My daughter-in-law works so hard, so naturally she has to be rewarded, so today's sour soup fish is inevitable.

But other than that, Xu Zhuo didn't do anything more, after all, Yu Keke wanted to surprise him, so he had to pretend to be casual and wait for Yu Keke to make a result.

It was Chen Guifang, who was so excited that she didn't know what to say, so she called the old lady without saying a word, and reported Yu Keke's recent achievements to the past.

It is the tradition of the Xu family for women to manage money, the old lady is like this, and Chen Guifang is also like this, and now she has met a very talented Yu Keke......

Tsk, the next housekeeper didn't run away.

After hanging up the phone, Chen Guifang was full of emotion: "Other women are only responsible for being beautiful like flowers, but to be a woman of your Xu family, you still have to make money to support your family, we are really miserable!"

Xu Zhuo looked his mother up and down, wearing a short masked down jacket worth tens of thousands of dollars on his upper body, Gucci's black printed slim pants below, Hermès handmade boots on his feet, and a special LV New Year's handbag in his hand......

Just say that your life is hard, and the current businessmen are so thick-skinned?

But after all, she is the number one on the list, Xu Zhuo doesn't dare to complain about anything, in case she is unhappy, she won't brush the gift next time, isn't it too much of a loss.

Therefore, Xu Zhuo followed Chen Guifang's words and said: "Yes, it's all my father's inability, if he is the richest man or something, and he still uses you to work so hard to make money, I don't have to take on such a big industry too early, it's all my father's fault!"

In front of the old lady, complaining about the old man is politically correct, and in front of Chen Guifang, this role is naturally replaced by Xu Wenhai.

However, in order to prevent Chen Guifang's disgust, Xu Zhuo went on to say two more words: "Mom, I bought you a set of French Guerlain limited edition perfume, it is estimated that it will arrive in the next two days, my dad will not have any opinions, right?"

As soon as these words came out, Chen Guifang immediately said: "He? What opinion does he dare to have? By the way, you are not married, you can't spend money all the time, don't buy New Year's gifts or anything, it's a net expense!"

As soon as she heard that there was a perfume, Chen Guifang immediately put on the majesty of her mother, but Xu Zhuo always felt that her words were mainly to prevent Xu Wenhai from buying New Year's gifts.

After a pause, Chen Guifang said: "Your father likes tea, you can send him a red envelope or something to let him buy it himself." ”

Xu Zhuo almost didn't laugh out loud, the little private money Xu Wenhai saved would be purged by Chen Guifang once a year.

The money given to him was just a handshake, and the money finally fell into Chen Guifang's hands.

However, Xu Zhuo also admires it, Xu Wenhai will work tirelessly to save money for his private house even if he can't spend a penny, I don't know what he is trying to do, probably this is the fun of middle-aged men.

After Chen Guifang left, Xu Zhuo continued to work in the kitchen.

Approaching the end of the year, young people who are in other places will return to the provincial capital, and they will habitually come to Sifang Restaurant to check in, which makes the business of the restaurant better and better.

The original afternoon break was also canceled, and everyone was basically busy in the back kitchen all day, either preparing or cooking, and there was no rest time at all.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Xu Zhuo began to prepare to make sour soup fish. To make this dish, you must first clean up the Jiang Tuan that Chen Guifang bought.

The scientific name of the river group is long-snouted catfish, also known as catfish, which is a fish of the family of catfish, but grilled fish restaurants around the country prefer to call it Qingjiang fish.

In China, the river clusters are distributed in the Liaohe River, Huai River, Yangtze River, Minjiang River to Pearl River and other river systems in the east and the western part of North Korea, with the Yangtze River system as the main system.

Because of its delicate and delicious meat, rich in nutrition, and thick fish fat, it can be processed into precious fish maw, which has long been used as a nourishing aquatic product and was a tribute to the imperial court in ancient times.

When Xu Zhuo used to eat grilled fish, his favorite food was Jiang Tuan, and he could eat it to the fullest every time.

But today is the first time to do Jiang Tuan, which feels quite novel.

Jiang Tuan is very easy to clean, remove the gills of the fish, remove the internal organs and the layer of black membrane in the stomach after disemboweling, and then pick out the fish teeth, the fish is cleaned.

Then wash the fish, put it on the cutting board, and use a kitchen knife to cut off the backbone behind the gills of the fish, cut off the back of the fish, and connect the flesh on the belly of the fish.

The meat on the back of the fish is relatively thick, and the meat is firm and difficult to taste, so it is necessary to chop it so that the flavor of the sour soup will also soak into the fish while the fish is cooked.

In addition, the back of the fish is chopped open, which is also convenient for eating with chopsticks.

After chopping the backs of several fish, Xu Zhuo put them in a basin, poured cooking wine to marinate them first, and at the same time began to prepare sour soup while he was in this world.

