Food starts with noodles

The so-called vegetarian spicy soup is made without any meat, and the taste is relatively light.

The Baihu spicy soup is made without soy sauce and stewed broth for color matching. The soup made is whitish in color like tofu soup.

It is said that drinking this hot and spicy soup will not make the skin darken, and it has a whitening effect, but this is probably just a gimmick.

Because of this high-starch and high-calorie snack, eating too much will only make the body fat.

But no matter what type of Hu spicy soup, the addition of gluten is indispensable.

It can even be said that with gluten, the whole bowl of hot and spicy soup is truly perfect.

Generally, the hot and spicy soup at the breakfast stand will use wholesale commercial gluten, which is more convenient and quick, and can also reduce costs.

But in terms of taste and texture, it is very different from the gluten washed by hand.

At least in Xu Zhuo's opinion, there is no comparison at all.

The hand-washed gluten is chewy and has a strong noodle flavor, while the finished gluten that you buy tastes soft and has no taste at all.

The taste is even less bright, basically what kind of soup is used to cook it.

He brought a basin, poured some flour into it, added a teaspoon of salt, and kneaded it with warm water to form a moderately soft and hard dough.

After the dough is kneaded, cover it in a basin to proof.

Taking advantage of this time, he soaked the dried vegetables such as day lily, kelp, fungus, vermicelli and so on, in cold water.

The amount of these dried vegetables can be controlled at will, and the types are not limited. As long as the dried vegetables have no special smell, they can actually be used.

If you want to pursue novelty, you can even put some dry products such as scallops, sea cucumbers and abalones in it.

However, this kind of ingredients are quite expensive. From the point of view of Hu spicy soup, adding some can really improve the taste a lot, but from the point of view of the ingredients themselves, this is simply wasteful.

Hu spicy soup is a delicacy that was supposed to satisfy the hunger during the famine.

Even now, the ingredients used are all common. If you use expensive ingredients, you will lose the soul of Hu spicy soup.

After soaking the dried vegetables, the beef in the pot is almost marinated.

Xu Zhuo turned off the fire and let the beef continue to soak in the stewed soup, the beef would be more flavorful.

Half an hour later, he brought over the previously proofed dough and began to wash the gluten.

Washing gluten is a relatively delicate job. When you first wash it, the dough feels greasy and it is not easy to start.

But after washing for a while, the dough will spread out into pieces again, and the surface water in the wash basin will become smoother, making it even more difficult for people to start.

At this time, it is time to change the water.

Pour the face water in the basin into another basin, and it is best to filter it with a colander when pouring.

Then, re-add water to the basin and continue washing.

Wash until the dough gathers again into a gluten ball that is full of elasticity but does not stick to your hands, and the step of washing the face is considered complete.

The water for washing the face should be poured together, and then allowed to settle.

The gluten is soaked in water and set aside for later use.

An hour later, Xu Zhuo took out the stewed beef in the pot one by one and set it aside to dry, then poured out half of the stewed soup in the pot, and fished out all the dregs inside.

This is the soup base for Hu spicy soup, but it is not enough to use only this soup, because the stewed meat is too heavy, and it needs to be diluted with at least twice the amount of water.

And the stewed meat soup that was poured out was not wasted, Xu Zhuo asked Lao Yangtou to keep it, and it can be used as old soup when making stewed meat next time.

After the soup base was ready, Xu Zhuo began to prepare to modify all the ingredients.

Cut off one-third of the bottom of the enoki mushroom, wash it with clean water, and break up the enoki mushroom by the way, so that it will be easier to disperse after putting it into the pot.

Then cut the tofu skin into thin shreds, not too long, it is inconvenient to eat if it is too long.

After cutting, scald it with hot water to wash away the beany smell of tofu skin.

The rest of the day lily, kelp, fungus vermicelli and other ingredients were also cut into shreds and segments.

Once everything is ready, start making.

Xu Zhuo put the stewed beef pot on the stove again, and passed the stewed soup in the pot again with a fine mesh sieve. After making sure that there was no residue, he added about twice as much water to the pot, and then put the prepared cooked beef into the pot. Put the butter into the pot and turn on the fire to cook.

The cooking time should be as long as possible, so that not only can the aroma of the stewed soup be boiled out again, but also the butter can be completely melted into the stewed soup.

Many delicacies need the embellishment of butter, such as Chongqing's spicy butter hot pot, such as Huainan's beef soup. The reason why these delicacies are delicious is that butter plays a big role.

