Food starts with noodles

The pie shop in front stopped by. I bought two pies and stuffed them. Eating this sweet-skinned duck alone is always a bit unsatisfactory. In terms of satiety, it has to be carbohydrates. "

Li Hao parked the car on the side of the road, and Xu Zhuo got out of the car to buy some pies.

This shop should be a time-honored shop in the provincial capital. It has been open for at least 20 years. The pies they make are very delicious. Xu Zhuo used to buy a few from time to time.

After returning to the car, Xu Zhuo sat in the front row, took out a pie and bit into his mouth, then took out another one and handed it to Li Hao: "Try it, you just came out with me and didn't eat enough?"

The two left secretly at the Sifang Restaurant, in order to prevent being discovered by the group of toasters, Xu Zhuo didn't even tell Yu Keke.

Dizzy from drinking, eating pie now, feeling pretty good.

Li Hao took a bite: "Hey, this is still stuffed with beef. It's not bad. It tastes good. I'll have to get out of the car and eat a dozen or so when I get back."

When he got home, Xu Zhuo ate and drank enough by himself, lay down on the bed and fell asleep soundly.

Li Hao drove away after locking the door, went to eat the pie first, and then went back to inform Yu Keke and others that Xu Zhuo went home and slept by himself, so as not to worry them.

When Xu Zhuo woke up again, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening. He walked out of the bedroom in a daze, only to find that Yu Keke and Sun Panpan were sitting on the sofa watching "Twilight".

The sound of the game came from the study room. Listening to the background music, it should be the combat mission of the third level in the story mode of "Call of Duty 16".

Xu Zhuo glanced at Li Hao, who was holding the controller to control the characters in the game, rushing forward and shooting while cursing.

Then there is the standard death mode of one shot red, two shots panting, and three shots seeing famous quotes.

"Yo, woke up? Sleeping all the way until now, for a game?"

Yu Keke poured Xu Zhuo a glass of water full of distress, and was very dissatisfied with his behavior of disregarding his body for cooking.

This made Xu Zhuo a little embarrassed to say that it was caused by playing games, but it's really cool to sleep until now, and it feels like being revived with full blood.

He was not interested in the movie Twilight, instead he wandered into the study room, pointed to the game characters on the screen and pointed to Li Hao: "Hide in the corner here, squat down, throw a dodge to the right and then charge, or you will be beaten dead."

Li Hao tried the tutorial Xu Zhuo said, and really passed the level where he had seen countless famous quotes.

"Fuck, why are you so familiar? When did you clear the level?"

Boss Xu sat next to him, and said casually, "Oh, this game is quite simple. My first two...cough, I was a little bored a while ago. I played for a while after get off work every day, and I just passed the level by playing like this."

Li Hao didn't play anymore after passing this level, but put the game controller aside, got up and rubbed his stomach.

"I ate too many pies at noon. I didn't eat much in the afternoon. I'm so hungry now. Boss Xu, aren't you hungry?"

He didn't say that Xu Zhuo didn't feel anything, now that Li Hao was arguing about being hungry, Xu Zhuo also felt that his stomach was empty.

The two came out of the study room, just about to grab some snacks for Yu Keke and Sun Panpan, when they found that they had finished eating too.

"What should I do? Order takeaway or make it at home?"

Yu Keke originally wanted to order takeaway food, but she had been craving the fried shrimp tail in the provincial capital for a long time.

But as soon as Xu Zhuo wanted to make it at home, the fried shrimp tail was naturally thrown aside.

No matter how delicious the takeaway is, it's not as good as the late-night supper made by my own man.

"But... what shall we eat?"

Xu Zhuo looked at the ingredients in the refrigerator. There was a piece of beef left over from the last time he sneakily fried steak at home, and the rest were dried vegetables such as vermicelli and rice noodles.

Xu Zhuo has been playing games crazily at home recently, and he hasn't cooked much at all, so the ingredients in the refrigerator haven't been replenished for a long time.

As soon as Li Hao saw that piece of beef, he remembered the beef pie he ate at noon.

"How about, let's make beef pies. There are vermicelli and beef, and there are so many noodles. We are destined to eat pies."

Xu Zhuo did not refuse, pies are easy to make, and with the ingredients in front of him, only pies can be made.

He was about to go to the bathroom to wash up, and he started to do it when he was sober, but Yu Keke had a new problem.

"The beef jelly is so strong, when will it melt?"

Xu Zhuo smiled slightly: "Don't panic, I have a secret recipe for quick thawing, it's super simple..."

Chapter 924 Pies and Hot and Sour Rice Noodles

Xu Zhuo's quick thawing is actually not a secret in the chef circle, at least in the back kitchen of Sifang Restaurant, almost everyone knows it.

