Chapter 33 Braised Chicken with Abalone

"Leave me some roasted sweet potatoes!" Mr. Lin's voice came in from outside, "I smell it at the gate!

Mr. Lin finally ate three cheese-baked sweet potatoes, and did not break his promise, and a box of abalone was stuffed into the back of the car with ice cubes, and the driver sent the soup coriander home.

The afternoon sun is a little lighter, like when milk is just added to the sweet potato puree, the orange is melted into a light orange, and there is a little more soft warmth.

Tang Qian opened the car window, and when he passed by the small vegetable market, he saw several stalls with taro, and the taro was still muddy at one end, like a startled exclamation point.

The sun baked the raw taro with the earthy scent, and she took a deep breath as the wind blew onto the tip of her nose – the dry, earthy and taro aroma always calmed her.

The guests next to the stall smiled and picked taro, and she remembered that next week will be the beginning of autumn - people in Lingzhen eat taro on the day of the beginning of autumn, and this tradition does not know when it existed, and on that day, every household is floating with taro fragrance, which feels like the smell of New Year's incense candles and firecrackers, which can make people deeply feel the taste of home.

When she got home, her mother was not home, and as soon as she opened the door, there was a sound of "whoa, whoa, oh, oh" from the corner, and the kitchen door was closed.

There was a sound of water inside, and Tang Qian snorted: "Yaya?"

Yaya responded inside: "Sister coriander, it's me, I'll wash it soon!"

Tang Qian put the box containing the abalone by the faucet, and said inside, "Don't worry, you wash it slowly." ”

Tang Qian crossed his waist and gasped in place, the box containing the abalone exuded the salty smell of seawater, mixed with the musty smell of the stupid madman in the corner, this taste was a little indescribably sour.

She didn't care too much, wiped her hands after washing her hands, and looked around her small rectangular courtyard of only ten square meters by the way-

Behind her was a wooden door painted turquoise, not a single board, but two squares enclosed by four wooden edges, and a horizontal wooden edge connecting the two squares in the middle. The lock is on the left, and the black-painted padlock hangs from the door pin.

This school gate, which has been weathered for more than twenty years, has been silent and witnessed the school gate facing it from new to old, and then changed its appearance, and the table tennis table on the side has changed from a gray-black cement slab to a cement slab with a missing corner.

Personnel have changed several times, but it is still conscientiously serving her family to the end, and the color of the paint has taken off a lot, revealing the original wood color, which looks particularly storytelling.

On her right hand side is the wall, and there is some moss crawling on the wall, which has something to do with the installation of a faucet and the small ditch at the base of the wall, where she and her mother brush their teeth, wash their faces and wash their clothes, and the water flows down the small channel and drains out of the big culvert outside.

The ground is concrete, and there is a window in front and back, which is the window of the sixth aunt's house.

On the left side of the window, also to her left, there is a small recessed space, where there is a rectangular chicken coop, there used to be a few chickens in the house, but then they were gone, and the cage was filled with some miscellaneous items - hammers, bicycle tires, broken wooden strips, etc.

Closer to her were a few umbrellas on the left wall, and against the wall was a round folding table with six or seven folding chairs.

The left corner of the wall where the stupid madman was nesting was originally empty, and then it was used to let go of the coal stove and pot used by the stall, and the tricycle was outside the door, and a large iron chain was wrapped around the old cypress tree on the left side of the door.

Tang Qian tentatively spoke to the stupid madman: "Uncle, I have no ill intentions, this is my home, you can live here with peace of mind first." ”

The madman noticed that Tang Qian was approaching him, and a string of muffled bills came out of his mouth, and Tang Qian couldn't quite understand what he was saying.

Yaya opened the kitchen door at this time, wearing a white short-sleeved shirt printed with a rabbit pattern from Tang Qian's elementary school days, with lantern-shaped dark blue shorts, her hair tied into a ponytail at the back of her head, and her eyebrows were clear, looking very refreshing.

Tang Qian felt that her eyes lit up, and she couldn't help but praise: "Yaya is so cute!"

Yaya was not used to being like this, and suddenly blushed: "Thank you, Sister Coriander, Sister Coriander's clothes are so beautiful." ”

"Sister Coriander's clothes have no place to put them, all for you. Tang Qian smiled and beckoned to Yaya, "Don't pestle the door, come and show you what this is." ”

The girl let go of her hand on the kitchen door frame and walked to the foam box.

The transparent glue on the box was torn off after a few clicks, and as soon as it was opened, it was greeted with a burst of seafood flavor.

