Chapter 29: Delicious Fried Locusts

When Liu Hai brought the refined salt and pepper noodles, Li Chengqian asked Liu Hai to put the refined salt in a wok, and kept stir-frying, knowing that Li Chengqian felt that the temperature of the refined salt was enough, he immediately asked Liu Hai to pour the refined salt into a plate without a drop of water stains.

Then Li Chengqian put the pepper noodles prepared in advance into the proportion, and kept stirring until the refined salt was completely cooled, and the pepper and salt were ready.

Li Chengqian asked people to leave a little of these peppers and salt in a small bowl, and the rest was sealed and put away.

Let people find grass fruit, cinnamon, star anise, pepper, bay leaves, white cole, and other spices, mix them according to a certain proportion, put them into the pot and fry them directly to make the fragrance, let people pound them into powder with stone mortars, and mix them with refined salt pepper noodles.

This can be used as a barbecue seasoning, or it can be dipped in various fried foods, or it can be made directly with hot oil and chives.

Of course, although this kind of oil and spicy rice is already good, but for real foodies, it must be added with chili noodles, fine chili noodles, and sesame seeds, which is a bowl of oil and spicy seeds with a soul.

Looking at the finished spicy noodles and smelling the pungent fragrance in the air, Li Chengqian's saliva was about to come down, and when he saw that the water was almost boiling, he quickly asked people to find a big wooden basin to pour water into it, but he didn't forget to let people leave a little of the finished chili noodles outside, and the rest was sealed and put away, and told them not to eat it secretly.

Then he put the locusts he had brought with him into a large wooden basin with hot water, and asked people to press down the sack with a stick, so that the hot water could scald the locusts to death.

After being scalded for a while, seeing that there was no movement in the sack, Li Chengqian asked people to take out the sack and bring a large wooden basin again.

Then he asked the helper to pour the locusts inside into the wooden basin, but when the helper poured out the locusts, he was so frightened that he threw down the sack and fell down in terror.

And the cooks who had been watching were also frightened and knelt down directly, chanting words in their mouths, and looked at Li Chengqian in horror.

"Your Highness, why did you catch the locust god and scald it to death with hot water, if this angers the locust god, we will all die" In the end, Liu Hai dared to ask Li Chengqian, and told him that he would be punished for doing so.

"I'm afraid of a ghost, what bullshit locust god, you are all cooks, then you have to remember to this king, there is no ingredient in this world that chefs can't touch, or there is that because it's not delicious, or too disgusting, otherwise don't say that the locust god, even if the evil dragon is coming, let it become the ingredient in your hands, the delicacies on the king's table, understand no" After speaking, Li Chengqian didn't care about the people who were still kneeling on the ground, he took a small horse and sat there, and took the locusts in the wooden basin and took the wings away.

After all, the wings of locusts not only have no meat, but they are also easy to be fried when they are fried, which affects the taste, so fried locusts have to take their wings away.

But Li Chengqian was there alone for a while, those people were still kneeling there, and no one got up to help him, although it was difficult for people to understand what he said before, after all, this is an era of believing in the supremacy of ghosts and gods, and they are afraid that it can be understood, but it has been like this, which makes Li Chengqian very angry, he has said it so clearly, and it is still like this.

"Bangs, you still want to stay in the East Palace, and you still want to be a good cook, then get up for this king, and deal with those locusts for this king, and you are the same, if you don't want to, then get out of this king now" Saying that, Li Chengqian stood up and kicked Liu Hai.

Maybe it was Li Chengqian's words that worked, or his threats worked, after Li Chengqian finished speaking and kicked his bangs.

Bangs stumbled to the front of the wooden basin, picked up a locust as if he was going to die, and took off the locust's wings like Li Chengqian, and the others saw Liu Hai passing, and slowly crawled over, and soon there was no place for Li Chengqian by the wooden basin.

Li Chengqian took it to the stove by himself, added butter to the pot, melted it instead of oil, and raised it to 6 percent hot, Li Chengqian put the processed locusts into the oil pot and fried them until golden brown, and Li Chengqian hurriedly fished out the fried locusts.

And when Li Chengqian fried the locusts, they all looked at him in unison, especially when the fragrance was blown up, some people secretly swallowed saliva.

"Hey, this butter is fried, it's really not as delicious as sesame oil fried, and this is too much, sooner or later you have to get three highs, it seems that you have to get the vegetable oil out as soon as possible, I don't know, there are no rapeseed seeds in those seeds, if there are good, if there are none, then you can only use soybeans, fortunately, soybeans are native crops in China, don't bother to find them, I just don't know how to fry this soybean out of oil, it seems that Zhang Gao has to go to find people in this area" After the locusts were fried, Li Chengqian couldn't wait to take one and dip it in some chili noodles, I put it in my mouth and ate it, and while eating, I complained that there was no edible vegetable oil in the Tang Dynasty, it was all some animal oil, and even the animal oil used to light the lamp.

Seeing Li Chengqian eating one after another with relish, and smelling the unique aroma of fried food, Liu Hai and those kitchen workers secretly swallowed saliva at one time.

"Why do you want to eat it like that, I'm not afraid that the locust god will punish you" Seeing Liu Hai and a group of people looking at him, Li Chengqian asked them with great interest after eating a locust.

"Your Highness, the villain is not afraid, anyway, the villain has no father or mother, and he is not afraid of any locust god punishment, you can hurt the villain!" A long, thin and small helper swallowed saliva and said to Li Chengqian.

"Since you're not afraid, then try it, after all, as a chef, if you haven't tasted food yourself, then he can't make any good delicacies" said Li Chengqian gave the helper a fried locust.

The helper looked at the locusts in his hand, and at first he didn't dare to eat them, but then he thought about it, put it in his mouth, and chewed it slowly, the more he chewed, the more fragrant it became, and when he was done, his eyes looked directly at the locusts on the plate.

"No, I want to eat it and catch it myself, and this locust is not only fried and delicious, but it is also a delicious dish to eat roasted, after the test, sprinkle with salt and pepper or chili noodles, the taste, it makes people drool when you think about it, and it is not bad to ask if you don't sprinkle anything" Saying that, Li Chengqian hurriedly asked people to string a few strings with bamboo sticks, so that this helper who dared to try took it to the outside of the kitchen and lit a fire to roast locusts for him.

And seeing that the helper was fine after eating a fried locust, plus Li Chengqian's words before, and the seductive question, Liu Hai begged Li Chengqian one by one to let them taste it.

Seeing this, Li Chengqian thought about it, he couldn't finish it anyway, and even if he finished eating, let them catch it, but Li Chengqian didn't give them before, but let Liu Hai make a copy, so that everyone in the kitchen could eat, and Li Chengqian also let them eat it with salt and pepper.

After eating them one by one, they all thought it was delicious, so they didn't resist so much, and some people even told Li Chengqian that they wanted to go outside the city to catch locusts.

Li Chengqian had already agreed to let them go when he saw that it was dark.

In this way, the mighty army of locusts set off from the East Palace.