Cooking knowledge: cold dish platter making

Cold dishes are the first dishes to meet diners at the banquet, so there are? Have you met a dish? Or? Welcome dish? Known as. Therefore, whether the cold dishes are cooked well or not directly affects the diners' impression of the banquet. Cold dish platter is a natural and ingenious combination of all kinds of cold dishes, so it needs more exquisite knife work, more coordinated color matching and more beautiful plate loading style.

To make cold dish platter, we must first understand the basic knowledge and specific operation steps of cold dish platter. The traditional cold dish platter has six different formats, such as double spelling, three spelling, four spelling, five spelling, scene spelling and color cold spelling. There are three steps when making a platter: bottom, edge and cover. Details are as follows:

1? Double fight. Is to put two different cold dishes together on a plate. It requires neat and beautiful knives and clear color contrast. Its spelling is varied, and two cold dishes can be placed on both sides of the plate in half; You can also put one cold dish below and the other on top; You can also put one cold dish in the middle and the other around.

2? Three wars. Is to put three different cold dishes together on a plate. This kind of platter generally uses a disc with a diameter of 24 cm. No matter from the color requirements and taste matching of cold dishes, or the form of plate loading, the requirements of triple spelling are higher than those of double spelling. The most commonly used form of loading the three products is to divide the dish into three equal parts from the center of the dish, and put a cold dish in each part; You can also arrange three cold dishes into three circles inside and outside, and so on.

3? Four games. The method of serving four platters is basically the same as that of three platters, except for one cold dish. Generally, a disc with a diameter of 33 cm is selected for the four buckets. The most commonly used form of loading the four spells is to divide the disk into four equal parts from the center of the disk, and put a cold dish in each part; You can also put three cold dishes around and one cold dish in the middle. The color and taste of each cold dish in the four spells should be separated.

4? Five games. Also known as medium platter and color medium platter, it is a cold dish added on the basis of four platters. Five buckets generally choose 38 cm discs. The most commonly used form of loading in Wu Pin is that four cold dishes are placed radially around the disk surface, and one cold dish is placed in the middle; Five kinds of cold dishes can also be placed radially around the disc, and a food sculpture can be placed in the middle for decoration.