The first is the preparation stage, which mainly prepares the ingredients for the lion's head. This is crucial. The taste and taste of the later stage depends on the meat paste made in the previous stage.

The difficulty and importance of the later cooking stage is no less than the previous one.

This is somewhat similar to dumplings or wontons. The filling is important, and the later cooking is also very important.

The recipe Ma Tianyao took is so strict that it will even limit the weight of each meatball. Because the weight of the meatballs is different, the depth of the water is different, and the time of cooking is also different, resulting in a slight difference in the final taste.

First take about 80 grams of meat paste and rub it back and forth in the left and right palms to gently pour it into a flat and round meat patty, and apply a small amount of juice.

Then gently put the flat and round meat patties into a slightly hot oil pan, fry them on both sides until the meat patties are formed but do not disperse. Never fry them yellow. This process is the key to whether the dish can succeed.

Put the oily meat patties into a casserole with a base dish in turn.

Add hot water to cover the meat patty, then add a small amount of MSG, salt, soy sauce and sugar. Cook it slowly over low heat for more than 2 hours. From beginning to completion, keep it slightly on low heat, and avoid high heat.

In other words, in addition to the coarse work of chopping meat paste in the first place, almost every step afterward is both critical and very careful.

Ma Tianyao did not dare to neglect it. After the meat paste was prepared, she started to do the subsequent procedures very carefully and carefully. After the pot started to simmer, she adjusted the heat and then breathed a sigh of relief.

"Huh, okay, just pay attention to the time now, wait for two hours and get out of the pot!"

Ling Yun nodded and asked again.

"Tianyao, why is this method so complicated? It takes two hours to simmer it on a low heat?"

The bald uncle also nodded and agreed.

"Yes, Tianyao, where did you learn it? Is this Teacher Shao's iron lion head?"

How could Ma Tianyao tell the two that she got it by cheating?

Immediately, I waved my hand with a smile.

"Now is not the time to ask questions. Lion Head doesn't need to worry about it now. Let's study Teacher Xu's gossip tripe!"

"Goggy tripe? This is not easy to study. To be honest, I can't even tell the difference between cold and hot dishes."

The bald uncle shook his head helplessly, turned his head to look at Xu Jiao behind him, sighed and said.

"Xu Jiao is still having a headache about your cold porridge. She never thought about gossip tripe in her mind... Lingyun, what about you, do you have any clues?"

"I? I haven't...I've heard of gossip and eaten tripe, but I've never heard of gossip tripe..."

"Then we..."

The bald uncle was about to ask Ma Tianyao what to do when he saw Ma Tianyao touching his chin again and began to think.

This time, she only searched briefly in her mind, and four words automatically popped up - gossip tripe!!!

In her huge recipe library, there is only one dish called gossip tripe!

It’s hard to be sure, this dish was definitely invented by Xu Jiao.

[Gazzo tripe (special): The method is as follows…]

After a rough look at the way to gossip tripe, Ma Tianyao opened her mouth wide and screamed.

"I, Cao...this...this is this hot pot?"

But just after watching it, she called out again.

"I, Cao... don't seem to look like hot pot... This Xu Jiao... is simply a genius!!!"

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At this moment, Shao Hai and Xu Jiao on the stage also chose to make cold porridge first.

They are not bad for being top chefs, especially Xu Jiao, who actually made seven appearances through literal meanings. Shao Hai even got a small freezer.

"Tianyao, you...you...you don't want to make hot pot, do you?"

After seeing the double-double pot that Ma Tianyao got, the bald uncle and Ling Yun asked her curiously at the same time.

"Tianyao, this... the so-called gossip tripe is not hot pot, right?"

"Strictly speaking, it's not hot pot, but it's a bit like hot pot..."

Ma Tianyao touched her chin and thought about it for a long time, but didn't know how to explain it to these two people in detail, so she could only explain it roughly.

"This gossip tripe is actually a hot pot base made specifically for tripe. This... let's talk about it later. Now let's go in and get the ingredients first..."

Hotpot is similar to the tofu brain, fish-flavored shredded pork and other mentioned earlier, and there are many types.

Northern pie hot pot is strong in sesame sauce, while southern pie hot pot is spicy!

This is divided from the sauce, and from the bottom of the pot, including the bottom of the pot, spicy, spicy, three-fresh, tomato, butter, clear soup, broth and other pot bottoms.

And the most famous hot pot is definitely the Sichuan hot pot recognized by everyone!

People in Sichuan love to eat hot pot, and they can be said to be spicy every meal, and they recite the stove for three days.

The tripe, yellow throat, duck intestines, waist flowers, chicken gizzards, phoenix jerkraut, birds and animals, rivers and lakes, seafood, seafood and mountain delicacies are all favoured in the pot, and the soup is full of food, no ingredients, and no matter what is supplemented.

After eating like this, my eyes were like water and my face was rosy, so it was no wonder that there were many beautiful women in Chongqing.

At that time, the Yangtze River boatmen often rested at the Xiaomitan Pier in Luzhou at night. When they were hungry, they had a clay pot with soup in the jar, and various vegetables were put into it, plus pepper and pepper to enhance the flavor. They started eating when they were cooked. It can be said that "vegetables are three parts of grain, and peppers are clothes."

