Chapter 359: Straight men can’t speak eloquently, but they work
After talking for a while, the duck had become warm. Seeing Wan Yuyue obediently rubbing her head against the potato shreds, Zhao Xiaojing turned around and continued to process the duck.
Nie Xiuqi was probably preparing to make another serving of stir-fried pork with chili peppers. He took the chili peppers and meat and went back to the chopping board to start cutting them. However, while cutting the meat, he kept looking at Zhao Xiaojing.
Zhao Xiaojing noticed him out of the corner of her eye, then turned to look at Yun Yongyuan and Wan Yuyue, her gaze colliding head-on with Yun Yongyuan's. Yun Yongyuan quickly turned back, pretending nothing had happened as he served the eighth plate of stir-fried pork with chili peppers.
Zhao Xiaojing burst out laughing. These people really deserve to be chefs. They all get excited when they see the new dishes.
"I'm learning how to be a fairy duck. If you want to see it, come and watch. I'm doing it like a thief. But first, let me make it clear, I'm just starting out and my skills are just so-so. Don't blame me if I learn it wrong."
As soon as the words fell, the three of them immediately turned off the fire, put down their knives, took the food out of the pot, and then gathered around.
Zhao Xiaojing was being watched by three pairs of eyes. Her already inexperienced cooking skills became even more unstable. She started frying the duck before the oil was even heated enough, then put the duck into the wok before it was fully fryed. The oil wasn't heated enough, so the color didn't come out. As a result, she fried the duck for too long...
When it was finally put into the steamer, Zhao Xiaojing had completely lost all hope for this pot of duck.
After putting the duck in the pot and adjusting the heat twice, all that remains is a long wait.
Wan Yuyue glanced at the fresh fish in the pond and gestured to Zhao Xiaojing with her eyes. Zhao Xiaojing pursed her lips and gestured back. The two of them stared back and forth for a long time, leaving Yun Yongyuan completely confused. "What are you two doing with each other? Didn't you want to watch Senior Brother Nie cook the fish? If you play for a while longer, there won't be time to cook!"
"That's right! Senior Brother Nie still has to cook fish. It's all Junior Sister's fault. I can see the shadow on her face!" Someone finally said it, and Wan Yuyue happily let it go.
"If you don't look at me, how do you know I'm looking at you? Be a fish, be a fish!" The goal was achieved. Zhao Xiaojing thought to herself that although straight men can't speak flexibly, they are sometimes quite useful.
Nie Xiuqi said nothing, turned around and took out the sickest fish from the bucket, knocked it unconscious with a knife in the pool, then removed the gills, scraped the scales, opened the back, removed the internal organs, and put it into the pool to rinse.
The whole process happened in silence, and it only took a minute and a half from taking the fish out of the bucket to gutting it and putting it on the chopping board.
Nie Xiuqi cut off the head and tail of the fish, seeming a little uncomfortable with the process. He glanced at the three people and said in a slightly stiff voice that he would use a flat knife to slice off the fish jerky on both sides. Then he turned around and started to work.
Nie Xiuqi held the fish with one hand and the knife with the other, keeping the knife and the cutting board parallel. He sliced the fish into two pieces along the spine from head to tail, and then took out two clean pieces of fish jerky.
Zhao Xiaojing noticed that the fish jerky was sliced together with the bones. She was wondering if she should use some method to remove the bones if this dish was a soup. Nie Xiuqi put the fish jerky into a deep plate, added scallion segments, ginger slices, Huadiao wine, and salt to marinate it. Then he boiled water in a steamer and put the fish into the pot to steam it.
"Boil on high heat for six minutes." Nie Xiuqi explained, then turned around and started processing the mushrooms, spring bamboo shoots, and ham. He cut them into shreds and blanched them in chicken broth. Then he took two eggs, took only the egg yolk liquid, and beat them.
