Chapter 605: Both the Cat and You Want to Know What It’s Like to Be a Beggar’s Chicken! Dundun: Are You so Poor that You Eat Dirt? 【Please Subscribe】

"This is simple, I can do it!"

Seeing Lin Xu kneading the mud, Shen Jiayue volunteered to help.

As for other dishes, I may not really be able to help, but the dish of beggar's chicken is one that we know how to cook at the age of three, okay?

Chen Yan said:

"If you can do it, then I can too, isn't it just playing in the mud..."

Seeing her daughter and niece rolling up their sleeves and looking like they were about to take action, Han Shuzhen couldn't help but say:

"When you two have free time, take Dundun for a walk on the nearby plank road, or help dig wild vegetables. Don't cause trouble here. You are so old, and you still want to play in the mud."

There are so many people here, but you don't pay attention. Aren't you afraid of being laughed at?

Shen Jiayue pouted and picked up Dundun:

"Come on, son, mommy will take you to dig wild vegetables."

When Dundun heard this, he immediately wagged his tail.

It feels a little unfamiliar here, but feels like it has been here before, and wants to take a walk around.

On the land next to it, Shen Guofu dug a pit, set up firewood, and lit a fire. The firewood would be burned into charcoal later to make beggar's chicken.

While filling the pit with firewood, he chatted with Lin Xu about begging chickens.

"Xiao Xu, I heard that the beggar chickens in the past were not as particular as they are today. They even ate the chicken feathers and wiped them with mud. Is this true?"

Lin Xu said:

"That's true. Twist the chicken from the neck without draining the blood. Then dig out the chicken's butt and take out all the internal organs. Stuff some salt inside and smear mud on the chicken feathers. Keep smearing until After roasting and peeling off the hair roots, the mud will bring down the chicken feathers, so you can eat them without any delay... This is a standard beggar's practice, but it is not recommended now."

Roasting the chicken feathers together, the fishy smell and impurities in the chicken feathers are not eliminated at all, they are all absorbed into the chicken.

In the past, beggars without a pot or stove would make do with stolen chickens in this way, but now, basically no one does this.

Putting aside the hygienic issues, the smell from the chicken feathers inside is not much better.

Fortunately, people who can eat like this don't pay much attention to taste. They just want to fill their stomachs.

Modern cooking pays attention to factors such as appearance, taste, aroma, etc., so the method of beggar's chicken has been re-improved, and various branch methods have also been developed.

For example, Qiankun Beggar's Chicken, Bread Beggar's Chicken, etc.

While they were mixing the mud here, Zeng Xiaoqi and Qi Siming had just washed their faces and walked towards the pond with their respective backpacks.

Zeng Xiaoqi's parents couldn't wait and opened a vegetable plot next to the pond. The couple is currently tending to it.

Qi Siming touched his backpack and asked:

"These are new clothes I bought for my uncle and aunt. Why are they so stuffed? There will be wrinkles."

The two went shopping two days ago. Zeng Xiaoqi bought some spring clothes for her parents, and today she stuffed them into her backpack and brought them over with them.

He didn't pay attention when he came, but now Qi Siming realized that the clothes inside were uneven and wrinkled.

Zeng Xiaoqi straightened the hair beside her ears:

"I did it on purpose, so that if my parents think it's expensive and give in, they can use the excuse that there are wrinkles and they can't be undone..."

So that's it... Qi Siming has lived a good life since he was a child and has never experienced anything like this.

He sighed in his heart and then said:

"My dad has been helping you inquire these days. He always feels that it is inappropriate for your parents to work here. It seems that we are very rude."

Zeng Xiaoqi refused as soon as she heard it:

"No, it's nice here. There are no complicated interpersonal relationships, and the work is much easier than back home. If I change to a higher-level job, my parents won't be able to adapt to it."

And for Zeng Xiaoqi, it doesn't matter how much money her parents earn. As long as she is not bullied in her hometown and she can visit her from time to time, it is already much better than many migrant workers.

Who among these migrant workers in the capital can come here from time to time to have dinner with their parents, and even act coquettishly?

Moreover, Qi Zhentao had just suffered a big loss in terms of nepotism, and he could not be allowed to make the same mistake again.

"Okay, I'll tell you when I get back and I won't let my parents follow me."

"Well, no need to make any fuss, it's quite nice here."

At the door of the kitchen, Lin Xu mixed the yellow mud with kneading dough, and then beat it hard a few times to make the mud as sticky as possible and easier to wrap it on the lotus leaves.

