kvmb Chapter 216 Trying to make your own sauce
Chapter 216 Trying to make your own sauce
Hunter Xu killed two chickens. Although Xu Congyi was passionate about cooking, she had little experience and confidence in making sauces. So she planned to make one pot with the Brothers Good sauce she bought from the space, and the other pot was completely left to herself to make the sauce for the pot according to the recipe and her own sauce. This arrangement can not only intuitively compare the differences between the two sauces, but also allow her to find problems in time during the comparison and make adjustments.
Xu Congyi put a lot of chicken feet into the sauce made by Brothers. He cut the nails of the chicken feet bought from the space and cut them into two halves, and soaked them in blood water aside for later use. The homemade sauce only contained the chicken feet of the two chickens, so that the difference could be tasted from the chicken feet.
Xu Congyi even made the sweet noodle sauce that needs to be put in the sauce pot by himself. Because it is not as complicated as sweet and spicy sauce, he started making it after lunch break. The method of making sweet noodle sauce is very simple. Mix soy sauce, sugar, soybean paste and water in proportion. The most important thing is to add some flour, which is not only the key to increase the viscosity of the sauce, but also the secret weapon to make the sweet noodle sauce taste more delicate and smooth. As it simmers over low heat, the sauce gurgles in the pot, the aroma overflows, and gradually becomes sticky and attractive in color.
Prepare the ingredients for the homemade sauce and mix them evenly according to the ratio Xu Congyi found in the space. While there is still time, Xu Congyi divides the chicken pieces that have been soaked in blood water and washed into two portions, and marinates them in each portion with the sauce in advance so that the stew will be more flavorful.
While waiting for the chicken to marinate, Xu Congyi was not idle. She turned around and devoted herself to the preparation of the side dishes. Although they were just simple potatoes, carrots and rice cakes, she handled them meticulously. The potatoes and carrots were carefully peeled and cut into even-sized dice, which were both beautiful and easy to taste. As for the rice cake strips, Xu Congyi made them herself. She first mixed rice flour and glutinous rice flour in a perfect proportion, then added an appropriate amount of water and gently stirred until it formed moist and fine powder particles. Then, she put the mixture into a steamer, and after it was steamed, she quickly kneaded it into smooth and delicate dumplings while it was hot. Then, she cleverly divided the dumplings into strips of rice cakes of moderate thickness, neatly placed them on a plate, and covered them with wet gauze to keep them soft and moist, waiting for them to become part of the delicious dish in the pot.
After finishing the rice cakes, Xu Congyi finally started making the pot. The first one she made was the pot with the "Brothers" sauce. This dish is relatively simple to make. Just use oil to sauté the onions, ginger and garlic, then pour in the sauce, put the marinated chicken pieces into the pot, add hot water and stew for a while, then add the prepared side dishes, and it can be easily completed. The other pot with homemade sauce has a few more steps. In addition to pouring the sauce, Xu Congyi also deliberately added dry spices, hoping to add more layers and flavors to the dish. Although she knew that the addition of bean paste would make the dish more perfect, considering the difficulty and time cost of making it, she chose to add more sweet noodle sauce and dry spicy sauce as a substitute, hoping to find a delicate balance between the two and avoid the risk of "turning over".
As the stove fire beat, the two pots bubbled in the pots. As time went by, the aroma became stronger and stronger, almost overflowing the kitchen and filling the whole house. However, Xu Congyi, who had been busy in the kitchen for a long time, seemed to have become a little "numb" to the strong aroma. She could not smell any difference in the taste of the two pots. She thought to herself that perhaps she really had "lived in a room with orchids for a long time without being able to smell its fragrance."
In order to ensure that both pots can achieve the best taste, Xu Congyi turned down the heat and let them simmer slowly on low heat. At the same time, she did not forget to prepare the staple food. The rice was steamed directly in the space. Xu Congyi was not very good at using the stove to steam rice. Using an electric rice cooker was very worry-free. After steaming, it would automatically keep warm, and there was no need to worry about the bottom of the pot getting burnt.
While the two pots were simmering, Xu Congyi also steamed the rice. All that was left was to wait. Xu Congyi looked at the watch and saw that there was still more than an hour before her two brothers got out of school, so she turned down the fire and went to the yard to make flower pots. No one was at home. When Xu Congyi was cooking in the kitchen just now, Xu's mother and Li Dahua wanted to help, but Xu Congyi refused. The restless mother-in-law and daughter-in-law went to the fields to water and weed.
Now Xu Congyi was also influenced by the Xu family and could not sit still. While waiting for the pot to cook, Xu Congyi planned to make a few flower pots by herself. She wanted to make flower pots with fences like those in modern times, so she sat in front of the stone table and used a small tool to plane the wood block to shape it. Trimming the shape was very time-consuming. Xu Congyi had just made a satisfactory shape of a wood block when she heard the sound of the two brothers coming home from school.
Xu Congyi was a little surprised. This was too fast. She looked at her watch and found that her brothers had come back half an hour earlier than usual. "Big brother, second brother, why did you come back so early today?"
"The teacher was not feeling well today, so he didn't attend the last class. We returned after completing the homework assigned by the teacher." Xu Congwen replied. Just as he finished speaking, Xu's mother, Li Dahua, Old Man Xu and Hunter Xu also returned.