Chapter 2 Follow-up and Daily Life (2)
There are many local specialties in Dresden's territory. After Jiangyou and Andre took a walk around the fields, they left with their baskets filled with fresh vegetables, fruits and melons.
With his family and several familiar partners present, and plenty of fresh ingredients and seasonings, Takuya was eager to start cooking. Furthermore, Annina's mansion had many skilled chefs, so helping Takuya out was a piece of cake.
Takumi took a look at the vegetables he had brought back, the kitchen overflowing with cheese, olive oil, and the steaming oven, and decided to make Garfield's favorite lasagna. It was a filling dish, easy to make, and easy to prepare with a team.
There is a big pumpkin that has just been harvested in the kitchen. I can make pumpkin soup, pumpkin pudding and pumpkin Basque cake.
Green peppers, eggplants and sweet potatoes can be stir-fried to make a dish called "Three Fresh Vegetables".
As for meat, we have some good beef and pork today... Well, it would be nice to make some sweet and sour pork or sweet and sour pork tenderloin, which would be a good way to use up the freshly baked sugar.
"With staple food, meat dishes, vegetarian dishes, soups, and desserts... Hey, that's it!"
Once the recipe is decided, you can mobilize the people and have fun cooking together.
Several chefs from the Dresden family were responsible for washing and cutting vegetables, and mincing meat. They also knew how to make pumpkin soup, pumpkin pudding, and pumpkin Basque cake. After Jiang You confirmed the production steps with them, he confidently handed the dishes over to them.
There are three main steps to making lasagna: stewing the meat sauce, making the dough, and making the white sauce. Finally, just combine these three things and bake them in the oven to make a delicious dish with a fragrant aroma.
Authentic tomato sauce is a must for Italian dishes. Jiangyou learned this method from a video tutorial by an Italian chef. Put a few washed tomatoes on a baking tray, drizzle with olive oil mixed with garlic, sprinkle with black pepper, and bake in the oven at 240 degrees for 30 minutes. After baking, remove the burnt parts of the tomatoes, and then blend the roasted tomatoes into a paste of tomato juice.
She put the tomatoes into the oven first, then started chopping garlic, onions and other vegetables and began to make the meat sauce.
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Heat oil in a pan over high heat, add finely chopped garlic, onion, celery and carrot. Stir-fry and cover with lid, then simmer for 5 minutes until the garlic and onion become golden brown and the carrot and celery are soft to the touch.
At this time, you can put the minced meat prepared by the chefs into the hot pot, half beef and half pork. It is pushed by the spatula with a pleasant sizzling sound, gradually turning into a beautiful brown color in the fire and blending with the vegetables.
The high fire licks the bottom of the pot, roasting the meat filling, emitting a rich aroma. At this time, adding some red wine to enhance the flavor, the aroma becomes even more rich.
At this time, you can add the tomato sauce made from mashed roasted tomatoes, add salt, throw in the tied bay leaves and thyme, then turn to medium heat and simmer for 20 minutes.
The traditional pasta recipe is simple: add one egg to every 100 grams of flour and prepare a bowl of water. If the dough becomes dry while kneading, dip your hands in some water and continue kneading. This dough is dry and hard, so it doesn't require too much water, just a little strength.
This kind of physical work naturally had to be done by Andre. Fortunately, there was a pasta sheeter for making croissants in the kitchen. After the dough was kneaded and set aside to rest, it could be put into the pasta sheeter and pressed from thick to thin one scale at a time.
The pasta press has nine scales, with 0 being the thickest and 9 being the thinnest. For lasagna, pressing to scale 6 is sufficient. Cut the pressed dough into a desired rectangle and set aside.
When the meat sauce is almost done, you can prepare the white sauce. Italian white sauce is made by mixing butter and flour in a 1:1 ratio, then adding milk and cooking until it reaches the desired consistency.
Jiangyou found a suitable small milk pot, put the butter into the pot to melt, then added flour three times, stirred the butter and flour evenly, and then poured milk into the pot to continue cooking.
White sauce also needs seasoning, with salt, pepper, and nutmeg being the most common. Once you've added the seasonings, continue simmering until you reach a consistency you like. That's it.
Next, take out the square deep dish mold that chefs usually use to bake bread and cakes, and add the sauce and noodles into it layer by layer.
For the bottom layer, just add red meat sauce and then put noodles on it. For the upper layers, add meat sauce, white sauce, and noodles in that order, until the second to last layer, put a thick layer of shredded cheese on it, then put another layer of noodles on it, and then pour a layer of white sauce on it, then cover it and put it in the oven, bake at 250 degrees for 20 minutes.
While the lasagna is baking, you can make sweet and sour pork, sweet and sour pork tenderloin and three fresh delicacies.
Sweet and sour pork (guobaorou), a famous dish from Northeast China, is easy to prepare, but creating an authentic and delicious dish requires considerable skill. Thinly sliced pork is marinated in salt and cooking wine, coated in a starch paste, and mixed thoroughly. Deep-fry in 70% hot oil until bubbles form. Once the entire dish is deep-fried, increase the oil temperature and fry again over high heat for a dozen seconds before removing the pork from the pan to drain.
Then put the oil in the wok again, add sugar, vinegar and salt, and boil it into a slightly sticky juice. Then add the shredded carrots, coriander, onions, ginger and garlic slices and stir-fry. Finally, turn on high heat and pour in the fried meat slices, and coat it with juice before serving.
The recipes for sweet and sour pork tenderloin and sweet and sour pork are similar: the meat is battered and deep-fried, then reheated and sauced. Similarly, the three fresh vegetables (sweet potato, eggplant, and green pepper) are battered and deep-fried before being stir-fried with the sauce.
After thinking it over, Jiangyou lit a pan of oil, put all the ingredients that needed to be fried into the pan, fried them for the first time and again, then prepared the sauces for each one and stir-fried them evenly.
First comes the sweet and sour pork tenderloin, followed by the three fresh vegetables. The most feared dish is the sweet and sour pork that becomes soft if left for too long, so it is served last.
When these dishes were served, the lasagna was also baked. Jiangyou took out the noodles, sprinkled them with shredded cheese, and put them in the oven to bake for five minutes. It was done.
The cheese melts under high temperature, bubbles slightly at the edges and corners, and bakes into a golden, crispy and fragrant crust. This is the most perfect state.
Annina, Aunt Wolf and Holly were already sitting at the dining table, hungry for food. Jericho and the servants had set the table and poured red wine into the glasses. When Jiangyou and Andre came out of the kitchen, they were warmly welcomed by everyone.
A large bowl of lasagna was served on the table, with sweet and sour pork tenderloin and sweet and sour pork, as well as greasy three fresh vegetables, next to it. The chefs also served thick and sweet pumpkin soup. As for dessert, it was of course a delicacy to be enjoyed after the meal.
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