Chapter 1,494 Hot Pot

There is another study room next to the study room at home. That room is Shi Wei's research room. One wall is full of small drawers, which contain various Chinese medicines.

Su You climbed up the ladder with pulleys and held on to the handrail of the medicine cabinet to advance and retreat freely: "Anise...sannai, cinnamon...fennel...caoguo...comfrey, vanilla...geranium leaf...clove..."

By the time they came out of the pharmacy, the entire Yiqiumen Su residence was enveloped in a rich and spicy aroma. Chef Zhou was still waving his arms: "Master Guo, how long will it take?"

Su You said: "There's still another hour, you go on, don't be lazy, don't let the bottom of the pot dry out, otherwise you are the only one asking! I'll make the soup."

The reason why I came to Yiqiumen to do this is because there is a connection with the butcher next door, Zhou Family.

Wash the pork ribs and beef ribs and break them into pieces; wash the chicken claw bones; break the ginger; tie the green onions into knots.

First, blanch the pork rib bones, beef rib bones, and chicken feet bones in a pot of boiling water, take them out and put them into a pot of clear water. Add ginger, green onions, and cooking wine.

After it boils over high heat, add some of the shredded ham scraps from Zhou's ham, wrap a few crucian carps in gauze, put them in the pot, and turn to low heat to simmer.

The fragrance in the yard became richer, and the Zhou family pretended to be harvesting radish, and their heads popped out from the wall to peek: "Tanhua Lang, what are you doing? It's fragrant and spicy!"

Su You was beating the dregs beside the pot: "It's going to be a while yet, and you won't be able to eat this thing for a long time! Have you found everything I want?"

"Here I am, waiting for your instructions on how to cook!"

The clear soup in the big pot gradually began to turn white. While the soup was simmering and the ingredients were being stir-fried, Su You went to the Zhou family to collect the ingredients.

The ingredients are quite reactionary in everyone's eyes - goose intestines, tripe, yellow throat, kidneys, rabbit ears, pig brains, chicken gizzards, fat intestines, duck blood, eel...

Many of them are basically given away by butchers. Fortunately, Zhou's also asked for beef bones, mutton, pork loin fillet, and pork belly, otherwise it would be difficult to get this.

It is actually very troublesome to take care of these things. For example, goose intestines need to be scraped off the grease with the edges of chopsticks, yellow throat has four layers, only one layer needs to be taken, rabbit ears need to be only crispy bones, and kidneys need to be picked to remove the tendons...

Neighbors all around came to help. Su You directed Zhou Da and a few teenagers who were on vacation to do this. The Zhou family organized the aunts to chop meat fillings, make coriander meatballs, fried balls, fried crispy pork...

Today, Su You told the neighbors around and across from Su's house in Yiqiumen not to cook dinner, but to eat delicious food together.

There was nothing we could do about it, Su You was greedy and had to wait for more than thirty years to get the ingredients and seasonings. He wanted to pair it with everything, and there were a lot of kinds of side dishes.

There is too much food for the family to eat. The solution is very simple, that is, to buy more food.

After teaching everyone how to handle the ingredients, Su You estimated that time was almost up and sneaked back to Su's house to direct Chef Zhou.

The stir-fry ingredients and soup ingredients have been prepared for an hour, and the water vapor of the watercress has begun to dry out, and the aroma is overflowing.

The peppers started to turn slightly white.

Let Chef Zhou pick out the green onion knots in the pot and add them. Then add star anise, senna, cinnamon, cumin, grass fruit, comfrey, bay leaves, vanilla, cloves and other medicinal materials, and continue to stir-fry over low heat for about 20 minutes.

, when the color of the spices in the pot becomes darker, add rock sugar and fermented glutinous rice juice, and slowly simmer over low heat.

When the water in the glutinous rice juice has completely evaporated, remove the pot from the fire, cover it, and simmer the ingredients in the pot until they cool down. The base material is finally ready.

On the other side, the color of the soup began to turn milky white, and Li Xiaoer pulled a cart over to the door: "Tan Hua Lang! The food is here! Wow, what is so fragrant!"

In Bianjing City nowadays, green vegetables are not much cheaper than meat, and Weishi Dongzhuang’s greenhouse vegetables are almost all covered by powerful officials, but there is no shortage of these in Sujiazhuangzi.

Su You was tasting the soup with a big spoon. When he heard this, he put down the spoon and said, "Let everyone go and ask the women to pick vegetables!"

A cart of fresh vegetables, including cabbage, winter melon, lotus root, green beans, tomatoes, bamboo shoots, cabbage, pumpkin, bamboo shoots...

Originally, the neighbors also provided some ingredients, which were part of the mix, including tofu, bean curd skin, dried bamboo shoots, dried vegetables, vermicelli, bean sprouts...

The children of the two old men who were opposite each other and loved to play chess were visiting the Yasi office and brought some canned luncheon meat.

