Stop pretending, I am the God of Cooking and I am showing off my cards! Chapter 265 Crocodile meat is so delicious! Master Wei, can you take me home tonight?
Chapter 265 Crocodile meat is so delicious! Master Wei, can you take me home tonight?
In the kitchen, when Lin Xu heard his father-in-law praising him so much, Lin Xu sighed helplessly:
"My father-in-law always thinks that his son-in-law is the best in the world. It's only a matter of time that he ruins his life... It's true that one person is pink and the other is black."
He planned to redeem all the basic cooking techniques while he had points, so as not to be stabbed by his father-in-law, a die-hard assassin.
The vendor selling the crocodile was relatively considerate. He had already turned over the crocodile's intestines and performed a preliminary cleaning.
At this moment, Lin Xu only needs to wash it several times with flour, salt, and cooking oil in the same way as pig intestines.
As for the raw and fried part, it needs to be specially washed with baking soda to increase the crispiness of the crocodile intestines.
After everything was packed, Lin Xu started production.
Take out the crocodile oil soaked in water, cut it into mahjong pieces and put it into the wok, then put the wok on the stove, add a bowl of water and start boiling.
The recipes for boiling animal fat are basically the same.
Cut it into large pieces and put it in a pot with water to boil. While the water slowly evaporates, the fat in the fat pieces also slowly boils out.
When the water is completely boiled away, the oil has also been boiled out of fragrance.
"Ah, what is this?"
Baby Shen found that when he went out to take a drink of water, a frying pan had been placed on the stove, and it was still full of the crocodile's fat pieces.
"I'm boiling crocodile oil. You can try the crocodile oil residue later. It should be more delicious than lard residue."
Crocodile is not as greasy as lard, and it is rich in umami flavor. It tastes like a combination of lard and chicken fat, with both umami and aroma.
Using this kind of fat for cooking, let alone crocodile meat, even a handful of the most common vegetables can whet your appetite.
The process of boiling crocodile oil is relatively long and relatively safe, so Lin Xu gave this job to Shen Baobao:
"Call me when the oil residue is fried to a golden color. If not, just keep waiting. Don't worry, the oil will only become more fragrant as it cooks, and it won't go bad."
Although it is enough to boil the crocodile oil and just watch it, there is no need to do anything else.
But it gave Shen Baobao a strong sense of participation.
She even took a short video of herself being busy in the kitchen and sent it to the group.
"Today Xu Bao and I are making a whole crocodile feast. If there is a chance, we can invite everyone to eat it!"
Not long after posting in the group, Chen Yan, who had just washed the crocodile lungs and liver, said:
"So am I working in vain? I am also responsible for this alligator feast. If my name is not added, I will never finish talking to you young couple!"
Lin Xu, who had just moved the entire crocodile crest to the workbench, was immediately happy.
It’s not like you’re writing some advanced academic paper, how can you two brush up on your qualifications like this?
Use a cutting board to pad the back of the crocodile's crest. First, trim off the thicker parts of the crocodile's crest, and remove the inner and outer crest meat. This will make it easier for the big bones to be cooked.
The removed inner and outer ridge meat can also be used for stir-frying or deep-frying.
After picking off the excess meat, Lin Xu grabbed the bone-cutting knife and chopped the ridge bones into large pieces, then washed them with water and prepared to start cooking the soy sauce bones.
These big bones can actually be used to make soup.
But now that I have decided to use the tail tip to make soup, it would be a bit repetitive to make soup dishes, so I just made it into sauced bones, so that my father-in-law can experience the deliciousness of his hometown again.
Set up a large frying pan, pour a little cooking oil into the pan, use a spoon to scoop out a few pieces of crocodile fat that is being cooked and throw it in, and finally add half a spoonful of lard.
Heat the oil, add onions, ginger, garlic and dried chilies and stir-fry until fragrant. Add two tablespoons of Northeastern soybean paste. Stir-fry until fragrant. Add water, dark soy sauce and rock sugar, then add the bones.
Wait until the soup and water in the pot boil and pour it into the pressure cooker.
Add a few star anise, bay leaves and a piece of cinnamon, then cover the pot and start stewing directly.
Doenjang is relatively salty, so there is no need to adjust the taste. Press the pressure cooker for about an hour and wait until the meat in the pot is stewed until it is cooked.
Lin Xu then followed the steps of making rock sugar elbows, deep-fried the slightly smaller front paws of the crocodile and cooked them until they were raw, and then started stewing them in another pressure cooker.
Just like the big bones, this front paw also needs to be pressed for about an hour, so that the skin becomes crispy and the meat is rotten, and the marinade is like glue.
As for the hind claws, Lin Xu plans to cut them into large pieces and braise them.
