Chapter 492 [Jade Lin Fragrant Waist]

Li Yi didn't think too much, after washing the shark's fin, he handed over the remaining chicken soup to Xiao Guo.

Xiao Guo has a cat at home, and the chicken soup can be taken home to mix with cat food.

Put the washed shark's fin back into the clay bowl together with the chicken nuggets and pork knuckles that have just been soaked in water, and pour the dried scallops evaporated in the steamer into the clay bowl together with the soup.

Afterwards, Li Yi poured half a bottle of Huadiao into it, filled it with water to 90% full, adjusted the salt, and put it on the stove.

After boiling with high heat, he changed the clay bowl to a small stove and started to simmer with low heat.

In the next four hours, the low heat will cook the shark's fin little by little until it is soft, fragrant and soft.

In ancient times, this process was the most painful, because to keep the fire low at all times and avoid boiling, you had to rely on people to stare at you, and you couldn't leave people for four hours.

But modern gas stoves solve this problem and save a lot of manpower.

Therefore, after putting the clay bowl on the small stove, Li Yi started to make the next dish.

With Xiao Zhang and the others, Li Yi went to the storage room and brought out a bunch of ingredients.

Shen Han also followed behind. Every time Li Yi took out something, he would mark it on the list.

Looking at the ingredients Li Yi took out, Shen Han couldn't help but sigh: "In order to buy these things, I contacted all the ex-girlfriends I haven't used for more than ten years."

"Yeah?"

Li Yi smiled and asked: "Where is it from? Zhejiang Province or Guangxi Province?"

"Zhejiang Province."

Shen Han smiled and explained.

"oh."

Li Yi joked with a smile: "Then I'll put more mushrooms later."

In the purchase list, Li Yi specifically asked to buy Qingyuan's shiitake mushrooms.

Qingyuan is a county in LS City, Zhejiang Province, and it is also the birthplace of artificial cultivation of shiitake mushrooms.

The history of local cultivation of shiitake mushrooms can be traced back to the Southern Song Dynasty. It was born in the hands of a local farmer named Wu Sangong in the fourth year of Jianyan.

It is said that in the process of collecting wild mushrooms when Wu Sangong was young, he found that the place where the bark of a fallen broad-leaved tree was cut by a knife and ax would grow mushrooms.

So, he set up a hut in the mountains to cut trees and experimented, and finally summed up the technology of cutting flowers and making mushrooms, and passed it on to the local folks. Therefore, he was honored as the "God of Mushrooms" by later generations.

This process was recorded in the "Longquan County Annals" in the first year of Jiading in the Song Dynasty. It also recorded a mushroom shock technique, which is to make the mycelium grow well by knocking and vibrating the mushroom wood, but the mushroom wood does not mushroom. The method of fruiting.

This method has been used for hundreds of years and is still used today.

Even in the Edo period of the neon country, it was also spread to the neon country, and was written by local scholars as a book "Shocking Mushroom Records", which became a treasure book for local mushroom farmers to increase their income.

And in Qingyuan, shiitake mushroom cultivation has become the main source of income for local farmers for more than 800 years.

For hundreds of years, local shiitake mushrooms have also been enjoyed by the royal family as a tribute.

The shiitake mushrooms that Li Yi used in the imperial dining room were Qingyuan's shiitake mushrooms.

Therefore, Li Yicai specifically asked Shen Han to buy this mushroom from Qingyuan.

In addition to mushrooms, Li Yi also asked him to buy local taro and water chestnuts from Lipu, Guangxi Province.

The quality of these two ingredients produced in Lipu is also the best in the country.

"Don't forget our magnolia slices from Suining."

Shen Han picked up a pack of magnolia slices on the shelf and reminded Li Yi.

"I can't forget, I had sex yesterday."

Li Yi took a small basin on the shelf, which was full of soaked magnolia slices.

After taking all the ingredients, Li Yi returned to the stove.

