Chapter 52: Charcoal-roasted beef jerky
This is not difficult, it is the practice of spending thousands of months before coming.
After a long selection, I chose the one that requires the least ingredients and cooking.
There are 4 steps in total, the first step is to cut the beast (beef) into small strips and soak it, then drain it; The second step is to add ingredients and marinate to taste; The third step is to steam or cook the meat, and finally dry it over a charcoal fire.
After explaining the steps of production to Meimi, Lianyue and her were busy separately.
Lianyue is in charge of cutting and salting, while Meimi is in charge of preparing the firewood and the small stove she wants.
Lian Yue was about to dodge to the river with meat, and when the meow king on the side saw her movements, he flew to her feet with an arrow step, grabbed her trouser legs and squatted on her shoes, and had a sense of wanting to take a ride.
"Meimi, then I'll wash the meat first, you let the little cubs help you pick up the stones, and I'll come back later to help you build the stove."
Meimi nodded cooperatively, but watched the movements of King Meow with some amusement, and turned around to lead the other cubs into the woods.
Seeing this, Lian Yue hooked his feet and lifted the meow king, stretched out his free hand to hold it, and put it on his shoulder, and the little guy was also very cooperative, following her hand, standing firmly on her shoulder.
Now that the passengers are ready, the train is ready to leave immediately.
Patting the little guy on the shoulder motioned for it to stand up, and in the next second, Lian Yuebian flashed and appeared by the river.
"Ah Yue! How did you get here? Didn't you let the little babies bring it to you? Nana, who was organizing women by the river to pack up their evening food, saw her and asked in surprise, "Isn't it enough?" I still have it here, would I like to give you a little more? ”
Hearing her question, the orc women by the river began to talk and looked at her with concern.
Lian Yue was a little embarrassed to see such a battle, she couldn't say that she was only concerned about asking for meat just now, and she didn't think that she still had to deal with meat, right? I knew I would have come by myself.
"Enough is enough, I'm really enough. I'm just here to use some water...."
Lian Yue had no choice but to raise her head, wave her hands, and respond embarrassedly.
Carrying the basket to the other side, Lian Yue was ready to start cleaning the meat of the beast. King Meow was very knowledgeable, and with a light leap, he landed on a big rock by the river, squatted on it, and did not make a sound, but stared at Lian Yue without blinking, like a little overseer.
With a light laugh, Lian Yue put the basket aside, squatted down, and soaked the meat in the water and scrubbed it carefully. Then the space blade slashed, and turned it into a finger-thick strip, rinsed it with water, drained it, and put it back in the previous basket.
Lianyue's speed was very fast, and when she went back with King Meow, there was no one in the square.
I saw that there were a few rocks piled up in the place just now, and it looked like Meimi and the others had already made a trip.
Lian Yue went to the house to find the stone pot used to marinate the black pork meat last time, as well as a small piece of rock salt and a few pepper fruits and green sour fruits.
He took out a small stone bowl again, put the pepper fruit that had been dried before, moved his fingers slightly, and the pepper fruit instantly turned into powder in the bowl, and then took out a leaf, put the pepper fruit powder on it, folded it gently, and was not afraid that the powder would be blown away by the wind.
King Meow, who was squatting on the side of the stone, stared at the big bulging eyes, and looked at the operation of Lian Yue's hand without blinking, his little beard trembled slightly, as if he didn't dare to come out.
The same is true for rock salt, because there is a lot of meat here, there are twenty or thirty catties, and the salt needed is naturally not a few.
Usually, when Nana and her family cook soup, they use a sharp bone knife or stone knife to scrape off some powder and use it. For Lian Yue, there was naturally no need to be so troublesome, and with a stroke of the space blade, half of the palm-sized rock salt was cut off, and it fell into the stone bowl with a "clanging".
With a wave of his hand and a lifting of his hand, Lian Yue poured the powdered rock salt on another leaf.
Before she could put the stone bowl away, a furry hand was placed on the back of her hand, and then a small gray head came up, and he pulled it into the bowl to see what was going on.
"Hehe" Lian Yue smiled softly, turned her hand to cover the little head that was looking around, and pushed its whole body back a big step.
"Meow woo woo~" the little guy yelled very dissatisfied.
"It's not that I won't show you, you can't see it if you see it!"
Felines have a kind of magical magic that heals people's hearts, looking at her, Lian Yue actually feels that she is more relaxed than in Blue Star, although the meow king has not yet transformed, but she has already treated it as a person to communicate.
When the little guy stopped, he began to prepare for pickling for a month.
