Chapter 521 Pickled tea oil duck, steamed soy sauce duck, stewed air-dried duck! A day of dealing with ducks! [Monthly vote requested]
"Wow, this meat is so delicious!"
Shen Jiayue took a piece of meat and put it into her mouth. She found that the red meat was so crispy that it melted in her mouth, especially the fat part inside. As soon as she took it into her mouth, it was like butter melting.
I originally thought it was a large piece of meat such as braised pork and Dongpo pork, but after eating it I realized that this braised pork is more rotten and more fragrant.
Only sweet noodle sauce is used for seasoning, so the flavor of the meat itself is fully stimulated, and your mouth is filled with the aroma of pork.
In addition, the stewed fat is also very fragrant. When eating, deliberately dipping the meat in the fat will have unexpected effects.
After eating two pieces of meat, Shen's meat addiction was finally cured.
"I feel like this meat goes very well with rice. It tastes delicious and delicious. Xu Bao, can I learn this dish?"
When Shen Jiayue encounters something delicious, she wants to learn it. It would be even better if she could make it with a rice cooker. Shen Jiayue can fully claim the title of God of Small Home Appliances.
Lin Xu shook his head and said:
"This dish is too difficult, you might as well forget it."
If it were braised pork, it would allow Shen Baobao to experience the joy of cooking in a rice cooker, but braised pork would not work. This dish requires too much cooking.
If you add too little of those sweet noodle sauces, they won’t be flavorful enough, and if you add too much of them, the meat will become sour.
The cooking time must also be grasped properly. If it is cooked too early, the fat in the meat will not be stewed out, and it will taste very greasy. If it is cooked too late, all the fat will escape, and the taste will be dry and dull.
Relatively speaking, the lazy version of braised pork and Dongpo pork are more suitable for this girl.
It’s not difficult, and it saves time and effort. Once you put the ingredients, you don’t have to worry about anything. It’s simply easier than cooking in an air fryer.
Shen Jiayue pouted:
"But I also want to try a meat dish."
"I'll teach you the lazy version of Dongpo Pork later. It's easier to learn and looks better than this."
From Dongpo pork to braised pork, to the more common pork in the north, braised pork, jar pork, etc., the cooking methods are actually not very different.
As long as you want to learn, you can still learn.
Upon hearing this, Shen Jiayue's fair face smiled again:
"Okay, okay, this Spring Festival, I want to cook a big meal for my family!"
Chen Yan on the side curled her lips:
"Just don't let the whole family accompany you to eat Guo Gaba... As for you, we are going to Yinzhou to celebrate the New Year. What should I do if I want to pay my grandma a New Year greeting?"
"Then you should go too. No one will care about the fireworks in the mountains. Then we can have a great time."
Chen Yan is also a little excited and wants to sing and dance around the campfire.
But thinking that Ren Jie had to work overtime during the Chinese New Year, he gave up the idea and decided to stay in the capital to accompany his parents.
Lin Xu tasted two bites of the meat, and then began to discuss the Spring Festival vacation with Dou Wenjing.
"Ziqiang Shengjianhe Company will have a holiday starting from the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month. We will go to work on the eighth day of the first lunar month. Stores will take turns to take holidays. If there are not enough staff, we will recruit more people. We must let everyone go home."
During the Spring Festival, the business of street food restaurants such as Ziqiang Shengjian will deteriorate. Instead of holding on, it is better to take a holiday and let the employees go back to celebrate the New Year.
The same goes for the company. The publicity that needs to be done has been done anyway, so there is no need to stay and work overtime.
There are only stores, and business should be good during the Spring Festival, so we have to keep the doors open to maintain business.
In addition, reservations for the New Year's Eve dinner in the store have also begun, and all private rooms, including the banquet hall, have been reserved for New Year's Eve.
The store has also launched door-to-door service for New Year’s Eve dinner.
Within Haidian, the store delivers free meals to customers who have made reservations for New Year's Eve dinner, and arranges all the dishes properly so that customers can enjoy Lin Ji's New Year's Eve dinner without leaving home.
In addition, Lin Kee also welcomes customers who cannot go home to celebrate the New Year to attend the annual group meeting at Lin Kee lobby. As long as they pay a fee, they can eat and drink and celebrate the New Year with a group of customers who are strangers in a foreign land.
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Lin Xu said to Shu Yun:
"Make the reunion dinner in the lobby more generous. We can't always think about making money, but we also have to provide humanistic care to our customers."
