Chapter 566 Dry croquettes ≠ fried meatballs! Lucy’s cry: Down with capitalism! [Please subscribe]

"There is an essential difference between dry croquettes and fried meatballs!"

Uncle Gao put the oil pan on the stove and turned the heat to maximum. Then he brought over the potato starch that had been soaked in advance, mixed it into a thin paste, and slowly poured it into the marinated meat filling.

Then I sprinkled some white sesame seeds into it and started to mix it with my hands.

Lin Xu asked curiously:

"What are the differences, Master?"

His understanding of dry croquettes is still limited to ordinary croquettes.

Xie Baomin on the side said:

"The biggest difference is...doing it."

Do it?

Is this considered a difference?

Lin Xugang was about to ask his senior brother not to interrupt, when Uncle Gao said:

"Your senior brother is right. The biggest characteristic of dry fried meatballs is that they need to be dry. If the skin of the meatballs is not dry and crispy enough, it means they are not fried enough. If oil comes out when pinched, it means the heat is not good enough."

After pouring the starch paste into the meat filling, stir it a few times, and it will be mixed with the meat filling and become sticky.

At this time, you still need to prevent the meat filling from getting too strong.

The lean and fat diced meat must be put into the oil pan in a relaxed state.

Uncle Gao adjusted the meat filling and slowly waited for the oil in the pot to come up.

He said:

"Because the stove at home has weak firepower, it is difficult to make dry croquettes. If you make it in a restaurant, it is relatively simple. Just take it out and fry it twice. It is easier."

Lin Xu was a little confused:

"Three explosions in total?"

"Yes, it is fried three times in the store. In a small stove like this at home, it may even be fried four times to achieve a crispy outside and tender inside without being greasy."

The oil temperature is 60% hot, and Uncle Gao starts frying.

He put his left hand in the basin, grabbed the meat ball a few times, and then squeezed out a round ball from the tiger's mouth.

Small and round.

Put the meatballs into the pot, and then continue to put them in.

If you have a professional large-scale stove, you need to turn down the heat at this time to prevent the oil temperature from being too high and causing the surface of the meatballs to fry. However, you don’t have to worry about this in a small family stove, just fry it on high heat.

Uncle Gao put more than twenty meatballs into the pot at once.

Then pick up the spoon and push it on the bottom of the pot to prevent the meatballs from sticking to the bottom of the pot and causing them to burn.

The fire on the stove is high, and the oil temperature in the pot is always kept above 60%, so the meatballs that are put in quickly take shape, and a golden burnt shell is formed on the surface.

At this time, Uncle Gao picked up the colander, took out the meatballs, tossed the colander over the oil pan a few times, and poured it into the stainless steel basin prepared next to it.

Lin Xu asked curiously:

"Take it out as soon as it's set?"

"Yes, you have to take them out as soon as they are shaped, otherwise the oil will soak into the inside of the meatballs."

"Can it be cooked?"

Uncle Gao picked up the leak, knocked out the oil residue in the pot, and started frying the second pot.

He said while working:

"So it has to be fried over and over again until the meat inside is cooked by the heat and all the fat in the outer layer of charred shell is fried out."

To make dry croquettes, you need to keep moving the meatballs in and out of the oil pan quickly.

The purpose of this is to prevent fat from soaking into the inside of the meatballs, and also to make the meatballs dryer and crispier, while the meatballs inside are more tender.

This method is indeed more convenient to use a professional stove. Each time you put it in the pan and fry it for about ten seconds, after three times, the meatballs will be basically cooked, and the outer shell will be completely fried and crispy.

But for small families, this approach is relatively difficult.

Uncle Gao fried all the meatballs in three pots.

Lin Xu noticed that every time the master fished out the meat, he would deliberately stir it on the oil pan a few times.

At first he thought it was controlling the oil, and thought about frying it again later. What's the use of controlling the oil now? Wouldn't it still become very greasy when it is put into the oil pan?

