Chapter 121: The Taste of the Prairie
Eat a piece of burnt skin first, the dehydrated tender skin is crispy and delicious, and with the unique gelatinous texture of the skin, along with the process of chewing, after the burnt fragrance, the condiments brushed on the skin begin to exert power, the sweet fragrance of honey and the salty aroma of the sauce gradually emerge, each layer of sauce has its own unique taste, layer after layer in turn, causing impact on the taste buds of the tip of the tongue again and again, like waves in the angry sea, overlapping, as if never stopping.
After enjoying the impact of the crust, a piece of soft and tender lamb is served. Eating mutton must be grasped with your hands, and it may look delicate with chopsticks, but you can never feel the rough atmosphere of roasted whole sheep like a strong wind on the grassland. Only by grabbing the oily mutton with your hands, chewing and swallowing it in a big mouthful, and then wiping your mouth with a bold mouth, wiping off the fat on your face, and drinking the milk tea or milk wine on the blanket, well, this is the taste of the grassland.
The lamb is the freshest, and it's grilled just right, soft and firm, without losing its chewiness or bite. The chef has a good grasp of the heat, and the degree of cooking of each layer of meat, no matter which part, is very close, and there is no phenomenon that the outer layer has been cooked, but the inner layer is still half raw.
The special sauce, after a long period of marinating, has completely penetrated into the fibers of the mutton, and the juice of the mutton itself is completely integrated, so that the gravy that fills the mouth during chewing has a fresh aroma that people can't bear to stop.
It doesn't matter if the mutton is eaten, there are also meat tendons attached to the bones, the translucent milky yellow tendons are full of elasticity, and every time the teeth are closed, you can feel the tendons beating between the teeth, and as for the bone protection meat attached to some meat tendons, it is an unexpected surprise.
Of course, no matter how delicious the mutton is, it will inevitably feel greasy if you eat too much, but the wisdom of the herders has already found a solution, and the solution is the third pot of wild vegetables.
A pot of purple-red narrow wild vegetables was brought to the blanket, and the wild vegetables were still hung with water droplets, which was particularly attractive.
Red feather grass is the name of this wild vegetable, which can be found everywhere in the grasslands. The water in the red feather grass is equally rich, but the taste is not good at all, they are bitter, although not as exaggerated as the lotus heart, but the bitterness is also very obvious, so that the person who eats it in his mouth can't help but frown.
In normal times, neither people nor livestock like to eat this plant, but when they eat a lot of meat, grab a handful of red feather grass and chew a few bites, people will be surprised to find that the greasy feeling brought by the mutton in the belly is swept away in the bitter grass juice, and the mouth is refreshing and clean, leaving only the faint bitterness brought by the grass juice, so that the person who eats it feels that he can fight again.
However, no matter how delicious meat is, it must be moderate, eating too much meat is not a good thing after all, there must be other things to match. So, several large bowls were brought to their respective blankets.
I have eaten a lot of meat and wild vegetables, and what I need most now is, of course, staple foods and desserts.
The most indispensable thing on the grassland is wild grass, and the most indispensable thing for herdsmen is livestock, and if there are livestock, there is an inexhaustible supply of fresh milk, so the food of the herdsmen, in addition to meat and wild vegetables, is naturally the freshest dairy products.
In the first bowl, there was a stack of strange food that was round like a pancake, white with a little yellowish, and the surface was full of wrinkles, in addition to the wrinkles on the surface, the food was also covered with a large number of naturally occurring holes, and the whole food exuded a strong milky flavor. This is the milk skin used in the tribe for hospitality, boiled from freshly squeezed goat's milk, and the herdsmen themselves are sometimes reluctant to eat it, and only take it out to serve guests when they are entertaining.
After a tentative bite, the sweetness and milkiness immediately spread in the mouth. Everyone found that the effect of red feather grass just now is not only to wash away the inevitable greasy feeling, but also its faint bitter taste, but also to open the way for subsequent sweets, making desserts appear sweeter. The texture of the milk skin is exciting, but after chewing a few times, you will find that the teeth are stained with a layer of cream, and they become slippery and greasy.
The cheese was served in two bowls, one side was air-dried, hard to the touch, and it took a little effort to break, and the fracture smelled a little sour. On the other side is fresh cheese, white cheese that is as soft as tofu and has a rich sweet aroma. Try to eat one piece of each, the dry cheese is hard and chewy, and the taste is a bit like yogurt, and the fresh one is sweet, like eating a piece of melted toffee.
However, all the guests who have tasted it can't help but frown, to be honest, the three desserts are not delicious, the main reason is that in addition to sour and sweet, the three foods have one thing in common, that is, they are quite greasy. Maybe it's fine to eat a piece by chance, but now that I've just eaten a lot of meat, it's a bit too much to taste such a greasy sweet.
However, of course, the host of the treat thought of this problem, so someone poured a large bowl of thick milk tea for the guests, and the off-white milk tea was rich in tea, but it could not hide the taste of milk.
Following the actions of the herders, they tore open a few pieces of milk skin and threw them into the tea bowl, putting a few pieces of each of the two cheeses, and gently shaking the tea bowl. In the blink of an eye, a layer of golden oil slick floated on the milk tea, which was the fat in dairy sweets, which was soaked out by the milk tea.
At this time, when you taste the dairy desserts, the taste is very different. Milk tea is worthy of being one of the weapons to relieve greasy, the smooth milk skin becomes melt-in-the-mouth, you can taste the purest milk taste after taking a bite, the dry and hard air-dried cheese absorbs the milk tea and begins to soften, and the slightly elastic cheese is sour and sweet, like coagulated yogurt. As for the pure white fresh cheese, it is still so soft, and the taste in the milky aroma is pure sweetness.
Eating a few pieces of soaked dairy products with milk tea, or sour or sweet taste, is also a pleasure in the wilderness where materials are scarce.
Of course, for ladies, even after soaking in milk tea, these desserts are still a little greasy, while for men, although they have eaten desserts, they don't eat a little staple food, and they finally feel that something is missing in their stomachs.
But it didn't matter, because there was a fifth bowl served. In the fifth bowl, there is a large bowl of yellow rice grains, although the rice grains are hard, but the texture is crispy, and it can be easily twisted into a fine powder, which looks like it should be a finished product after processing.
Grab a large handful of yellow crispy rice grains and sprinkle them into the milk tea bowl, and soon, the dry rice grains will suck up the milk tea and become swollen, and at the same time, the golden grease floating on the surface of the milk tea will magically disappear, and it is obvious that the grease has been sucked into the yellow rice grains.
Taste a mouthful of swelling yellow rice, you can't feel any greasy, and you don't know where the oil slick has been sucked to, and even if you eat a few more milk desserts in milk tea, you won't feel greasy, obviously the addition of yellow rice completely dispels the oiliness.
What's more, these soaked yellow rice actually tastes good, not as soft and rotten as imagined, after losing its hardness, the yellow rice tastes chewy and chewy, which also has a faint burnt aroma, which makes people can't help but eat clean with tea and rice.