Chapter 93: Jade lotus root carved by skillful hands reflects the sun, brocade and honey fragrance
In fact, Mr. Huai Liang read it right. Zhou Dong had a silver needle used in traditional Chinese medicine. However, it was called the "Ancient Nine Needles." Nowadays, even some veteran Chinese medicine practitioners rarely use it. It is at least one inch longer than ordinary silver needles.
Times, and also times thicker.
After Zhou Dong got the recipe for 'Biou Root Fat Jade Porridge', he went to Shennongtang in front of Chudu Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital to buy it. He spent some time before bending the needle.
This folding needle looks like a tool used to draw the inside of snuff bottles, but it is longer and thinner, and more difficult to control.
Looking at this strange silver needle, Huailiang felt that he could not see through this genius more and more; chefs sometimes use steel needles when processing food, such as when making meat bundles.
A steel needle is used to pierce the meat so that it can absorb the flavor, but it is a steel needle. Has anyone seen a silver needle used?
Although the ancient nine needles are thicker and longer than ordinary silver needles, their hardness is not as good as steel needles. When the mountain wind blows, the needle body trembles and trembles, which really dazzles Huai Liang's eyes.
After Zhou Dong gently inserted the folded-head needle into the lotus root hole, his thumb and index finger holding the tail of the needle began to shake rapidly. A silver needle in his hand was like a dragon wagging its tail, an anaconda shaking its head, and two
The fingers suddenly bend and retract, and then straighten forward again. The movement is completely natural, like an antelope hanging its horns, it comes naturally!
After a while, he took back the silver needle and gently shook the lotus root segment in his left hand against the porcelain plate a few times. Suddenly, a lot of lotus root powder fell from the lotus root holes, quickly covering the bottom of the plate.
"This is?"
Mr. Huailiang was stunned. It took him a long time to come to his senses. He quickly ran to the well in the corner of the courtyard to get water and washed his hands. Then he ran back to Zhou Dong and held up the lotus root segments that Zhou Dong had processed as if on a pilgrimage.
Watch carefully in the sunshine.
Under the sunlight, the snow-white lotus root body seems to be transparent, and a clear pattern appears on the inner layer of the lotus root; it is countless small winding passages extending from the inner layer to the surface, like
Just like the capillaries in the human body, they extend in all directions. They seem chaotic, but they are extremely regulated!
"Zhou Dong! You actually... used needles to create many capillary passages for this lotus root!
I understand, I understand! So this is your secret skill! If you make the lotus root like this, it will be easy to taste and delicious no matter how you cook it!
How could you do this...my God, are you the devil?"
Huai Liang felt happy and sour in his heart.
I'm happy that he didn't make friends with this friend, and he is indeed a cooking prodigy in the world. What's sad is that he has seen this skill before, but it is difficult to learn it. Who would have thought that to handle a lotus root, you need to know how to 'paint' it first?
What a technique!
What's more, Zhou Dong's technique seems to be much better than those interior painting masters seen on TV.
Do you want to be so exaggerated? Everyone is obviously a genius. Are you trying to kill someone by creating such a big gap?
Zhou Dong shook his head: "Nothing else, just familiarity with hands and ears..." For a guy like Huai Liangren, you have to pretend.
"It makes sense, it's a golden and good advice!"
Huailiangren secretly made up his mind that he would get a silver needle like this later, and then go waste the white lotus root...
Zhou Dong processed a total of ten lotus root segments like this and stacked them in the bamboo baskets prepared in advance. At this time, Shen Cheng's lotus root powder was almost dry, and Zhou Dong began to clean the lotus root powder that Li Xiuchen's wife had just picked.
of spring spinach.
These ten segments of white lotus root completely broke down class barriers. Huailiang believed that he was not the only one whose jaw dropped, so he enthusiastically promoted this "Zhou Miracle" to Shen Cheng.
Taking advantage of the two guys' admiration around the white lotus root, Zhou Dong quickly activated his perfect dish-washing skills.
The spring spinach was originally fresh, juicy, tender and delicious. As Zhou Dong poured in a lot of appreciation points as if it were free of charge, the spring spinach seemed to be given life and began to scatter it to this magical young chef.
Looking at his eyes, across the water, Zhou Dong seemed to be able to feel the vitality coming from these plants.
"Although it is still a perfect level of washing vegetables, the perfect level skills that seem to have reached the critical point of upgrading are still a little different from before?
If you break through to legendary skills, I wonder what kind of magic it will be?"
"Is this about squeezing juice?"
I saw Zhou Dong using his inner painting skills to process white lotus roots, and I also saw him cleaning spinach. If you still can’t think of a way to get ‘green lotus roots’, Huailiangren, a chef with three Michelin stars, must be from Xibei.
"Guessed it right.
But I can’t use a juicer this time. I need to squeeze out the spinach juice, but I don’t allow the spinach puree to be mixed into the juice. That way, even if I filter it afterwards, the spinach juice will have a bitter taste.”
Zhou Dong looked at Huailiang and said, "A three-star Michelin chef, you should have this skill, right?"
Huai Liang glared at him angrily: "Of course there are, but there are not many people who dare to use me like this. No, there are none at all!"
Zhou Dong frowned and said, "Then I'll do it myself."
"I'm not done yet! No one dares to call me like this, you are an exception!"
Huailiang grabbed the vegetable basin and said coldly: "I'll show you what I'm capable of!"
"Make it better."
Zhou Dong handed the spinach to Huailiang and opened the honey jar that Li Xiuchen got early in the morning.
When the lid was opened, a pure scent of nectar hit your face. You didn't need to taste it to know that Li Xiuchen was right. This was genuine honey, not the kind mixed with sugar.
Zhou Dong nodded with satisfaction, poured the honey into the cleaned porcelain bowl in front of him, took an empty bowl of the same size, raised the honey bowl high, and slowly poured the honey into the empty bowl. The honey was pulled
It grows into a long strip, illuminated by the sun, and looks like a colorful ribbon.
When the honey bowl was empty, Zhou Dong quickly alternated his left and right hands and poured the honey back into the original bowl. He repeated this process a dozen times, as if he was enjoying it.
Shen Cheng looked puzzled: "Master Huai, what are you doing, Master Xiao Zhou? Aren't you tired?"
"What do you know? No matter how good the honey is, it will lose its activity if it settles in the jar for a long time. This is to stimulate the activity of the honey so that the honey fragrance can be fully evaporated. Take a good look, you have a lot to learn."
Shen Cheng couldn't help but marveled: "There are so many things to pay attention to. I didn't expect that there are so many things to pay attention to when making porridge. Oh my God, what price should Lao Liu set for this porridge? If it is too cheap, I will be sorry for Master Xiao Zhou.
craft!"
"You just know money, this is art, do you understand?"
Huailiang shook his head repeatedly when he heard this. A fool is a fool, and a little sparrow is a little sparrow. Only he, a wild goose who aims at the nine heavens, can reluctantly follow Zhou Dong, a man who wins the lottery, right?
"Is the spinach juice ready?"
Zhou Dong turned a deaf ear to the discussion between the two, and kept pouring the bowl more than a dozen times. He saw that the honey in the bowl was almost transparent, showing a hazy feeling of beautiful jade contained in it. Knowing that the heat was up, he hurriedly turned to look at Huai Liang.
people.
"Bring me the spinach juice!"
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