bookrebus Chapter 198 Braised food
Chapter 198 Braised food
Making braised food is both difficult and simple.
Boil the onion, ginger, garlic, bay leaves, dried chili peppers, cinnamon, orange peel, star anise and Sichuan peppercorns separately to bring out the flavors, and then prepare the braised sauce. A variety of sauces are needed, but Zhou Manman did not have oyster sauce and cooking wine, so he used other substitutes.
If you want to make it directly, you can cook it directly, but Zhou Manman prefers the soft and mushy texture.
Shave off two bones from the wild boar you bought, add water and spices and boil them.
While the marinade is cooking, prepare and clean all the dried meat such as chicken legs and eggs, as well as dried vegetables such as tofu, and make small cuts with a knife to make it easier for them to absorb the flavor.
Lin, Xiao Mi and others were very fast. Zhou Manman only needed to tell them how to do it and they could do it quickly.
The soup has a rich aroma.
When they met Alina and Tarasha halfway through the journey, they looked at each other, their eyes lit up, and they silently quickened their pace.
"Full!"
"Full~"
Zhou Manman was stir-frying the prepared meat. She added a lot of oil and sugar. After the sugar color came out, it looked shiny and particularly delicious.
Seeing them, he greeted them happily, "Why did you two come together? I was thinking of waiting for my braised food to be ready, and I want to invite you to taste it."
"Braised food?"
Tarasha came closer to take a look, sniffing again and again. The lackey said, "If there is anything you need us to do, just leave it to me! I will definitely do it beautifully for you."
Zhou Manman smiled and said, "If you really can't sit still, help me clean up the dirt on the floor."
The two of them responded and, together with the accompanying male, cleaned up the garbage in the yard, including cut vegetable stems, chicken and pig feathers all over the floor.
Zhou Manman had made a lot of braised meat in the past and was familiar with every step. She never thought that it would taste bad, so she prepared a lot of ingredients. She prepared more so that if it was not easy to sell, she could keep some to eat. Anyway, she had the space, which was equivalent to having a refrigerator that would never rot and would always keep fresh.
However, as Tarasha was cooking, he slowly wandered towards Zhou Manman, looked at the golden and shiny meat being stir-fried in the wok and swallowed his saliva.
"Manman, are you almost done? How about I let you taste it first to see if it tastes good."
"No, it's not cooked yet. Wait."
Don’t be fooled by the golden color on the outside of the meat. This is because it is fried with sugar color. The inside is not cooked yet.
When the ingredients are almost done stir-frying, Lin goes forward and puts them into the pot to cook.
The boiling broth was emitting bursts of hot steam. Tarasa would pick up the meat with a clean stick every once in a while to check on it. Even if it was not cooked, she still ate a lot of it.
Zhou Manman was extremely helpless. Seeing her guilty look after being caught as a thief, she didn't know what to say.
It's not that I don't want to give it to her, but it's really not cooked! What if she gets sick from eating it? Then Anlina couldn't stand the taste and followed Tarasha to scoop some every once in a while.
Xiao Mi had been watching how Zhou Manman operated, and now that everything was ready, he took over.
"Go and rest. I already know what to do. Rest."
Zhou Manman was still a little worried. After watching him stir-fry for a while, she gave him a thumbs up and praised him: "That's amazing! How come you are so good?"
Xiaoya blushed a little at the praise, "Go and have a rest. Look at your face, it's all red from the fire."
Zhou Manman left with a smile on her face. When Tarasha and Anlina saw her coming, they hurriedly put away their things.
Zhou Manman supported her chin with both hands, "Is it delicious?"
"what??"
Tarasa looked around and then at the sky.
"Haha... the weather is pretty good today, huh?"
Zhou Manman turned to look at An Lina, who also looked up at the sky. "Good, it's very good, the weather is good..."
Zhou Manman held his forehead helplessly.
"Take it and eat it, secretly." He thought she couldn't see it, and he made the two beastly husbands block it, thinking that she really couldn't see it.
Upon hearing this, the two of them quickly picked up the food from their stools. Tarasha said happily, "It's really delicious, absolutely amazing! I now think the braised pork is number one! This stewed food is number two! It's really tasty! Even the bones are tasty!"
It feels good to hear nice words.
Zhou Manman asked in disbelief: "Is it really that delicious? Don't lie to me."
Tarasha rolled his eyes and mumbled, "Hmm... well, it's OK, Manman. If you don't like it, you can bring it back to me."
Anlina screamed immediately, "What are you thinking about, Tarasa? Manman, give it to me!"
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Zhou Manman laughed out loud. Tarasha and Anlina looked at each other, thinking about how to get Manman to bring more back to them.
"Why did you two come here together?"
At this point, Tarasha suddenly became excited. He put down the meat in his hand and said angrily, "Damn it, Manman, let me tell you, I thought Jiao was really thinking about me at first, but I didn't expect going up and down the mountain would be so tiring. Wasn't there a market a few days ago? I wanted to go, but! Guess what, they didn't want to take me! This is outrageous, I'm so pissed!"
"Huh? That's it."
Zhou Manman was a little worried that Tarasha would go too far with Jiao in a fit of anger.
"What about the Cape?"
Tarasha felt very aggrieved, with tears in her eyes. "I will never talk to him again. I told him I wanted to go down the mountain and build a house next to you, but he didn't agree. He just wanted to make me angry because he saw that I was too happy!"
Zhou Manman and An Lina looked at each other, both at a loss.
Zhou Manman pursed her lips and said, "Then...why don't you bring some food back when you go back later? With delicious food, you won't be unhappy."
Tarasha's tears were about to fall, and after a while she smiled, "Okay then..."
After a while, Zhou Manman estimated that it was cooked, so he scooped some with a spoon made from a bamboo tube.
It melts in your mouth, soft, sweet, and lightly sweet and salty, fat but not greasy! It's absolutely amazing!
Zhou Manman was confident that as long as he brought this thing over, any female who had tasted it would be unable to resist buying it!
Seeing this, Anlina tasted some and nodded continuously.
"It's delicious. Oh my god, it tastes better the more you cook it."
Zhou Manman laughed, "It wasn't even cooked when you ate it, why do you think it tastes better now?"
The two of them ate quite a bit more, then they lay down comfortably in the sun, patting their round stomachs.
Seeing that Tarasa hadn't lost any weight at all, Zhou Manman suddenly wanted her to lose some weight. If she continued to gain weight, it would be really harmful to her health.
"By the way, I'm going to sell food at the market in a few days. If you still want to eat, come with me."
Alina nodded, but Tarasha was a little hesitant. After a while, she made up her mind and nodded.