The hot pot base is the most fragrant when fried in butter. However, in this era, cattle are the main force in farming and cannot be killed for meat. It is illegal to slaughter cattle without permission, and most people will not slaughter cattle. Therefore,
You can't buy butter, but you can find lard instead. Yan Xiao bought five kilograms of lard at a pork stall.
After eating hot pot meat, it is indispensable. Yan Xiao bought two pounds of front leg meat, two pounds of tenderloin, half a piece of chicken and half a piece of duck meat. On the way to buy fish, he saw a small vendor selling mutton, so he bought another
Two kilograms of mutton and three kilograms of grass carp were bought at the fish store.
After selling the pork, Yanxiao found that his basket could no longer hold it, so he hired a porter to help him pick vegetables at the market.
Even after buying enough meat dishes, the next step is to prepare some vegetarian dishes. It is the end of summer, and leafy vegetables are limited, but Yan Xiao still found the vegetables he wanted to buy.
Half a pound of mushrooms, one pound of lotus root, one pound of radish, half a pound of Chinese cabbage, one pound of potatoes, half a pound of fungus, one pound of chives, one pound of garlic and ginger, one pound of coriander, half a pound of Sichuan peppercorns, three pounds of red pepper,
After buying these, Yan Xiao went to the medicinal shop and bought some spices. Star anise, cinnamon, strawberries, nutmeg, cloves, white cardamom, kaempferol, and cumin. After buying these, he took the porter home.
After returning home, Sun's mother and Hong Zhao were surprised to see Yan Xiao buying so many vegetables.
"Young Madam, how can you finish eating all the vegetables you bought?"
"Don't worry, you've finished eating." Yan Xiao led the porters to pick the dishes to the kitchen, unloaded the dishes and paid. "Mother Sun, please help me deliver this little brother."
"Okay, young lady."
Yan Xiao first washed all the spices, then found the wine at home and soaked them.
Then start cleaning the meat you bought, first wash and slice the pork, marinate the front leg meat and tenderloin separately, marinate the front leg meat with flour and wine to remove the flavor, and marinate the tenderloin with egg white, chili powder and wine.
The next step is to clean the mutton. Wash the mutton several times with cold water to wash away the blood, so that the smell will be much less. The mutton I bought today does not have such a strong smell. Wash the mutton and cut it into thin slices.
Mix egg whites, ginger slices, shredded green onions, and minced garlic for a while, then marinate for half an hour. When eaten this way, the mutton will be smooth and delicious.
Remove the fish scales from the fish and remove the internal organs with an axe. Use a knife to pat both sides of the fish body a few times. Make a slit on the side where the fish head is connected to take out the fish tendons. Chop off the fish head and cut it along the broken line of the fish head.
place, hold down the fish and slice half of the fish, turn over the remaining half, put the cut surface against the chopping board, slice off the other half of the fish from the top of the fish bone, so that a complete fish is divided into a fish head and a piece
Fish bones, two pieces of fish meat.
Place the fish skin side against the chopping board, and slice diagonally from the tail. After all the fish is cut, cut the fish bones into sections. Put the fish bones and fish heads together, and put the fish fillets together.
In a bowl, add wine, onion, ginger and garlic to marinate.
After the meat is processed, it is time to prepare the vegetarian dishes. After washing all the vegetables, slice two or three potatoes into bowls, slice two lotus roots and set aside. Slice a radish, soak the fungus and wash it. Cut one fungus into three pieces and shiitake mushrooms.
Cut in half and mince the peppers.
Chop the cilantro, chives, garlic and ginger into small pieces. Wash the cabbage and put it in a small bowl.
Wash and chop the lard suet, wash the pot and put it on the fire. Heat the lard in the pot. When the lard boils out all the fat, take out the oil residue. Add the coriander, chives, minced garlic and ginger, and take it out when it is browned.
, add chili and Sichuan peppercorns, fry for a while, then add the soaked spices.
At this time, several people in the backyard ran to the kitchen, wanting to see what Yan Xiaoshi was doing, and they smelled the fragrance in the backyard.
"Young lady, what are you doing? It smells weird."
After seeing that the pot was ready, Yan Xiao found a soup basin and poured two tablespoons of the bottom of the pot into the soup basin. "I made something delicious, and we will eat this for lunch."
At this time, there was a knock on the door, and Yan Xiao was very happy. "They are here. Mother Sun, please go open the door quickly and invite these two friends of mine into the main hall."
