Chapter 628 Red Soup and White Soup
Hearing Li Yi's words, the older northern viewers in the live broadcast room all explained together with barrage.
"It's really like this. The soup from the real handmade Yuanxiao is white and thick. The soup from the Yuanxiao bought in the supermarket is always clear."
"I made Yuanxiao with my family when I was a child. Rolling Yuanxiao is also skillful. You can only turn it in one direction, otherwise it will not be round."
"Now it's really hard to buy the handmade Lantern Festival that used to be. Unless you buy it in the township, all the ones sold in the city are quick-frozen, which doesn't taste like that at all."
"The handmade Lantern Festival in the past was round and big after cooking, and it tasted soft, sweet and delicious. Now the frozen ones really don't taste that good."
"We sell frozen handmade Lantern Festival here, but they are only available in season, and usually only glutinous rice balls are sold."
Under the audience's explanation, Li Yi had already reconciled.
Covering the noodles, he explained: "There are two ways to make glutinous rice noodles for making glutinous rice balls, one is half-hot noodles, and the other is warm water.
Half-hot noodles is to scald part of the noodles with boiling water first, and then warm the rest of the noodles with warm water.
This kind of half-hot noodles can quickly stimulate the gluten in the flour, and it can be easily mixed.
However, the semi-hot noodles need to be kneaded evenly, otherwise the texture of the noodles will be uneven, and it will be easy to open and reveal the stuffing when cooking.
Another method is to use warm water to knead the noodles like I do.
Kneading noodles with warm water is more laborious and requires a longer kneading time to knead the gluten.
But the advantage is that the texture of the kneaded noodles is relatively uniform. As long as you pay attention to the technique when wrapping, you don't have to worry about opening the mouth and revealing the stuffing. "
As he spoke, he glanced at Zhao Jinmai and the others beside him.
In front of them, several plates of [Salted Egg Yolk Wontons] had already been wrapped.
Seeing this, Li Yi set up the iron pot, filled half of the pot with water, and started to boil it.
"Let the glutinous rice noodles wake up for a while, let's cook these wontons."
Li Yi asked Huang Xiaoming and the others to take a bunch of small bowls and put them on the table, and then explained to the stall owner: "Wonton soup is best boiled with pork bones and duck racks. It takes time, so let's use water instead." one time.
The method of preparing its soup is similar to that of common wontons. Add salt, dried shrimps, seaweed, coriander, and chopped green onion to the bottom. If there is no bone broth, let’s add less MSG to increase the flavor. "
As Li Yi said, he demonstrated the ingredients of the soup base to Huang Xiaoming and the others.
After putting the ingredients just mentioned into the bowls, Li Yi took over two bowls and reminded the stall owner: "Attention, when making soup, you can make two kinds of soups, one is red soup with soy sauce, One is white soup in which wontons are cooked.
A spoonful of lard is added to the red soup, and a spoonful of duck fat is added to the white soup, which is the key to the flavor of the soup base.
In addition, after taking out the wontons and putting them in a bowl, sprinkle some pepper, which is also the key to enhancing the flavor.
Sprinkle black pepper in red soup and white pepper in white soup, don't mix it upside down. "
While talking, Li Yi prepared several bowls of soup in turn.
Seeing that Huang Xiaoming and the others had learned it, he stepped aside, took the [Salted Egg Yolk Wonton], returned to the pot, and put them into the pot one by one.
Wontons cook quickly, and when the skin becomes transparent, it means that the stuffing inside is cooked.
Using a large colander to fill out the wontons, Li Yi put them into small bowls one by one, with only one in each bowl.
Then, he scooped up the noodle soup in the pot with a frying spoon and poured it into a small bowl.
As the noodle soup washes away the seasoning at the bottom, bowls of red soup and white soup wontons appear.
The wontons floated up, and the full belly was turned upside down.
Under the translucent wonton skin, the golden egg yolk seems to be a hidden gold mine, exuding a seductive charm.
