Chapter 164: Sesame Oil Blue Crab (Ask for Subscription)
On the way home, Qin Xiaoyue still remembered the moray eel, muttering: "It's a pity, I almost caught it!" ”
Li Yichen smiled, this "point" may be an hour or two.
You have to scoop up the water from the big puddle.
That's a big project, and you're going to be exhausted.
"We have a lot of harvest at noon, let's catch the moray eel next time."
Li Yichen has five or six kelps in his bucket, a large blue crab, which has a pound by eye, and an extra crab claw.
Blue crab is a very common seafood in the market, but a pound of pure wild food costs about 100 yuan, Li Yichen couldn't afford it before, and they didn't buy it, they were all given to them occasionally by Aunt Hua.
So Li Yichen didn't buy it, but he knew how to cook.
The blue crab in his bucket is a meat crab that has not yet shed its shell, and it is the fattest time.
It's also considered that they are lucky, otherwise if it is a soft-shelled crab that has just been shelled, the energy will be consumed by the shelling, and there will not be much meat.
Qin Xiaoyue also had a few kelps in her bucket, as well as two large conchs, just one for each person.
Back in the courtyard, Li Yichen and Qin Xiaoyue didn't have time to sit down and rest, because they were going to start cooking lunch immediately, and it was almost one o'clock.
After staying on Howard Island for a long time, the second magical illusion that will appear is that the time between each meal seems to be accelerated, and as soon as you finish eating, you will start to rush to the next meal in a blink of an eye.
Qin Xiaoyue was crazy about catching moray eels at noon, and her pants and clothes were a little wet, so she went to change the wet clothes first.
Li Yichen sat in front of the stove, rekindling the fire inside, and at the same time thinking about what to do for lunch.
Without a doubt, today's main dish must be the wild blue crab.
In addition to steaming and cooking blue crabs, Li Yichen also knows a very simple cooking method, which can also maintain the original flavor of crab meat.
That's the sesame oil blue crab.
Crabs are cold, and cooking with ginger and cooking wine can also reduce the coldness of crabs.
As for the two large conchs, they can be smashed, sliced into slices, and stir-fried with the big blue crab, which is also convenient and trouble-free.
For soup, you can cook fresh kombu soup, which is also very convenient.
Steamed rice first, boiled soup, and then Li Yichen made sesame oil blue crab by himself, while Qin Xiaoyue could fry a plate of green vegetables.
He remembered that when he first came, Qin Xiaoyue said that she would fry vegetables, so let her show her hand at noon.
Stir-frying cabbage shouldn't be a big problem.
Qin Xiaoyue came out after changing her clothes, and when she heard that Li Yichen wanted her to fry cabbage at noon, she readily agreed, and it was not difficult to stir-fry.
"Before stir-frying the cabbage, you can help me wash the blue crab first.
Let's steam the rice and cook the soup first, and then I make sesame oil blue crab, and you will fry the cabbage, which saves the most time, and you can just eat it hot. ”
Li Yichen said as he handed the gloves to Qin Xiaoyue: "Put on two layers of gloves, first cotton gloves, then rubber gloves, and brush them with a toothbrush." ”
"Me?"
"Crabs?"
"Gloves?"
Qin Xiaoyue took the gloves in a daze, her eyes widened, and she was puzzled, a little unwilling to accept the reality.
Li Yichen nodded and affirmed: "It's you, don't worry, it's easy to wash, just like brushing your teeth." ”
"Yes, in the crab did not ...... Didn't die, in the case of brushing? ”
Qin Xiaoyue glanced at the fierce blue crab in the bucket, and shuddered at the thought that she was about to grab it.
Li Yichen said softly: "You can kill it first, or you can stun it, which one do you prefer?" ”
"Still, still...... Kill it......"
Qin Xiaoyue's voice trembled, and after speaking, she added with anxiety: "Then, can you also take off those two big pliers first?" ”
"Absolutely."
Li Yichen said with a smile, Qin Xiaoyue at this time has changed back to the weak appearance when they first met.
Wild blue crabs need to be handled more delicately than other ordinary crabs, otherwise this rare delicacy will be wasted.
The three large crab claws can be washed separately, wrapped in a cloth, and then patted with the blade of a knife to prevent the crab shells from splashing, and in this way, the cracks can be more evenly distributed, which is convenient for sesame oil to absorb the flavor.
The last time Li Yichen killed crabs was in "Love Hunter", when he was cooking dinner with Tang Mary.
He could remember it so clearly, mainly because Mary Tang's handling of crabs was extremely cruel at that time, which impressed him deeply.
When I think of that crab, the death is really miserable......
Li Yichen took a chopstick and poked it into the mouth of the big blue crab, turned it out slightly, the big blue crab stopped moving, and then used a knife to unload the two crab claws, put them in the iron basin together, and handed them to Qin Xiaoyue.
"It's okay, let's wash it."
"Really, really dead?"
Qin Xiaoyue took the chopsticks that Li Yichen put next to her uneasily, and poked at the big blue crab again, and found that it really didn't move, so she smiled again.
"Leave it to me next!"
Li Yichen watched Qin Xiaoyue's side for half a minute, and when he saw that there was nothing wrong with her, he turned around to steam rice and cook kelp soup.
After Qin Xiaoyue finished brushing the big blue crab, Li Yichen asked her to prepare her own fried cabbage.
Li Yichen himself began to deal with the blue crab and two large conchs.
He cut off the sharp part of the crab's leg and cut the blue crab into eight pieces.
Then smash the conch, slice it, and put it on a plate for later use.
After the kelp soup was cooked, Li Yichen picked up the pot, put it aside, and started to make sesame oil blue crab first.
He poured sesame oil into the pot and added ginger slices to stir-fry until fragrant.
It is said that pouring sesame oil and stir-frying ginger in this way is not easy to have a burnt bitter taste, and the specific principle is not clear to Li Yichen.
He's just getting started with his cooking.
After stir-frying the ginger, put the crab pieces into the pot and stir-fry, then pour in the black sesame oil and continue to stir-fry.
A unique fresh fragrance soon spread through the courtyard.
The program team even adjusted the rocker camera to the top of the wok, shooting at close range.
After the crabs were stir-fried, Li Yichen poured cooking wine into the pot, covered the pot and simmered.
"Ah......h
Holding the wok, Li Yichen suddenly thought of something.
He can put the grill net on the stove so he doesn't have to hold the wok all the time.
Li Yichen put down the pot and ran into the tool room to find two grilling nets.
He put one on the stove first, and the other for Qin Xiaoyue.
Now put a wok on the grilling net, and Li Yichen's hands are free.
He looked around, a little bit of an invitation, but no one praised him.
Qin Xiaoyue was immersed in cutting her cabbage cubes at this time, very focused.
Li Yichen had no choice but to pat himself on the shoulder and praise himself.
That's smart.
After the blue crab was cooked, Li Yichen poured a little black sesame oil into the pot again, as well as a piece of snail meat, and continued to stir-fry to collect the juice.
After the snail meat is stir-fried, add salt to taste.
A dish of sesame oil blue crab snail meat with full color and flavor is ready.
"Wow, fragrant, can I taste it first?"
Qin Xiaoyue even forgot to put down the knife for cutting vegetables.
Carrying a knife, he ran towards Li Yichen.