wjnovel Chapter 526 Reappearance of Beggar Chicken
Chapter 526 Reappearance of Beggar Chicken
Chapter 526 Reappearance of Beggar Chicken
When it comes to eating chicken, the first thing Yang Ming thinks of is beggar chicken.
Yang Ming also made beggar chicken a long time ago, but he did it according to the method he had seen before.
And after going to the world of China's small masters, in Yangcheng, which is known as a foodie paradise, Yang Ming can be regarded as learning the real method of cooking beggar's chicken.
Master Mao Dun said it well: The cooking method of Beggar Chicken is very unique. It comes from the folks. Like other cultures and arts, it was created by the working people of all ages.
From the perspective of culinary history, it is an ancient thing to wrap meat in yellow mud for barbecue, regardless of region and nationality.
For example, the "Pao Dolphin", one of the "Eight Treasures" of the Zhou Dynasty, is to wrap the suckling pig with clay and grill it, and the mud sheep neck of the XJ Luobu people is basically a routine.
For poor families who lack cooking utensils, especially beggars, mud-covered charcoal roasting is a convenient and feasible method, and chicken is obviously the most easily available meat ingredient for working people in ancient times.
As for the most widely circulated legend of Beggar Chicken, I have to mention that in the novel written by Senior Jin, Huang Rong used Emei steel thorns to dissect the rooster's belly, washed and peeled off the internal organs, but did not pluck the hair, and wrapped it in water and a ball of mud. Hold the chicken nuggets and light a fire to roast them.After roasting for a while, the mud reveals a sweet fragrance. After the wet mud dries up, the chicken feathers will fall with you, and the chicken is white and tender, with a strong aroma.
It is precisely because of Lao Jin's wonderful pen and flowers that there are more famous dishes.
After sharpening the knife, Yang Ming chopped onions, ginger and onions and added various spices to make a marinade. Mixed ham, dried shrimps, shiitake mushrooms, and cauliflower, and added a little oyster sauce to taste.
Yang Ming cut open the chicken's butt, then vigorously rubbed the marinade into the whole chicken and marinated it for a while, then put it aside.
Since the world of One Piece is rich in resources, Yang Ming can easily find the fresh lotus leaves he needs, put the chicken head up, fold the wings and thighs, and wrap them in the lotus leaves.
The lotus leaf has two functions. One is to separate the chicken from the mud, which not only reduces the loss of the outer skin, but also is hygienic; the other is to give the chicken an incomparable lotus leaf fragrance.
The previous practice was to use only lotus leaves. In the world of Chinese small masters, some celebrities in Yangcheng have made a little innovation. They use an iron egg-shaped container and put the lotus leaves that wrap the whole chicken in it. The taste of the chicken is perfect. All are blocked.
Due to the lack of this tool, Yang Ming had no choice but to give up and choose a more troublesome method.
Seeing this, Nami opened her small mouth in surprise, with a dazed expression on her face.
"Yang Ming, so you're not kidding me, are you?"
Regarding this, the corner of Yang Ming's mouth curled up, showing a half-smile expression, "Guess?"
Nami: "..."
On the contrary, Luffy didn't think so much, almost laying his head on the table, staring at the beggar chicken in Yang Ming's hands, with a table of saliva dripping from his mouth.
"Yang Ming, are you going to make roast chicken? Sanji has done it before!"
Hearing this, Sanji frowned involuntarily.
Although Yang Ming beat him many times, Sanji was still a little unconvinced, and smoked a cigarette vigorously, but his eyes did not move away from Yang Ming, but became more focused.
Seeing Sanjishi's expression, it was like a gambler who lost all his family fortune, trying to find some flaws in Yang Ming.
Seeing this, Yang Ming just shook his head and smiled, then continued to work on the task at hand.
Yang Ming then wrapped the beggar chicken with a relatively large piece of tin foil, which would be more secure and prevent the soil from seeping in, and then the main event would begin.
That is wrapped in mud!
In the past, Yang Ming's random use of mud from the land was actually a wrong approach.
The most correct way is to wrap the mud with the sealing mud of Huadiao wine, which is full of wine fragrance.
Therefore, the chicken absorbs the aroma of the wine, and is more closed and dense, with all the taste in it.
Fortunately, although there is no Huadiao wine here, there are sealing pastes for other wines. That is the bar opened by Xia Qi, and only the old wines with a history of hundreds of years use the sealing pastes, and the taste of the wine is even more fragrant. .
Then, Yang Ming poured water into the mud and stirred it, and spread the reconciled mud evenly on the outside of the tin foil to make a huge ball of mud, which looked a lot like a chocolate cake.
"Wrapped in mud?"
"I don't understand, I don't understand!"
Seeing Yang Ming's weird behavior, Sanji frowned, and a Sichuan character was squeezed out between his brows, with a frowning look on his face.
What Yang Ming did before, Sanji thought he could understand seven points, but when it came time to paste it with mud, Sanji was stunned, and he didn't understand it.
For the first time, Sanji felt like he was watching the sky from a well. It turned out that the world is so big and there are so many great chefs, but he had never been in contact with a chef of Yang Ming's level before.
Thinking of this, Sanji could not help stretching his neck, and observed more intently, even if he didn't understand what Yang Ming was doing now, he tried to keep these things firmly in his mind.
Back to Yang Ming.
It is worth noting that the advantage of using an oven to make beggar chicken is that the temperature is better controlled, but the disadvantage is that the kitchen will be full of mud.
Since this is not the kitchen of Xia Qi Bar, although there is a good oven here, Yang Ming is always reluctant to make this place messy, right?
Therefore, Yang Ming decided to go outside and light a bonfire, then throw the chicken in and bake it. This is simple, classic, straightforward, and rude.
Considering that Yang Ming will be in direct contact with the flame, and the temperature of the bonfire is higher than that of the oven, in order to prevent the chicken from being cremated smoothly, before this, when the beggar chicken was being muddled, Yang Ming thickened the mud layer, which was about the size of a small knuckle. thick.
In order to ensure that it is fully cooked, it needs to be roasted in the fire for an hour and a half. A campfire is not as convenient as an oven. During the roasting process, Yang Ming needs to use the fire escape continuously, so as to maintain the stability and unity of the fire.
Yang Ming asked all the staff to build a bonfire prototype with wood, then took a deep breath, and opened his mouth suddenly.
"Fire escape! Phoenix Immortal Fire Technique!"
From Yang Ming's mouth, clusters of flames sprayed out, fell among the wood, and the flames rose up instantly.
"Oh!"
"Is it flames?"
Seeing this, Pluto Rayleigh flashed his eyes.
He has always been curious about Yang Ming, who can lead a group of ruthless subordinates, what kind of person is he?
Now, finally, the tip of the iceberg has been revealed.
In the process of breathing out the fire, Yang Ming didn't relax at all. On the contrary, he had to be careful not to overheat the bonfire. The flames would grow as high as a person, and the beggar chicken could be burned in ten minutes. Moreover, this fire can easily cremate the chicken directly without leaving any slag.
This step is the most rigorous, not too hot, not too cold, and it can best test a chef's eyesight, experience, and flexible operation.
(End of this chapter)