Chapter 542: Butter Hot Pot (Additional Update, Vote for It~)
"I don't care about you guys. I don't care anyway...you can do whatever you want. Just think about cleaning up the kitchen for me later."
Lu Miao narrowed his eyes and smiled, feeling very happy:
"I see. Just wait and enjoy! I guarantee you'll be raving about it!"
As he spoke, Lu Miao turned around and continued to work.
Wash the butter, cut it into small pieces, put it into a pot with cold water, add onion segments, ginger slices and a little rice wine.
After the water boils, blanch for two or three minutes.
Then take it out and drain the water. The subsequent steps are the same as making lard.
Place the pan over medium heat, stirring occasionally to allow the butter fat to cook evenly.
Once the liquid oil is boiled out, you can turn the heat to low and let it simmer slowly in the pot.
The butter at this point no longer has the same strong flavor as at the beginning, but the special flavor still remains.
Fu Jingyou stood up from the stove:
"It smells like this, is it edible?"
"Of course it's edible. If it's not edible, why bother with it?"
Lu Miao curved his lips and looked at him angrily, "Just wait."
With his mouth watering, Lu Miao couldn't wait and was even a little greedy for it.
Fu Jingyou rubbed the back of his neck and sat back at the stove to continue making fire.
The pot was left to simmer over low heat, and Lu Miao poured some boiling water to soak the dried chilies.
After soaking for about five or six minutes, take out the peppers, drain the water a little, and then chop them with a knife.
The subsequent preparations were almost completed, and the small amount of butter residue in the pot had already floated up with a golden color.
That means it's okay.
Taking a bowl, Lu Miao scooped out the oil residue with a colander.
Put the freshly sliced ginger, green onion segments, and a small piece of washed coriander into the pot, fry until golden brown and float up, then remove from the pot.
Continue to add the prepared bay leaves, star anise, cinnamon, cardamom shells and other spices, fry them over low heat until fragrant, then add the chopped chili powder.
The chili powder contains water, so you will feel resistance when you push it in.
Fry slowly over low heat until the moisture is dried up and the chili powder becomes light when pushed.
Then you can add minced ginger, red oil bean paste, and peppercorns bought from the market and continue frying.
At this point, the base has basically reached the final stage, and the strange smell of butter has long disappeared.
What is stimulated is another kind of rich, spicy and tempting taste.
Fu Jingyou loves spicy food, and he couldn't help but throw away the tongs and stand beside Lu Miao to look at him carefully.
In the past, when cooking at night, it was pitch dark and I couldn’t see anything.
It was broad daylight now, and smoke was coming out of the chimney of the Fu family in the alley.
When the neighbors saw it, someone immediately shouted publicly:
"What are you doing this morning, Little Fu? You've been doing this every other day, and you've made me so hungry I've lost two pounds!"
"What did you do? The kids love spicy food. I finally saved up some oil, so I made some hot sauce to go with the rice."
"Oh, fried chili sauce, that takes some oil!"
“Haha, yes…”
Tang Mei was chatting with someone in the yard.
In the kitchen, the young couple looked at each other and laughed.
Lu Miao bent his lips and said gently:
"I remember we have an enamel square fruit bowl at home? Bring it here, and I'll scoop the oil into it. Once it cools down, cut it into pieces and put it in the lard jar. It will keep for a long time."
Fu Jingyou nodded and did it immediately.
Butter is boiled on the stove, which is very troublesome to do once.
Lu Miao was reluctant to waste it, so he left the amount he would eat later in the pot and scooped the rest into the fruit bowl.
The enamel fruit plate, which was two finger joints deep, was just about 80% full with the amount of butter boiled from two or three pounds.
Carefully move the fruit plate to the center of a large kitchen table and let it cool.
Lu Miao poured some water into the pot, and when the water boiled, he prepared the seasonings and called Tang Mei and Fu Jingyou to come and eat.
Fu Jingyou has a strong ability to accept things, and he does whatever she says.
Tang Mei is not so good.
Tang Mei felt that it was unsightly and undignified to stand by the pot and scoop food out of it, so she refused to come.
Lu Miao coated some beef slices with egg liquid and served it to her.
In later generations, when people eat hot pot, this dish is called scrambled egg beef, and the eggs used are sterilized eggs.
What Lu Miao uses here are ordinary eggs, the kind laid by the two chickens in his own yard.
The purpose of coating the beef with egg liquid is to ensure that the beef is tender and smooth.
There is no way, beef slices and beef rolls are different after all.
The knife skills of several people in my family are limited. If they are not processed properly, the food will easily become dry when washed.
Lu Miao ate two slices of beef and chopped a few slices of tender yellow cabbage and put them in the pot to blanch.
Take it out before it gets too soft and eat it with a "squeaky" sound while it's fresh and crispy.
Fu Jingyou brought a small table and sat down to eat with her.
Seeing that she was enjoying her meal, Fu Jingyou asked with a smile:
"Is it tasty?"
Lu Miao nodded seriously and asked:
"What do you think?"
“I think it’s delicious too.”
Fu Jingyou ate the meat with big mouthfuls of sauce.
He didn't like coriander and mutton before.
After rolling it in the hot oil pot this time, he suddenly made a new discovery.
The taste is really unique...
“It smelled so bad when I bought it, who could have imagined it would be so delicious when cooked?”
"What?"
"I said butter."
Lu Miao said "Oh" and nodded in understanding:
“A lot of things are delicious, it just depends on how you cook them.”
Fu Jingyou nodded his chin, agreeing very much with this statement.
In the past, there were eels and turtles, and now there is butter, many of which are things that no one eats.
His wife will take care of it.
Every time I make it, it tastes delicious and goes well with rice, and the flavor is unique.
Lu Miao ate the tender cabbage hearts, and Fu Jingyou ate the large cabbage leaves that she didn't like.
The two of them pursed their lips, and their lips turned red from the spiciness.
Lu Miao found the spicy food appetizing, and Fu Jingyou enjoyed it very much.
One of them had beef hotpot after a long time.
The other was the first attempt ever.
Although the food at the stove wasn't quite as good, we still enjoyed it very much.
Especially Lu Miao, he was sweating from the spiciness.
My appetite hasn’t been very good recently and I haven’t eaten much at every meal.
This hotpot made her feel full for once, and she even felt a little overwhelmed.
Now that I have a full stomach, I feel much better and energetic.
After the adults finished eating, they cleaned up the stove.
During lunch time, Lu Miao was running around tinkering with things.
I also scooped out some rice, cut potatoes and diced beef to make a nutritious baby meal for the children.
The three little ones had greasy mouths and ate without even raising their heads.
Lu Miao laughed when he saw this, and turned his head to Fu Jingyou and said:
"The beef I bought is of very good quality. If I come across good beef later, I can buy some more often. It's good for the child's musculoskeletal development."
"good."
Fu Jingyou nodded.
Lu Miao smiled, sat down at the side of the table and touched Shi An's little head:
"Is Shi An used to the Yuhong class? What does the teacher usually teach?"
Lu Miao had been busy before and hadn't paid much attention to Shi An's situation after school.
This rare free time, Lu Miao couldn't help but ask a few more questions:
"Are there any other children bullying our baby Shi An?"
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