Chapter 680 Oil-soaked eel
There is a difference between oil-glazed eel and oil-glazed fish head. Jiang Feng knows exactly which part of the fish head is poured with oil and how. After all, he is also a skilled worker who has made hundreds of pepper fish heads. But eels and fish heads are different after all. Regardless of their body shape, the cooking methods are different first.
Jiang Jiankang told Jiang Feng more than once when he was a child that although they were greedy for meat when they were young (the children of the Jiang family may not be that greedy), in a sense they were not greedy for meat. City Z has reservoirs, rivers and streams, and there is no shortage of pork, beef, mutton, and chicken. There is absolutely no shortage of fish and river shrimp. Even for people with average conditions, it is not difficult to get one or two buckets of fish.
But why do people still crave meat? Because fish and river food are fishy.
In that era of scarce supplies, it was almost impossible to find complete seasonings anywhere else except the state-owned restaurant where Jiang Weiguo worked. Some families were reluctant to put oil in cooking and wanted to eat boiled vegetables with some salt and some salt on the dishes. Youxingzi is considered a vegetarian, let alone condiments such as spices, soy sauce, and cooking wine.
Without seasonings and oil, ingredients like fish and shrimp are a nightmare.
Jiang Jiankang was like this when he was a child, and you can imagine it when Cao Guixiang and Zhang Chu got married. Jiang Feng could also guess why Cao Guixiang made salt-baked river shrimp instead of spicy river shrimp or stir-fried river shrimp. It is estimated that the only seasoning she had at that time was salt, so she could only make salt-baked ones.
After lunch, Jiang Feng began to try the eel in oil.
Originally, he thought that cooking eel in oil should be quite difficult. After all, it was his first time trying it, and it was normal for the car to overturn. As a result, he did it in one go and it went very smoothly. Jiang Feng himself couldn't believe it when the eel came out of the pot.
Use the least oil to get the most fragrant eel.
The eel cut into sections basically has no soup, because Jiang Feng basically added onion, ginger, and garlic to remove the fishy smell, and basically did not add any seasoning other than salt. He even only added a little bit of dark soy sauce and light soy sauce, which caused the eel to lose its flavor. The color doesn't look good. But drizzle it with hot oil before taking it out of the pan, and it will be full of fragrance. The surface of the eel is wrapped in hot oil and looks very attractive.
Jiang Feng took a bite and found that it was okay. There was basically no fishy smell, and it wasn't very tasty because there was not enough seasoning. But it wasn't bad, it just tasted like home cooking.
It was rare that the car did not overturn for the first time. Jiang Feng couldn't wait to go outside to find his grandfather with the freshly cooked eel.
At this time in the past, the two old men were already bragging in the teahouse, but today Jiang Weiguo and Jiang Weiming were worried about Jiang Feng, worried that he would overturn his cooking at night and embarrass Taifeng House in front of Peng Changping, so they deliberately changed the place for tea. He walked into the lobby of Tai Fung House, always ready to support the loser grandson in the kitchen.
Jiang Weiguo was holding tea in his hand. When he saw Jiang Feng coming out of the kitchen with dishes, he was already ready to say something.
"Grandpa, Third Grandpa, come and try it. I think what I have made now has that taste." Jiang Feng's face was filled with happiness.
The old man put down his tea cup: "I knew... huh?"
Old man:?
"It seems that Xiaofeng was very successful in cooking today. The practice during this period was not in vain." Jiang Weiming praised with a smile, took the chopsticks from Jiang Feng's hand, picked up a piece of eel, and put it into his mouth to chew carefully. With.
"Not bad, the meat is very tender." Jiang Weiming praised the quality of the meat, but he could only praise the quality of the meat.
Jiang Weiguo tasted a piece, frowned a little, and asked, "You didn't put any cooking wine?"
Jiang Feng nodded.
"Not pickled?"
Jiang Feng nodded.
"No pepper?"
Jiang Feng nodded.
“You didn’t put in any other aniseed ingredients?”
Jiang Feng then nodded.
