"What makes all the creatures of the world feel terrified? The answer lies in the smile in front of the barbecue stall. All kinds of strange ingredients, bloody dishes, challenging the psychological bottom line, breaking visual taboos, delicious is more than three ways, stimulation also needs heavy taste. My big heavenly barbecue supper, indelible, is a dark temperament. This is the narration from the barbecue documentary "A String of Life", which is about the Chinese's enthusiasm for strange food.
These strange foods may subvert your imagination, and they also fully reflect the ability of Chinese people to make the most of food. Among these foods, the most popular in the Chinese supper market is the roasted brain flower.
Roasted brain flowers first appeared in the Sichuan-Chongqing region. In "A String of Life", there is such a "reference", the earliest roast brain flower in Chongqing is a shop called "Small Brain Shell Barbecue", the owner always goes to the vegetable market in the early morning to buy the freshest pig brain. With the development of the times, there are now some roasted brain flower chain stores in the streets and alleys of the city, they occupy people's supper positions with diversified tastes and industrialized marketing, and small shops located in dark alleys such as "small brain shell barbecue" have been forced to the edge of retirement.
The brain flowers selected for barbecue must be fresh brain flowers, because the frozen brain flowers are scattered, not formed, and the smell is very heavy. Before grilling on the shelf, carefully handle the raw materials of the brain flower, remove the surface membrane of the fresh brain flower one by one, and clean the blood streaks.
When roasting, you should put green onions and onions in a small bowl made of tin foil, the purpose is to remove fishy, Sichuan and Chongqing region will add lotus chips, lotus chips on top of the brain flowers, plus red pepper, green pepper, peppercorns, cumin, celery and other more than 20 kinds of ingredients, spicy and fragrant, so that the brain flowers are soaked with spices of spicy.
The brain flower is placed on top of the charcoal fire, and the taste of the ingredients is gradually immersed in the texture of the brain flower, and the ravine is also full of red oil. The baking process is a great test of the boss's skills, neither too old, nor can it be uncooked. The boss must be sharp in his hands and feet, what condiments to sprinkle at each step, how long to bake, and must be strategic in order to bake a red and shiny brain flower.
The brain flowers in the hot pot are full of various flavors of the soup, and the shabu brain flowers are different, the roasted brain flowers have a more intense and rich taste, with chopsticks to pinch a bite, and then sandwich two sea peppers, eat more primitive, all the spices are in the original fat of the brain flower. Eating into the mouth, the first thing to feel is the slight crunch of the epidermis, and then it is tender and soft and the taste is stimulated, carefully aftertaste, the mouth is also full of the fragrance of oil and the aroma of the ingredients.
The entrance of the brain flower is soft and smooth, which makes people indulge in the pleasure of cholesterol explosion. In the face of the feeling of high-calorie food, the words ni Kuang said gave us hesitant thoughts to find a way out - "The knowledge of life is transmitted from the elderly and predecessors, since we know the ending, it is better to drink freely, no matter what cholesterol he has, what is nitrosammonium, what is the liquor, what is the lard!" ”