But after doing some research, he discovered that doing so had nothing to do with oil control.

It seems to be to make the shell of the meatballs crack.

After the shell is broken, the biggest effect is to make the meatballs taste more crispy!

After thinking about this, Lin Xu felt inexplicably happy.

As long as you carefully observe some links and key points in cooking, you can also discover the secrets inside. There is no need to rely solely on the system.

After all, the system is external, and the skills you learn are your own.

Just as I was thinking about it, the system prompt sounded in my mind:

"The host is good at observation and discovered the secret of cooking dry croquettes. He completed the hidden task [Good at Observation] and received a 50% off coupon for special props. Congratulations to the host."

Wow!

Is there a reward?

Lin Xu didn't expect that he had carefully observed the master's method of making dry croquettes, and not only completed a hidden task, but even received a coupon for a special prop.

Although it is only a 50% discount, it is just enough for Lin Xu now.

Because of the [enhanced sense of smell] pricing, I can save over 300,000 points after using coupons, but now I owe over 300,000 points when redeeming props.

Qiaoqiao's mother really opened the door for Qiaoqiao - Qiaoqiao is home.

Lin Xu chose to redeem without hesitation.

Soon, the system prompt sounded in my mind:

"Congratulations to the host for obtaining a special prop - enhanced sense of smell."

After the exchange was successful, Lin Xu felt as if his sense of smell had been strengthened for an instant.

The aroma of peanut oil in the oil pan, the fragrance of the meatballs next to it, the aroma of his senior brother cooking not far away, and the smell of cold dishes placed on the island in the center of the kitchen, etc., all entered his nostrils.

The system is right. The sense of smell has indeed been greatly enhanced. Now I don’t even need to look at it. I can tell that my senior brother is frying fish fillets just by the smell.

We still use fresh mandarin fish, because mandarin fish has a stronger flavor than other fish.

At this time, the temperature of the oil in the pot increased to 70% hot. Uncle Gao took the newly fried meatballs in the basin and poured half of them into the oil pot.

The firepower is weak, so you have to use your ability when re-exploding.

You cannot pour it all in at once, otherwise the oil temperature in the pot will drop too much and the oil temperature will not rise, which will cause the oil to seep into the inside of the meatballs.

This is a taboo.

Not only dry croquettes, but also all fried croquettes should not be fried in hot oil.

As soon as the meatballs were poured in, the oil pan suddenly started to boil.

The frying time this time was still not long. After about eleven or two seconds, Uncle Gao took the meatballs out of the oil pan and then tossed them on the oil pan a few times as usual.

The bumps were not as big as the last time, but because there were so many balls, the force of the squeezing was greater.

From the crackling sound, you can feel that the burnt shell that was just blasted has cracked again.

Lin Xu understood it thoroughly, and flipped it every time it was fried, so that the outer shell became crispier and crispier as it was fried, and it tasted more and more delicious.

Is this the secret to delicious dry croquettes?

After the second explosion, Uncle Gao turned his head and glanced at Lin Xu:

"Did you see anything?"

"Every time you stir the pot, it's very important to stir it a few times."

Not only did these words surprise Uncle Gao, but Xie Baomin, who was frying fish fillets at the stove next to him, couldn't help but turn his face and praise:

"Okay, junior brother, your observation skills are quite powerful!"

Master had just finished criticizing and said that the process should not be kept secret. If it were someone else, he would have thought that Master and Senior Brother would have known everything.

However, unexpectedly, both of them made a tacit agreement not to mention the matter of blowing up the spoon, just to see if Lin Xu could observe this.

Unexpectedly, he not only observed it, but also keenly felt that this was the essence of dry croquettes.

"Xiao Xu's talent is really great. I remember that I forced your senior brother to eat half a bowl of dried croquettes, and that's when I figured it out."

Half a bowl of dry croquettes?

What kind of torture is this?
To be continued...