The nature of butter is relatively stable, and the fragrance will be completely released only when it is boiled for a long time.

This is the principle that the more you eat the butter hot pot, the more delicious it is.

The same is true for making Hu spicy soup. If you have enough time, you can boil the diluted stewed soup on the stove for two hours first, so that the aroma of the stewed soup and butter can be completely blended together.

But today, due to time constraints, Xu Zhuo didn't cook for so long.

He boiled it for almost half an hour, and then began to prepare other side dishes.

While cooking the stewed soup, Xu Zhuo was not idle. He changed the cooled beef to a knife and cut it into flat diced meat, so that when he drank the spicy soup, he could still chew the beef, which was very enjoyable.

When the stewed soup was ready, Xu Zhuo just lifted the lid of the pot, and a tempting aroma wafted out of the pot.

This smell is very good, not only the smell of braised soup, but also the smell of beef, and because the smell is not too strong, it smells very comfortable.

Xu Zhuo poured the daylily, tofu skin, kelp, fungus, peanuts, etc. into the pot and began to cook, while the vermicelli, beef, and enoki mushrooms were put aside. These three ingredients should not be cooked too hard, or they will lose their taste.

While cooking the ingredients, Xu Zhuo brought over the noodle water that had completely settled, poured off the excess water, and then stirred the remaining noodle soup, preparing to thicken it later.

To make spicy soup, the most important thing is to thicken the soup with gluten-washing water. The spicy soup made in this way is perfect and tastes more delicious.

When the ingredients in the pot were boiled for about 10 minutes, Xu Zhuo put the beef and other ingredients in, and then added three teaspoons of white pepper powder, one teaspoon of sesame powder, and one teaspoon of Sichuan pepper powder into the pot.

After putting it in, stir it to let these powders fully blend into the soup.

After finishing this step, Xu Zhuo stirred the pot with a spoon in one hand, and scooped the noodle water next to it with the spoon in the other hand and began to add to the pot.

When adding the noodle water, you must follow the principle of a small amount and multiple times, so that the Hu spicy soup can be more viscous and even, and the ingredients will also be suspended in the pot instead of sinking to the bottom of the pot.

While stirring the pot, he added water, and stopped when the consistency was about the same.

Then pour some light soy sauce into the pot to increase the aroma of the sauce, and then pour a little dark soy sauce to make the spicy soup more beautiful.

After finishing these, the Hu spicy soup that makes the Central Plains people dream about has been officially prepared.

There are meat, vegetables, and a lot of starch in it. Eating it can not only resist the cold, but also have a strong sense of fullness, making people feel hungry for a long time.

If it is served with fried dough sticks, pancakes or fried buns, it will be even more hopeless.

"Oh, this smell is so good, don't say anything, hurry up and serve me a bowl, it really makes me hungry..."

Lao Yang leaned aside, his face full of anticipation.

When Xu Zhuo first started making it, he was somewhat careless, because he had eaten too many hot and spicy soups made by others, and Xu Zhuo was young, so he didn't think he could do it well.

but now……

This rich man who owns more than a dozen houses in the capital did not escape the law of true fragrance.

Chapter 1469 What the elderly want is company

Xu Zhuo turned down the fire, stirred the pot and boiled it for a while, and it was considered ready.

This step cannot be skipped. Only by turning on a low fire for a while, the ingredients in the soup will be suspended in the soup stably and will not settle down.

If you turn off the heat as soon as it becomes viscous, the structure in the soup is not stable, and the soup will melt in a short time.

Xu Zhuo turned off the fire, took the bowl and started serving.

Strictly speaking, Hu spicy soup needs to be served with a wooden spoon.

And when serving, don't stir it too much, you can only serve it along the side or along the top layer. Only in this way can the hot and spicy soup be guaranteed to be smooth from beginning to end.

Of course, if the hard work is at home, this situation will not happen.

It's just that the breakfast stalls are all about efficiency and profit, and they rarely cook for a long time.

This not only increases costs, but also delays time.

I didn't cook much today, and it will be finished later, so Xu Zhuo didn't use a wooden spoon to serve it.

He filled a large bowl for everyone, and after each bowl was filled, he poured a little sesame oil, poured a little vinegar, and finally added some chili oil.

Only in this way can a delicious and delicious Hu spicy soup be served on the table.

