gourmet chef

Chapter 200 The Unprecedented Cucumber

And this time, cornel was used in the special cold cucumber cold sauce.

Cornus can be divided into Evodia rutaecarpa, Cornus officinalis and Cornus officinalis.

There are patches of wild dogwood growing on the mountain of Bai Xiaobai's hometown.This kind of fruit can warm the heart and relieve pain. After drying, pickle it with salt and drink it in water. It has a unique and miraculous effect on treating various vomiting and diarrhea. Children can also take it in small amounts.

So even if it is added to dishes, it is harmless to children.

Of course, the edible cornus provided by the system is even more carefully selected. After rejecting defective products, the most mature and fresh edible cornel is the best.

Each of these fruits is of perfect size, shaped like a slightly larger mung bean, round and smooth like a small dark green pearl.

Cornus officinalis belongs to both food and medicine, because it is pungent and slightly bitter. If it is not processed, it will give the food a small amount of bitterness after being added directly to the dishes.

Therefore, Bai Xiaobai has to go through a series of cooking steps by himself. While retaining the slightly pungent and spicy taste of cornus officinalis, he also needs to remove the light bitterness. Only in this way can the special cold sauce be the most perfect, without any bitterness. .

Bai Xiaobai recalled the process of processing, it was really not easy.

First of all, after mashing the fresh cornel fruit with equipment, filter the remaining juice.

Immediately, the golden-yellow fresh lard is fried out of the top-quality pork belly, and a little hot pot is reserved, and minced garlic and finely shredded ginger are added to sauté until fragrant. , slowly blended with cornel juice.

This process must be slow, and the cornel juice is added little by little, and it cannot be poured all at once, otherwise it will easily stick to the pan.

Stir continuously during this period. After the cornel juice is completely added, pour a small amount of mountain spring hydration paste until the paste liquid is diluted and boiled completely before turning off the fire.

After the liquid is completely cooled, use special equipment to filter impurities such as shredded ginger and minced garlic, and then add a small amount of sesame oil and mix well, so that a pot of good special cold sauce is completed.

After the coir raincoat cucumbers and the special cold sauce are ready, you can pickle the cucumbers.

However, it is different from ordinary cold cucumbers, just pour the juice directly.

The special cold cucumber is not pouring juice, its pickling process can be said to be 'Qinglong shallow middle reaches'.

To put it simply, in order to maintain the crispness of the cut cucumbers, they must first be marinated with good sea salt.

After marinating, filter out the marinade, grab the cucumber head, put it into the prepared cold sauce, and roll it back and forth, because the coir-coated cucumber is very elastic, like a dragon crossing the river, it will topple the river in the cold sauce. Hence the name 'Qinglong shallow middle reaches'.

After several back and forth in this way, the coir raincoat cucumber is evenly wrapped in the cold sauce.

After marinating completely and evenly, put the coir raincoat cucumber carefully on the blue and white porcelain plate in a hovering state, pour a little cold sauce to increase the color, and then cut off the excess cucumber head stalk.

Finally, with flower carving, a small piece of carrot is carved into a blooming rose as thin as cicada wings, and it is also marinated with a special cold sauce for a while, and then decorated in the center of the blue and white porcelain plate.

In this way, a special cold cucumber with good color, fragrance and beautiful shape is done.

The prepared special cold cucumber has an extremely crisp taste, sour and sweet taste, slightly pungent but not choking, light spicy but not dry, and extremely delicious.

In addition, because the cold sauce contains cornel, a traditional Chinese medicine that warms the stomach and relieves diarrhea, which can neutralize the coldness of cucumbers, so even the elderly and children with cold stomachs can eat this delicacy.

To sum it up, the new delicacy this time is not just a simple home-cooked cold dish, but a traditional Chinese medicine dish that appetizes and nourishes the stomach, which is both delicious and healthy.

Looking back at the entire production process of the new product, Bai Xiaobai just finished his supper.

