How to Innovate Dishes

A chef should not only be able to inherit the traditional cooking culture and skills, but also add to the traditional basis of innovation in order to achieve higher achievements. How to innovate still needs to be explored slowly, and some ways can still be practiced.

The way of dish innovation

One, raw material selection

1, through the clever use of a variety of existing raw materials

(1) Western materials in the With the integration of the global economy, the western food ingredients in our country has been further promoted the use of raw materials, such as beans, broccoli and so on.

(2) soil material foreign use of native raw materials, wild raw materials, development and production of fine products, such as pumpkin, taro, pumpkin vine.

(3) medicinal herbs dishes will be traditionally considered only as medicinal raw materials, used to cook or assist in cooking dishes, such as angelica, goji berries used to roast dishes.

(4) Multi-purpose use of a material Development of the original raw materials, so that they cook more dishes, such as salmon, salted egg yolk series of dishes.

2, change the texture of raw materials to become a new dish changes

People often use dehydration, salting, pickling, refrigeration, or blanching of raw materials, white boiled, oil and other treatments, etc., to change the texture of the raw materials at the same time add new dishes. Such as cured products of bacon, sausage, wind chicken, as well as salted and smoked salted mushrooms, dried bamboo shoots, other dehydrated types of golden hooks, dried scallops, meat floss and other dishes cooked. The use of sichuan kimchi soaking method of new dishes, such as soaked phoenix claw, soaked pig's ear dishes.

Two, cooking options

1, change the cooking method

"Stir-fried" dishes, can be processed into dishes with "burst" technique, dry stir-fry series, boiled series, hot pot series can also be used to "stir-fry" series, boiled series, hot pot series. "Stir-fry" technique processed into dishes, the flavor characteristics of the dishes, the texture is different.

2, find new cooking methods to cook new dishes

Cooking techniques from raw food, dipping, fire, stone cooking, canned cooking, cage steaming, oven baking, oil frying, to today's electric oven baking, microwave cooking development over. The "stone-cooked kippers" sold in restaurants, "roasted lamb kebabs" on the table with burning wine, "salt-baked spicy chicken" in the cold dishes of banquets, and "fish-scented salmon" wrapped in tin foil and cooked in water. "Fish and salmon", etc., all of which gave people a sense of novelty at that time. With the development of science and technology, such as the application of solar energy, geothermal energy, wind energy, hydrothermal energy, air energy conversion, there will certainly be more new cooking techniques born in the future.

3, comprehensive and innovative cooking techniques

In the traditional cooking techniques on the basis of breaking the distinction between Chinese and Western cooking techniques fixed pattern, improve the combination, imitation, borrowing, synthesis, inverse creation, in order to introduce the use of new cooking methods for the production of dishes, such as shortening the surface of the oil with the dishes made of crispy boxes of shrimp, crispy seafood, the traditional braised snapper fried in the raw and so on.

Three, the development of novel flavors

Combination of flavor type of dishes can be developed, you can usually take the following kinds of ideas:

1, Western-style cooking will be the Western-style cooking seasonings, sauces or seasoning methods, used in cooking Chinese dishes, such as salad seafood rolls, pomegranate shrimp on the Thousand Islands, and so on.

2, fruity dishes cooking will be fruit, fruit juice used to flavor dishes, such as coconut chicken, pineapple rice, orange melon strips

3, the old flavor of the new cooking will have been popular in recent years, rarely used seasoning or flavor re-cooking dishes, such as spicy soy sauce cooking chicken wings, soy sauce fried hole shrimp, and so on.

4, the new flavor of the old cooking with the recent emergence of seasonings cooking traditional raw materials, so as to introduce novel dishes, such as XO fried chicken fillet, black pepper fried eel flowers.

Four, renovation changes in plating and serving

Combination of flavor type of dishes can be developed, you can usually take the following kinds of ideas:

1, Western-style cooking will be the Western-style cooking seasonings, sauces or seasoning methods, used in cooking Chinese dishes, such as salad seafood rolls, pomegranate shrimp on the Thousand Islands, and so on.

2, fruity dishes cooking will be fruit, fruit juice used to flavor dishes, such as coconut chicken, pineapple rice, orange melon strips

3, the old flavor of the new cooking will have been popular in recent years, rarely used seasoning or flavor re-cooking dishes, such as spicy soy sauce cooking chicken wings, soy sauce fried shrimp and so on.

4, the new flavor of the old cooking with the recent emergence of seasonings cooking traditional raw materials, so as to introduce novel dishes, such as XO fried chicken fillet, black pepper fried eel flowers.