Antique food: The general dotes on his lucky wife

Hot pot is almost everyone’s favorite delicacy. If you don’t want to go to a hot pot restaurant, you can use hot pot base to make soup at home. Some people even add a little hot pot base to increase the taste of the dish when cooking, so hot pot base can be said to be A must-have at home.

I have been here for almost a month. During this time, the three rooms of the Chen family eat together because of business. When they are too busy, everyone eats two buns each.

Chen Xi has long wanted to make hot pot base, so that no matter when he eats, a small piece of hot pot base can cook a pot of delicious soup, and he can have a delicious meal by ordering any dish, saving time and effort.

But because of the Zhang family's affairs, she had never been in the mood to do it. Now that the Zhang family's matter was settled, she could finally start preparations.

So when Liao Qianhu said she didn't want the 100 taels of silver, she immediately thought of the hot pot base.

But she doesn't know enough about the world yet, and she doesn't know how many spices and ingredients are missing. She can't be 100% sure until she succeeds in the experiment.

She first went to the city to buy spices. She just took this opportunity to find out what spices were available nowadays. She almost visited all the spice shops in the city, and even went to a few pharmacies to finally mix the required spices. A lot has been done, but two important flavors are still missing.

One of them is cumin.

Chen Xi never expected that in this era, even tomatoes were available, but there was no cumin. Without cumin, a lot of food fun would be missing!

Of course, there may be cumin in other places, but it hasn’t spread here yet.

The other flavor is lemongrass.

But fortunately, even without these two flavors, the preparation of hot pot base is still very simple.

The impact is not big, she will just pay more attention to it in the future.

Chen Xi is going to make two of the simplest and most versatile hot pot bases this time, one is butter spicy flavor, and the other is tomato clear soup flavor.

The rest of the Chen family were at the Baozi Shop. Only Father Chen and Mother Chen were at home. They were very curious when they saw so many things their daughter had bought.

"Xiao Xi, what new dishes are you going to make?"

"It's not a new dish, it's the hot pot base."

“What’s the base for hot pot?”

Chen Xi thought for a while: "Antique soup, shabu-shabu, and soup pot are all hot pots. When eating hot pot, the soup base must taste good and the dishes taste good. What I want to make now is the soup base."

Chen Sanhe and Mrs. Guo were still a little confused, but they didn't ask any more questions. They would definitely eat what their daughter had cooked, and they would know what it was by then!

Chen Sanhe helped wash the butter, Guo helped wash the onions, ginger, garlic and other seasonings that would be used later, while Chen Xi mixed the various spices he bought according to the proportions.

After the butter is cleaned, the oil is refining over a high fire.

In previous lives, the lump butter bought in the market was all finished product, and the fire just melted the solidified butter.

Pure natural butter and lard will leave oil residue after refining. Eating too much of this kind of oil residue is not good, but if you chop it up and put a little bit in the stuffing of steamed buns, it will make the steamed buns taste more delicious.

When refining the oil, Chen Xi specially added a little chicken fat to make it fresh.

After refining the oil and removing the oil residue, put the chopped green onions, ginger, garlic, onions, coriander, dried chilies, etc. into the pan and fry until golden brown and remove.

It is best to boil dried chili peppers in water in advance so that the flavor of the chili peppers can be better extracted.

Finally, put in the prepared

Spices, before adding the spices, pour in white wine and stir until the spices are completely soaked by the wine. Putting the spices into the pot at this time can not only prevent them from being fried, but also fully stimulate the flavor of the spices.

Finally, add an appropriate amount of salt to enhance the flavor and an appropriate amount of sugar to enhance the freshness, and the butter spicy hot pot base is ready!

Chen Sanhe and Mrs. Guo gathered around the pot, sniffing constantly.

"It smells so good, I feel like I can eat a bowl of rice just by smelling this fragrance!"

"Xiao Xi, this is for cooking, right? You don't need to add anything when cooking. Just add a little of this base dish and it will be delicious!"

Chen Xi smiled and said: "Mom, you have mastered the essence of cooking! We can use this hot pot base for hot pot, or add a little when cooking. If you try it later, you will definitely become a great chef!"

