Chapter 822: Babao pickles paired with lotus leaf porridge, the more you eat, the better it gets! This is the taste of home! [Please subscribe]

"What a beautiful lotus leaf!"

When Shen Jiayue saw Lin Xu coming back with several lotus leaves, she came over with some surprise, picked them up, smelled them, and asked curiously:

"This doesn't have much flavor. Is it really suitable for making porridge?"

Lin Xu smiled and said:

"We'll know if it's suitable or not. We'll try it later. Didn't you drink lotus leaf porridge when you were a child?"

"No, this is what the discerning people used to drink in the past. When I was a kid, I always drank noodle soup. It's simple and easy to make, and it's easy to pair with pickles."

After Shen Jiayue finished speaking, she carried Dundun, who was just about to jump onto the reception desk and take a nap, and went to visit Aunt Sun's house.

Lin Xu put the eels he brought in the aquarium, then went upstairs with the lotus leaves to prepare lotus leaf porridge.

This delicacy sounds quite simple. Just boil the rice porridge, cover it with a washed lotus leaf, and wait for it to cool down. But in fact, there are also some things to pay attention to when cooking porridge.

Especially the lotus leaf porridge in Beijing, it takes a certain amount of effort to make the porridge thick and smooth, not mushy or lumpy, and also has a rice flavor.

Lin Xu took a large casserole usually used for making porridge, put water into it, washed some Wuchang rice bought at a high price, poured it in, boiled it over high heat, skimmed off the foam and simmered it for ten minutes, until the rice grains were boiling.

The flowers bloom slightly in the water, then cover the pot, turn to low heat and simmer slowly.

While making porridge, he planned to make some side dishes to go with the porridge.

Under normal circumstances, lotus leaf porridge is either paired with brown sugar to make brown sugar lotus leaf porridge, or it is paired with eight-treasure pickles. Using pickles with porridge is not only more appetizing, but also makes the porridge more fresh.

However, the eight-treasure pickles commonly eaten in the capital generally require about a week to be pickled, so it would be a bit late to eat them today.

Lin Xu plans to make some quick eight-treasure pickles so as not to delay dinner.

The so-called quick eight-treasure pickles actually save the pickling step. Mix semi-finished pickles and other ingredients together, then pickle them briefly and serve them.

Lin Xu went to the warehouse to search around and found the ingredients he needed.

One package of cooked kelp, one package of sea cabbage, one package of dried Xiaoshan radish, one cooked soy sauce pimple, one tablespoon of hand-peeled pine nuts, one tablespoon of cooked white sesame seeds, half a small bowl of peanuts, half a small bowl of peas, and one package of platycodon.

Half a small bowl of soybeans...

Although there is eight in the name of Babao Pickles, it does not require eight ingredients. In fact, there are many versions of Babao Pickles. There are no particularly strict requirements on the ingredients. It only requires a variety of ingredients to be mixed together to make the sauce.

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In the past, these were eaten by the poor, and it was not until later that they became more concerned about it.

Lin Xu washed the cooked kelp, blanched it together with the sea cabbage in hot water to remove the fishy smell on the surface of the kelp, then poured it in cold water and chopped the kelp and sea cabbage into small pieces.

Set the cut kelp aside for later use. Then Lin Xu put the soybeans into the pot, added salt, star anise, cinnamon and bay leaves and other marinades, and started cooking.

By the way, make another pot and put the green peas into the pot to cook.

However, you don’t need to overcook the peas, otherwise they will become soft and rotten and lose the unique taste of green beans.

After finishing this, Lin Xu put some five-spice powder and light soy sauce into the water-controlled kelp and sea cabbage, and marinated them in advance to prevent them from being tasteless when eaten later.

Then wash the soy sauce dumplings, cut them into slices, open the dried radish and platycodon, and put them all into the kelp.

Take out the green beans after they are raw, rinse them with cold water, dry the surface moisture with kitchen paper, put them into the kelp together with the fried peanuts, cooked white sesame seeds, and hand-peeled pine nuts, and add a few chopped millet peppers.

Add some spiciness to the pickles.

Wait until the soybeans are cooked until soft, take them out, control the water and pour them into a basin, then pour some dark soy sauce, some light soy sauce, sprinkle a small spoonful of sugar, and pour in pepper oil, mustard oil, and sesame sesame oil.

Stir evenly, cover with plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator. When you take it out for dinner, these pickles are ready to eat.

Because quick pickles use pickled dried radish and other ingredients, they can be made and eaten immediately, but strictly speaking, only pickles that have been pickled in miso soup for about seven days are the original Babao pickles.
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The rice porridge was not ready yet, so Lin Xu had nothing to do, so he cut some Xinmei radish, marinated it with sweet and sour sauce, and used it with the porridge later.

But it’s not enough to just eat these pickles and pickles, as that probably won’t be nutritious enough.

Lin Xu made some more noodles, using lard residue, sea rice, vermicelli, leeks and other ingredients to make stuffings and steam them into steamed buns. Then they can be eaten together with porridge. Add various side dishes and it is perfect to eat with porridge.

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After another half hour, the rice porridge in the casserole became much thicker and the rice grains bloomed completely.

