Chapter 173: The oven is called a flower chicken
The buckets of loaches and snails brought back from the countryside were also put on the shop for sale as soon as they were all processed.
This is also a new snack made after half a month, when Zhao's snack shop reopened.
The emergence of new snacks not only attracted customers who came to the shop to buy food, but also added fresh blood to Zhao's snack shop.
After all, snack shops can't always rely on one or a few specific foods to do in the food business, and innovation is also a necessary skill.
At Zhao Yu's suggestion, the loach was directly made into several different flavors by the Li family.
There are five-spiced crispy loaches, fried loaches with garlic flavor, stir-fried loaches with sauce flavor, and braised loaches with spicy flavor.
In short, several loach snacks with different tastes were put on the shop, as everyone thought, and were directly warmly welcomed by the diners.
Whoever let Zhao's snack shop eat has never missed.
As long as it is put on display and sold, there is nothing unpalatable.
Diners who have eaten at Zhao's snack shop for two months also have a scale in their hearts.
There are also some such reputations, and every time a new food appears in Zhao's snack shop, it will not easily overturn.
This time is no exception, almost every customer who comes to buy food will ask about the new snacks of the shop, and if they are interested, they will also spend a few more dollars to buy a few and take them back to try them.
Just like that, the buckets of loaches brought back by the Li family were all sold in less than a day.
This can make Lee's excitement enough, and the hot sale of loaches does not show that this snack business is feasible.
Li Shi decided that while increasing the number of sales in the shop, the fishing at home must be followed up at the same time!
In the same way, snails are selling very well.
Because snails are much more laborious to handle than loaches, the time to put them on the shop has also been postponed by a day.
But this day does not affect the snail trading market.
Zhao Yu stir-fried snails in one move, using peppers and chili peppers, and directly let the snails buy ** loaches to be even more popular.
The diners who came over to taste a few bites were brought home with bowls and bowls.
Without it, stir-fried snails are a good appetizer, which is simply loved by the gentlemen at home.
The snail meat is strong, with a crispy spicy taste and intoxicating taste, which makes those who usually like to drink a little wine linger on it.
After eating, I often come to buy it, buy it back with a little wine, and mix the wine with a good brother, and live a beautiful life.
Therefore, on the third day, when Zhao Shanlin sent Liu over, he got the news that Li's trading of loaches and snails was hot, and because the business was very good, the delivery time set with Zhao Shanlin every two days also became every other day, so as to increase the number of loaches and snails sold.
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Seven days later, Li and Zhao Yu had a custom-made oven from the blacksmith's shop.
It was almost as tall as an adult's chest, and it was delivered by the owner of the blacksmith shop in good health early in the morning.
At that time, the Li family was selling lo-mei in the shop, and they were very surprised to see such an iron bump, after all, they had customized objects in the blacksmith shop before, and they took people to pick them up by themselves, which is like now, the other party personally delivered them to the door.
But surprise is surprise, Li hurriedly handed over the work in hand to the guy hired in the shop, and he hurriedly ran over to greet him.
The strong man from the blacksmith shop personally sent the oven over, and he also wanted to thank Li, after all, he was still sick before, and the other party didn't say a word, and directly left a deposit of two silver coins, no matter what he said, it helped him.
So, for this custom oven, the strong man made it extra carefully.
Whether it is the shell of the oven or the iron sheet inside, it is all about excellence to ensure that there are no mistakes.
This also made Zhao Yu very happy, especially since the other party also took into account the temperature when things were placed inside the oven, and deliberately made a fan-shaped disc on the top.
The disc is no larger than a palm, and there is a loose shrink rope on it, and if you pull it up slightly, the disc will close, not only blocking the heat from running underneath, but also not allowing them to get burned by the heat.
If he was satisfied with the oven, Li happily settled all the remaining silver coins.
After agreeing on a topic that might be customized, Li personally sent the strong man from the blacksmith shop away.
The oven was carried directly to the kitchen, and it suddenly occupied a lot of open space.
Hurriedly fetched water, the grandfather and grandson wiped the oven, and then officially put roast chicken, roast duck, roast rabbit and other roasted foods on the agenda.
This time, the time for roasting and eating was set for three days later, October 28.
After all, they always have to try it before they start a new meal.
Trying to be the main thing, Li didn't buy much, first brought two rabbits out from behind, and then bought two extra chickens and ducks from the shop that sold livestock.
Simply bleed and pluck the feathers, remove the internal organs, Li used the ingredients prepared by Zhao Yu to smear the whole one, add salt and rice wine, stir well, and then smear a layer of these chickens, ducks and rabbits inside and out, and then wash the mushrooms that are dried at home, knot the green onions, stuff them into the stomach with ginger and shallots, and wrap them well.
