Chapter 755: Su Zao Pork, a Dish that Combines Boiling Chinese Medicine and Stewing Pork Elbow! 【Please Subscribe】

Chapter 755 A dish that combines boiling Chinese medicine and braised pork elbow - Su Zao pork elbow! 【Please subscribe】

"Che, let's bring in some more pig knuckles tomorrow. I'm going to make a new dish."

At the entrance of the store, after Chen Yuanyuan got out of the car, Lin Xu thought of making Su-made elbows, picked up his mobile phone and sent a voice message to Che Zai, and then drove back.

I originally took off the early morning shift today to relax at home, but I didn't expect to encounter this incident.

But judging from Sister Yuanyuan's concern for Cai Sen, the two of them can still make it work.

In theory, there would be no problem with the marriage arranged by Dundun. After all, the little guy is a magic weapon for attracting wealth, and the God of Wealth is responsible for the marriage. Isn't this very reasonable?

On the way home, Shen Jiayue said with a smile:

"Sister Yan has been asking what's going on in the group, and even coaxed Sister Yuanyuan to talk about her journey. She completely forgot about the incident last year when she pretended to be the executive chef and deceived her brother-in-law."

Lin Xu smiled:

"Everyone likes to watch other people's excitement, but they don't want their own excitement to be watched by others. It's normal."

They arrived at the basement of the community, parked the car, and took the elevator upstairs.

After opening the door and returning home, Lin Xu thought Dundun was watching TV in the living room, but he turned around and couldn't see its shadow. The TV was on, and it was playing the show of San Dezi and Fayin Protector pretending to be a convict Kangxi showing off his power.

This situation is very similar to what happened on Qianmen Street just now.

"Where's Dundun?"

"I don't know, there isn't one in the living room."

Lin Xu changed into his slippers and walked upstairs. He first looked at the small room and saw no sign of the little guy, then prepared to go to the bedroom.

Passing by the study room, he found that the door was ajar. He pushed it open slightly and found a round figure squatting in front of the computer. A video on introductory computer science was playing on the monitor.

This is……

Do you want to learn computers by yourself?

Lin Xu knocked on the door and asked curiously:

"Dundun, what are you doing?"

Hearing the cry, the little guy turned his face in panic, and subconsciously pressed the boss button. His movements were so quick that he looked like those fisherman who secretly watched the young lady dance at work.

"Meow~~~~~~"

When Dundun saw that it was Lin Xu, his expression obviously relaxed a lot.

Lin Xu knew its origin, so Dundun could use one less disguise, but Shen Jiayue must not see this kind of scene, otherwise it would scare Mommy.

The little guy jumped down from the computer desk, walked to the door pretending to be nonchalant, and went downstairs to continue watching TV.

Lin Xu looked at the scene speechlessly.

My child suddenly becomes interested in computers, what should I do?

You can't find a computer teacher for it, right?

When they came downstairs, Dundun was lying on the sofa and continuing to watch TV. Shen Jiayue sat next to her with a small basket of potato chips, eating and watching with Dundun, completely unaware of what the little guy had just done upstairs. What an amazing move.

The next morning, Lin Xu got up and cooked millet porridge in a casserole, then went to the rooftop to exercise with Dundun and Shen Jiayue.

In the past, Dundun couldn't get up in the morning and liked to sleep in. Now that there is turf to play on the rooftop, he has become more diligent. While Lin Xu was doing aerobics with Shen Jiayue, the little guy was minding his own business playing football.

But cats generally have poor endurance, especially cats like the British Shorthair, which are famous for being fat. After running a few laps, the little guy climbed onto the outdoor sofa and started to rest.

The aerobics was over, and Xiaomi was probably almost done.

Lin Xu washed his hands and returned to the kitchen. He took two zucchini and grated them into shreds. Then he beat the eggs, mixed them with flour, and started to make the dough.

It is not advisable to eat something too greasy in the morning, but you must maintain nutrition. A simple and nutritious delicacy like glutinous rice is very suitable for breakfast.

Not long after, the soup was ready and the young couple started to have breakfast.

"Xubao, I just took a look at the big vat in the utility room. Is the pickled tea-oil duck in it almost ready?"

"It's coming soon. You can eat it on May Day."

In fact, it can be eaten now, but since it is said to be marinated for four months, let's wait a few more days. Anyway, May Day is getting closer, and it won't be too late to eat it when my parents come to the capital.

Lin Xu dipped the dumplings in the garlic sauce and ate them in his mouth. The deliciousness of the zucchini and eggs combined with the spiciness of the garlic sauce made it extremely enjoyable to eat.

