The price of chicken in Dayong Dynasty is 50 Wen per catty. The maximum weight of a chicken is about 5 catties, and the smaller one is only two or three catties. Therefore, the ten taels of silver that Aster spent can buy nearly fifty chickens.
chicken.
When Chen Xun asked Ai Ju to go shopping, she only bought about thirty chickens. The remaining money was used to buy other things, including other side dishes for the dishes she wanted to eat.
Thirty chickens seem to be a lot, but after considering that there are so many people in the Hou Mansion, these chickens may not be enough to eat, so everyone doesn't think it is too much.
It was rare for Chen Xun not to sleep in early in the morning. After exercising in the martial arts arena for half an hour, she went directly to the kitchen.
"Miss Three." Chef Liu from the big kitchen greeted Chen Yu consciously when he saw her.
"Third Miss, you asked us to keep all the chicken blood and offal," Chef Liu said to Chen Yu with a smile.
There were thirty chickens, and the offal alone was a huge amount. It would be a pity to lose them, so Chen Xun asked Chef Liu to keep them.
After all the chicken offal was processed, Chen Xun took a look at it and nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Chef Liu."
"It's not hard, it's not hard." Chef Liu said with a smile. You know you can learn new recipes from the third girl, how could he complain?
Look at the other chef in the big kitchen, Chef Wang. At first, he could not help the third girl when she came to the kitchen to order her to cook her favorite food. Now he is very envious of Chef Liu.
"It would also be good to simply stir-fry garlic sprouts with chicken blood or make leek and chicken blood soup." Chen Xun said to Chef Liu, "If possible, make chicken blood vermicelli soup for everyone's breakfast."
"Okay." Chef Liu nodded and responded.
"Just stir-fry chicken giblets with onions, ginger, garlic, Sichuan peppercorns, and dogwood. It's delicious simply by stir-frying."
Pingyang Marquis Mansion is not short of money, so it also has iron pots and other things. The Yong Dynasty also has cooking methods, so the stir-fried chicken offal is not a big pressure in the kitchen.
"Okay, listen to the third girl." Chef Liu said with a smile.
Whether it's leek and chicken blood soup or stir-fried chicken offal, it doesn't take Chef Liu to make it. There are other cooks or helpers in the big kitchen. Chef Liu is following Chen Xun's instructions and plans to make those three.
Ten chickens.
Thirty chickens have been cleaned, and the chicken feet and heads have been chopped off. The chicken feet have been prepared by Chef Liu according to the recipe given by Chen Xin before Chen Xin arrived.
Chef Liu has superb cooking skills and good knife skills, so not only can he debone chicken feet, but his apprentices can also do it very well.
Therefore, the chicken feet have already been blanched and boned, and then marinated according to the lemon and spicy chicken feet method. After marinating and adding flavor, you can eat it.
As for the chicken heads, they are all handled very cleanly. Chef Liu has already marinated them. Even if the masters in the house don't eat them, they can still give them to the servants to taste.
Thirty chickens seemed like a lot, but Chen Xun felt that there were too many dishes to cook, and thirty chickens were not enough to eat.
"Chef Liu, let's try making lotus leaf glutinous rice chicken first." Chen Yun looked at Chef Liu and said.
"Okay, Miss Three, please give me your instructions." Chef Liu responded happily.
Chen Xun told Chef Liu the method and steps of making lotus leaf glutinous rice chicken according to the records in her database and the hosts she had followed.
The glutinous rice is soaked for an hour in advance, drained and steamed in a pot. Chop the chicken into pieces, add a little oil and stir-fry until cooked. Then add in green onions and garlic slices, and stir-fry the chicken pieces completely.
Once cooked, add salt to taste.
In fact, MSG is needed in the recipe, but there is no MSG in Dayong Dynasty, so you only need to add salt to taste.
After the chicken is fried, take it out. After the glutinous rice is steamed, take it out. Take out the soaked lotus leaves and spread them out. Put the steamed glutinous rice first, then add the chicken pieces, chestnuts, soy sauce and other seasonings.
