When Su Wan woke up the next morning, she only heard that a few thieves had indeed been caught in the Daxiang Palace. They said that they were farmers from nearby who came to steal things and had been sent to prison to be dealt with later.
Many people were laughing at them for being so brave, saying that even a saint dared to steal things here.
But only a few people know what the actual situation is.
Su Wan roughly understood what was happening. Those who came to obstruct the Winter Festival at this time were targeting the Tianxiang Kingdom. They must have a grudge against them.
As to whether it was a foreign invasion or an internal conflict, it is unknown.
But since outsiders dared to cause trouble during the Winter Festival, I'm afraid the chaos will not be small.
There was also news that the Third Prince had a long conversation with the Saint, saying that the Saint praised the Third Prince for his cleverness.
Anyway, after hearing some news, Su Wan just wanted to laugh. Could they have a long talk?
Are you sure it wasn't a fight?
In any case, the winter festival is not even halfway through and the Third Prince has already firmly suppressed the other two princes. No matter whether the Saint is willing or not, and no matter whether their mother clans are willing or not, this is the situation now. It is up to you to accept it or not.
For Su Wan, there was another piece of news.
Originally, she was still thinking about how to find an excuse to replace the vegetarian ingredients in the small kitchen, because who knows if there are any drugs in them. Even if there is even the slightest possibility, these ingredients cannot be used.
Before Su Wan could think of an excuse, the head of the Imperial Food Department came to the vegetarian kitchen in the morning and brought a lot of ingredients: "The masters are very strict about ingredients. These ingredients are not fresh, so we replaced them with better rice and flour ingredients."
That’s what it means anyway.
The previous ingredients are no longer needed, so replace them all.
Xiyou Zhizhang was slightly surprised, but when he saw his superior shaking his head slightly, he knew that this was not the question they asked.
In that case, these three people are not ignorant people.
Li Rongrong was also smart and just listened to the orders of the female officials.
Su Wan is similar.
Looking at the expressions of the two girls, the officer smiled and said, "Is there a problem with temporarily changing the menu?"
Li Rongrong subconsciously looked at Su Wan, only to see Su Wan shaking her head: "No problem."
Who knew the questions were leaked in advance? After she finished the test, she knew that the recipe had to be changed, and she is now ready to make something.
Changing the menu temporarily would not only make it impossible to use the ingredients soaked in advance, but would also cause chaos. However, when the superior went to the kitchen, Su Wan had already made a list of the ingredients needed.
It's not difficult to share breakfast for about ten people at two tables.
After recent contact with the mages, Su Wan has already gained some understanding of them and has a rough idea of what kind of food they like to eat.
So the breakfast ordered today is delicious.
Fried rice cake, fried gluten, cucumber and dried tofu, osmanthus and sweet ginger.
Have another serving of shredded eggplant pancake and a bowl of delicious lotus root porridge.
First up is fried rice cakes. The ingredients are simple and you can make it now.
First, a few pieces of rice cakes are set aside, and then the vegetable snow vegetable, a kind of mustard greens, is added.
Then heat the oil in a pan. When the oil is hot, pour in the cut rice cake pieces. When the rice cakes turn slightly yellow, they are fried through.
This dish doesn’t need so much oil when stir-frying, but Su Wan thought about the taste of those mages and thought it would be better to cook it this way.
After pouring out the excess oil, add the snow vegetable and then pour in the water used to cook the bamboo shoots and shiitake mushrooms. Cover the pot and start simmering. The rice cake is already cooked and the vegetables will cook quickly too. You can basically serve it directly on a plate. Pour a little sugar in it and sprinkle with osmanthus sauce.
This is a sweet dish and it is suitable to eat in the morning.
The main thing is that the rice cake and snow mustard can absorb the fresh soup, and then it is seasoned with osmanthus, which tastes refreshing and not greasy, and is very smooth.
This is also a classic Taoist vegetarian meal.
Next is oil gluten.
This ingredient was used when making soup with three fresh delicacies yesterday. This kind of gluten fried in oil in advance absorbs flavors the best. As long as the base of the fried gluten is made more delicious, this dish will not be bad.
Then there are cucumbers and dried tofu. Although it is winter now, the masters’ disciples and grandchildren want to eat cucumbers, so they are still available.
Among the meat dishes, there is fried meat with cucumber, which is a classic combination.
The fried cucumber with dried tofu here uses dried tofu to imitate the texture of meat. Although it does not have the fibrous texture of meat, it tries to make the dried tofu absorb as much flavor as possible from the seasoning.
The remaining steps are the regular cooking steps.
You can use dried tofu just like meat, but it is easier to cook and it is difficult to have the soft texture of meat, so you need to simmer it for a while longer.
After it is out of the pot, the fragrance comes out naturally. A little black fungus is also added to this dish, also to imitate the stir-fried meat with cucumber and black fungus.
The final dish of osmanthus mixed with sweet ginger is definitely the highlight of the highlight.
Ginger is not included in the dietary taboos in Buddhism, so you can eat it.
The main young ginger used was pickled in advance and was prepared in advance when the Shangshisi came.
The young ginger is marinated with salt in advance, then the salt is removed and cut into thin slices. Finally, add sugar and water and put it directly into the pot to boil. The ginger sauce is cooled and then mixed with the sliced ginger. Then sprinkle with a layer of fresh osmanthus and it can be eaten after ten days.
This was made by Su Wan herself when Osmanthus fragrans appeared, and it is now useful.
Such ginger slices are not spicy at all, but very fresh and tender, and are best eaten as a side dish.
Su Wan was reluctant to take out much of it. If the menu hadn't been suddenly changed this time, she wouldn't have taken it out.