For the rest, Zhou everyone's bold words will be enough!

When they saw this car, the aunties in the yard were all pleasantly surprised: "Oh, only the nobles can afford these in winter!"

There were many things that the aunties didn’t recognize yet. I heard that Master Bian Guan had brought them back from thousands of miles away, such as potatoes, pumpkins, and tomatoes. They were holding and admiring each one of them as if they were treasures.

Now that the dishes are here, you can start preparing.

The pots are also weird. There are six large copper pots like washbasins. Carbon can be placed at the bottom, and there is a pillar in the middle to let the smoke escape.

Dried chili peppers and Sichuan peppercorns were put into a wok and stir-fried with vegetable oil until fragrant. Then they were poured into six hot pots, base ingredients and soup ingredients were added, and then six tables were set up in Zhou's yard.

The spices in the base have been perfectly blended with the chili oil. Now when the soup is hot, the aroma fills the yard.

Around the pots on the table were placed dishes and baskets from different families. The dishes were filled with meat and the baskets were filled with vegetables.

Su You brought some jars of wine from home and everyone ate together.

The reason why everyone eats it in Zhou Dynasty is because Su You knows that this thing is a disaster. After eating one meal, the smell will not leave the house for several days.

Rather than suffering disaster for the two Sus, it would be better to harm the Zhou family.

Everyone was sitting together happily. Su You picked up the wine glass and was about to say a few words. Da Su had already put up his beard and rolled up his sleeves: "My dear neighbors, eat first!"

Everyone has been impatient for a long time: "Yes, yes, yes, eat first, eat first!"

Hey! Do you know how to eat it?! If I had known better, I wouldn’t have prepared sesame oil dishes for you!

Seeing that Zhou's family had already taken out their spoons to drink the soup in the pot, Su You quickly stopped him: "Stop!"

Many people's chopsticks stopped in mid-air and turned to look at the main table. Su You picked up a piece of hairy belly and said: "Look carefully first! Follow me!"

Put the tripe into the boiling pot and scald it for about thirty seconds, then lift up the chopsticks and put it on the garlic sesame oil plate, shake it, pick it up and put it in your mouth.

The crispy texture of the tripe and the rich and spicy aroma of the hot pot exploded in his mouth. Tears welled up in Su You's eyes: "After thirty-eight years, I finally got to eat you..."

Su Shi also followed the example of a cat and cooked a piece of belly, dipped it in sesame oil and picked it up. He felt that it was difficult to imitate Uncle Yao completely, and his emotions could not be brewed at once. He asked carefully: "Uh, Uncle Yao, I just eat and don't cry.

Is there no problem?"

"Hi!" Su You quickly swallowed the tripe and waved his chopsticks: "This way of eating is called scalding. The tripe and goose intestines should not be cooked for too long, and then the meat dishes should be eaten first, and then the vegetarian dishes."

"Tofu and duck blood will become more tender the more you cook them, so you can cook them longer than usual."

"You can't drink this soup, and don't try it easily as there are leafy vegetables. The spicy oil is too spicy, I'm afraid you won't be able to stand it."

"The sesame oil dish is very important, it can remove the heat... Well, that's pretty much it, let's eat! First, take out the meatballs, crispy pork luncheon meat from the pot!"

Everyone had been impatient for a long time. After Su You gave the order, they started immediately.

Taking into account the acceptance level of the people in Bianjing and the fact that the peppers are very expensive and the seeds have been dug out, it is generally acceptable.

Su Shi was speechless: "It smells so good! It smells so good! This is really good!"

Su You was not very interested in meat, so he fished out magnolia slices in the pot: "How? Is it okay with you?"

Su Che said with a smile: "In winter, three or five friends sit around a table, cooking and eating, drinking and composing poems at the same time. It's really fun!"

Su Shi said: "When we passed by Yuzhou, local celebrity Wang Daoju invited me to eat a dish on the Yijiang River. It was similar to Uncle Yao's dish. He said it was the way Ba people eat it."

"But they use several kinds of river fish, but the taste is also good."

"Of course, the color, flavor and flavor are far inferior to the one in front of me, and there is no fire in the pot. Halfway through the meal, I have to take it out and reheat it."

Su You immediately understood: "That's a way to eat fish in cold pot. Let's do it another day! Wait, why did we go to Yuzhou together and I didn't share in this good thing?!"

Su Shi pretended to be stupid: "Didn't you just focus on answering questions at that time and couldn't even get off the boat? Where did the eel go? Get off quickly..."

After eating the eel and having a drink with Su You, Su Shi picked up the goose intestines and boiled them: "Why didn't the flat pot come here today?"

Su You said: "The flat jar will be used to accompany His Majesty's guards. This stuff has a strong taste and is worth eating. I'm afraid it will smoke His Majesty."
Chapter completed!