Chen Yuanyuan on the side asked:

"Brother, the master just said that there are eight chickens. Isn't the mud enough for you?"

Lin Xu said:

"Just count as many as you can, and wrap the rest in flour. This way you can have vegetables and staple food, and it's more delicious than wrapping it in yellow mud."

Wrapped in bread?

Dou Wenjing asked:

“Isn’t this how steak Wellington is made?”

"Yes, Chinese and Western food have many cooking methods in common. In addition to beggar's chicken, the Northwest also has breaded leg of lamb, which is similar to Wellington's."

Lin Xu mixed the yellow mud, washed his hands, and went to the kitchen to prepare the package for the beggar's chicken.

Taking the marinated chicken out of the basin, in order to make it taste better, Lin Xu put some soaked dried mushrooms, dried bamboo shoots, dried shrimps, ham, red dates and other ingredients into the chicken belly.

The portion is not very big, it mainly adds flavor to the chicken.

Place the ingredients, fold the chicken feet into the chicken belly, and insert the chicken wings into the chicken neck. This will prevent the chicken wings and feet from being burned.

Then take a piece of blanched pork net oil and wrap the body of the chicken.

Wrap it and place it on the lotus leaf that has been blanched with hot water. Place the chicken back down on one corner of the lotus leaf. Then roll it forward. Then fold the excess parts at both ends of the lotus leaf onto the chicken body. Continue rolling forward and fold the whole lotus leaf. Chicken wrapped.

Change to a lotus leaf, this time the chicken's back is facing up, and wrap the chicken in the same lotus leaf.

Put three layers in this way, wrap it with cotton thread, and a chicken is ready.

All the chickens were wrapped, Lin Xu took them outside and was talking to foreign friends about the fact that Chinese people actually use mud as a delicacy. Lucy then realized:

"What? Don't you just put it in the mud and eat it?"

Lin Xu said:

"No, this is using the soil as an insulation layer to indirectly heat the chicken inside, so that the aroma of the chicken does not escape and the taste is naturally better."

After understanding, Lucy let out a long sigh of relief.

She was mentally prepared to chew a mouthful of mud, but she didn't expect that she didn't need to do this.

The lotus leaf was wet, and it would easily fall off if you apply yellow mud directly on it. Lin Xu grabbed a handful of dry soil and sprinkled it on the surface of the lotus leaf. After spreading it once, he applied yellow mud on it, which made it very easy.

"It's the same as making fried food. You sprinkle a layer of dry powder before baking. Sure enough, all the cooking methods are the same."

Although Dou Wenjing doesn't know how to cook, she has seen a lot and understands some terminology and techniques.

Lin Xu said:

"It's always the same."

The thickness of the yellow mud is about two centimeters.

After Lin Xu applied it, he started to apply the next one.

A total of four beggar's chickens were smeared with this yellow mud. They were all done, and the charcoal had been burned at Shen Guofu's side.

Almost all the wood was turned into red coals, and the heat could be felt from afar.

Making a fire seems simple, but there are also skills. For example, when half-burning, you need to knock the firewood against each other so that the charcoal blocks on the surface will fall off and the wood inside will continue to burn.

Lin Xu used a shovel to dig out one-third of the charcoal blocks in the pit, and spread the remaining two-thirds underneath.

In order to prevent the temperature from getting too high, he deliberately spread a layer of dry soil in the pit, and then placed four beggar's chickens that looked like dinosaur eggs in it.

When placing them, keep a distance from each other and not be next to each other, otherwise they will not be cooked well.

Arrange and sprinkle some dry soil on the beggar's chicken, then pile the remaining charcoal on top, place some smaller firewood, and burn it around the pit.

After it is burned to charcoal, put it into the pit.

This keeps the temperature in the pit at a higher temperature without burning the chicken.

This is the simplest method. In addition to digging a pit, you can also build a simple earthen kiln and put the chicken in to stew it in a kiln-fired manner.

This practice is called kiln chicken.

However, regardless of the differences between kiln chicken and beggar's chicken, they are essentially the same type of dishes.

After cooking the traditional yellow clay beggar's chicken, Lin Xu returned to the kitchen and started kneading the dough to make crispy beggar's chicken wrapped in dough.

Put all-purpose flour in a basin, add some salt, sugar, yeast powder, custard powder, and baking powder, stir into dough, and then knead it into a dough.

The amount of yeast powder should be less, about one-third of the usual amount of dough, because this dough does not need to be fully risen, it just needs to be fluffy.

Let it relax slightly, roll it into a dough slightly thicker than the pancake, and wrap the beggar's chicken.

