The first choice for soaking sea cucumbers and abalone is to use pure water. Pure water has no impurities and has a 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 abalone can only grow bigger after absorbing enough water. The water surface 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 just did 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 allow dried sea cucumbers and abalone to absorb water (generally not recommended, because the taste is not as good as normally soaked sea cucumbers)
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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!"
"Yeah, Tingyue's wife, 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 suddenly stopped talking.
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 this sea cucumber and abalone dish, do we 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 sister-in-law 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 the 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 distressed look on her face.
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 soaked, especially the sea cucumbers. They were plump and looked so chewy!
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 Zhou Tingyue didn't need to light the fire anyway, 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 swell bigger.
After the sea cucumber and abalone were prepared, Song Shiwei prepared to start frying.
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 even 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 scallion-fried sea cucumber.
Heat oil in a pan. 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!
Once 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 poured out the scallion oil in the pan for later use.
Leave some oil in the pot, sauté the chopped green onion and ginger, then quickly add the soaked sea cucumber, add the chicken broth from the chicken just stewed, and add salt, cooking wine, soy sauce and a little sugar in turn.
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 and thickened it with thin flour water, then added some firewood, cooked it over medium heat until the sauce was reduced, and poured in scallion oil.
The fragrance comes out instantly.
The few people who were waiting to see the joke just now were all sniffing their noses.
“It smells so good!”
“It smells really good!”
Even Wang Cuizhi couldn't help but murmur, "I didn't expect that my daughter-in-law Shen Xiu'e is such a good cook! This sea cucumber is so delicious!"
Li Meng heard this and curled her lips in disdain.
"Maybe it's not that her cooking is delicious, maybe it's because of the good ingredients that make it so fragrant. Who can eat Shanghai ginseng?"
Lu Yuhua nodded after hearing this.
"That's right, Mengmeng makes sense!"
Shen Xiu'e on the side couldn't help but smile.
"Yeah, most people don't even know what a sea cucumber is! They even mistake it for a fire poker 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 find trouble with Song Shiwei, but she will never find trouble with Shen Xiu'e!
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 angrily, "You have 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 really is 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 thanks to the 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! Isn't it time to try it?
In a moment, the whole kitchen was crowded 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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