Chapter 551 Haven’t Lunch Arrived yet Today? Shen Jiayue: It Doesn't Matter, I Will Take Action! 【Please Subscribe】

"Xubao, do you want to make salted duck?"

After leaving the high-speed rail station, Shen Jiayue in the passenger seat was searching for interesting places in Yinzhou City. When she heard Lin Xu talk about making salted duck, she suddenly became interested.

She was no stranger to salted duck. She had eaten it when she went to Confucius Temple to burn incense before the college entrance examination. At that time, she felt it was not enough, so she specially packed one in vacuum packaging and brought it to the capital.

Although I have eaten it several times in the capital, and it was always made by a master in Jinling, I don’t know why, but I always feel that it is not as satisfying as the local food in Jinling.

Lin Xu said:

"Sister Yuanyuan has gone to work, so we can't be idle at home. We have to find new dishes. If they taste good, we will launch them in the store and at the scenic spot at the same time."

Although the preparation of salted duck is a bit cumbersome, it is not complicated.

There is only one pot of salt brine that is more particular. As long as the brine is adjusted well, the second uncle Shi Wenming can easily make this dish. By then, he will be one step closer to the task of creating ten new perfect dishes.

In the past few days, Lin Xu planned to teach Shi Wenming some dishes such as fish head cakes, flame drunk goose, and salt-fried mutton.

As for the other dishes, we’ll talk about them later.

You can't make a fat man with one bite, and you can't make a chef in two or three days.

We can only take it one step at a time. Anyway, we may have to come several times this spring, such as racecourse acceptance assessment, racecourse environmental assessment, tourism association listing, etc. As a celebrity, Lin Xu needs to come and participate.

As for the introduction of horses in the future, we have to come and participate. After all, this is our own industry, and a platform is indispensable.

He did not go to the farmer's market because there were not many vendors selling stalls at the moment, and many of the ingredients, especially frozen products, were accumulated years ago.

Parking the car at the entrance of a large supermarket, the couple prepared to go in and do a sweep first.

Shen Jiayue pushed a shopping cart at the door and followed Lin Xu into the supermarket entrance. As soon as she entered, she exclaimed:

"Wow, there are so many people. Is this a promotion?"

Lin Xu said:

"Not necessarily. The main reason is that many people feel bored during the Chinese New Year. In addition to visiting relatives, they either take their children to watch movies or go shopping in shopping malls and supermarkets. In a small city like this, there are not many places to go shopping."

If you are in a big city, there are more cultural and entertainment projects, but in a small city, you can basically go shopping in various supermarkets, or go hiking in the suburbs.

More and more people feel that the Chinese New Year is boring, and this is also the case.

Fireworks and firecrackers are not allowed in urban areas, and there are not many activities to play. The TV is full of advertisements and there is nothing interesting to watch. Visiting supermarkets becomes the only option.

Moreover, the temperature in supermarkets and shopping malls is quite high, so you won’t get cold, and you can also take a walk and exercise, which is better than staying at home and playing with your mobile phone.

Many children have myopia before they enter elementary school, which is caused by playing with mobile phones and tablets for a long time.

There are indeed New Year promotions in the supermarket, with crazy discounts on various drinks, juices, snacks, etc. Shen Jiayue put a large bucket of Sprite and Coke in the shopping cart and said with a smile:

"I'm going to make Coke Chicken Wings again to vindicate the name of the poisoned chicken wings from last time!"

"Okay, I'll help you keep an eye on it this time, and I'll make sure you do it right away."

Lin Xu put a box of discounted beer into the shopping cart, and selected several juices and sodas that his aunt and uncle liked to drink. He also put two bundles of Pepsi-Cola in the shopping cart.

After buying the drinks, Shen Jiayue pushed the shopping cart and bought a bunch of snacks.

When he arrived at the fresh food area, Lin Xu bought two durians that looked good quality and an oversized jackfruit. He also bought several pineapples and high-quality cherries.

After picking these, the shopping cart was almost full, so he had to go to the door and push another one.

Come to the cold and fresh section and start choosing meat.

“Are there whole boxes of these white-striped ducks?”

"Yes, how many boxes do you want? I'll go to the warehouse to move them."

"Two boxes."

There are about ten white-striped ducks in a box. Lin Xu thought that since he was going to make it, he should buy as many as possible and let all his relatives have a try.

The production process of salted duck is relatively slow. It not only needs to be marinated with fried salt and pepper for a day and night, but also marinated with brine three times and dried in the sun. This way the duck meat will be firm and delicious, and the duck bones will turn into a beautiful emerald green color.

If the marinating time is too short, the bones will not change color and it will taste uninteresting.

After putting price tags on the two boxes of ducks and moving them to the shopping cart, Lin Xu helped Shen Jiayue select a few kilograms of chicken wings that seemed to be of good quality.