Don't worry about the lotus leaves sticking to the dough. After baking, the lotus leaves will fall off with a gentle shake.

Place the wrapped beggar's chicken on the grill grid of the oven, set the temperature, and start baking.

"Lunch will be a little late today."

Lin Xu looked at the time, it was almost eleven o'clock.

It is estimated that dinner will not be served until one o'clock in the afternoon.

But no one was in a hurry. Even Lucy, who hadn't eaten any snacks on the way, wasn't hungry. She was squatting next to the fire pit, introducing Chinese food to her foreign friends.

"What a great opportunity for listening practice. It's a pity that Lele is not here, otherwise my English will definitely improve."

Chen Yan walked around in a circle and listened to Lucy speak English. She regretted not choosing a foreign language major back then, otherwise she wouldn't have been like a fool and communicated with Lucy in sign language.

Lin Xu said:

"Lele has successfully entered Aunt Lucy's classmate group. Now there are hundreds of foreigners chatting with her to practice speaking. It should not be difficult to obtain the IELTS score of 8 required by Professor Cui."

The IELTS score is the average of the four scores in dictation, reading, and speaking. It is not easy to reach a score of 8. It is basically at the mother tongue level.

Even people from some English-speaking countries still cannot get such high scores if they are not well educated.

Chen Yan opened her mouth:

"Other geniuses are lonely, taciturn, and not good at communicating. Our Lele really doesn't have any shortcomings."

She wanted to talk about body shape, but when she thought about Lele's head, it was somewhat insulting to use external factors like body shape to measure her.

Besides, Lele is cute and cute, and her iconic mushroom head has a unique sense of joy. She is the second-ranked group favorite in the circle.

As for the number one group pet, it is naturally a certain little fat cat who wishes to remain anonymous.

Not long after, Shen Jiayue returned with Dundun in her arms and a few aunties who were digging wild vegetables in the forest. Dundun no longer needed to hold her, but held her tail up, walking slowly and powerfully, like a tiger going down the mountain. .

Unfortunately, the figure is much worse than that of the tiger, and he is more rounded, so he looks very cute.

The little guy was startled when he saw a fire nearby. Fortunately, there were many people around, so he tentatively walked over without daring to get too close, but he wanted to see what was in the fire pit.

This good-looking and fun-loving person is very much like Shen Jiayue when she was playing "Metro Exodus".

That game had a lot of dark scenes and a lot of horror elements. When I played it at night, I could often hear this girl yelling.

There are not many wild vegetables in the forest, and they are not big.

But the portion was quite a lot, so everyone started eating together and chatting while choosing the dishes.

Lucy has become a professional shocker. She didn't expect that weeds growing randomly in the field can be eaten. At this moment, she was holding a washed mother-in-law's penis and was being tricked by Dou Wenjing and Chen Yuanyuan into stuffing it into her mouth.

With nothing to do, Lin Xu went to the pond to take a look at the water. Although the water area of ​​20 to 30 acres was not large, it was not small either.

These days, Uncle Shang and his wife have dug out a lot of lotus roots in the shallow water.

If the lotus roots are not dug cleanly, it will affect the growth of new lotus roots and even cause them to break.

"Is it okay to live here, Uncle Shang?"

"Very good. It's much more comfortable than before, and the work is easier. I'm embarrassed. Do you really not lose money?"

Lin Xu said:

"When tourists come, we will be busy. When summer starts, we will have to dig lotus roots and fish. There will also be people fishing. Maybe we will have to add more manpower to you by then."

Uncle Shang was happy when he heard it:

"It's good to be busy. We are all busy people all our lives. When we are free, we feel uncomfortable... By the way, in the small corner of the southwest, the chicken farm has been built and the chicks have been put in. I'm afraid it will delay its use. First I bought about 200 half-sized chickens weighing more than a kilogram, and also bought a lot of ducks. I will continue to eat from now on, and try not to buy them from outside."

This is the advantage of establishing an ecological garden. All the ingredients are sourced locally and raised and grown by oneself. Regardless of the cost, customers like it just by looking at the chicken farm and vegetable plot.

These days, who doesn’t want to eat some home-grown vegetables, chickens and ducks?

Now that there is such a place where children can feed alpacas and ride ponies, it will definitely make people want to come. Even if adults don’t want to come, children will want to come.

After chatting with Uncle Shang for a while, Lin Xu went to the vegetable field to say hello to Zeng Xiaoqi's parents and asked about their adaptation to work and life.

When it was almost time, I asked everyone to go back from work and prepare for lunch.