However, it was still a little early to cook the braised pork, so he had to quickly cook the tip of the tail first to satisfy the ladies’ demand for collagen.
Fill the earthen pot used for making soup with spring water, bring to a boil over high heat, then add the washed and chopped tail tips, then add dangshen, astragalus, cordyceps, onion and ginger, salt, rock sugar, and cover
Cover and cook over low heat on the stove.
While Lin Xu was busy in the kitchen, there were more and more relatives in the living room.
We just had a big meal at Lam Kee yesterday. We were all lacking in appetite at first, but we didn’t expect that we would have an alligator feast today, which made the relatives full of expectations for dinner.
"It is said that all crocodiles are full of treasures. Today we will try to see if this crocodile is as good as the legend says."
Shen Guofu was holding a cigar in his mouth and was full of confidence in his son-in-law's craftsmanship.
I’m even a little curious as to whether the crocodile I bought today is big enough to satisfy everyone’s meat-eating requirements.
After all, a crocodile weighing over ninety pounds may seem quite large, but if you remove the skin, internal organs, and bones, there won’t be much meat left.
"Fu Guo, don't always think about eating meat, eat some vegetarian food."
Mrs. Han, the new cat slave, hugged Dundun and warned her son-in-law seriously.
After Lin Ji Food reopened, my son-in-law thought about eating meat all day long, and the belly he had lost in the past few days was starting to bulge out again.
If you continue like this, let alone lose weight, you will gain weight to a new height.
Shen Guofu said to his mother-in-law:
"There's something about it. I just saw Xiaoxu asking Sister Liu to give out some bean curd sticks. I really want to make pork belly and stewed bean curd sticks. Isn't this a vegetarian dish?"
Mrs. Han: "..."
Why didn’t you say that the chopped green onions in it are also vegetarian?
When I was young, my family was not well-off, so I just wanted meat. Why do you still like eating meat so much now?
If you continue to eat this, it will be a matter of time before the three highs come to your door.
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Han Shuzhen brought some small dried fish to Dundun and fed the little guy while saying:
"From tomorrow on, you are not allowed to go to the store for dinner at night. You should go home and give me a fat-reducing meal. I won't let you eat until the Mid-Autumn Festival."
These words made the smile on Shen Guofu's face suddenly freeze.
Happy old Chen also turned into melancholic old Chen.
Can’t eat meat again?
He didn't dare to disobey his wife's orders, so he could only try his best to fight for his own rights:
"Then I have to eat low-fat dishes like winter melon stuffed meat and spicy shredded chicken. In addition, Xiaoxu grills dried fish. I have to eat less every day, as well as wine..."
Han Shuzhen's eyes squinted:
"Still want to drink?"
Shen Guofu immediately panicked:
"Red wine, red wine. Not to mention that a glass of red wine before going to bed is good for your health. Then you drink fruit vinegar and I drink red wine. Can we both be healthy?"
Seeing her husband's timid appearance, Han Shuzhen couldn't help but feel happy:
"Bargain like a child all day long. You can have some drinks, but not just food. Don't make me a bunch of snacks before going to bed."
"No, no, how could I hide food like Yueyue?"
Baby Shen in the kitchen:??????
I originally wanted to secretly give my dad some crystal elbows and crystal skin jelly.
It's better now, the elbow and skin jelly are all gone.
Boss Shen, Boss Shen, please accept this stage of labor reform honestly. I will often give you food in the family to comfort you!
The crocodile meat has been cooked by now.
Lin Xu stood in front of the workbench, carefully chopping the meat filling composed of crocodile crest and crocodile belly.
Crocodile meat is tender and fresh, and is naturally suitable for making some meatball dishes.
What Lin Xu wants to do now is to make raw crocodile balls, including vegetables and soup. People who are not used to the herbal tail tip soup can also try the meatball soup.
The preparation of this soup is not complicated.
Chop the meat filling, add ginger juice and onion-ginger water, and then pour in some pepper water.
Add salt, light soy sauce, cooking wine and egg white, then add some green onion, ginger and pepper water. Stir evenly, then grab the meat filling and beat it hard to make the meat filling produce gelatin during the beating.
When the meatballs are cooked in this way, the meat fillings will stick together.
"Wow, it looks a lot like the clay we played with when we were kids. Can we try throwing it a few times?"
Lin Xu glanced at the nail polish on Baby Shen's nails and the manicure on her sister-in-law's fingers, and shook her head to reject their request to participate.
Don’t stick your nail art into the meat filling to surprise your relatives.
It’s more appropriate for me to do this kind of strenuous work myself.
Seeing that the two helpers were a little idle at the moment, he ordered:
"Why don't you two peel the garlic and prepare it in a small pot? I think I'm almost finished with the garlic sauce at home. I'll fry some more later and make a garlic alligator belly."
