"Local New Year", you must miss the "taste of hometown". During the Spring Festival, Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News launched a series of micro-videos "Tiannandi North Chinese New Year's Eve Rice", inviting chefs to teach you to cook hometown dishes at home. The second issue launched today is a big dish that Zhejiang people like to eat in the New Year - the "new fish and sheep fresh" that symbolizes the "rich world". During the Spring Festival, friends and relatives come to the house for dinner, learn this dish, and there are super noodles!
When the turtle meets the lamb "absolutely"
Yang Zhigang, a Master of Chinese Cooking and General Manager of Yanbo Fishing Port, told the Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter that this is a famous court dish of the Southern Song Dynasty, called "fish and sheep fresh", which is a dish that can be cooked by modern people at home. The so-called "fish and sheep" are nailfish with lamb, and the ingredients are butter, salt, red pepper, lard, sugar, soy sauce and soy sauce. "Zhejiang people in the countryside to kill pigs and sheep in the New Year, but also clear the pond, there will be turtles in the pond, I have innovatively integrated sheep and turtles in this dish." Yang Zhigang said that the two ingredients themselves have a strong taste, and the "collision" of the taste blends with each other and complements each other.
First, the turtle is blanched with the lamb, and then the remaining blood on the surface is washed away with cold water. In the pot of lard, pour in the garlic, star anise, white root, under the green onion and ginger, and add the red pepper to an appropriate amount. When the aroma wafts out of the oil pot, add lamb chops and turtles and sauté, add a small amount of sugar to freshen, pour in soy sauce and salt to taste, and continue to simmer for a while. Finally put in a large casserole, remember that the star anise and baizhi must be taken out, because the heating time is too long and easy to get bitter.
Throughout the Spring Festival, the hotel's private rooms are full every day. For Yang Zhigang, others are eating a reunion dinner, and he is leading the chefs to be busy cooking dishes. He confessed that he really didn't cook at home, and many people who were chefs were like this, and it was ninety o'clock when they came home from work. Zhejiang people will also eat braised bamboo shoots and fried shrimp in oil during the New Year, although the methods are different, but they are all "light sweet and sour" flavors, which are the favorite tastes of Zhejiang people.
"Zhejiang people generally steamed turtles in the New Year, lamb is white cut, as a chef, to change the conventional practice, with braised methods, stimulate people's taste buds." Yang Zhigang said that this "new fish and sheep fresh" is a newly created "hard dish" in this year's Spring Festival store, which means "rich in the world and red and red", which is very popular after launching, and almost every table must be ordered.
One of the highest paid chefs in Nanjing
Yang Zhigang, who was born in the countryside and learned to cook at the age of 8, "I love to eat food myself, and I also like to make food for others to eat." Yang Zhigang said that when his peers all went to the construction site to work, he started his chef career at the age of 18, went to the back kitchen of the restaurant opened by relatives to help, started from an apprentice, was more diligent than others, and completed the transformation from chef to chef to boss.
After many years in the hotel and restaurant industry, he finally achieved the goal that many chefs pursued - a chef with an annual salary of one million. When he said that he was one of the highest paid chefs in Nanjing's restaurant industry, his face was full of pride, because it was an affirmation of his personal ability and value.
Yang Zhigang is a "detail control", sometimes close to paranoia. Perhaps because of his chef background, he is harsh and stubborn in his control of details. For example, when loading the plate, the octagon and Bai Zhi must be carefully picked out. For example, if there is an important regular customer to eat, he will definitely do it himself.
Yangzi Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Xu Jing
Proofreading Ding Haoyu
Source: Purple Cow News