Food starts with noodles

Chapter 964 Jelly and Pea Yellow

Soon, Xu Zhuo made twenty or thirty fairy peaches.

When I was at the culinary academy, because it was a teaching mode, it was relatively slow.

But this time he cooks and eats by himself, Xu Zhuo doesn't have to give lectures like Zhao Guangming, so the speed has improved a lot.

After the peaches are ready, they will naturally win everyone's appreciation.

There is another dessert in the restaurant.

After Coco happily finished eating the pink and crispy peaches, Xu Zhuo had already bought some fruits and canned food from the supermarket next door, and was about to start making jelly.

The method of making jelly with gelatine sheets is very simple. Boil the gelatin sheets and white sugar with water, stir well, cool down, and add diced fruit or canned diced.

Then put it in the refrigerator to cool and solidify, and it becomes the jelly that children like to eat and adults like to use.

Xu Zhuo looked at the tutorials on the Internet, boiled a pot of water, added a tablespoon of sugar, then threw the soaked gelatine into it and stirred it thoroughly, then set it aside to cool.

Taking advantage of this time, he washed the various fruits he had prepared, peeled and cored them, and cut them into small cubes.

He poured out the canned coconut meat again, poured the soup aside, and left the slippery white raw coconut meat on a plate for later use.

Then pour out the canned yellow peaches, pick out the yellow peaches and cut them into small cubes, and put them aside for later use.

After preparing these, Xu Zhuo thought about it and made it a bit more difficult for himself.

He scraped out the leftover whipped cream, poured in a box of pure milk, added some sugar, heated it over water, then put in two pieces of soaked gelatine, stirred it well and put it aside to cool down .

This is the pudding.

These small snacks are very simple to make. As long as you have imagination and complete molds, you can make any kind of jelly.

However, no molds were prepared today, so Xu Zhuo put the finished jelly on a large tray.

After cooling and solidifying, cut into small pieces with a knife.

When Xu Zhuo put the jelly in the freezer to cool down, he took some time to make some brown sugar pearls.

After the jelly has solidified, cut it into pieces and put it in a bowl, then pour a spoonful of warm brown sugar pearls on it, and a perfect brown sugar pearl pudding is ready.

Not to mention whether the taste is good or not, the appearance alone is very good.

Especially after adding brown sugar pearls, this bowl of jelly gets rid of the embarrassment of being similar to pigskin jelly.

Yu Keke liked it very much, and happily asked Xu Zhuo to make a few more copies to share with the people in her office.

Xu Zhuo brought out the remaining jelly because there was no packaging, and asked the employees to deal with it by themselves.

Anyway, they were all cut into small pieces, and those brown sugar pearls were on the side, and even the soup poured out of the can was also on the side, so you can make whatever you want to eat.

Because of the presence of jelly, dinner tonight is like a buffet.

Xu Zhuo sat down and was enjoying eating the sweet-skinned duck when the old man and the old lady came to the restaurant with bear cubs in their arms.

Is this a special rush to grab a meal?

Xu Zhuo didn't know what the two old people were planning. Anyway, after Xiong Zai entered the restaurant, he trotted all the way to Xu Zhuo, rubbed his head against Xu Zhuo's trouser leg, and fell to the ground.

This……

Porcelain, right?

Xu Zhuo asked Jianguo to bring some dried fish for this guy, and Xiong Zai got up from the ground, ran to the side of the aquarium with the dried fish in his mouth and began to eat the dried fish.

This position was chosen... Xu Zhuo always felt that it was because of the two big carp inside.

Seeing the two elderly people coming in, Yu Keke enthusiastically made some jelly and sprinkled it with brown sugar pearls for the two to taste.

He kept saying that he didn't know that the two old people came, and that there was not a single peach left, and they were all eaten up by the people in the shop.

The old man is old and doesn't like sweets very much, so he didn't eat them.

On the other hand, the old lady ate several pieces in a row, praising Xu Zhuo's craftsmanship while eating.

