Chapter 89: Making Dumplings [Update 1]
After Tu Rongrong finished eating the rice noodles, she looked at the time and found that only half of the resting time had passed, so she prepared the filling.
"Now, we are full. Don't worry if you lick your stomach. We are hungry before noon and can't wait to eat buns."
"Actually, when I woke up this morning, I hadn't decided whether to have buns or fried dough sticks. After I washed up and said I wanted to have fried dough sticks, I realized I didn't have the ingredients."
"As expected, you still have to finish all the preparations before deciding what to do. Otherwise, it will be like me. I decided to eat fried dough sticks only to find out there was no flour. So I had to plant wheat and ripen the wheat before I could make flour."
"It's really a hassle to eat fried dough sticks. I've been busy all morning and still haven't had any." Tu Rongrong complained to fans while washing her hands.
[Goddess Rongrong, everything you say is right.]
[Goddess Rongrong, next time you should check your food storage to see if you have enough ingredients before deciding what to cook. Otherwise, you will end up like today.]
[Today there are new foods and new delicacies. Goddess Rongrong, is there a lucky draw today? ]
[Is the lucky draw free, or is it a chance to buy something?]
"There will be a lottery today, and there will be about 10 spots. Each person can get two steamed buns, a fried dough stick, and a cup of soy milk." Tu Rongrong thought for a while and said. She had prepared quite a lot. Since she had already done the preliminary preparations, it didn't matter if she did a little more.
"Okay, our dough isn't ready yet, so let's prepare the filling for the buns."
"What do you mean by baozi? I don't know how to explain it specifically, but in my opinion, baozi is just dough wrapped around fillings, so it should be called baozi."
"Of course, besides baozi, there are dumplings and wontons. These are all just dough wrapped around fillings. Why is baozi the only one? I'm not sure why it's called that."
"After all, I'm not the one who invented baozi, let alone the one who named it, so if you ask me, I don't really understand." Tu Rongrong said speechlessly, "Just because I can make and eat baozi, do I have to trace its origins? And its history?"
"Well, there are definitely all sorts of stories and cultural histories behind all the delicious food. But you're asking me, a person from the interstellar past 9,000 years ago, to trace back to ancient history on Earth. Aren't you putting it in a difficult position for me?"
Tu Rongrong spoke very confidently. She actually didn't know the story behind the steamed buns. Even though she has lived for a long time, there are really not many people who would trace the origin of steamed buns when eating or making them.
Few people really care who made the buns in the beginning and who named them buns.
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Now let's make the filling for the buns." Tu Rongrong didn't care what the audience said, she just took out the pork for the filling.
Tu Rongrong didn't plan to chop the meat herself. She already had a household meat grinder when she made honey-glazed pork jerky. Since she was so lazy, it would be more convenient to use the meat grinder instead of chopping the meat herself.
Tu Rongrong took out several pounds of pork. Of course, she took out the pork belly with alternating fat and lean meat. After slowly removing the pig skin, she put the meat into the meat grinder and minced it into minced meat.
"In addition to pork, other meats are also very suitable for making buns. However, it depends on how to match the other meats to make them taste good." Tu Rongrong watched the meat grinder working while tearing off the fascia of the beans.
Tu Rongrong plans to make buns with two kinds of fillings, one with pork and green beans, and the other with pure meat filling.
[Goddess Rongrong, what do you mean by other meat? ]
[Goddess Rongrong, have you developed a new ingredient? How should we make it?]
We're making steamed buns right now. Isn't it a bit off-base to focus on other ingredients?
"If there's a chance, next time I'll make you buns stuffed with mutton and carrot, or beef and carrot. Mutton and green onion are also good. As for pork and celery, I don't like celery so I won't make it for you. If you want to eat it, you can research it yourself." Tu Rongrong complained.
"To be honest, I really don't think celery tastes good. Although celery is quite nutritious, I just don't like the taste of celery." Tu Rongrong said with a look of disgust. "When cilantro is used for seasoning, I can ignore it if I don't chew it, but celery is something I can't ignore at all."
Tu Rongrong continued to complain and came to the conclusion: "I really don't like eating celery."
What is celery?
[I know about cilantro. The goddess used it to garnish dishes and also used it as a seasoning.]
[The taste of coriander is really hard to describe. ]
[Huh? Don't you like cilantro? I think cilantro is delicious.]
[Fuck, there are people who actually like to eat cilantro! ]
[Mutton? Beef? Is that the lamb and beef I know?]
[Can both antelope and flame cattle be used as fillings for steamed buns? ]
Can the glutinous rice noodles and the oxen be used as fillings for steamed buns?
What would a mutton and carrot bun with beef and carrot filling taste like? I'm really curious.
[You haven't even tried pork-filled buns before, and now you're looking forward to lamb and beef-filled buns?]
