Chapter 184 Sugar-Fried Chestnuts and Chestnut Roasted Pork (1)

When he came down the mountain, looking at the "golden peanuts", "golden bamboos" and "golden wolf cents" he received in his palms, Wen Mingtang couldn't help but sigh: "A celebrity is a celebrity, so big... well, elegant !”

Lin Fei, who was walking aside, glanced sideways at her and pointed her out without any doubt: "The two words you just wanted to say but didn't finish were 'generous'!"

Gifts such as "bamboo" and "wolf hair" are indeed elegant, but they are real "gold", and each item is naturally worth a lot of money! For ordinary people, who wouldn't like this?

Wen Mingtang didn't take it seriously at all. Hearing this, he smiled and said frankly: "That's what Lin Shaoqing said! I really feel that these old friends of Yu Jijiu are just like Yu Jijiu, they are really generous and free and easy!"

"No matter how much they don't care about extraneous things and regard money as something outside themselves, these celebrities will never be short of money." Lin Fei heard this and said lightly, "Now that they have become famous all over the world, they can write and paint at will. The money you can earn from taking a class for a period of time is worth your salary in a public kitchen for several years."

This is not a lie! Wen Mingtang put the "Golden Bamboo" and "Golden Wolf Hao" into his carry-on purse and said, "But our public kitchen is doing well in the takeout business. Ji Cai will settle the account and I will share the money with the takeout." It’s much higher than wages!”

In this way, you can save money faster! Perhaps a few years later, her dream of buying a house in Chang'an City would come true!

Seeing Wen Mingtang carefully put the money into his purse, Lin Fei looked at it for a moment and then looked away.

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After a trip to Lishan Mountain and back to Dali Temple, it was time to start preparing food for the public chef's three meals a day.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and Zhuangzi has also begun to deliver chestnuts, the seasonal item after autumn, to the public kitchen.

However, when the chestnuts were delivered, Ji Cai did not buy them as the main course. Instead, they were piled randomly in the kitchen. He said to Wen Mingtang: "Every year in autumn, chestnuts and water chestnuts are overflowing on the farm. Eat them." If you don’t throw it away, it’s a waste. Boil it in water and ask everyone to take a bag back to eat!”

Chestnuts and water chestnuts are not unpalatable when boiled in water, but in terms of deliciousness... they have the same boiled smell every year, which makes them a little bit boring, but it's okay to use them to satisfy hunger when you're hungry. !

Ji Caimai didn't pay much attention to the small mountain-like pile of chestnuts, but Wen Mingtang's eyes lit up when he saw it: in Da Rong today, the only way to cook chestnuts is to boil them. Even in the palace, besides boiling chestnuts, she Apart from that, I have only seen the imperial chef taking out the meat from the cooked chestnuts and adding sugar and oil to make the filling of the pastry. Apart from this, I have never seen any other methods.

How can chestnuts be cooked in just these ways? Wen Mingtang has been holding back in the palace for a long time, but because she is in the palace, there are many rules, so it is not easy for her to act randomly.

Now that he is officially a chef of Dali Temple, without the constraints of rules, Wen Mingtang is naturally no longer prepared to eat the boiled and pastry recipes that he has grown tired of in the past few years.

After hearing what Ji Caimai said, Wen Mingtang immediately said: "This chestnut won't be boiled this year. I want to use it to make a snack or a dish!"

Ji Caimai, who was about to leave after explaining Wen Mingtang, immediately understood what she meant. He stopped, glanced meaningfully at Wen Mingtang, nodded and said, "Then I'll take it orally, and I'll taste it first." Let’s try your new recipe. If it’s good, then go to the takeout stall with the braised duck to make a regular offering.”

Originally, Ji Caimai just wanted to wait until he tasted it before seeing if it was feasible. But in the afternoon, when the sweet fragrance of chestnuts filled the air, before he could taste it, Ji Caimai knew that the aroma was so overbearing that it was called stir-fried chestnuts. The item must be a hot commodity.

Sure enough, when he came out of the house and rushed to the courtyard of the public kitchen, the courtyard was already surrounded by many "greedy insects" who came after smelling the smell.

Looking across the crowd, I saw A Bing holding a large shovel in the big pot in the middle, stirring the chestnuts with cracked shells and black grit together.

The aroma that I had just smelled in the house was even more shocking when I got closer. The rich aroma of chestnuts came out continuously from the big iron pot, and the people who were hooked couldn't help but come over and take a look. Let’s see what happens.

Before Ji Caimai could reach him, he heard someone asking.

"This is the first time I've seen chestnuts cooked like this. What's the name of this snack?"

"Roasted chestnuts with sugar!" said Wen Mingtang, who was instructing Ah Bing to stir-fry chestnuts. He took out a few fried chestnuts from a large plate of sugar-fried chestnuts in front of him and shared them with everyone to taste them one by one. He said, "Let's try it. !”

Chestnuts are common in autumn, but this method of frying them is still very fresh.

Someone took the fried chestnuts from Wen Mingtang and said with emotion: "This is really the most fragrant chestnut smell I have ever smelled in my life!"

Wen Mingtang heard this and answered with a smile: "Then let's try the roasted chestnuts again to match the fragrance!"

The chestnuts in my hands have turned dark brown after being stir-fried. The constant stir-frying of syrup and oil gave the chestnuts a shiny sheen, and the sweet aroma of fried chestnuts went straight to my nose. The person who hooked it moved his index finger. The fried chestnut skin is crispy and easy to peel. With a little force along the "cross" opening that has been cut, it can be easily peeled off, revealing the brown chestnut meat inside.

Everyone saw the guard peeling off the chestnut meat and putting it into his mouth, and then his eyes immediately narrowed.

Needless to say, such a happy expression was enough to prove that the taste of chestnuts was not inferior to the alluring aroma.

Seeing this, everyone who got a taste of the chestnuts peeled off the shells and put them in their mouths. Then, there were many sighs of emotion.

"It's really... tsk tsk! It's fragrant and glutinous!"

“It’s fragrant and sweet, but it’s different from the chestnut meat that has sugar and oil added to the chestnut cake. It seems to be even more fragrant!”

"It's delicious! I don't like sweets very much, but this sweet taste is different from ordinary sugar. It seems to be particularly fragrant..."

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"That's called caramel!" Wen Mingtang smiled, replying to everyone's words, "The caramel aroma is fried into the chestnuts, which is different from ordinary chestnuts boiled in sugar water!"

Ji Caimai, who had been standing behind the crowd for a while, could no longer hold himself back. Taking advantage of the moment when everyone was tasting chestnuts and the crowd relaxed, he squeezed to the front, took a chestnut from the plate in front of Wen Mingtang, peeled it and put it into his mouth. He said, "This is a snack. I will give one to each person to taste at dusk. For now... you can go back first!"

There are servants, handymen, and concierges around in front of me. It’s still a busy time, so it’s not good to attract a lot of people who are not doing anything and come to steal some food because of their smell!

As soon as these words came out, the crowd who were about to gather together to ask Wen Mingtang for a taste of chestnuts dispersed: they also knew that this was not good! But if I’m to blame, it’s Master Wen’s stir-fried chestnuts that are so fragrant. How can anyone resist it?