Xie Baomin came to the kitchen carrying sugar cane and threw the car keys to Bai Pengbo:

"This shuttle bus accelerates so slowly, I almost caught up with Lao Song."

Bai Pengbo showed a true expression:

"Chef Xie, you are being unreasonable. If you let Chef Song know that it was me who provided you with the transportation tomorrow, how can I go to his place to get food in the future?"

"Don't rush tomorrow, Lao Song will be here soon."

After Xie Baomin finished speaking, he handed the sugar cane in his hand to the cook next to him:

"Pick off the leaves, wash the roots and scrape off the roots. I will make them for cooking later."

Song Dahai, the executive chef of Building 15, is famous for his bad temper in Diaoyutai. As soon as he heard that he was coming, Bai Pengbo wanted to leave immediately.

But when I heard Xie Baomin said that he wanted to cook with green sugarcane, he immediately stopped:

"Chef Xie, what do you want to cook?"

"Rock candy elbow!"

"Then I won't leave. As long as I get a kick out of it, it's worth it even if Chef Song beats me up."

Want to make rock sugar elbows?

Lin Xu was a little late-minded.

Unexpectedly, the senior brother went out of his way to steal two sugar canes for himself.

You told me earlier.

If you had told me to drive there earlier, wouldn’t it be better than driving a shuttle bus?

But do you put sugar cane in the rock sugar elbow?

I’ve never heard of this approach.

Not long after.

A man in his fifties came into the kitchen.

He is short and fat, and his hair is so sparse that it is completely shiny on the top of his head. Only a ring of sparse hair remains on his temples and the back of his head, and these hairs are still combed hard into the middle, which looks a bit funny.

"Hello, Chef Song!"

When Bai Pengbo saw Song Dahai, he quickly said hello.

By the way, he stuffed the key to the shuttle bus into his pocket, for fear that the head chef would discover that he provided transportation.

However, what he didn't expect was that Chef Song didn't pay much attention to him when he came in, and only stared at Xie Baomin:

"Since when do you need green sugar cane to make rock sugar elbows? Are you kidding me, Lao Xie?"

No matter what the temperament or personality of these head chefs at Diaoyutai, as long as they talk about cooking, their emotions will be aroused immediately.

Xie Baomin said with a smile:

"You will know later when you look at it. This is my top dish. If my junior brother didn't want to learn it, I wouldn't even show it."

Your junior brother?

Song Dahai turned his attention to Lin Xu.

Since becoming famous in the last cooking competition, Master Lin has become a celebrity in Diaoyutai.

He is even more famous than Director Liao of the catering department.

Seeing Song Dahai looking over, Lin Xu quickly said hello:

"Hello, Chef Song, I really didn't expect that my senior brother would go to borrow sugar cane from you in order to teach me how to cook. I'm really sorry."

You deliberately referred to stealing as borrowing, you are really brothers... Song Dahai muttered a few words in his heart, and then said with a smile:

"It's okay, it's okay. I'm just growing it for fun. If you want to use it, just use it."

Xie Baomin, who was next to him, immediately hit the snake and followed the stick and said:

"Did you hear that? Junior brother? Next time you want to use sugar cane, just go to Building No. 15 and pick it up. Remember to pick the one that has been watered, as it will be easier to pull it out."

Song Dahai: "..."

Damn you, you really don’t think of yourself as an outsider.

Soon, the sugar cane was cleaned.

Xie Baomin cut the sugarcane into sections, tasted the sweetness, and then left the sugarcane near the root, which looked like four or five sections.

Finished these.

Start preparing the ingredients for making rock sugar elbows.

There are many people today.

Xie Baomin took four well-sized pig elbows directly from the cold storage.

Then we prepared green onions, ginger, star anise, pepper, bay leaves, cinnamon, white pepper and other spices, as well as a whole bowl of rock sugar.

Wow!

So much rock candy?

Although the rock sugar elbow Lin Xu ate at Shen's house was quite sweet, he still couldn't believe it when he saw such a large bowl of rock sugar.

Is this dish sweet or meaty?

Xie Baomin said:

"The rock sugar elbow dish is a classic Shandong cuisine and one of the famous Jinan three elbows. It uses a lot of sugar. It can be said that it relies entirely on rock sugar to enhance the flavor."

As soon as he finished speaking, Song Dahai next to him added:

"The amount of sugar used in this dish is different between the north and the south. In the north, it is 200 grams of rock sugar per elbow, but in the south, it is more, almost 250 grams."

He saw that Xie Baomin really wanted to teach Master Lin how to make rock sugar elbows.

Then he put his mind aside and started explaining.

In a few days, Master Lin will represent Diaoyutai in a cooking competition. If this dish is available, wouldn't it be useful?

However, the chances of cooking elbow dishes in the competition are not very high.

After all, this dish takes too much work.

Lin Xu on the side was still secretly speechless:

Be good.

One elbow and half a pound of rock sugar.

If you take this sip, your blood sugar will not rise to double digits?

Xie Baomin boiled a pot of water.

After the water boils, put the elbow in.

When the water in the pot boiled again, he took it out of the pot with a slotted spoon.

Lin Xu looked a little confused and didn't understand what this operation was.

Is this blanching?

Isn’t this too casual?

Song Dahai said from the side:

"This is a tight pigskin. Boil the pigskin in hot water and the stubble inside will protrude, making it easier to clean up."

Just before putting it in.

Lin Xu saw that the surface of the elbow was shiny.

After scalding them in boiling water, he found that there were indeed fine stubbles on the surface of these elbows, as if they had not shaved for two or three days.

I learned another little trick for dealing with elbows.

Xie Baomin wiped the moisture on the surface of the elbow with kitchen paper, then used a spray gun to burn the pig skin.

This is actually skin burning. It uses high-temperature flames to burn all the stubble pores and sweat glands on the surface of the elbow. This not only reduces the odor, but also makes the skin of the elbow firmer and more delicious.

But after adding the step of tightening the skin, the effect of burning the skin becomes better.

Soon, all four elbows were burned to a pitch black color.

It also smells like burning hair.

Xie Baomin put his elbow into the slightly hot water, picked up a newly unpacked steel wool ball and started washing it.

Soon.

The elbow that was originally covered in black dust was washed clean.

Then heat up the oil in a pan and start oiling the elbows.

It took a while for the oil to heat up, so Xie Baomin had nothing to do, so he took a sharp knife and picked out the thin end of the elbow, which is the fascia connecting the joints of the pig's trotters.

Song Dahai couldn't help but admired when he saw it:

"Lao Xie is very particular about this step."

Pay attention to?

Is there anything to say here?

Lin Xu asked curiously.

Song Dahai said:

"After removing the fascia of the lower joint, the meat of the elbow will shrink when stewing, and the bones will be exposed. This not only looks good, but also can pull out the leg bones with a gentle pull when eating."
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To be continued...