As Shen Jiayue ate the delicious food, she remembered another Yanjing snack she ate when she was a child:

"I haven't eaten sesame tofu for a long time, Xu Bao, can you make it?"

Ma tofu?

Lin Xu said:

"Yes, it's just the leftover bean dregs from making mung bean vermicelli. It's also available in Yinzhou. I ate it when I was a kid. Later, people who made vermicelli in my hometown preferred to use edible glue. Mung beans contain less ingredients, so bean dregs are less common."

Vermicelli has always been the hardest hit area in the use of carrageenan. This kind of glue can make the vermicelli solidify more thoroughly and be stronger, while also saving the use of mung bean starch.

Therefore, Yinzhou, which was originally rich in mung bean vermicelli, now has fewer related industries.

The production of vermicelli is very interesting. In addition to grinding mung beans into paste and extracting starch material to make vermicelli, leftovers such as bean dregs are used to make sesame tofu, and the filtered water is not wasted. After a little fermentation, it becomes a traditional Chinese tofu. A classic drink that has been loved by generations but not many young people like it - bean juice.

However, people in Yinzhou do not drink bean juice. They usually feed it to livestock or make it fertilized. Unlike the people in the capital, they boil it and drink it again as a drink. It has even become an important tool to test the authentic Yanjing people.

Shen Jiayue did not expect that Yinzhou also has the tradition of eating tofu:

"Wow, it's so amazing. I thought only people in the capital would eat it."

Lin Xu smiled and said:

"Madoufu is widely spread. In addition to Beijing and Yinzhou, it is eaten in Northeast China, Inner Mongolia, the hinterland of the Central Plains, and parts of Shandong. It seems that it can be eaten in the Muslim inhabited areas in North China."

Chinese food includes traditional dishes and ethnic dishes.

Hui cuisine is an important branch of ethnic cuisine.

Although the main ingredient of this delicacy is mung bean dregs, it is an authentic Halal dish. At Muslim banquets and in residential areas, there are Madoufu or similar dishes.

For example, in the southwestern part of the Central Plains, there is a dish called stir-fried beans. The recipe for stir-fried beans is actually a combination of bean dregs, dried vegetables, and the soul of hemp tofu—sheep tail oil.

This delicacy, Ma Tofu, is made with oils such as lard, peanut, rapeseed oil, etc., but the taste is average. Only sheep tail oil makes the Ma Tofu taste better.

There is a saying that there is a fishy smell unique to beans in Ma Tofu, and the fishy smell is the same as that of fish.

At this time, if it is fried with slightly mutton-flavored sheep tail oil, the fishy and mutton smells form the source of the Chinese character "Xian", so fish and sheep are fresh.

So it will taste very delicious.

Of course, it is impossible to verify whether this statement is true or not, but the slightly fishy tofu paired with the slightly tangy sheep tail oil does have an extraordinary taste.

This was probably the only meaty dish that poor people could eat back then.

Seeing that Shen Jiayue wanted to eat, Lin Xu said:

"When you go to the store today, I'll ask Che to buy sesame tofu, and then fry it for you in sheep's tail oil. It's not difficult at all, it's very simple."

It might take some trouble to cook other dishes, but he had eaten fried sesame tofu when he was a child. Even without the support of the system, Lin Xu could easily make it by himself.

When we came to the store after dinner, Che Zi had already prepared the elbows.

Lin Xu handed the elbow to the chef:

"Boil the hair and remove the bones, put it in hot water, and then let it dry for me to make."

"Okay boss."

The methods of making Su Zao pork elbow and red braised pork elbow are very similar. They both burn the skin first and then remove the bones and shape it into a round shape. Finally, they also have frying, stewing, steaming and other cooking methods.

But the difference is that the red braised pork elbow only has the aroma of meat and no aroma of medicine.

As for Su Zao's elbow, what he eats is the smell of medicinal ingredients.

With nothing to do, Lin Xu took a look at the situation in the roast duck department today. Everyone had just gone to work and was serving maltose water to the duck roasted at noon.

As for the duck baked in the afternoon, add sugar water and put it in the cold storage to prevent the skin of the duck from drying out.

Although it is said that the roast duck will be new in a week, in fact, starting yesterday, the store has been trying to give high-end recharge customers a taste in advance.

The employees are always asked to eat roast duck. If they eat too much, they will always get tired of it.

But the employees in the roast duck department had to practice, so they let the customers who recharged more to taste it first.

This can not only show the importance to high-end customers, but also obtain positive feedback to avoid the situation of working behind closed doors.