After finishing the selection, Lin Xu originally wanted to leave, but when he saw that the pork section was selling an uncommon type of pork, he pushed the shopping cart over and asked curiously:

"Does this leg have many cores?"

Shen Jiayue on the side was quite curious:

"Xubao, what is a leg core?"

"It's the shank meat from the front legs of the pig. There are only two pieces per pig. It's very rare. You can't even buy it if you want to."

The tendon meat on the pig's front legs is all tender and lean meat, with a lot of fascia mixed in. It is very similar to beef tendon, but much less than beef tendon, because it is only found in the front legs of pigs, so it is considered a pig. biceps brachii.

Each piece weighs about two taels, and each pig has two pieces, so this piece of meat is very rare and hard to come across.

The tallyman said:

"It's ten or twenty pounds. How much do you want?"

"Want them all!"

This shank meat is an essential ingredient for making elbow scallops. Now that I have encountered it, I naturally have to make the elbow scallops that I didn’t bother to make during the Spring Festival for everyone to try.

There are two ways to make elbow flower. One is to separate the meat and skin of the elbow, roll up the elbow meat, braise it, slice it, and eat it with the sauce. Because the cross section is shaped like a flower, it is called For elbow flowers.

However, elbow croquettes made from elbows have a disadvantage, that is, they are too fat and will easily make you feel sick if you eat too much. Therefore, chefs in some places have improved it and replaced it with pork shank wrapped in pork skin.

In addition to being lean meat, tendon meat is composed of fascia. It has a stronger texture and no fat. It tastes more chewy and goes well with alcohol. It is the number one dish for drinking with many people.

In the past, elbow flowers were often seen at banquets in the northern part of the Central Plains.

But nowadays, shank meat is harder to buy, so this dish has become less common.

In addition to the ingredients, the cumbersome preparation has also caused this dish to gradually lose its original status as the king of drinks.

After buying the pork shank, Lin Xu bought about ten kilograms of pork skin.

After everything was done, the two went to the cashier to pay and leave.

Originally, I wanted to buy a few ducks to make some salted duck, but I didn't expect to buy two large shopping carts, and Shen Jiayue hadn't even started buying them yet.

Driving back to the scenic spot, I found that everyone was gone.

After calling and asking, I found out that everyone was digging wild vegetables in droves.

In fact, digging wild vegetables is not the purpose. The main purpose is for everyone to find a reason to take a walk and move around, so as not to sit around the charcoal stove and warm up.

And after yesterday's activities, everyone found that not only could they eat well, but they could also sleep soundly.

So I went back after breakfast today. It doesn’t matter whether I can dig wild vegetables or not, as long as I can exercise.

Lin Xu moved the purchased items to the kitchen, opened the carton, and soaked all the white-striped ducks inside.

Making salted duck is an essential step. Only after soaking will the duck skin become white and tender, and the fishy smell of the duck meat will be completely soaked out.

Shen Jiayue stood around, looking at the ducks soaking in the basin, and asked curiously:

"How long do you have to soak it for? Are you too late to eat at noon today?"

Lin Xu smiled:

"Don't talk about today, we won't be able to eat it at noon tomorrow. The preparation of salted duck takes a long time. The time cannot be shortened, otherwise the duck will not be perfect."

Good salted duck requires white skin, meat powder, and green bones. If it cannot meet these requirements, it means that the preparation is lazy.

Shen Jiayue originally wanted to have a good time, but when she heard that she couldn't eat it at noon today, she focused on the chicken wings:

"Do these chicken wings need to be soaked in too?"

"Yes, let's soak it. It will taste better when you make it later."

When Shen Jiayue heard this, she happily took a stainless steel basin and poured the chicken wings she bought into it. After adding water, she started soaking. Then she unscrewed the Sprite and Coke on the pretext of tasting the saltiness and drank them each. One cup.

“What is the most important seasoning for making Coke Chicken Wings?”

"Sprite."

Lin Xu's answer stunned Shen Jiayue:

"Do you want Sprite in Coke chicken wings?"

"Yes, put some Sprite in it. It will taste better and the meat will be more tender. You can try it later."

While talking, Lin Xu had already soaked the purchased meat skins in clean water. As for the pork tendons, they could not be soaked. They could only be washed once with clean water, drained of the water, and then marinated.

When making pork elbows, if the meat is soaked for too long, it will not be easy to marinate and taste, so just wash it slightly.

Squeeze the cleaned pieces of meat repeatedly to squeeze out the water, then put it into a basin, add chopped onions, ginger, light soy sauce, pepper, five-spice powder, and star anise powder, and knead repeatedly to fully mix the meat and sauce. uniform.

Then cover it with plastic wrap, place it in the refrigerator and refrigerate it for more than four hours.

