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

26. Braised Pork with Preserved Vegetables

Ji Pingan took a large bowl, and he put the sliced ​​meat skin down on the bottom of the bowl.One piece of meat is not enough to fill the entire bowl, the top half of the bowl needs prunes to fill.

He processed the other two pieces of meat in the same way, and after a while, three large bowls filled with meat appeared on the chopping board.

Ji Pingan raised the fire in the stove again, this time he was not frying the meat, but to deal with the marinated prunes.

After the oil in the pan was hot, he pushed the shredded ginger into the oil pan and sautéed it until fragrant.After the smell of ginger came out, he poured a large bowl of dried plums that he had prepared into the oil pan.

Stir-frying dried plums can serve multiple purposes. First of all, Ji Pingan doesn't need to wash a greasy pot.The shriveled old vegetables need the moisture of oil the most. Although there are not many of them, they are especially good at absorbing oil!

The fat left after frying the meat was absorbed by the big bowl of dried plums, and the pan was also fried shiny.

Secondly, the sauce of the marinated meat would not be wasted, Ji Pingan poured the remaining sauce in the big plate into the dried vegetables.After stir-frying for a while, he picked up a small piece of dried plums and tasted it. It was neither salty nor bland!

What's more, the more dried plums are fried, the more fragrant they become. When they meet the meat oil in the pot, the fragrance becomes stronger several times!

After a while, the dried plum vegetables were fried. Ji Pingan stuffed the dried plum vegetables thinly on top of the steamed meat bowl. He even shaved the dried plum vegetables and pressed them tightly.

A large bowl of dried plums may seem like a lot, but the three bowls are divided into one point, so there is no extra!

Ji Pingan turned a plate upside down on each large bowl, and the bowls and plates he chose matched, and the three bowls of steamed preserved meat looked like a swordsman wearing a hat.

At this point, Xiaobai has already understood the meaning of the meat with preserved vegetables, and the dish really lives up to its name, and the meat is indeed covered with preserved vegetables.Humans are so smart, they can match two irrelevant things together, the key is that they still look delicious!

Ji Pingan added half a pot of water to the cauldron, and he set the steaming rack at home on the water, and he placed the three bowls of braised meat on the steaming rack in a three-legged posture.Then he officially put the lid on the pot: "Now it's just a matter of steaming slowly!"

Xiaobai had doubts just now when he saw Ji Ping'an put a plate on top of the bowl, but now he couldn't hold back anymore: "Ping An, why did you put a plate upside down on the bowl?"

Ji Pingan put the unburned wood in the small pot into the big pot, and he explained: "When steaming meat, there will be water vapor into the bowl, if you don't put a plate on it, the more water vapor that goes in, the taste will be worse. Not good."

Xiaobai suddenly realized: "It turned out to be like this!" Human beings are super intelligent in eating, and he didn't expect this.

Ji Pingan set up two arms-thick logs in the cauldron, and when the flames at the bottom of the cauldron ignited, the water in the cauldron boiled in a short while.The dense water vapor filled the kitchen with a slight smell of dried plums, but the smell was not as strong as the smell just now.

It takes a long time to steam the vegetables, so Ji Pingan can take the opportunity to do other things.After the water in the pot boiled, he tidied up the front of the stove to prevent fire from flying out and igniting the weeds.

Then he carried the big pannier: "Xiaobai, I'm going to pick pumpkins, do you want to go together?"

Xiao Bai snorted, "Is there any more pumpkins?"

Facts have proved that not only there are, but there are many!There is a small stone bridge on the river to the east of Jipingan Vegetable Garden, and you can see a piece of land across the small stone bridge.At first Xiaobai thought it was a wasteland.It wasn't until Ji Pingan brought him here that he realized that this was a pumpkin field.

What he thought were weeds were actually the green and yellow leaves of pumpkins.There are countless pumpkins, big and small, hidden under the leaves, some are green, some are yellow, some are round, some are slender.

Ji Pingan put the basket in the pumpkin field, scratching his hair troubledly: "Pumpkins won't grow after the frost, and these pumpkins have to be put away. It's just...where should I put them?"