Jiang Weiguo originally wanted to curse, but Jiang Feng kept nodding so that he suddenly couldn't curse.
Just as Jiang Weiming said, the heat of this oil-soaked eel is mastered very well, and the meat is tender and delicious. But what is in stark contrast to the heat is the seasoning. It’s not like Tai Feng House is bankrupt, so why are they reluctant to put in this little seasoning?
Jiang Weiguo's current feeling is a bit like the parents of students who are facing their children's failure. If the children just say that they failed the exam, he will definitely beat them boldly. But the problem now is that the child said loudly that he failed the exam with a confident face. This made the parent Jiang Weiguo start to wonder whether the failure the child said he failed was not the failure he imagined, or whether there was something else. The hidden secret is that the school requires everyone to fail the exam.
Jiang Weiguo hesitated a little, but this hesitation weakened and he seemed approachable: "Why didn't you let go?"
Jiang Feng told Balabala the background of this dish and the reason why he didn't serve it. It was reasonable and convincing.
Jiang Weiguo:......
What's wrong with this, I just didn't let it go when it wasn't there, but now I don't let it go.
Jiang Weiming was listening to the conversation between Jiang Weiguo and Jiang Feng. While listening, he smiled and ate the eel that was still hot and even scalding his mouth. In the blink of an eye, he had eaten half of the plate. He seemed to particularly like this plate of eel.
"Xiao Feng." Jiang Weiming suddenly said, "I suddenly want to eat fish head with chopped pepper. Why don't you go out and cook a fish head with chopped pepper for the third grandfather? You probably haven't done this for a while. Let’s have a meal.”
It's true that Jiang Feng hasn't cooked fish head with chopped pepper for a long time. The sales of the Marriage Set Meal have always been mediocre and not very good. Tai Feng Restaurant has introduced many new chefs these days, and diners who like the new and dislike the old soon I forgot about the fish head with chopped pepper and started eating squirrel mandarin fish. In addition, during this short period of time, Jiang Feng spent most of his time learning broth from Peng Changping in Yongheju. The buff dishes were only limited to six servings of carrot yam per day. Pickled dumplings would occasionally be specially made for Han Guishan, and other buff dishes. Including pure meat wontons and Li Hongzhang chowder are all removed from the shelves.
By the way, during this period, complaints from students at the Academy of Fine Arts have almost overwhelmed the complaint mailbox of Tai Fung Building. Inspiration for artists is inherently fleeting and extremely rare. It is rare to find an inspiration finder that can be compared to a plug-in. As a result, it was suddenly removed from the shelves without warning and re-released at a date to be determined. How can this group of people who can’t find inspiration and draw nothing be allowed to die? Future artists with hair are not angry.
Although he didn't understand why Jiang Weiming suddenly wanted to eat fish heads with chopped peppers, it was a good thing to want to eat, especially when Jiang Weiming had lost his sense of taste and appetite, Jiang Feng certainly would not refuse.
"Okay Third Grandpa, please wait outside for a while, and I'll go do it for you now." Jiang Feng agreed immediately.
After Jiang Feng left, Jiang Weiguo looked at Jiang Weiming with some confusion: "Third brother, why do you suddenly want to eat something as heavy as fish head with chopped pepper? I remember that you have been eating very lightly during this time."
"It's just because I've been eating too light during this period that I want to eat something flavorful." Jiang Weiming said with a smile, "Didn't you taste it when you ate the eel just now?"
"What did you eat?" The old man ate it and Jiang Feng didn't add a lot of seasonings, making the originally delicious eel a little tasteless.
Jiang Weiming shook his head and said helplessly: "Xiao Feng has learned cooking from you for so many years, and it has been really wasted. What a great talent, but it has been wasted until now. You are really not suitable to teach a disciple. You should have used it instead of using it." , you shouldn’t have eaten anything less.”
Jiang Weiguo:? ? ?
"Still not convinced?" Jiang Weiming saw Jiang Weiguo's confusion and dissatisfaction, "Let's go in and take a look. You will know after seeing it." (End of Chapter)