Ms. Guo knew that her own cooking tasted bad. Now that she had the opportunity to become a chef, she couldn't help but be eager to give it a try.

Chen Xi looked at her and said quickly: "But let's not cook tonight, let's eat hot pot first! Dad, cut the beef and mutton into thin slices, Mom, you go to the vegetable field to pick some vegetables and come back, I will clean the tripe and beef louvers, and wait. Let’s start eating when uncle and the others come back!”

When Chen Dajiang and others returned in Xushi, they did not enter his own home but first came to Chen Xi's home as usual.

But as soon as they entered the gate today, everyone couldn't help but wrinkle their noses and inhale hard.

"It smells so good!"

"What makes it smell so good!"

"Xiao Xi must be making new dishes!"

"Wow, sister, what delicious food did you make again!"

As soon as everyone entered the room, they saw a table full of dishes, including beef slices, mutton slices, and various chopped vegetables.

But they are all raw.

In the pot on the side, a pot of bright red soup was being boiled. As soon as everyone got closer, they immediately confirmed that the aroma they smelled came from this soup.

"Xiao Xi, what is this?"

"This is hot pot, also known as antique soup, soup pot, and hot pot. I wonder if you have heard of it?"

Chen Dajiang said: "I've heard of it! One of the signature dishes of Fumanlou in the city is antique soup. I heard it from ship dealers at the dock. They all said that the antique soup in Fumanlou is better than those in other counties!"

"Then when we have the opportunity in the future, we must go to Fumanlou to taste his antique soup and see which one is better than the hotpot we make at home!"

Chen Qi's head shook, "That must be because the hot pot you made is delicious, sister!"

Chen Xi was amused by him: "Okay, everyone, hurry up and wash your hands, let's get ready for dinner!"

After everyone sat together again, Chen Xi began to place the dishes.

Chen Xi specifically told Chen Sanhe to cut the beef and mutton slices thinly so that they would be cooked in a short time.

For this first bite, everyone kept asking Chen Xi to eat first.

In fact, Chen Xi was a little unsure whether the taste would be what she imagined, but after taking the first bite of delicious beef, her doubts completely disappeared!

It smells so good!

The beef is soaked in the aroma of the soup base, but the aroma in the soup base does not overwhelm the deliciousness of the beef itself, but instead highlights the deliciousness of the beef itself!

"I declare that the hot pot is a success, everyone use your chopsticks and eat together!"

Everyone was already drooling from the aroma. Now Chen Xi didn't need to say anything, and everyone started to order the food.

"It's delicious! It's delicious!"

"Just blanch the lotus root slices. They are sweet, crispy, fragrant and delicious."

Spicy and delicious! "

"I say corn is the most delicious. I love corn the most!"

The hot pot meal lasted for a full hour, and in the end everyone sat there slumping and stroking their bellies with satisfied expressions on their faces.

Chen Xi said at this time: "Thanks to Liao Qianhu, our family was able to turn the corner this time. Originally, I wanted to return the 100 taels of silver, but Liao Qianhu refused to accept it. Why don't I give the recipe of this soup base to him?" Liao Qianhu, what do you think?"

Chen Dajiang was the first to clapped his hands: "I feel good!"

Chen Erhai also nodded slowly: "Liao Qianhu is our nobleman. Although we are not people who cling to the powerful, it is naturally good for our family to have a good relationship with Liao Qianhu! Liao Qianhu obviously loves you Xiao Xi. He likes the recipe very much, and now you specially make this hot pot base for him, I think he will be very happy!"

Chen Xi nodded: "I think so too. There is a ready-made noble person in front of us, and we have no reason to push the noble person out. Liao Qianhu told him before leaving that if you want to send him a message, give it to Cheng Ji Bank. That's it, buddy. I'll put the hot pot base ingredients into a jar in a while and write down the recipe. Uncle and uncle, you guys will hand it over to buddy Cheng Ji tomorrow morning."

"Row!"

The next day, after Cheng Ji received the letter and the jar from the Chen family, he remembered Liao Qianhu's instructions and sent someone to the Xishan Camp that day without delay.

Neither the Chen family nor Chengji Bank expected that this hot pot base would further change the cooperation between the two parties, and at the same time bring greater benefits to both parties!