Food starts with noodles

As for donations, in order to avoid unnecessary disputes, Lao Meng will explain before the live broadcast that although he also wants to help others, he must respect their wishes.

After the matter was settled, Xu Zhuo called Chen Guifang and asked her to bring some aged indica rice.

When Chen Guifang heard that Xu Zhuo was going to make mutton powder, she immediately said that she would come over to eat tomorrow.

"I haven't eaten mutton noodles for several years, you have to do better, otherwise I will take Keke to Guizhou for the Spring Festival..."

Tsk, can this be a threat?

But thinking about Chen Guifang being "forced" to reward more than 100 million to become the number one in the live broadcast room in order to defend her mother's status during the live broadcast a few days ago, Xu Zhuo felt relieved.

Let's just babble a few sentences, after all, he is the number one on the list, and he is indeed qualified to make a request.

Under the temptation of delicious food, Chen Guifang quickly sent a bag of aged indica rice, but after seeing Xu Zhuo, she probably remembered the more than 100 million that was thrown into the live broadcast room, and went upstairs to find Yu Keke with an unhappy face. The relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is gone.

"Oh, middle-aged women are not easy to get along with!"

After Xu Zhuo soaked the rice, he took his mobile phone and started searching for luxury accessories that can be bought now. It’s the end of the year and he needs to buy some gifts for his family.

Anyway, the rewards from my mother and mother-in-law are more than 100 million even after they are divided.

While browsing for what to buy, Tang Xiaoying came over and chatted about building a workshop in the backyard.

This was Yu Keke's idea, but Tang Xiaoying didn't reveal it. If the proprietress wants to have a surprise, then play with her.

For this proposal, Xu Zhuo quite agrees, and the backyard is so big, it is more than enough to build two workshops.

Now that the end of the year was approaching, Xue Chunfeng's decoration company didn't have much work, so Xu Zhuo outsourced this small project with little technical content to his company.

That company has Chen Guifang's shares, and the money is finally earned by her family. Moreover, Chen Guifang is in a bad mood recently, so she needs to use business to win her over.

In the evening, the rice that has been soaked for several hours is ready to be ground.

Although the small stone mill bought in Linping City has been lost to Hu Dabao, there is a commercial soybean milk machine available in the back kitchen, so it is no problem to grind rice milk.

While grinding the rice milk, Lao Meng even ran over to take a video.This is not only to give that fan a psychological comfort, but also to pave the way for tomorrow's live broadcast.

Well, the mutton noodles made of pure handmade rice noodles will give people a delicious impression no matter how they taste.

In fact, not only rice noodles, it seems that all foods are like this. Once the word "handmade" is added, the style will be much higher.

Of course, the price will go up a bit.

After the rice milk is ground, filter it, put it in a basin and cover it to start fermentation. The rice milk can basically be fermented after being left overnight in the back kitchen.

The rice milk used to make Guizhou rice noodles needs to be fermented for a little while to have a slightly sour taste. It can’t be fermented too hard, or it will become sour powder.

Early the next morning, the workshop in the backyard began to be built.

The drawings are ready-made, and there is no need to design much. Build a larger iron house, install water, electricity and natural gas in it, and press the stove, and the workshop will be completed.

In addition to the pastry workshop and lo-mei workshop, Xu Zhuo also asked Xue Chunfeng to set up a packaging room dedicated to packaging and express delivery.

In this way, the efficiency will be higher and the work will be more convenient.

While the construction of the backyard was in full swing, Xu Zhuo was in the kitchen making preparations for steaming rice milk.

Meng Liwei has already set up the live broadcast equipment. Starting from steaming rice milk, he will live broadcast the process of making mutton powder step by step, so that everyone can experience the mutton powder in Guizhou.

Next to the live broadcast equipment is a machine for making 饸饹noodles sent by Chen Guifang this morning. As long as you put the dough in, it will be pressed into strips, and the thickness can be adjusted, which is very convenient to use.

Stir the rice milk evenly, then pour it into the steaming tray, and then put it into the steaming cabinet to start steaming.

The steaming time does not need to be too long, only about 15 minutes. When the rice milk in the steaming plate solidifies, it can be taken out of the pot.

Pour out the large piece of jelly-like rice milk in the tray, let it cool down, knead it like kneading dough, and then put it into the machine, and the thick rice noodles will be pressed out one by one.

Bai Shengsheng's chubby rice noodles look like balls of wool, and it makes people want to touch them twice. Meng Liwei leaned over and licked his lips: "Can I eat it now?"

"Eat!"

When Lao Meng picked one up with chopsticks and wanted to put it in his mouth, Xu Zhuo said again: "It's easy to have diarrhea."

Lao Meng put down the rice noodles embarrassingly: "I just want to ease the atmosphere, should I cook it next?"