When making pork elbows, the tendon meat needs to be completely wrapped with pork skin, and the outside of the pig skin must be wrapped with a layer of clean white cloth to prevent the pig skin from cracking during braising.

The meat is wrapped so tightly that the flavor of the stew is not easily absorbed into it, so the meat needs to be marinated in advance to infuse it with flavor.

Moreover, salt should not be added to the marinade to prevent the water-killing properties of salt from dehydrating the meat, causing the meat fibers to become dry and hard, affecting the taste.

"I feel like this elbow flower is quite complicated."

Shen Jiayue looked around and found that this dish was not available for lunch.

Does this chef have to be the one responsible for today’s lunch?

Shen Jiayue happily began to select the green onions, and at the same time, she took a piece of angular iron sheet and quickly peeled the old ginger.

This is a little trick Chen Meijuan taught her. The skin of old ginger is difficult to remove, and it is easy to hurt your hands with a knife, but you can easily scrape it off with an angular iron sheet.

“What else should I do besides Coke wings?”

She looked around, took the soy sauce duck brought from the capital, and prepared to steam a duck, but her method was slightly different from Lin Xu's.

This girl is going to put some baby cabbage and vermicelli under the duck during steaming.

Once the duck meat is steamed, the baby cabbage and vermicelli should also taste perfect.

After hearing this idea, Lin Xu smiled and said:

"My baby can create new dishes by himself, and he will really become a chef later on."

Shen Jiayue looked proud:

"I can't help it. Who asked me to marry a super chef?"

The young couple exchanged a few words of business and started preparing lunch.

Lin Xu brought a soy sauce duck and cut it into pieces with a kitchen knife. After Shen Jiayue prepared the baby vegetables and vermicelli, he placed the chopped duck meat neatly on the plate.

But it can’t be steamed right now, so it will have to wait.

Taking advantage of this time, Lin Xu cut some more soy sauce meat and prepared to steam it together with the loofah, so that the freshness of the loofah and the rich aroma of the soy sauce meat could be combined. The taste should not be too bad.

In this way, there are already three courses for lunch.

When I opened the refrigerator, there were not many leftovers from New Year’s Eve.

However, there are also dishes such as tiger skin chicken feet, taro pork belly, Sixi meatballs, boneless hairtail fish, and jelly sausage.

This kind of meat dish does not have to be thrown away after you finish the meal. As long as it is stored properly and reheated in the pot, it will taste better.

Lin Xu was going to heat up all these dishes and wipe out the leftovers as soon as possible, so he wouldn't worry about it anymore.

The meat and vegetables are ready, stir-fry some vegetables, and make a simple tomato and egg drop soup, and lunch is done.

"Xubao, how long do you need to soak the duck in the basin?"

"It will take at least eight hours. I will start the next step after dinner today. Let's soak it for now. The longer the time, the whiter the duck skin will be."

He washed his hands, steamed the rice, and began to teach Shen Jiayue how to cut chicken wings.

"Soak the chicken wings for more than half an hour. When the color turns white, take them out. Then use a kitchen knife to make a few diagonal cuts on the front and back. This kind of knife is generally asymmetrical. Three cuts on the front and two on the back. The knife edge should be Stagger them so that the flavor can penetrate as much as possible.”

Shen Jiayue took a kitchen knife and clumsily slashed the chicken wings twice.

While rowing, I also gestured with my hands, for fear that the inconsistent intervals would make everyone laugh.

After completing this step, start marinating.

Put all the light soy sauce, cooking wine, oyster sauce, onion and ginger in, and stir a few times to allow the flavor of the sauce to penetrate into the chicken wings as much as possible.

Today I am using a professional stove, and it can actually be stewed thoroughly without marinating.

However, in order to make this girl develop a habit, Lin Xu specially taught her the technique of marinating chicken wings.

Shen Jiayue grabbed and mixed the chicken wings and asked curiously:

"After marinating it like this, can we also make grilled wings and fried chicken wings?"

"Yes, but when baking, you need to brush a layer of honey on the surface to make the surface sweet. This will make the color better and taste more delicious. If you fry it, it is best to put a thin layer of dry powder on the surface to increase the crispiness of the skin. feel."

Lin Xu didn't hide anything from his wife.

Anyway, Shen Jiayue has become a full-time UP owner, and it is a good thing for her to master some dishes.

Moreover, it would be too boring to be a wealthy wife at a young age. Since she is now interested in cooking, I naturally want to satisfy her as much as possible.

Shen Jiayue didn't expect that learning how to marinate chicken wings would be so useful, so she said with a smile:

"Then I have to practice more in the past few days and make honey-glazed grilled wings for Yan Bao when I go back. She can't just hold my legs and call her sister?"

While the two were chatting, a duck suddenly quacked outside.