After eating a small bowl of sweets, the old lady said, "It tastes a bit like pea yellow in the capital, but this jelly is much smoother and tender than pea yellow."

Xu Zhuo was stunned for a moment, the old lady actually mentioned pea yellow, is it necessary to trigger the mission?

But thinking about the painful rewards of the side missions, in order to prevent accidents, he chose to act first.

"Grandma, I watched someone make pea yellow in Yangzhou two days ago, how about I cook it for you later? I just want to taste the taste of pea yellow..."

The old lady was naturally very happy: "Okay, my good grandson is still sensible."

After deciding to make pea yellow, the old lady talked about the purpose of coming to the restaurant.

"The weather is warmer now. I heard that the shepherd's purse has grown in the field outside. I want you and Ke Ke to take me to dig the shepherd's purse on the weekend. I don't know if my grandson has time."

Naturally, Xu Zhuo would not refuse these words, and nodded in agreement.

Anyway, there was nothing to do on the weekend, so it happened to let Yu Keke take a rest.

After all, she just went to work, and it's still her own restaurant, so it's a bit unreasonable to let this girl enjoy the blessing of 996.

In addition, dig some wild vegetables and taste the breath of spring.

It is said that the young people nowadays, if there is no old man with them, I am afraid that they will know nothing about wild vegetables.

So it is very necessary to follow the old man out to gain insight.

While exercising, you can also enjoy wild vegetables.

The best of both worlds.

But before going out to let the wind go, Xu Zhuo had to make the pea yellow snack first.

Pea yellow is a famous spring seasonal snack in Beijing, and it is the favorite dessert of Empress Dowager Cixi.

And the reason why this dessert was able to appear in front of Cixi is said to be due to hearing the cries outside the palace gate...

Exactly the same as the kidney bean rolls.

I don't know if it's the lion's roar kung fu master who sells kidney bean rolls who is also proficient in the practice of pea yellow, or the peddler who sells pea yellow is also proficient in lion's roar kung fu.

Anyway, Cixi heard about it, bought it and ate it, boasting that it was delicious.

Then this pea yellow became the pride of the people in the capital.

The method of pea yellow is very simple, so simple that even without skills, Xu Zhuo can make it smoothly, but with the blessing of skills, it is easier to make and tastes better.

If you want to make pea yellow, you must first soak the white peas you bought in water for five or six hours.

And after soaking, if the white peas you bought have not been peeled, you have to remove the pea skins that have been soaked and softened one by one by hand.

Well, this thing is the same as mung bean paste and red bean paste. When making it, you don’t need the skin, but only the bean kernels.

The taste of the pea yellow produced in this way will be delicate and smooth, and it will melt in the mouth.

Because Xu Zhuo knew how to do it, when he bought white peas, he directly bought peeled peas.

Time is money, so when it can be saved, Xu Zhuo will naturally not waste it.

He picks out the broken and incomplete peas from the peeled peas, removes impurities, and washes them carefully in water several times before soaking the peeled peas in the basin.

After soaking it, Xu Zhuo started busy cooking in the back kitchen.

Until almost three o'clock in the afternoon, Xu Zhuo, who was free, took out the peeled peas soaked in the basin and started to make pea yellow...

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Put the big pot on the stove, pour the soaked peeled peas into it, and then pour half a pot of water into it, and turn on the fire to cook.

The method of pea yellow is very simple. There are four steps: boiling, filtering, sugar frying and molding.

But if you want to eat delicious food, every step is very particular.

Take the step of pouring water as an example, the principle of less is worse than more has been followed.

In other words, if the experience is not enough, then pour as much water as possible, rather more than less.

Of course, it can’t be too much. If a bowl of beans makes a pot of water, when will it last?

Generally, it is enough to add water in a ratio of 1:1, because the peas have been completely soaked in water and swelled, and they will not absorb water when they are boiled. Too much water is useless.

