A Mouthful of Sky-high Fried Rice, Lao Tang Apprenticed on the Spot

"almost."

Li Yi explained with a smile: "The olives in the olive vegetables and the terminal kernels used in the five kernel stuffing all come from a kind of black olive.

Olive vegetables are eaten in the Chaoshan area. They are boiled with local old pickles and black olives until they are crispy, and are used to accompany meals.

In Cantonese cuisine, black olives are generally made into olive horns, marinated with salt and soy sauce, and used as condiments to remove the fishy smell and enhance the aroma. When steaming fish and ribs, put a little bit, it will be delicious. "

"No wonder, I feel that this scent is a bit like olives, but it is many times more fragrant."

Yang Shao smelled the fragrance more, couldn't help stuffing the terminal nut into his mouth, and bit it down.

Kasha!

The crunchy taste made her raise her eyebrows slightly. After chewing a few times, the unique fragrance of terminal nut burst out, and she was immediately amazed: "Oh! This smells so good! It's so strange! It's a bit like almonds, and it's a bit like Pine nuts, but much more refreshing."

"The fragrance of terminal nuts is quite special."

Li Yi explained: "Its nuts are rich in compounds such as p-hydroxyacetophenone, olean aldehyde, dehydroemetic rauwool, etc., which are the source of its fragrance.

It is because of this special aroma that terminal nut is classified as the king of nuts by Cantonese pastry. "

"It's really delicious!"

Yang Shaoyue nodded in agreement repeatedly, but she was also a little puzzled: "Why haven't I heard of such a fragrant dried fruit before?"

"Because the output is relatively small."

Li Yi explained: "Most of the terminal nuts on the market now come from Guangxi Province.

But the best terminal kernels still come from the Zengcheng area of ​​Guangdong Province.

The best of them is the Xishan Terminalia produced in the Xishan area, which is what I bought.

In Cantonese cuisine, Xishan is synonymous with Terminalia.

Some dishes with the word Xishan in the menu basically refer to terminal nuts.

For example, Xishan frog buckle, Xishan fish paste soup, etc., are all dishes made with terminal nuts.

However, the yield of terminal seeds is too low. A black olive tree can produce three to four hundred catties of black olives a year, and the income of terminal horns and terminal seeds is only more than 10,000 yuan.

After deducting the labor cost of hiring people to hunt olives, pickle olive corners, and cut olive cores to obtain terminal kernels, it is basically difficult to recover.

The local economy in Guangdong Province is relatively developed, and doing something else is more profitable than growing black olives, so less and less are being planted. "

In the live broadcast room, some viewers in Guangdong province posted barrage.

"My family is from Zengcheng! When I was young, I went up the mountain with my family to hunt olives. It was so hard!"

"My family is still growing. Although I can't make a lot of money, I usually don't worry about selling them, and they are all booked in advance."

"Zengcheng grows olive olives, which are not as delicious as Xishan olives. My relatives bought them when I was young, and I ate half a catty by myself! As a result, I had diarrhea that night!"

"There are really fewer and fewer authentic Xishan olives. My family always buys Puning olives."

"Panyu used to have many kinds of black olives, but now there is no one."

Yang Shaoyue looked at the barrage while eating terminal nuts, regretting endlessly: "What a pity! There should be more varieties of such delicious terminal nuts, and they are delicious as snacks!"

As she said that, she still didn't forget to share with the sisters beside her: "Try it, this is super delicious!"

Seeing this, Li Yi stepped forward and picked out a few of the biggest and plump ones, put them on a plate, and gave them to Liu Yifei.

"Thanks…"

Liu Yifei took it, thanked her in a low voice, and smiled slightly.

Yang Shaoyue noticed this scene, couldn't help laughing, and joked: "It's so biased! I picked the biggest one away."

"He is the wounded."

As Li Yi said, he turned his back to Yang Shaoyue and made a gesture of flicking his brains.

Seeing Li Yi's hand gesture, Yang Shaoyue immediately remembered the pain from being hit by a flick of the brain last night, and shrank his neck in fright, not daring to joke anymore.

Liu Yifei picked up the terminal nut on the plate, looked it over carefully, and was a little puzzled: "Why does it look like this? It's a bit like...like..."

She was embarrassed to express her associations.

"Like a bug, huh?"

Li Yi glanced at the veins on the terminal nut, and said with a smile: "Normally, it looks like this. In the "Compendium of Materia Medica Supplements" written during the Qianlong period, it is said that its flesh is white with text, and it is layered like a sea slug.

You'll know when you try it, it also tastes a bit like fried dried silkworm chrysalis. "

"ah?"

Liu Yifei was a little surprised, then smiled and said, "I dare not eat it when you say that."

"It's just like it, it's still a dried fruit."

As Li Yi said, he stepped forward to pick up one, put it in his mouth, chewed it sweetly, "Look, it's nothing."

Seeing this, Liu Yifei also picked up one and took a small bite.

Kasha!

"Um?"

She had a strange expression, tasted it suspiciously, and then smiled: "Crispy, it tastes a bit layered and weird, but if you don't say it looks like fried silkworm chrysalis, I don't think so, but listen to you Yes, I feel very similar."

"This is the taste characteristic of the top terminal nut."

Li Yi smiled and said: "The roasted terminal nuts will be layered, and they taste fluffy and crispy, indeed a bit like silkworm chrysalis.

Especially for Terminalia xishan, its tail will be a little bit to the left, also known as the left tail, it looks asymmetrical, more like a silkworm chrysalis. "

Hearing what he said, Liu Yifei took another look at the half-eaten terminal nut in her hand, then shook her head: "Don't talk about it, if you talk about it, I won't be able to eat it anymore."

Li Yi smiled and asked her, "How does it taste?"

"The taste is very fragrant."

Liu Yifei couldn't help but took another small bite, chewed carefully, and shook the half in her hand with a smile: "I can also eat this as a snack."

"That's right, the five-nut mooncake with Xishan Terminalia is the real Cantonese-style five-nut mooncake."

Li Yi said something with a smile, picked up the prepared dried nuts, brought them to the stove, and poured them into the cauldron.

Then, he poured the honey that had just been left into the pot, and started to stir fry it with a spatula.

These honeys are used to mix the five kernel stuffing.

Zhao Jinmai and the others don't like to eat the green and red silk in the five kernel stuffing.

Although the green red silk made of traditional green apricot and rose preserves is still very good, there are no good traditional green red silk on the market.

So Li Yi didn't add green and red silk to the stuffing, but just mixed pure five kernels with honey.

As he stir-fried, the five-nut stuffing in the pan was evenly coated with honey.

Zhao Jinmai leaned over and asked curiously, "This is similar to Marzipan!"

"It's pretty much the same."

Li Yi smiled and said, "There are no terminal nuts in the marzipan."

"When we're done, we can send some to Sister Reba, she'll definitely like it."

As Zhao Jinmai said, he took out his phone and took a few photos, and sent them to Reba.

Not long after, a bullet screen floated in the live broadcast room.

Reba: Wow! It looks delicious!

"Sister Reba!"

Zhao Jinmai smiled and waved to the camera, saying hello.

Reba: Sister Mai Mai, I miss you to death! Is Miss Yifei's feet still okay? I feel so distressed, I hope to get well soon, and come to play with me sooner.

Seeing this, Zhao Jinmai laughed and asked, "Why don't you come and play with us? The naan pit in the yard is still reserved for you!"

Reba: Oh! I want it too! I can't get any more spots, and there are too many people who want to be on your show now, so wait for you to finish recording, come and play with me! I invite you to go up the mountain to eat sheep!

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