Food starts with noodles

Yu Keke hugged Xiong Zai and looked at Xu Zhuo blankly: "Then... is it delicious?"

Xu Zhuo smiled and said, "This is a red bayberry-flavored meatball. It's absolutely delicious. If you're hungry, you can eat some red bayberry first. Anyway, I bought a lot today. I'll steam the rice on it first, and I'll start making it later. "

Yu Keke originally wanted to express her dissatisfaction, but when she heard that the meatballs tasted like bayberry, she immediately shut her mouth.

Red bayberry-flavored meatballs, should they be delicious?

As a face control, when Yu Keke saw the red bayberry, she was a little bit looking forward to what Xu Zhuo said about the taste of bayberry balls.

She happily forgot about the salt-baked dishes, and happily started washing the bayberry, eating the bayberry first, and eating the bayberry balls later.

Beauty squeaks.

In order to better taste the taste of this dish, and to make his daughter-in-law forget about salt-baked dishes, the first thing Xu Zhuo did when he came to the kitchen was...

Steam rice.

Well, steam a pot of rice and eat it with bayberry balls.

Let my daughter-in-law feel the joy of carbon water. Although this stuff is high in calories, I have to say that it is really comfortable to eat with suitable dishes.

While Xu Zhuo was steaming the rice, Yu Keke had already washed a plate of red bayberries, and went to the living room to watch TV with Xiong Zai.

Not to mention, watching the videos of station B on a big TV feels really different, not only the definition is higher, but the sound quality has also become better, and even after becoming a big member, you can enjoy ultra-clear videos of 4K60 frames.

The only regret is that the barrage cannot be posted, which makes Yu Dafu a little bit less involved.

In the kitchen, Xu Zhuo washed all the remaining red bayberries.

Bayberry is a kind of aggregated pulp, and there are many gaps on the surface. These gaps not only contain dirt such as dust, but also are places where some insects like to lay eggs.

Be sure to clean it when eating, otherwise the bayberry will change from a fruit to a meat dish.

There are certain skills in washing bayberry. First, pour the bayberry into the basin and wash it twice with clean water to wash off the dust on the surface.

Then take half a basin of clear water in the basin, add two teaspoons of baking soda, stir and melt, pour the bayberry into it and soak it. The soaking time should not be less than 5 minutes, so that the dirty things in the gap can be soaked out.

After soaking, turn slowly in the basin with your hands to let the bayberry circle with the water flow, and the centrifugal force generated by the water flow will throw out the dirty things in the gaps on the surface of the bayberry.

After finishing this step, fish out the bayberry and rinse it twice with clean water. This will not only completely clean up the dirt in the crevices, but also clean the residual baking soda.

The washed bayberry is red, and it looks very appetizing.

Xu Zhuo took two of them and tasted them. They were sweet and sour, and they tasted delicious. When you put this kind of juice in the dish, you can imagine how delicious the taste is with your toes.

The master of Anhui cuisine really knows how to think, and he actually created such a dish.

Part-time jobs are comparable to lychee meat and sweet and sour meat.

It's a pity that the low-keyness in the bones of Anhui cuisine makes the reputation of this dish completely incomparable with those two world-famous dishes.

Xu Zhuo separated out a big bowl of bayberry to prepare the juice for cooking later, and brought all the rest to the living room.

However, it is not possible to squeeze the juice right now, because it is easy to oxidize and change color after squeezing. Although I don't know what the consequences will be, Xu Zhuo thinks it is better to use fresh fruit.

So he decided to chop the meat first, and it would not be too late to squeeze the juice after everything was ready.

The piece of meat used today is the front leg meat, which is three parts fat and seven parts thin. It is suitable for making meat fillings with various ingredients, including the bayberry balls that I will make today.

To make Yangmei meatballs, firstly, the pork leg should be peeled and minced, and then seasoning and ingredients should be added for marinating and seasoning.

For Xu Zhuo, these steps are no longer difficult and can be done easily.

Especially chopping meat, Xu Zhuo felt that he could do well even with his eyes closed, and he would never make mistakes.

After the minced meat was chopped, Xu Zhuo put it into a basin, then cracked two eggs, added salt, green onion ginger water and pepper water, stirred evenly, and then marinated.

Taking advantage of this time, Xu Zhuo peeled and chopped the horseshoe brought from the store, mixed it into the meat filling, and put some bread crumbs in it, so that the mosquitoes would be softer.