When Xu Zhuo was making Hu spicy soup just now, the other elders and aunts felt a little sorry for eating Xu Zhuo without paying anything, so they went home and made some delicacies such as fried scallion pancakes wrapped in water, so that they can be combined with Hu spicy soup. Spicy soup can also show that you are not eating and drinking for nothing.

These foods made Lao Yang very happy.

His house has not been so lively for a long time. Even during Chinese New Year, family members come and go in a hurry. Some went to the Maldives for vacation, some went skiing in Switzerland, and some went surfing in Brazil.

Everyone had a colorful life, but Lao Yangtou, who was the head of the family, was left out in the cold.

Now, the neighbors gathered together, plus Xu Zhuo, the younger generation, made Lao Yang very happy, and felt that the Hu spicy soup in his hand was even more fragrant.

In fact, the elderly don't pay much attention to food. Has a person with more than a dozen suites in the third ring road of the capital really never eaten anything?

All they want is companionship.

After serving everything to everyone, there was almost half a bowl left in the pot. Xu Zhuo filled it out with a spoon, and ate it together with the group of old people in the living room of Lao Yangtou's house.

His out-of-the-ordinary demeanor made the group of old people like him even more, and even called him from Xiao Xu to Xiao Zhuo.

It's called Xiao Xu, that's just treating Xu Zhuo as an ordinary young man.

And calling Xiao Zhuo is tantamount to treating Xu Zhuo as his own family.

The names don't make sense, and the meanings they represent are also different.

Xu Zhuo has been dealing with the elderly for the past two years, so he has rich experience, so when he was drinking Hu spicy soup, he was not idle, and he kept praising the old people around him.

Praise them for their delicious scallion pancakes, for their authentic fried buns, for their good appetite, for their good health, and whatever good they have.

Create advantages without advantages, in short, make everyone happy.

In fact, the elderly are just like children, they need praise, but also the approval from young people, so that they will not feel that they are useless.

And Xu Zhuo's performance this afternoon made a group of old people laugh from beginning to end.

This kind of smile can only be seen when the whole family sits together and eats the New Year's Eve dinner on the eve of the New Year's Eve.

"This Hu spicy soup tastes really good. I have been to the Central Plains so many times, but I have never had such a delicious Hu spicy soup." Old Yang Tou sipped it, while praising Xu Zhuo's good craftsmanship.

This is of course delicious, after all, it is an A-level skill.

However, the main reason why Old Yang thought it was delicious was because he was happy.

When you are in a good mood, everything becomes better.

Xu Zhuo said with a smile, "If you think it's delicious, when my store opens in the future, go to our store for breakfast in the morning, and the store will cook breakfast in different ways every day."

Old Yang froze for a moment: "Does your shop still sell breakfast?"

"It's not for sale, it's just staff meals, but the staff meals in our store are more particular. If you want to eat later, you can go to the store. We are all neighbors and eat for free."

Xu Zhuo made a fool of himself, he didn't say the kind of thing that makes Lao Yangtou hot and spicy soup every day, which sounds very fake, but introduced the breakfast in the store.

Because this breakfast is a staff meal, I will definitely make it every day.

If you want to eat, you can go for a stroll in the morning. Anyway, Xu Zhuo's new restaurant is just outside the community, very close and convenient.

When Lao Yang heard this, he agreed with a smile.

However, he was not prepared to eat for nothing, but took the initiative to say: "In the past two days, the houses I rented out will expire one after another, and I will hand them over to you after I get them all back. You can just give me the rent. I It’s not about money, as long as it’s convenient for you young people.”

Yes, this is considered a pass.

Xu Zhuo was very happy, the employees could live so close, it was good for the store and the employees themselves.

But of course he won't prostitute Lao Yangtou's house for nothing, he can calculate the rent as he likes, and the employees who are willing to live can get half of the rent, and the other half will be paid by the store.

Of course, if you want to rent a house yourself, you can pay as much rent as you want in the store.

The rent in the third ring road is very high. If you rent a house near the fifth ring road, the rent can be much cheaper, but correspondingly, the commuting time will be much longer. It depends on the choice of the employees themselves.

Xu Zhuo just came out to discuss this matter, the specific contract or something, let Tang Xiaoying come over and talk to Lao Yang later, and then sign a contract after the negotiation.

No matter what kind of human relationship, it still needs to be implemented with a contract in the end, which is good for both parties.