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

93. Beef Hot Pot

In previous years, during the New Year’s Eve dinner season, Ping’an used a bowl of wontons to deal with it. Sometimes it was too much to cook for a meal, and it was reheated the next morning to continue eating.To be honest, he was really annoyed by the customs of Qingshuiwan. Who said that we should eat wontons on New Year's Eve?

But the custom still has to be followed, Ji Pingan used the leftover stuffing at home to wrap a bamboo scorpion ingot wonton.The big-bellied wontons are arranged neatly, looking very festive.

However, the protagonist tonight is not wonton, he wants to eat something different.For this New Year's Eve dinner, Ji Ping'an studied the recipe for half a day, which shows his determination!

After hanging up the red lanterns and closing the door, Ji's New Year's Eve dinner finally made its debut.

There is a smell of beef bone soup floating in the warm kitchen. When entering the kitchen, the most conspicuous thing is the dining table.I saw a charcoal pot on the dining table, and the charcoal fire at the bottom of the pot was burning vigorously.

There is more than half of the pot of beef bone soup in the pot. The color of the beef bone soup is clear, and the large pieces of oxtail at the bottom of the pot are clearly visible.The bone broth has been seasoned, and the scallion white wolfberry and red dates are shaking slightly on the surface with a little bit of oil.

On the Shakei and the plate next to the charcoal pot are green vegetables and thinly sliced ​​meat. The vegetables include cabbage leaves, frosted baby spinach, and tender green peas.There are only two kinds of meat, one is beef slices and the other is lamb slices.

Although there are not many types of vegetables and meat on the table, each item is very generous.

Xiao Huang couldn't wait to sit in his seat, he picked up a piece of beef and looked at it.The dark red meat slices are so thin that light can pass through, and it looks like Xiaobai's handwriting.There is a fine white network of fat on the large piece of beef, Xiao Huang's eyes lit up: "Oh, there are snowflakes on this beef!"

Xiao Huang's statement is very elegant, and the white fat sprinkled on the red meat slices is indeed like fine snowflakes.

Ji Pingan smiled and said: "This is a piece of meat on the shoulder blade of a beef. This piece of meat is tender and suitable for hot pot."

Xiaobai said: "Thanks to the letter left by grandma, otherwise you would have turned it into stewed beef."

Ji Pingan smiled and scratched his cheek: "Yes." After a pause, he greeted Xiao Bai, "Don't stand there, sit down and have dinner."

After Xiaobai sat down, Ji Pingan served him a bowl of beef soup first.Only a little bit of celery was sprinkled in the broth, and the light green celery sank to the bottom of the bowl, nestling affectionately with the oxtail.

Xiaobai took the bowl and took a sip. The beef soup looked light but tasted very delicious. The aroma of celery made the aroma of the beef more obvious.

The oxtail that has been stewed all afternoon is already very crispy, and the meat around the round oxtail bone can be easily poked off with a chopstick.

Xiaobai put the shaved oxtail bone in Ji Ping'an's bowl, and then he downed a bowl of soup in two or three mouthfuls. He even chewed off the celery grains at the bottom of the bowl.

Ji Pingan smiled and looked at Xiao Bai who seemed nothing had happened, he picked up the beef and stuffed it into his mouth.Well, very fresh!

After eating the oxtail, Ji Pingan smiled and said, "I wanted to make a spicy pot, but the recipe says that fresh beef can taste the most delicious when blanched in bone broth. Is the taste okay? Is it too bland?"

Ji Pingan had tasted the soup base before, and he felt that this level of saltiness was just right, but Xiaobai and Xiaohuang were both lovers of strong flavors, so I was afraid they would not be used to it.

However, Ji Pingan had prepared spicy dipping sauce for them in advance, and the dipping sauce was divided into dry and wet.At this time, there were two small plates in front of Xiao Bai and Xiao Huang, and the spicy smell wafted leisurely.

Xiao Bai said softly: "No, I think it's just right."

After the thin beef is put into the soup pot, the surface quickly loses its blood color and turns to the unique off-white color of lean meat. The large slices of meat can be out of the pot when they are slightly curled.

Ji Pingan scalded a piece of meat and put it in his mouth. After chewing for a while, his eyes widened slightly.Can beef be so soft and tender?

