The peace of the Three Realms depends on me [Food]

17. Duck in Sour Soup Not Accepted

Ji Pingan took out the biggest duck from the bamboo basket, and he chopped the duck into pieces neatly.Wild ducks have leaner meat than domestic ducks, and the pieces of purple-red duck meat under the golden-yellow skin have clear texture.

This wild duck has been around for some years. Its bones are very hard. Although the white bones are hollow in the middle, it takes a lot of effort to chop them.It looks like the duck needs to be stewed for a long time.

This kind of wild duck is so big that it fills half of the pot with one.Ji Pingan added scallion ginger cooking wine and water to the pot to blanch the duck. While waiting, he changed the kimchi out of the pot.

From the moment Ji Pingan fished out the kimchi, there was a vaguely hot and sour smell in the kitchen.Xiaobai confirmed for a long time that the hot and sour taste came from the kimchi bowl on the table.

Xiao Bai glanced at the kimchi, and with his shallow knowledge of human food, he recognized several pink radishes the size of a fist inside.While smelling the smell, Xiaobai's mouth drools continuously.This smell...is a bit exciting.

When Ji Pingan cut the kimchi, Xiao Bai's saliva flowed even more recklessly.He sucked two sips of saliva in embarrassment, the conscience of heaven and earth, it's not that he is greedy, but the taste is too good!

Ji Pingan didn't know anything about it, he told Xiaobai interesting stories about him and He Lang while cutting kimchi.What He Lang and he went to catch wild rabbits and they lost their way; what He Lang invited him to catch ducks, but they fell into the water...

When talking about these past events, Ji Ping'an's eyes were full of light, and he had a smile on his face. Those things that sounded shameful to Xiaobai were full of joy when he said them out of his mouth.

Xiaobai thinks that Ji Ping'an is a lonely person. He can count the people who appeared in his life in the past 20 years with one hand. Now the only person who is close to him is He Lang.

In the past two days, he told himself a lot of interesting things about himself and He Lang, and hoped that his attitude towards He Lang could change, right?

Xiaobai decided to take the initiative to say hello the next time he saw He Lang.Well, this will let Ji Pingan see his sincerity, right?

Ji Pingan is well versed in how to cut vegetables to look good, a plate of irregular radishes and vegetable stems turned into bite-sized pieces in his hands.When he got excited, he casually picked up a piece of kimchi and threw it into his mouth.

Listening to the crunchy sound of Ji Pingan chewing kimchi, Xiao Bai's saliva couldn't stop anymore.Just by smelling the taste and hearing the sound, he knew that the taste must be sour, spicy and crisp.

Ah, what kind of magical smell is this, he is so curious!

However, Ji Pingan didn't hand over a piece of kimchi to Xiaobai, because he remembered that cats don't like kimchi.He put the chopped kimchi in a big bowl, and the strong hot and sour smell of the kimchi pieces strongly touched Xiao Bai's nerves.

Xiaobai looked at the bowl of kimchi with some confusion—is it delicious to roast duck with this stuff?

At this time, the water in the pot has boiled, and there is a layer of foam floating on the surface of the water.After skimming off the foam, the duck meat is almost blanched.Ji Pingan picked them up from the pot, washed them and put them aside for later use.

After rerinsing the pot, he added soybean oil to it.Duck has a fishy smell, and blanching can only remove part of the fishy smell. To completely remove the smell, it needs to be fried.

After the oil was hot, he poured duck pieces into the pot.A puff of green smoke came out of the pot with a piercing sound. Xiao Bai likes to hear this sound the most, and feels at ease every time he hears it.

There are a lot of duck pieces, and Ji Pingan needs to stir fry frequently to stir fry the duck pieces in the pot evenly.But he wasn't in a hurry, he stir-fried the duck pieces leisurely, watching their color gradually change.

When he is in a bad mood, he likes cooking the most. Watching the food change from raw to cooked and from bland to delicious, the unhappiness will slowly fly away.

There is nothing that good food can't save, if there is anything, it must be that there is not enough good food!

After frying for half a stick of incense, the fat in the duck skin was fried out, and there was a lot more oil in the bottom of the pot than at the beginning.The yellow-orange-orange fat was bubbling, and the skin of the duck pieces that had passed through the oil several times had already turned golden burnt.

The fishy smell of the duck has been replaced by the aroma of fried meat. It's really enjoyable to smell!It's also time for seasoning.

Ji Pingan tried his best to move the duck piece to the side to create a gap, and he threw a handful of shredded ginger into it.The collision of shredded ginger and duck oil is intense, and the taste of ginger is instantly activated.

Thin shreds of ginger are surrounded by duck fat, and the taste of ginger permeates and adds to the aroma of duck meat.Adding a handful of shredded ginger was not enough, Ji Ping'an also threw pickled ginger in and exploded together.

After sautéing the shredded ginger, it was time for the main event. Ji Pingan poured bite-sized kimchi into the pot.

There is some soup at the bottom of the kimchi bowl, and when it is put into the pot, it changes drastically with the fat at the bottom of the pot.There was a burst of oil crackling, and the hot and sour smell accompanied by green smoke permeated the entire kitchen.

If the sour taste was just a drizzle when the shredded ginger was soaked before, the hot and sour taste is like a downpour now!

Xiaobai couldn't sit still on the table anymore, so he ran to the back of the stove in a hurry, and he found that the smell of oily smoke was not easy to smell behind the stove.

