Chapter 117 Making Pickled Fish (5/5
"Ah, is that right? Bingbing has been watching you, the boss just now." Bingzi spread his hands, as if he was talking about something relaxed and ordinary.
Chen Chong's face twitched, and he couldn't figure out what was in the ice corpse's mind! So he stopped asking and observed it on his own. This observation did not last long. After almost a second or two, the fish fillets jumped!
Of course, it is not really bouncing, otherwise it will inevitably be a bit scary! It is more like a black fish's cell is still active when it dies, so it will twitch slightly.
But the problem is that this cell activity generally does not exist for too long, only a few seconds or ten seconds! The journey back from the vegetable market is not short, and the time has long exceeded this range!
Chen Chong immediately started the 'food identification technique' to check, his eyes condensed and his breathing was slightly rapid. He saw that the fish that was originally of only '7' suddenly turned into a quality '8'! To be precise, all the fish that came out of the slices reached a quality '8', while the rest were still '7'.
"This" he opened his mouth slightly and looked at the rusty kitchen knife in his hand in disbelief.
"It seems that the boss has got another new treasure." Bingzi clapped his hands and was sincerely happy.
"It's indeed a good thing." Chen Chong smiled and touched the kitchen knife with love. The more he touched, the more he felt, the more he liked him.
"If you have the chance to get active ingredients of '10' quality in the future, you will no longer have to worry about reducing the quality when dealing with it. With the magic of this knife, you can completely recover when cutting meat. Then I will be the only person in the world who can make perfect dishes!"
"Bingbing is looking forward to that day." Bingzi was happier than Chen Chong, and his hands and feet were as innocent as a child.
"Okay, let's continue cooking."
Chen Chong calmed down his mind and cleaned all the fish slices and the remaining blood in the fish bones. Cleaning the blood is not a simple and hygienic treatment, because the blood not only has a strong fishy smell, but also can easily become muddy, which leads to a turbid feeling in the later soup color, affecting vision.
It is worth mentioning that the fish meat produced with rust blades is completely translucent after being rinsed, which shows how thin and flat the fish fillet is, and the texture is clearly visible.
Then start the next step.
Put the fish into a separate bowl, and chop the fish bones into small pieces with a length of about five centimeters and put them together with the fish head.
Chen Chong took a little salt and sugar and sprinkled it into the meat for seasoning. Then he added a small amount of white wine and white pepper to remove the fishy smell. Finally, he added egg white and grabbed it evenly with his hands.
"The fish fillets cooked with egg white are brighter and the meat is tenderer, but not too much to avoid the main and secondary reversal, so only half is needed. Don't be troublesome at this step, you must grab them with your hands. Only hands with extremely high sensitivity can feel the direction of the fish fillet during the mixing process, so as to avoid damage to the fish fillet while fully staining with egg white."
"Okay." Bingzi's waist sank close to the table, and his hands were supporting his chin. I don't know if he was looking at Chen Chong's serious face or the process of watching the fish fillets.
"After grasping it evenly, you can sizing it." Chen Chong found the bottle with the words "corn starch" written in the locker, opened it and poured some into the fish meat, and continued to scramble. "The standard for fish fillets is to be dry and thin and slurry evenly. Of course, it is not enough to just look with your eyes and feel it with your hands. It also requires a certain amount of experience accumulation, and there is no strict proportional standard."
"Yeah." Seeing that Chen Chongma finished his taste, the ice corpse slowly approached the former, opened his mouth slightly, and gently spit out a mouthful of white mist.
"Are you?" Chen Chong's head subconsciously avoided backwards, unwilling to stick to the ice corpse too tightly.
"Bingbing's temperature is very low, which can help the boss delay the aging of fish." Bingbi retreated and blinked playfully in his left eye.
"It's quite smart." Chen Chong breathed a sigh of relief. Sure enough, he saw a light layer of frost attached to the surface of the fish. He ignored it and took out a pack of ready-made sauerkraut and opened it, then tear off a little and put it on the tip of his tongue to feel the taste. It was a bit salty and needed to be blanched.
Sure enough, the sauerkraut I bought was not as perfect as I imagined, and the ratio of salt to sauerkraut was somewhat unbalanced.
"There is not only a slight deviation in the treatment method, but also a crucial storage environment. For example, the sauerkraut placed in the basement will taste more delicate than the sauerkraut placed on the ground. This is due to different moisture. But we have a clay pot, so there is no need to worry about this." While explaining to Bingzi, he put the sauerkraut into a pot and blanched it, and then took it out for later use.
The Ice Corpse listened very seriously.
After all the preparation processes are completed, Chen Chong enters the cooking stage, first boils the water stains in the pot, and then takes out a bottle of newly purchased oil and pours a little.
"Boss, haven't the oil in our house been used up?" Bingzi asked in confusion when he noticed the half barrel of oil placed on the stove.
"The bottle in my hand is soybean oil. This soybean oil is very suitable for cooking sauerkraut fish. Even because of soybeans, it is more delicious than soy sauce when used in sauerkraut fish. Of course, if there is no soybean oil, you can also use salad oil instead, but then you need to add a very small amount of soy sauce to improve freshness, which will be a little worse in taste." Chen Chong explained patiently.
"Bingbing knows." Bingzi was not idle either. Seeing that the boiled water was first allowed to be warm, he poured it into the sauerkraut jar and finally closed the lid.
Taking advantage of the hot oil, Chen Chong took out the ginger and garlic foam that had been prepared from the freezer, as well as the shallots and pickled peppers I just bought this morning. Wash the scallions without cutting them, just tie a knot, so that they will not disperse in the hot oil while ensuring the onion smell. As for pickled peppers, they should be cut into sections, about half a centimeter long.
When the oil temperature rises to 70% hot, put the onion, ginger, garlic and pickled pepper into the pot and stir-fry until fragrant. This process will be quick to avoid the color and taste of the onion, ginger, and garlic due to excessive heat.
Then add the fish head and fish bones that were already accurate and stir-fry to make the color change, and then pour the drained sauerkraut into a pot and stir-fry them together, so that the sauerkraut can maximize the release of a unique sour taste.
"It smells so good." Ice twitched his nose with great pleasure.
"Can you eat these?" Chen Chong said suspiciously. After all, the other party was a corpse.
"No." Bingzi shook his head aggrievedly, then his tongue slid, and said, "I can only eat something else."
Chen Chong subconsciously shivered and did not ask questions. He quickly changed the topic, "After the ingredients are fried, add water and bring to a boil, then turn to medium heat and cook for about 20 minutes until the fish soup is thick and white."
Bang.
Covering the lid, Chen Chong pulled out a cigarette and walked towards the front hall while lighting the fire.
Ice corpses cannot touch the sun, so they still need to do their own work on placing blackboards and high and low stools.
"Boss, do you need Bingbing to help you rub your shoulders?" Bingzi put his hands together in front of his chest, looking forward to it.
"Need not."
Chen Chong said without looking back, and quickly walked to the sun to dispel the cold air in his body. I don’t know if he had an illusion, but the action of the ice corpse licking his mouth just now always made people shudder.
Could she want to eat herself?
(To be continued)
Chapter completed!