klisemfg Chapter 215 Sea Snake Chicken Stew
Chapter 215 Sea Snake Chicken Stew
Lao Lu said indifferently.
Xu Yiyi didn't argue with him, just stared at him.
There's something wrong with his eyes.
"Okay, okay... I'll watch."
Lao Lu was immediately defeated and said helplessly.
"Now that everything is set up, let's make the roast duck, right? The duck has already been killed for you."
Worried that there wouldn’t be enough to eat, Lao Lu even went to the dock and bought two fat ducks with his own money.
Xu Yiyi ignored his urging and started chopping the onions, ginger and garlic.
After a while, Sihai came back.
At this time, the sun was setting in the west, and the afterglow cast a layer of golden gauze on the courtyard.
There was a constant stream of guests in the front lobby, and it was soon filled with people.
Er'er was so busy in the kitchen that he was dizzy.
Sihai put the things he brought in front of his elder sister and immediately went to the front to help.
"What did you bring for your elder sister?"
Lao Lu asked curiously.
“Medicinal herbs!”
Sihai responded with a smile and ran away happily.
"Are you sick again?"
Lao Lu looked at him curiously. Xu Yiyi's face was rosy and he looked energetic.
"These are spices! Spices for roast duck."
Xu Yiyi opened the medicine bag, and star anise, cumin, Sichuan peppercorns, galangal, orange peel, black pepper, nutmeg, dried ginger, hawthorn, licorice, amomum villosum, cloves, and angelica dahurica came into view.
These things can be used as medicine and also as seasoning.
She ground some of it into powder and set aside.
Xu Yiyi went over the steps of making roast duck in her mind and had a general idea of it.
Only then did he start preparing the marinade and was busy all over.
He scooped out a large spoonful of crystal clear fine salt from the jar, and then pinched out a handful of plump peppercorns with a fragrant numbing aroma from the medicine bag. He put them into the stone mortar and crushed them gently.
Then, she glanced at the onions, ginger and garlic placed aside, and brought down the sharp knife, chopped the onions and ginger, smashed the garlic cloves, and neatly mixed them in with the salt and pepper powder.
Add two spoonfuls of fragrant rice wine, and the aroma of the wine will instantly spread and blend with the spices.
Pour in some sweet honey and stir gently. The sticky marinade will have an attractive luster and the salty fragrance is interspersed with numbness, spiciness, sweetness and mellowness.
This carefully prepared marinade is the key first step to giving roast duck its unique flavor.
Xu Yiyi then stuffed various marinades into the duck's stomach.
Sew the duck together with a needle.
Lao Lu felt a little tired watching from the side.
At the same time, I was looking forward to this roast duck even more.
Just when he thought Xu Yiyi was about to put the duck into the oven, Xu Yiyi took out a bamboo pole from somewhere.
Then he took a deep breath, puffed up his cheeks, tightly grasped the duck's neck with both hands, widened his eyes, aimed at the duck's beak, and forced air into it.
In a moment, the duck swelled up.
Xu Yiyi stretched out her other hand to cover the place where the needle was inserted, and found that there was still a leak, so she quickly gave it another injection.
"What are you doing? Blowing up the duck?"
Lao Lu saw that Xu Yiyi's face was flushed red, with beads of sweat on her forehead and her hair scattered messily around her cheeks.
Some don't quite understand.
Xu Yiyi stood up straight, gasping for breath.
The scene I had seen in that magical "video" emerged in my mind.
The master in the picture is calm and composed, holding the duck's neck firmly with both hands, puffing his cheeks slightly, and the air flow seems to be spiritual, flowing smoothly into the duck's belly, and the duck then swells up obediently. The whole process is smooth and easy.