Chapter 216 Hot Pot Base
Xu Qingmeng and Xinting walked as they went, not very fast, and it took them half an hour to finally reach their destination.
The Gu family doesn't have many seasonings in the kitchen now, and Xu Qingmeng bought a lot of each. The store owner knew her, and since she bought a lot, he asked her to help send them back.
After buying almost all the ingredients and seasonings, the two returned to the yard and started working.
To make butter pot base, you must first start refining the butter.
Xu Qingmeng was talking, Xinting was working, and Aunt Lin and the others were helping.
After carefully cleaning the beef fat, cut it into small cubes.
Put small pieces of beef fat into the pot and slowly melt it over low heat. Add some onions, ginger, peppercorns and other spices to remove the fishy smell.
After the beef fat melts, add some water into it. After the water in the pot is boiled dry, the beef fat will slowly separate out.
After the butter is refined, you can make the butter pot base.
Pour the boiled butter into a bowl and set aside for later use. Aunt Lin has already cleaned and cut the chili peppers, onions, ginger, cinnamon and other seasonings into sections.
Pour butter into the pot, and when it is about 70% to 80% hot, add onion knots, ginger and other seasonings. After the aroma of the seasonings is fully stimulated by frying, remove the seasonings.
Add chili peppers, peppercorns, bay leaves, fennel and a dozen other spices into the base oil and continue to stir-fry until fragrant.
During this process, a pungent smell filled the entire kitchen and backyard. Fortunately, after making the red chili oil, people in the kitchen were not choked, but were attracted by the strong aroma.
"Meng Niang, the one you made this time seems to be more fragrant than the previous one, and spicy..." said He.
As soon as Zhou Yuanjia reached the door, he ran in and said excitedly: "Wow, what is this made of? It smells so good!"
Gu Yunyi brought Yun Sheng with him, and Yun Mo followed behind.
"Madam, what are you doing?" Gu Yunyi couldn't help but ask.
"We'll have hot pot tonight."
"Hot pot? The ones I made before didn't seem to be this fragrant?"
"Well, this time it's made with butter."
The base of the pot was ready. Xu Qingmeng asked Aunt Tian to help Xinting pour the base in the pot into a basin beside it to cool and set aside.
Zhou Yuanjia had never eaten it before. When he saw the bright red soup, he secretly dipped his chopsticks in it and put it in his mouth.
"Hiss, hiss, it's so hot and spicy, Xinting, what is this?"
Xinting looked at him and said with a smile: "This is hot pot base, you can't eat it yet~"
Xu Qingmeng said to Gu Yunyi, "We're having hotpot tonight. Do you want to invite Mr. Huang along?"
"OK."
After the butter is cooked, the next step is to cook the tomato base.
While Xinting was cooking the tomato soup base, Xu Qingmeng instructed Aunt Lin to cut the beef and mutton into thin slices, Aunt Tian was responsible for washing the vegetables, and Aunt Rong was processing the shrimps.
Xu Qingmeng wanted to eat shrimp paste. Aunt Rong was the best cook. As soon as Xu Qingmeng told her, she knew how to cook it. She didn't need to teach her at all.
The tables prepared by the hot pot restaurant have already been ordered. In order to eat hot pot tonight, Xu Qingmeng has asked Gu Tong and the security guards to move two tables back from the shop.
The weather is now cool, and the butter base prepared earlier has solidified. Xu Qingmeng took a knife and cut the solidified butter base into small pieces.
When He went to order the pots, the store immediately made two pots and took them to Gu's house to show Xu Qingmeng. Xu Qingmeng knew it was the effect she wanted at first glance.
It was just right to be taken out and used at this time. Xinting followed Xu Qingmeng's instructions and poured the cooked tomato soup into two compartments of one pot, and the rest into the other pot.
On the other side, pour in boiling water, take out four pieces of butter base cut into small pieces, and put one piece in each grid.
Then it was brought to the table.
As soon as the food was served on the table, Gu Yunyi came back with Huang Boyang.
Xinting asked everyone to bring the remaining ingredients directly to the table. Everyone was stunned, even Zhou Yuanjia looked confused.
Xu Qingmeng smiled and said, "Listen to my cousin."
"Xinting, how do you eat this raw?" Zhou Yuanjia asked in a low voice.
"Don't worry, I won't let you eat it raw." Xinting gave him an affirmative look.
Here, the dipping sauce has been prepared, and the more people there are, the faster it will be.
Huang Boyang looked at the plates of lettuce on the table, confused, "Auntie, how do I eat this?"
Before He said anything, Yun Sheng said, "How else can we eat this? Just eat it like this."
He said angrily, "You!"
At this time, the bottom of the pot has begun to boil, and the butter base has gradually melted, bursting with a spicy and fragrant flavor.
Gu Yunyi couldn't wait any longer and went to prepare the condiments.
Zhou Yuanjia and Huang Boyang followed behind him, holding a bowl. Xu Qingmeng said, "You can put these small ingredients into this bowl according to your preferences, just like Yun Yi did. You can also add some vinegar at the end. Of course, if you don't like it, you don't have to add it. You can just scoop some soup base in."
Everyone in the Gu family had eaten it before, so they didn’t need Xu Qingmeng to teach them because they had already gotten the hang of it. The rest of the people didn’t know how to make it, but Xinting explained it to them.
"Aunt, please sit down and eat. I'll tell you."
"Okay, Xu Qingmeng is indeed hungry."
"After the condiments are ready, you can use chopsticks to pick up the dishes you like and put them into the soup base. One of these is a beef oil base that's spicy, and the other is a sweet and sour tomato base. Put the dishes in the flavor you like. For beef and mutton, as long as the meat isn't red, you can eat it. Don't leave it too long, or the meat will become tough and inedible. Pick it up, dip it in the seasoning, and put it in your mouth. Mm... the taste is really amazing."
After hearing this, everyone rushed to mix the condiments, but the servants were more conscious and waited until the master had mixed everything before starting.
"I want something spicy, Xinting, give me some of this spicy soup."
"You don't have hands?" Xinting rolled her eyes at him, but still put down her chopsticks and scooped some for Zhou Yuanjia.
"Hehe." Zhou Yuanjia looked very proud.
Huang Boyang didn't even bother to look at him.
"This peanut crumb is good. I want some more."
"Gu Yunyi, your bowl is full of chili peppers. Have you forgotten that you just recovered not long ago?" Xu Qingmeng said, looking at the condiments in his bowl.
When He saw this, she immediately handed over an empty bowl and replaced the bowl in Gu Yunyi's hand.
Zhou Yuanjia saw it and immediately said, "Auntie, I, I, I can eat spicy food."
Xinting glared at him, and immediately retracted the hand that Zhou Yuanjia had extended.
"It turns out that my future brother-in-law is just like my eldest brother, henpecked!" Yun Sheng said with a smile.
"What do you mean by future? It's obviously the present tense. And you're so young, who taught you that?"
"Anyway, you are just afraid of Sister Xinting."
Xinting felt embarrassed and quickly lowered her head to start eating.
(End of this chapter)
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