Let the hard-frozen meat melt at the fastest speed, and many people will immediately think of soaking in hot water. This is also the first choice that pops up in everyone's mind when they are faced with frozen products.

However, soaking frozen meat directly in hot water will not only make the meat lose its tender taste, but also become fluffy and inelastic like a broken dishcloth;

Moreover, soaking in hot water will increase the growth of fungi in the meat, destroy the water-soluble substances in the meat, and even cause the loss of a large amount of nutrients and B vitamins.

So this is the least advisable way to quickly defrost meat.

In addition to hot water, some people use cold water to defrost meat, but this method is not very good.

First of all, frozen meat soaked in cold water will also cause poor taste. Although it is not as serious as hot water, if you want to eat tender and delicious meat, it is best not to use this method.

In addition, the efficiency of soaking meat in cold water is not very high, especially when the meat is half soaked, the outer meat has melted, but the center of the meat is still hard.

Even if substances such as salt and white vinegar are added to the water to accelerate thawing, the effect is not very good.

Meat soaked in salt will become salty, which will easily cause dehydration of the meat, and white vinegar will make the meat sour, which will affect the final cooking.

Therefore, to thaw the meat quickly, you have to use a method that does not touch water.

For example, using an aluminum basin or a professional thawing board sold on the Internet can quickly thaw the meat.

Thawing the aluminum pot is also called the sandwich thawing method. Wash the aluminum pot and turn it upside down, put the meat on the bottom of the pot, and then put another pot on it to form a "bottom-meat-bottom" placement method.

Aluminum has a very strong thermal conductivity, so using this method, thawing can be achieved through heat exchange.

This method is very fast. If there is a little wind around, the thawing will be faster. In about ten minutes, a piece of frozen meat will return to the state before freezing.

In addition to aluminum pots, other aluminum products are also available, such as pot lids, steam grates and the like.

If you don't have these at home, then put the frozen meat in a plastic bag and soak it in a basin. Although it is slower, the thawed meat is much better than soaking it in water directly.

But no matter what the method is, it is only an emergency. The best way is to refrigerate and thaw. A day and a half in advance, take out the frozen meat and put it in the refrigerator to thaw.

The effect of thawing in this way is the best, and the meat quality is closer to the state before freezing.

As for the legendary microwave thawing method, forget it. The effect of thawing in a microwave oven is very bad, especially for large pieces of meat, which are often cooked on the outside, but the meat inside is still frozen.

Xu Zhuo has a thawing board at home, so there is no need to clean the aluminum basin.

"Professional enough, even this stuff, do you usually make frozen meat at home in the middle of the night?"

Li Hao was very curious, Xu Zhuo could even pull out the thawing board, quite a Doraemon-like feeling.

"I bought the meat as a gift. Now the meat is transported in the cold chain. Sometimes people will give you one or two thawing boards when they are too cold. There is a stack in the back kitchen. You want to give you one back."

Xu Zhuo cleaned the thawing board and put it on the chopping board, then put the frozen meat on it.Soon, the meat next to the thawing plate will start to get soggy.

Taking advantage of this time, Xu Zhuo boiled a pot of water and poured it into a basin, then grabbed some vermicelli and soaked it in it.

Then, Xu Zhuo started to meet face to face.

It is possible to use dead noodles to raise the beef patties. The difference is that the taste of the dead noodles is stronger and can be made into pastry beef patties, while the raised noodles are softer and easier to eat.

The beef patties with two textures are very delicious as long as they are cooked well, but it is a little too late for the dough, so Xu Zhuo made them with dead noodles.

When kneading the noodles, no yeast water is used, but half of the flour is mixed with hot water and half with warm water. This kind of noodles is most suitable for pasta such as pancakes, pies, and scallion pancakes.

After the noodles were reconciled, he put it aside to wake up, Xu Zhuo was free, went to the utility room, and dug out two more onions that had been stored for an unknown amount of time.

Now you have all the ingredients to make a beef patty.

Beef patty is a kind of delicacy that can be found everywhere, and there are many ways to make it, such as crispy, crispy, fried, fried, baked, baked, and there are many styles.

And because the eating habits of different places are different, the topic of where the beef patties are best has not been reached yet.

Xu Zhuo looked up some recipes for beef patties on the Internet, and there are all kinds of recipes, but the ingredients at home are limited, and he is anxious to eat, so he made it in the way he understood.

It doesn't matter what the method is, as long as everyone thinks it tastes good.

Twenty minutes later, when the piece of beef gradually melted, Xu Zhuo took a kitchen knife and cut the piece of beef into cubes.

