After seeing the reactions of the two old men, Xu Zhuo knew that he had guessed correctly.

He went to the kitchen and followed the tutorials he found on his phone to find the ingredients to use to make the dish.

The first is soba noodles, which are an essential ingredient for grilled cakes.

Xu Zhuo took out a packet of soba noodles from the freezer of the refrigerator, which was not much, but it was enough to make grilled cakes.

In addition to soba noodles, some toppings are also used, such as shredded carrots, which are more delicious when added to the cold salad.

Of course, this is very casual, if you don't have carrots, you can also use cucumbers or something instead, this thing is basically similar to food such as jelly and cold skin.

It is all cold salad after processing, as for how to cold dress, it completely depends on personal taste.

You can mix it cold as you think it tastes.

For example, you can use vinegar and chili oil to make hot and sour food, you can also use garlic vinegar to make garlic vinegar flavor, and you can also put sesame paste in it to increase the flavor like you make cold noodles.

Anyway, this snack has a high degree of freedom, and what to add depends on the choice of personal taste.

There are no carrots at home, this is not the season, but there are cucumbers and mung bean sprouts, and Xu Zhuo plans to mix them with cucumbers and mung bean sprouts later.

The first thing to do to make a dish of grilled cake is boiling water and noodles.

For Xu Zhuo, this should be regarded as his old job.

Pour the soba noodles into a basin and add some salt and some peppercorn powder to it, in fact, if you have black bean noodles, add a little to it to taste more fragrant.

But there was no such thing at home, so Xu Zhuo didn't force it.

He stirred the ingredients in a basin and boiled a pot of boiling water to prepare the dough.

There are actually two ways to make the cake, one is to boil a pot of boiling water, then pour in the soba noodles mixed with salt and pepper powder, stir into a sticky paste, and then turn off the heat.

Then, with the help of cold water, cool the paste and make small cakes, then put it in cold water to cool thoroughly before starting to make it.

Another method is to mix soba noodles with boiling water to form a sticky batter, then use cold water to make palm-sized dough cakes or put them in a bowl and steam them directly in the basket.

Steam for 20 minutes, and the grilled cake is ready.

Wait until it has cooled thoroughly, and then you can change the knife to cold dressing.

There is not much difference between the two methods, as the soba noodles are cooled and shaped after they are matured.

Relatively speaking, the water content of the dough after boiling in a pot is relatively high, which is more suitable for stalls, because the water content in it is large, so the amount is more.

The steaming method is more suitable for home production, so you can enjoy the chewy texture of soba noodles.

Because it was his own family to eat today, Xu Zhuo naturally used the second way.

Of course, there is also a reason why he is too lazy to wash the pot.

After the water boiled, Xu Zhuo held the kettle in one hand and chopsticks in the other hand and began to mix noodles.

Before mixing the noodles, you should first add water to the steamer and put it on the stove to start cooking, so that the noodles can be steamed directly in the pot after they are reconciled, which saves time.

Add boiling water to the basin in small amounts and beat the soba noodles with chopsticks until they become a thick batter.

This batter is a bit like hot noodles, it is very sticky, and you can't grab it directly with your hands, otherwise it will stick to your hands.

The batter must be stirred several times to make sure that there is no dough formed by raw flour in it, otherwise these small lumps are mixed in the grilled cake, and if you bite it when eating, you will have a feeling of eating stones, which is very toothy.

After the batter is beaten, the water in the steamer is almost boiling.

Xu Zhuo lifted the lid of the pot, put in the silicone steaming pad, brought the batter over, and began to steam in the pot.

He brought a large bowl of cold water and set it aside, first put his hand in the cold water to wet it, then grabbed a ball of batter and quickly slapped it into a thick dough.

After placing it in the cage drawer, put your hand back in the bowl and dip it in the water to continue making.

Wait until all the dough is placed in the steamer, cover the pot and steam for 20 minutes.

Taking advantage of this time, Xu Zhuo began to prepare the ingredients to be used in eating the grilled cake.

Chop some minced garlic, fry a little chili, sauté a little peanuts, add some sesame paste, and finally prepare some mustard oil.

In fact, when you add some mustard oil to the sesame paste, it will taste better, but considering that the two old people may not be able to eat mustard, Xu Zhuo did not forget to put it in the sesame paste.

When you start eating it later, if you feel that the wasabi tastes light, it's not too late to put it alone.

Next, Xu Zhuo cut the cucumber into thick strips and blanched the mung bean sprouts to cool.

When the grilled cake in the pot is steamed, all the ingredients on his side have been prepared.

Use a spatula to carefully remove these grilled cakes from the steamer and place them on a large tray, then place them near the air conditioner to accelerate cooling.

At this time, the two old men were already a little eager to try.

After all, this is a delicacy in the depths of memory, even if it tastes average at the time, but when you revisit it decades later, the taste will naturally become different.

After about half an hour, the temperature of these grilled cakes completely cooled down, and it was completely set.

When it was just taken out of the steamer, this thing was so soft that Xu Zhuo wondered if he had overturned because he had no skills.

But now, touching these hard-felt grilled cakes, Xu Zhuo is sure that he has not overturned.

Back in the kitchen with these grilled cakes, Xu Zhuo began to make them.

It was already noon at this time, Yu Keke was also a little hungry, and he hadn't eaten grilled cakes, so he followed Xu Zhuo, and when he saw that Xu Zhuo was starting to do it, he took a picture with his mobile phone.

This kind of unpopular delicacy has to be made for everyone to see.

In fact, this way of eating soba noodles is not unique to the capital, and almost the entire northern region, including Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Hebei and other places, also has similar practices.

Buckwheat is naturally cool and sweet, and rich in dietary fiber, especially suitable for hot weather in summer.

"Dietary Therapy Materia Medica" says that it "strengthens the stomach, picks up cakes and renews the spirit"; "Suixingju Diet Recipe" says that it "opens the stomach and widens the intestines, invigorates qi and protects against cold wind"; and "Illustrated Guide to Chinese Medicinal Plants" believes that buckwheat "can restrain cold sweat".

Anyway, buckwheat is good for the body.

However, this thing has a disadvantage, that is, it is not easy to digest, and if you eat too much, it may cause gastrointestinal discomfort.

So Xu Zhuo decided to wait a while to do less, so as not to cause indigestion for the two old men.

Xu Zhuo took a dough cake and placed it on the cutting board, cut it into strips with a knife, and then put it in a bowl.

Then add various condiments such as shredded cucumbers, mung bean sprouts, light soy sauce, sugar, aged vinegar, minced garlic, chili oil, sesame paste, and mustard oil.

After stirring it, a bowl of chewy and refreshing grilled cake is ready.

"Delicious, huh?"

Yu Keke leaned over and looked at these ordinary-looking grilled cakes in the bowl, a little discouraged.

However, in line with Xu's trust in her man, she still picked up a piece with chopsticks and tasted it.

After chewing twice, the girl's eyes suddenly widened: "Wow, this tastes so good!"