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Chapter 1597 Crab Stuffed Orange

The dish stuffed with crab and orange is really not too difficult.

The only difficulty may be to remove the crab meat.

But it is difficult for others, but for Xu Zhuo it is as easy as drinking cold water.

There's no way, because he disassembled the crab before, he dismantled the skill of dismantling the crab.

Although time went by, more and more crabs were removed, and his speed of removing crabs became faster and faster.

So for Xu Zhuo, the biggest difficulty of this dish has been solved.

In addition to removing the crab, the remaining difficulty should be to carve the orange.

This dish was a court dish in the Song Dynasty. In modern times, it has also been selected into the menu of state banquets many times, and is used to entertain foreign guests and large-scale national banquets.

So in order to ensure that it is delicious, we must try our best to make it look good.

After all, in high-end occasions, appearance is as important as taste, and even in a sense, it is higher than taste.

Although Xu Zhuo has dabbled in all kinds of knife skills, he is somewhat not good at carving.

Moreover, making crab-stuffed oranges is different from other dishes. The oranges used in this dish cannot be carved in advance, otherwise the orange skin will lose water quickly, resulting in an unsightly color.

But if it is soaked in water, the taste of orange peel will become weaker, and the taste of crab-stuffed oranges will not be enough.

So the only way is to remove the crab meat and crab roe, and then carve patterns on the oranges.

When carving, the speed is even faster.

Only in this way can the crab-stuffed oranges look good.

After washing the crabs, Xu Zhuo and Li Hao carried them into the house and began to steam them in a wok.

Ji Mingyu has nothing to do, holding up his mobile phone to follow the live broadcast.

The title is very attractive: a simple dinner for ordinary families in the capital.

Just looking at the title alone is a bit unnerving.

But there are dozens of catties of big crabs, and the huge courtyards in the capital, plus the location inside the second ring road.

None of this has anything to do with being ordinary and simple.

Ji Mingyu knew how to play tricks, so soon a group of lemon extracts appeared in the live broadcast room.

I ate dozens of catties of crabs in a courtyard in the second ring road of the capital, and kept saying that it was just a simple dinner, and this was just an ordinary family.

It's enough!

While watching Xu Zhuo put crabs in the steamer, Ji Mingyu smiled and interacted with the fans in the live broadcast room.

During the interaction, he also brazenly flaunted his wealth.

"Isn't it normal to live in a courtyard house in the capital? Our family also lives in a courtyard house, but it's not near here, but on the side of the Forbidden City.

There are groups of tourists at the gate every day, making a lot of noise. "

Soon, the live broadcast room was full of barrages like "Be yourself".

The kitchen at home did not plan to install a steam cabinet, after all, it is not easy to use it at home.

But after all, there are more people at home during the Chinese New Year, and there will be a lot of guests. When cooking some dishes such as steamed meat, it is difficult to use a steamer alone.

And there are two chefs who are idle all the year round, so it is necessary to add a steamer.

Because this allows the two old people to think about something to eat at home.

In fact, after the renovation this time, the area of ​​the kitchen has doubled. Not only is there a steam cabinet installed in it, but also a gas stove and a full set of professional equipment for hotel kitchens.

The entire kitchen is exactly the same as the back kitchen of a restaurant.

All the dishes that could not be prepared in the past due to the low firepower of the family stove can be prepared here.

After putting all the crabs in, the old man began to shred ginger, while Yu Peiyong prepared to warm some rice wine.

After all, crabs are cold in nature, so you have to eat something warm to neutralize it.

After Ji Mingyu finished taking pictures of the steamed crabs, he leaned next to the old man to baba again.

"Grandpa Xu, your kitchen is so professional, do you plan to return to that kind of family banquet?"

The old man didn't understand what it meant for a while, and asked curiously: "What family banquet?"

Ji Mingyu said: "It's the kind of Li's cuisine. It needs to be ordered in advance, and you can't order food. You can eat whatever is served. The per capita cost is thousands of yuan, and it's not good to eat."

As soon as he said this, the old man immediately understood.

"Those kind of gimmicks are generally used to fool foreigners, and we don't do that kind of unconscionable things.

I originally planned to serve three or four tables every day. Anyway, my house is big enough, and even if I entertain one table in a room, I can prepare several tables of dishes.

As long as the quality of the dishes is good, there should be no worries about the source of customers.

But after thinking about it, I have been busy all my life, and this time I moved to the capital to provide for the elderly, so why bother?

And neither of us likes to have outsiders in our house, let alone strangers.

Even if they come with money, we don't welcome them.

So let's let this matter go, we really don't want to bother.

I've been serving people all my life, and I really don't want to do this anymore. "

Ji Mingyu was a little disappointed: "Oh, I'm still waiting in line to eat your meal, and you don't want to bother."

The old man smiled: "Come here if you want to eat, you can do whatever you want, anyway, there are always people at home, why do you want to join the outsiders and queue up to eat?"

"I don't want to jump in line to show that I'm close to you."

The time to steam crabs does not need to be too long, 10 minutes is enough, after all, this stuff is very easy to cook.