"Okay boss, I will do a good job."
Chen Yan looked at Shu Yun and asked:
"Baby Shu, when will you return to your hometown?"
Shu Yun pulled the rice in the bowl and said with a smile:
"I'm not going back. Anyway, the first day back will be lively. From the second day on, the elders will start helping arrange blind dates. It's just like rushing to a party, and I'm tired of it."
It seems that girls over the age of twenty-five cannot avoid blind dates, forced marriages and other similar fates when they go back to their hometown to celebrate the New Year.
In the eyes of the elders, no matter how much money you make or how many achievements you have, you must get married when you reach the marriageable age. Even if you find someone to marry, you cannot stay alone.
Once you insist on being single, your parents and elders will come up with their own rhetoric, saying that you can't hold your head high in the village and that you are being criticized by others.
It's as if he has done something treacherous.
Several women around me who are working hard in the capital, whether Dou Wenjing, Shu Yun, or Zeng Xiaoqi, will almost always encounter this kind of situation when they return to their hometown.
So Dou Wenjing will not go back to celebrate the New Year this year, but will stay in Beijing to manage the store with Shu Yun.
And Shu Yun is also planning to pack some braised food and other delicacies for home delivery after the 20th of the twelfth lunar month, and does not plan to go back and go on blind dates.
After a busy year, what I want to do most when I go back to my hometown is to relax and unwind, instead of going on a blind date, which makes me even more tired than going to work.
Zeng Xiaoqi, who is in love, has been as proud as a peacock these days and plans to go back to her hometown to feel proud.
Being single not only means finding a partner, but in the eyes of the elders, it is also a sign of correcting one's evil ways and is worthy of praise and encouragement by giving new year's money.
Chen Yan said:
"I can't escape being forced to get married in the capital. Rural areas are relatively more traditional, so being forced to get married is more normal. No matter how hard you work, buying a house in the capital won't be a problem."
Although you can't escape the fate of being forced to get married when you buy a house in the capital, at least people in your hometown won't tell your daughter about it in person.
Even if you are looking for a partner, you must also have a house in the capital.
The scope is suddenly reduced a lot, at least it can be settled clearly.
The next morning, Lin Xu did not go to work. Instead, he played with the white-striped duck sent by Lao Huang at home, preparing to make tea oil duck.
"So many ducks?"
Shen Jiayue looked at the hundred ducks sent by Lao Huang and felt that the kitchen had become a sea of ducks.
Lin Xu smiled and said:
"When the truck driver comes to deliver the marinated duck vat, remember to go downstairs and open the door for him, so you don't get in."
"Okay, hey, are these two big pots of camellia oil? It smells so good."
The main ingredients of camellia oil duck are camellia oil and duck. Lao Huang just made a trip to deliver it, along with a few slaughtered fat geese.
Lin Xu is busy cleaning the ducks now.
Although these ducks have been slaughtered, there will still be some congestion and residual lymphoid tissue in the abdominal cavity, and all need to be cleaned.
In addition, the membranes on the duck feathers and duck webs have not been torn off, so they have to be cleaned up one by one.
After a while, wash it all, apply salt on it, and then find a place to press it with a stone slab.
It’s hard to find slates at home, but there are plenty of barbell plates. Shen Guofu bought some fitness equipment and sent them over during his free time. Those heavy barbell plates can be used as slates.
Well, this can also be considered as unlocking the correct use of fitness equipment.
While he was busy, Shen Guofu suddenly called:
"Xiao Xu, why didn't you and Yueyue come to the store?"
"Today I am going to make tea oil duck at home, and the duck has just been delivered."
When Shen Guofu heard this, he immediately said:
"Then your mother-in-law and I will go help now."
After saying that, the other party hung up the phone.
Lin Xu smiled bitterly, how can this help?
Could it be that the father-in-law wanted to eat meat, so he came to the house on purpose under the guise of helping?
But when you use the barbell to press the duck later, you can ask your father-in-law to help.
The duck needed to find a place to hold it down for two days. Lin Xu originally planned to go upstairs to get a wooden board to support it, but it was too troublesome and could easily overturn.
So he planned to play around in the kitchen.
The island in the center of the kitchen is relatively large, and a hundred ducks can easily fit there.
There is also a pool on the roundabout. Later, you can put a circle around the roundabout to guide the squeezed blood into the middle pool.
Lin Xu cleaned all the ducks, then picked up a kitchen knife and completely cut open the backs of all the ducks like dried ducks.