Turn off the fire, lift the lid of the pot, and cover the porridge with washed lotus leaves. In order to prevent the temperature of the porridge from not cooling down during dinner, Lin Xu specially brought the porridge to the cold storage.

The casserole cools down relatively slowly, so it will probably be warm by dinner time.

It's neither cold nor hot, and it tastes most comfortable.

After the buns were steamed, Shen Jiayue came back from a visit with Dundun. Dundun was wearing a small cowboy hat on her head. Aunt Sun bought it for her grandson, but the little guy didn't seem to like it very much, and neither did Aunt Sun.

Reluctantly, when I saw Dundun coming to visit, I pinned it directly on its head.

In this way, the originally majestic little blue cat turned into a Western cowboy cat.

Dundun was very satisfied with this cowboy hat. When she came back, she couldn't wait to go to the mirror and take a serious look at her handsome appearance wearing the hat.

Shu Yun also turned out his red triangle scarf and tied it around his neck.

Now, he looks more like those Western cowboys in movies and TV shows who draw their guns when they disagree and find someone to fight at every turn.

"My son is so handsome!"

Shu Yun scratched Dundun's chin and praised him with a smile.

The little guy rubbed Shu Yun's hand and returned to the mirror, looking as if he was impressed by his handsomeness.

While they were boasting, Chen Yan and Zeng Xiaoqi walked in. When they saw Shu Yun, they happily started to show off the state banquet they shot today:

"That Tokyo Bomb was so delicious, I couldn't even get enough of it."

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"Me too, it tastes very enjoyable, especially when paired with rice. The sweet, sour, and salty flavor made me eat an extra bowl of rice... By the way, what are you having for dinner in the restaurant today? Tell me and make me look forward to it. Just a moment."

Chen Yan has completely let herself go now, thinking about eating all day long to ensure the nutrition of her fetus.

Shu Yun smiled and said:

"Tonight we will eat porridge and pickles."

Chen Yan wanted to go back as soon as she heard this:

"Really or not? Aren't Lin Kee's employees usually very good at meals? Why did they suddenly stretch their hips?"

I thought I would be able to eat something as good as a banquet today, but I didn’t expect that it was just porridge with side dishes. Isn’t this a big gap?

Zeng Xiaoqi was more thoughtful and asked:

"What kind of porridge is porridge? What kind of pickles are pickles?"

I have to ask, maybe I’ve made some rare dishes.

"Today, the boss went to the ginkgo garden to see the location of the school, and picked some lotus leaves by the way. What is being cooked upstairs right now is the lotus leaf porridge that Mr. Tateyama mentioned last time, and there are also eight treasures that the boss himself mixes. The pickles should taste good."

Upon hearing this, Chen Yan, who was looking for a reason to go home to eat, immediately gave up:

"Since it's lotus leaf porridge, I'll keep it and try it. I heard that eating lotus leaves can relieve heat and reduce internal heat, so I just got a little angry."

While chatting, Shen Jiayue held a cup of sour plum soup and asked while drinking:

"I heard some people shouting and yelling upstairs... What do you mean by bombing Tokyo?"

Shu Yun smiled and said:

"It's crispy pork slices. Chef Xie made it for a Japanese delegation once in the past. They enjoyed it very much. However, they were criticized by the leader afterwards and said they couldn't serve such controversial dishes."

People who come from Diaoyutai know the names of many dishes very well. After all, diplomacy is no small matter.

Shen Jiayue was not curious about the crispy pork slices, but she was quite interested in the name. She planned to let Lin Xu make some to try later, lest some people get their tails raised.

Lin Xu finished his work and came downstairs, looked at Shu Yun and asked:

"Now that the company has a car purchase quota again, shall we allocate a car for you? It is unreasonable for such a big store manager not to have a mobility scooter."

Shu Yun is not interested in cars, and with the transportation in Beijing, driving is really not as fast as taking the subway.

She smiled and said:

"I'd better forget it. I haven't touched a car since I took the driver's license test in my sophomore year. If I get scratched while driving rashly, it will totally affect my mood. Moreover, the community where I live has been quarreling over parking spaces all day long, and those who parked in can't get out.

I wanted to park inside but there was no place, so there was no day without noisy..."

Lin Xu did not force anything after hearing this, and asked Dou Wenjing to give Shu Yun a bonus of tens of thousands of yuan, and an additional transportation subsidy of one thousand yuan per month, which was considered as compensation for not having a car.

However, you still have to buy the car, after all, the quota expires and you won’t wait.

He thought about it and felt that Zhen Wensheng was about to become the principal, and no mobility scooter was suitable. The principal's car should not be too ostentatious and should be low-key, so it would be an Audi A6 or a Lexus, depending on which one Zhen Wensheng likes to drive.<

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In addition, Ziqiang Shengjian cannot let Sister Yuanyuan rent cars all the time. After all, the business is getting bigger and bigger, with more than 20 branches. If you rent a car again, the price will be lower.

Lin Xu plans to equip her with a high-end Mercedes-Benz E-Class sedan.

The car grade assigned to Dou Wenjing was too low, so other people’s cars could only be assigned to this grade for the time being.
To be continued...