Although the beggar's chicken is not yet roasted, you can make something else first to give everyone a heads up. It's not a big deal that so many people are waiting to eat the beggar's chicken.

Back in the kitchen, Lin Xu mixed the washed wild vegetables with dry powder and steamed them in a pot.

This is the simplest steamed wild vegetable. After it is out of the pot, add some minced garlic and stir it. It tastes great, and eating more is good for your health.

Then he fried some small miscellaneous fish caught by Uncle Shang, stir-fried bacon with wild vegetables, and used the picked young pepper leaves, washed and chopped them and put them into the beaten egg liquid to make a large plate of fried pepper leaves. egg.

The leaves of Zanthoxylum bungeanum, especially the young leaves, have the unique freshness of the plant and the faint numbing smell of Zanthoxylum bungeanum.

Mixed with fresh eggs, it tastes particularly delicious.

Dishes were brought out one after another, and everyone sat in the yard, chatting while eating.

When the time was almost up, Lin Xu opened the oven, and a scent of noodles suddenly wafted out from inside.

The dough in the oven has turned golden brown and expanded slightly, making it look crispy.

Lin Xu took out the four roast chickens and placed them on the tray, carrying them outside.

Everyone couldn't help but exclaimed when they looked at the golden baked dough. The color and the smell of the dough were so delicious.

Lin Xu took a small knife and first cut open the crispy outer layer of dough.

Lucy opened her mouth wide in surprise, held up her phone and started filming.

"Oh, go ahead, this roast chicken... is beautiful!"

She stood up and planned to film the opening process exactly so that foreign friends could see the mysterious oriental food.

Before cutting, Lin Xu felt that the dough was not too hot and the temperature was okay.

But after cutting it open, a stream of hot air spurted out from inside, and if he hadn't ducked for a moment, he would have been hit by the hot air.

The temperature inside is very high and the fragrance is full. The fragrance of lotus leaves, the freshness of chicken, and the strong fragrance of lard all mix together to make people salivate involuntarily.

Lin Xu carefully cut the dough and placed it on the empty plate next to it.

Shen Jiayue immediately picked up a piece, chewed it and ate it.

The dough is crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, with a hint of lotus leaf aroma and chicken flavor, and it tastes quite delicious.

Seeing her eating, others also picked up the dough and tasted it.

Lin Xu took a knife, picked apart the cotton thread on the lotus leaf, and peeled off the lotus leaves layer by layer.

During the last layer, the lotus leaves were almost dripping with oil, and the rich fragrance kept teasing those around them.

Take away the lotus leaf, and the slightly rosy chicken inside will reveal its original shape.

Shen Guofu sniffed:

"It smells so good. This is a beggar's chicken."

It can be eaten outside as well as inside, and it feels more cost-effective than baking it with yellow mud.

Lin Xu put on disposable gloves, tore open the fully cooked chicken while it was still hot, and used chopsticks to pull out the ingredients from the chicken's belly.

"Let's eat. It's a late dinner today, so everyone is probably starving."

After two hours of roasting, it was basically crispy and fell off the bones. The chicken skin had the fragrance of lotus leaves and the unique moistness of lard, making it very enjoyable to eat.

The crispy dough paired with chicken is especially delicious.

Shen Jiayue said:

"I really didn't expect it to be so delicious. It was made in the oven. Maybe it would be better if it was made with yellow mud in the pit."

Zeng Xiaoqi said:

"When you said that, I remembered that there were four chickens buried in the pit. I have to keep some food in my stomach so that I don't have to stare at them later and be unable to eat them."

Chen Yan grabbed a piece of chicken wing and was chewing it while sending a message to Shu Yun in the group to poison her.

When it was almost time, Lin Xu put down his chopsticks and came to the fire pit, ready to dig out the beggar's chicken inside.

Although the longer it cooks, the better it tastes, but the chicken skin is easily burnt.

Lucy took a look and followed over with her mobile phone in hand. Dundun also followed.

The little guy has long wanted to come and see what's going on here.

There is no fire now, only some scattered charcoal pieces are still burning. Although Dundun is a little uncomfortable, at least he is not afraid anymore with Lin Xu by his side.

Lin Xu took a shovel and carefully peeled away the charcoal and ashes on it.

Then he carefully pulled out the four completely dried and blackened dinosaur eggs, knocked off the ash on them with a shovel, and placed them on the tray.

Prepare to put it on the dining table, so that everyone can witness the appearance of the soil being smashed open.

Dundun looked at this scene in surprise, her eyes full of doubts:

"What a meow, are you so poor that you eat dirt?"

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