It's basically all ice cubes, and there are about a dozen abalone on topβ€”

The soft flesh of the fish is wrapped in a thick calcareous shell, and its shell is a right-handed spiral-shaped shell, and Tang Qian picks up an abalone, this squid's shell is hard and right-handed.

Under the sun, the purple, green, white and other colors on the inside of the shell reflect each other, and it looks particularly jeweled.

Tang Qian just wanted to ask Yaya about her father's situation, but her eyes suddenly sparked, and the "recipe" jumped out-

Please make a dish - abalone stewed local chicken

Ingredients: abalone, local chicken, ginger, cooking wine, salt, ginger and shallots, red pepper, shiitake mushrooms, garlic, braised sauce

Function: Abalone meat contains a variety of vitamins and trace elements, abalone is a low-cholesterol food, not easy to cause the rise of cholesterol in the human body, rich in vitamin E, is a healthy food to prevent cardiovascular disease. Abalone shell can also be used as a traditional Chinese medicine "stone cassia ming".

Abalone can nourish yin, calm the liver, strengthen the kidney, adjust the secretion of adrenal glands, and have the effect of two-way regulation of blood pressure.

Abalone has the effect of nourishing yin and yang, and is a kind of seafood that nourishes but is not dry, there are no side effects such as toothache and nosebleeds after eating, and it is okay to eat more.

Cook by any method and take it for immediate results.

This time, the explanation of the effect is a bit long, and Tang Qian was called several times by the maid before coming back to her senses.

Tang Qian suddenly walked out confidently: "Yaya, you sit with your father first, and I'll go buy a local chicken and come back." ”

She actually wanted to make a show, the ingredients must have been in the pot in the kitchen, but Yaya was there, and she couldn't uncover the pot in front of Yaya.

Who knew that the girl blinked and said, "Aunt Min just said that she went to buy chickens." ”

Tang Qian was stunned, and improvised into the kitchen: "But I remember that there is a ...... that was handled before" She said as she lifted the lid of one of the pots, glaring very exaggeratedly and opening her mouth, "Ah! look! there is really one here!"

Yaya's brain hole has not been developed yet, so she walked over and took a look, and smiled out with a mouthful of small white teeth: "There really is!"

Tang Qian smiled and touched Yaya's head: "Come, let's dig out the abalone meat first, I'll wash the abalone, and you go to the cabinet to find out the mushrooms and soak them." ”

The two worked together, Tang Qian only took a while to remove the shell of the abalone, and the squid sent by the "recipe" plus Mr. Lin gave it, a total of more than 20 abalones, all of which were fat and tender abalone!

She sprinkled a handful of cornstarch on the abalone meat, brushed it back and forth several times with a brush, and each abalone was torn off the edge, cut into a flower knife on both sides, and then slice it into two pieces.

After draining the water, she added some oil to the pot, put the abalone in it, turned down the heat and fried it slowly.

This abalone is pinched very elastically, and the skin and meat are tightly connected to the pot, and it does not stick to the pan, and it turns golden brown under the spatula of the soup coriander in a short time, exuding the meat aroma of shellfish.

Tang Qian scooped up all the abalone and put it on a plate, washed the chicken, boiled a large pot of water, and blanched the chicken for a while.

The girl soaked the mushrooms and talked to her father while cooking.

Strange to say, Yaya's father walked over and her father was very quiet, and he didn't scream, but occasionally whispered "ah", as if answering Yaya.

Tang Qian is very distressed about Yaya, this child was abandoned by his family since he was a child, and finally recognized a stupid madman as his father, and he seems to be very filial, God is unfair in the end, so that Yaya was born with nothing.

In comparison, Tang Qian felt that she was too happy, and she suddenly had a feeling in her heart that she wanted to take care of Yaya - she only wanted to give her more wages and help her more.

As for the rest, her own future is not very clear for the time being, and she can only do her best to do her meager part.

After blanching the chicken, she took a large casserole, put the chicken into the casserole, added water to cover the chicken noodles, added two slices of ginger and rice wine, and boiled on high heat.

Lin Huimin came back after a while, and couldn't help but be surprised when he saw that Tang Qian had already stewed the chicken: "You bought the chicken?"

Tang Qian took it over vaguely, but Lin Huimin didn't ask, and raised the chicken in his hand at Tang Qian: "This one will be raised overnight, and then I will cook other dishes tomorrow, and I will go to see the fire." ”

Lin Huimin saw that the chicken soup was boiling, so he turned the heat down and let it continue to simmer: "I turned the heat to low, what are you going to do...... Yo, this abalone is pretty, isn't it...... That soup coriander kid, your knife flower is growing more and more, this texture is more neat than the pineapple skin!"

