There is a kind of high-quality jade that will appear ice cracks, which seem to be irregular, but in fact it is as wonderful as nature's magical skills, which can make people obsessed with it. At this moment, these lotus root sections soaked in ice water present this beautiful pattern under the principle of thermal expansion and contraction.

Tianxiangxue is pure and transparent in flesh, and there is no turbidity of ordinary lotus roots. Moreover, as the lotus root meat gradually cracks, a faint fragrance is poured out through the ice water. It is a bit like bamboo shoots, but it is a little more gentle than the bamboo shoots. It is a bit like lotus seeds, but it is less bitter and a little sweeter...

In order to highlight the natural taste of the ingredients, it is a common method for chefs to change them with various knife skills. However, it is rare for Zhou Dong to use the principles of physics. At this moment, even the three chefs have to admit that even if you are a chef, you will not suffer any loss.

Moreover, the real purpose of Zhou Dong's operation should be to embed the eggplant strips of lotus root meat, that is, the semi-finished eggplant. Ice water not only plays a role in thermal expansion and contraction, but also locks most of the lotus root fragrance at zero-degree low temperatures, turning into cold fragrances and slowly seeps into the depths of the eggplant strips.

Whether it is the eggplant croaker recorded in "Dream of Red Mansions" or many chefs who study this dish in later generations have never really focused on the eggplant croaker itself. With various auxiliary ingredients, the "chicken and melon seeds" of dried fruits have become the protagonist. This is obviously a devil's way. Zhou Dong's method is to make things right and correct the source!

Zhou Dong's eggplant seems to be not disappointing.

"Wugong, is the chicken soup enough? It's three points of heat. Please try the temperature before giving me it."

As Zhou Dong said, he gently took out the lotus root segments in the basin and placed them on the ice cubes that had been prepared long ago to continue to suppress them.

It is approaching early summer now, and the kitchen will not turn on the air conditioner in this season. At most, it is just to turn on the exhaust fan. If the lotus root segments are not suppressed by ice, the unique cold fragrance of Tianxiangxue will probably dissipate quickly.

The most difficult thing in making soup is to look at the fire, and the other is to know when the fire will stop depending on the different utensils used.

Stop the fire by observing the color of the fire? If you encounter utensils like yellow clay pots, you will probably boil them into a pot of old soup, and the pot of soup will be completely ruined.

This is not an old soup for making braised dishes, nor is it a high soup for making stir-fry dishes, nor is it a different from a old fire porridge.

Chicken soup is the most important thing to pay attention to 'the soup is clear and the meat is not lost'.

In other words, a pot of qualified chicken soup should not be cooked for too long or too short. While ensuring that it is delicious, it should also ensure that the soup is clear and tender meat is slightly melted into the soup. It seems that the soup is clear, but it is thick and mellow in the mouth, but it must not be boiled into a pot of soup!

When Wugong Masada removed the fire, the chicken soup in the red mud soup pot was actually lacking in half the heat, just to use the residual heat of the soup pot to continue to simmer and make up the heat. At this time, when he heard Zhou Dong's call, he hurriedly looked at the color of the soup and carried the soup pot to Zhou Dong's presence.

"Well, the remaining three points of heat is just around the corner, and the heat is controlled very well."

Zhou Dong scooped up a spoonful of chicken soup and saw that the soup was clear and not turbid. Even the thick butter layer common on the soup noodles had been cleaned by Masada Wugong. He nodded slightly and slowly poured the spoonful of chicken soup back into the red clay pot. He saw that the seemingly clear chicken soup actually pulled out silk threads. It was the manifestation that the tender meat on the chicken body had been perfectly integrated into the soup after a long period of cooking!

He couldn't help but praise Masada Wumiya. Masada Wumiya was immediately overjoyed, and was as happy as if the child who had obtained the little red flower, and glanced at Shi Buyu proudly.

After Zhou Dong put the lotus root sections embedded in the eggplant strips into the chicken soup with only three-quarters of heat left, the "ice cracks" on the lotus root meat slowly opened up, forming an extremely strange and beautiful but never repeated picture. While the eggplant strips were full of chicken soup, the chicken soup on the right temperature also began to slowly melt into the lotus root meat along these ice cracks.

Only then did Zhou Dong put the red clay pot back on the stove and heat it up on low heat. At the same time, the firepower was increased by one layer every half a minute.

"A good chef should understand the principle of mutual growth in ingredients. Root root and eggplant are good for single food. Once it is matched with broth, the taste will be even more wonderful. However, many chefs only know that these two ingredients can match the thick taste, but they don't know which one should be the leader after the combination?

Chicken soup is the freshest and can also be thick. Often, once other ingredients are in line with chicken soup, they will be overwhelmed and lose their status as the main dish. However, the name of this dish is 'Eggybean'. If the main dish is taken away by chicken soup, even if the taste is not bad, it will be considered a failure."

Chu Hu Shen smiled and looked at the slowly heating chicken soup in the soup pot and the lotus root segments that began to gently turn in the chicken soup. He commented with a smile: "First use the principle of heat expansion and contraction to make Tianxiangxue produce ice cracks, which is equivalent to the 'merid' growing several times in the original veins of the lotus root. It is not only easier to taste, but also easier to bring out the unique taste of this alien lotus root.

The eggplant tastes are medium, and the traces are almost non-existent, so it can be combined with various materials, or with various meat materials such as sheep, cattle, pigs, chickens, etc. However, if it is thrown directly into the soup, the eggplant meat will not be tight enough, which will easily lead to looseness, not only will it lose the taste, but also the taste... "

"Brother Hu is right, so the method recorded in "Dream of Red Mansions" is to 'Nine Steam and nine dry'. In the end, the eggplant meat must be dried into hard and crispy strips. This solves the problem that eggplant meat will be loose, but after steaming and drying like this, it will be thrown away many delicious foods. No wonder later chefs made eggplant meat will not be delicious either. They have to rely on chicken and melon seeds to save some flavor..."

Shi Buyu shook his head and said, "I just said that the teacher who can be recognized by me is our diligent god! Look at how skillful my master's methods not only add a layer of the fragrance of alien lotus roots to the eggplant, but also completely solves the problem that the eggplant may cause looseness by injecting eggplant into soup.

Master, if I guess correctly, the eggplant you made shouldn't need to be dried into hard strips anymore, right?"

"You're smart."

Zhou Dong smiled slightly: "It's so troublesome to dry it into a hard strip. Do you have to put it in a can and bury it in the ground? When you eat it, you have to take it out and steam it? Don't say that the taste may not be good. No matter how good it is, it will lose its fresh taste and nutrition.

Old Shitou, let’s leave this to you about the heat. Increase the fire every half minute. After waiting for 100% of the fire, boil for ten seconds. Cover and simmer for ten minutes. Take out the lotus root segments, take out the complete eggplant strips, and cut the lotus root segments into diced for later use.”

"Okay!"
Chapter completed!