Sour soup is the same as chili pepper, is an indispensable seasoning for the daily diet of Guizhou people, and Guizhou people's love for sour is no less than Shanxi people who can't breathe without vinegar.

"If you don't eat sour for three days, your legs will run around" is a true portrayal of Guizhou people's love for sourness.

However, unlike Shanxi people, Guizhou people do not have special feelings for vinegar, and their demand for sour taste comes from the sour soup brewed by the locals.

According to different methods, sour soup is divided into three types: white acid, red acid and red oleic acid.

White acid is made by fermenting rice soup or noodle soup, and is called white acid because of its whitish color. The white sour taste is sweet, and it is generally used to make light dishes, and it is eaten with dipping water.

Red sour is made by fermenting wild small tomatoes, also known locally as Mao Spicy Seeds or Mao Spicy Horns, the sour taste of red sour soup is pure and long, the color is ruddy and beautiful, and it is generally used to make sour soup hot pot.

As for red oleic acid, it is to chop wet red peppers, seal and ferment them to make sour peppers, then put them in a pot to fry the red oil, and finally put them in a pot with tomatoes to boil into a red oil sour soup.

In addition to these common sour soups, Guizhou also has spicy sauce sour, shrimp sour, stinky sour and so on, it can be said that as long as you come to Guizhou, you will open the door to the world of sour soup.

Today's sour soup fish is made with the finished red sour that Chen Guifang bought, so things have become much simpler.

After packing up the fish, Xu Zhuo began to prepare the side dishes and ingredients to be used.

The first is tomatoes, no matter what sour soup you make, tomatoes are an essential ingredient, and with the addition of tomatoes, a pot of sour soup will become more exciting.

The tomatoes are very simple, you can cut them into cubes and slice them, and you don't eat them in the pot anyway, just with a sour taste.

In addition to tomatoes, Xu Zhuo also prepared ingredients such as green onions and ginger, and as for the side dishes, he was at will, and the bean sprouts, bean sprouts, green vegetables, mushrooms, etc. prepared at noon could be put into the pot and eaten.

To put it bluntly, sour soup fish is actually a sour soup-flavored fish hot pot, when eating, eat fish first, then shabu-shabu, and finally use soup to soak rice or drink soup.

After everything was ready, Xu Zhuo began to make it.

Pour oil into the pot, heat it, put the green onion and ginger in it and fry it until fragrant, then pour in the finished red sour soup and start boiling.

When you put red sour soup, you can't pour it all at once, but you have to put it according to the amount of food and the customer's acceptance of acid.

Huizhou locals naturally put more acid, the better, but today it is the Xu family and the Yu family who are eating, and their tolerance for sour taste is average, so Xu Zhuo reduced the amount of red acid when he put it.

This kind of red sour soup should be boiled like this when you use it, so that the miscellaneous flavors in it can volatilize, so that the taste will become better.

If it is a home-made sour soup, you can directly put it in the pot and start cooking, and you don't need to fry the green onion and ginger in one more move.

When the red sour soup in the pot boiled, a rich sour smell wafted out of the pot, Xu Zhuo stirred it with a spoon a few times, and then poured the chopped tomatoes into it.

Because this red sour soup is made by an industrial process, although it is full of sourness, the other tastes are average.

After adding tomatoes, it can just increase the umami in the sour soup, and at the same time give the sour soup a sweet taste.

When the sour soup in the pot boiled again, Xu Zhuo put the wood ginger seeds prepared in advance.

When people in Guizhou eat sour soup, they generally put wood ginger, which is also called mountain pepper, and putting it in the pot can increase the compound flavor of the sour soup.

The effect seems to be the same as pepper in the sour soup here in the Central Plains.

The wood ginger was put in and boiled for a few more minutes, and Xu Zhuo added some pork bone broth to the pot.

Although the sour soup has a great effect, the aroma cannot be ignored, and the pork bone broth can make the sour soup more fragrant and more comfortable to eat.

Of course, the cost is naturally quite high, but if you eat it for your own family, the cost is negligible.

By the time the soup in the pot boiled again, the original pork bone broth had turned into a pot of red and bright soup, and it still exuded a rich sour aroma.

The taste is really intoxicating, Xu Zhuo feels that this soup is not to mention boiling fish and vegetables, even if you throw a handful of dried noodles into it, the taste of cooking will not be too bad.

This sour taste is so good!

Xu Zhuo put two small spoons of salt in the pot and began to taste, but the salt should not be put too much, because the soup has to be drunk at the end, and it is too salty to drink the soup.

As for whether the ingredients will absorb the flavor, there is no need to worry about this, because when the fish in sour soup is eaten, it is generally eaten with dipping water, and the taste of the dipping water can be adjusted at will.

