It was already past three in the morning when Chen Chong came back from the police station.

What daily tasks, cat shit in the dark, bowls and plates in the kitchen, everything was left behind, he just wanted to sleep.

This day is tiring. From morning to night, I have to fight wits and courage with the murderer in the middle of the night, and I almost become mentally ill.

No dreams all night.

…

Didi...k? Didi...k?k?

The next day, the alarm clock at the head of the bed rang again and again, and turned off again and again. Chen Chong struggled for a long time. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw the black cat squatting on the quilt, his cat's eyes were cold and bone-black, his forelimbs were raised in the air, and his claws had already stretched out.

"Damn!"

Chen Chong was so scared that he ejected from the scene. He lifted the quilt and forced the black cat to the end of the bed. Then he quickly picked up the phone at the head of the bed and took the screen to look at his cheek. Fortunately, his face was safe and sound.

"Meow."

The black cat showed an extremely humanized look of contempt, jumped off the bed agilely, ran to the nest and took a pair of fish bones to Chen Chong's feet and threw them away, and meowed and kept screaming.

It seemed to be saying, ‘I’m hungry’.

"Go and go, go there." Chen Chong was still a little shocked, and he didn't look good at the moment. He raised his foot and kicked the black cat away.

This kick was not gentle, because it not only included the shock just now, but also the cat shit that strayed across the stairs last night! He believed that with the IQ of the black cat, it was definitely not an unintentional move!

It is revenge!

"It seems that you have to be careful about stepping on 'land mines' at home in the future."

After being tossed like this, my sleepiness was completely gone. I looked at the time and it was ten o'clock in the morning.

“Time is a bit tight.”

Chen Chong stretched his waist hard, ignored the black cat who was grinning beside him, washed himself, then stepped over the fifth stairs of the stairs with flip-flops, and hurried to the vegetable market.

To complete the production of authentic Mapo tofu, you naturally need fresh tender tofu. This kind of tofu is usually available in the morning to buy. If it is in the afternoon, the sour taste inside it will be aggravated due to the long-term placement of the tofu, which will greatly affect the taste.

Originally, according to the newly added memories, even tofu needs to be made by hand, but unfortunately there are few tools in the kitchen, so I can only put it in the future before I can improve this step.

After a lot of purchases, Chen Chong rushed back to the restaurant and cleaned it as quickly as possible. Then he chopped the newly bought super large ham sausage and added it to the rice, poured it into the black cat's bowl.

But looking at the black cat's indulgence, he doesn't seem to like to eat it. No wonder, it was a delicious and fat big fish last night, but today it turned into a ham sausage worth a few dollars a piece. This gap is not ordinary!

Fortunately, the black cat is illiterate, otherwise if he knew that this was close to the ham sausage, he would not know what he thought.

There was no time to think about it...No, Chen Chong didn't plan to consider the black cat's feelings at all. He hurried back to the kitchen and started making Mapo tofu.

Like fish-flavored shredded pork, this Mapo tofu is also a very common home-cooked dish. Since it is common, it inevitably leaves people with simple and very ordinary stereotypes.

However, today, Chen Chong will use the purest production techniques to cook the most original flavor, and fully reflect the marijuana, spicy, fragrant, crispy, hot, tender, fresh, and lively mahjong of "authentic Mapo tofu"!

Close your eyes slightly, sort out the production process of Mapo tofu, and then start officially.

First put clean water in the pot and bring to a boil. Wash the chicken breast and lean pork that you bought and cut into pieces, put them in boiling water and blanch them. Then pour out the water in the pot and change it to cold water. At the same time, put the removed ingredients back in and bring to a boil over high heat.

This doesn’t seem like the process of making Mapo tofu, but it is not. In fact, this step is the biggest difference between authentic Mapo tofu and ordinary Mapo tofu!

This process is called 'stock'.

Soup is one of the most commonly used auxiliary ingredients in cooking. Its purpose is very simple. As long as it needs to be added to water when cooking, it can be replaced by soup to increase the deliciousness and freshness of the dishes.

As the saying goes, "No chicken is not fresh, no duck is not fragrant, no skin is not thick, no belly is not white" refers to the principle of broth.

Most people don’t know that broth is actually just a general term, which contains three categories: hair scald, milk soup, and clear soup.

The so-called hair soup is also the lowest level of the three categories. It is boiled with cold water such as chicken bones, duck bones, pork bones, etc., to remove the froth, then add onion and ginger cooking wine to cook slowly over low heat for several hours. It is very simple. Its advantage is that it can be used continuously for hydration, which is very common in ordinary restaurants.

Of course, the disadvantages are also obvious. Continuous hydration will naturally lead to a lighter subsequent taste and will not reach the deliciousness of the first pot.

The second is milk soup. The ingredients are different from the scalds. Use pig's claws, pig elbows, pig's belly and other ingredients that easily make the soup white. First, blanch the ingredients with boiling water, then add cold water to boil over high heat, and still remove the foam. Add onion and ginger cooking wine, and boil it slowly over low heat until the soup turns white.

This stock is suitable for dishes with sticky sauces and has great limitations.

However, what Chen Chong wants to prepare today is the most difficult and highest-level clear soup among the broth! Not only are the ingredients different, but the production process is quite complex.

It is no exaggeration to say that this clear soup alone will occupy a large proportion of the entire Mapo tofu. It is also from this step that directly distinguishes the ordinary practice from ordinary restaurants.

Chen Chong smiled bitterly and shook his head. The chicken breasts cooked in the pot at this moment were carefully selected old hens. Unfortunately, the 'food identification technique' can only distinguish dead objects and will not have any effect on living objects. Otherwise, he would definitely buy a live chicken to get the meat without having to squeeze his head with the uncles and aunts in the vegetable market to compete for the slaughtered ready-made hens.

Fortunately, the quality of this piece of chicken breast is pretty good, reaching '7'.

Gulugulu...

The water in the pot has already boiled. Chen Chong took a spoon and slowly removed the top scum and white foam, then put in the onion and ginger cooking wine, and then simmered it over low heat.

It is worth noting that when making clear soup, the size of the heat is particularly important! If the heat is too high, it will be cooked into white milk soup, while if the heat is too small, it will be fresh and fragrant.

Therefore, it is not accurate to say that high heat or low heat is used. Just adjust the heat until the soup noodles are slightly opened and keep the small blisters turned over.

Squirt.

Just at this moment, the sound of plastic bags suddenly sounded behind him. Chen Chong turned his head suddenly and just saw a black shadow rushing out.

“I tm….”

Chen Chong knew it was a black cat, but what he didn't expect was that this guy actually dared to jump onto the table and took away a piece of pork while he was not paying attention?!

"Born?"

I quickly checked the bag, but fortunately I bought a lot of pork today, but there was still a lot left in the bag.

"This is used to make minced meat later, so it can't be lost."

Since there is no door in the kitchen, Chen Chong couldn't think of a better way for the time being, so he could only tie all the plastic bags, including the small bag of peppercorns.

"The black cat has a great origin. God knows if it will even eat peppercorns..."

Chen Chong hugged his upper mouth and blew his mouth, murmured,

"What kind of monster did I raise? I can't even get fat pork!"
Chapter completed!