Unlike chicken or pork, which is soft and tender, beef is slightly chewy and can withstand careful savoring.After chewing a few times, the aroma of beef fills the whole mouth.Even if he didn't dip it in anything, Ji Pingan thought the meat was delicious.

While Ji Pingan and Xiao Bai were chewing slowly, Xiao Huang had already started to devour.He picked up a large piece of beef with his chopsticks, and he pulled the beef into the soup pot, and the boiling soup pot quieted down.

After the beef changed color, the blood in it floated on the broth, and the clear soup became cloudy.

Xiaobai said regretfully: "I still want to drink another bowl of beef soup, but you ruined the soup pot."

Xiao Huang rolled his eyes, and he casually pointed to the stove: "Go to the pot to fill the soup."

Ji Pingan stewed a large pot of beef soup. In addition to the existing soup pot, there was still half a pot in the pot.He could tell that Xiaobai just had a problem with him.

It's also boiled meat, Ji Pingan didn't say anything when he cooked the meat, but he had a lot of opinions when he cooked the meat.Hmph, do you think he is vegetarian?

Ji Pingan smiled and said to Xiaobai: "I'm going to serve the soup."

Xiaobai held Ji Pingan back: "No, let's eat well." He picked up the discolored beef in the pot and put it in Ji Pingan's bowl, "Eat more."

Xiao Huang: ...

He hates this kind of guy who borrows flowers to offer Buddha.

In addition to beef, lamb slices are also amazing.Ji Pingan originally wanted to order the mutton slices after eating a round. In his impression, the mutton tastes very strong. He was afraid that the meat slices would ruin the taste of the beef soup after being put into the pot.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Huang didn't play his cards according to common sense. He put a large piece of mutton into the soup pot and then he didn't care about anything.

As the mutton quickly changed color, the smell of mutton that Ji Pingan expected did not appear.After he tasted a piece of mutton, he found that the mutton was very fresh and had almost no smell.

Mutton is fatter than beef, and the lean meat is soft and tender, while the fatty meat is a bit crispy and chewy.

Ji Pingan had never eaten such delicious mutton. The mutton here in Qingshuiwan was of poor quality. Where was the little yellow sheep caught?If he can still catch this breed of sheep, he can raise two.

Hearing Ji Pingan inquire about the origin of the sheep, Xiao Huang said casually: "Oh, I caught them at Qingshui Lake. If you like it, I'll catch two more tomorrow."

Ji Pingan hurriedly stopped him: "Tomorrow is the New Year's Eve, how can anyone go out to catch sheep on the first day of the new year. I thought, if there are lambs, it would be good to catch two to raise, so that at this time next year, we will go out to catch sheep. There is mutton to eat."

Xiao Huang ordered the meat seriously: "So that's how it is! If I can't go tomorrow, then I will catch it in a few days."

He stuffed a piece of mutton into his mouth and said to Ji Pingan seriously: "Don't worry, I will catch you the best lamb!"

Xiaobai stared at the mutton slices without saying a word, this is the spiritual sheep he asked Wolf Shisan to get from the mountain of the beast clan.He wanted to make up for Ping An but couldn't find a better way to send the sheep to Ping An, so he borrowed Xiao Huang's hand to deliver the sheep.

Xiao Huang, who is cheap and good-looking, is really annoying!

The beef and mutton on the table were consumed quickly, and most of them went into Xiao Huang's belly.After eating several plates of meat in a row, Xiao Huang finally remembered to eat some vegetarian dishes.He casually threw the peas in the nearby Shakei into the pot, and the tender green peas turned emerald green after being thrown into the soup pot, and the color was particularly beautiful.

Ji Pingan reminded: "Xiao Huang, you can eat the peas after boiling them."

Xiao Huang responded, and he rolled up a ball of peas and put them in his own bowl: "Look, don't say I don't eat vegetarian dishes, I have blanched so many vegetables!"

But as soon as he took a bite of pea, he jumped up: "What kind of taste is this!"

A smell of green grass rushed straight to Tianling Gai, Xiao Huang thought he was not a picky eater, but he didn't expect that this bite of peas almost sent him away.He painfully vomited the peas in his mouth into the chicken food bucket next to him.

After vomiting, he still slammed his mouth and pondered: "I can't bear it, I can't bear it."

