Chapter 70 Dezhou Braised Chicken
"Before the school started, I was told to teach mathematics, but after the school started, some people suddenly had the idea to let me lead the propaganda team. I am not a musician or dancer, but now I have to rehearse programs every day."
Qi Yan talked about a lot of things in the school in the letter, which was completely different from Liang Meiqin.
Du Shaojie knew very well that Liang Meiqin should have confidentiality requirements, so there were many things that could not be said.
Qi Yan had no such scruples, and said whatever she thought of. Overall, there was a gap between reality and imagination, which made her a little unhappy, but not to the point where she could not bear it.
In fact, in today's schools, teachers' teaching tasks and students' learning tasks are not heavy, and extracurricular activities occupy half of the country.
For example, various art performances are held from time to time, and the rehearsals include modern model operas, choruses, etc. The propaganda team does this job.
"Shaojie, I want to eat big plate chicken."
Qi Yan's letter ended here. Her writing style was completely different from Liang Meiqin's.
Liang Meiqin treated Du Shaojie as a person to confide in. Between the lines of her fresh and graceful words, there was a faint sense of separation and a vague feeling of missing.
Qi Yan treated Du Shaojie as a person to complain about, laughing and scolding, without even a little concealment. However
, the two people also had one thing in common, that is, they wanted to eat the dishes cooked by Du Shaojie.
"So I am your royal chef, right?" Du Shaojie took advantage of the afternoon when he was not busy and went to the private room to write a reply. After writing, he ran to the field office again. The old man in the mail room looked at him and laughed. Could it be that Master Du was dating? After dinner, Qin Xiaomei pulled him aside mysteriously, and then said: "Master Du, remember to bring a chicken back after work. I will keep the egg-laying chickens, and we will each share one, and leave the rest to the canteen." Qin Xiaomei introduced a new batch of chicks when the weather was hot, and the grown chickens would naturally be eliminated. Most of the eliminated chickens were given to the canteen. She picked four fat chickens and planned to share them with the three people in the canteen and Wang Liwen. Although Wang Liwen has gone to the infirmary now, she worked in the canteen for a long time before, so she deserves one. "Well, I remember that." Du Shaojie smiled. He thought Qin Xiaomei was very nice and not greedy at all. Even if these chickens were given to more people, no one would say anything, but she didn't do it. She carried a chicken back to her residence and looked around the yard, not knowing where to keep the chicken. If she let this guy run around in the yard, wouldn't there be chicken shit everywhere? "Master Du, are you there?" Just as he was worrying, Wang Liwen's voice came from outside the door. He turned around to open the door without even having time to put down the chicken in his hand. Then he saw Wang Liwen in the same image, also holding a chicken in her hand, smiling at him awkwardly. "Master Du, I don't know how to raise chickens or kill them, so why don't I give you this chicken?" In theory, Wang Liwen, like Du Shaojie, has a month off to go back to the city. But her family is thousands of miles away, and she is single. She used to live in the dormitory and eat in the canteen at the bureau, so she couldn't handle a chicken. "You can't kill a chicken with your hands that hold a scalpel? It just so happens that I'm too lazy to raise them, so why don't I get rid of them now." Du Shaojie couldn't help laughing, and then invited the other party in. He tied up the two chickens and threw them on the ground, then went to the kitchen to light the stove and boil water. When the water boiled, he started to kill the chickens in the yard, and his technique was very skillful, which made Wang Liwen stare. "I know how to pluck the feathers." Du Shaojie used boiling water to scald the chicken feathers, and Wang Liwen came forward to help. This is a delicate job, and it took a long time to clean up the two chickens. The two chickens are not big, each weighing about one kilogram but less than two kilograms, and they look of good quality.
"Doctor Wang, I'm going to make Dezhou Braised Chicken. Are you used to it? The production process takes a long time. You can save a meal ticket if you come to get it tomorrow morning."
The processed chicken was placed in a basin, and Du Shaojie then began to process the chicken offal.
These chicken offal can be made into [Sour and Spicy Chicken Offal], and the whole chicken is planned to be made into [Dezhou Braised Chicken].
"I don't have anything to do when I go back. You take a break first, I'll do it."
Wang Liwen nodded, then snatched the scissors from Du Shaojie's hand, and watched Du Shaojie busy while working.
Someone processed the chicken offal, and he went to soak the whole chicken in cold water. The purpose of this step is to remove the blood in the chicken, and the water needs to be changed two or three times in the middle.
Taking advantage of this gap, Du Shaojie began to prepare various spices and small ingredients.
Small ingredients include scallion segments, ginger slices, onions, yellow radish roots, coriander, a little dried chili, etc. There are more spices, including pepper, star anise, cinnamon, grass fruit, fennel, angelica, three nai, cloves, and amomum.
Condiments include soy sauce, salt, sugar, pepper, etc.
After the whole chicken is soaked, drain the water, shape it, and then start coloring.
The easiest way to color is to evenly apply soy sauce to the chicken body. Du Shaojie went to fry the enameled color and chose to use sugar color to color it, and then put it aside to wait for the chicken to dry.
Wang Liwen looked at the chicken in the basin and felt that Master Du was really particular about cooking.
The chicken's wings were inserted from the incision of the neck and stuffed into the mouth, while the two chicken feet were stuffed into the abdominal cavity from the back. The shape alone looks very beautiful.
"Master Du, are you going to put it in the pot to stew it later?"
Wang Liwen handled the chicken offal and washed it, and then stood behind Du Shaojie to talk to him.
"Don't rush to stew it, the whole chicken needs to be fried first, and this process cannot be saved."
Du Shaojie responded, and went to heat the pot, and then poured in a lot of oil.
At this time, the surface of the whole chicken had dried, so he grabbed a chicken and put it in the pot.
"When frying, put cold oil in the pan, wait for the oil temperature to rise, and then use a large spoon to pour hot oil on the chicken. You see, the surface of the chicken is now golden yellow, and it is basically fried."
Du Shaojie said while his hands kept moving.
In about two minutes, one chicken was fried. Put the fried chicken aside to drain the oil, and then fry another one.
The last step is stewing. Leave a little bottom oil in the pot, stir-fry the scallion, ginger, onion and other small ingredients and pour them into the soup pot. Put a bamboo grate on the bottom of the pot, then put the two chickens in one by one, and add more water.
Put the cleaned spices into a gauze bag and put it in the soup pot.
Finally, add salt, soy sauce, pepper, sugar and other condiments, boil over high heat, and put a porcelain plate on the surface of the whole chicken so that the chicken can be better flavored.
Turn to low heat, simmer slowly, and cook until the chicken is boneless before serving.
This process takes about three hours or more, depending on the tenderness of the chicken meat.
"Just simmer it slowly, and soak it overnight after it's done, it will be more flavorful."
Du Shaojie went to wash his hands, then boiled a pot of tea, and sat in the yard with Wang Liwen, drinking tea and chatting. Locals usually drink brick tea, which needs to be boiled on the fire for a while, otherwise it will not taste good. It's
a bit cool in the morning and evening at this season, but the two felt that the temperature was just right, neither cold nor hot, very comfortable.
"Master Du, I found that you can cook all kinds of dishes."
Wang Liwen had no intention of leaving, anyway, she was not afraid of gossip.
If you say that she has any improper thoughts about Du Shaojie, then she definitely doesn't.
As people who are in the same boat, there is a natural sense of closeness. What's more, he helped her in the most difficult times, and in her heart, she has already regarded him as a younger brother.
(End of this chapter)
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