Chapter 151 Steaming
Seeing the extra plates of food on the table, its eyes suddenly became bright, and it jumped off the table under its feet and climbed onto the table with food.
Seeing Xiaobai waiting quietly without moving, he also learned to squat on the table in a good way, looking at the food in front of him and drooling.
Xiao Yi served a plate of food to the table, and only after the food was served was on the table, Qin Xiu walked out of the kitchen, and at this time, Xiao Yi had already prepared everything with dishes and chopsticks.
Seeing that there was a table full of dishes on the table, and smelling the aroma of all kinds of charming dishes in the hall, Qin Xiu finally couldn't hold back and swallowed his saliva vigorously.
Came to the seat and sat down, seeing that the two beasts were looking at him with blank eyes, Qin Xiu laughed and put a few pieces of pork ribs on the white rice in front of Xiao Bai, and said, "Xiao Bai, you ask, what does Xiao Bai want to eat?"
It turned out that Xiaobai could communicate with Xiaoba, so Qin Xiu directly handed over the task of communicating with Xiaoba.
"Meow!" Xiao Bai rolled his eyes and shouted at Qin Xiu dissatisfiedly, it was too much to disturb Uncle Ben to eat delicious food?!
"Meow meow!" After expressing his dissatisfaction with Qin Xiu, Xiao Bai turned his head to Xiao Ba beside him and asked, "Meow meow!" Lazy Xiu asked you, what do you want to eat?!
"Chirp-" It's not lazy cultivation, it's Xiao Qin! Xiao Hachi retorted, stretched out his tentacle and pointed at the sauerkraut fish......
After two months of getting along, Qin Xiu couldn't communicate with it, but some of its actions and behaviors were still understood, and when he saw it like this, he naturally understood that this meant to eat sauerkraut fish, and immediately sandwiched a large piece of sauerkraut fish fillet on the empty bowl in front of it, but he didn't dare to clip more, Xiaoba only had three levels, and he could eat sauerkraut fish because the system said that Xiaoba's body had been transformed, and it was not much of a problem to eat a small amount of sauerkraut fish that could only be eaten by fourth-order monks.
Xiao Hachi's eyes were shining and he looked at this snow-white and tender fish fillet, stretched out his tentacles, rolled up a corner of the fish fillet, lifted the whole fish fillet, and stretched out his tongue to roll the fish fillet into his mouth.
With the sour taste of sauerkraut and the tenderness of fish, the silky and tender taste immediately made Hachi roll up his tentacles comfortably.
"Chirp~" Hachi called out happily twice, and the only thought in his heart was that it was delicious and delicious!
Its eight happy tentacles all began to wave excitedly, and its body was vaguely uncontrollable to become huge.
"Knock-" Just as Hachi's body was about to swell, Xiaobai beside it slapped a claw on its head, pulling it back from its excitement.
As soon as his head hurt, Xiaoba stretched out two tentacles to cover the head that was patted, and looked at Xiaobai aggrievedly.
"Meow~" is not allowed to get bigger, if you get bigger, you will not only have no food to eat, but you will also be disgusted by lazy cultivation!
"Chirp-" Xiao Ba heard that not only would he have no food to eat, but he would also be disgusted by Qin Xiu, so he immediately obediently responded and didn't dare to make his body bigger, and made up his mind that he would not let himself get bigger!
Looking at the interaction between the two beasts, seeing that they seemed to get along well, Qin Xiu was immediately happy and ate the food with relish.
After eating, Qin Xiu walked into the kitchen and began to practice knife work and carving, originally wanted to practice the proficiency of the cuisine, but after thinking about it, he still decided to practice knife work and carving, because his basic knife skill proficiency was about to be full, and after he returned to the shop after completing the task of the third level of level one, his basic knife skill had risen a lot, and there was a small distance left from the full level, so he wanted to directly practice the proficiency of the next layer.
Sure enough, after he practiced knife work for three hours, after he had completed the skillful progress of knife work, the task prompt of the system sounded.
"Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully completing the side quest: within a month, the 'Basic Knife Craft' proficiency will be trained to the full level, and the rewards will be distributed - and then a lottery will be drawn!"
As the sound of the system fell, a green cylindrical instrument appeared in front of Qin Xiu, and there was a blank frame with yellow borders in the middle of this instrument, obviously, this was the instrument for the lottery.
This instrument is not like the traditional spinning wheel lottery, but the kind of lottery instrument that rolls the numbers.
