Chapter 5: Six Dollars Malatang (Ask for a Booklist!)
Wu Bencao opened the refrigerator while browsing the recipe.
Sure enough, the fridge was full of all the ingredients needed to stew the soup.
[The first step is to put the copper beef bones and phoenix blood chicken into the pressure cooker and simmer for seven hours. Remember, it must be exactly seven hours, and if you open the lid too early or too late, you will fail!]
Wu Bencao stretched out his hand and took out a piece of bronze beef bone, and was about to complain, using a pressure cooker to stew for seven hours, but he underestimated the weight of the beef bone, failed to hold it, and smashed the freshly paved floor into a pit.
"Damn, this hardness is like a cow bone, it's clearly a copper rod! No wonder it takes seven hours to stew, in my opinion, seventeen hours may not be able to be cooked!"
The system explained: [When refining the Kaimai Pill, the core medicinal material is the Broken Gold Grass, which is very scarce, resulting in the price of the Kaimai Pill being expensive and in short supply. But the world doesn't know why this herb must be added. 】
Like alchemy, making medicinal diets also focuses on pharmacology.
Since the system taught the Kaimai Tang to Wu Materia Medica, he naturally had to explain the pharmacology clearly, so as not to accidentally make a mistake and destroy the effect of the soup in opening the pulse, which would be equivalent to selling fake medicine and smashing his own signboard.
Wu Bencao smiled, afraid of smashing the bottom of the pot, so he carefully put the beef bones into the pot, "Do you know?"
[Broken Golden Grass contains a certain rare copper element, which can stimulate the expansion and thickening of the meridians after being ingested into the body, that is, the opening of the veins in the cultivation world. The world only knows what it is, but does not know why it is, and it is naturally impossible to know that the copper bull bone also contains similar copper elements. 】
The young lady said the truth, and Wu Bencao praised it when she heard it, "Copper element, your specialty is biopharmaceutical, you even know all this!"
[The two copper elements are not completely identical, so it is also necessary to add the phoenix blood chicken, use the trace elements in it, and react with the cow bone under high pressure, and after seven hours, the same copper element can be produced to replace the broken golden grass. 】
When Wu Bencao heard this, he looked down at the pressure cooker, and no longer thought that it was a pot for cooking rice, this was simply an alchemy furnace.
Stewed for seven hours, it turned out that he was learned at this time, and he didn't make it up casually.
Even if there are people with ill intentions who want to steal the master and master all the ingredients, as long as they simmer for half an hour less and the heat is lacking, they still cannot replicate the desired medicinal effect.
This is the core secret of Kaimai Soup.
[This soup is made with chicken and beef bones, although it can replace the golden grass and achieve the ideal medicinal effect, but the bloody smell of the two is too strong, and they clash with each other, and it is difficult to drink together.] Therefore, it is necessary to add ingredients to the soup to act as a blender. 】
Medicinal diet is a fusion of medicine and food, and the advantages of both should be taken into account. It is not enough to have medicinal effects, if it cannot be made delicious, it is still a bitter decoction, and it does not deserve to be called a medicinal diet.
Therefore, when making medicinal food, in addition to considering medicinal materials, it is also necessary to consider many aspects such as ingredients and seasonings to ensure that all aspects are comprehensive and complement each other, so as to serve it on the table.
"Do you need to add some cooking wine or vinegar?"
Wu Bencao remembered that when he was a child, his mother often said when he was stewing fish that the earthy smell of river fish was very strong, and cooking wine or vinegar must be added to remove the fishiness and improve the freshness, and at the same time, calcium could be melted into the soup. Now since it's bone broth, you should pour more vinegar.
[Your train of thought is correct, but you ignore one point, this is in the otherworldly continent, the copper bull and the phoenix blood chicken are both demon beasts, and ordinary seasonings alone cannot suppress their strong fishy atmosphere. Therefore, it is necessary to add flower grass. 】
Hearing this, Wu Bencao walked back to the refrigerator and saw a bundle of bright green plants inside, similar in shape to leeks, and the leaves looked very tender, so he couldn't help but stretch out his hand, "This is Hua Zecao?"
[That's right, it's a match made in heaven for meat cuisine, and you'll be dealing with it every day in the future.] You can pick it up and smell it, and you'll definitely be familiar with it. 】
Wu Bencao put the letter to his nose and sniffed lightly, and his pupils dilated instantly.
"It's coriander!"
He should have thought that coriander, with its rich aroma, is a common condiment in stewed soups, especially stewed broth, which can effectively mask the bloody smell of meat and make the broth more delicious. In the Muguang Continent, there is actually this thing.
The reason why he burst into foul language was not because he was excited by his hometown food, what he hated the most in his previous life was coriander, and unfortunately he encountered it again in this life!
With a sad face, he begged, "Can you not put incense...... I bet there are a lot of people in the world who hate the smell of this thing just like me! Wouldn't it be the same as driving away the guests if you let me put it in?"
Different people have different tastes, and expecting everyone to enjoy the same dish and praise it is absolutely. Among other things, coriander is the most vivid example.
[The flower grass is easy to ripen, like coriander, and it is too late to put it in the soup after it is served on the table. You can put it on a small plate and let the customer choose whether to match it or not. 】
"Choose, if they hate Hanazawa...... If you don't add coriander to the soup, won't the fishy smell of chicken and beef bones be impossible to get rid of?"
[You can rest assured, Hua Zecao is not the only condiment, in addition to it, another important ingredient will be added to the soup, devil mushrooms. In this late autumn season, the human body is invaded by cold, and it is most suitable to eat devil mushrooms to ward off the cold. 】
Wu Bencao put Hua Zecao back in the refrigerator, took out a small mushroom and played with it, and asked: "Devil mushroom, listening to this name, why do I have a terrifying feeling? You said that it can ward off the cold, should it be ......?"
[Hee-hee, you take a bite and taste it, it can be eaten raw~]
Hearing this innocent voice, he didn't think much about it and gently took a small bite of the mushroom.
The next moment, his chrysanthemum suddenly tightened, like a conditioned reflex, and spit out the mushroom, looking extremely frightened.
"It's chili!"
He retracted what he had just said, and what he hated most in his previous life was not coriander, but the chili pepper that caused him to die live.
Although after crossing over, he has another body and no longer suffers from hemorrhoids, the shadow in his heart still lingers, and as soon as he tastes the spicy taste, he begins to tremble from his head to the chrysanthemum.
This devil mushroom is the devil in his eyes.
[Devil mushrooms are the same as the peppers you are most afraid of, spicy and exciting, which can make customers sweat and have a great appetite. Putting it in the soup will both solve the problem of fishy smell and make people enthusiastic. 】
Wu Bencao said with emotion: "I understand, what we sell is not soup, but spicy hot!"
First stew the bone broth as the base, cook all kinds of ingredients in turn, and then put them into each bowl, its taste is spicy and hot, this is not selling spicy and spicy, and what is it selling?
[Yes.] 】
“......”
Wu Bencao was completely speechless. It's been a long time, it's obviously a spicy hot, I have to say that I can't afford to eat it!
However, then again, the difficulty of making Malatang is very small, as long as it is scalded, it can be eaten, and the taste is popular, which is the easiest dish to master for Wu Bencao, who has just debuted.
At this time, the bone broth had begun to simmer, and he had nothing to do, so he stayed by the pressure cooker, bored.
"I've inquired, the market price of Kaimai Dan is five yuan stones, which is quite expensive, how much is the right amount of our Malatang to sell?"
[Six dollars.] 】