Leave it quietly for three hours, wait for marinating and taste, and then take out the onions, ginger and garlic from the internal organs.
Then, according to Zhao Yu's request, Li used knots and hooks to hang the whole piece upside down in the iron furnace, roasted it on a low fire, turned it over every quarter of an hour, and only after baking for an hour, did it come out of the oven.
The whole one was taken out, and suddenly, a seductive fragrance filled the room, and the roast chicken that was roasted to a golden brown was displayed in front of everyone.
Taking out a clean kitchen knife, Li took one chicken, duck and one rabbit in front of everyone, and cut them all into the plate.
Because they didn't eat dinner, everyone was no longer polite, and directly regarded these grilled foods as dinner.
Zhao Yu picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of chicken and ate it in her mouth and kept chewing, she knew what the taste of the gods was, well, this taste was much better than she imagined.
Chewing the chicken in his mouth, Zhao Yu felt the tender and burnt taste stimulating his taste buds, and felt as if he had opened the door to a new world.
This roast chicken is really good!
Then, Zhao Yu picked up another piece of rabbit meat and duck meat and tried it separately.
Well, the quality of the meat is different, and the feeling is different, but on the whole, they all have their own merits, and the taste of the roast is really not to say.
If you take it out and sell it whole, it is definitely a big hit.
Not surprisingly, the roasted food deal was made.
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Zhao Yu scratched her head, and said in her heart that if the roast chicken, roast duck and roast rabbit sell well, then she can also make a food called flower chicken.
I couldn't help but whisper to Li Shi about the practice of calling Huaji.
Li didn't think about it, and directly agreed.
Calling flower chicken sounds more convenient than roast chicken, and even so, it is made together, and it is also a new flavor when it is sold.
In this way, early the next morning, Zhao Yu went to the kitchen again to get busy.
After slaughtering the chicken he bought, Li took out the spices he had prepared before, added salt and rice wine, stirred evenly, and smeared a layer on the inside and outside of the whole chicken.
did not stand to taste, and then, Li stuffed the green onions, ginger, garlic and other fishy things into the chicken belly, and then took the lotus leaves bought from outside and wrapped them, and tied them with hemp rope.
The lotus leaves are also because when the lotus pond has dried up recently, the high-ranking families in the city will ask people to clean up the lotus pond, and the things that are cleaned up will not be retained, but thrown away directly.
Because of this, the lotus flowers that were cleaned up, along with the lotus leaves and lotus roots, were cleaned up by people with good intentions and put up for sale in the morning market.
And the lotus leaf called Huaji was bought by Zhao Yu from the morning market.
I bought it back together, and there were hundreds of catties of lotus roots.
The lotus root is best to keep the marinated taste, and at the moment, these lotus leaves with the fragrance of lotus flowers are the best to use to make flower chicken.
Wrap the outside of the tied hemp rope with layers of heavy yellow mud.
Handing the wrapped mud ball to Zhao Yu, Zhao Yu hurriedly returned to the stove, removed the top fire, and put the wrapped mud ball directly into the burned soil pit.
After putting it away, Zhao Yu buried it with hot soil, and then moved the fire back to continue burning, and an iron pot was set up on top of it to make bone broth.
The time for calling the flower chicken is not as long as the roast chicken, and it does not need Zhao Yu's attention at all times.
But the Li family had something to do, so he handed over the rest of the work to Zhao Yu, and the Li family continued to go to the hall to mark people.
And Zhao Yu was waiting in the back kitchen, and after waiting for more than half an hour or so, he felt that it was almost over, Zhao Yu stretched out his hand and moved the iron pot on top of the bone broth away.
Then, she lifted the fire above and dug out the mud balls inside.
The yellow mud was dried and darkened, and cracks appeared around it.
Zhao Yu didn't care, and quickly slapped it twice with a wooden stick to pry the yellow mud open, revealing the chicken wrapped in lotus leaves.
The scent also wafted out along the crevices that had been pried open.
Zhao Yu couldn't help swallowing his saliva, peeled off the yellow mud, and then served it to the cutting board on the side, peeled it all clean, and then used a kitchen knife to cut it into pieces.
couldn't help but reach out and grab a piece of flower chicken and put it in his mouth, Zhao Yu half-squinted his eyes and chewed it carefully.
After feeling the tender and delicious taste explode from the tip of his tongue, Zhao Yu let out a satisfied "um".
The skin of the chicken is slightly burnt, but the meat quality is not sticky, and after the inside is marinated, the delicious upgrade has a trace of the unique fragrance of lotus leaves.
This taste is really amazing.