Only then did Lin Xu remember that there was a live duck at home.

"Xubao, how are you going to eat this duck?"

"You can eat it however you want. If it's easy, I can teach you."

As long as your daughter-in-law wants to learn, she will fully cooperate.

Shen Jiayue pondered for a moment and actually remembered a dish:

"Last year, Yan Bao and I attended a wedding banquet of a distant relative. We had a dish called duck with fragrant rice, which is rice and duck meat mixed together. It seemed to be steamed. The rice was delicious and the duck meat was also delicious. "

Are there any dishes like this?

Lin Xu searched in the points mall and actually found it.

He smiled and asked:

"Want to learn?"

"Well, I want to learn, can you teach me Xu Bao?"

"Okay, this dish is quite simple to make. Let's make it for dinner. It's not too difficult."

Upon hearing this, Shen Jiayue's confidence immediately increased.

Haha, it’s actually not difficult, so what are you waiting for? Just learn, learn, and be sure to master it.

Yanbao, you lose too much to me!

When it was almost noon, Lin Xu started to heat up the leftovers and taught Shen Jiayue how to make Coke chicken wings.

"First slide the pan and fry the chicken wings, then add Coke, Sprite and salt and start cooking. The steps are not difficult. Don't be afraid when frying. Use chopsticks to put them in one by one. Don't worry."

Shen Jiayue was wrapped in an apron and even put on an electric car helmet to prevent hot oil from splashing on her face.

Not to mention, after the glass mask was put down, this girl actually felt as if she had successfully transformed into a masked superman. Not only was she not afraid of hot oil, she even shook the wok and tried to stir the spoon.

Unfortunately, due to poor craftsmanship, the chicken wings in the pot did not turn over as obediently as expected. Instead, they shook and then returned to their original shape.

"You don't have to use the spoon, just use chopsticks to turn it over."

Lin Xu poured the hot Sixi meatballs and soup into a small porcelain basin, closed the lid, and could start eating directly after the large group of exercisers came over later.

Shen Jiayue fried the chicken wings on both sides, then unscrewed the Coca-Cola and poured half a bucket of Coca-Cola into the pot, and then poured a bowl of Sprite into it.

Add a little salt and start to simmer over low heat.

Not long after, Chen Meijuan walked into the kitchen carrying a bag of wild vegetables. Seeing her daughter-in-law wearing a helmet, she asked curiously:

"Are you two...acting?"

"No, I'm cooking for you. I'm afraid of hot oil splashing on my face, so I put on the helmet. It feels great...Mom, wash your hands quickly. The food will be ready soon."

Shen Jiayue took off her helmet and put it aside, feeling that the image of the head chef was shattered.

I originally wanted to secretly make a Coke Chicken Wing to impress everyone, but the surprise turned into a shock.

Chen Meijuan said with a smile:

"My daughter-in-law is really amazing. She can actually cook this dish. Then we are just waiting to eat it."

After saying that, she saw the soaked duck and pig skin in the basin and asked Lin Xu:

"What are you planning to do?"

"When I went to the supermarket, I saw that the white-striped duck was pretty good, so I bought two boxes with the intention of making salted duck. Then I bought ten or twenty kilograms of pork leg core, and I planned to use the pig skin to make some knuckles."

When Chen Meijuan heard this, she said with complicated emotions:

"After the Chinese New Year, all of us will gain weight...can this salted duck be in the scenic spot?"

Lin Xu nodded:

"Sure, soy sauce duck is also fine. When my second uncle comes, I will teach him all these things and update the food in the restaurant."

When the cola in the pot became thicker and thicker, and even became a little stringy, Lin Xu asked Shen Jiayue to open the lid of the pot.

Take out the red-colored chicken wings and place them on a plate. Then collect the soup from the pot and pour it on top of the chicken wings. Finally, sprinkle with some chives for garnish.

A dish of Coke chicken wings is finished.

"Wow, it looks so tempting. I didn't expect this to be my cooking!"

Shen Jiayue was in high spirits and planned to learn how to cook fragrant rice duck in the afternoon.

If possible, learn how to cook elbowflower and salted duck.

As a beautiful girl with ideals and culture, how can she just cook home-cooked meals? You also have to dabble in braised dishes. After all, we are the executive chef of Lin Kee Food.

All the dishes were brought to the table. When everyone saw the Coke chicken wings on the table, they couldn't believe that Shen Jiayue made them.

Han Shuzhen tasted it first:

"Not bad, my dear, the taste is so good. Didn't Xiaoxu help you make it?"

"Of course not, I'm very talented in cooking, okay?"

Shen Jiayue happily ate the chicken wings she made. She felt that they were extremely delicious, even better than those in restaurants. She couldn't help but feel proud:

"Hoho, I am indeed a cooking genius!"

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