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

Looking at the slender wild lotus roots in the pot, Liu Yifei swallowed her saliva and introduced to Li Yi: "This kind of wild lotus root tastes different from the big lotus root. The silk is thicker and not so crispy, but the stew soup is special." fragrant."

Li Yi smiled and nodded, joking: "That's right, now he has the demeanor of a professional gourmet."

"Haha! That's right!"

Liu Yifei raised her head proudly: "I've been recording a show with you for so long, I think it's time for me to watch it, right?"

At this point, she seemed to have thought of something, shrank her neck, and said with a smile: "But when I first recorded the show, I really didn't know anything about cooking.

At that time, I couldn’t even tell the difference between keels and ribs, so I knew they were both called bones, haha! "

While talking and joking, the charcoal fire under the hanging pot gradually heated up the dragon bones and wild lotus roots in the pot, and the aroma gradually spread.

Smelling this aroma, Liu Yifei couldn't help but swallow her saliva.

"Can you eat it?"

She picked up the chopsticks, smacked the tips of the chopsticks, and looked straight at the meat in the pot.

"You could have eaten it."

Li Yi also picked up the chopsticks and signaled: "Eat the meat first. The meat is braised. Let the lotus roots simmer for a while first."

Hearing this, Liu Yifei immediately picked up a piece of dragon bone.

But instead of putting it into the bowl, she first pressed the keel into the soup and washed it, then took it with the bowl and brought it back to her face.

After picking it up and blowing it twice, she lowered her head and took a bite, savoring it carefully.

After following Li Yi's program for so long, she has developed the habit of savoring every dish.

"Well, it's a very standard salty taste. The black pepper taste is strong and mellow."

She commented decently: "This marinade doesn't seem to be as fragrant as ours. It's missing several ingredients, but I can't taste them.

The meat is quite fragrant and stewed very crispy, falling off the bone as soon as you bite it, but it’s a bit too rotten. It doesn’t have the feeling of just falling off the bone and maintaining the texture like the braised meat you braised..."

She chewed it carefully, swallowed the meat, and then said to Li Yi: "If you make it, it will definitely taste better than this, but it's already very good, and it's delicious."

"You've become more genuine."

Li Yi smiled and took out a tissue and wiped the sauce on her cheeks.

Zeng Shun on the side laughed and said: "It's really a bit bullying to compare with Yi Ge with this kind of home-cooked restaurant food."

"It seems so!"

Liu Yifei thought for a while, then smiled at Li Yi and said, "I've become naughty after eating your food all day long."

"Isn't that just right?"

Li Yi joked: "After you become Diao, you will never be able to leave me."

"..."

Zeng Shun and the assistant director on the side exchanged glances, both choking on their dog food.

The proprietress who came to deliver the food brought them back to their senses. She put a plate of freshly baked lotus root cakes and a plate of lotus root dumplings on the table and greeted them with a smile: "This is our specialty, try it." Taste it!”

"Lotus root cake! Lotus root dumplings! My favorite when I was a kid!"

When Liu Yifei saw the lotus root cake, she immediately stretched out her chopsticks.

Picking up a piece of lotus root cake covered with glutinous rice and fried until crispy, she greeted Li Yi: "This is delicious. Try it quickly. This kind is different from the batter-wrapped and deep-fried lotus root cake. It tastes better." fragrant."

Seeing this, Li Yi also took a piece and looked at it.

The outer layer of this lotus root cake is a layer of glutinous rice, and both sides have been browned, giving it the appearance of a crispy rice cake.

"Crack!"

Liu Yifei couldn't wait to take a bite.

The crispy rice cake layer is bitten open, revealing the lotus root slices and meat filling inside.

After looking at the cross-section she bit open, Li Yi had an idea.

The principle of this kind of lotus root cake is the same as that of lotus root sandwich, except that the batter is replaced by glutinous rice.

But changes in ingredients will bring about changes in taste, forming unique styles and characteristics.

This is also the charm of local specialties.

Click!

Li Yi also took a bite of the lotus root cake and tasted it carefully.

The outer layer of glutinous rice is fried to a crispy texture, but the inner lotus root slices are already cooked, and the deeper meat filling still has a hint of juice, which is very delicious.

When the lotus root cake enters your mouth, taste feedback comes out one by one.

The glutinous rice has too much water, is a little sticky, and is not dispersed enough, resulting in insufficient crispiness.

The lotus root cake was a bit over-fried and would have been better if it had a little crispiness.

The seasoning of the meat filling was a little off, and the pepper was a bit heavy, covering up the freshness and sweetness of the meat.

It’s time to change the oil used, the smell is a bit mixed...

But these feedbacks did not affect Li Yi's mood.

He picked up another lotus root ball that was also wrapped in glutinous rice and fried to a golden color.

The heat is a bit strong, the glutinous rice is a bit hard, and it bites your teeth a bit when you eat it.

Naturally, the meat filling was a bit too fried and not juicy enough.

This is also related to the fact that the proportion of lotus root mixed in it is too high. It would be better to reduce it by 10%.

Likewise, the seasoning could also be improved...

Although there were constant feedbacks about the taste that were not satisfactory to him, Li Yi was still in a good mood.

With his current level of cooking skills, there are only a few people in the world who can make dishes that satisfy him completely.

So taste feedback like this is normal.

For him now, he will pay more attention to the preparation method of the dishes rather than the taste of the dishes.

Take these two dishes as an example, as long as you change the glutinous rice into batter, it will become a different dish.

Change fried to steamed and it will be another dish.

Although this seems to be just a simple change in practice, it represents the bursts of inspiration from the ancients.

It is precisely this burst of inspiration that allowed people to evolve step by step from the initial days of eating and drinking, and finally formed the complex and rich splendid food culture today.

Therefore, what he tasted was not the taste, but the whims of his ancestors.

This fascinated him more than the taste of the food.

Soon, one dish after another was served.

Liu Yifei ate very happily. These were all dishes from her hometown and were very suitable to her appetite.

Zeng and Shun were also very satisfied with their meal. Half of the wild lotus roots in the hanging pot were killed by them.

"This wild lotus root is different! It's sweet and waxy."

Zeng Shun picked up another wild lotus root and ate it enthusiastically.

There is no separation between Hubei and Hunan. The tastes in the two places are different, but good things can be appreciated by everyone.

While the assistant director was eating, he was also observing his surroundings.

After looking around, he asked: "Director, don't we have to shoot scenes of cooking in the restaurant and diners eating?

I think this place is good, you can take a view here. "

Hearing this, Zeng Shun did not answer, but looked at Li Yi with a questioning look: "Brother Yi, what do you think?"

Li Yi looked around, then glanced at the dishes on the table, and nodded: "I think it's OK. The dishes in this store are pretty good, and the chef's skills are good. The most important thing is that there are many regular customers, and he can get more Taking some shots of local people will give you a more immersive experience.”

"Then it's settled. I'll talk to the boss later."

As soon as Zeng Shun responded, the landlady came in with her cell phone and Xiaoxiao: "Yifei, can I discuss something with you?"

She shook her phone: "I want to take a photo with you, print it out later, and hang it in our store, is that okay?"

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