This not only makes it easier to lay it flat when pressing, but also saves space when you return it to the vat for marinating.
While they were busy, Shen Guofu and Han Shuzhen walked in with some fruits.
The couple were shocked when they saw a duck in the kitchen.
But what surprised Han Shuzhen and Shen Guofu was that the smile on their faces never stopped.
"With so many ducks, how many meals will it take?"
As soon as Shen Jiayue heard this, she knew what her father was thinking, and she couldn't help but pour a basin of cold water on her:
"These ducks need to be marinated for four months before they can be eaten. From now on, it will be at least around May Day. Dad, are you very disappointed?"
Shen Guofu opened his mouth and laughed twice:
"What should I be disappointed about? I can eat it anytime... By the way, the soy sauce duck and air-dried duck I made in the previous section are almost ready to eat, right?"
You can’t eat tea oil duck, so the duck you cooked before should be fine to eat, right?
Lin Xu said:
"It's ready to eat. How about cooking it at home today at noon? I'd also like to try the difference between air-dried duck and soy sauce duck."
Soy sauce duck is generally eaten steamed, so as to retain the aroma of the duck itself and the flavor of soy sauce to the maximum extent.
There are many ways to eat air-dried duck. You can stew it in soup, stew it with bamboo shoots like pickled duck, steam it, or boil it and cut it into pieces and stir-fry it.
Shen Guofu swallowed his saliva and saw a few geese lying next to him. Just as he said that he would stew the geese, he saw his wife glance at him and said quickly:
"One soy sauce duck and one air-dried duck are enough. Don't make the goose Xiaoxu, you won't be able to finish it."
Lin Xu said:
"I'm going to make these geese into dried geese. You can eat them anytime you want."
"Okay, this is good."
Cut all the ducks open from the back, control the water first, and then dig out the large grains of sea salt that Lao Huang gave last time, and prepare to rub the salt into the ducks.
When marinating meat ingredients, it is best not to use the fine salt you usually eat at home.
Because fine salt is too salty and too dehydrating, the pickled ingredients will have a faint bitter taste.
Instead, use large grains of sea salt, so that the flavor is more intense and the saltiness is appropriate.
And when scrubbing, it also feels better.
He poured the salt into the basin, and Shen Guofu and Han Shuzhen also started to help.
Lao Shen was responsible for drying the water on the surface of the duck so that Lin Xu could rub the salt more easily, while Han Shuzhen spread the salted duck flat on the central island in the kitchen.
The top is now covered with a board made of bamboo strips, which can allow the squeezed blood to flow out smoothly, and it is also surrounded by plastic boards.
The squeezed blood can only flow into the central pool.
It is relatively hygienic and convenient.
"Mom, when placing these ducks, the skin should be facing up. Don't overlap each other. Just put them next to each other."
Han Shuzhen agreed:
"Okay."
Shen Jiayue was holding a camera and taking videos.
Although this video was released at least around May Day, the material still needs to be preserved.
When the time comes, the title will directly include the sentence "duck took 120 days to make", which will definitely be very eye-catching.
Lin Xu held a duck that had been wiped dry, took large grains of sea salt and rubbed it inside and out. He also scrubbed the duck's head, neck and other parts.
There were still salt particles stuck to the surface of the rubbed duck. Han Shuzhen took it and placed it on the island with the skin facing up. The duck's neck and head were placed around the duck's body, so as to save as much space as possible.
Just as they were setting it up, the car boy came with a few door-to-door delivery masters to deliver water tanks.
Shen Jiayue put down her camera and went downstairs to open the door for everyone.
When I got home, I asked these masters to carry the water tank to the utility room upstairs, and paid double the transportation fee.
After all, it is an extra requirement, and we cannot afford to lose out on those who have contributed.
After moving up, Che took the initiative to go upstairs and clean the water tank carefully, then went downstairs to the kitchen and helped rub salt for the ducks.
"Boss, won't these ducks go bad if soaked in camellia oil?"
"No, when the time comes, it will be completely sealed with camellia oil and it will be stored for a long time. The camellia oil will also soak into the inside of the duck, making the duck taste better."
Lin Xu briefly explained the principle of this kind of pickling, which is actually similar to air-dried meat.
However, air-dried meat is pickled and then hung in a ventilated place to dry naturally, while tea-oil duck is directly sealed in tea oil, which makes it taste more oily.
This method is not in line with modern people's diet, but it is delicious enough.
