How did I become an old artist?

Chapter 138 This is real food art

Three pearl oysters produced 36 pearls.

Everyone looked at the layer of silver round beads in the bowl, and they were all extremely curious.

Pearls, in everyone's impression, are precious items just like gold, agate, jade and the like.

But Zhao Chen said:

"The price of pearls varies greatly. To buy a pearl, it depends on the size, shape and luster."

"Everyone, look at this bowl of pearls. There isn't a single one that is perfectly round. It's not worth much for so long. It's the price of cabbage."

The camera zooms in a bit.

Zhao Chen took out a few pearls from the bowl and presented them to the camera.

These pearls are not spherical, but irregular and strangely shaped, only roughly looking close to a sphere.

From an aesthetic point of view, these pearls do not have any ornamental value.

This is probably the case with the pearls that emerge from the pearl oyster.

If someone is lucky enough to open a very round pearl in it, it can be sold for thousands of dollars, excluding the money for opening the clam, it can make a lot of money.

Therefore, many people play open clam a bit like playing gambling stones.

It's just luck.

But Zhao Chen's luck in opening clams was not very good.

There is not a single round pearl in a bowl.

"It's really bad luck. I wanted to open a round pearl and keep it as a souvenir, but it turned out to be crooked."

"Fortunately, I use them for cooking, it doesn't matter what they look like."

After Zhao Chen took out the pearls and washed them clean, he said to everyone.

Then, Zhao Chen turned his head to look at Xiao Heibei, and shouted loudly:

"Jar! Go to the village and buy me a piece of fresh tofu!"

After Zhao Chen's voice fell, Heibei happily responded twice, then ran out of the courtyard door and ran outside.

The old fans know that the jar will pick up the courier and pick up the tofu.

However, many netizens have not seen it.

【what's the situation?The anchor asked Xiao Demu to buy tofu? 】

【real or fake?Is it so outrageous? 】

[Haha, the jar is very smart! 】

[It's not far from the village. Everyone in the village knows the pot, so it's fine. 】

Zhao Chen glanced at the bullet screen on the phone, and found that everyone was surprised by the dog buying tofu.

Therefore, Zhao Chen directly controlled the drone's accompanying flight mode to lock the jar.

Let the drone fly out with the puppy.

"The jar can buy tofu, and can also pick up express delivery. If you are curious, I will broadcast it live for you."

Drones fly very high.

Not long after, the shadow of the black back appeared in the eyes of netizens.

The camera moves with it in the mountain village.

Everyone watched intently.

On the way, several pastoral dogs greeted the pot. They stood aside wagging their tails, expecting the pot to join them.

The jar just yelled and responded, and ran forward at a faster speed.

After all, Jar still has official duties.

After a while, the jar came outside the tofu shop.

"Wang! Wang! Wang!"

There was no one in the tofu shop, so it barked three times in a row.

Aunt Wang, who was buying tofu, heard the sound of the pot and knew it was coming to fetch tofu, so she said, "Here we come, we come!"

Then, Aunt Wang fished out a piece of fresh tofu from the water, first put it in a plastic bag and tied it with a knot, and sealed it completely.

Then another plastic bag was put on, and the plastic bag was passed to the mouth of the jar.

The jar picked up the tofu and ran back.

Zhao Chen had already paid for the tofu on WeChat, so Aunt Wang knew in advance that the jar was coming.

"This is Zhao Chen's dog. It's different after going to a key university."

When a villager next to him saw the appearance of the jar, he sighed with emotion and boasted that the words were wrong.

"Well, it's Zhao Chen's. That dog is indeed a good dog. When this dog grows up, we will find it to breed our dog." Aunt Wang also replied.

In the live broadcast room, netizens were amazed when they saw the jar running back with tofu in its mouth.

[I actually bought it back! 】

[I can see that I have been working for the anchor for a while! 】

[Haha, this dog is worth raising! 】

【Good dog! 】

After a while, the jar returned to the yard, wagging its tail and happily put down the tofu.

Zhao Chen took the tofu, and immediately rubbed the dog's head in the jar, having a great time.

Then, Zhao Chen washed his hands, cut open the plastic bag with scissors and took out the tofu.

Under the curious eyes of the netizens, Zhao Chen cut the tofu in half, then pressed the pearls into the tofu one by one, and closed the tofu again.

Then, the tofu is simmered for two hours.

The royal dishes of the palace are very particular, and some steps even make people feel incredible.

