Chapter 209: You have a sharp nose. Eat, eat, eat. You only know how to eat.
The first choice for soaking sea cucumbers and abalone is to use purified water, which has no impurities and has better soaking effect.
The second is mineral water, and the worst is tap water.
There should be as much water as possible. Sea cucumbers and abalones can only grow bigger after absorbing enough water. The water level should be at least 5 cm higher.
If it were in modern times, Song Shiwei would definitely wrap the basin with plastic wrap, put it in the refrigerator and soak it for 36 hours, and change the water every 8 hours.
The sea cucumber and abalone soaked in this way have the best effect!
But now one is that time is tight, and the other is that conditions do not allow it.
She wasn't that particular, so she could only do a simple version of the soaking method.
That is to directly use saturated salt water to keep the temperature at about 100 degrees and boil it for three hours.
Saturated salt water can quickly make the sea cucumber and abalone absorb water (generally not recommended, because the taste is not as good as the normal soaked sea cucumber)
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It just so happened that it was still early for dinner. The Zhou family always had their New Year’s Eve dinner very late because they had to stay up all night. Li Guifen meant to have dinner after ten o’clock in the evening.
Therefore, Shen Xiu'e didn't think of waking Song Shiwei up too early. There was nothing to do if she came early, just help with cooking.
Song Shiwei took the salt shaker and put a lot of salt into the small pot, which made Lu Yuhua and Wang Cuizhi feel very distressed.
“This salt is very expensive!”
"Yes, Tingyue, why did you put so much salt?"
Shen Xiu'e immediately retorted: "No matter how expensive salt is, it's not as expensive as the abalone and sea cucumber my daughter-in-law brought you."
Several people stopped talking immediately.
Song Shiwei took the dried sea cucumbers and abalone out of the basin, put them in a small pot, added some water, and slowly cooked them on a small coal stove nearby.
During this time, she started preparing the side dishes.
For sea cucumber, she plans to make scallion-fried sea cucumber, abalone steamed egg, and finally abalone, scallop and seafood porridge.
When Lu Yuhua saw her take a dozen more eggs and a dozen small bowls, she felt even more distressed.
"To make sea cucumber and abalone, you need eggs."
Shen Xiu'e was just staring at them, and when she saw her speak, she couldn't help but retort to her.
"It's just a dozen eggs. It's New Year's Day, and my second brother and his wife are reluctant to eat them?"
Lu Yuhua didn't want to lose face in front of her, so even though she felt heartbroken, she didn't dare to say anything.
The same thing happened to Li Meng and a few others. They didn't recognize the sea cucumber and threw one to the cat. They are regretting it now, and several sisters-in-law also have complaints about her.
She didn't dare to say a word, and just looked at the small pot in front of Song Shiwei with a look of heartache.
What a pity! It would be great if I could keep it. It’s all money!
Unfortunately, there is no if!
Three hours later, around 9:30, their dinner was almost ready.
Song Shiwei took a look at the sea cucumbers, abalone and scallops in the pot. They were almost fully soaked, especially the sea cucumbers, which were plump and bouncy, and looked very bouncy!
She took the seafood out of the pot, put it into a clean basin, and started processing the sea cucumbers while soaking them.
The sand spits of sea cucumbers need to be cut off one by one.
Since there was no need for Zhou Tingyue to light the fire, he came over to help Song Shiwei prepare the seafood.
There is actually a fascia in the sea cucumber. During the cooking process, Song Shiwei took them out one by one and removed them so that they could expand.
After the sea cucumber and abalone were prepared, Song Shiwei prepared to start frying them.
Even though the other dinners were ready, Lu Yuhua, Wang Cuizhi and the others did not go out. They just wanted to see whether Shen Xiu'e's daughter-in-law could cook.
Li Meng secretly thought that maybe she was just showing off. How delicious could the food cooked by such a young girl be?
Song Shiwei asked Zhou Tingyue to help her light the fire, and Shen Xiu'e came over to help because she was afraid that she would be tired.
The first dish is the scallion-fried sea cucumber.
Heat oil in a pan, and when the oil is 60% hot, Song Shiwei quickly put the scallion slices on the chopping board into it.
The most important thing about this scallion-fried sea cucumber is the scallion oil!
After the scallions are fried, this dish will be very fragrant!
Song Shiwei kept watching the oil pan, and when the scallion segments were fried until golden brown, he took them out and drained the scallion oil from the pan for later use.
Leave some oil in the pot, sauté chopped green onion and ginger, then quickly add the soaked sea cucumber, the chicken broth from the chicken just stewed, and then add salt, cooking wine, soy sauce and a little sugar.
After boiling, Song Shiwei stopped Zhou Tingyue from adding more firewood and simmered it on low heat for two minutes.
Because there was no starch at home, she mixed some flour, thickened it with thin flour water, then added some firewood, simmered it over medium heat until the sauce was reduced, and poured in scallion oil.
The fragrance came out instantly.
The few people who were waiting to see the joke just now were all sniffing their noses at this moment.
“It smells so good!”
“It smells really good!”
Even Wang Cuizhi couldn't help but whisper: "I didn't expect that my daughter-in-law Shen Xiu'e is really good at cooking! The sea cucumber she made is so delicious!"
Li Meng heard this and curled her lips in disdain.
"Maybe it's not because her cooking is delicious, maybe it's because the ingredients are good that it smells so good. Who can eat Shanghai ginseng?"
Lu Yuhua nodded after hearing this.
"That's right, what Mengmeng said makes sense!"
Shen Xiu'e on the side couldn't help but smile.
"Yes, most people don't even know what a sea cucumber is! They even mistake it for a fire stick and feed it to cats!"
This is almost the same as naming names.
Li Meng's face turned red with anger, but she didn't know how to refute. After all, Shen Xiu'e was her elder, and if she said anything else, it would be like talking back to her elder.
What's more, Zhou Runde holds a high position and she doesn't want to offend him. Zhou Liang has been asking him to help find a job for her!
She can look for Song Shiwei's problems, but she will never look for Shen Xiu'e's problems!
At this time, others also came following the scent.
As soon as Zhou Liang entered the room, he shouted, "What are you cooking? Why does it smell so good?"
Li Meng said unhappily, "You are the only one with a sharp nose. Eat, eat, eat, that's all you know how to do! This is the scallion-fried sea cucumber made by Jia Yue's wife!"
"Sea cucumber?"
When they heard it was this thing, not only Zhou Liang was excited, but even Zhou Dazhuang and Zhou Erhong were also very excited!
Zhou Liang rubbed his hands and squeezed towards the stove, his mouth almost watering: "Oh my God, it's really a sea cucumber, it smells so good!"
Wang Xiaoyan covered her mouth and laughed: "Today we not only have sea cucumbers to eat, but also abalone!"
Zhou Dazhuang's wife, Sun Chuntao, also laughed: "Yes, today we are also blessed by our uncle's family. We can also taste the abalone and sea cucumber that only rich people can afford!"
When she heard about abalone, even Li Guifen, who ran slowly, squeezed in.
"What, there are also sea cucumbers and abalone?"
She has never eaten much in her life! Now you have to taste it carefully?
Suddenly the whole kitchen was packed with people!
Shen Xiu'e was afraid of squeezing her daughter-in-law, and Zhou Tingyue also carefully protected Song Shiwei.
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