But it is better than less, because if there is less water, it will not only easily stick to the bottom when boiling, but also tend to stick to the filter when filtering.

Soon, the water in the pot boiled.

Xu Zhuo took a spoon and began to stir in the pot. This was done to prevent the bottom from sticking, and also to make the beans break apart as soon as possible and turn into bean paste.

To make pea yellow, you can actually cook the beans and grind them into pieces with a cooking machine.

However, Xu Zhuo has skills, so he naturally prefers to use traditional methods.

It's not just that the traditional method makes it feel better, the main reason is that the cooking time of this method is long enough, and the fragrance of the peas will be stronger.

The beans in the pot had been soaked thoroughly before boiling, so not long after the water in the pot boiled, when Xu Zhuo stirred it with a spoon, the whole peas broke apart.

But if you want to turn the peas into bean paste, you have to continue to cook and stir.

Allow the large peas to become smaller, and the small peas to become smaller, until all the peas in the pot are reduced to refried beans, which is considered a success.

This is very similar to making mung bean paste before. It takes a long time to cook and stir. You can't be lazy or give up halfway.

So after 10 minutes, Xu Zhuo regretted not using the food processor.

Anyway, it's not to complete the task, it's just to try something new, there's no need to be so serious.

But at this point, it's not worthwhile to use a cooking machine to smash it bit by bit, so I can only continue to stir with the spoon.

When the peas in the pot gradually merged with the water and turned into a light yellow bean paste, and no large pieces of peas could be seen, Xu Zhuo turned off the fire and covered the pot.

Stuff like this for ten minutes, and then give the remaining pea slags in the pot another chance.

After 10 minutes, Xu Zhuo lifted the lid of the pot, stirred the pot with a spoon for a while, took a large fine-mesh sieve, and put it on a clean basin.

He then spoons out the boiled refried beans and pours them over a fine-mesh sieve.

Because the bean paste is relatively thin, after pouring it, the bean paste fell into the basin under the action of gravity, leaving only some debris that was filtered out.

In fact, pea yellow is divided into two types, one is filtered, which has a more delicate taste.

There is also a non-filtered one, called rough pea yellow. When you eat it, you can eat the broken peas inside, which makes people feel like eating desserts mixed with broken pieces.

Relatively speaking, rough pea yellow has a stronger sense of satiety because of its chewy texture, and was liked by the lower class in the past.

And the upper class eat pea yellow as dessert, so they naturally choose the filtered pea yellow.

Because he learned the skills, Xu Zhuo knew how to do both, but when he did it, he chose the filtering method without hesitation.

It's not that he feels that he is a classy person, but that the customers who come to eat in the store always have the arrogance of that classy person.

Under such circumstances, Xu Zhuo naturally had to prepare the way the superiors like to eat.

After all, if you have this pea yellow skill, you have to use it to make money.

Otherwise, when will the courtyard in the capital be available?

Even if the customers' reaction is mediocre, they can still be sealed and packaged for sale in Xu Xiaochu's flagship store.

The bean paste is filtered very quickly, in about ten minutes, the small half pot of bean paste has been filtered.

The benefit of adding more water when cooking is reflected now.

After filtering, Xu Zhuo started the next step - sugar frying.

This step is said to be frying, but in fact there is no oil in the pot. The specific method is similar to the steps of making dough. Pour the thin bean paste into the pot and start stirring until it is thick and non-stick.

Xu Zhuo put the non-stick pan on the stove, poured all the bean paste in the pan into the pan before it was heated up, and then put two tablespoons of white sugar into the pan.

This step is not only to add sweetness to the peas, but more importantly, to stimulate the fragrance of the peas in this way.

As time goes by, the pea puree in the pot becomes thicker and more fragrant.

However, it is still early to complete, and further stir-frying is needed.

Until the pea puree in the pot is scooped up with a shovel, after the pea puree drips down, there will be layers of layers before turning off the heat and leaving the pot.

"Why don't you continue to fry?"