The new product was served with congee and deep-fried dough sticks, and he had already eaten all of it, leaving only one disc left.

Intoxicated by the aftertaste of the new product, Bai Xiaobai could hardly extricate himself.Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and immediately feel refreshed.

After burping comfortably several times in a row, Bai Xiaobai couldn't help but licked the cold sauce left on his upper lip several times.

He was licking his upper lip when he suddenly felt someone glaring at him.

Bai Xiaobai's sixth sense has always been accurate.

He immediately opened his eyes and took a look.

At the bottom of the stairs, Gao Chao naked his upper body, with a towel draped over his shoulders, standing opposite and looking at him.

It's still a slightly cold face, but now it has a slightly surprised expression.

The weather is hot and dry. Gao Chao did a little exercise in the small room just now. After doing a hundred push-ups in a row, he was covered in sweat.

Originally, he planned to go down to the bathroom on the first floor to take a quick shower, but when he went downstairs, he saw Bai Xiaobai sitting and eating supper.

Originally, it was nothing to eat late at night, but Bai Xiaobai's expression brightened completely.

When eating cold cucumbers, it is normal to close your eyes and stuff slices into your mouth.

But while eating, the tongue kept licking the upper lip, revealing a sense of contented intoxication, which really made people feel ashamed.

In fact, this little lip-licking gesture of enjoyment is not unique to Bai Xiaobai, because the food is so delicious, many regular customers make this small gesture of enjoyment when they patronize Xiaobai's restaurant to taste the food.

However, Bai Xiaobai was used to seeing this little behavior of customers, but he didn't expect that today's embarrassment was also seen by others, and he was also the son of his uncle's old comrade-in-arms.

In order to ease the embarrassment, Bai Xiaobai put down his chopsticks and greeted Gao Chao knowingly:
"Are you... taking a shower?"

"Mmm..." Gao Chao closed his gaze, responded indifferently, and then casually walked into the bathroom to take a shower.

After Gao Chao entered the bathroom.

Bai Xiaobai immediately collected himself and asked the system the pricing of this new product with his thoughts.

When the system replied that the special cold cucumber was 99 yuan a piece, which was the same price as the special golden yellow sticks.

"System, it's too cheap!" Bai Xiaobai didn't think the price of the new product was reasonable, but instead felt that it was too unreasonable.

Because in addition to the extremely difficult coir raincoat knife method and special cold sauce.

The new product also has a very special place.The cucumbers needed to make it are really unique. Not only are the requirements for the planting place extremely high, but the selection of materials is also very strict.

Bai Xiaobai was still shocked when he recalled the information about the source of ingredients before the system.

The cucumbers provided by the system this time are unprecedented, and the seeds alone have a lot of background.

The original cucumber seeds brought back from YD during Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions in the 2nd century BC during Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty were selected. They were spread to the north through Xinjiang and domesticated to form the fine-thorned cucumber species of the North China system.

The original cucumber seeds preserved in ancient times were sown and planted at the confluence of the Heilongjiang River, the Songliao River Basin and the Sanjiang Grassland. According to the system, it can only be in this small area, and cucumbers planted in any other place will be the same. Not selected.

The area is covered with fertile black soil accumulated over tens of thousands of years, and the soil is rich in organic humus.In addition, the geographical environment of the region is unique, surrounded by dense virgin forests and verdant grasslands.

The natural green forest and grassland barriers have created an extremely safe and reliable environment, free from air and water pollution from big cities.

This kind of primitive cucumber is nourished and grown on fertile black soil, and the fruit finally bears is slender, with thorns, thin skin, dense burrs and prickly.

Although it is difficult to handle, this kind of cucumber is extraordinarily sweet and juicy, with an incomparable fragrance, and its nutritional value is also outstanding among all kinds of cucumbers.

Most importantly, Bai Xiaobai was dumbfounded by the way the system selected cucumbers.

(End of this chapter)