Online, customers who have tasted the roast duck are full of praise, while those who have not tasted it are full of envy.

After looking around, Shu Yun came over with a notebook with ordering information on it:

"Boss, Mr. Tan from the audit office booked a private room for lunch today and asked for roast duck and your roast."

Um?

Uncle Tan is resentful because he didn't eat the roast duck?

Since the first live broadcast of roast duck, both relatives and friends in Yanjing have tasted the roast duck cooked by Lin Xu. Shen Jiayue's grandfather Han Jitong felt that it was not enough after eating it, and even took the rest away. Planned to save it for a late night snack.

But among everyone, only Tan Yajun, who went on a business trip to southern Yunnan, had not eaten it yet.

It seems that he just returned to the capital yesterday, but unexpectedly he hastily booked a private room in the store and asked for roast duck today.

Lin Xu didn't have any objections to this:

"Okay, I have nothing to do at noon. I will roast a duck for him and go to the private room to slice it myself."

Uncle Tan helped Lin Ji. When it was still a small store, he got the catering business of the Audit Office. The entire audit office even ordered lunch from here.

Such elders should naturally be treated with care.

After deciding to make roast duck, Lin Xu asked:

"Uncle Tan, why are you treating us today?"

"I don't know. It seems that I was having dinner with the leader of the Audit Office. He specifically told me not to drink alcohol. He was probably discussing some business."

Lin Xu nodded and took note of it.

Since you are having dinner with the leaders of the Audit Office, you should be as simple as possible to avoid the leaders being disgusted.

It didn't take long for the kitchen helpers to have their elbows in order.

The round elbow looked very beautiful. Lin Xu spread a layer of honey on the skin of the meat, put it in a special oil pan for elbows, and fried it until the skin turned slightly red.

Then he prepared a pot of soup stock, put green onion slices, ginger slices, rice wine, light soy sauce, sugar color, and rock sugar into it, and brought it to a boil over high heat. While the soup stock was boiling, he took a piece of gauze and put some commonly used Chinese medicine in it. .

For example, medicinal materials such as tangerine peel, dried dates, astragalus, Codonopsis pilosula, licorice, amomum villosum, safflower, cordyceps flower, cinnamon, galangal, etc., put them all in proportion, tie the gauze tightly, scald them with hot water first, and wash off the surface Dust and then throw into the stock for marinating.

When making Su Zao Tang for the first time, the medicinal ingredients must be doubled, so that the aroma of the medicinal ingredients can keep pace with the aroma of the meat, and the role of the medicinal ingredients can be fully exerted.

In fact, Su Zao Tang is the same as braised soup. The older the soup, the better. Moreover, during the cooking process, medicinal materials must be added to it continuously to keep the aroma of the medicine consistent.

The soup should be simmered for a while to fully integrate the medicinal flavor into the soup.

The elbow cooked in this way is more delicious.

About half an hour later, the aroma of the medicine had become very strong. Lin Xu put the oiled elbow in, and at the same time turned down the heat to keep the Su Zao soup in the pot at a slightly boiling state, and began to simmer.

"It feels like a traditional Chinese medicine store..."

Wei Gan sniffed, a little uncomfortable with the smell.

Xu Xinhua, who came to visit us upstairs, liked it very much:

"Boss, are you preparing to serve new dishes?"

Although it tastes weird, it looks like braised food. In that case, it should be from our braised food department, right?

Lin Xu said:

"This is Su Zao Pork. The meat is stewed with medicinal herbs. There are no new ones in the store, but customers can make reservations."

This traditional dish, Su Zao Elbow, is only popular among the older generation of Beijing residents, so even if it is new, not many people eat it, and it is quite troublesome to make.

But in order to let old neighbors eat, Lin Xucai adopted a sales strategy of "no new products, only pre-orders".

If you want to eat, make a reservation in advance, and the store can prepare it leisurely. At the same time, it also allows Su Zao soup to be cooked every day. In this way, the soup becomes an old soup, and the old neighbors can also taste the delicious food, which is the best of both worlds.

Upon hearing this, Xu Xinhua was a little disappointed, but it was okay to make a reservation. He asked:

"Does this dish belong to the braised food department or does it belong to the restaurant upstairs?"

"Let's do it upstairs. We have to steam it later. It's too troublesome to do it downstairs. It's more convenient to do it upstairs."

Ever since the braised food department opened a small window, Xu Xinhua's appetite has grown bigger and bigger while he was chatting. He wished he could even get roast duck into the braised food department, and by the way, he changed his name to the roasted braised food department.