In previous years, he would put the pumpkins in the ear room on the east side, cut up the green pumpkins and cooked them to feed the chickens, and then it was the turn of the yellow pumpkins.Every winter, relying on the pumpkin and sweet potato at home, his chickens can grow plump.

There are a lot of pumpkins this year, but the antelopes are gone. Ji Pingan has been thinking for several nights and still can't figure out a good way to settle these pumpkins.

Seeing Ji Pingan being so distressed, Xiao Bai felt very sorry for him.If it wasn't for him and Leng Changtian who accidentally injured his house, Ping An wouldn't have to worry about this problem at all.

Xiaobai stammered: "Ping An, actually..."

In fact, I am the demon emperor who brought your house down...

Xiaobai really wanted to tell Pingan the truth, but when the words came to his lips, he felt stuck, and he couldn't say these words calmly.

Ji Pingan didn't pay attention to what Xiaobai was going to say at all, he easily unscrewed a pumpkin that looked like a stone pier from the vine and put it beside Xiaobai: "Xiaobai, sit here, don't run around."

After saying this, Ji Pingan neatly tied the loops.He could unscrew a pumpkin by walking a few steps in the field, and Xiao Bai was surrounded by pumpkins in a short while!

When a hill of pumpkins formed around Xiaobai, the fog finally dissipated, and the golden sun broke through the fog and shone into the pumpkin field.Ji Pingan bent over and unscrewed one pumpkin after another from the vine, he turned his head from time to time to look at Xiao Bai on the pumpkin hill.

Xiao Bai was wearing a striking red padded jacket. It sat on the tallest pumpkin, and Ji Pingan could see it at a glance.

The pumpkin patch has been walked by Ji Pingan countless times, and he can find pumpkins wherever there are pumpkins with his eyes closed.After a while he picked all the pumpkins in the field.

The vines after picking the pumpkins are useless, and Ji Ping'an's family does not raise large animals such as cattle and sheep, so the pumpkin vines can only be cut and piled up on the side of the field to fertilize.

When Ji Pingan rolled the pumpkin vine aside, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "I figured it out! Xiaobai! I figured out how to store pumpkins!"

He once heard his grandma say that the fruit can be stored in the soil.He can dig a big hole in the ground and put all the pumpkins in, and cover it with a layer of soil, so that even if he doesn't have a house, the pumpkins won't spoil easily!

Ji Pingan gestured: "I dug a hole on the ground, put the pumpkin in it, and filled it with soil. Cover the soil with a layer of oil paper, and then cover the oil paper with straw, so that the pumpkin will not be damaged by freezing or rain seepage Go into the soil and mash the pumpkin!"

Looking at Ji Pingan who was talking about the pumpkin storage plan to himself in high spirits, Xiaobai narrowed his eyes: "Ping An is really amazing!"

Ji Ping'an patted Xiaobai's head happily: "Hey, do what you say, do it now."

It sounds easy to say a few words, but it is a big project in practice.Ji Ping'an's pit was only half dug until the steamed pork with pickled vegetables was finished.Ji Pingan was not in a hurry, he put the shovel aside: "No matter, eat first! Continue after eating!"

There is no end to work, and only when you take care of yourself can you do things better.

Ji Pingan got up from the pit, shaking the dirt on his body: "Eat, eat ~ let's go, Xiaobai, go home and eat preserved vegetables and pork!"

As he said that, he was about to pick up Xiaobai, but Xiaobai jumped aside: "I'll go by myself."

Ji Pingan smiled: "Okay! Then you have to keep up."

While Ji Pingan turned his head to go home, Xiaobai gently waved his paw at the hole Ji Pingan dug, and the hole grew bigger at a speed visible to the naked eye.This is one of the few things that Xiaobai can do for Ji Ping'an at present. His aura is slowly recovering. I believe that he will be able to do more and more things in the near future.

Xiaobai followed Ji Ping'an's footsteps: "I'm here."

By the time one person and one cat arrived in the kitchen, Huzi had already circled the stove several times.Ji Pingan didn't know whether to laugh or cry looking at his big black dog: "Other people's dog is a dog, but my dog ​​is a pig."

Huzi has such a mighty name for nothing, but he can't beat a cat but is more greedy than a cat... Ji Pingan bent down and patted Huzi on the head: "You have lost the dog's face!"