After putting all the ingredients in, Xu Zhuo began to beat the meat filling in one direction with his hands.

It's not over until the minced meat is whipped vigorously.

Next, it's time to fry it in the wok, which is also the most critical step in making bayberry meatballs.

Whether the meatballs are good or not, the key is to fry them...

Chapter 1215 Is small enough to be cute?

Before frying, Xu Zhuo first prepared the sauce that will be used later.

In this way, after frying out of the pan, you can start to coat the meatballs while they are hot, which will make the meatballs taste better and taste more enjoyable.

The sauce for making bayberry balls is very simple. Salt, vinegar, sugar, bayberry juice and water starch are enough.

Xu Zhuo first squeezed the bayberry juice with a juicer, then added salt, white, sweet and sour vinegar and starch, stirred evenly, and put it aside for later use.

Then he brought a plate, poured some bread crumbs into it, and began to prepare the croquettes.

The meatballs are coated with a layer of bread crumbs, which not only makes the fried meatballs look better, but also tastes crispy and delicious.

Especially after hanging a layer of sauce made of bayberry juice while it is hot, it tastes even better.

Put the frying pan on the stove, pour oil into the pan, and turn on the fire to heat slowly.

During this process, Xu Zhuo had already started squeezing the balls with his hands.

He put his left hand into the pot containing the minced meat, grabbed it twice with his hand, then held a handful of minced meat, loosened the part of the tiger's mouth, squeezed lightly, and a ball was squeezed out of the tiger's mouth come out.

Xu Zhuo took the spoon, first dipped it in the water, then scraped it under the ball, and the ball was put into the spoon.

Then put the meatballs on a plate with bread crumbs, pour the meatballs into it, push it twice, let the meatballs roll slowly in it, so that the bread crumbs are firmly attached to the meatballs.

After being covered with bread crumbs, Xu Zhuo put the meatballs on a large tray.

He was patient, and dipped each of these balls in bread crumbs. At this moment, the oil temperature in the pot was almost up, and it was ready for frying.

"Wow, it's starting to explode right now? Wait a minute, I'm going to take a picture. These balls look so cute."

Yu Keke excitedly ran over with her mobile phone, wanting to take a shot of Xu Zhuo's croquettes.

But Xu Zhuo was still thinking about what the girl said just now.

"cute?"

He looked at the meatballs that were already covered in bread crumbs. He didn't quite understand what Ke Ke said was cute. The only thing that was different from other meatballs was that this meatball was relatively small.

To some extent, this dish of red bayberry balls is similar to small red bayberry balls, so they are not very big, about the same size as red bayberry.

But does being small equal cute?

Xu Zhuo glanced at his daughter-in-law, and really wanted to say that your breasts are also very cute.

But he was worried that the girl would run away and splash the hot oil in the pot on his face, so he wisely kept his mouth shut.

Don't be uncomfortable.

Otherwise, Xiong Zai would not be able to save himself.

After Yu Keke was ready to shoot, Xu Zhuo picked up the tray and started to put meatballs into the pot.

When he first turned on the fire, Xu Zhuo kept turning on the medium heat, so until now, the oil temperature in the pot is not very high, only about [-]% hot.

This oil temperature is most suitable for croquettes. The heat can slowly penetrate into the meatballs, so that the inside can be heated evenly until they are cooked.

And because the oil temperature is not high, there is no need to worry about the outer layer of bread crumbs being fried.

When frying this kind of breaded meat, the oil temperature should not be too high, and [-]% of the oil temperature is adequate.

Of course, if you are frying cooked meat and you only need to fry the outer skin, then use high-temperature hot oil. This will not only fry the outer skin in the shortest time, but also make the outer skin more beautiful.

And if you use high-temperature hot oil, it can also prevent the oil from penetrating into the food, making it taste greasy.

There are a lot of meatballs prepared today, and it is impossible to fry them all at once, so Xu Zhuo fried them in batches.

After he put the meatballs into the pot, he waited for about half a minute, then pushed them in the pot a few times according to the number, so that the meatballs on the bottom of the pot could slowly float up.

If you push it directly into the pot, it is easy to push the meatballs apart, and it will also push off the bread crumbs on the meatballs.

After all, it is fried at low temperature, so don't worry.

