Chapter 775 Milk and Honey Bread
On the light green woven tray, a row of milk and honey breads are neatly packed together, golden and round, full of fragrance.
The bread was freshly baked and very hot, but it didn't affect the taste tasting at all.
The golden milk and honey bread was fluffy and soft. Jian Yan tore off a piece with his hand and saw the fluffy air holes inside. He put it in his mouth and his mouth was immediately filled with the soft bread.
The soft, light bread was fudgy.
Not much honey is added, so the taste is not too sweet, but just the right amount of sweetness. The bread softened in the mouth by the saliva exudes the unique milky aroma.
This perfect sweetness and milky aroma activates the taste buds in the mouth. The bread is sweet and light like a dream. The taste is so wonderful...
"Master, how is it?" Chen Jinrong asked anxiously after she finished eating a piece of bread with a nervous look on his face.
“It’s delicious!”
Jian Yan gave him a thumbs-up and said with a smile, "Send it out and let the owner taste your cooking skills."
"Okay!" Chen Jinrong responded happily and left the kitchen with the milk and honey bread.
As soon as he left, Chen Wu and Jin Zhen tentatively asked Jian Yan, "Master, will Old Chen be our fellow apprentice from now on?"
This question made Jian Yan frown, "What else?"
As she spoke, she looked at the two of them and said sternly, "Let me tell you, cooking requires real skill. Since you're lucky enough to learn cooking from me, I hope you'll study seriously and not try to exclude me."
Chen Wu and Jin Zhen saw her attitude becoming sharper and waved their hands repeatedly.
"Master, you really wronged us. We don't have time to do these little tricks. We don't even have enough time to practice."
"Didn't Old Chen ask us to ask this? We only asked for him because we saw that Master was in a good mood. We really didn't mean any other harm."
Jian Yan pursed his lips and looked at the expressions of the two men carefully. Seeing that they were anxious and calm under his gaze, but there was no sign of guilt or evasion, he nodded with satisfaction.
"Let him stay. He's very hardworking and studious."
As she spoke, she continued to make the braised lion's head. "Don't be idle, hurry up and work."
"Okay, Master." The two responded and continued to work.
Braised Lion's Head is about being "clear but not bland, fat but not greasy". It requires a certain level of skill from the chef and also tests the knife skills.
Chen Wu and Jin Zhen’s knife skills are not up to par yet. They can cut potatoes and carrots, but they are not good at cutting meat for making lion’s head.
So, Jian Yan had to do it himself.
The pork belly is 30% fat and 70% lean. After separating the fat and lean meat, chop the lean meat into small pieces and the fat into coarse pieces.
Mix the chopped meat, the chopped green onion, ginger, garlic and diced water chestnuts chopped by Chen Wu and others, then add seasoning and an egg and stir until it becomes thick and firm, and finally shape it into meatballs.
Scallion paste. Once the lion's head with chopped scallions becomes mushy, it will affect the taste and color. Therefore, it is necessary to paste a layer of meat filling without scallions on the outside as the outer layer. This will lock in the aroma of the scallions and avoid the scallions from becoming mushy.
The meatballs coated with a protective layer need to be shaped with oil. This step is to prevent the meatballs from falling apart or becoming uneven during cooking.
Stir-fry shredded carrots and bamboo shoots separately. The former is used to enhance the flavor, while the latter is used to color and add some sweetness.
After stir-frying, the carrots retain their pigment, but the carrot flavor is reduced. After adding the broth, there is no need to worry about the flavor coming from the carrots and affecting the taste of the lion's head.
(End of this chapter)
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