After sending away the senior Shen Baobao and his sister-in-law, Lin Xu beat him for a while. When the meat filling was completely sticky to his hands, he poured in a little starch water made from sweet potato starch and stirred the meat filling again. p>
To make raw meatballs, you need to add an appropriate amount of starch water to the meat filling. This can effectively prevent the meatballs from falling apart and not forming a ball, and it can also increase the chewy texture of the meatballs.
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Mix the meat filling evenly and set aside to marinate.
Taking advantage of this time, he boiled a pot of water and scalded the crocodile's head inside and out.
After blanching, tear off a layer of white mucous membrane from the mouth. This membrane cannot be eaten and must be torn off, otherwise the cooked dishes will be full of fishy smell.
Clean the mouth, use a knife to cut the inside and outside of the mouth, and then add the fried chopped peppers to marinate the meat skin and neck meat.
Apart from the outer layer of skin, crocodile heads are not very edible. People like them mainly because they look domineering and have good coloring.
In fact, for people who really know how to eat, it is more cost-effective to stew soup.
After the crocodile head was marinated, it was placed on a plate and then brought to the steaming cabinet for steaming. Taking advantage of this time, Lin Xu boiled a pot of water on the stove.
After the water boils, turn off the heat and let the water temperature in the pot drop to 70 or 80 degrees. Then turn on the fire again and reduce the heat on the stove to the minimum to keep the water in the pot in a shrimp-like state.
This is the most suitable temperature for cooking boiled ingredients.
Dishes such as boiled shrimp, boiled conch slices, and boiled octopus are all cooked with water of this temperature.
This water temperature can break the rawness of the ingredients while maintaining a fresh and tender taste.
The raw meatballs that Lin Xu is going to make now also have the same requirements for water temperature.
Bring the marinated meat filling to the stove and beat it with your hands a few times to make the meat filling become sticky again. Then dip your left hand in water and grab it a few times to expel the air in the meat filling.<
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Then release the tiger's mouth with your left hand and squeeze it gently to squeeze out the meat filling you just grabbed several times from the tiger's mouth.
When squeezed into a cylinder, hold a ceramic spoon in your right hand and dip it in water, then dig lightly into the tiger's mouth of your left hand, and a small round ball will be formed.
Carefully put the meatballs into the pot along the edge, then continue to squeeze the meat filling and dig out the meatballs.
"Wow, Xu Bao, I want to learn this?"
Shen Jiayue, who was peeling garlic, saw this scene and was immediately attracted.
Squeeze gently with your left hand, hold the spoon with your right hand and dig in, and a round meatball is made. It's like a magic show.
Lin Xu said:
"This is not easy to learn. It's a bit out of line for you."
"Oh, what a wave..."
Chen Yan asked unwillingly:
"It's a bit too much. How much is it?"
I'm a good cook who can even make frozen custard and fruit cheese. If you're a little over the top, wouldn't this be a good challenge?
After all, a beautiful chef must have the courage to step out of her comfort zone!
Lin Xu still admires her sister-in-law's courage to challenge herself.
But in cooking, the more reckless people are, the more likely they are to be burned or cut their hands when chopping meat...
Forget it, it’s better not to increase the workload of medical units.
Lin Xu said:
"It's equivalent to a first-grade elementary school student calculating a system of three-dimensional linear equations. You two should save your time. This is not something that novices can learn."
With half of the meat filling left in the basin, Lin Xu stopped.
He turned the fire on the stove to a boil and cooked the meatballs, which could effectively prevent the meat filling in the meatballs from being cooked.
Soon, the water in the pot will boil.
Use a spoon to skim off the foam in the pot and cook for another two minutes. The meatballs are ready.
While the meatballs were cooking, he brought a small basin, put dried shrimps and seaweed in the basin, and then added some white pepper and salt.
After placing it, hold the pot with the meatballs in it and pour the meatballs and water into the basin.
Soon, the delicious smell wafted out from the basin.
Cover the pot and bring it directly to the table. This can not only keep the temperature warm, but also simmer the umami flavor from the seaweed into the soup, making the soup taste brighter.
After finishing all this, Lin Xu brought over the remaining meat filling and half a bowl of steamed pork powder.
Roll the meat filling into meatballs, then roll them into the steamed meat powder so that the surface of the meatballs is covered with steamed meat powder, and then place them on a plate.
After all the meat stuffing is used up, a plate full of round meatballs is made. After steaming them thoroughly in the steamer, they will be steamed crocodile balls.
Not long after, the dishes began to come out one after another.