"Has the chicken soup been skimmed off?" Zhao Xiaojing took a look at the chicken in the casserole. The chicken soup was clear and had no fat at all. Although it was a local chicken bought specially in the morning and had less fat, it was not completely fat.
"Don't use chicken fat when cooking the chicken. After cooking for the required time, skim off the fat on the surface of the soup." Nie Xiuqi stopped what he was doing and replied.
The three of them nodded. Zhao Xiaojing turned to look at the timer on the side. The timer had already started counting down, and the fish was almost steamed.
Nie Xiuqi took a look and turned off the fire the moment the timer rang. After simmering it for a while, he opened the lid of the pot.
The two pieces of fish jerky had turned from crystal pink to mature jade white. Nie Xiuqi took out the deep plate and took out the pointed bamboo chopsticks that Zhao Xiaojing had just bought from the bowl and chopstick cabinet. He picked out the scallion and ginger slices and threw them away. He also decanted the fish soup at the bottom of the plate and poured it into a bowl on the side.
The fish meat in the dish was thin and tender, and became very easy to separate after being steamed. Nie Xiuqi carefully used the tip of his chopsticks to gently peel off the fish meat, removing the skin and bones.
Mandarin fish has few bones and thick meat. Although it is a delicate job, Nie Xiuqi's hands seem to be extremely dexterous. In less than two minutes, the fish meat, skin and bones have been completely separated.
"Master Cai said that although the shaved meat doesn't look good, it's going to be used to make soup anyway, and it tastes better if it's kept in chunks." After a long while, Nie Xiuqi managed another sentence.
Without waiting for the three people to respond, Nie Xiuqi walked back to the stove, scooped out the chicken soup from the casserole, filtered it, and poured it into another pot. After it boiled, he added blanched shredded mushrooms, bamboo shoots, and ham. The color of the soup gradually became richer.
"Is this what you want?" Nie Xiuqi stirred the soup and just as he put down the spoon and turned around, Zhao Xiaojing handed him a plate of fish and a bowl of soup.
Nie Xiuqi was stunned, then quickly took it and gently poured the soup and fish into the pot.
"Junior sister, you can even understand Brother Nie's ventriloquism!" Wan Yuyue was poked by Yun Yongyuan, and her eyes turned around to express her greeting. She looked at Zhao Xiaojing in surprise.
"When you learn to read my instructions, you'll understand." Zhao Xiaojing was staring at the pot intently, not even looking at me.
After Nie Xiuqi added the fish to the pot, he began to season it.
Steam fish with soy sauce, salt, pepper, and a little MSG, then thicken with water starch and pour in egg yolk liquid and mix well.
After the soup boiled again, Nie Xiuqi poured in half a spoonful of rice vinegar, then removed it from the pot and poured it into a soup bowl, added a little minced ginger, and finally a few drops of sesame oil.
"Beautiful, exactly the same as what the chef made!" Yun Yongyuan said excitedly.
"It's worthy of being called an eyeball... Ouch!" Wan Yuyue sighed in a low voice that everyone could hear, and was pinched by Zhao Xiaojing.
After Zhao Xiaojing pinched Wan Yuyue, she didn't bother to scold her and opened the quality inspection module to scan with great interest.
[Song Sao Fish Soup: Level 3, a relatively suitable recipe among many. The fish is cooked incorrectly, the ham is the wrong type, and the ingredients are not handled correctly.]
Uh...it's worthy of being a famous folk dish, even the system's evaluation is so vague.
This is one of the more suitable practices among many. The word "suitable" seems to mean neither good nor bad?
And this is wrong and that is wrong, but you don’t explain why they are wrong?
Zhao Xiaojing was at a loss for a moment.
"Try it! How can you tell what this fish soup tastes like just by looking at it?" Zhao Xiaojing was staring at the fish soup in a daze when something was stuffed into her hand without her noticing. She was startled and quickly lowered her head.
It turned out to be a spoon.
"Eat!" Wan Yuyue glanced at him with a puzzled look on her face.
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