The last one is the eggplant cake.
This pancake is easy to make, but it consumes a lot of oil. Eggplant absorbs the most oil, and the more oil the eggplant has, the tastier it tastes.
Choose a tenderer eggplant, peel it, remove the seeds and cut it into shreds. Then fry it directly in hot oil. Pour in soy sauce and salt and sugar to enhance the flavor. After the eggplant shreds are fried, set them aside for later use.
The next steps require a lot of skill. First, heat the oil in the pan, then pour a spoonful of flour paste into it.
Flour slurry is a paste made of flour and water, but it looks thinner, like slurry.
First scoop a spoonful of flour and spread it in the pan, just like making pancakes, then immediately put the fried shredded eggs on the flour paste, let it shape slightly, and then scoop another spoonful of flour paste and put it on the eggplant shreds.
It means there is flour at the bottom, fried shredded food in the middle, and flour on the top again.
Fry until both sides are golden brown and the eggplant pancake is ready.
Because they cooked so quickly, no one else could react and realized that five eggplant pancakes in a pot were already ready. Only two pots were needed, one for each of the ten mages.
But Li Rongrong next to her swallowed subconsciously.
Although she usually doesn't like vegetarian food, the taste still makes her want to try it.
Fortunately, the little palace maid who was helping nearby asked if they could have a taste as well. Su Wan smiled and said, "Why not? Send the mages' food over later and we can cook and eat it ourselves."
After all, they are our own people, so there will definitely be no problem with this little thing.
Everyone cheered, and even Li Rongrong was a little excited.
By now, four dishes and one pancake have been prepared, and the rest is the lotus root porridge that is already cooking.
Things like porridge must be cooked in advance. The first thing Su Wan did after arriving was to cook porridge.
I took some soaked glutinous rice from the big kitchen, washed it and set it aside, then washed the lotus root, cut it into sections, and scraped it into pulp.
Finally, put the glutinous rice and the filtered lotus root juice in a pot and simmer over high heat. Cover the lid and simmer for a while. The glutinous rice and lotus root juice will taste better.
Then add sugar and osmanthus sauce for seasoning. Just mix them on top and the bowl of porridge will look very beautiful.
When the meal was ready, the small kitchen was filled with the fragrance of osmanthus.
In this way, who would know that they changed the menu at the last minute? Those who don’t know would think that they specially found osmanthus sauce to make this meal. It looks decent and beautiful, and feels like a complete banquet.
It’s not that Su Wan is generous to them, but these people have huge influence in the inner palace. If they don’t do well, there will definitely be people who instigate trouble.
As long as they do it impeccably, that's fine.
When Xiyou ordered the dishes to be delivered, he left a little bit of each dish out in case of inspection.
If anyone says there is something wrong with the food, they can come and check the leftover food.
This had never been done before when cooking in the west kitchen, but when it came to the inner palace, one had to be extremely cautious.
After the meals were delivered, the small kitchen finally breathed a sigh of relief.
In fact, it was still dark at this time. According to Su Wan's estimation, she got up at about two or three o'clock and cooked for an hour, which was half an hour to deliver the meal.
Even so, they probably ate in a hurry.
After all, a series of sacrificial activities will begin at around five in the morning.
While they are busy over there, the Shangshisi seems to be very relaxed.
But you can't slack off on lunch. Take a short break and then continue to prepare lunch.
Su Wan also accidentally heard that the Third Prince had made great contributions in capturing the thief, so he would have something to do in this winter festival.
He still got it done, and no one could refute it.
It was still dark when the palace servant who delivered the meal came back and looked at Su Wan with a dull look: "Su Wan, I have never seen anyone eat like this."
This is not an exaggeration at all.
When the palace servants delivered food to the disciples, they were eagerly waiting for it.
Four of the mages, the four who had tasted the food from the Imperial Kitchen yesterday, were looking forward to it eagerly.
Yesterday I got the Three Fresh Vegetables in Soup, and it tasted better and better the more I ate it. Now I can’t help but get excited thinking that I may be able to eat this dish again soon.
The other six felt helpless, is it really that delicious? Is it really that worth it?
When the two tables of food were delivered from the Shangshi Division, everyone answered in unison, As for!
That’s too much!
These are ingredients that monks see every day, so why do they taste so different?
It seems particularly delicious?
This doesn’t even include the mushrooms that are often used for seasoning?
And the ginger slices, sweet with a hint of fragrance, and the cucumber fried with dried tofu, like meat? One of the monks was about to say it, but he immediately shut up. How can a monk know what meat tastes like?
But he really felt that it was the taste of meat.
But when I ate it carefully, it was indeed dried tofu. I can only say that Shangshisi’s skills in making vegetarian meals have reached perfection.
And why is this rice cake also so delicious and well seasoned?
What amazed them at the end was the eggplant pancake and lotus root porridge for each person.
The eggplant pancake is sizzling with the unique aroma of rapeseed oil. It is fresh, tender and delicious, with a slight salty taste.
The lotus root porridge is sweet, smooth and fragrant.
They are both glutinous rice porridge, but why does the glutinous rice porridge made by Shangshisi have the fragrance of lotus root? I can’t tell. Moreover, the porridge is generally crystal clear.
Finally, it has a slight sweetness of osmanthus.
Every bite has a different flavor, and every bite has a unique fragrance.
They ate up such a delicious breakfast very quickly. The palace servant from the Imperial Kitchen who came to deliver breakfast was even registering for the breakfast delivery. After registering, he was about to leave when he was surrounded by ten mages.
Of course, there was only one question, that is, are there any more eggplant cakes and lotus root porridge? They still want to eat them!
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