Braised crocodile legs, rock sugar crocodile claws, steamed crocodile with garlic vermicelli, braised crocodile belly with bean curd, fried crocodile intestines, salt and pepper crocodile steak, stir-fried crocodile intestines, stir-fried crocodile liver, spicy crocodile lungs, boiled crocodile meat, overlord crocodile head,
Crocodile steak in black bean sauce, boiled crocodile ribs, dried crocodile skin, black pepper crocodile fillet, raw braised crocodile balls, steamed crocodile balls, Codonopsis astragalus and crocodile tail soup...
There are more than 20 dishes, and the portions are very generous, making relatives and friends immediately hungry after seeing them.
"Thank you elders for coming. This whole crocodile feast was completed by me, Xu Bao and Yan Bao. If you have any opinions, please let us know. We will continue to improve next time we do it."
Baby Shen delivered a pre-dinner speech like a chef.
Relatives quickly put down their bowls and applauded.
Although everyone knows that they are just making soy sauce in the kitchen, making soy sauce is also work. Among the relatives here, these two girls are the only ones willing to enter the kitchen.
The other cousins are so pampered that they want the nanny to do the tying of their shoes.
With such a comparison, Shen Baobao and Chen Yan immediately won a wave of praise.
Chen Yan’s mother Shen Guofang couldn’t help but praise her daughter:
"Today at noon, our Xiaoyan steamed egg custard and made jelly for the old lady. After the meal, she also made watermelon cheese and peach cheese, which made the old lady very happy."
This compliment made Mr. Chen, who had always been disliked, grab Shen Baobao's hand with all his strength.
Haha, I didn’t expect that I would be praised one day, and finally I was no longer on my cousin’s background.
While he was getting excited, Shen Guofang said again:
"You are saying that my Xiaoyan is so beautiful and virtuous. She has made a lot of money in the past two years, so why can't she find a partner? Everyone is worried. She will be thirty soon. If she doesn't get married, she will become an old girl.
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Chen Yan: "..."
Wuwuwuwu, I’m already so obedient and sensible, why do I bring this up again?
Can't you just let me enjoy the food in peace?
In order to change the subject, Chen Yan stood up and opened the covered dishes one by one.
Every time I opened one, the shock on the faces of my relatives became more and more obvious.
There is no way, these dishes are so beautiful, fresh and fragrant, each with its own characteristics, both in appearance and taste are very attractive.
Shen Guofu grinned from ear to ear with joy:
"Xiao Xu is really hiding it. Fortunately, I bought a crocodile this time. Otherwise, this kid might have kept it secret for a long time."
Lin Xu smiled bitterly and immediately started pouring wine for the elders.
Hurry up and eat, lest this die-hard father-in-law does anything else.
Everyone raise the kuaizi and start eating.
"Oh, the crocodile's legs are covered with gelatin, which is more delicious than the skin of an elbow."
"This soup is so delicious, I never thought it was made from crocodile tail."
"This crocodile meat tastes really fresh, a bit like bullfrog, but more fragrant than bullfrog meat."
"It's delicious, it's so delicious. I can't say enough about Xiaoxu's craftsmanship!"
"Let's eat crocodile next time we have a chance. The meat tastes really good, especially the crocodile skin, which is full of gum. If you eat more, it will be good for your skin."
"..."
Everyone chatted while eating.
Everyone had a great time eating. Even Shen Guofu was completely immersed in competing with the dishes and even forgot to drink wine.
While eating, Han Shuzhen asked:
"Xiao Xu, so all the crocodiles have been used up?"
"No, there's almost half of the meat left. I'm going to take it to the store tomorrow so the employees can have a taste."
"Okay, take it away so that your father-in-law won't worry about it."
Shen Guofu:????
I'm not thinking about it, are you thinking about it?
When he thought about his wife's love for collagen-rich delicacies, Shen Guofu felt that the "reeducation through labor period" could be a breakthrough in this aspect.
But how to break through will have to be figured out by the son-in-law.
Well, my super invincible son-in-law is the most powerful, and he can handle any ingredient with ease.
Xiaoxu, whether dad can eat meat later depends entirely on you!
While people were drinking and drinking in the Shen family villa, the business in Linji Food Shop also ushered in the evening peak.
The boss is not here today, so the management employees have become proactive, fearing that there will be any deviations or mistakes in the business they are responsible for.
At the door of the kitchen, when Wei Qian was busy checking the dishes, Song Tiantian appeared at the door.
"Master Wei, can you come out for a moment?"
Wei Qian walked out of the kitchen and asked curiously:
"What's wrong, Tiantian? Is there anything going on at the front desk?"
"It's not the front desk, it's me who has something to do."
"What happened?"
Song Tiantian said softly:
"I heard that some hooligans are harassing girls at night recently. I work late today. Master Wei, can you ride a shared bicycle to see me off after get off work? I'm afraid..."
Wei Qian:??????
Are you afraid?
What are you afraid of?
Are you afraid that you won’t be able to hold back your strength and punch the little gangster to death?
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