing off my cards.

Brothers Xie Yufei and Xie Yuhang were stunned and asked at the same time:

"Dad, can you also cook this kind of food?"

"I'm so good at it. I usually think that you guys must have eaten a lot of oily dishes at school, so the meals at home should be as light and elegant as possible. But since you like it, I'll let you try my cooking."

Xie Baomin was full of confidence and planned to show off his cooking skills. Xie Yuhang said with anticipation:

"I hope it can cook better than the chef at window three in the school."

Xie Yufei took over the conversation:

"It's okay for my dad to go beyond window number three, but it's difficult to go beyond window number five."

"That's really difficult. Window No. 5 is recognized as the second most delicious window, just a little bit worse than Window No. 7."

Xie Baomin:? ? ? ? ? ?

In your eyes, am I still inferior to the school chef?

So today I will show you the cooking skills that are beyond the reach of the school chef.

Lin Xu on the side wanted to laugh.

The head chef of the state banquet, who made the entire Diaoyutai kitchen fearful, unexpectedly got into trouble with a canteen chef from a boarding middle school.

If it weren't for the wrong timing, I really wanted to call the other head chefs from Diaoyutai to come over and cheer me up.

After the meal, everyone was busy with their own business. Xie Baomin followed Lin Xu and planned to go to the braised food department on the first floor to see how delicious the roasted chicken was that everyone kept praising.

After arriving, he sniffed:

"It doesn't taste like roast chicken."

Lin Xu opened the lid of the pot and said with a smile:

"The taste is all sealed in oil. It's almost time to take it out of the pot. Master Xu, skim the oil out of the pot and let my senior brother take a look at the roast chicken in our store."

"Okay, Chef Xie, you'll be waiting for me later."

Xu Xinhua has worked in Diaoyutai Building 2 for more than a month and is very familiar with Xie Baomin.

He brought a clean stainless steel basin and used a long-handled stainless steel ladle to skim out the yellow grease in the pot little by little.

These fats were originally lard and the cooking oil for braised soup.

However, hundreds of roast chickens are marinated every day and have long been dyed yellow by the chicken fat.

As the fat reduces, the smell of the stew in the pot gradually comes out.

Xie Baomin smelled it for a few times, and then gave Lin Xu a thumbs up:

"This stewed soup is quite authentic and has plenty of ingredients. Let alone chicken, you can put any ingredients into this soup and it will still taste good."

He had just eaten and he didn't want to eat at first.

But now that I smelled the aroma of roasting chicken, I couldn't help but want to tear open a chicken leg and taste it.

After skimming out all the oil, Lin Xu checked the quality of the roasted chicken:

"Okay, let's go out."

After saying that, he said to the neighbors queuing outside the window:

"The roast chicken will be out soon, don't be impatient."

After saying hello, Lin Xu saw that Uncle Zhou, who often came to the restaurant to eat, was also lining up in the crowd, and asked curiously:

"Uncle Zhou, why are you here in line? Where is Aunt Liang?"

"The temperature has cooled down in the past two days. She is craving for cold and has caught a bit of wind chill. I plan to buy some braised food to eat back... By the way, Xiao Lin, do you have any sweaty soup here?"

Soup?

Lin Xu said:

"Yes, yes, please come in and wait. I'll go up and make a hot and sour tripe soup and put it in a thermos. You can bring it to Aunt Liang to try."

"That's great, thank you Xiaolin."

Lin Xu waved his hand:

"You're welcome. By the way, you have to go out when you're caught by the cold. You can't stay at home. We'll make pigeon soup in the afternoon. You can bring Aunt Liang over to drink it. Then I'll add some Chinese herbal medicine to dispel cold and sweat. Aunt Liang will warm it up. If you drink it, it might get better."

If you catch a cold, it will usually be cured by sweating.

When I was testing the small steam boiler in the afternoon, I just put some anti-cold medicine to try. Even if it didn't have much effect, just drinking the small pot of boiling pigeon soup would still have an effect.

After Uncle Zhou came in, Lin Xu went upstairs to make soup.

Xu Xinhua scooped the roast chickens out of the pot one by one. He originally wanted to serve one directly to Xie Baomin, but he was refused:

"Sell them first. If there are some that are not in good quality, just tear them open and taste them. Don't worry. You don't need to taste the roasted chicken. You can tell it's good just by smelling it."

In front of the service desk, Uncle Zhou looked at the price of tripe soup, took out his membership card and handed it to Song Tiantian:

"Tiantian, come and swipe your card, swipe an extra hundred, and add the money for the belly soup. It's not easy for you to do business, and I can't take advantage of this."