As soon as the salt was put in the pot, Xu Wenhai drove to the kitchen, and at this time, he didn't know that because of Chen Guifang's intervention, the New Year's gift that was supposed to be in hand was canceled, so his interest was quite high.

Not only did he inspect the back kitchen and point out a few apprentices who were trying to cook, but he also stood next to Xu Zhuo and seriously commented on the red sour soup in the pot.

In the early years, when Xu Zhuo was in school, Xu Wenhai and Chen Guifang almost ran all over the country, and they were no strangers to Guizhou sour soup, and even in retrospect, they were still a little unsatisfied.

"I heard your mother say that you made mutton noodles two days ago? If you do it next time, tell me in advance, I haven't eaten it for several years, and I'm panicking. ”

Xu Zhuo nodded, and when the salt in the pot had completely melted into the soup, he carried the fish into the pot, and also put some blanched brine-boiled tofu cubes.

As for the other dishes, it's not too late to wait until the fish is finished.

It's not Guizhou people who eat today, so I didn't put sauerkraut and sour bamboo shoots or anything, and Xu Zhuo only thought it was a hot pot with sour soup.

On a cold day, it's cool enough to eat a warm meal like this.

As for the chili peppers, Xu Zhuo has not put them, after all, there are old people at dinner tonight, and it is not appropriate to put the chili peppers, and there is dipping water anyway, if you want to eat spicy, just put some chili noodles in the dipping water.

When Xu Wenhai was chattering about what he and Chen Guifang had seen and heard in Guizhou back then, Xu Zhuo couldn't help but say: "Dad, I originally prepared a New Year's gift for you this year, but I was stopped by my mother......

Although he has a partner, Xu Zhuo is still not used to others sprinkling dog food in front of him.

In particular, the person who sprinkled the dog food was still his parents, which made Xu Zhuo feel abandoned.

So in view of this situation, Boss Xu replied without hesitation.

Xu Wenhai was stunned, the words full of stomach were suddenly blocked in his mouth, he opened his mouth, reached out and took out the mobile phone from his pocket, and was just about to open his mouth to speak, Xu Zhuo spoke first.

She also said that all the red envelopes I sent you would be confiscated, and not only your phone would be checked, but also mine...... Dad, don't blame me. ”

Xu Wenhai immediately lost interest in chatting, he walked to the side and was stunned for a while, and did not return to normal until Yu Changjiang came over.

Xu Zhuo opened the circle of friends and looked at it, and found that Xu Wenhai didn't know when he updated a news.

"The collapse of middle-aged people starts from the lack of freedom with pocket money......"

Tsk, why are you still emotional?

Xu Zhuo had an attitude of helping others, and then sent a screenshot to Chen Guifang: "Your husband is complaining about you behind your back." ”

Soon, Chen Guifang's comment appeared under that news: "Delete it for me!"

Xu Wenhai hurriedly replied: "Okay." ”

Then the middle-aged man's emotion disappeared from the dynamics of the circle of friends, just like the hair of a middle-aged man.

Alas......

Xu Zhuo sighed slightly after watching this farce, hoping that this would not happen when he was in his forties.

When the fish in the pot was almost cooked, Xu Zhuo carefully poured it into a large soup pot and then brought it to the private room.

At this time, several elderly people were already sitting in the private room, and the sour soup fish immediately attracted everyone's attention after it was brought over.

"This tastes pretty good, Xiao Zhuo, when did you start researching Guizhou cuisine?"

Yu Peiyong was well-informed and recognized the origin of this dish at a glance.

Xu Zhuo said with a smile: "Coco wants to eat, so I will try to make it, I will go and bring the dipping sauce over, everyone can mix it freely." ”

With the old man and Yu Peiyong here, Xu Zhuo didn't have the class to help everyone prepare dipping water, after all, their seasoning level was much higher than that of Boss Xu.

After serving all the side dishes and other side dishes, Xu Zhuo asked everyone to eat first, and he went upstairs and personally invited the great heroes of the family to come downstairs to eat.

Of course, in order to show that he was not spoiled, Xu Zhuo did not go to the office, but shouted at the door: "Coco, go downstairs to eat." ”

Then he took out his mobile phone and transferred 20,000 yuan to Yu Keke at the door of the office.

Soon, Yu Keke ran out of the office: "Why are you transferring money to me?

Xu Zhuo said: "You help me transfer it to my father, just say that it is a New Year's gift from you to him." ”

"Is it secretly giving pocket money again?"

Yu Keke's face was puzzled: "The family obviously has money, but why do I always feel that my father-in-law has no money to spend......

Xu Zhuo sighed: "This is probably just scattering dog food...... Ahem, the bitterness of a middle-aged man. Let's go downstairs and eat sour soup fish, the taste is very good, and you are guaranteed to be addicted as soon as you eat it. ”

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