In fact, I don’t blame the tigers for wandering around. The taste of pickled vegetables and pork is really delicious.

Ji Pingan took out the rice basket from the cupboard. During this period of time, the temperature was low, and he could eat for a day or two once he made a meal.There was still half a basket of rice in the rice basket, and he was going to make fried rice with eggs to deal with it.

Fried rice with scrambled eggs for overnight rice is the best. Pour some oil into the black and smooth pot and crack two eggs on it.The eggs crackle in the hot oil, stir them while they are hot, pour two bowls of rice, put some soy sauce and sprinkle some fine salt, and fry until the rice grains are distinct.

After a while, the aroma of egg fried rice came out of the pot, and when it came out of the pot, sprinkle a handful of green onions, and a big bowl of hot and oily egg fried rice came out of the pot like this!

After uncovering the lid of the cauldron, the rich aroma of dried plums, vegetables and buckwheat came to the face.Surrounded by water vapor, the three braised pork bowls looked like half-hidden beauties holding a pipa, waiting for someone to unveil their veils.

Ji Pingan carefully took the three bowls of braised pork out of the pot and placed them on the edge of the stove. He uncovered the plate on one of the bowls of braised pork and replaced it with a bigger plate.

At this time, the most brilliant move of the pork chop appeared. He held the sides of the plate and the big bowl with both hands and flipped it over suddenly.

Before removing the pork bowl, I saw the sauce-colored soup slowly flowing out from the gap between the bowl and the plate.

Ji Pingan put the plate on the stove, and under Xiaobai's expectant eyes, he moved the meat bowl away: "Look! Meat with vegetables!"

A round 'hill' appeared in the middle of the big plate. At the bottom of the mountain were brown dried plums. They seemed loose but united to support the mountain of meat above.After a long time of steaming, the meat is already very tasty.

The braised pork cooked through complex processes is bright red in color, and the fat meat is stained with sauce and trembles slightly when touched.The lean meat caught in it is red in color, crisp but not rotten.At this time, they were buckled on the plum vegetables in a semicircular shape, and the thinly sliced ​​meat was neatly leaning together.

Exuding heat and aroma, they shouted to the world with all their might—come and eat me!

Can this be tolerated? !

Without further ado, Ji Pingan put half a piece of meat in Xiaobai's bowl: "It's time to eat!"

After taking a sip, Xiaobai's blue eyes sparkled: "It's delicious!"

The meat in the mouth is salty and sweet, moderately fat but not greasy, and the mouth is full of oil after one bite.The meat mixed with the aroma of plum vegetables is extremely fragrant, the mouth is full of meaty fragrance, and the aftertaste is long after swallowing.You can rub your belly and say that he could eat five bowls of this kind of meat at his peak!

Ji Pingan ate a whole piece of meat in one go, and he happily narrowed his eyes and picked up another half piece of meat for Xiao Bai: "If you like it, I will make it a few more times in the future."

After thinking for a while, Xiaobai shook his head: "No."

Ji Pingan was surprised: "Why?"

Xiaobai said sternly: "Although braised pork with pickled vegetables is delicious, but there are too many processes! Ping An is already very busy, so I can't trouble you for the sake of appetite."

Ji Ping'an's heart melted, and he gently touched Xiaobai's head: "No, with you by my side, I have the motivation to cook more delicious dishes!"

Meals for one person are the most difficult to cook and taste, because of Xiaobai, Ji Pingan will put his heart into making delicious food.Maybe Xiaobai is just a cat in the eyes of others, but in his heart, Xiaobai is his friend and his family.

Isn't it natural to make delicious food for friends and relatives?

The author has something to say:

Yesterday I looked up the dish in the last chapter of Zuohua. That dish is called tiger skin big meat. It is not stewed after being sliced, but also steamed.I used to get it in the company cafeteria, but now I don’t know which store sells it.

Speaking of steamed meat, there is also a kind of steamed bacon, which is also steamed with sliced ​​bacon, which is very fragrant...

Thinking about it now, in fact, the canteen food is still delicious.When I was in college, every small window in the school cafeteria had signature dishes...

Ah, my time of no return.