This kind of eating method of being poor and happy quickly spread along the Yangtze River and became a secret shared by boatmen and dock workers.

After seeing this way of eating, some coolies in Sichuan, who were called "Bangbang" in Sichuan, saw this way of eating, they ran to the cattle and sheep slaughterhouse to pick up some of the disposable internal organs, washed them with Yangtze River water and cut them into pieces, threw them into soup, and ate them with boatmen. As a result, everyone thought it was very delicious.

Later, some people simply divided the "ocean iron basin" into multiple grids and placed it on a mud stove. The basin was filled with hemp, spicy, salty and fragrant soup. A large basket was placed next to the stove, containing beef offal and other foods mainly made of tripe, and started to hawk at the dock.

This is one of the origins of Sichuan hotpot.

Ma Tianyao introduced the bald uncle and the other two while selecting ingredients.

"This gossip tripe is actually a bit similar to the prototype of the early stage of hot pot transformation. It uses a special two-part clay pot to prepare two different hot pot bases, then put the side dishes underneath, and then put the beef tripe on the top.

When cooking, due to the heat, the two-part beef tripe on the left and right are one on the front and one on the back, one is clear soup and the other is red soup, which naturally becomes a graphic of Yin and Yang Bagua.”

"Is this delicious?"

"It should be okay. Actually, this dish is not as simple as I said. How do you say it..."

Ma Tianyao looked around, walked to a pile of ingredients, took a disposable chopstick, found another zucchini and carved it on the surface.

"You see, this is the two-part pot made of clay pots (double pots)! The double pot used by Xu Jiao’s gossip tripe is actually a bit different from the double pots seen on the market.

The second-part pot of this clay pot is in the middle and upper part, and the soup added just over the second-part pot in the middle and upper part, so when cooking, the dishes below are placed, the clear soup is Guiqing soup, and the red soup is Guihong soup.

The above is just at the intersection of the two-part pots of mandarin ducks, so the clear and red soup will be dipped in the soup. The tastes of the two are blended together because of its unique mixing technology, just like the intersection of yin and yang, forming a new flavor.

So the real gossip tripe is actually two pot bottoms and three flavors!!!”

"After you said this, I suddenly felt that this gossip tripe is so complicated..."

The bald uncle pouted speechlessly, and Ma Tianyao nodded with a smile.

"Haha, after all, this is someone else's secret, how could it be simple? We don't have the special pot she uses now, so we can only use two-point double pot to just use it."

After saying that, Ma Tianyao looked at the seasoning area and said with a bitter smile on his face.

"Many of the condiments used in Bagua tripe are made by Xu Jiao himself or purchased in some Sichuan and Shu mountainous areas. For example, Hanyuan tribute pepper is red in color, big in color, heavy in oil, rich in aroma, mellow and refreshing! Use ordinary pepper instead, the taste will be much worse. But there is no way now, I hope the taste of the substitutes will not be too different."

After Ma Tianyao finished speaking, he pointed to the condiment area and spoke again.

"Everyone knows that peppercorns are the soul of hot pot, so if we can find peppercorns with similar quality to Hanyuan tribute pepper this time, then the final taste will be more similar."

Ling Yun sighed, nodded and shook his head, and sighed in a low voice.

"Tianyao, as you say...then this dish is equivalent to three dishes in terms of cooking."

"What... why did it turn into three dishes?"

The bald uncle had reached his limit. He was completely confused when he heard this. He couldn't hear what the two were talking about. He only heard Ma Tianyao scratching his head and nodding and answering.

"Yes, it looks like one dish, but it is actually equivalent to three dishes, and it is not a simple three dishes. This is completely one plus one more than one."

Ling Yun frowned and asked.

"Jiangjiao was the soul of red soup just now. What about the clear soup? What are you going to do?"

"If you have clear soup... it is naturally tomato, but by comparison, this clear soup should be easy to make. Apart from tomatoes, it is butter. The most difficult thing now is how to make the clear soup that is incompatible with each other. "

"Well... it's not difficult to find a substitute for Hanyuan tribute pepper. The difficult thing is that the substitute you find must be integrated with the bottom of the clear soup tomato pot."

Ling Yun nodded, but Ma Tianyao did not say the last and most important thing - Yongchuan fermented black beans!

Although there are no Yongchuan fermented black beans here, it is not difficult to find a replacement.

"The ingredients of authentic Sichuan hot pot are made of heavy flavor and oil. The traditional soup preparation uses Pixian spicy bean paste, Yongchuan fermented black bean paste, Ganzi butter and Hanyuan pepper as raw materials.

First simmer the butter over high heat, then chop the bean paste and pour it in. After boiling it into red sauce oil, quickly stir-fry the peppercorns, then add the original beef soup, add fermented black beans, rock sugar, old ginger, Sichuan salt and chili peppers to make. By the way, there is another biggest difference between Xu Jiao's gossip tripe and hot pot, that is, there is no oil dish, and its taste is completely a fusion product of two special flavors in the two-part pot."

"Oh...then...the base ingredients of this gossip tripe should be different from ordinary hot pot, right?"

"Yes, but the difference is not particularly big. Okay, stop chatting, get the stuff first, I will introduce it to you later. Now let's go out and try it first!"

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Chapter completed!