"Tick, do you want to start the lottery?" After the lottery instrument appeared, the electronic and mechanical sound of the system sounded.
"Let's start!" With the beginning of Qin Xiu's game, the lottery instrument in front of him suddenly lit up, and lines of words appeared on the green cylindrical shape, and then began to roll rapidly, the speed of rolling was very fast, even if Qin Xiu's eyesight was very good, but he still couldn't see what the words were on it.
"Stop!" couldn't be seen clearly, Qin Xiu didn't bother to look at it, and he just shouted a stop word without thinking about it.
"Brush-" The rapidly rolling lottery instrument immediately braked suddenly! As soon as Qin Xiu's words fell, it suddenly stopped turning.
"Ding! Congratulations to the host for getting the recipe: steamed crab legs!" In the next second, the system's prompt sounded, and at the same time, Qin Xiu also saw that there were four more words "steamed crab legs" in the blank box with yellow borders on the lottery instrument!
Immediately, the lottery system in front of him disappeared, and Qin Xiu didn't care, he was now very interested in this "steamed crab legs".
Without thinking about it, he opened the system package and learned the newly acquired recipe.
In an instant, the process of steaming crab legs appeared in Qin Xiu's mind, including the knowledge about various crabs!
Qin Xiu sorted out the newly obtained recipe in his mind, and looked at the finished product of the "steamed crab legs", his Adam's apple rolled up and down, and swallowed his saliva, Emma, this looks delicious!
Gourmets know that seafood is best eaten by steaming, which not only preserves the freshness of the meat but also preserves the original flavor of the seafood. And this steamed crab leg uses the steaming method.
He looked at the time displayed by the system, and the time for dinner was about the same, and he immediately decided to eat crab legs for dinner tonight!
I don't know when there was a similar water tank next to the fish tank containing the black scale fish, Qin Xiu walked into this water tank, the water tank was filled with light blue seawater, and in the water tank there was a huge red crab, this crab was very large, the back carapace alone was thirty centimeters, and the pair of crab claws were nearly two meters long, completely occupying the entire water tank.
Crab is a delicacy in food, known as the folk proverb of "a plate of crabs, a dish on the top table". Not only is it delicious, but it is also nutritious and is a high-protein tonic.
Crabs are rich in protein and trace elements, which have a good tonic effect on the body. Crabs also have anti-tuberculosis effects, and eating crabs is very beneficial to tuberculosis recovery. There are many ways to specialize in crabs, but the best way to eat them is steaming, which does not destroy the nutrition of the crab itself, and can maintain the most delicious taste, and the method is simple.
The crab in the water tank is a sixth-level red-shelled spiny crab, the back carapace is covered with barbs, and the two pairs of crab pincers are covered with sharp serrations.
Unlike regular crabs, the red-shelled spiny crab has only three pairs of legs plus a pair of claws, and their feet are bent backwards instead of forwards.
The strength of the sixth-level red-shell stinging crab had been weakened by fifty percent, so it was not difficult for Qin Xiu to take it out, he rolled up his sleeves, concentrating, and with both hands, he suddenly clasped its pair of sharp crab claws, and lifted it up, "Bang la-la-"
There was a splash of water, Qin Xiu just carried the red-shell thorn crab to the front of the board, and held the two crab claws of the red-shell thorn crab with one hand, and the red-shell thorn crab under his hand kept struggling, and he tried to attack Qin Xiu with the two crab claws open, but he was completely unable to move by Qin Xiu.
The dorsal carapace of this crab is bright red, shiny, the abdomen is white, the golden claws are thickly yellow hairy, the color is bright, the umbilicus is rounded, convex outward, the limbs are firmly connected and bent in a curved shape, constantly bouncing, this is a female crab, the pointed umbilicus is the male crab, and this is just a round umbilicus.
Combined with the thick weight felt when lifting it earlier, it is obvious that this is a high-quality fat crab.
Qin Xiu first stunned the two red-shell thorn crabs, then washed the crabs, and then directly cut off the crab legs and crab claws of the red-shell stinging crabs.
The red-shelled spiny crab is also different from ordinary crabs, that is, it is inedible all over its body except for its legs and a pair of crab claws.
So Qin Xiu directly threw away the useless body of the red-shelled stinging crab, and then he picked up one of the crab legs, put it on the board, took the knife on the side and began to remove the crab shell, the knife gathered Yuan Force on the crab shell, and the crab shell was immediately cut like tofu, and then he also made a knife on the back of the crab shell, turned his wrist, and with a slight scrape, he took out the red crab meat in the crab shell from the crab shell.