Xu Zhuo shook his head: "I still have to cut the mutton."

Cooked mutton slices should be added to the mutton powder, so that it is enjoyable to eat with both powder and meat.

But this cooked mutton doesn't just need to be cooked, it needs to be pressed.

The specific method is to put the cooked mutton flat on the chopping board, put a heavy object on it, and press the mutton so that it is no longer so loose, which is considered to be pressed.

The pressed mutton can be cut into very thin slices, which are tough and rich in taste, and are an excellent match for rice noodles.

Xu Zhuo pressed the mutton when he left last night, and now, the mutton has been completely pressed, and it looks very beautiful.

After placing the mutton on the chopping board, Xu Zhuo took a kitchen knife and began to slice it into thin slices.

Because the pressure is very firm, it is quite easy to cut, and it feels like cutting frozen meat that has just melted.

"Wow, did you learn the technique of slicing meat at a ramen restaurant? Isn't this too thin?"

Meng Liwei pinched a few pieces of mutton and stuffed them into his mouth, chewing them while joking with Xu Zhuo.

Xu Zhuo explained the reason for cutting thin slices to Lao Meng, and suddenly asked curiously: "Don't you slurp your mouth when you eat? Why do you keep smacking all day?"

Lao Meng leaned over and whispered, "Jiajia said, this sounds delicious...don't you think it's very pleasant?"

Xu Zhuo shook his head: "It sounds like a pig is eating..."

After the mutton was cut, Xu Zhuo prepared some garlic sprouts, minced ginger and garlic and other ingredients.

The ingredients of mutton powder have a high degree of freedom, you can add whatever you want, such as peanuts and the like.

The key points of this snack are powder, soup and chili, and there are no strict rules for other ingredients.

Scoop out some mutton soup from the soup pot, boil it and add rice noodles, cook for a few minutes and then remove it with a colander.

First put salt and light soy sauce to taste, then add minced ginger and garlic and garlic sprouts, then grab a handful of mutton slices to cover, then add two spoons of mutton oil chili, and finally pour a large spoonful of hot mutton soup.

The umami of the mutton and the spiciness of the mutton oil chili rise immediately.

According to the classification of mutton powder clear soup and red soup, this bowl of mutton powder should belong to clear soup powder, because chili oil is added separately and not in the original soup.

But the mutton oil chili makes up for the spiciness and the aroma of mutton oil very well, giving this bowl of mutton noodles a soul.

As soon as it was finished, Lao Meng hurriedly carried it outside, set up the camera, and started making fans.

Although Xu Zhuo also wanted to eat, but after seeing Chen Guifang standing at the door of the kitchen, he wisely chose to continue cooking.

Until everyone was carrying mutton noodles, Xu Zhuo was finally free. He originally wanted to hear a few words of praise, but after searching around, he couldn't find his wife.

What's happening here?

Think mutton powder is not tasty, sneak out to eat something else?

He took a sip of the mutton noodles. The rice noodles were soft and smooth, not only had the deliciousness of mutton, but also had the unique fragrance of rice.

No wonder people in Guizhou like to eat fresh rice noodles. The taste and texture are really great!

"Zheng Jia, where did Ke Ke go?"

"The proprietress is upstairs in the office. She seems to have been hired by Sister Xiaoying as a special assistant. Now the two of them are working on the job at hand, and they will come down for dinner later."

Xu Zhuo smacked his lips, this girl was still waiting for him to find a job for her, but she didn't expect to go to work without thinking about it here.

That's fine, it doesn't matter if you earn money or not, as long as you have something to do.

As for the random task of finding a job, it doesn't matter whether you complete it or not, anyway, you will get an upgrade reward if you do the tutorial.

Thinking of this, Xu Zhuo continued to chat happily, never expecting how much surprise Yu Keke gave him...

Chapter 931 Yu Keke's Talent

Xu Zhuo continued to hold the bowl of noodles. The fresh noodles were really delicious. The combination of delicate rice noodles and delicious mutton soup was perfect, and with the embellishment of mutton oil and chili, it was absolutely amazing.

But halfway through eating, Lao Meng walked over quickly: "Xu Zhuo, my fan said that there should be burnt peppers in it, what is burnt peppers? Is it the peppers in the spicy soup?"

Xu Zhuo admired Lao Meng's way of thinking that he doesn't understand anything but still likes to make associations. People say it's just hot pepper, but he can think of Hu spicy soup...

What a talent!

However, burnt pepper is indeed a delicacy that Guizhou people prefer. It should be added when eating noodles and when dipping in water.

The so-called burnt pepper is to put the red pepper into the plant ash and burn it, and then take it out when the surface of the pepper is irregularly charred, rub it with your hands or pound it into powder with a garlic mortar.

