Chapter 98: Spicy Crayfish

Xue Wu took him to deal with the crayfish that he caught in the morning.

First, all the crayfish need to be rinsed several times with strong water. There is no faucet in this era, but this is not difficult for Xue Wu.

There is a sink on the other side of the well, and there is a water outlet at the other end of the tank, as long as the water is continuously added to the tank, this outlet can be used as a faucet, and the water flow of different impact forces can be obtained by pressing.

The task of fetching water was naturally handed over to Pei Lian, and Xue Wu was responsible for rinsing the crayfish.

After washing, the crayfish needed to be processed one by one, and she demonstrated it to Pei Lian.

Although it has been washed by the water several times, these crayfish are still alive, so in order to prevent being caught by the crayfish's pincers, Xue Wu quickly grabbed a shrimp and pinched its back, so that no matter how powerful the crayfish is, it will not be able to clamp her.

Then use a toothbrush to keep scrubbing the spout to remove the long whiskers of the crayfish.

At this time, there were toothbrushes, and they were already very popular.

Remove the shrimp threads and place them in water soaked in vinegar. Xue Wu had an idea and dripped two drops of spiritual spring in it.

Xue Mu and Xue Jun also joined in.

Although they were a little scared of the hideous-looking crayfish, they were also encouraged to see Xue Wu's way of being so neat and tidy, and felt that the crayfish were not so scary.

So Xue Wu divided the labor among four people, including herself, she was responsible for removing the whiskers from the crayfish, Pei Lin was responsible for removing the shrimp line, and Xue Mu and Xue Jun were responsible for brushing the crayfish.

After nearly an afternoon of busy work, a pot of shrimp was finished.

Although there are a lot of these shrimps, anyone who has eaten shrimp knows that this thing is not full at all, just eat that taste.

Not to mention Pei Lin and Xue Yao, the two big stomachs, even if she is a girl, she can easily eat four or five catties.

Spicy crayfish is also called thirteen spiced crayfish, that is, to make this, you need to use thirteen flavors, dried chili, Sichuan pepper, green onion white, garlic, ginger, cooking wine, soy sauce, salt, white sugar, chicken essence, white pepper, salt and pepper powder, oil.

Among them, there are many dried chili peppers here, and peppercorns, green onions, and garlic are also very common, but there is no cooking wine, white sugar, chicken essence, and salt and pepper powder in this era.

However, these can either find substitutes, or she can make them herself, cooking wine with rice wine or Huadiao instead, the role of cooking wine is to remove the fishy smell of the ingredients, and rice wine is fragrant, sweet and mellow, it is suitable to replace cooking wine.

White sugar can be substituted with rock sugar.

The main ingredient of chicken essence is monosodium glutamate, and Xue Wu once made monosodium glutamate by hand with shrimp skin and shiitake mushrooms, although it is not as fine as the one produced in the factory, but the taste is not bad at all.

When she was invited by Ye Diao to cook before, she made a jar by herself, and now there are a lot left.

As for salt and pepper powder, it's even simpler to make.

Pour the peppercorns, black pepper, cumin powder into the pot, fry over low heat, wait until the fragrance comes out, then add an appropriate amount of salt, fry until slightly yellow, put it out and grind it into powder, the finer the better.

This step was time-consuming, and she was peeling her hands at the time.

The powder obtained is salt and pepper powder, and a little bit is added to the stir-fried stewed soup, which has a unique flavor.

Among them, black pepper, white pepper and cumin are relatively expensive spices at this stage, and few people use them as spices in cooking.

Even if ordinary people have money, it is not easy to buy them, because when the spice shop buys the more cherished spices, they will not put them out in a big way, but will keep them for regular customers.

When Ye Diao invited Feng Lao to a banquet and invited her to be in charge of the kitchen, she had a little selfishness when she listed the spicy crayfish dish, and wanted to use his hands to gather all kinds of spices for cooking crayfish.

The Ye family runs a spice shop under their name, so it is easy to take out a lot of it.

Xue Wu used up part of the banquet, and the rest originally said that she wanted to ask him to buy it, but of course Ye Diao refused to accept her money, and directly gave her more than ten catties of everything.

So now she can make hemp small to have ready-made seasonings.

She plans to make two flavors, spicy and garlic, and considering that the crayfish is not full at all, she has to prepare a separate main dish.

Just make steamed buns, steam in a big pot, and eat it with lobster soup when the time comes, which is absolutely delicious and hungry.

The kneading work was handed over to Pei Lian, he had a lot of strength, and the dough was like a wanton kneading toy in his hands, and it didn't take long to knead it.

After waking up, Xue Wu had already put the crayfish in the pot.

Making crayfish is a lot of preparation, but it doesn't take much effort to actually do it.

She first washed the green onion and cut it into chopped green onions, removed the roots of the garlic and washed it into slices, scraped the skin and washed the dried ginger and cut it into shreds, and cut the dried chili peppers into thin strips after removing the roots with scissors.

When the ingredients are ready, add a tablespoon of oil to the pan.

"Fire." She gave the order.

Pei Lian, who was in charge of lighting the fire, added firewood to the stove in an orderly manner.

I think that he received the education of "gentleman and cook" before, not to mention the fire, even the kitchen has never been in the kitchen once, but now, he has been trained by Xue Wu to become a good fire-burner, and his grasp of the fire is very good.

Xue said that there was a fire, and he immediately lit a fire.

When the oil in the pot was heated by the fire, Xue Wu added peppercorns to it, and there was a sizzling sound.

"Change the fire."

When the oil is boiling, add the dried chili shreds and turn them from time to time. When the shredded peppers are just yellow-red, change the heat to high again. Then add the previously prepared ginger, garlic slices, and chopped green onions in turn, and stir-fry to bring out the fragrance.

At this time, the crayfish can be put into the pot.

The crayfish have been dried, but there are still many of them still alive, even alive, and they want to crawl out when they are in the pot.

Xue Wu hurriedly poured rice wine into it, and went to half a pot at once, stir-fried it for a while, and then added soy sauce, salt, and rock sugar, and stir-fried together for about five minutes.

After such a fierce operation, the crayfish in the pot have basically died.

She added a bowl of boiling water, covered and simmered over low heat.

At this time, Xue Mu had already kneaded the steamed buns, and the water in the pot in the stove was also boiling, and Xue Wu put the steamer on it.

The scent of hemp wafted out for a while, hooking the mouth.

Pei Lian, who lit the fire for her, stared at the pot in front of her, and Xue Wu stuffed a piece of dried meat into his mouth to relieve his hunger.

Pei Lin chewed the spicy jerky, and the gluttonous worms in his stomach were barely appeased, but the fragrance of Ma Xiao was too domineering, and the fragrance made people want to eat it immediately.

"Sister-in-law, how long will it take?"

In the past, when he was in the palace, Pei Lian, as the prince of the prince, could not be more disciplined in his words and deeds, whether he was eating, sleeping or reading, and he would never make such a move as urging food.

But here, he doesn't have to follow any rules, and he doesn't have to worry about making a mistake and causing speculation from all sides.

In this way, the lively side of his nature gradually revealed himself, and he lived like a real child.