But he was just flirting with this matter. If the braised food department and the roast duck department were really merged, he, the head chef, would probably become his deputy.

The elbow in the pot has been simmering for an hour, and the medicinal aroma is rich.

Lin Xu used a slotted spoon to take out the elbows and put them on a large tray with the skin facing up.

Let it cool first, then use a kitchen knife to make cross cuts on the skin of the meat. The cutter separates the skin of the meat, but the elbow meat below is still connected. This kind of cutter is called Qianlian Dao.

After finishing the cutting, take a big bowl and put the elbow in it, skin side down.

Put it away and use a spoon to scoop up the soy sauce soup in the pot and pour it on the elbows. Put the big bowl into the steaming cabinet and start steaming.

The medicinal flavor in Su Zao soup is too strong, so just cook the meat in the soup and let the meat absorb the aroma of the medicinal ingredients. The subsequent steaming is to mix the medicinal aroma with the meat aroma, so that the medicinal taste is better. It's softer and easier to eat.

At the same time, the flower knife on the elbow skin can also allow the medicinal materials to penetrate deep into the inside of the elbow.

While he was busy making elbows, at Deng Lisong's house, a cheerful Cai Sen was thanking the military advisor:

"Damn, you idiot, your idea really came true. When Yuanyuan and I get married later, I will definitely give you a whole fan of pork as a thank you gift."

In the past, it was said that once a matchmaker was established, the man would give pork to the matchmaker to express his gratitude.

At first it was a piece of meat, then it was a whole pig hind leg, and then it was half a pig or something like that. The gifts in return became more and more.

Although Deng Lisong was not the matchmaker between Cai Sen and Chen Yuanyuan, he came up with the idea and it was very successful, so Cai Sen immediately decided to give the highest standard of matchmaking gifts - a whole fan of pork.

Deng Lisong, who was carving the jade tripod, was very calm:

"Why are you giving me that thing? It's just me and the nanny here. We can't finish a pig in half a year. Are you planning to make me eat homemade zombie meat?"

Cai Sen laughed:

"Isn't this just to express my gratitude?"

While the two were talking, George stood at the door of the studio and looked inside. He wanted to come in and play, but Dundun warned him not to come in, so the little guy was very conflicted.

Cai Sen casually took the old newspaper used for jade cushions nearby, tore off half of the paper, rolled it into a round ball, and then wrapped the paper ball with large tape.

Soon a paper football was completed.

He threw the ball outside hard, and the newspaper ball flew out quickly. George immediately caught up with him and happily started playing football outside, forgetting about entering the studio.

After teasing Maomao, Cai Sen said:

"Yuanyuan said that I did a good job escorting him yesterday and asked me to go to Linji to eat Su Zao elbow at noon. You can come with me. It will also allow George to play with Dundun for a while."

If he simply went to eat, Deng Lisong, who was afraid of society, would not agree.

But when it comes to letting George go play with Dundun, his old father has nothing to hesitate about.

"Okay, then I'll tell Auntie that we won't be cooking at noon, and we'll go to Lin's to eat together, and by the way, we'll try the roast duck cooked by Boss Lin."

He put down the carving knife, took his mobile phone and sent a message to his aunt, telling him about going to Linji for lunch at noon, and then explained:

"I will transfer 100,000 yuan to you later. When you get to the store, you go to the front desk to apply for a card. They are open for business. You can't just eat and drink for free. You have to take care of Boss Lin's business."

"good!"

At 11 o'clock in the morning, Deng Lisong hugged George and got into the Buick Century business car driven by Cai Sen with the nanny.

When they arrived at the store, Chen Yuanyuan had already arrived. At this time, she was being pestered by Zeng Xiaoqi and Chen Yan to tell her about their relationship.

Chen Yuanyuan said loudly:

"I think it feels good to be protected by someone, and it warms my heart. Unfortunately, I'm not a man. If I were a man, I would definitely help him."

Chen Yan:? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

I didn't understand it, but I was shocked.

How strong a person must be to say something like this?

But it does feel good to be protected. I remember when Ren Jie and I were catching a group of fugitives on the street stall, someone threatened Ren Jie with himself, and then that person received an elbow from the police academy Sanda champion.

While they were chatting, several people caught a glimpse of Cai Sen walking into the store and immediately started to cheer:

"Woohoo, the hot-blooded knight who protects the princess is here!"

Upstairs, Shen Jiayue, who heard the cheers, waved to Lin Xu:

"Xubao, Xubao, quickly take out the elbow. Sister Yuanyuan's imperial guard is here. Let him use a big elbow to mend it..."

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