Song Tiantian said:

"Wait until the boss comes and then pay. I don't dare to collect money randomly."

"You kid, why are you so honest? Dundun, do you think this front desk manager should be criticized?"

Uncle Zhou scratched Dundun's chin. He was one of the few customers who could touch Dundun.

In the past, he would come over to interact with Dundun at meal time. Whenever he saw other people's envious eyes, Uncle Zhou felt very happy.

If this little guy were a cat from Peking University.

With this level of well-behavedness, he is definitely the favorite of all students.

Not long after, Lin Xu came down with a bag, which contained a large portion of spicy and sour belly soup prepared for Aunt Liang in an insulated lunch box, a portion of beef in small sesame pancakes to satisfy Uncle Zhou's craving, and another portion Tomato and egg rice bowl.

These, paired with roasted chicken, are enough for the couple to have a hearty lunch.

"Thank you so much Xiao Lin, your aunt will be very happy later... How much is it? Let Tiantian give her the money and she won't do it. I can't take it if you don't accept the money."

Uncle Zhou was the leader of Peking University before he retired. Although he did not have big money, he still had no shortage of small money.

Lin Xu said:

"Let's charge the price of two roast chickens... By the way, Uncle Zhou, why haven't you seen Professor Xu and Aunt Xue recently?"

"I'm going to take care of my grandson, but I'll be back soon. Lao Xu is an old scholar and doesn't know much about housework. His wife is an artist and doesn't mess with the world. It's really difficult for them to take care of their grandson."

After paying the money, Uncle Zhou hurriedly left the store with the packed food and went home to have dinner with Aunt Liang.

At this moment, Xie Baomin finally saw a roast chicken placed close to the edge of the pot. The chicken skin was slightly damaged. When Xie Baomin saw it, he immediately handed it over with a plate:

"Give me this one. It's trembling as if its bones have been removed. It looks like a mess."

Xu Xinhua held the roast chicken with a slotted spoon and slowly placed it on the plate:

"Chef Xie, be careful, it's hot."

"As a chef, you can't be afraid of burning it. Come on, put it in."

Xie Baomin came upstairs with a plate and said to the two children:

"Come on, come on, let's try the roasted chicken that your Uncle Lin made. It's just come out of the pan. The roasted chicken is too hot. I'll shake it up for you two."

He pinched the joints of the two chicken legs and shook them suddenly. The slightly disfigured roast chicken immediately fell apart, making Xie Yufei and Xie Yuhang's eyes widen:

"so amazing!"

"Dad, isn't it hot?"

Xie Baomin pinched a piece of chicken leg meat, tasted it, and said with a smile:

"It must be hot for you, but for a chef, this is just a basic skill... Junior brother, this roast chicken tastes really good. I was thinking it would be salty, but it's just right."

Xie Yufei and Xie Yuhang took chopsticks from the disinfection cabinet, each took a bite of the roast chicken, and then their eyes lit up:

"This roast chicken is so delicious, so fragrant and tasty."

"Everything Uncle Lin makes is really delicious. Dad, please learn more from Uncle Lin if you have nothing to do."

Xie Baomin: "..."

Yes, my reputation cannot be reversed.

In the kitchen, Lin Xu looked at the still warm pigeons and prepared to start cooking them now.

Pigeon stew cannot be washed. It even needs to be suffocated with hot water when slaughtering, so that the blood of the pigeons remains in the meat, which can maximize the nutrition of the pigeon meat.

However, the slaughter of live poultry is now prohibited within the urban area of ​​​​Beijing. There is no way to retain the blood of pigeons, so we can only keep the pigeon meat as nutritious as possible without washing or soaking it.

The shorter the pigeons are slaughtered, the more delicious the pigeon soup will be.

Thinking of this, Lin Xu immediately planned to give it a try.

Use a knife to remove the pigeon's butt and head. These two parts are more likely to have odor, so remove them. Chop off the tips of the claws and wash them with salt to remove as much odor as possible.

After cleaning it up, put it into a cleaned steam pot. There are not so many pressure cookers in the store now, and there are not that many stoves to make steamed pigeon for one person.

So I still use a large steamer to make it, and then use a small steamer to make two or three pots to try.

He put the whole pigeon into the steam pot without changing the knife to keep the squab intact as much as possible. In this way, after drinking the soup, each person would put one in the bowl and it would definitely be a satisfying meal.

Put the squabs in one by one, add some herbs used to make the steam pot chicken in the afternoon, and cut a few slices of Xuanwei ham to increase the flavor. The steam pot squab is ready.

Putting the big steam pot aside, Lin Xu brought several small steam pots and began to play with the ingredients and medicinal materials that needed to be placed in the small steam pots.

