Although Chen Yun was taken away to Xihetang to eat hot pot, in fact she only sat at the same table with Yan Lizhou. Xiuning, Zhang Jingyan, Hua Lingjun, Zhuang Junwei, Feng Lan and the others were at the same table.
Of course, the table between Chen Xun and the other male customers was separated by a screen, so she didn't think anything of it and happily ate the mutton.
Today's mutton is prairie sheep. It is the prairie sheep sent back from Xizhou by Yan Lizhou's uncle. The meat quality is very good.
The bottom of the hot pot is spicy. Of course, Chen Xun's body is not very good at eating spicy food, or she used to eat spicy food more often, so she didn't come up with a super spicy pot bottom, but she couldn't eat it very well.
The level of spiciness that even spicy people can take over.
It's impossible for her to make spicy hot pot base. She has to take it step by step and let her body adapt to eating spicy food. Then she can make super spicy hot pot base.
Of course, today's hot pot is not all spicy. Chen Xun had a mandarin duck pot, and the other pot had mutton stewed with radish soup, which was also very delicious.
Yan Lizhou and the others were the ones who ate the green vegetables at the bottom of the spicy pot. Yan Lizhou did not express any opinions on the vegetables Chen Yu brought out, nor did he want to find out where the vegetables she got came from.
In fact, Yan Lizhou really believed that Chen Chun had a master, and maybe others believed it too. After all, there was something about Chen Chun that didn't quite match her identity as the legitimate daughter of the Hou family who grew up in the countryside.
"This spicy hot pot is really delicious. You should eat something like this in the winter." Feng Lan said while simmering the mutton in the spicy pot.
This spicy hot pot is really delicious. Although the spiciness is only medium spicy, it is very flavorful for people who don't often eat spicy food. It makes your mouth turn red after eating it.
If Feng Lan hadn't taken care of Chen Xun behind the screen next door, he would have taken off one or two layers of clothes on his body.
It was really hot in this room with the floor heating and spicy hot pot, but Feng Lan was also very happy to be so hot in winter.
"Your Majesty, do you still have the ingredients for this spicy hot pot? I think our brothers in Northern Xinjiang need this very much." Feng Lan said while eating.
"Not only in Northern Xinjiang, I think Western Xinjiang is also in great need." Zhuang Junwei also said with a smile. He looked much more gentle when eating, but his movements were still very fast.
After all, the group of people at the same table with him were either Grandmaster-level masters like Xiuning or generals like Feng Lan. Although Zhang Jingyan and Hua Lingjun were doctors, one was a martial artist and the other was a military doctor, they were also very skilled.
Very good.
That's why when rinsing meat and vegetables, they really rely on their neat skills to grab the vegetables. If they don't pay attention to the cooked vegetables in the pot, others will take them away.
"How much hot pot base is there?" Yan Lizhou looked at Chen Xun after listening to Feng Lan's words.
I had heard about the method of making self-heating hot pot from her before, but I have to admit that the taste was still a little worse after making it.
Although Dayong also has bamboo shoots and lotus roots, there are no potato slices or ham sausages. Many of the ingredients in the self-heating hot pot are not fully prepared.
Fungus is not cultivated artificially now, so it is quite troublesome to put a large amount of fungus into a self-heating hot pot.
But Yan Lizhou didn't care. Bamboo shoots, lotus roots, fungus and other ingredients would be ready. Moreover, he didn't plan to make all the self-heating hot pot vegetarian. He still had to prepare some meat dishes, whether it was beef or pork.
Mutton and beef are not so good. Cows cannot be slaughtered at will. Mutton is more expensive, so pork has to be used.
However, the pig-raising industry in Dayong is not very developed, and it is quite troublesome to prepare so much pork, so Yan Lizhou's self-heating hot pot workshop has not yet achieved results.
But for this hot pot, you only need hot pot base. Does his princess have a lot of hot pot base? Or does she have a recipe?
"What's the hot pot base?" Chen Xun thought about it and nodded, "Yes."
Even if there isn't enough hot pot base on the supermarket shelves in her space, wouldn't she still be able to make her own? She's not afraid of running out of chili peppers this time.
After she unlocked the vegetable and fruit shelves, there were also various kinds of peppers, such as sky peppers, string peppers, sweet peppers, sharp peppers, millet peppers, etc. There were all kinds of peppers, dried peppers and fresh ones.
There are also chili peppers.
So it’s not impossible to make hot pot base.
"There are not many ready-made hot pot base ingredients, but we can make our own." Chen Xun said with a smile, "But the hot pot base requires chili peppers. There are not a lot of chili peppers now. We have to plant them after spring and harvest them."
Let’s talk about it later.”
During this period, she will stock up on more peppers, and wait until spring starts to harvest the pepper seeds and plant them. For the vegetables in the supermarket in her space, the fresh seeds can be directly used as seeds for planting, so there is no need to worry about whether the seeds will survive or not.
But it does not bear fruit.
"Don't think about making hot pot base this year. Let's wait until next year." Chen Yu thought for a while and said.
Although she knew very well that spring in Northern Xinjiang or Western Xinjiang definitely didn't start in February or March like in Chang'an, but what could she do?
The refresh time of her space supermarket is fixed, and the amount of things in it is also fixed, so she can't supply a large amount of hot pot base ingredients before this year. If she wants to make her own, she has to wait until she grows the peppers.
"Huh? I remembered what I want to do with my other shop." Chen Xun looked at the bubbling hot pot in front of her and said with a smile, "My other shop will be a hot pot restaurant."
It just so happens that her hot pot base can still hold up, and the chili she stocked up only needs seeds. The peppers themselves still need to be eaten, so they can be used as hot pot base.
Yan Lizhou: "..."
"Can we plant peppers only next year?" Yan Lizhou said regretfully, "Aren't there a lot of peppers now?"
"Not much, less than a hundred kilograms." Chen Yun shook her head and said. Although each kind of pepper weighs dozens of kilograms, it is not enough for her to use in the workshop to make hot pot base to supply to the soldiers in Western Xinjiang and Northern Xinjiang.
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"Don't worry, it's only a few months. Once you get through it, everyone can have spicy hot pot next winter." Chen Yu and Yan Lizhou assured.
Yan Lizhou nodded and did not force it. If that was the case, then he would wait. What's more, with the fire kang and floor heating this year, the soldiers on the frontier in the cold winter can also have a warm winter.
While Chen Xun was eating, she was thinking about how and when to open her own hotpot restaurant.
The Chinese New Year is not too far away now. Maybe we should wait until after the Chinese New Year before opening a hot pot restaurant. Anyway, we can continue the hot pot business after the spring begins.
You must know that modern people eat hot pot in the summer when the temperature is over 30 degrees Celsius, so she is not afraid of running out of business if she opens a hot pot restaurant after the Chinese New Year.
Before that, she had to negotiate with the supplier. After all, opening a hotpot restaurant would require a lot of meat and vegetables. She had to think carefully about whether Zhuangzi under her name could supply it. If not, she would talk to others about purchasing the goods.
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Yan Lizhou looked at her as she was deep in thought but her eating movements remained unabated, and he shook his head helplessly.
This princess of his can eat well and is really obsessed with eating.
This is also good. Although she loves to eat, it does not hinder her from learning other things. His princess still has many advantages.