As Yan Xiao talked, he was busy looking for a small stove. This stove was found under the cabinet a few days ago by Yan Xiao. It was just right for making hot pot.
"Hong Zhao, don't stand here anymore. Go to the dining room to eat. Lin Youwei, bring the soup basin."
Yan Xiao put some flint in the pot, added charcoal to the flint in the stove, and then walked to the dining room with the stove.
Lin Youwei came to the kitchen to take a look at what Yan Xiao was doing. It was so delicious that he could no longer study peacefully in the study. Unexpectedly, he was being manipulated by Yan Xiao. Lin Youwei was a little confused and pointed.
She looked at Hong Zhao with the tip of her nose and asked, "Did she just ask me to hold this?"
Hong Zhao walked up to Lin Youwei and tugged on Lin Youwei's sleeves and said, "Let's go quickly. This Madam made is so fragrant. It looks delicious. I'm almost drooling. "
Under Hong Zhao's gentle attack, Lin Youwei walked to the dining room with the soup basin.
Yan Xiao put the stove on the table and went over to look at his two good sisters. Mother Sun was pouring tea for the two of them. When they saw Yan Xiao, they all stood up to greet her.
Su Niang asked curiously: "What are you cooking? We smelled it as soon as we entered the yard."
"I think this is the hot pot my sister was talking about!" Qiaoyun said.
Yan Xiao nodded and gave Qiaoyun a thumbs up and said, "Sister Qiaoyun is still smart."
"Why am I so smart? It's obviously what you said yesterday, to ask us to eat hot pot today, but I've been thinking about it! Now smelling this smell makes me hungry." Qiaoyun said, touching his stomach.
"Let's go to the dining room." Yan Xiao pulled the two sisters towards the dining room.
"Mama Sun, go to the kitchen and help me bring all the dishes on the chopping board."
"Okay, Madam."
Yan Xiao took his sisters to the dining room. Song Zhiyue was not there, so Lin Youwei sat in Song Zhiyue's seat, Qiao Yun sat on Lin Youwei's left side, Su Niang sat next to Qiao Yun, and Yan Xiao sat
On Lin Youwei's right side, Hong Zhao sat next to Yan Xiao, and Sun's mother sat next to Hong Zhao.
Qiaoyun Su Niang saluted Lin Youwei, and Lin Youwei returned the salute, and they both sat down.
Yan Xiao asked his sister to sit down and went to the kitchen to serve the dishes. Qiaoyun got up and said, "Sister, let me serve you the dishes too!"
"No, sister, it's your first time here, how can I ask you to help? Sit down quickly." Yan Xiao pushed Qiaoyun into position and went to the kitchen to serve the food.
Yan Xiao and Sun's mother waited three times before getting all the dishes and bowls.
Yan Xiao put a bowl of boiling water in front of Hong Zhao and said, "This one is spicier today. You can put vegetables in it and rinse it before eating."
"Thank you ma'am."
Yan Xiao placed the bowls and chopsticks for everyone, and then started to demonstrate how to eat.
Yan Xiao first placed a plate of six pieces of fish in the pot and said, "This fish is the easiest to cook."
The fish was tumbling in the red soup, and it was cooked in a while. Yan Xiao picked up a piece of fish and said, "It's ready to eat. You guys try it." After Yan Xiao said that, he started to eat, feeling the spicy and numbness on the tip of his tongue.
After dancing for a while, Yan Xiao breathed out a refreshing breath. It had been a long time since he had eaten hot pot. It was really enjoyable.
Everyone laughed at the words and ate, and they all picked up a piece of meat and tasted it.
"Wow, this fish is really delicious."
“It tastes so good. I haven’t eaten such delicious meat in a long time.”
"This way of eating Madam is really interesting. Just put the meat in and watch it become cooked."
Yan Xiao was very happy when he saw that everyone liked it. He knew that no one could resist the temptation of hot pot. He thought that in order to open an authentic hot pot restaurant, he went to Yuzhou to worship a hot pot cook who had been cooking hot pot for 30 years.
The master who made the ingredients took a year of training before he was qualified.
"You can put whatever you want to eat into the pot and cook it yourself. Eat the meat first and then the vegetables so you can scrape off the oil."
At the call of the hot pot, everyone started using chopsticks. Although everyone's face was red after eating, they couldn't stop using chopsticks at all. This chapter has been completed!