The small steam pot is not as big as the noodle bowl in the store. A squab placed inside takes up most of the space.

After the squab is put in, put a piece of ham into each pot, and finally the medicinal materials.

Aunt Liang had caught a cold and had to add some herbs to relieve sweating. Lin Xu put some ephedra into a steam pot. This is the main ingredient in many cold medicines. Stewing it into the soup can have a good sweating effect. .

The lunch rush was coming soon and the stove in the big kitchen could not be occupied, so Lin Xu brought a few steam pots to the small kitchen, then moved all the pressure cookers in the store and started cooking steamed squab in the pressure cooker.

A large steam boiler requires an iron rack, but a small steam boiler does not need to be so troublesome. It can be placed directly on the gas valve of the pressure cooker.

The only thing you need to pay attention to is that the lid of the small steam pot is too light and can easily be lifted up by the steam. The best way is to put a heavy object on it.

With these things done, the afternoon rush hour has arrived.

Tourists from out of town and local customers from the capital came in an endless stream, ordering their favorite delicacies.

Xie Baomin took a few bites of the roast chicken and went to the kitchen to soak the remaining squab.

Since you want to cook it raw and stir-fried, there is no need to pay much attention to it.

Besides, it’s still several hours before dinner, and these pigeons will smell bad if they are not soaked.

After finishing the afternoon rush hour, Lin Xu took a break and went back to the community behind him, turned on his computer, and uploaded the second half of the highlights.

After uploading it, he looked at yesterday's video. It had more than three million views and more than six hundred thousand likes, and it was still increasing.

Even the retweets immediately reached 100,000.

This shows that people are very interested in taking selfies with cats.

As the video gained popularity, other cats followed suit.

For example, the "Release Cat" who secretly opened the door and caused the sweeping robot to go down from the 27th floor to the first floor, and the "Chaoshan Health Cat" who likes to lie on a bamboo chair and drink tea, etc., have become popular with Dundun. .

Netizens joked that they were the advance team to conquer the earth from the distant cat star.

And Dundun, who can even take selfies, is naturally the commander of the advance team.

Soon, the video passed the review and appeared in Lin Xu's personal news.

"Wow, the second half of the featurette is here."

"What's the sideshow? This is a feature film, okay?"

"What new tricks does this cute little Kangkang do?"

"Is there any cat owner who can tell me, are cats really that smart?"

"I don't know if he's smart or not, but he's quite neurotic anyway."

"My big cat led the second cat to the balcony several times with toys in its mouth, and then secretly closed the balcony door. The second cat who applied the compress almost suffered from heatstroke several times..."

"So you need to be careful when having a second child!"

Before netizens even started watching the video, they started a lively discussion in the comment area.

Lin Xu closed the computer and returned to the store. He happened to run into Zeng Xiaoqi, who had returned from the wedding. She was at the service counter, eating a small sesame-stained pancake.

He asked curiously:

"You're just attending the ceremony and being the master of ceremonies, so you're not in charge of the food?"

Zeng Xiaoqi said vaguely:

"That kind of table reservation is not delicious, and you are surrounded by colleagues from other departments of the TV station, so you can't let it go. If you want to enjoy the meal, it must be our Lin Ji's food."

Lin Xu pointed at the braised food department:

"Just go to the braised food department and ask for whatever you want to eat."

"No, I'm still waiting to taste the steamed pigeon in the evening. I heard that eating pigeon is a great supplement, I have to feel it."

Shu Yun, who was scratching Dundun's chin at the side, glanced at Director Zeng's Xiongxiong with a half-smile but said nothing, but his eyes that were three parts sarcastic, three parts disdainful and four parts careless said everything.

Lin Xu said:

"Not only will we have steam-pot squab in the evening, but my senior brother is also planning to make raw and stir-fried squab. It's probably the same recipe as fried chicken or braised chicken nuggets. Let's wait and eat."

"Wow, Chef Xie cooks it himself, so I have to try it."

At 4:30 in the afternoon, Xie Baomin, who had taken his wife and children to visit Tsinghua University, strode into the kitchen, took out the squab soaked in the basin, drained the water, and chopped it into large pieces with a kitchen knife.

Then prepare some dried chili peppers, dried Sichuan peppercorns, green pepper segments, ginger pieces and other ingredients.

Once everything is ready, set up the wok.

He is going to cook the raw and stir-fried squab to open the eyes of his two children.

Well, starting from today, you must crush the school chef and become the No. 1 cooking skill in the hearts of children!

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It's the last day of the month, so I won't say any more. If you have votes, remember to vote. This chapter has 5,000 words. I'll try my best to finish the draft and try to add another chapter tomorrow!