Chapter 175 This soup is so delicious! Xiaoxu, can your parents come to the capital? [Ask for monthly tickets]

"Huh? Are you getting better so soon?"

In the small living room on the second floor, Chen Yan, who was sitting on the sofa playing with her mobile phone, looked at her sister and brother-in-law who came out of the room with a stunned expression.

Less than three minutes have passed.

Is it too fast?

"Smelly swallow, what are you talking about?"

Shen Jiayue felt ashamed and angry, grabbing the pillow on the sofa and patting Chen Yan.

"Xubao is going to the kitchen to make crucian carp stewed with tofu for grandma, will you go?"

Chen Yan doesn’t want to eat dog food.

The two of them are so sticky now. If their love reaches a deeper level and they are like two seals hugging each other and chewing each other, won't I, a single person, be killed again?

She shook her head and said:

"You guys, go ahead, I'll just stay in this small living room."

You can't go to the big living room downstairs, where relatives are chatting. My sister and brother-in-law are not here at the moment, and I will definitely be forced to get married as soon as I show up.

And when you go to the kitchen, you have to eat dog food.

The small living room on the second floor is still cool.

She kicked off her high heels and lay down on the sofa happily.

After dinner, I went downstairs and sat in the corner eating and drinking. When I was full and drunk, I hurriedly left, so as not to listen to the chattering of the adults.

downstairs.

Lin Xu, led by Shen Jiayue, came to the kitchen on the first floor.

The kitchen is large, almost the same as the living room of an average family.

At this time, Aunt Liu and two other nannies were preparing lunch.

There were many guests at home today, it was quite grand, and there were a lot of dishes to be prepared, including all kinds of fresh seafood and imported ingredients, as well as rare mountain delicacies, etc. Lin Xu was a little dazzled.

Seeing Shen Jiayue and her new uncle coming over, Aunt Liu smiled and said hello:

"Yueyue, is this your boyfriend? He's so handsome, even more handsome than a movie star."

"Hehe, thank you Aunt Liu for the compliment. Where are the crucian carp and tofu? My boyfriend wants to show off his skills to my grandma, so just let him cook this dish."

Aunt Liu heard this and said immediately:

"How can you let the new uncle who comes to your house cook for the first time? Shouldn't it be laughed at if word spreads?"

"No, Aunt Liu. He is a special chef at Diaoyutai, and his skills are very good."

It sounds like the craftsmanship is very high.

Aunt Liu didn't stop her anymore.

Instead, he brought over the still alive crucian carp and a piece of tofu:

"Then I'll trouble my new uncle...can I help you clean up this crucian carp?"

Lin Xu took it with a smile:

"No, I'll just come."

He washed his hands and boiled a pot of water on the stove.

Then he took a kitchen knife and quickly cut the tofu into strips four to five centimeters long and two centimeters square.

If you are making grilled tofu, it is better to cut it into triangles.

This will not only make it easier to taste, but also catch more juice, making the tofu more delicious.

For ordinary soups, the tofu is cut into slices with a side length of about four centimeters, which makes it easier to cook through and tastes more delicious.

But when it comes to stewed tofu.

It can only be tofu cubes or tofu strips.

Because tofu cut in other ways will easily rot during the stewing process.

After cutting the tofu.

Lin Xu waited for a while longer before the water on the stove boiled.

Pour the cut tofu strips into the pot and blanch them for a few minutes to remove the bitterness and beany smell of the tofu itself, so that it tastes full of bean flavor.

A few minutes later.

Turn off the heat on the stove, then remove the tofu from the pot and set it aside to control the water.

After cooking, the aroma of tofu has wafted out, and the tofu has become whiter and softer.

After the tofu is blanched.

He took the crucian carp to the pond, quickly removed the scales, gills and internal organs, and carefully cleaned the black membrane in the belly of the crucian carp.

If done otherwise, these crucian carps need to be slaughtered and marinated in advance before cooking.

But crucian carp stewed with tofu doesn’t need to be like this.

Just kill and do it now.

This kind of fish is fresh and the soup is rich in flavor.

After killing the crucian carp, Lin Xu put the pot on the stove again.

After heating, pour some lard into the bottom of the pot, and then sprinkle some salt on the bottom of the pot.

The fish meat is rich in umami, but lacks aroma. You need to use lard to enhance the aroma.

The reason why the salt is sprinkled is to prevent the fish from breaking during the frying process, and also to give the fish a base flavor during the frying process.

Heat the oil.

Lin Xu put several crucian carp side by side into the pot and started frying them.

Don't move the pan when you first put it in, you need to fry it slowly so that the fish skin is complete.

It's easy to judge when to fry it.

As long as you hold the handle of the pot and shake it gently, the fish in the pot will also rotate, which means that the bottom part has been fried and can be turned over.

However, the firepower of small household stoves is relatively slow.

It felt like the fish was still motionless after a while.

If it were a professional stove in the hotel kitchen, both sides would have been fried to an attractive golden brown.

Finally, when he was shaking the pot and the fish was spinning in the pot, Lin Xu immediately took the pot and used a big turning spoon. Several crucian carp in the pot suddenly turned over in the air and were arranged neatly.

fell into the pot again.

"Wow, it's so beautiful. Can I learn from it?"

Even though Shen Jiayue didn't know much about cooking, she could still see that turning the spoon with her hands was not easy.

Because crucian carp are of different sizes and uneven, you have to control the force more accurately when turning the spoon, otherwise they will never be arranged so neatly.

"Girls, why do you want to learn this?"

Lin Xu quickly dismissed Shen Baobao's unrealistic thoughts.

For a novice like this who has no cooking skills, if he wants to make a big cooking ladle, he will most likely be splashed with hot oil, or even a goddess will come and splash the ingredients all over the kitchen.

forget it.

Cooking is great, but safety is more important.

Continue to fry.

After both sides were cooked, he poured half a pot of boiling water directly into the pot.

The secret to stewing fish into milk soup lies in frying the skin and boiling water.

With these two methods, the fish can basically be cooked into a thick white soup.

After adding water.

Lin Xu put a chive knot and a few slices of ginger into the pot and started to stew.

"You didn't put in the peppercorns."

Shen Baobao looked at it very carefully and found that his Xubao had added green onion and ginger but not the peppercorns. He couldn't help but remind him.

Lin Xu smiled and said:

"Do not add peppercorns to the fish stew, as this will suppress the freshness of the fish."

Soon, the boiling soup in the pot turned thick and white.

Lin Xu used a spoon to wipe away the foam in the pot, and simmered it for almost twenty minutes. When the soup in the pot completely turned into a milk-colored soup, he poured the tofu that he had cooked before into the pot.
To be continued...