Even though I haven't tried it, I believe in the cooking skills of the goddess Rongrong. She's sure nothing she makes is bad.
"Celery and coriander look similar, but I find the taste of coriander tolerable, but the taste of celery is unbearable." Tu Rongrong didn't know whether other rabbits liked to eat celery, but she didn't like it anyway.
"Okay, now, after we tear off the fascia next to the beans, we will process the beans." Tu Rongrong said after picking all the beans.
After Tu Rongrong tore off the fascia of the beans, he boiled a pot of water and put the whole beans in to blanch them. Of course, Tu Rongrong did not cook the beans directly. When they were about 50% to 60% cooked, he took them out and washed them with cold water.
"Because beans, as you can see, take longer to cook like this, while pork filling is easier to cook because it's minced in a meat grinder. So, in order to make the two ingredients cook at about the same time, we prepare the beans and blanch them in boiling water."
"The other fillings are probably similar. Anyway, when I make pork and carrot, mutton and carrot buns, I always blanch the carrots after I learn how to make them, until they are about 50% cooked."
Tu Rongrong washed the beans and then chopped them into small pieces. Of course, they were not chopped very finely, but they were not chopped too big either. Otherwise, what if the buns were broken when they were made?
After Tu Rongrong chopped the beans, he put them into a large bowl. At this time, the meat grinder had already prepared the minced meat, and Tu Rongrong divided the minced meat into two portions.
Put one portion of the meat filling into the beans, add salt, a little sugar and a little cornstarch and mix together. Of course, add a little peanut oil to coat it.
After mixing evenly, set it aside to marinate, and for the other portion of pork filling coated with fluff, add the other seasoning packets and mix them evenly, then add an egg white and stir.
After Tu Rongrong added seasonings to both fillings and marinated them, she washed her hands. Seeing that the dough was almost done, she uncovered the wet cloth, took out the dough, and continued to squeeze out the air holes in the dough.
Tu Rongrong kneaded the dough again for a while, and then prepared to make dumplings.
"Uncle Che, Yuanyuan, come here and make dumplings with me." After Tu Rongrong prepared the ingredients, she said to Tu Che and Tu Yuanyuan who did not disturb her.
Tu Rongrong is lazy, but she doesn't like to be disturbed when she cooks. She doesn't feel annoyed when someone helps her pick vegetables, but she will be unhappy if someone uses a knife to cut the dishes she has already prepared while she is cooking.
So when Tu Rongrong was cooking, Tu Che and Tu Yuanyuan would never pay any attention to her unless she called them. Anyway, Tu Rongrong was happy to be alone in peace and quiet.
Now it was time to make dumplings, and Tu Rongrong wasn't going to do it all by herself. She wanted Tu Che to help her roll out the dough so she could make the dumplings. She didn't like having to do both the rolling and wrapping herself—lazy people are just that hypocritical.
Of course Tu Che would not let Tu Rongrong be busy alone. He would not disturb her when she did not want others to disturb her. However, since Tu Rongrong had already asked him to go with her, Tu Che would not let her suffer alone.
Tu Rongrong handed the rolling pin to Tu Che and taught Tu Che how to roll out the dough.
Tu Rongrong was not going to make xiaolongbao, so she asked Tu Che to roll the dough a little thicker and bigger, so that the big buns would be more substantial.
Tu Che helped roll out the dough, and then Tu Rongrong took the dough and added the fillings to wrap the buns, and then pinched the pleats. Tu Rongrong's craftsmanship was very good, and he could easily pinch out 18 pleats, and the buns looked very beautiful.
【The dough is soft.】
[This filling smells so good, but it's not cooked yet, so I can't eat it...]
[This bun is so cute and soft. It moves when you touch it.]
[It's soft. Will it be this soft when it's cooked? ]
[Such cute and beautiful buns! Are they really edible?]
[System: 'Fenglin' gave anchor 'Rongrong' a Queen's Cloak*1]
[System: 'Yese' gave anchor 'Rongrong' a Supreme Scepter*1]
[System: 'Shi Guang' sent a sky full of fireworks to the anchor 'Rong Rong'*1]
[Yese V: Host, I can actually buy all the buns you can't finish. Can you sell them to me?]
【Ahhhhhh, rich man, please don’t do this. We want to eat too.】
[You rich man, please don't do this. Our goddess doesn't need a sponsor...]
Tu Rongrong looked at the audience's donations and smiled. "Thanks to 'Night' for the Supreme Scepter, thanks to 'Time' for the fireworks, thanks to 'Maple Forest' for the Queen's Cloak... Isn't this just a treat for everyone? So I won't sell these buns anymore. Two buns per person, one with each filling."
Happy National Day!
I can't promise to add more chapters, I'm already exhausted from keeping up with the ten thousand chapters TAT
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