Chapter 390 Red Oil Wontons and Glutinous Rice Wrapped Dough Sticks
Si Ming’s villa is very close to the apartment Ye Jiaojiao bought, just two streets away.
The next morning, after seeing Si Ming off, Ye Jiaojiao came to the apartment.
Ye Xiao had not yet gone to school at this time. He was preparing to make himself a simple breakfast, and was stunned when he saw Ye Jiaojiao pushing the door in.
"Why are you here so early?"
It had been a long time since I had bickered with my stinky little brother. Ye Jiaojiao inexplicably missed him. She deliberately winked at Ye Xiao and said in a pinched voice:
"I came here early to cook for you. Are you touched by me?"
Ye Xiao: “???” What’s wrong with stupid sister again?
Seeing this, Ye Xiao's mouth twitched. He was shocked by Ye Jiaojiao's pretentious look. He brushed away the goose bumps on his arm with one hand and walked towards Edward's room.
"I'll go wake Edward up."
"Hmph~"
Unable to amuse Ye Xiao, Ye Jiaojiao hummed childishly, then turned around and shouted loudly: "Big Brother, Fourth Brother, I'm back~"
"Junior Sister."
Hearing the noise, Yun Che and Bai Feng, who were meditating in their respective rooms, came out immediately.
Ye Jiaojiao sat on the sofa for a while and told them that she would go back to school tomorrow and came back today specifically to visit.
Yun Che and Ye Xiao are the ones Ye Jiaojiao feels most at ease with. Edward is still young, and with Yun Che, his future master, watching over him, Ye Jiaojiao is not worried.
It's Bai Feng
Ye Jiaojiao made this trip mainly for her fourth senior brother.
With Bai Feng's personality and strength, he is actually not suitable to stay in school. Her eldest senior brother has mentioned to her that he wants to put the fourth senior brother into the Fifth Army.
Ye Jiaojiao also asked Si Ming, and Si Ming said it was no problem.
A few days ago, Si Ming temporarily pulled Bai Feng to the Fifth Army to help. After Si Ming came back, he said that Bai Feng was quite cooperative and the overall environment of the Fifth Army was also very suitable for him, so Ye Jiaojiao wanted to ask Bai Feng's opinion.
"Fourth Senior Brother, you went to the Fifth Army to help Si Ming a few days ago. Did everything go smoothly?"
"Of course it went smoothly! How could it not go smoothly when I, your fourth senior brother, took action?"
Bai Feng felt a sense of accomplishment when he thought about how he displayed his prowess in the Fifth Army that night and bullied the soldiers of the Fifth Army. When Ye Jiaojiao mentioned this, his expression was full of pride and joy when he told the story.
Ye Jiaojiao looked at it and breathed a sigh of relief silently.
"As long as everything goes well, I'm glad. If Fourth Brother is interested, you can visit the Fifth Army base often. My eldest brother and I also lived there for a while. The soldiers of the Fifth Army are all straightforward and easy to get along with."
"Okay, if I have nothing to do I'll go to the Fifth Army."
Bai Feng agreed readily.
He and Ye Jiaojiao grew up together, and their likes and dislikes were actually quite similar. Ye Jiaojiao had some good feelings for the soldiers of the Fifth Army when she first came into contact with them, and Bai Feng was not much different. He still liked to bully those honest people.
After chatting, it was getting late and Ye Xiao was in a hurry to go to school. Ye Jiaojiao did not delay any longer and went to the kitchen to count the ingredients and prepare breakfast.
Ye Jiaojiao was not around, and Yun Che and Bai Feng were already fasting. On weekdays, only Ye Xiao and Edward needed to eat. Compared to cooking by themselves, they bought more food, so there were not many ingredients in the apartment.
Ye Jiaojiao rummaged through the locker and found that there was mostly rice and flour. She flipped through the recipe package and planned to make some red oil wontons as the staple food, and then have a portion of glutinous rice wrapped in fried dough sticks to relieve the spiciness.
It is best to eat red oil wontons right out of the pot. After Ye Jiaojiao prepared the dough and pork filling, she started to prepare the glutinous rice wrapped in fried dough sticks.
