The senior soldier was very curious about these automatic cooking utensils when he saw Meng Chuan, and hurriedly introduced: "Company commander, the funds of our artillery company are quite sufficient, and the food standards of our soldiers are all second-class stoves, which are much better than ordinary infantry." ”

"As for these cooking utensils, they were transported directly from the group army's logistics warehouse, so they are relatively advanced."

Meng Chuan knew the importance of the synthetic battalion, and he also knew how high the military expenditure of the synthetic battalion was, but he didn't expect that even the cooking class was high, isn't this a bit too much. I know the canteen of the group army, but I also worked as an assistant in charge of the canteen in the group army for a while, and I don't joke at all that even the cooking utensils in the canteen of the military department are not as good as those of the synthetic battalion.

However, the senior soldier said: "The head of the military department has spoken, since we want to build a new type of army, the cooking class is also a part of this special type of army, and naturally it should be the best, so we will enjoy it." ”

What the chief said is also true, a new-type army must not only be upgraded in terms of weapons, but also must be advanced in terms of living facilities, and there seems to be nothing wrong with this.

"Okay, let's not talk about this, you can help me get some lotus seeds, some glutinous rice and red dates, do we have these in our food warehouse?"

These are all common ingredients, how can they not be, "Company commander, you wait for me, I'll go get it." ”

Last time, Meng Chuan made a pepper pork belly soup, and it was also a soup that was very stomach-nourishing. Since I have done it, then Meng Chuan will not do it this time, and eating meat at night will also be quite a burden on the stomach, so I should boil a lotus seed porridge by myself, which is more in line with the current situation.

Boiling lotus seed porridge, some people like to use millet, some people like to use glutinous rice, in fact, the difference is not big, it depends on your own taste. This time, Meng Chuan boiled it with glutinous rice, because the glutinous rice is more viscous and more in line with his taste.

Soon the senior soldier brought the ingredients, Meng Chuan first put the lotus seeds into the pot, then mixed with cold water, turned on the fire and began to cook. However, you can't use high heat to cook this, just use low heat to cook slowly, and the cooking time can be controlled within half an hour, of course, in order to be fast, ten or twenty minutes is also possible.

The lotus seeds were boiled first, and Meng Chuan began to process the glutinous rice now, wash the glutinous rice and put it in the pot, wait for the lotus seeds to go into the pot, and boil one piece over high heat.

is also boiled, the reason why Meng Chuan wants to cook lotus seeds first is because of the heat, and if you want the ingredients to volatilize the delicious food they deserve, heat is a very key factor.

If you want the rice to give off enough flavor, you must simmer it slowly over low heat, but before that, you must boil the porridge over high heat, otherwise the aroma will be difficult to boil.

And lotus seeds are the same, if you want to boil lotus seeds, it is best to cook them over high heat first, and then stew them slowly over low heat. It's all big fire and then low heat, why do you have to boil lotus seeds first? Isn't that redundant?

The cooking method is the same, and there is nothing wrong with this. But the cooking time of the two is different, because the lotus seeds are difficult to boil, which takes longer than glutinous rice to boil, so Meng Chuan used a small trick here, that is, first cook the lotus seeds over low heat, and after cooking, stew them with high heat with the glutinous rice, so that the lotus seeds will be cooked immediately and the taste will be better.

After simmering for 20 minutes, Meng Chuan scooped up the lotus seeds and put them in a glutinous rice pot and boiled them on high heat. At this time, it is best to put a little sugar, you can put rock sugar, brown sugar and white sugar, as for what kind of sugar to put in, it depends on what you need.

Brown sugar is warm, which can not only replenish blood, but also invigorate blood, such as some women with dysmenorrhea, postpartum conditioning is generally used brown sugar, and the general external wind and cold can also drink some brown sugar ginger water.

The white sugar is flat, can help the spleen, moisten the lungs, and produce Jin, which is good for strengthening the spleen and invigorating qi, and can be used for general spleen and stomach weakness, but eating too much white sugar is easy to produce phlegm, which is a disadvantage.

As for rock sugar, it is cold, it can enter the lungs, spleen meridian, can also replenish the qi, nourish yin and moisten the lungs, cough and phlegm, the general elderly with a rock sugar in their mouths can also relieve dry mouth.

Here Meng Chuan uses white sugar, but the amount is not too much, a little bit is good, as long as the porridge is slightly sweet, this is enough.

And with the improvement of our living conditions, people who do not exercise regularly are easy to gain weight. As soon as a person gets fat, blood pressure or something will rise, and at this time, you should pay more attention to eating sugar. Meng Chuan does not recommend putting sugar at this time.

Because generally people who can gain weight have a good stomach, and people with a bad stomach are not easy to gain weight.

This is not Meng Chuan's nonsense, a good stomach means good absorption, and the efficiency of food into energy is high, so you can naturally gain weight.

And those with a bad stomach and a low rate of food absorption are naturally not easy to gain weight, Meng Chuan has never seen a person with a bad stomach who can eat very fat, which is very rare.

This porridge has been stewed for an hour, if we are usually at home, we can simmer for more time, but now Sergeant Gu is waiting for him outside, and he can't let Sergeant Gu wait.

Sergeant Gu is really in a hurry now, he has been watching the time, this wait is an hour, although Sergeant Gu has nothing to do at night, but in the dormitory, at least you can read a book, read the newspaper and drink tea, it's better than sitting in the cafeteria, looking at the floor in a daze.

However, Meng Chuan was also kind enough to help him cook something to eat, so Sergeant Gu couldn't say anything, so he could only try to adjust his mentality and make himself not so anxious. As for the food Meng Chuan cooked, Sergeant Gu was hopeless, maybe Meng Chuan did have some way to make some stomach-nourishing medicinal food.

But with Meng Chuan being so young, he can imagine his cooking skills, so Sergeant Gu is ready to pinch his nose and eat hard, this company commander is not an ordinary company commander, but a deputy battalion commander. He has to give his face no matter what, otherwise it will be difficult to do things in the future.

Sergeant Gu was thinking about it, when Meng Chuan came over with lotus seed porridge, "Old Gu, I'll cook the lotus seed porridge for you, you hurry up and taste it." ”

Hearing that it was lotus seed porridge, Sergeant Gu was relieved, as long as this porridge was not put blindly, it would not be particularly unpalatable, and he could eat it himself.

"Thank you, company commander, my favorite drink is porridge."

Meng Chuan could hear that this was Sergeant Gu's compliment, but this was also human nature, after all, he was so young, no one thought that his cooking skills would be very good, but Meng Chuan was confident enough, and after Sergeant Gu tasted the porridge he made, he would definitely like it.