He was right next to him when Pingan pinched the peas tomorrow and tomorrow. The peas that had been beaten by frost looked so tender, why was it no different from eating grass when they were eaten?

Ji Ping'an said in relief: "The Pea Dian has a unique taste. Those who like it will like it very much, and those who don't like it will not be able to smell it."

Ji Pingan didn't like to eat peas when he was a child, but his grandfather liked to eat this.Every winter when everyone eats hot pot, grandma will cook a bowl for grandpa.Ji Pingan felt that the hot pot where the peas were cooked was polluted, and he rejected the dish for a long time.

But he likes to eat peas. Peas in late spring are round and sweet, whether they are made into dishes or mixed with rice, they are delicious.So every year he would plant some peas in winter, just to have fresh peas to eat when they were green and yellow.

One winter, the weather was extremely cold, and most of the vegetables in his house were frozen to death.Only the pea sprouts were growing well. Ji Pingan, who really had no food to eat, picked some pea sprouts and fried them at home. After that time, he could eat peas.

The peas should not be boiled for too long, and they should be scalded in the boiling soup until they are broken.The bean stalks are crisp and the bean leaves are fat and tender. Although there is a taste of green grass, you don't care if you eat a few more bites.

Ji Pingan scooped up the pea that Xiao Huang couldn't accept, and he took a bite out of it to Xiao Bai: "Xiao Bai, try it and see if you can accept this taste?"

After taking a sip, Xiaobai pondered for a moment: "It's not very delicious." No wonder Xiaohuang reacted this way, the taste of Wandoudian really displeased him.

Ji Pingan smiled: "Okay then, the peas are mine, you two can eat something else. By the way, is there anything in the cupboard that you want to eat?"

Xiao Huang glanced at the wontons: "Can I eat wontons?"

He looked at the wontons that Ji Pingan had wrapped for a long time, and now he was not allowed to eat a few, and he always felt owed.

Ji Pingan smiled: "Okay." He took a dozen wontons and put them in the hot pot.

This move made Xiaobai and Xiaohuang dumbfounded: "Can it still be like this?"

Ji Pingan said softly: "Clear water can cook wontons, and of course broth can also be cooked, and broth tastes even better."

Everything can be hot pot, and wonton is no exception!The thin-skinned wontons were floating in the bone broth pot, and Xiao Huang looked at the pot eagerly: "Can I eat it?"

Ji Pingan smiled and said, "Don't worry, it will be over soon."

When the wontons were about to come out of the pan, Ji Pingan heard the tiger screaming.Then someone knocked on the courtyard door, and an old voice sounded: "Is anyone home?"

Hearing this voice, Xiao Bai and Xiao Huang's eyes froze at the same time.

Ji Pingan opened the kitchen door and raised his voice to the courtyard: "Who is it?"

The voice outside the door said: "I am a merchant on the way. I went the wrong way and lost my way. I saw the light here. I wonder if you can let me stay for a night. Oh, I dare not live in vain. I will provide you with money."

Qingshui Bay is located in a remote place, except for the locals who know it, outsiders really have to get lost to get here.Whose family is not a family reunion during the Chinese New Year, it's fine that the vendor can't go home, but he even went the wrong way.How unlucky it must be!

Thinking of this, Ji Pingan felt pity in his heart, he turned his head to look at Xiaobai and the others: "Shall I keep it for a night?"

Xiao Huang had a half smile but not a smile: "Ping An, you are not afraid of attracting evil people?"

Ji Pingan smiled: "There is not much money in the family. Besides, don't you still have you at home?" With Xiao Bai and Xiao Huang around, he has no fear at all!

Xiaobai got up and stood behind Ji Pingan: "Go, I will open the door with you."

The author has something to say:

People who like Pea Dian like it very much, and those who hate it hate it to death.

Yes, old cats are the ones to hate as hell, but I love peas!

Speaking of Pea Dian, I thought of zheergen.

Hmm... The cold Zheergen can send me away, but the Zheergen boiled in the hot pot is really delicious. It is pink and has no strange smell at all.

I want to eat hot pot. Tomorrow, I will go to eat the Chaoshan beef pot in front of my house.

Did I mention that there isn't much love or hate in this book?

The old cat just wants to write sweet food stories~