Chapter 165 Fish and Shrimp Pot (1)

"Red stew" is a traditional Chinese cooking method, which can even be said to be unparalleled in the history of world cuisine. It combines stir-frying and then boiling to form a unique local cuisine.

The fish and shrimp stew that Xia Tian is going to make now actually originated in South China. It has a light and sweet taste. She plans to add spices to make it salty and fragrant.

Remove the scales and internal organs of the fish, remove the shrimp thread, and put various spices for seasoning and flavoring aside. Also, wash the freshly picked vegetables, berries and some tender stems of plants and place them all on clean leaves for later use.

Because the stone pot was occupied by bone soup and such a large pot was not needed for making fish and shrimp stew, Xia Tian chose to use the small stone basin that was used for incense before.

She placed the stone basin on the stove to heat it up, found a piece of fat meat that she had prepared earlier, and rubbed a thin layer of grease directly along the edge of the pot.

Then add the prepared spices and stir-fry them in the pan. A slightly pungent but tempting aroma will slowly waft out.

Perhaps because everything in this world is bigger than on Earth, the effect of this spice is much stronger than on Earth, and the flavor gradually becomes more and more intense.

"Xia Xia, what did you put in this? The smell is too pungent. Is it edible?" Ye asked the doubts in his heart on behalf of the indigenous people of this world.

You should know that the main race of the Jintong tribe is wolves, and they usually eat meat.

Although he would occasionally eat some miscellaneous food due to financial pressure, they were all light-tasting berries and tender stems. He would never touch "grass leaves" like this one that smelled so pungent.

"Could it be that... this is some kind of herb that can be good for the body if eaten?" This was the most reasonable explanation Ye could think of.

Otherwise, it is hard to say whether these things are poisonous or not. Although they are fragrant enough, if you eat them... isn't that self-torture?

At the same time, in the live broadcast room, for the interstellar people who have a basic food culture and usually rely on drinking nutrient solution to maintain life...spices are also a very unfamiliar term.

[Although, what is this spice? Do I have to eat it? I see Xia Xia is coughing from choking.]

[Could it be the same as Uncle Ye said? What kind of herb is this? Is it good for the body?]

[I think Xia Xia also released it before, but it wasn’t as choking]

"This is not some kind of herb, it's just a spice for enhancing fragrance." Xia Tian saw that the aroma of the spices in the pot had been fried out, so she turned up the heat, put the fish and shrimp in and stir-fried them until they were about 60% to 70% cooked, then added salt.

Then add a circle of water around the edge of the pot, just enough to cover the fish and shrimp, then add the vegetables, berries and tender stems that have been washed earlier, bring to a boil over high heat and then simmer over low heat.

After completing this series of operations, she breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "Although it smells pungent, it disappears once you add water and boil it. And the smell doesn't completely permeate the fish and shrimp, so the taste is just right."

The pot of fish and shrimp stew was colorful, and various spices were stewed together with the fried fish and shrimp. The pungent smell from before had indeed disappeared, and was replaced by a fragrance that Ye had never smelled before.

It instinctively tempts people to try it.

Moreover, this was the first time he came across the idea that this kind of ingredient was added just for seasoning.

So... when cooking, you can add spices just for flavor, but you don't actually eat them?

(End of this chapter)