After the salted fish is married

10. Braised Loach

Today is the 32nd year of the Pingyuan period of the Chu and Liao Dynasties. Even though Yan Xining lacks history, he knows that in the history he knows, there is no such country as Chu and Liao, let alone those dynasties whose names have never been heard before.

Yan Xining was worried earlier, afraid that Chu Liao didn't have what she needed.Unexpectedly, Chu Liao was rich in products, and he could easily find what he wanted.It's just that the usage of these things in Chu Liao is different from the usage in his cognition.

Take peppers as an example.Spicy is a pain sensation, not a taste sensation.Chili is a kind of dish in his hometown, and there are many ways to eat it. People who like to eat chili will feel that something is missing if they don’t eat it.

In Chuliao, pepper is a blind herb in medicine shops, and ordinary people don't use it for cooking.

Yan Ke's expression twisted: "Do you use this for cooking?"

Yan Xining smiled and took the chili pepper from Yan Ke's hand. He skillfully cut off the chili stalk and shook out the chili seeds inside: "Adding a little chili pepper will taste better. Don't worry, you'll know when it's ready. gone."

He skillfully cut the chili peppers, sliced ​​ginger and shallots, peeled and smashed the garlic... When the side dishes were processed, the water in the pot was also boiling.

The dense mist rises from the stove, Yan Xining is extremely grateful whenever this time comes: Fortunately, Chu Liao is not the ancient times he knows!The iron smelting technology here is very mature, and the two iron pots on the stove are dark and deep, no different from the ones he used in his hometown.

If he traveled back to a time without iron pots, and without the ingredients he was familiar with, he could only steam or boil his meals... Yan Xining felt that he would go crazy.

There is a layer of mucus on the body of loach, which can be easily wiped off with boiling water.He scooped up a large spoonful of boiling water and poured it on the loach in the Shau Kei. In the mist, a milky white film formed on the loach.

After pouring two spoonfuls of boiling water, a white film appeared on each loach.Yan Xining squeezed the loach's neck with his left hand, and stroked the loach's body with his right thumb and index finger, and the white film was quickly removed like a layer of clothes.

The skin of the loach with the white film removed has become fresh, and it will no longer slip around when piled together.

After taking care of the white film on the loach, Yan Xining began to make loach officially.

The oil used by the people of Chu and Liao is mainly animal fat and rapeseed oil, and the oil in Wenzhangyuan is rapeseed oil.After the pot was hot, he scooped up a spoonful of rapeseed oil and poured it around the side of the pot.

Rapeseed oil smells good, but the oily smoke is very heavy.As soon as the cold oil came into contact with the hot pan, blue oily smoke billowed up.Golden grease accumulated on the bottom of the iron pot, and some golden bubbles piled up on top.

When the bubbles gradually dissipated, Yan Xi poured all the ingredients in the small bowl except the pepper into the pot.

The water in the side dish meets the hot oil, making a heart-pounding stinging sound, and the unique aroma of ginger and garlic explodes violently.

Yan Ke stood by the stove with his hands folded, staring at Yan Xining for a moment.Yan Xining's appearance of stir-frying the side dishes was quite imposing, and the smoke in the pot was smoky, and he was calm and relaxed.

When the side dishes in the pot are fried into a beautiful golden color, the remaining pieces of dried chili in the small bowl will come into play.After the chili is put into the pot, there is a little bit of spiciness in the smell of oily smoke, but it smells good.

After a little stir-fry, Yan Xining took out the side dishes and put them aside.Yan Ke couldn't understand his operation: "What are you doing?"

Yan Xining explained unhurriedly: "The aroma of the side dishes needs to be stimulated first, and the taste will be more fragrant when stewed later."

What Yan Ke asked was not this: "I'm asking, why don't chili peppers go into the pot with other dishes."

Yan Xining was overjoyed: "Isn't it too late for you to ask this question now?!" He only asked this question when the peppers were all out of the pot.