Everyone was also curious about what Zhao Chen wanted to do.

Then, Zhao Chen was playing around in the yard, and took time to go to the back to see the situation of the Kestrel family.

The five little birds have grown some feathers, and they look much more handsome than they were when they were just born.

Two hours later, Zhao Chen took out the tofu and said:
"Pearls are boiled in tofu for two hours, and the texture of the pearls will become crispy, and then it is better to grind them into powder and have a unique taste."

After finishing speaking, Zhao Chen took out the stone mortar, put all the pearls in the stone mortar, and beat it bit by bit with a mallet until all the pearls were ground into pearl powder as fine as white flour.

"Pearl powder has been an artifact of beauty and beauty since ancient times. China has a history of using pearl powder for medicinal purposes for nearly 2000 years."

"It's all good stuff."

Zhao Chen said while making delicious food live.

Everyone is getting more and more surprised.

They had no idea what Zhao Chen was doing.

Then, everyone saw Zhao Chen take out a sieve, put the pounded pearl powder on the sieve and shake it gently.

In this way, the finer powders fall onto the paper below and the coarser ones remain in the sieve.

The fine powder on these papers is the edible pearl powder that Zhao Chen wants.

Just looking at the first step, netizens' scalps are already numb.

Is this cooking?
Cooking is so frustrating?

China's top food, the craftsmanship is so complicated?

"Okay, it's time to deal with the crabs next."

"For this dish, I pick out the best crabs."

Zhao Chen took out a board, on which ten fat and big crabs were neatly placed.

Just seeing these crabs, netizens are a little bit tongue-in-cheek, and their faces are full of envy.

"Here are five male crabs and five female crabs."

"Male crabs only take crab meat, and female crabs only take crab roe."

"What you want is their essence."

Netizens saw that Zhao Chen cooked the ten big crabs and then took them out again.

The next process is more painful, because you can only watch, not eat.

Zhao Chen is the same.

I saw that after he sowed the crabs, he put the crab roe in one container and the crab meat in another pot.

"The next step is to dry the crab roe and crab meat, and then grind them into powder. If it is the traditional method, the crab meat usually needs to be dried for five to six days."

"This delicacy is not so easy to make successfully."

"But now that technology is advanced, you can use a stove to simulate the environment of drying and dry them."

"So it only takes a little over an hour to get it done!"

Then, Zhao Chen dried the crab roe and crab meat.

Then, the crab roe and crab meat are crushed in a stone mortar respectively to become crab roe powder and crab meat powder.

Netizens are all dumbfounded.

What is this doing?
Ten big crabs can make such a little powder.

"The next step is the final step. First, add the crabmeat powder to the flour, knead it into a dough, and then make small balls."

With that said, Zhao Chen squeezed out a few small balls.

Immediately afterwards, he put the pinched balls on a plate filled with pearl powder and shook them gently.

The surface of each brown ball is covered with fine pearl powder.

After that, add the crab roe powder to the flour and knead it into a dough, then wrap the balls with a layer of crab roe and knead them into orange balls.

The last step is to steam the orange-yellow meatballs and wrap them with a thin layer of gold leaf while they are still hot.

After this operation, the netizens were stunned.

In the end, fourteen meatballs wrapped in gold leaf appeared in the camera, and the peculiar picture was praised again and again.

[Is this more delicious?No, it's more expensive that way! 】

[You are wrong, this is really more delicious, much more delicious than crabs! 】

[I originally wanted to learn from the master, but after reading it, I'd better just eat crabs! 】

[He actually made golden balls one by one, this skill is simply invincible! 】

However, what shocked everyone had just begun.

Chinese food is all about color, flavor and taste.

The first is appearance.

Royal court dishes do not directly put meatballs on the plate.

Then, Zhao Chen took out a clean plate, first placed some fresh green vegetables around it as decorations, and cut out two small deep purple flowers with his heart.

Then he placed the largest steamed crab in the middle of the plate.

Finally, Zhao Chen placed the balls on the crab's back one by one, nine on the bottom layer first, four on the second layer, and one on the top layer.

If you said that seeing the golden balls just now, everyone just felt tossed.

Now, people just feel amazing.

art.

This is true gastronomic art.

Crabs carry pagoda-shaped golden balls on their backs, hidden in a field of delicate vegetable flowers.

This appearance alone is enough to make people appreciate it carefully.

(End of this chapter)