According to Li Yi's instructions, Huang Xiaoming and Wu Lei sprinkled pepper powder into the bowls one by one, and then took the small bowls to the stall owners.
Seeing Deputy Director Wang and others stretching their necks behind them, Li Yi winked at Wu Lei when he saw Wu Lei came back.
Wu Lei glanced back, understood, and quickly brought a few small bowls to Deputy Director Wang and the others.
Seeing the steaming wontons being served in front of them, Deputy Director Wang and the others swallowed their saliva in unison.
"Secretary Yan, why don't you try it first?"
Deputy Director Wang warmly invited.
Secretary Yan was a little polite, and brought over a bowl of wontons in white soup.
Looking at the wontons in the bowl, he couldn't help taking a deep breath.
The golden duck fat floats on the surface of the soup, mixed with green onion and coriander, golden and green, very attractive.
And the plump wontons generously display the treasures in the belly, which are golden and very attractive.
The white pepper powder further stimulated the aroma of the duck fat itself, as if wisps of it, seducing his appetite.
Smelling the aroma, Secretary Yan couldn't help it.
His Adam's apple twitched, he picked up the spoon in the bowl, and scooped up the only big wonton in the bowl.
Blowing gently, he bit down.
And after his teeth bit through the thin wonton wrapper, a fresh and thick soup burst out with a "puff".
The temperature of the soup was not low, so he quickly inhaled the air, trying to lower the temperature of the soup.
Soon, after boiling hot, the deliciousness of the soup was highlighted.
In the gravy with strong aroma of pork, there is a unique flavor of salted duck eggs.
The combination of these two ingredients is a bit strange, but there is no conflict at all, and the fragrance is more fragrant, which is very wonderful.
The teeth continued to fall, cutting open the pork stuffing that had condensed into meatballs.
And after penetrating the pork filling, a dense touch came back from the tip of the tooth.
It's like bean paste just out of the pan, and it's like dense cream, squeezed by the pressure of the teeth, and a thick salted egg yolk gushes out.
As the salted egg yolk sauce poured out, the aroma of the salted egg yolk instantly became countless times stronger.
"Well…"
Secretary Yan's eyes widened immediately, and she subconsciously chewed the half wonton she bit off, only to feel that the more she chewed, the more fragrant it became, and the aroma of salted egg yolk became stronger as she chewed it.
this smell...
He looked at the wonton in the spoon in surprise.
The bitten open wonton reveals its filling.
Thin white wonton wrappers around, red pork balls condensed on the top, a little bit of emerald green onion mixed in, and salted egg yolk as fine as gold sand below.
The combination of these colors and ingredients is almost a work of art.
"Secretary Yan, how does it taste?"
Deputy Director Wang hadn't eaten yet. Seeing Secretary Yan's surprised face, he asked a question.
Secretary Yan didn't answer, but carefully chewed the wonton in his mouth, squinted his eyes and tasted it, swallowed it in one gulp, and then praised: "It's delicious! It's absolutely delicious!"
As he spoke, he put the remaining half of the wonton into his mouth and chewed it.
In the remaining half wonton, there is more salted egg yolk.
Chewing a mouthful of wontons, Secretary Yan wanted to be elated, but suppressed her impulse, looking very awkward.
Swallowing the wonton in his mouth, he finished the soup in the bowl in one gulp, and then he breathed a sigh of relief: "It's delicious, and the soup is fresh, but there's only one, it's too satisfying to eat."
After speaking, he smacked his lips, and when he turned his gaze, he landed on the red soup wonton bowl in Deputy Director Wang's hand.
When Deputy Director Wang saw this, he couldn't help being taken aback, then looked down at the bowl he had just picked up, feeling a little bit reluctant.
But after hesitating for a while, he still handed the bowl to Secretary Yan, and said with a smile, "Secretary Yan, you are tired, so why don't you try this bowl of red soup again?"
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