Chapter 24 Steamed Spare Ribs and Braised Chicken with Scallion Oil
After setting the price, Jiang Youtiao casually picked up a wooden spoon from the kitchen as a test item. After inserting the nickel, the machine began to click, and after a few seconds, the spoon fell onto the wooden tray at the inlet and outlet.
Jiang You was very satisfied with this: "It works!"
She locked the boxes again, handed the key to the clue box to the knight, and kept the keys to the other two boxes for herself. "Then I'll go make bread... By the way, Tux, what do you want for breakfast?"
"Please give me another serving of that egg waffle." Tukes stroked his beard. "Anything new?"
"We have tofu pudding today! We have both sweet and savory options," said Jiang You. "If you want to pair it with egg waffles, I recommend the sweet one."
"Then this one." Tux found a seat and began to look at the task board that Jiang You had just put up. "Boss Bone, can I post my flyer on this board?"
"Okay, one soul fire will last for a month." Jiang You's voice came from the kitchen. A moment later, she came over with a plate of tofu pudding. "The egg waffles will take a few minutes. Try the tofu pudding first... What advertisement are you planning to post?"
Tukes pulled a flyer from his tool bag. "Here, this is it."
Jiang You took a look and saw that the flyer had a picture of Tuks holding a hammer, with a few big words written on it: "Furniture making, tool making, equipment making... please find Tuks!" Below it was Tuks's Raven Cage number, which was really concise and to the point.
Jiangyou turned around and pinned the flyer to the task board, then brought over the egg waffles that Tukes had ordered. Tukes looked puzzled and said, "Boss Bone, you don't want to accept the Soul Fire anymore?"
"Yes," Jiang You said with a smile, "I need some positive emotions. You can have breakfast first. After that, I can collect the soul fire."
——She doesn’t believe that anyone would still look sad after eating her food. This is a delicacy that can cure all bad moods!
Tux thought for a moment and gave her a thumbs-up. "High, really high."
The dwarf craftsman no longer hesitated, picked up the spoon and started eating.
Jiangyou asked Leila to clean the shop, then opened the door and started serving breakfast. Today's breakfast was still served with egg pancakes, fried dough sticks, and tofu pudding.
Jiangyou fried two pots of fried dough sticks. Seeing that it was enough for the time being, he went into the kitchen again to check the dishes delivered in the morning.
Holly had delivered a whole winter melon that morning. Jiang You thought for a moment and took out the Crucible of Time to make some winter melon tea. This tea cleared away heat and toxins, cleared the liver and improved eyesight, nourished the kidneys and promoted urination, whitened the skin, and slimmed the body, making it the perfect summertime refresher.
It is also very simple to make. You just need to clean the winter melon, cut it into small square pieces, put it into a large pot with the skin and seeds, mix it with sugar at a ratio of three parts winter melon to one part sugar, marinate it for two hours, and then start stewing it.
After stewing for three hours, you will get brown, transparent, and almost gelatinous winter melon tea. Use fine gauze to filter out the brown winter melon tea liquid, put it into a clean, water-free, oil-free, and sterile glass jar and put it in the refrigerator. You only need to add water for subsequent brewing.
A spoonful of the original pulp can make a large cup of winter melon tea. You can also add lemon slices or red dates according to your personal constitution and taste, or make some chewy jelly and put it at the bottom of the cup. It will be a very refreshing and modern best-selling drink.
What took five hours to make only took five minutes in the Crucible of Time. Jiang You filtered out seven or eight glass jars of puree and added ice cubes and clean water to the remaining winter melon tea in the pot, brewing a large bucket of winter melon iced tea as today's special drink.
Winter melon is not expensive, the main cost is in sugar. Since it can be diluted with water, the cost of one cup is not high. Jiangyou set the price at three nickels per cup.
She had just finished making the winter melon tea when the dwarf craftsman finished his breakfast. Jiang You received a golden-pink soul fire that emitted a joyful glow, and gave Tux a cup of winter melon tea: "This is for you to try. Come back next time~"
Tux's mood, which had just been depressed by the loss of his soul fire, was lifted again by the free drink. He took a sip of the winter melon tea, feeling refreshed all over. He laughed and said, "Great! I'll come back to post ads next month!"
After seeing off the dwarf craftsman, Jiangyou began to prepare the food for lunch.
Today's meat delivery was excellent spare ribs and chicken, so Jiangyou planned to make steamed spare ribs with fermented black beans and braised chicken with scallions. Both dishes were easy to prepare; the ingredients could be prepared and marinated, then plated up. They could be steamed or stir-fried anytime orders were placed—tastings Naxia could handle, giving her time to bake the bread.
Wash the chopped ribs repeatedly with flour and water to remove any blood and impurities, eliminating any fishy smell. Two tablespoons of minced garlic and half a tablespoon of fermented black beans are poured over with hot oil to enhance the aroma. Then, add two tablespoons of light soy sauce and one tablespoon of Jiangyou's homemade oyster sauce, along with salt and sugar, to create the basic sauce.
Add the sauce to the ribs and mix well, then add a spoonful of starch and mix well. Set it aside to marinate. Sprinkle some chopped green onions when steaming it. It will be a classic dish.
You have to fry the scallion oil yourself. Pour half a bowl of oil into the pot, add a handful of scallion segments and four slices of ginger, and fry over low heat until the scallion segments turn yellow and the onion flavor is completely absorbed into the oil. Then pour it into a clean glass jar to cool and store.
Although today's chicken is fresh, it is not a whole chicken. Jiangyou cuts the chicken into pieces of the same size, puts them into a pot of cold water, blanchs them and takes them out for later use.
Scallion oil chicken does not need to be marinated in advance. Just put the blanched chicken into the oil pan, add scallion oil, soy sauce, cooking wine and a little sugar, stir-fry until evenly colored, then pour in half a bowl of water and boil, and collect the sauce until thick before serving.
Takumi called Naxia over and cooked both dishes. After teaching Naxia, Takumi handed over the lunch break to her while he did something else.
Kneading dough, baking toast, making sauce...Jiangyou's schedule is still full today.
At lunchtime, Alexi sent over two plates of tender tofu, which were paired with seasonal loofah and live shrimp provided by Xiaolong, making just enough to make a large pot of loofah, shrimp and tofu soup.
The soup is not easy to take out and can only be eaten in the restaurant, but both the steamed spareribs with fermented black beans and the braised chicken with scallion oil are excellent takeout dishes. Just pair them with rice and they can be a set meal.
Jiangyou had ordered a number of bamboo bento boxes from the beavers, and Lolisa had already sent them. The oval-shaped boxes were perfectly filled with rice, half with black bean ribs or scallion-braised chicken. They were clean and beautiful, and the sight of them was enough to make you hungry.
In order to reduce the waiting time of the guests, lunch dishes will be prepared in advance. When the first batch of steamed pork ribs and braised chicken came out of the oven, Jiangyou updated the takeaway menu. Today's takeaway only sells these two bento sets, and each set contains a small bamboo cup of winter melon tea.
Just five minutes after the menu was updated, a flock of ravens arrived and waited at the takeout window.
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