But he still cooperates: "Dried chili is easy to burn, just fry it a little bit."

Yan Ke nodded thoughtfully: "Oh."

After filling out the side dishes, there was still a lot of base oil in the bottom of the pot. Yan Xining sprinkled a little fine salt in the oil, and after mixing it with a spatula, he drained the loach from the Shau Kei. Pour into pot.

The flat body of the loach began to curl when it hit the hot iron pot, and there was a warm sound from the pot.Yan Xining put the shovel on the side plate, and he changed to a pair of long chopsticks to spread the stacked loach and stick it to the iron pot. After a while, the big iron pot was covered with a layer of curly loach meat.

At this time, the effect of salting came out. Even if the loach meat on the side of the iron pot was cooked, the meat on the loach would not be stuck when turning them.

In Yan Ke's impression, fish meat will have a fishy smell no matter how it is cooked, let alone loach that can only be fed to ducks.Unexpectedly, after the loach was fried for a while, the rich aroma came to his nostrils, and it went straight to his internal organs along his mouth and nose.

He couldn't help sniffing: "It smells pretty good."

Yan Xining responded with a smile: "It will taste even better after it is fried and stewed."

There is no rush to fry the loach. There is a lot of fat under the skin of the loach, which will burst open after frying to a certain extent.When there was a slight crackling sound from the pot, Yan Xining put down her chopsticks and covered the pot.

The loaches under the lid of the pot are being baptized by the iron pot, and Yan Xining is being inspected by Yan Ke by the stove.Yan Ke's half smile was not a smile, which made Yan Xining feel like he was being caught doing something bad.

Fortunately, Yan Xining has a thick skin, he has long been immune to Yan Ke.

When the lid of the pot was lifted, the loach in the pot had been fried until a layer of golden rice crust appeared on the skin on both sides.The tempting smell of fried fish wafted across his nostrils, making Bai Tao stick out his body and look eagerly at the pot.

When the aroma reached its peak, Yan Xining poured two spoonfuls of boiling water into the pot.As soon as the boiling water is put into the pot, the aroma of fried loach is diluted a little.

The boiling water just covered the loach, and the golden loaches found their place in the boiling water, and they moved slightly with the boiling water.The temperature quickly emulsifies the oil, and the clear boiled water quickly turns milky white. .

At this time, the pre-fried side dishes came into play, and Yan Xining poured them into the soup.Then he added the right amount of white wine, sugar and soy sauce to the pot.

Chu Liao's soy sauce is very mellow and has a paste-like texture.As long as a small spoonful, the milky white soup is dyed a beautiful brown red.

After tasting the saltiness of the soup, Yan Xining added a teaspoon of salt to the pot.After doing all this, he put the lid on the pot: "Bai Tao, don't overheat the fire, just simmer slowly like this."

Bai Tao Deling: "Alright, young master!"

Taking advantage of the time when the loach was stewed, Yan Xining opened the cupboard and found the two largest plates from the bottom: "It should be almost the same..."

Yan Ke asked casually: "What is the same?"

Yan Xining said: "After the loach is done, put it on these two plates and take it away."

Only then did Yan Ke realize that Yan Xining hadn't been joking when he said 'let you have a taste of my craft'.

Yan Ke waved his hand: "Forget it, you are our concubine in name. If it is spread to serve as a guard and eat the meal cooked by the concubine herself, the master will be ashamed."

Yan Xining said quietly, "I made the garlic cakes and jujube tea you ate this morning."

Yan Ke: ...

For the first time in my life, I realized the meaning of cannibalism.I knew I shouldn't have a big meal in the morning, but now it's too late to regret it!

Half an hour later, the soup in the pot gradually dried up. At this time, the fresh scent of loach wafted out of the kitchen, fragrant the whole Wenzhang Garden.