This kind of chili smells like paste and has a bitter taste like plant ash, but it tastes very fragrant, even covering up the spicy taste of the chili.

This kind of burnt pepper is very delicious whether it is mixed with cold dishes, dipped in water, or put into various powders.

In the eyes of many Guizhou people, this is an essential condiment in a meal.

When eating noodles in Guizhou noodle shops, there are usually seasonings such as dried chili noodles, burnt chili noodles, Ziba chili, and chili oil.

There are several kinds of chili peppers alone. This is the daily life of Guizhou people.

When making noodles today, Xu Zhuo originally thought that the people who ate were from the Central Plains, and he probably wasn't used to eating burnt peppers, so he didn't prepare.

But since that fan made a request, Xu Zhuo naturally wouldn't refuse, and this burnt pepper is not difficult to make. Although there is no plant ash in the store, it can be made with a wok.

Heat up the pot, then put some dried chili into it, and start frying on a low heat. This step is actually very similar to the knife-edge chili used in Sichuan cuisine.

However, knife-edge peppers are generally put in oil, and a certain amount of peppercorns are added to increase the numbness, while burnt peppers do not put peppercorns, and do not put a drop of oil.

Put the dried chili directly in the pot, dry the chili by roasting, let the chili gradually produce that kind of burnt aroma, then let it cool and grind it into fine powder.

The burnt peppers made by this method are very close to the peppers burned from plant ash, both in taste and texture.

But when it comes to real food, Guizhou people think that the kind of burnt pepper with ash flavor is more authentic.

As time goes by, the dried chilies in the pot gradually change from red to charred, and at the same time there is a dry sound of hula, and the choking smell of paste, it can be out of the pot at this time.

Pour the dried chili into the tray and spread it out, set it aside to dry, Xu Zhuo took advantage of this time to clean the large garlic mortar, wait until the chili is dry, put it in, and grind it into powder.

In this step, you must wait until the chili is cooled, only in this way will the chili become dry and brittle, and it will be twice the result with half the effort when you beat it.

In fact, Hunan also has a similar cooking method of putting chili on fire, such as the famous preserved pepper egg, but this dish uses green chili, which is slightly different from burnt chili.

After the burnt peppers were ready, Xu Zhuo handed them to Meng Liwei, and then continued to cook the powder.

As a northerner, Xu Zhuo prefers to eat mutton oil chili, especially after putting it in mutton soup, the mutton oil chili can add a lot of color to the mutton soup, and even have a qualitative change.

After eating the mutton powder, Xu Zhuo was just about to go upstairs to see what Yu Keke was up to, when Cao Kun came over suddenly, and dragged Xu Zhuo to the backyard without any explanation.

"I told them that the drainage pipes should be placed separately from the water pipes, but this group of workers still poured them together. If they are repaired later, the two water pipes will be damaged if they are not careful..."

Today's project is mainly to harden the floor of the workshop, and pour water and electricity and the foundation of the iron house to be installed by the way.

The concrete had already been poured in the morning, and now it was starting to solidify before Cao Kun discovered the problem.

After his interruption, Xu Zhuo's original plan to go upstairs for inspection was broken.

After dealing with the affairs in the backyard, Yu Keke had already finished her work, and was downstairs chomping on Xu Zhuo's mutton powder.

"Wow, this rice noodle is really delicious, can you make it for me in the future?"

"No problem, you can make it whenever you want."

After Xu Zhuo finished speaking, he remembered that the girl hadn't eaten just now: "What are you doing upstairs? You're only eating now. Do you want me to make another bowl for you?"

"No, no, I have to go upstairs if I have to deal with two... You don't have to worry about me, there are a lot of snacks upstairs, I won't be hungry."

Yu Keke's words made Xu Zhuo feel relieved, just at the moment when Lao Meng's live broadcast was over, Xu Zhuo helped him put away the equipment.

Meng Liwei ate a pot of mutton powder in one sitting today, and the mutton slices in it weighed no more than two catties, so he ate very well, and burped several times while putting away the equipment.

"Damn! It's just a mutton powder, as for going so hard?"

Xu Zhuo didn't understand Meng Liwei's performance. Even if he wanted to give back to his fans, he couldn't fill it with his body, right?

When he said this, Lao Meng stopped: "That fan just rewarded me with some money, and I will share half of it with you."

Just as Xu Zhuo was about to refuse, he received a text message from the bank to remind him that 50 yuan had just arrived.

Xu Zhuo thought it was a mistake, so he counted the zeros carefully and confirmed that the money was 50.

"Why so much? This fan has money and nowhere to throw it?"

Lao Meng shook his head: "I don't know either, he just said that he is running out of time, and except for the next treatment fee, all the rest will be donated or donated.

The 100 million is for the two of us, saying that you made a delicious meal, and that I made him addicted to eating mutton powder... What, do you have any ideas? "