Chapter 114 Cooking with Thoughts

Author: round head and round belly

Chapter 114 Cooking with Thoughts

“Can gardenias be dyed?”

Zhao Jinmai was a little surprised: "I only know Teacher He's song..."

Before she finished speaking, Wu Lei sang from the side at the top of his voice: "Gardenia blooms and blooms! Gardenias bloom and bloom!"

Everyone: "..."

When Wu Lei saw this, he shrank his neck: "I was wrong."

After giving him a speechless look, Li Yicai explained with a smile: "Gardenia is a natural dye. Gardenia is used in many places to dye food and make all kinds of beautiful food.

For example, in Yun Province, where there is colorful hand-made rice, water boiled from gardenia flowers is used to cook the rice. The cooked rice is golden yellow and very beautiful.

It can also be used to dye tofu. If you have golden tofu, you need to use it to dye it.

In some places, gardenia is also used to color the braised vegetables. The braised chicken wings and chicken feet will be yellow and bright in color, making them look very appetizing.

Including some places in Guangdong Province that make boiled chicken, gardenia flowers are also used to add some color."

After hearing Li Yi's explanation, the audience in the live broadcast room also started discussing in the barrage.

"I learned it. I'll buy some rice to stew at home and try it later."

"People from Yunnan Province should explain that the colorful hand-picked rice is a scam for tourists from other places. We locals don't eat it at all."

"Why did this Li Yi tell me my secret recipe? When I was learning to make boiled chicken, the secret recipe my master taught me was to add two yellow gardenia flowers to the soup."

"Okay! No wonder when I cook plain-cut chicken at home, it's not as yellow as the ones in restaurants outside. I thought the three-yellow chicken I bought was fake, but it turns out it's because of the yellow gardenias!"

"Eh? When I was a kid, there was a kind of flower growing near my house, and you could use its petals to dye your nails. That was gardenia, right?"

"Is it also from Yu Province upstairs? I've dyed it too! It's wrapped in its leaves. My sister dyed it for me."

"I'm from Hui Province! I've dyed it too! It's called henna in our country. When I was a kid, I dyed all ten of my fingers orange, and I thought it was pretty! Haha!"

Zhao Jinmai saw the audience's barrage and said weakly: "Actually, I dyed it when I was a child. It was given to me by my neighbor's sister. She also said it was called henna, but it was not this type of gardenia.

flower."

"That's right."

Li Yi smiled and said: "The ones you used should be impatiens, not gardenias.

Impatiens are dyed with freshly picked petals, while gardenias are dyed with water boiled from gardenia fruits, which is different."

"Yes, it's dyed with flower petals."

Zhao Jinmai nodded repeatedly.

While talking, the konjac powder in the pot had become thick again, and Sui was struggling to stir it with a spoon.

Seeing this, Li Yi went to the storage room, found a stainless steel bucket, spread a layer of soybean oil inside, and then helped Sui pour the konjac powder slurry into it.

Next, you just need to wait for it to cool down and solidify naturally, and the konjac powder is ready.

On the other side, Liu Yifei also peeled the bamboo shoots and brought them to Li Yi: "Is this okay?"

She peeled it carefully, and every bamboo shoot was intact, and the tips of the bamboo shoots were not broken.

"Okay, very good, thank you for your hard work."

Li Yi took it and said thank you for your hard work with a smile.

Liu Yifei smiled happily and asked, "Is there anything else you can help me with?"

"No need for the time being."

Li Yi looked at the materials that had been prepared: "The next step is for me to take action."

After saying that, he came to the sink and washed his hands carefully before walking back to the operating desk.

He didn't rush to do it, he just stood there and glanced at the ingredients on the table one by one.

But in his mind, these ingredients were already floating in the void, and then cut by invisible knives, turning into ingredients of different shapes, lengths, and thicknesses.

A thick fresh lotus root floated up.

Swish!

With a few flashes of knife light, the fresh lotus root was hollowed out, and lotus root strips flew up in the outer circle, leaving only a lifelike chicken cavity skeleton.

Then, a slender fresh lotus root floated up, and with the flash of the knife, a complete chicken skull appeared above the chicken cavity skeleton.

The beak, head, sunken eye sockets, and the chicken neck bones at the back are all carved lifelike.

In the void, the chicken neck bones floated towards the chicken cavity skeleton.

At the very end of the chicken neck bone, there is a horizontal protrusion that perfectly coincides with the depression at the front of the chicken cavity frame.

Ding!

With a muffled sound, the chicken skull and chicken cavity skeleton were perfectly connected.

Perfect, that's it.

Li Yi nodded slightly and started thinking again.

Click!

A radish was cut open at the waist, and with a flash of the knife, two lifelike chicken leg bones appeared.

Next, five more peeled fresh bamboo shoots appeared, cut from the top third, and the tips of the bamboo shoots converged to the thicker part of the rear end of one of the bamboo shoots.

Immediately, a chicken foot bone appeared in the void.

Li Yi turned his eyes, and a cut lotus root strip came to him, and was quickly cut into a concave shape on both sides.

That's the joint where the chicken leg bones join.

Then, the joints below the chicken leg bone and the joints above the chicken feet were inserted into the depression of the lotus root joint at the same time. They fit tightly and the joint was successful.

According to the law, the other five bamboo shoots also gathered into another chicken claw, which was stuck behind the chicken cavity frame together with the chicken leg bone.

Before my thoughts stopped, a few bamboo shoots floated up again, divided and connected, turning into two chicken wing frames composed of bamboo shoots, inserted on both sides of the chicken body.

In an instant, a complete chicken skeleton appeared in the void.

The next moment, this chicken skeleton composed of lotus root, radish and bamboo shoots came to life.

Snap! Snap!

The chicken feet made of bamboo shoots stepped on the void, took two steps, and dug twice on the ground.

Then, it raised the chicken wing bones, which were also made of bamboo shoots, and shook them in the air, as if flapping its wings.

"Giggle!"

It opened its beak carved from fine lotus roots, crowed twice, then lowered its head and pecked at its feet, making it come alive.

The first step can be completed here.

Li Yi nodded secretly and had a change of thought.

Next, it's time for muscle tissue.

As he thought, a piece of gluten floated up in the void.

With a burst of extrusion, it was cut into countless strips, sheets, cones and barrels of various shapes.

The next moment, strands of gluten floated up and attached to the chicken skeleton, like muscles wrapped around the bones.

The cone-shaped gluten passes through the chicken leg bone and is tightly wrapped around the top, forming a strong and large chicken leg.

Next is the fat, Li Yi looked at Nan Doufu.

The piece of fresh and tender southern tofu floated up. The skin was peeled off the sides and the upper and lower ends, and the tenderest part in the center was pulled out.

With the knife still flashing, the soft tofu was cut into countless thin slices and automatically attached to the chicken.

The abdomen, buttocks, chicken wings, and the slightly yellow and tender tofu seem to be the fat of the chicken, trembling and wrapping the abdominal cavity of the chicken.

Next, chicken skin.

Li Yi glanced at the konjac bucket cooling in the refrigerator nearby.

A whole piece of konjac flew up from the bucket and came to Li Yi.

Then, there was a flash of fine knife light, and the konjac was quickly carved into the shape of a chicken.

There was another burst of sword light, and the inside of the konjac chicken was hollowed out, leaving only a complete chicken skin.

"Giggle!"

The vegetarian chicken walked up to the konjac chicken skin, put its head into the chicken's butt, and then the whole chicken went in.

It's like putting on a chicken skin coat and the whole chicken looks brand new.

"Giggle!"
To be continued...