In fact, this step is very simple, just put the prepared salt, pepper powder, and green sour fruit juice into a stone pot, stir and knead evenly.
The process of marinating takes a certain amount of time, and the rest is roasting.
The problem is that there are no tools in place.
After thinking about it, Lian Yue felt that he could still build a tandoor by himself, and the method had been built by a food blogger in a certain sound before, so it shouldn't be difficult to think about it.
Mei Mi and the other cubs were already in charge of carrying stones and clods, and now there was a shortage of hay and dirt, which did not bother her, so she left King Meow in the square as an overseer, and went to the forest by the side of Moon Flash.
I found a flat vacant land, didn't find any tools, adjusted the width and number of space blades, and "brushed" a few back and forth, it was very easy like plowing, the soil on the ground was loosened, and as soon as the spiritual power was wrapped, a large pile of soil was also collected into the node space.
Lian Yue thought that it was just a temporary installation, so he didn't put the soil into the small building, and the amazing thing is that the soil was piled up into a hill as if it was in place, and it was very peculiar and suspended in the space.
In the next second, a teleporter returned to the square, stretched out a hand to hold the little guy's head, and poured out the soil in the space while he was not paying attention.
"Meow~" The little guy shouted and was about to reach out and scratch someone, turned around and found that it was a month later, so he withdrew his paw and called a few times in a low voice.
A few steps forward, the big eyes saw the small mound behind her, and the little face seemed to show a surprised expression, and turned his head around her feet several times, trying to know how it was all conjured.
"Don't look at it, you can't learn this."
Lian Yue stopped it, rubbed its little head, and said helplessly.
"Meow~嗷~"
......
The half-man-high stove made of stones, with a fire underneath and a hollow top, is pasted with water and mud on the outside of the stove, and the thin mud on the outside is gradually dried as the fire below bakes.
"Almost, Ah Yue?" Meimi waited for a long time, and finally couldn't help asking.
King Meow and a few little cubs are not crazy everywhere, An An squatted in a row on the side of the tandoor, for fear that if he misses his eye, the jerky will be gone.
"That's it! Remove the fire and leave a little charcoal inside. ”
Saying that, Lian Yue and Meimi got busy together, and removed the open flame with three times and five by two, and sealed the stove under it with the remaining thin mud.
The two of them worked together, and gently put the meat hanger made of tree branches into the stove, and the longer trunks at both ends stuck on the top of the stove to ensure that the wooden shelves would not slide down.
The top of the stove was sealed with thin mud, and now all that needs to be done is to wait.
An hour later...
Lian Yue lifted the top of the stove, and as soon as a small gap was revealed, a rich aroma rushed into her nose.
The group of cubs with more sensitive noses by the stove stood up even more violently, and wanted to move forward when they saw it.
"Don't worry, wait a minute."
Memi reached out and hurriedly stopped a few little cubs, for fear that they would accidentally get burned when they rushed up.
A few little cubs are not bear children like Blue Star who don't listen to anything, and when they hear Meimi's greeting, they settle down.
When the two of them took out the beef strips together, the strips of Mongolian beast meat hanging on the entire wooden shelf became dark red and a little purple, and the meat was firm and tendony, exuding a strong aroma.
Lian Yue took off all the meat and put it in the stone pot, picked out an arm-long piece of jerky from it, broke it into several pieces, first handed a piece to Meimi, and then distributed it to the little cubs who had been looking forward to it for a long time.
Except for the pony cubs, the other cubs are particularly anthropomorphic holding a pair of small paws, carefully grasping the jerky, and biting with their mouths little by little.
Seeing this, Meimi turned her head and collided with Lian Yue's eyes, and the two looked at each other and smiled, and then tore off a piece of jerky and tasted it.
“emmm~”
Sure enough, the ingredients of the orc plane are really delicious to cook!
The unique muscular meat of Mongolian beast meat, even after charcoal roasting, has not received the slightest impact, tear off a small strip, put it in the mouth, salty and light, wrapped in the delicate pepper pepper slightly spicy feeling, the taste is not heavy, and there is a faint sweetness, I think it should be the effect of green sour fruit.
Although these ingredients are the same, the texture is not the same as that of direct grilled meat, because of the charcoal grilled smoke, the jerky meat is firmer and has a unique flavor.
As soon as she raised her eyes, Meimi also enjoyed it, her eyes narrowed a little, and her mouth kept chewing and savoring.
Looking at the little cubs under their feet, they are even more than that, and the faster ones such as Brother Bear and King Meow are staring at the stone pot with purring eyes, and they seem to want another piece.