Chapter 88: Canned Chestnut Beans
Since it was his first time making it, Josh only planned to make a small pot to try it out first.
Scoop a full bowl of bitter chestnut beans from the basin, add cold water and blanch them for ten minutes.
When the time is up, take out and soak in water.
Qiao Xi wanted to be quick and didn't plan to soak it for too long, as he was in a hurry to eat it, so the bitterness might not have been completely removed.
But she took a bite and tasted it. It was okay, acceptable. After adding the ingredients, the taste would not be so obvious.
She did it not just to satisfy her appetite, but mainly to prepare for Puda's visit tomorrow.
The taro beads on the taro bamboo had long been harvested, so Qiao Xi could dig taro on a large scale. The bitter chestnut beans and ground beans had matured one after another, and the farm had ushered in a real harvest season.
However, the harvest of the magic fruit forest was not satisfactory. The long-leaf hook fruit and butter fruit that should have produced fruits in autumn were still half-grown trees and had been newly transplanted. The farm only produced a handful of fruits this year, not enough for Josh to eat alone, so it's better not to mention it.
The few remaining sweet persimmon trees left by Qiao Xi were full of small persimmons hanging on the branches, but it was unknown how many fruits would be able to grow successfully in the end. Now they were only half the size of a fist, very astringent, and had a green hue.
For the past six months, Qiao Xi has been watering and fertilizing them, hoping that they will not be like the two sunny orange trees, which were all blown down by the wind at the last moment. They were obviously big, round and plump in appearance, but in the end they all went to the jumping lambs. They were not yet ripe and very sour. Only the jumping lambs could enjoy this taste, while Qiao Xi and the golden macaques could only sigh at the sight of the oranges.
The reason why Puda came this time was, firstly, to visit and strengthen the cooperative relationship after such a long cooperation, and secondly, to investigate whether the farm has any high-quality products so as to carry out the next stage of cooperation.
What Josh has to do is to show the farm's high-quality crops as much as possible, make Puda excited, and give her a price that satisfies her.
Canned bitter chestnut beans was the first dish she prepared to serve to Puda.
Canned food is the most popular food attribute for the expeditionary corps in the long-term conquest of secret realms. Compared with nutrient solution and energy bars, canned food can maximize the original flavor of the ingredients, and is far superior to the former in terms of both taste and flavor.
Although bitter chestnut beans are nothing new as raw materials for energy cans, what Josh made today is a completely different and alien flavor.
Well, the taste of the previous life, for the present world, how come the world in the past is not considered a different world?
While the bitter beans soaked, Josh had time to prepare some ingredients.
She recently bought some fruits similar to white onions from the free market, but it is said that they grow underground and are different from the onions Josh knew before.
But the taste is very similar, so she also left her contact information with the stall owner. If he can make the ideal taste, she would need to buy a large amount.
The names seemed to be "pungent fruit" or "mischief fruit". Qiao Xi found it a bit difficult to pronounce, so he just called it "onion".
Wash off the dirt covering the skin and remove the roots. Unlike real onions, its roots grow all over the fruit, so you need to peel the entire fruit to clean it.
Of course, the cleaning process was inevitably tearful. Josh took a big sip of water in his mouth and tried to defeat magic with magic, but ultimately failed.
This evil fruit was not as easy to fool as the onion before. When it was time to shed tears, Josh couldn't help it. Tears flowed all over his face like a faucet was turned on.
Fortunately, Josh managed to cut all the onions despite her tears. He cut them in half and then diced them into small pieces to make it easier to fry them later.
As for the other protagonist, Josh had also made preparations early on.
The pinching fruit is a synonym for the alien version of thin skin and large filling. The fruit is bright red and soft. It will burst with a slight pinch, splashing a face full of red juice.
Once, the juice from the exploded ketchup accidentally splashed onto Qiao Xi's mouth. She licked it and was shocked. Isn't this ketchup?
This is totally ready-made quality seasoning.
The reason why the Neng Neng fruit was discovered was because there was a piece of wasteland by the lake. It was very muddy and naughty lambs were often trapped there. Qiao Xi originally planned to let the big-tailed yak change the terrain there and completely submerge the wasteland into the lake. As a result, she found Neng Neng fruits everywhere and she couldn't bear to leave them behind.
The short shrubs were dotted with countless red pinch fruits, which looked very festive. She named the wasteland the pinch fruit swamp.
However, Josh also paid the price for her carelessness. She directly crushed a pinch fruit and ate it as ketchup in salad. That day, Josh, the iron-like little girl, was completely defeated.
She was almost killed by vomiting and diarrhea.
But after Qiao Xi recovered, she still didn't give up. After all, she was a little girl who loved ketchup.
After she tried cooking the pinch fruit, she was surprised to find that the toxicity seemed to have disappeared, so she specifically asked Mr. Luman about this.
Mr. Luman was puzzled and shocked by her behavior of eating anything carelessly. He told Josh that the pinch fruit is very toxic, but the toxicity will be inactivated under the stimulation of high temperature. In principle, the cooked pinch fruit will not be poisonous and can be eaten.
But he also did not recommend Josh to eat too much pinch fruit. After all, no one would eat this kind of thing. There are non-toxic and nutritious attribute crops. He did not understand why Josh was obsessed with this kind of fruit that did not contain attribute energy and had the risk of poisoning.
In this regard, Josh could only remain silent. How could he explain this?
People from other worlds will never understand the value of eating a bowl of scrambled eggs with tomatoes here.
To peel the pinch fruit, you just need to tear a hole and all the juice will flow out through this hole.
Josh likes the strong tomato flavor, so she prepared a full eight pinches of fruit.
Perhaps because it is poisonous, almost no animals eat the ripe pinch fruits, and even insects ignore them. The fruits have no scars, so there is no need to worry about them hanging on the branches.
Remove from heat and add the flavored butter that Josh had recently made from the milk of the jumping lamb. There was no other way, as there was not enough big-tailed yak milk, so he could only use the remaining milk of the jumping lamb.
As the saying goes, it is easy to go from simple to luxurious, but difficult to go from luxurious to frugal. After being used to the fragrant and rich big-tail yak butter, this jumping lamb butter seems to be a little less tasty no matter how you eat it.
But it is not the protagonist today, so it’s okay and doesn’t affect anything.
A large spoonful of butter was added, which slowly melted as the temperature in the pot rose, emitting a faint aroma. The chopped "onions" were put in and quickly stirred, frying the "onions" until soft, which brought out its unique rich aroma.
(End of this chapter)
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