Be sure to wait until the surface of the meatballs is slightly dried before pushing, so that the fried meatballs will be more perfect.

Because of the small size of the balls, the balls soon floated on the oil surface, and the color turned golden yellow.

"Wow, it's so beautiful, what should I do if I can't bear to eat it?"

Yu Keke was very excited by these little balls, and took several short videos with his mobile phone next to him, which made Xu Zhuo very strange.

"It's just some ordinary meatballs, why are you so excited?"

Yu Keke gave him a look and said: "You don't know, I have eaten Yangzhou's lion's head, meatballs bigger than a fist, and now I see these small meatballs out of the blue, so naturally I like them very much.

Don't you think those little animals are cute? "

Xu Zhuo: "..."

This strange association actually left me speechless, this is food, and being able to connect with small animals is also food.

People who are used to eating lion heads suddenly find these small balls more interesting, but with adjectives like cute, are you sure you can eat them later?

When the meatballs turned golden brown, Xu Zhuo took them out with a slotted spoon and put them in a basket aside to dry. By the way, he controlled the excess oil so as not to get bored when he ate them later.

After taking it out, wait for the oil temperature in the pot to rise a little, and start frying the next pot.

Yu Keke, on the other hand, surrounded the fried meatballs, touching them with her hands from time to time: "This is very similar to the chicken popcorn sold in KFC. Is that delicious?"

Xu Zhuo smiled confidently: "Don't worry, it's much better than popcorn chicken."

As soon as Yu Keke heard it, she became even more excited. While Xu Zhuo was concentrating on frying the balls, she secretly pinched a ball in her hand and put it into her mouth without fear of burning it.

"Wow...it's so hot! But it tastes delicious. It's crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. It's so delicious."

After she endured the heat and ate the whole meatball, she looked at Xu Zhuo in a serious manner and said, "From today onwards, the dish of red bayberry balls will be added to Aijia's imperial meals. It's so delicious, that's why there is no bayberry." Does it smell? Is it because it’s too hot?”

Xu Zhuo glanced at her: "It's because it's not ready yet, it's just deep-fried, and the sauce needs to be hung later. Go to the living room and wait, and I'll give it to you when it's ready." Take it here, there is hot oil everywhere, I'm afraid I'll burn you."

Yu Keke nodded, and said reluctantly, "That's good..."

She was just about to go out, but she suddenly picked up a bowl, involuntarily scooped out half of the bowl from the fried meatballs, and then ran out with tomato sauce and salt and pepper, as if she was afraid that Xu Zhuo would chase them out.

"Hey, I'm so smart, there's really more than one way to eat meatballs..."

Yu Keke's idiot-like laughter came from the living room. It was obvious that this girl was addicted to food again, and she left the matter of losing weight out of the blue.

Xu Zhuo shook his head and continued to croquette.

Chapter 1126 Yu Keke: I can't live through this day

After all the meatballs have been fried, pour out the hot oil in the pan, and start preparing for the last step of making Yangmei meatballs - hanging paste.

The so-called hanging paste is to pour the previous sauce into the pot and boil to make a thick sauce, then put the meatballs in, so that the sauce hangs evenly on the meatballs.

When eating this way, the first thing you eat is the sauce with the flavor of bayberry, then the crispy skin of the meatballs, and finally the fresh and tender filling.

A small meatball can have three different textures, which is what makes Yangmei meatballs so special.

After Xu Zhuo poured out the hot oil in the pot, he put the pot directly on the stove, heated it up and poured the bayberry juice that he had prepared before into the pot.

The fire was on.

After boiling, these sauces not only became thicker, but also became bright red in color.

This is the natural pigment in bayberry juice.

Without any hesitation, Xu Zhuo took the fried meatballs and poured them into the pot.

Then he took the pot and started to turn it with a small turning spoon, so that the sauce in the pot was evenly hung on the meatballs.

After hanging it up, Xu Zhuo poured half a spoonful of scallion oil into the pot with a frying spoon, continued to stir evenly, then turned off the heat, and put it on a plate.

The finished bayberry balls are very beautiful.

The meatballs the size of bayberry are covered with red soup, making the whole meatballs red, especially the bread crumbs on the meatballs, which are criss-crossed on the surface of the meatballs, which really look like bayberry.

Not to mention the taste, but this alone is worthy of the name Yangmei Wanzi.