After fooling people, it’s time to start cooking seriously.
Fang Ze took out four large lobsters from the bucket and handed them to Liu Pleiax to handle first.
These four large lobsters are indeed wild Australian lobsters. They are not only big in size, but also full of wild vitality.
There used to be many wild shrimps in China in quantity and variety. However, with the economic development in recent years, the huge population urgently needs enough seafood to enrich their dining tables.
Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to satisfy more than one billion foodies just by salvaging wild seafood.
Fortunately, shrimp, a natural food, only eats microorganisms. As long as there is no water pollution and a certain amount of oxygen and food, it can grow quickly.
Therefore, in the past decade or so, shrimp farms have spread all over the coast, which not only provides adequate management, but also reduces the price of shrimp to a large extent.
But everything has two sides. Although the quantity of farmed shrimp is sufficient, the shrimp taste, sweetness, and elasticity are much worse than wild shrimp.
So if you want to make a delicious lobster dinner, the shrimp you choose must be real wild shrimp, otherwise you won't be able to make it delicious even if you have great skills.
Although Australian lobsters are easier to fake than the extremely bright-colored Mediterranean red shrimps or the cloisonné-colored French blue lobsters, the fat and short French pink shrimps are easier to fake, but the four large lobsters given by the master chef at the seafood booth are not. any problem.
Yunlong fried shrimp is different from ordinary fried shrimp. It is not simply fried, but a special sauce is added to the lobster.
So you need to peel off the lower part of the shell where the lobster can be used, and then pour the sauce.
This does not test knife skills, but tests your eyesight and micro-manipulation of your hands.
After all, if it is not peeled well, it will not only look bad. Moreover, it is easy for diners to guess in advance that there is something hidden inside, and they lose their sense of anticipation.
The meat at the tail of the lobster is the juiciest part and needs to be removed as a whole piece. Fang Ze directly activated Athena's Vision, then took a pair of scissors and waited for Liu Pleiades to cook the lobster.
Lobster is cooked very quickly. Prepare a pot of fish soup and cook it for three to four minutes at most. When the lobster shell turns red, put it in a basin with purified water and let it cool.
This is also how people usually choose to kill lobsters.
Nowadays, in ordinary high-end restaurants, chefs usually put the lobster in the freezer for an hour for the sake of humaneness, then take it out, turn the shrimp back up, and cut the head of the shrimp from the middle.
This not only kills the lobster quickly, but also makes it look less cruel.
After the lobster was cooked, Liu Maoxing went to adjust the sauce, while Fang Ze used scissors to cut open the shells along both sides of the lobster tail.
After all the shrimp shells are cut open, put down the scissors and pull the shells out with your hands to expose the meat of the lobster tail.
If you are making ordinary lobster, you need to pull the meat from the lobster tail out of the shell at this time to ensure the integrity of the meat.
However, the requirements for Yunlong fried shrimp are exactly the opposite. The shell needs to be removed and the meat left in the lobster to ensure the integrity of the lobster.
So Fang Ze took a small knife and made two cuts on the back of the lobster, completely peeling off the lower half of the shell without damaging the shrimp meat.
At this time, the lobster looks like a beauty wearing only shoes and clothes.
Of course, beauties also need to go to the toilet, so in addition to removing the shell, the inedible black blood vessels and other parts of the lobster must also be taken out.
But with the help of Athena's Vision, this was no problem for Fang Ze. He used a knife to cut the shrimp meat, accurately exposing the intestines inside.
After taking out the shrimp intestines, Fang Ze's first task was completed.
At this time, Liu Pleiades also prepared the sauce.
The sauce used in Yunlong Fried Shrimp is made by mixing egg yolks with oil, then adding milk and sugar. It tastes great on its own, let alone mixed with the umami-rich shrimp meat.
However, even elementary school students know that if you simply pour the sauce on the shrimp, the sauce will definitely flow into the oil pan during frying, making it impossible to absorb the flavor.
Therefore, the lobster needs to be wrapped with a layer of bean skin to lock in the sauce so that the sauce will not flow out at all even when it is put into the oil pan for frying.
And this is also the origin of the name Yunlong Fried Shrimp.
The cloud is the tofu skin cloud, and the dragon is the lobster. This is a delicacy that can shock even the chefs in the dark culinary world.
After Fang Ze carefully wrapped the sauce and shrimp meat with bean skins, Liu Pleiax then dipped the lobster tail in starch and sprinkled some walnut powder on it.
After putting the lobster into the oil pan in this way, the entire lobster tail will not only be covered with a layer of tender and delicious skin, but also have shrimp meat that has been integrated with the sauce.
Just thinking about it makes people drool.
The four lobsters were put into the oil pan together, and Liu Pleiaxing personally fried them slowly, adding luminous properties to the lobsters.