The crab legs are huge, almost every one is 70 to 80 centimeters long, but the shells are very thick, and after the shells are removed, the remaining crab leg meat is completely half smaller.
Qin Xiu looked at this ball of crab meat, his eyes showed disappointment, maybe it was because it was the first time he made it, he might be a little rusty, and the crab meat scraped out was a little damaged, but the broken crab meat was unqualified, so Qin Xiu threw the crab meat aside without looking at it, and took another crab leg, as if he was afraid of concocting the crab meat.
Although the second time was much better than the first time, there were still some small cracks on the crab meat, although it was very small, Qin Xiu was still not satisfied, and it was not until the fourth time that the crab meat scraped out was intact, which made Qin Xiu satisfied.
Yuan Li poured out of his hand, and he used Yuan Li to wrap the naked red crab meat in the palm of his hand and hold it up, and with the other hand he took out a knife and began to carve, and the crab meat was carved into a lifelike miniature version of the red-shelled stinging crab with his fingers.
Because the crab meat is red with some white meat, the carved crab is also very realistic.
Qin Xiu was satisfied with the crab carved by himself and put it on the plate, scooped up a spoonful of water and added it to the pot, boiled the water on a high fire, and when the water boiled, he put the carved meat crab on the grate and began to steam it over high heat.
Because of its thick meat, the steaming time of the red-shell spiny crab must be mastered, otherwise it will be old after a long time, and it may not be cooked if it is short, so this time must be well grasped.
In the steaming process, Qin Xiu peeled the ginger slices, cut the foam, and put them aside for later use.
When the steaming time was almost up, he put the ginger slices in, and boiled the ginger slices in water to remove the smell of crab and ward off the cold.
Soon, Qin Xiu estimated the time, and when it was almost time, he turned off the fire, and did not open the lid immediately, but waited for dozens of seconds before opening the lid.
As the lid opens, a cloud of white water vapor gushes up, accompanied by an enticing light crab aroma.
The crab meat in the shape of the red shell stinging crab in the pot, the red shell has a raised barb, the shell is white to the inside, the tip of the crab is golden, the color is bright, lifelike, as if it is really a miniature version of the red shell stinging crab, looking at it is very appetizing.
Qin Xiu took two deep breaths, only to feel that the pores on his body had been opened, and the spiritual power condensed on the crab legs seemed to be about to materialize.
Qin Xiu swallowed his saliva and put the crab meat on a plate, a carved red-shelled stinging crab was just enough to fit a plate.
In the last step, Qin Xiu began to mix the ingredients to make a seasoning, the seasoning does not need to be complicated, just for seasoning, and this does not need to add a lot, just a little is enough, after it is done, he sprinkled the seasoning directly on the crab.
A few drops of crimson spice sprinkled on the crab body have a rich fragrance, and the fragrance in the air is even more intoxicating.
Looking at the finished product in front of her, Qingxiang licked her lips, picked up the chopsticks and talked about the crab meat with some anticipation, and directly ripped off the crab legs.
Qin Xiu stuffed the crab leg into his mouth expectantly and bit it hard, and in an instant, the juice flowed sideways, and the whole mouth was shrouded in the umami of crab meat!
"The paste fat meat is thick, the white meat is salty and sweet, the reddish leg meat is sweet and salty, and because it is carved from crab leg meat, it is very tenacious, sweet and salty and soft and glutinous in the mouth, with a rich and delicate texture, and the umami punch! Not bad!" Qin Xiu swallowed the crab meat in his mouth and praised, "It's really worthy of me to make it, it's delicious! However, the heat is still a little worse, and it can be made even more delicious." ”
Qin Xiu was about to taste the taste after judging for a while, when there was a knock at the kitchen door......
The next thing that sounded was Xiaobai's roar: "Lazy Xiu, you eat alone again!!!!"
Qin Xiu, who was about to eat the next bite of crab meat, twitched the corners of his mouth, put down the chopsticks in his hand, got up and came to the door of the kitchen, and said expressionlessly: "Quiet, I'm experimenting with new dishes, and if you quarrel for a while, you won't have your share!"
The deterrent power of these words was absolutely strong, Xiao Bai was silent for a moment, silently looked at Qin Xiu's serious face, blinked his eyes and whispered: "Okay, I'll wait for you, I'll whisper." ”
After saying that, it didn't dare to make a sound, turned around and quietly left......