Ji Pingan also coughed twice from choking, and after insisting on stirring the kimchi and duck pieces evenly, he added water that had not covered the duck pieces into the pot.

The fat in the pot floated on the surface of the water, a golden layer, and Ji Pingan put the lid on the pot with satisfaction.He turned to the back of the stove and added two arms of wood to the hearth.

Ji Pingan wanted to add two more, but found that the wood behind the stove was gone.Ji Pingan scratched his hair: "Huh?"

Recently, the wood is used up a bit fast. He clearly remembered that he just brought back a bundle two days ago. Why did it disappear so quickly?

Fortunately, there is still some wood outside the house, just take it and use it.Ji Pingan walked out of the kitchen, and when he came back, he was holding a pile of wood in his arms.

He said casually: "There are not many woods left, I have time to go to the mountain to chop wood."

The winter in Qingshuiwan is very cold, and this year there is no shelter for him, so he needs more wood for heating than in previous years.Fortunately, there are mountains and forests in front of and behind the house. As long as you go to the mountains to search, you will be able to find enough wood for the winter.

After adding enough wood to the stove, Ji Pingan slowly licked the bottom of the pot by the flame.After the duck soup in the pot boils, the rest will be left to time.

The kitchen was filled with the smell of duck meat, but the smell of sauerkraut was diluted. The sour smell was much better than the simple smell of pickles.

While waiting for the sour soup duck to mature, Ji Pingan was not idle.He first went to the vegetable field and cut more than a dozen cabbages to dry in the yard, and then walked back and forth a few times in front of and behind the house.

Xiaobai noticed that Ji Ping'an's gaze swept across the path leading to Qiancun from Qingshui Bay from time to time.He should be waiting for He Lang to come, right?

However, until the duck in sour soup was cooked, He Lang's figure still did not appear.

Ji Pingan lifted the lid of the pot and said: "Don't wait for him, let's eat first. Lang Zi is really, he is not active in eating... We eat all the good meat and don't keep it for him."

While talking, he took the casserole at home and scooped the duck in sour soup, and he filled most of the ducks into the casserole.Xiaobai suddenly discovered that Ji Pingan also sometimes misspoken.

The casserole is full of ducks. The skin of the large ducks is crispy and the meat is rotten. The sour radish mixed in it is so boiled that it will rot when poked with chopsticks.The duck soup is covered with a golden layer of fat, but the whole dish does not feel fatty, which must be because of the kimchi mixed in.

Huzi was already sitting in front of the stove, drooling all over the floor, and it was waiting for Ji Pingan to give it a spoonful of soup and bibimbap!However, Ji Ping'an was not in the mood to eat at the moment.

He tripped over Hu Zi's meal and found a small bowl for Xiao Bai.He put a piece of duck leg in the bowl: "Xiaobai, you eat first, I will send the duck to Langzi."

Maybe He Lang didn't know that he made the duck in sour soup today. Ji Pingan explained: "Didn't I buy a lot of meat yesterday? Langzi probably thought it would take two days for me to make the duck in sour soup. The duck in sour soup was just out of the pot." It's delicious, and it won't taste like this if you eat it at night."

Xiaobai looked at the duck and then at Ji Pingan: "I'll go with you."

He can't do such a thing as eating alone, let alone eating with Ji Pingan, his appetite will be much better.

Ji Pingan smiled: "Okay."

Xiaobai is so well-behaved and sensible, the more well-behaved he is, the more reluctant Ji Pingan is to bear him.He thought that when Xiaobai recovered from his injury and left, he would be sad.

With the experience of going to Pingqiao Town, Xiaobai can already sit on Ji Ping'an's shoulders skillfully.Ji Pingan wrapped the pot with a straw rope, smelling the smell of duck in sour soup, chatting and laughing with one person and one cat, and soon crossed the hill to Qiancun.

There are fifty or sixty households in Qingshuiwanqian Village, and there is a large pond in the middle of the village.He Lang's house is just east of the pond, and to get to his house, one has to pass south of the pond.

As soon as Ji Pingan walked near the pond, he heard the children in the village shout: "Ji Pingan is here! Ji Pingan is here!" "It's not good! Ji Pingan has entered the village!"

Their voices were sharp and hurried, and Xiao Bai's brows were furrowed in displeasure.This reaction was like Ji Pingan was a scourge, which made him very uncomfortable.

Ji Pingan didn't stop walking, he whispered to Xiaobai: "Xiaobai, don't talk for a while."

Xiaobai didn't know the reason, but he obediently responded, "En."

The attitude of the adults towards Ji Ping'an is quite distant and polite, but the attitude of the children towards him is very bad.Seeing that Ji Pingan didn't stop, children crowded in front of Ji Pingan.

The leading child spit in Ji Pingan's direction: "The disaster star! Get out of our village!" As soon as the words came out, the other children followed suit: "The disaster star! The disaster!"

The children's voices were shrill, and half the village reverberated with yelling and cursing.

One of the voices was particularly ear-piercing: "Sexy vixen, get out!"

The author has something to say:

Speaking of duck in sour soup, some places will put tree tomatoes in it, which will be very sour.When I ate it for the first time, I didn't feel a strong sour taste. I guess I was young at that time, and everything was delicious.

It reminds me of the soup-filled duck in my friend’s hometown. You can add a lot of side dishes to the soup-filled duck, including fatty intestines!After eating at Jiyou’s house once, I can’t forget it until now.