Tang Qian was adding sugar, soy sauce and honey to the braised sauce, mixing it to divert her mother's attention: "No, my daughter! Hey, Mom, how is Yaya and her father?"

Lin Huimin said it to Tang Qian according to Yaya's words, and at the end she sighed: "I went to the old street to go around before I went out to buy chickens just now, and there is no house to rent for the time being, so we have to pull out the spring iron bed under my bed later, so that Yaya and her father can make do on this bed." ”

Tang Qian's movements in his hands did not stop: "Okay, I'll sleep with you, let Yaya sleep in my bed." ”

The aroma of chicken slowly seeped out of the pot, Tang Qian took out the boiled chicken, Lin Huimin put an apron around the chicken and cut the chicken, put it in the frying pan, added a few slices of ginger, poured in the sauce prepared by Tang Qian, and boiled on the fire.

After boiling, she turned the heat to medium, poured the sauce over the chicken with a spoon, poured it for a while, and then covered it and simmered over low heat.

At this time, the soup coriander has already started another stew pot, poured in the chicken broth that has been boiled, added shiitake mushrooms, boiled over high heat, turned to low heat and simmered.

Lin Huimin took a spoon and poured the sauce on the chicken repeatedly, turning it gently, the white chicken quickly absorbed the amber sauce, and the pot was bubbling with bubbles, and as soon as the bubbles burst, there was a burst of sauce flavor with the flavor of meat.

After a while, Tang Qian added the stewed shiitake mushrooms to Lin Huimin's pot, the fragrance of the mushrooms is the most mellow, as soon as it is put down, the saltiness of the sauce is diluted, the small umbrella-shaped mushrooms are chubby, with the churning soup floating and sinking, Tang Qian just looked at it and felt that he took a bite of it, and the soup sprayed out of the thick fragrance in his mouth.

After boiling for about half an hour, Lin Huimin turned to high heat to reduce the juice, added the abalone, continued to simmer for a while, and finally turned off the heat.

Lin Huimin bought lettuce, and the soup coriander added salt to the soup where the chicken was boiled just now, and finally added lettuce to blanch for half a minute, and the lettuce leaves were slightly soft, so she picked up the vegetables and put them on the plate.

The amount of abalone and chicken pot is particularly large, and the large pot is really dunden, and the fragrance wafts throughout the house.

The teachers and family members of the school are accustomed to taking a nap at noon, and when they are asleep, their nose smells a fragrance, and they wake up directly, and their stomachs respond in a special way.

Yuan Keke, who was taking a nap, had not yet eaten the green onion rolls promised by Aunt Min, and at this time she dreamed of roast chicken and roasted mushroom skewers.

The amber sauce of the chicken, the shiitake mushrooms roasted to the surface slightly burnt, the taste was still very real, and it was placed on the table, she couldn't reach the table in her dreams, and she was so anxious that she almost cried.

As soon as the pot of chicken in the soup and coriander was served, the maida had prepared the meals, and the chopsticks had been arranged, just two simple dishes, next to the crispy lettuce.

The abalone chicken is red and bright, Lin Huimin took a bite, and only felt that the chicken was soft and moist, the sauce was thick but not salty, sandwiched with the freshness of the abalone, and the mushrooms were calm and mellow, thick but not greasy. The abalone meat is thick and springy, and you can hear the echo of "click" in the mouth when you bite it, which is tender and delicious, the sauce enhances the flavor, and the taste buds are instantly greatly satisfied.

Yaya swallowed saliva next to her, and endured her stomach to persuade her father: "Dad, why don't I bring it over for you to eat?"

The stupid madman nodded.

Yaya came over to serve the meal, Lin Huimin took an empty bowl and filled a big bowl of chicken and a few abalones: "Don't worry, your father is not used to being here for a while, it will be better later." ”

Tang Qian took a small stool and came out: "You let your father sit on this stool." ”

Yaya went to put a stool for the stupid madman, and Tang Qian went to open a folding chair for her to put food and vegetables.

The stupid madman stopped making a fuss this time, turned his back to the wall, took off his clothes, and devoured his meal.

Yaya looked at the back of her father's head for a while, and then returned to the soup table and ate her meal.

Everyone was eating, and the door of Tang Qian was pushed open, and just halfway through the opening, I heard an old lady's voice: "This door is not closed well, if you enter the thief, you will steal the remaining few broken pots and find someone to cry." ”

When Tang Qian heard this, he put down his chopsticks with a cold face, Lin Huimin's face also stiffened, put down his chopsticks and stood up to open the door, put up a smile, and said, "Mom, why are you here?"