Chapter 177: Blackwater Swamp (9)
At this time, the water in the aluminum pot was also boiling, Liu Danqing smoothly sharpened a wooden spoon, skimmed off the foam in the water, and then cut two lemons and threw them in, and threw in a few red peppers.
Next, he chopped off two of the thickest crocodile tails, each twenty centimeters long, changed them a few times, put them in an aluminum pot, and blanched them.
"Crocodile meat is fishy, so before cooking, it is soaked in boiling water with seasonings for a period of time to remove the fishy smell, and then it is boiled in soup or simmered. ”
"Now we first blanch the crocodile tail with lemon and chili pepper to remove the fishy smell inside, and then roast it, we don't have enough spices, so we blanch the water first, and then smear lemon juice when roasting, and when it is almost baked, sprinkle some chili powder, so that the effect of removing the smell will not be bad, well, it will be drooling just thinking about it. ”
Liu Danqing saw that after the two large pieces of crocodile meat were put into the aluminum pot, the water in it was no longer boiling, so he turned around and began to build their shelter again.
"The first thing to do when building a shelter is to get off the ground, I first use these two waist-thick trunks as a bed frame, and put them parallel to the ground, if these two trunks are too long, don't worry, I'll cut off the excess now and use it as fuel. ”
Swinging the mountain knife again, just a few cuts, Xiao Weiwei came over to stop Liu Danqing, and said: "Give me the knife, I'll cut it, you go get crocodile meat, the water is boiling." ”
In the face of the persistent foodie, Liu Danqing was as good as a stream, handed the mountain knife to Xiao Weiwei, and returned to the fire and skimmed off the foam from the crocodile meat with a spoon.
"You see, there are constantly foams being boiled out of crocodile meat, and these foams are very fishy substances in the meat, and when they are cooked, the meat will become delicious, which is the same reason that when we cook meat at home, we blanch the meat first. ”
"We waited a little longer and then we could take out the two pieces of meat and grill them, and as for why we didn't keep boiling them until they were cooked, it was still that reason, we didn't have enough ingredients, especially no salt, so it wouldn't taste good when cooked. ”
"Besides, our pot is too small, and half of the thickest crocodile tail is still exposed in the water. ”
"But it's different with grilling, grilling can force out the fat inside the crocodile meat to form an aromatic quality, coupled with the world's recognized best partner for barbecue - lemon juice to remove the smell, paprika to enhance the flavor, think about the taste of this grilled crocodile tail should be very good. ”
"But now I'm still thinking about how to grill these two thickest pieces of meat, you see, this thickest part, even the thickness of my thighs, I have to blanch it now and keep the opposite, if I put it directly on the grill, it will have to be roasted until tomorrow. ”
Xiao Weiwei heard the question of cooking, hurried over, looked at the thickest crocodile tail, and hesitated, and said: "Yes, if you slice all the meat, then you won't feel like eating it, what should I do?"
"Can you use a branch to pass through it, put it on the fire and roast it, just like in the cartoon, and I'll turn it constantly to heat it evenly. ”
Liu Danqing frowned, looked at this large piece of crocodile tail, and said distressedly: "I think so too, but this crocodile tail is full of bone joints, although the bone joints are very thin, but there is no iron thousand, we can't pass through." ”
"Well, let's slice the meat down, but think about it from another angle, how many people can eat the large piece of crocodile tail meat under the slice, looking at the thickness of the meat, even if the slice is down, it can still be six or seven centimeters thick. ”
Xiao Weiwei is not bad, although she is a persistent foodie, but her head is not going to drill the tip of the horns, after listening to Liu Danqing's words, think about it, yes, this crocodile tail meat that is larger than the pork loin is really rare.
So she nodded in satisfaction and went back to chop her bed frame.
Liu Danqing turned the meat section over again, let the section exposed on the water surface soak in boiling water to remove the fishy smell, and then got up and began to set up the barbecue rack.
Now that he is doing this work, he is so cooked that he can't be cooked, he doesn't even use a knife, three times five divided by two, and a stable barbecue rack is set up.
After setting up the shelf, Liu Danqing poked the crocodile tail meat segment in the aluminum pot with a branch, and felt that the fishiness was almost gone, so he took out the two large sections and put them on the firewood pile, and then took the largest of the three remaining meat segments and put them in the aluminum pot.
When the meat was a little colder, Liu Danqing asked Xiao Weiwei to go through the mountain knife and began to take meat from the tail.
When Xiao Weiwei handed the mountain knife to Liu Danqing, she took care of it: "Take it into a big strip of meat, just like the tenderloin, don't want small slices, it doesn't feel like that." ”
"Cheng" Liu Danqing agreed, first along the incision made when he had just changed the knife, all the way to the end, and then added two more knives, dividing the meat on the tail into almost six parts, and then sticking to the bones, and taking off the meat one by one.
A full twelve strips of meat, neatly stacked on the grill, were warmly roasted by the flames below.
The big six, the thickest part has the thickness of an adult's forearm, and the small six are a lot worse, after all, the thickest part of the crocodile tail is the junction, the thinner the more to the tail, just now there is no segmentation, it doesn't look too obvious, now it's a point of six, it seems that the gap is not small.
If the whole section is the same as the thickest one, then this crocodile tail will weigh fifty or sixty pounds without skin.
Xiao Weiwei looked at the milky white strips with some pink meat on the grill, let out a "roar" laugh, and stopped building a shelter, took out the lemon, began to squeeze the juice on it, and carefully scraped the dripping juice with a piece of wood.
Liu Danqing looked at her and smiled, finished the bed frame that Xiao Weiwei hadn't cut yet, placed it parallel at a distance of two meters, and then went to get the bed board.
The trees on this small island met these two people, and they were considered to have fallen into bad luck, from the thickness of the small arm to the thickness of the calf, and all the trees that were discovered by Liu Danqing were not spared, and they were all cut down.
After all, the area of this small island is not large, and there are not many suitable small trees, and Liu Danqing does not have the physical strength to cut down more big trees.
"Hmm, it doesn't seem to be much water" Liu Danqing, who had just come back with two small tree trunks, looked at the pot and found that with the continuous boiling, the water in the aluminum pot was getting less and less, and now it was only half a pot of water, which was still because of the snake meat segment in it.
Cut off a section from the tail of an arm-thick trunk, hollow out the middle, make a wooden cup, and then tie the wooden cup vertically to a small trunk more than three meters long, Liu Danqing took it and walked to the water's edge, removed the dirty things on the water surface, and scooped a glass of water.
"Hehe, with this, it will be convenient for us to get water, and we don't have to be cautious anymore and worry about a crocodile rushing out of the water. ”
(End of chapter)