This alone made Shen Guofu full of expectations.
Marinate it with camellia oil for four months. Let alone duck, just pick a pig tail and marinate it like this, and the taste will never be bad.
There were more and more ducks placed on the island. In order to prevent the mother-in-law from being confused, Lin Xu asked Han Shuzhen to wipe the water on the surface of the ducks, while Shen Guofu and Che Zai rubbed salt, while he himself arranged the ducks in an orderly manner.
After all the one hundred ducks were washed, he and Che Zi lifted the large chopping board next to them and placed them all on top of the ducks.
Then move the barbell over and carefully place it on the chopping board.
You must pay attention to balance when placing them, and do not pile them together, otherwise the chopping board will easily tip over.
When the barbell falls down, it may break the kitchen floor tiles. If it is nearby, it may cause other accidents.
Just put the barbell plates on and the stacked ducks began to ooze blood.
Continue to press, put all the barbell plates up, and you can even hear the gurgling sound of blood flowing in the duck pile.
"It feels like the texture of these ducks will become firmer in less than two days."
Shen Guofu licked his lips. He, a big boss with a net worth of several billion, suddenly started working in the kitchen, and felt that everything was quite novel.
Lin Xu smiled and said:
"The purpose of pickling is to remove water and increase the taste, and to prevent it from rotting and deteriorating in the camellia oil...these camellia oil has to be simmered later. You can't use raw oil, you have to use cooked oil."
The aroma of cooked oil is stronger and does not have the strange smell of tea seeds, which is more in line with modern people's eating habits.
After finishing all this work, it’s almost noon.
Che Zai didn't stay for dinner because he had to be responsible for the shopping in the store. However, Chen Yan, who heard that she was making soy sauce duck today, drove over with Xiao Wei and Xiao Sui to enjoy the meal.
"Why didn't Sister Xiaoqi come?"
Shen Jiayue turned off the camera and planned to copy the video data to the computer later, shoot it again after two days of marinating, and then wait for the editing to be updated four months later.
Chen Yan said:
"I went downstairs with my boyfriend to eat braised pork. Last time, I said that I couldn't get used to these heavy-flavored snacks in Beijing. Now that I have a partner, I have immediately become an old Yanjing native. I also speak in a childlike voice. It's really hypocritical."
Xiao Wei held Dundun in her arms and looked at everything in Lin Xu's house and felt it was so strange.
The million-dollar piano in the living room was given to Dundun by Mr. Yan, and the small billiard table on the other side of the living room was also played by Dundun.
There is even Dundun’s own room upstairs. Humans are really inferior to cats.
Lin Xu brought a soy sauce duck and an air-dried duck from upstairs.
Wash the air-dried duck with hot water, then chop it into pieces with a knife, blanch it in a pot, and then start stewing it.
When stewing, add green bamboo shoots in it to increase the flavor of the soup.
As for the louver knots and the like, soak them first and then put them out when they are about to come out of the pot.
The air-dried duck was stewed for about an hour. Lin Xu washed the soy sauce duck with hot water, then placed it on a plate, put it in the steaming cabinet, and started steaming.
Soy sauce duck is the same as soy sauce meat. You don’t need to add anything when making it, you don’t even need to change the knife, just steam it. After steaming, you can cut it into pieces or tear it by hand, which is more casual.
When the air-dried duck in the pot is about to be taken out of the pot, the soy sauce duck is almost finished steaming.
Lin Xu opened the steaming cabinet, and immediately a strong aroma of soy sauce and duck meat came out from the steaming cabinet.
"Wow, it smells so good!"
"Just because of this taste, I have to eat two bowls of rice today."
"I also ate two bowls, this duck is so fragrant."
Lin Xu took out the duck. There was a thick layer of soup on the bottom of the plate, which was all the juice and fat steamed from the duck.
He chopped the duck into pieces and poured the steamed fat on the duck. The whole duck suddenly became delicious and the aroma of soy sauce became even richer.
In the pot on the side, the mellow aroma of air-dried duck and the freshness of bamboo shoots also whet one's appetite.
Put the two ducks on the dining table, put a piece of steamed soy sauce meat and a few stir-fried vegetables, and the Lin family's lunch officially begins.
Shen Guofu was not in a hurry to eat, but looked at the hundred ducks stacked in the kitchen with greedy eyes. He would be able to enjoy duck meat in four months.
But aren’t these one hundred ducks too few?
How about... add another two hundred?
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