Next to the stove, Dong Haiqiang has already started processing bacon.

Seeing Li Yi coming out with a bunch of ingredients, Dong Haiqiang glanced at it, and suddenly asked in surprise, "You want to make Yulin Fragrant Waist?"

"right."

Li Yi nodded, and put the pork in his hand on the chopping board.

Seeing Li Yi's operation of slicing the pork belly, cutting the plum blossom meat into pieces and hanging them into paste, a slightly stiff smile suddenly appeared on the corner of Dong Haiqiang's mouth.

"This is the first dish for our banquet in Hunan Province."

He smiled and explained to the chef behind him: "This dish used to be served by Zeng Guofan's banquet for soldiers. According to the arrangement of eight people per table, there are eight layers in total, and each layer has eight ingredients, stacked like a pagoda.

Later, it was spread among the people, and it became the top dish at various banquets.

When I was young, I could only eat this dish when there were weddings and funerals, and when I had dinner with my family..."

Seeing him smiling, the kitchen helpers behind him looked at each other in blank dismay.

They have been with Dong Haiqiang for so long, and they have never seen Dong Haiqiang smile like this.

Dong Haiqiang didn't continue to speak, but his serious face eased a lot.

Looking at Li Yi, he couldn't hide his approval in his eyes: "It's not easy, there are very few young people who are willing to cook this dish, you are a good kid."

Hearing what he said, Li Yi looked back and said with a smile, "When I'm done, you can taste it and see if it's the same as when you were a child."

The smile on the corner of Dong Haiqiang's mouth spread a bit, and he nodded: "Okay!"

Withdrawing his gaze, Li Yi continued to prepare for [Jade Lin Fragrant Waist].

[Yulin Fragrant Waist] is somewhat similar to Poon Choi in Guangdong Province. It is a dish that puts various ingredients together and cooks together.

Although its ingredients are not as expensive as those used in Poon Choi, it is not at all easier to make than Poon Choi.

[Yulin Fragrant Waist] There are eight layers in total, the bottom layer is taro fried until golden, and the second layer is marinated and steamed pork belly.

On the top of the pork belly, there are water chestnut balls that are chopped into a puree with water chestnuts and fat, and fried until golden.

The fourth layer above is fried golden pieces of meat with plum blossom meat paste, which is called oriole meat in this dish.

The fifth layer above the yellow sparrow meat is spread with eggs to form a pie crust, then spread the chopped fat and lean meat stuffing on it, roll it into a cone, steam it in a pan, and cut it into oblique slices.

The sixth layer is fish balls made of mandarin fish mixed with fatty meat.

The seventh layer is kidney flower fried with pork loin, shiitake mushrooms and magnolia slices.

On the last eighth floor, Li Yi planned to use twelve Liao ginseng with twenty heads to make sea cucumbers with green onions and put them on top.

This was a big project, and it took Li Yi nearly an hour to make the eight layers of ingredients.

Just when he was about to stir-fry green onions and sea cucumbers, Shen Han suddenly ran over and reminded him: "The official leader will be here soon, and he will be here in a while, so please behave yourself."

While talking, Liu Wei, who had disappeared for a long time, suddenly returned to the back kitchen with a few beautiful assistants in chef uniforms with curvy figures.

"Put this here."

Liu Wei instructed the assistants to put all the ingredients they brought on the counter table behind.

After taking a few bags of rice with neon Chinese characters written on them, he opened a bag, poured it into the basin, and started to wash it.

But during the cleaning process, his attention was not on the rice, his eyes kept drifting towards the door.

Soon, there was a faint chatter and laughter outside the back kitchen door.

Hearing the movement, Liu Wei was refreshed, and his clear movements became more rigid.

The sound of talking and laughing accompanied the sound of footsteps from far to near, and in a short while, a group of more than a dozen men who looked like civil servants walked in surrounded by two smiling middle-aged men.

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