Wrap the lotus leaves.
Place the wrapped lotus leaf buns in the steamer and steam until cooked.
While the lotus leaf glutinous rice chicken was being steamed, Chen Xun asked Chef Liu and others to break down the remaining chicken into several parts.
Chicken wings, chicken legs, chicken breasts, chicken racks and other parts were all cut out. Of course, she kept five whole chickens and cut the rest.
Chen Xun planned to use three chickens to make beggar's chicken, so she asked Chef Liu to take out three chickens, add onions, ginger, garlic, soy sauce, a little wine, and salt to marinate them, and then ordered someone to find some yellow mud.
Chef Liu and the others were still wondering what to do with the yellow mud, but they went looking for it anyway. After they came back with the yellow mud that Chen Xun thought was enough, Chen Xun had someone pour some wine, lemongrass, lemon leaves and other things.
Go in and stir.
After the yellow mud was stirred until it was sticky, Chen Xun asked someone to take out the almost marinated chicken, stuff it with soaked mushrooms, chestnuts and other ingredients, wrap it in several layers of lotus leaves and wrap it with straw.
Tie the rope up.
After it is tied, it is wrapped in yellow mud, wrapped tightly, and then placed in the kiln for baking.
After that, Chen Xun had other chickens marinated. Chen Xun planned to have the remaining two steamed chickens made into fried whole chickens, five pairs of chicken wings, and five pairs of chicken legs to be made into fried chicken.
The remaining chicken wings were made into honey-glazed grilled wings, chicken wings wrapped in rice, and the chicken breasts were made into spicy chicken tenders, spicy chicken diced, etc. We were very busy.
The breakfast at Pingyang Houfu consists of simple chicken blood vermicelli soup and stir-fried chicken offal, as well as other usual meals, but what everyone is most looking forward to is the whole chicken feast at lunch.
Even Chen Wenbai and the others who had to go to work were looking forward to the whole chicken feast at noon, not to mention the other people who stayed in the house and smelled the aroma emanating from the kitchen.
"It smells so good. Is the chicken cooked in the kitchen so fragrant?" Chen Xun, who also came home for the holidays, took his cousins to the kitchen and sniffed. It was so fragrant that it made him want to eat it.
Drooling.
"It's so fragrant." Chen Ming couldn't help but say.
"Sixteen, is it really you who gave Third Sister the money to buy the chicken?" Chen Mo looked at Chen Xin and asked.
"Yes, my sister said that you can eat boneless chicken feet if you want, but a chicken only has one pair of chicken feet. Wouldn't it be a waste if we only have chicken feet without chicken?"
"So she wanted to see if she could make some tricks out of the chicken, so that she could kill the chicken more often in the future, and I could eat chicken feet more often, and the chicken would not be wasted." Chen Xin said proudly.
"How can chicken be wasted? Chicken is so delicious." Chen Miao said.
"Chicken is indeed delicious." Others swallowed their saliva and said, they were really greedy. The chicken cooked in this big kitchen is too delicious, right?
Usually they think the chicken stewed in chicken soup is delicious enough, and the chicken stir-fried by the chef is also delicious. Unexpectedly, the chicken cooked by Sister San is so fragrant and so tempting.
"When will it be lunch time? I really want to eat." Chen Xue asked pitifully. He was really greedy.
"It's only half past one, it's not yet noon, and of course it's not time for lunch yet." Chen Xiao appeared behind his brothers and said.
The three meals in Pingyang Hou Mansion are from Chen hour to Chen hour and a half (7 a.m. to 8 o'clock in the morning), lunch time is from noon to noon and half (11 to 12 noon), and dinner time is from You hour and a half to Xu hour (
6pm to 7pm).
Most people in the Yong Dynasty usually eat two meals a day, but most people also have three meals a day, and Pingyang Houfu is not a special case.
But their house really stipulates meal times. Before the time or after the time, there is basically nothing to eat, so you have to find a way by yourself.