Share the six "cores" of cooking with you, avoid being in a hurry when cooking New Year's Eve, and let family and children have a rich and satisfactory reunion dinner.
Compared with vegetables, the most common problem in cooking meat is to properly remove its own fishy smell. When preparing for the New Year's Eve dinner, this step is the basis of making a good taste of the dish, which will affect the taste of the whole dish. Meat needs to be washed or soaked in clear water before cooking, so as to wash off and soak out its residual blood as much as possible to help remove some fishy smell, while fish needs to remove the black film inside and outside gills and fish, and dispose of the parts that can cause fishy smell. In addition, blanching can also remove excess fat, blood and fishy smell from meat or seafood. When blanching, you can add a proper amount of ginger slices, onion segments or cooking wine to the pot to improve the deodorization effect, but remember that the blanching time should not be too long, so as not to make the ingredients taste too old and lose their own taste.
It is not easy to eat meat directly. Pickling is very important and can save cooking time. Meat is cut into pieces, sliced or shredded according to the needs of dishes before curing, which speeds up the curing time and makes it easier to taste. In addition to salt, soy sauce and spiced powder, there are spices such as onion, ginger, pepper and red onion. These spices can be squeezed with water, or soaked in clear water to form feed water, and then marinated with marinade. The addition of feed water can keep them fresh and tender, and can also effectively remove the fishy smell.
In the curing process, the addition of starch and eggs can also lock the gravy to increase the freshness and prevent the meat from drying and losing its taste when it is fried. These methods can be used flexibly according to the needs of dishes.
When preparing for the New Year's Eve, don't forget that many ingredients need to be blanched and oiled before they can enter the pot, especially meat. After blanching, the surface of the ingredients can be cooked first, which can effectively lock the soup of the ingredients and maintain the taste when cooking or stewing. In addition, meat can remove fishy smell, vegetables can also remove dirt on their surfaces, improve the safety of eating, and reduce the "earthy smell" and "bad smell" of some vegetables themselves. Overoiling can improve the brittleness of ingredients and increase the color of ingredients. On the day of New Year's Eve, after cleaning the ingredients, you can prepare the ingredients that need to be blanched and oiled together for cooking.
Kitchen coup: many vegetables will lose some color after blanching, not as bright green as celery and vegetables. When blanching, add a spoonful of salt to the pot and a few drops of cooking oil to keep the color of vegetables to the greatest extent.
The meat dishes on the cold plate of the dinner table are mostly marinated sauces. This kind of dishes can be prepared two or three days in advance, while braised and stewed dishes can be stewed in a pot on the morning of New Year's Eve. It takes a lot of time to cook large pieces of meat until it is cooked to taste, so it is best to prepare it in advance. Besides, these dishes can't be in a hurry. You can boil it with high fire first, then cover the pot and turn it to low heat to keep it slightly boiling, and then slowly marinate and stew. Don't worry about cooking with a big fire.
Kitchen tip: when stewing ingredients, if they are not cooked to the best condition, there is not enough water. Remember to heat the water when you add it. Adding cold water will suddenly reduce the temperature of the soup, which will lead to the rapid solidification and denaturation of protein and fat, and make the surface of the soup have an extra layer of floating powder, which requires an extra process to skim off the floating powder, and will also destroy the nutrition and flavor of the soup.
Most of the reasons why restaurant chefs cook better than cooking at home lie in the temperature and speed of cooking. Simply put, the essence of cooking is "the pot should be hot and the fire should be big". When the pot is hot, the ingredients can be cooked quickly. When cooking, ingredients don't stick to the pan easily. Fire can make food cooked as soon as possible, unlike stewing, which takes too much time. The faster you cook, the more delicious and tasty the ingredients will be, and the entrance will not be too dry, especially vegetables and seafood. I have mastered the essence of quick cooking. Even if there are many dishes on the New Year's Eve, I just need to prepare the ingredients in advance, save the cooking for the last, and then start cooking before the dinner begins. The cooking time is very short, and everyone can eat hot dishes one after another.
Kitchen coup: The kitchen stove at home is not as powerful as the fast-frying stove in the restaurant, and the pot is relatively small, so remember not to put too many ingredients when cooking, otherwise it will be unevenly heated and prolong the frying time. If you want to speed up the frying, you can cut the ingredients smaller and thinner, which will speed up the frying and taste the same as that in the restaurant outside.
Broth is one of the most commonly used auxiliary materials in cooking. Adding a spoonful of old soup can enrich the taste of dishes and enhance the umami taste of dishes, which is one of the reasons why restaurants make delicious food. Usually a large pot of old soup is prepared in the kitchen for cooking. You can also learn this method when cooking New Year's Eve. Cook a pot of soup one day in advance until it is ready to cook. Share the steps of making chicken bone soup. The ingredients are simple and you will learn it as soon as you learn it.
Chicken bone soup
Ingredients: two chicken bones, onion and ginger.
1. Wash chicken bones, blanch them with hot water, wash onions and cut into pieces, peel ginger, wash and slice.
2. Take the soup pot and pour the processed chicken bones, onions and ginger slices, add enough water and drop a little white wine.
3. Turn on the fire, boil the water in the soup pot, then simmer for about 1 hour, and take out all the ingredients. After the soup is filtered, it is chicken bone soup
Kitchen coup: when cooking broth with a gas stove, the soup is easy to become turbid. In the cooking process, the soup can become clear and transparent without covering the lid.
Kitchen tip: There are many kinds of stock. You can use beef bones, pig bones, seafood and so on to make soup. A variety of ingredients are mixed and cooked, which makes the taste more delicious and rich, and can be prepared as needed when cooking New Year's Eve. Broth can be preserved in the whole pot. Remember to skim off the excess oil slick and refrigerate for 2~3 days. If the space in the refrigerator is not too large, it can be packed in a fresh-keeping box, a fresh-keeping cup or a bowl, covered with plastic wrap and stored in the refrigerator, or it can be frozen for 1-2 months. Only the required amount is used for thawing each time, and those that are not frozen can not be frozen again, otherwise bacteria will easily breed.
Before cooking the New Year's Eve, plan the steps and time in turn according to the dishes to be cooked.
1. All kinds of raw materials and ingredients are cleaned in advance, and the required ingredients such as onion, ginger and garlic are cut and mixed for centralized use.
2. If the ingredients need to be pickled, blanched and oiled, they should be treated in advance.
3. Cold dishes, stews and stir-fried dishes should be cooked first, heated before serving, and then fried, which will taste more fragrant, and then cooked after frying.
4. Make rational use of all the pots and pans in the kitchen to help you save time and energy in cooking New Year's Eve, especially the pressure cooker.
After a series of reasonable arrangements and clever use of kitchen cooking skills, the preparation of the New Year's Eve dinner is time-saving and labor-saving, and the dishes are delicious, which is well received by family members.