In fact, the efficiency of the thawing plate is not so high, and the piece of beef has not completely melted, but this kind of half-frozen beef is best cut, so Xu Zhuo didn't let the beef continue to melt.

Another reason is...

The other three people in the family didn't want to wait for a minute, and Li Hao even wanted to drive out to eat right now.

Everyone doesn't say that when you are hungry, or when you don't pay attention to it, you don't feel anything.

But once you decide to eat, the appetite in your heart will gradually increase, especially after seeing the ingredients, the hunger and the urge to eat will hit your heart.

Then, the whole person will completely sink.

Ordering takeout late at night in revenge, eating spicy food in revenge, and overeating are mostly related to this kind of psychology.

In fact, some people have been studying this psychological phenomenon of human beings decades ago, and it has been successfully applied to commodities.

For example, the propaganda that instant noodles need to be soaked for 3 minutes before eating is a classic case of this kind of psychological application in reality.

The reason why countless people fall in love with eating instant noodles is the 3 minutes of waiting when boiling water is poured into the noodle bucket.

So for a while without eating instant noodles, I panicked in my heart, which was mainly caused by the 3-minute sense of anticipation.

After cutting the diced meat, Xu Zhuo also chopped the soaked vermicelli into pieces, and then heated up the oil in a pan to fry the diced meat, the filling would be very fragrant.

It is very suitable for the stomachs of night owls who are hungry in the middle of the night.

The pot was heated up, Xu Zhuo poured some peanut oil into it, and added some lard into it.

If you want to have a good flavor, you have to add animal fat. It stands to reason that beef should be added with butter, but there is no such thing at home, so Xu Zhuo dug half a spoonful of lard into the pot.

As long as it is fragrant and delicious enough, it doesn't make much difference whether to put butter or lard.

As for health...

I have chosen to eat in the middle of the night, will I still consider this?

After the oil was hot, Xu Zhuo added minced ginger and star anise to sauté until fragrant, then poured the diced beef into it and stir-fried.

After the diced meat was fried and changed color, Xu Zhuo added salt, white sugar, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, five spice powder and other seasonings to the pot for seasoning.

Then pour a bowl of water into the pot and simmer for a while. When the diced meat becomes rotten, pour in the chopped vermicelli, stir well and take out of the pot.

This is the minced meat vermicelli stuffing used in beef patties. In many areas of the homeland, this is also the stuffing of beef fried buns.

After the stuffing was left to dry for a while, Xu Zhuo sprinkled the chopped onion into it, stirred it evenly, put it aside, and started to make the pastry.

Well, despite the shortage of ingredients and time constraints, Boss Xu decided to make half a bowl of pastry, which is not only enjoyable to eat, but also shows off his cooking skills.

When making pancakes, scallion pancakes or other cakes, it is easy to eat with or without pastry, and no matter whether it is delicious or not, as long as you put pastry, it will give people the impression of being a very good cook.

Out of this consideration, Boss Xu made half a bowl of pastry.

Moreover, appropriately prolonging the time for making cakes is also conducive to raising everyone's sense of expectation to the highest point.

At that time, how many people will blow this mediocre beef pie to the sky?

Well, there are so many calculations to make a supper, maybe this is the world of adults.

While lamenting the lost childhood, Xu Zhuo quickly kneaded the dough, rolled it into thin slices, and brushed it with pastry.

Finally, roll up and divide into small doses, and you can start making beef patties.

But before making it, Xu Zhuo put the pan on the stove to preheat it, then he flattened the dough and rolled it into a thicker round cake.

Wrap the meat stuffing and seal it, then press it into a pie shape, and the beef pie base is ready.

After the pan is heated, brush a layer of oil on the bottom of the pan, then put the cake base, cover the pan and start to cook on low heat.

"Finally it's almost healed, my stomach is almost flattened by hunger."

Yu Keke stood on the side, staring at Xu Zhuo's movements the whole time. Right now, even Twilight couldn't attract her attention, and her mind was full of food.

At this time, Li Hao probably felt that no one was watching Twilight, so he actually turned off the video, replaced it with the highest-rated "Bite of the Tongue 1", and clicked the play button.

When the familiar melody echoed in the living room, Sun Panpan also ran over to urge Xu Zhuo to act quickly.

She was so hungry that she couldn't bear it now, and she kept complaining that Yu Keke was too gluttonous before and didn't leave some snacks at home.

When the beef patty is baked, it is much simpler.

As long as the two sides of the cake are baked until they are golden and crisp, it means that you can enjoy this late-night delicacy.

"From tomorrow onwards, I must maintain a good routine of work, rest and diet. I can't eat in the middle of the night, let alone eat such greasy pies, otherwise I will..."