Twenty minutes later, Xu Zhuo opened the steamer and brought out all the layers of steaming plates.

The big red crab makes people greedy just looking at it.

Take out these steamed crabs, pour them into the prepared round bamboo baskets, and then bring them to the restaurant. Once they are placed in the middle, they can be eaten with ginger vinegar water and warm rice wine.

Xu Zhuo didn't come over to eat right now, he just left a cage of crabs, now he went back to the kitchen and began to tear apart the crab meat.

This job is easy for Xu Zhuo. He can even watch the game strategy videos uploaded by several familiar game UP masters at station B while dismantling crabs.

After removing the crab meat, Xu Zhuo brought some well-proportioned oranges according to the number of people eating today.

Wash these oranges with baking soda and start carving.

The reason for washing it is mainly to wash off some preservatives and paraffin on the surface of the orange, and at the same time, it will be easier to carve after washing in this way.

Xu Zhuo is not good at carving, so the content of his carving is relatively simple.

For example, the simple pig face shape, simple lines, simple stick figures and the like.

Anyway, it can be expressed by a few lines.

However, the simplest of these shapes is the city wall shape.

Draw parallel lines on the surface of the orange, each line encircling the surface of the orange.

After drawing these lines, according to a certain distance, draw a short line vertically between the two lines to connect the two parallel lines.

After drawing a circle like this, draw the rest alternately.

After everything is scratched, the surface of the orange will show the effect of the city wall, or the effect of the Great Wall.

Anyway, it's quite old-fashioned.

After finishing the carving on the surface of the orange, Xu Zhuo cut a knife from one-fifth of the head of the orange, cut the lid crosswise, opened it, and dug out the pulp inside with a spoon.

After scooping out the pulp from all the oranges, put them in the food processor and give them a little stir.

No need to puree, just crumble a little.

After finishing these, Xu Zhuo set up the frying pan and started the most critical step in making this crab-stuffed orange.

Fried stuffing.

Chapter 1598 Crab Stuffed Orange

The so-called crab-stuffed orange, to put it bluntly, is to hollow out the orange, then fry it with crab meat and crab roe in a pan to make a stuffing, then stuff it into the orange and steam it in a pan.

The whole process is actually not new.

As for the stuffing inside, there is nothing mysterious about it, it is somewhat similar to bald butter.

Of course, the reason why they are somewhat similar is because the methods are somewhat different.

The biggest difference is that when frying the stuffing, the orange pulp should be put inside.

In the Song Dynasty, the princes and nobles at that time discovered that eating crabs with oranges is more perfect than eating with vinegar.

As a very common condiment in cooking, no matter what kind of vinegar, balsamic vinegar, white vinegar, rice vinegar or even fruit vinegar, etc., it tastes sour and a bit harsh.

In other words, no matter what kind of vinegar, compared to crabs, the sour taste is actually a bit strong.

When eating crabs dipped in vinegar, the umami taste of the crabs will be somewhat suppressed.

Relatively speaking, the sour taste of oranges is much softer.

Moreover, the orange has a sweet taste, which can perfectly bring out the freshness of the crab meat.

Not only will it not overwhelm the guests, but it will give people a small and fresh beauty.

The dish stuffed with crab and orange was made under this background.

Although it has been lost for many years in the middle, but because it is so delicious, there are detailed records in ancient books, so this dish has been reproduced again.

After the engraving came out, the mysterious veil covered by this dish was lifted.

Xu Zhuo put some lard in the pot.

After the oil melted, he put the crab shells he had just removed into the pot.

If the crab-stuffed orange dish is delicious, it has to be more cumbersome.

For example, you can't fry crab meat directly with lard, but boil some crab oil with crab shells first, and then cook crab meat and crab roe with crab oil.

Only in this way can the stuffing taste more delicious.

This method sounds novel, but it is actually very familiar to Xu Zhuo.

Because he did the same thing when he made bald butter.

Boil the crab oil first, then fry the crab meat.

This makes the bald butter taste better.

When cooking the crab oil, Xu Zhuo was not idle. He put some scallion and ginger into the pot, and added some scallion and ginger fragrance to the crab oil, so that it would taste richer and stimulate people's appetite.

When the crab shells in the pot turned completely red in the hot oil, and the color of the onion and ginger turned slightly browned, Xu Zhuo took them out with a colander, controlled the oil, and threw them into the trash can .

Then, he poured the crab roe just removed into the hot oil, and slowly stir-fried it with a spoon.

Only female crabs are on the market this season, and male crabs are almost at the end of October, so we can only put some crab roe in.

It would have tasted even better with crab paste.

The taste will also be richer.

Not long after the crab roe was put into the oil pan, the oil in the pan turned yellow and even had a ruddy color, which made people very greedy at first glance.

And the strong fresh fragrance wafting out of the pot makes people drool even more.

It seems that no delicacies from mountains and seas are as attractive as the fragrance in this pot.

A few minutes later, when there were no large pieces of crab roe in the pot, Xu Zhuo also poured the prepared crab meat into the pot.

Compared with crab roe, crab meat is actually not very resistant to frying, and if the frying time is long, the crab meat will lose its tender and sweet taste.

So put it later.