Chapter 220 It’s time to celebrate again

With such a happy event happening, the whole family naturally has to get together and have a delicious meal to celebrate.

Chen Huazheng was also very happy and decided to make a roast duck for everyone to taste at the dinner.

Zhou Ying also followed him into the kitchen. She found it quite novel.

Shen Huazheng has cooked goose meat quite a lot, but this seems to be the first time she has cooked duck meat.

The cooks prepared the duck, cleaned it, and then, according to Shen Huazheng's instructions, put ginger, onion, garlic and other seasonings into it for the first round of marinating.

Doing this can help remove the fishy smell.

Thinking that the time was about right, Shen Huazheng boiled some water and poured it over the duck's skin to scald it.

After the duck skin is scalded in boiling water, the pores will begin to tighten.

After blanching, the duck is put into the oven and baked to make the skin more crispy and delicious.

Shen Huazheng asked someone to take the duck outside to dry, while she started to prepare the sauce.

The most important thing in the sauce is honey. After being dipped in the sauce containing honey, the duck's skin will turn into an attractive caramel color and the taste will become better.

Zhou Ying stood aside, helping Shen Huazheng while memorizing all the steps carefully in her mind.

According to her experience, the roasted duck will taste amazing after a while.

Just thinking about it, Zhou Ying started swallowing her saliva.

The roast duck hasn't even started to cook yet, but she seems to be hungry already.

Finally, the duck, which had been air-dried outside until its skin was hard to the touch, was taken in and evenly brushed with the sauce.

In order to make the roasted duck meat taste better, Shen Huazheng stuffed apples into the duck's abdominal cavity before putting the duck into the oven to roast.

As the duck meat was roasted, a rich meaty aroma mixed with a hint of sweet and soft fragrance domineeringly rushed into the noses of everyone in the kitchen.

Under high temperature baking, the fruity aroma and the meaty aroma of duck collide together to form a wonderful fragrance.

The whole kitchen was filled with a rich fragrance, and Zhou Ying couldn't help but sniff hard.

Smells so good!!

Roast duck is just like roasted honey barbecue pork, you can't just put it in the oven and forget about it.

During the roasting process, you need to brush the roast duck with sauce while keeping an eye on the heat.

This will allow the duck meat to retain moisture and make it more flavorful.

During the roasting process, the aroma of the meat is brought out and the juice in the meat is locked inside.

The roast duck is guaranteed to have crispy and delicious skin and tender and juicy meat inside.

Amid everyone's anticipation, the duck was finally roasted.

Chen Huazheng began to teach the cooks how to slice the duck. The duck's surface had been roasted to be crispy and fragrant, and a slight sound could be heard every time the knife was cut.

Roast duck is already full of fragrance. After being cut, the fresh aroma of the duck meat and the burnt aroma of the skin are intertwined, making the aroma even more intense.

Just by listening to the sound and smelling the tempting aroma, you can tell how delicious roast duck is.

Zhou Ying also joined in slicing the duck. Her knife skills were excellent and each piece of duck meat was cut evenly and neatly.

Although the cooks’ knife skills are pretty good, they can’t compare to Zhou Ying’s.

Every slice of roast duck cut by Zhou Ying has crispy skin and tender duck meat, with a thin layer of fat in the middle. It is simply perfect.

Shen Huazheng couldn't help but praise: "Cousin Ying is really amazing."

Zhou Ying smiled a little embarrassedly: "It's just a piece of duck, what's so great about it."

After a pause, she added: "When I really become a great chef one day, you can praise me again."

Shen Huazheng stopped what she was doing and looked at Zhou Ying.

A pale and desperate face suddenly flashed through her mind, gradually overlapping with Zhou Ying's bright smiling face in front of her.

Same face, but two completely different looks.

One is muddleheaded and disheartened, while the other is gentle, generous, confident and calm.

Shen Huazheng smiled sweetly: "More than a chef, Cousin Ying will soon become the best chef among chefs."

It’s great that cousin Ying has now found her direction and knows how to move forward.

Zhou Ying was a little amused and helpless. Her little cousin was good in everything.

He always likes to exaggerate her strengths, often praising her to the point that she is dizzy and somewhat lost.

Zhou Ying thought about what the situation would be like now if she had really given up on herself completely and did not choose to let her family support her.

Perhaps, she is still trapped in the Duke of Weiguo's mansion, confined to a corner of the backyard, and can only see the troubles in the backyard.

If that were the case, she wouldn't be able to eat so many delicious foods.

I can't feel the warmth and kindness, and can only live in a daze, like a walking corpse.

Without the support of her family, she would not have been able to be reborn.

Zhou Ying looked at Chen Huazheng: "Zheng'er, thank you."

Today's life is completely different from what Zhou Ying longed for as a child, but she prefers the current feeling.

Only when you step out of the cage that traps you and the world before your eyes becomes clear, can you discover that there are far more paths in this world than the one before you.

"Cousin Ying, why are you thanking me for no reason?"

Shen Huazheng keenly noticed that Zhou Ying's mood seemed a little different from before.

Zhou Ying smiled and shook her head: "Nothing, I just feel that you always praise me."

"Zheng'er, if you always praise me like this, I will become so arrogant that I don't know how high the sky is and how deep the earth is. Others will laugh at me if they know about it."

Shen Huazheng carefully observed Zhou Ying's expression and found that the smile in her eyes did not seem fake, so she felt relieved.

"What's the big deal? Cousin Ying has made rapid progress. Everything I said came from my heart. How could anyone laugh at me? Besides, you are the heir to the throne now. Who dares to laugh at you?"

The smile on Zhou Ying's face deepened. After He Li returned home, it was through these compliments that she found the Zhou Ying that she had lost.

The Zhou Ying who rode freely and was confident.

"Okay, stop praising me. Let's see what to do next."

"The duck has been sliced ​​and plated. The ingredients are ready and we can serve it right away.