Speaking of luminous attributes, Fang Ze started to have a headache again.
After all, it's not like the first floor this time. Just say "Look at the plane" and people around you will shift their gaze.
At this moment, the people sitting in front of them are all diners who are ready to enjoy the delicious food. If you stand here and say "watch the plane", you will most likely be thrown out as a mentally ill person.
But it’s not possible without diverting attention.
Because Liu Pleiades fried four lobsters at the same time, the iron pot he chose was very large and could not be completely covered by the pot lid alone.
And even if no one notices, the camera on the side will faithfully record this scene.
The problem that Fang Ze will have to face then is how to prove to the organizers that it is really the dish that shines on its own, rather than random additions of chemical materials.
It can only be this way.
Fang Ze thought for a moment and saw that the lobster was almost ready, so he waved to call over Lin Xiaoxin who was taking pictures and Mimi who was fanning herself hard.
"Brother Fang, what's wrong?" Mimi watched Fang Ze wave to him and hurried over.
"I want you to help us complete the last step of this delicacy." Fang Ze said, asking Mimi to stand beside him.
"The last step?" Mimi looked at the lobster in the iron pot and asked, "Is there anything missing from this?"
"You still need friendship and hard work to win." Fang Ze said a standard line from the famous comic magazine Shōnen Jump.
"Uh." Not only Mimi, but also Lin Xiaoxin looked at Fang Ze confused, wondering what Fang Ze was doing.
"You don't need to know too much about this." Fang Ze waved his hand and asked the four people to form a circle. Then Fang Ze put his hands on the shoulders of Mimi and Lin Xiaoxin, and Mimi put her hands on Liu Pleiaxing and Fang Ze. Liu Pleiades put his hands on Mimi Lin Xiaoxin.
"Okay, wait a minute and I'll shout one, two, three, and everyone will close their eyes and shout "Come on." This means that everyone completed this delicious dish together. Okay?"
"Okay." Liu Pleiades, an honest boy, was the first to agree.
Although Mimi thought this was a bit ridiculous, this behavior also showed that Fang Ze regarded him as one of his own at this time, so she nodded and agreed.
Only Lin Xiaoxin raised her little head and said to Fang Ze, "When did you become such a middle-class kid?"
"Because I have been with my young and beautiful girlfriend for a long time, my heart has become younger." Fang Ze coaxed Lin Xiaoxin with sentences that sounded embarrassing in romantic dramas, but were just to please the girl. When Lin Xiaoxin blushed, Fang Ze shouted decisively, "Close your eyes, one, two, three!"
"come on!"
A lolita, a young lady, a young man and a perverted and loud voice came out from the competition venue, causing both the surrounding chefs and the diners in front of them to look at each other in surprise. come over.
At the same time, the Yunlong Fried Shrimp was finally fried. The bright white light burst out of the pot lid and dispersed around, trying hard to prove that it was extraordinary.
But it is a pity that all these lights were blocked by the human wall composed of Fang Ze and others, and they were not visible to outsiders.
He didn't let Lin Xiaoxin, who had really closed her eyes stupidly, see it.
Also missing was Liu Pleiaxing, because although Liu Pleiades knew that Fang Ze was trying to cover up the light of Yunlong Fried Shrimp, he still honestly closed his eyes and shouted seriously.
And those who saw this light, besides the deceitful Fang Ze, were also Mimi, who was not so honest. After all, she just pretended to close her eyes, but left a crack.
"Okay." After shouting, Fang Ze motioned for everyone to open their eyes and stand up. Because with the shouts of Fang Ze and others, reporters who were originally filming other chefs were also successfully attracted.
Liu Pleiaxing took advantage of this time to quickly place the fried lobster on the plate, while Fang Ze put his arm on Mimi's shoulder in a seemingly affectionate manner.
"Brother Fang, it's shining!" Mimi shouted softly without understanding what Fang Ze meant.
After all, this was the first time he had seen a dish that glowed.
"You mean the lights above your head." Fang Ze glanced at the chandelier on the roof pretending to be stupid and said, "It is indeed shining too dazzlingly."
"No, I mean food, food."
"The food, the food we made this time is perfect, don't worry." Fang Ze said, hugging Mimi directly and came to the reporters who rushed over.
"Hello." The reporter looked at the strange combination of chefs in front of him and asked, "I heard you shouting victory just now, so I came over to take a look out of curiosity."
"We shout victory because this dish was completed by the four of us, so let's encourage each other and give ourselves more confidence." Fang Ze said as he pushed Mimi, who was about to shout "Luminous", in front of reporters.
"This is a very important member of our team Mimi."
"Fa, no, Brother Fang, fa." Mimi still hasn't recovered from the shock of seeing the lobster glow just now.
(End of chapter)