Open the lid of the pot and see that the loaches in the pot are intact.The fried fish skin is covered with thick juice, and the originally tight fish skin is slightly swollen, and some of them can no longer hold the meat inside.The golden loaches reveal their fat bodies and exude a tempting fragrance.

Yan Xining picked up a loach in a small bowl, and he put the bowl by the stove: "Have a taste?"

When Yan Ke was debating whether to test the poison himself, he saw a pair of hands suddenly stretched out beside him.Bai Tao skillfully picked up the chopsticks and picked up the bowl, he took a bite of the loach on the back of the fish.

Yan Ke:! ! !This guy's attack speed is too fast!Before he could think about it, the loach was robbed by him!

After taking a bite of the loach, Bai Tao was full of praise: "It's delicious! Master! It's delicious!"

As he spoke, he stuffed the second half of the loach into his mouth, and he squeezed his chopsticks to drag the upper body of the loach forward.The fat fish meat from the fish tail is sucked away, leaving only a complete bone.

Yan Ke glared at Bai Tao, this cowardly boy ignored his eyes to kill? !What is the taste of loach?Can you make him spell it like this?

Isn't there pepper in it?Isn't it spicy?

Bai Tao smacked his mouth happily, and the tail fin was swallowed by him.He licked the corner of his mouth and stuffed the upper half of the loach into his mouth, the loach became a skeleton after a while, even so Bai Tao was reluctant to throw it away.He carefully licked the fish meat remaining on the bone, wishing he could chew and swallow the fish bone.

Yan Xining said with concern: "Eat slowly, there is a lot in the pot. How is it? Is the taste good?"

Bai Tao hastily stretched out his thumb and nodded repeatedly: "It's delicious! The loach made by the young master is the best in the world!"

So delicious!He wants another one!

Of course Yan Xining would definitely satisfy his request, Bai Tao sat down on his stool with half a bowl of loach contentedly and began to eat happily.

Yan Xining picked up another piece of loach and put it in an empty bowl, he was going to taste it himself.But as soon as it was put away, I saw a pair of hands stretched out beside me, and when I turned my head to look, I saw Yan Ke looking desperate.

Yan Xining smiled and put the small bowl and chopsticks into Yan Ke's hands: "Try it?"

Yan Ke spurned himself, he is not a delicious person, why did he fail when he arrived at Wenzhang Garden?After he finished spitting, he comforted himself: he just wanted to try the taste of loach roasted with chili.He's not greedy, he's just eliminating hidden dangers!

After figuring it out, Yan Ke clamped Niach's body.With a little force from the chopsticks, the meat on the loach's body shattered.This shows how soft and rotten the fish meat is!No wonder Baitao can suck up half of the meat with just one sip.

The golden fish body was steaming hot, and the delicious taste made Yan Ke salivate.He couldn't wait to take a bite of the back of the loach, and the delicious taste immediately filled his mouth.

To his surprise, the meat did not melt in the mouth as he imagined, and the presence of loach meat was very strong.Under the crispy fish skin, the fish meat is extremely tender.

Yan Xining's condiments were just right, and those side dishes did not steal the limelight of the fish at all. Under the joint action of seasonings and side dishes, the fish was salty, light and palatable, and the more delicious it became, the fish was still slightly sweet after a careful aftertaste.

As for the chili?He didn't feel the spiciness at all!

This loach is several times more delicious than the lake delicacies he ate before!

Yan Ke had never eaten loach before. He always thought that loach was full of annoying thorns like saury, but he didn't expect that he didn't eat even a single thorn.Loach is plump, and its round body brings endless satisfaction.

After a while, the loach on his chopsticks turned into long, smooth bones.

Who would have thought that there is such a delicious taste in the ugly loach's body? !No, he wants another one!

The author has something to say:

Guard: Doesn't the boss not eat loach?

Yan Ke: Who said I don't eat loach!Who said that!Run ten laps around the palace! ╭(╯^╰)╮