Chapter 9: Delicious food by the campfire
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On the way back just now, his mind was full of dreams of how to make money and make a fortune with lotus flowers, and now the daydream was broken in an instant, and there were more than 10,000 grass and mud horses whistling in his heart, which was like a dog! The sense of loss is overwhelming!
Ah Qi, who was standing on the side, pointed to the lotus leaves in the basin and asked, "Brother Jiang, what are you doing with lotus leaves?" Can you eat this lotus leaf? ”
Hearing this question, Jiang Jianghao changed his previous loss, stared at Ah Qi and said mysteriously: "Ah Qi, go pick a fat chicken, clean it up and bring it to me, and make a good material for you to taste!" ”
Sure enough, when he met something to eat, he came back to life with full blood!
Ah Qi moved in response, looking at his back as he walked away carrying the chicken, Jiang Jianghao thought angrily in his heart: "You can't even eat the flower chicken, right?" ”
Looking at the two dead fish thrown on the side again, Jiang Jianghao resigned himself to his fate and began to pick up the fish scales. The fish didn't know how long it had been dead, he touched the mucus on the surface of the fish, and said that it was okay, the fish had not been dead for too long. When it comes to ingredients, he has a slight cleanliness fetish and a not-so-serious obsessive-compulsive disorder.
In his time, when it came to eating fish, he only ate fresh fish that died less than two hours, and did not eat those who died himself. Every time his family comes back from buying fish, he first squats in the corner to clean all the fine lins on the fish, and removes all the black membranes in the gills and abdomen, because the gills will make the whole fish bitter, and the black membrane is the main source of earthy smell.
After he grinded and chirped and disemboweled, Ah Qi also returned to the courtyard with the smooth fat chicken.
He lightly sprinkled a fine salt on the sides of the body and inside the belly of the fish, wiped it with his hands, and strung it with thick branches. Then the fat chicken was cleaned, wrapped tightly with lotus leaves, and tied with cotton thread. Then he asked Ah Qi to dig a pit outside the yard and retrieve some loess.
He mixed the loess with water to form yellow mud, and put the fat chicken wrapped in lotus leaves with dense yellow mud and put it into a pit that had been dug in advance, and then filled the pit with soil, and then set up a bonfire on it to roast the fish.
Everything was going on in an orderly manner in Ah Qi's surprise. After a while, the two carps were grilled on the outside and tender on the inside, steaming hot. Because during the previous roasting process, Jiang Jianghao brushed some oil on the body of the fish from time to time, so there was no trace of burnt black on the two fish bodies, but the color was red and bright, which was extremely attractive.
The meat of the grilled fish after adding oil is relatively tender, and if you move a little more, it is likely that the fish will be scattered and fall off the branches. He carefully placed the grilled fish on top of the remaining lotus leaf, and nodded with satisfaction, not bad! In good condition, not broken!
Ah Qi looked at the fish on the lotus leaf and swallowed his saliva unconsciously, but still didn't forget to ask: "Brother Jiang, where is the chicken?" ”
"Chickens?" Jiang Jianghao pointed to the center of the bonfire: "Where it is!" Let's eat the fish first, and after eating the fish, we can eat the chicken. ”
"Okay!" Ah Qi felt that he was sitting opposite Jiang Jianghao, and when Jiang Jianghao picked up a piece of fish meat and put it in his mouth, he couldn't wait to pick up the chopsticks and go straight to the belly of the fish.
The thin, lightly charred skin is mixed with the flesh of the fish and the dense fat in the belly. As soon as he took a bite, the crispy fish skin with a slight smell of firewood, along with the tender and juicy fish meat and the unique fishy smell of oil, burst out at the same time, and different textures and tastes exploded in Ah Qi's mouth at the same time, stimulating his taste buds and completely capturing the tip of his tongue.
I saw that he kept picking up the fish and sending it to his mouth, and kept saying that it was delicious! Delicious!
Jiang Jianghao hurriedly reminded: "Ah Qi, you eat slowly, I won't rob you!" Ay......! Watch out! There are fish bones! Seeing Ah Qi gobbling up a fish that he could eat, he couldn't help but pinch a cold sweat for Ah Qi.
Soon, only the bones and bones of the two grilled fish remained, except for Jiang Jianghao who sandwiched two or three pieces of fish meat at the beginning, the rest were quickly wiped out by Ah Qi, seeing that Ah Qi's eyes began to turn red again, Jiang Jianghao hurriedly spoke: "Don't you cry again today, aren't they just two fish?" If you have to shed tears every time you eat something good, then with my cooking skills, our family will be drowned by you sooner or later! ”
For Jiang Jianghao, the taste of today's grilled fish can only be regarded as average, because the seasoning is limited, and there are no accessories such as onions, ginger and garlic at all, resulting in an earthy smell on the carp that lingers all the time......
Ah Qi hurriedly raised his hand and rubbed his weeping eyes, and shouted with great grievance: "It's really delicious!" Brother Jiang, it's a pity that you don't be a cook! ”
Jiang Jianghao smiled: "I don't want to be a cook, cooking is my hobby, and I can eat it myself!" Okay, the fish is also finished, and our chickens should be cooked, come and help! ”
After that, Ah Qi helped him, tossed aside the coke after the bonfire was burned, and dug open the ground where the fat chickens were buried just now, and dug out a large round clod of soil from it, and the surface of the clod was extremely dry, and even some small cracks appeared.
Jiang Jianghao put the clod of soil on top of the lotus leaf that he had eaten fish before, and then picked up a wooden stick and kept knocking on the surface of the clod, and the clod of soil immediately cracked, revealing the lotus leaf wrapped in it that had been ripe and yellow.
A fragrance came to his face, and the deliciousness of the chicken mixed with the fragrance of lotus leaves forced Jiang Jianghao to swallow his saliva. When he was at home before, because he lived in the city, he couldn't find a suitable place for him to roast this dish called flower chicken, but now the ingredients are fresh and the land is open, he finally got his wish and was able to try, but he never thought that his inauthentic flower chicken was so delicious.
Gently untie the cotton thread wrapped around the lotus leaf, the oily juice seeped out of the lotus leaf, and instantly gathered into a piece on the lotus leaf at the bottom, looking at the layer of eye-catching oil beads floating on the juice, he couldn't help but regret it, to know that the dirty things before were cleared, what a delicious chicken juice flowed out in vain It was a pity.
When the lotus leaves were peeled off layer by layer, and the white and tender chicken was also presented in front of his eyes, he sighed again: "This chicken is really fat!" "If the fat of the chicken is not enough, not to mention the chicken juice that spilled before, even the chicken itself will be dry and unappetizing.
He stretched out his hand to pull the next chicken leg, but as soon as he pulled it gently, the bone came out lightly, but the meat remained in place and did not move.
Tender! It's so tender! The tender chicken is put in the mouth, and the delicious chicken juice is squeezed out of the meat lines as you chew it slowly, and the saliva secreted from your mouth is simply delicious......