Forty-two soldiers were all resting on haystacks, and their hearts felt particularly warm at this moment.
This emperor.
It's better than they imagined.
Although this trip was quite difficult for them, they only knew it now.
The emperor cares about them.
They are not allowed to lie on the ground because they are afraid that the ground will be too cold and they will easily catch cold and get sick if they lie like this.
An emperor cares so much about his soldiers.
This is the first time they met.
When I was climbing the mountain before, my resentment towards Liu Chan gradually decreased a lot.
I rested for almost half an hour.
My backache and leg pain have been relieved a lot.
"Your Majesty!"
Zhang Yuan helped Liu Chan up and at the same time told the maid waiting at the side: "Hurry and pass the meal!"
"No!"
The palace maid responded and trotted to the temporary kitchen not far away.
Seeing the smoke in the kitchen, Liu Chan suddenly became interested. Perhaps he had rested for half an hour, and his physical fatigue had reduced a lot.
"Help me come over!" Liu Chan pointed to the kitchen in front of him, seeming a little excited.
"Your Majesty?"
Zhang Yuan was stunned for a moment, wondering what was so interesting about the kitchen. There was oil smoke everywhere.
But Liu Chan was in high spirits.
It has been more than two years since he traveled back in time. On weekdays, the royal chefs would prepare meals, and then the palace maids and eunuchs would serve them to him.
I don’t know what’s going on.
He is very, very dissatisfied with the food of this era.
Even in the Shuhan Palace, the meals prepared by the imperial chefs made him full of complaints.
He had never been to the imperial dining room before.
I don’t know how cooks in this era cook food.
Good opportunity today.
Temporary camp, temporary kitchen.
Two cooks were busy in the kitchen when Liu Chan limped over.
"This slave has met Your Majesty!"
The two cooks hurriedly knelt down to salute. Liu Chan raised his hand and glanced at the dishes in the pot.
"What is this for?" Liu Chan asked.
"Back to Your Majesty!" A cook lowered her head and said, "This is cabbage stew!"
"I'll go!" Liu Chan slapped his head with disgust on his face: "A good thing is just wasted like this."
Hiss——
The two cooks were immediately shocked. They were the cooks in Zhuge's house, although they were not as good as the imperial cooks in the palace.
But the taste of the dishes is still good.
Why does the emperor say that we are ruining it?
Gududu——
The pot is steaming, and the flavors of cabbage and pork blend together. It actually tastes good.
It's just that it's either stewing, boiling, or roasting, there's no other way.
This is what Liu Chan has always been dissatisfied with.
He had wanted to improve the cooking methods of this era many times before, but he always forgot about it.
Today is my chance.
There is also a pile of cabbage piled on the ground, and two large pieces of pork are placed on the chopping board. They are fat and thin pork belly.
"You!" Liu Chan pointed to a cook and then to a stove not far away: "Go and boil some water."
Everyone was stunned, not knowing what the emperor was going to do. The cook was stunned for a moment and ran to boil water in a panic.
Liu Chan cut two pieces of pork belly into long strips three fingers wide, then threw them into the pot and asked the cook to cook them.
Liu Chan went to get two more Chinese cabbages, cut them into small strips very skillfully, and prepared some ginger, onion, and garlic.
It's a pity.
His favorite seasoning - chili pepper - was nowhere to be seen in the entire kitchen.
But think back.
Liu Chan gave up. Chili pepper had not yet been introduced in this era.
People in the Central Plains have to wait hundreds of years if they want to eat chili peppers.
After the side dishes are prepared.
The meat in the pot is almost cooked. Take it all out and soak it in cold water.
The emperor is busy in the kitchen.
This aroused the curiosity of the soldiers outside. They seemed to have ignored their physical fatigue and moved closer to the kitchen.
Hundreds of people surrounded a small open-air kitchen, and everyone's eyes were fixed on Emperor Liu Chan.
The cooked pork belly was cut into thin slices by him. The two cooks had been cooking for a lifetime, but their faces were full of doubts.
"Burn the fire!"
When he was ready, Liu Chan asked the cook in front of the stove to continue lighting the fire. The iron pot slowly heated up. Liu Chan stretched out his hand and felt it, and it felt a little hot.
A large pot of meat slices was poured into the iron pot, and then the spatula flew around. The meat slices were slowly rolled up in the pot, making sizzling sounds from time to time.
A large pot of pork belly quickly boiled out a lot of lard. Liu Chan poured the lard into a bowl.
Then add the ginger and garlic to the pot, stir-fry a few times quickly, and then pour the Chinese cabbage into the pot.
This made the onlookers, the two cooks who were good at cooking, and the Queen Zhang Yuan all look as if they were strange.
Can dishes still be cooked like this?
Liu Chan felt their surprise, but he didn't feel surprised at all.
Because this is the period of the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms.
Stir-frying is a cooking technique that would only be developed in the Song Dynasty hundreds of years later.
But nowadays, people's cooking methods are still stuck in - boiling, stewing, roasting and roasting.
Most of them are solved by stewing.
Liu Chan traveled back in time for two years, and most of what he ate was stew, and most of it was stewed with various ingredients together.
He has been obsessed with cooking for more than two years, and today he finally got the chance to show off his cooking skills.
Stir-fried pork with cabbage.
Alas——
If you can add two spoons of doubanjiang and a delicious pot-roasted pork, you can make an appearance in the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms.
What a pity.
Without doubanjiang, we can only settle for the next best thing. A meal of stir-fried pork with Chinese cabbage is still good.
After putting the cabbage in the pot and stir-frying it for a few times, Liu Chan suddenly became confused. He searched for it on the stove for a long time but couldn't find it.
"Where is the salt?"
"Salt?"
The cook was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, pointing to a ceramics hall and said: "Your Majesty, the salt is here."
Nani?
Liu Chan's eyes widened. There were several thumb-sized, beige lumps in the jar. Liu Chan picked up one and gently licked it.
Salty!
Still a little bitter.
And it’s a bit astringent.
Is this salt?
Liu Chan just wanted to complain, but he quickly shook his head and sighed.
Now is the period of the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms.
People in this era did not understand how to refine refined salt. Even in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the deep processing of refined salt was still relatively backward.
Liu Chan poured some water, washed out some salt water, poured it into the pot, and stir-fried a few more times.
The tangy fragrance has already spread everywhere.
The soldiers who were watching had already swallowed their saliva.
"Queen!" Liu Chan picked up a rolled up meat roll and fed it into Zhang Yuan's mouth: "Try it!"
The meat roll just entered the mouth.
Zhang Yuan's eyes suddenly widened, and he looked a little incredulous: "Your Majesty, why is it so delicious? This is the most delicious pork Zi Tong has ever eaten."
Zhang Yuan still felt unsatisfied after finishing one piece, so he took the chopsticks and picked up two more meat rolls.
“Delicious!”
“Delicious!”
The soldiers who were watching and the cook who was in a daze all swallowed their saliva involuntarily.
Is it really that delicious?
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This chapter has been completed!