Glutinous rice wrapped in fried dough sticks is also called glutinous rice balls. There are two key points of this snack: one is the mellow aroma of the steamed glutinous rice, and the other is the crispy texture of the fried dough sticks.
The dough for making fried dough sticks needs to be left to rest. Ye Jiaojiao first mixes the alkali and salt in proportion, crushes them and puts them into a bowl, then adds warm water and stirs to dissolve them into an emulsion, generating a large amount of foam with a sound. Finally, add flour and stir into snowflake shape, then pound it into a smooth, soft and glutenous dough.
The dough needs to rest for at least a quarter of an hour. During this time, Ye Jiaojiao takes out the glutinous rice, washes it, and then stir-fries the sesame seeds and soybean powder separately.
After the glutinous rice has been soaked for a certain period of time, Ye Jiaojiao places a large steamer on the stove, puts gauze in the steamer, pours in the glutinous rice, and counts for fifteen minutes.
At the same time, the dough for the fried dough sticks is ready to be proofed.
Take out the dough and continue to knead it once, then fold it over again. Do this three to four times to allow the dough to produce gas, form holes, and become soft.
Ye Jiaojiao wanted to keep the crispness of the fried dough sticks when they were just out of the pan, so she calculated the time carefully. When she saw that the glutinous rice was steamed, she started another pot and poured most of the oil into it. When the oil was hot, she put the rolled out long strips of dough into the pot and fried them. During the frying process, she turned the dough over so that the strips could swell up.
When it was plump and swollen to a certain extent, Ye Jiaojiao quickly picked up the fried dough sticks and put them aside. At the same time, she took out the wet gauze that had been prepared long ago, scooped a spoonful of steamed glutinous rice, spread it with the back of the spoon, sprinkled a layer of soybean powder and a small amount of white sugar as a base, and finally put the fried dough sticks that had just been taken out of the pan on it.
Wrap it with wet gauze, roll it up from the bottom, wrap both ends, and tighten it to shape. The fragrant glutinous rice will firmly wrap the golden fried dough sticks.
Thinking that her naughty brother likes salty food, Ye Jiaojiao immediately spread some fried sesame seeds and meat floss on the top of the glutinous rice.
In order to make it easier for Ye Xiao to hold, she wrapped the bottom of the rice with several layers of plastic wrap, and then handed the glutinous rice wrapped in fried dough sticks to Ye Xiao.
"Hurry up and eat one to fill your stomach first, so that you won't be hungry if you run out of time."
"Don't worry, it's okay to be absent from morning reading."
Although he said there was no need to rush, Ye Xiao's hands were not slow at all.
He quickly took the loving breakfast made by his silly sister and took a bite before Bai Feng beside him could get jealous.
The glutinous rice and fried dough sticks were both freshly out of the pot. The heat from the glutinous rice had not yet dissipated and was still very hot. The fried dough sticks were also crispy and had the salty aroma of sesame and meat floss on the outside. Ye Xiao took a bite and squinted his eyes in satisfaction.
Seeing Ye Xiao eating so happily, Bai Feng, the ultimate sister-con king, felt unhappy. He finally remembered that he was jealous, so he hurriedly urged Ye Jiaojiao.
"Junior Sister! Where's mine? I'm hungry too!"
"Don't worry, Fourth Brother, it will be ready soon."
The glutinous rice and fried dough sticks were already prepared, and it would be much faster to just combine the two. As soon as Bai Feng finished speaking, Ye Jiaojiao quickened her movements, making two sweet and two salty ones, and everyone's mouths were filled with food.
After cleaning up the stove, Ye Jiaojiao started to make wontons with red oil.
Red oil wontons belong to Sichuan cuisine, similar to wontons, but the dough of the wontons is thinner and smoother, the soup is slightly spicy and fragrant, and it is tender and delicious.
The dough for making red oil wontons is ready-made, and she also took the time to marinate the filling while making glutinous rice wrapped in fried dough sticks, so all that’s left is to wrap it into wontons.
At the kitchen door, Ye Xiao finished the glutinous rice wrapped in fried dough sticks first. When he saw Ye Jiaojiao start to wrap dumplings, he stepped forward and grabbed the dough.
"I'll pack it, you go eat something first."
(End of this chapter)
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