Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 810 Sweet Moments

Spicy needs to be stuffed to become more and more fragrant, and it will be used as a base material after aging, but it needs to be covered for a while now.

While waiting, Chen Nian saw that the ingredients that had been marinated were basically already tasty.

So Chen Nian poured a lot of water into the pot again, and when he turned on the stove again, Chen Nian put those meat dishes such as chicken feet, chicken gizzards, and chicken hearts into the pot to blanch.

It's just that it needs cold water to cook.

After boiling over high heat, turn to medium heat and cook continuously.

The difference from vegetarian dishes is that the chicken needs to be cooked for a while until the skin of the chicken can be crushed by gently pinching it with your hands.

After aging, the chicken in the pot is taken out and soaked in cold water.

Only after being fully soaked in cold water can the chicken become crispy, that is to say, the skin of the chicken should be easy to debone and the meat inside should be crisp.

As a cook, Chen Nian naturally wanted to steal some. When he took it out, Chen Nian lost a small piece of chicken feet in his mouth. During chewing, he felt that the chicken was cooked to this level just right.

Although it does not melt in the mouth, the bones can be crushed with just a slight bite of the teeth, and the chicken will also burst and fall off at the same time.

At this point, aging is just a matter of waiting.

Looking at the time, Hongdou guessed that the plane was already halfway through, so Chen Nian took out his phone to watch the video for a while.

It's not that late yet, plus he's cooking food himself, so there's no need to watch those food videos, so Chen Nian started searching the names of himself and An Hongdou on the Internet.

Although Hongdou is still a small hit now, she is already considered a third-tier singer, and has a lot of fans of her own compared to last year.

This search really made Chen Nian find the videos of himself and An Hongdou being together edited by fans.

There are clips of the interaction between the two in the Chinese kitchen, and there are also videos of the collaboration with Miao Miao Wu. After the music is added, it seems that the screen is full of hearts.

My aunt laughed all the time watching Chen Nian.

Just like this one video after another, Chen Nian felt extremely happy, and he couldn't help but sigh that these netizens are really talented. After they cut the relatively normal clips in the original video, they immediately became very affectionate.

So Chen Nian clicked three times on these videos and saved them in a favorites folder that only he could see.

Needless to say, these videos are of a level that can be played at weddings.

After watching the video for a while, Chen Nian went to An Hongdou's Weibo Chaochao after watching all the clips of the two of them loving each other.

Most of the Weibo super chats are photos taken by fans spontaneously picking up the airport or encountering red lights at the variety show shooting site and on the road.

After shopping around, Chen Nian saved more than a dozen pictures, and selected two from them, one as a tablet and the other as a mobile phone desktop.

No matter how you look at it, it looks good.

But when Chen Nian was admiring his new desktop, he suddenly received a call from Hongdou saying that he had already landed, and he would come back by car immediately.

"Okay, are you tired? Can you still come to the store? If you are too tired, you can go to your house, or you can go back and rest first, and we will make an appointment tomorrow."

"It's okay, I'm tired but I'm not tired, but I'm so hungry now, I just want to eat something delicious. Although I ate a little on the plane, those things are not enough. I'll go to your store directly later. , didn’t you make delicious food for me?”

When Chen Nian heard this, he couldn't help but smile: "Yes, I made delicious food for you, then you can go directly to the store later, and I will send you back after eating."

"What is it? Can you reveal it?"

"That won't work. If I tell you in advance, there will be no surprises." Chen Nian said mysteriously.

"Okay, then we'll see you later."

After hanging up the phone, Chen Nian went to look at the ingredients soaked in cold water, and it was already cold.

And under the immersion in cold water, the meat began to become firmer.

At the end of the year, I brought a bamboo stick and began to put all these ingredients on the stick. Since it is Bobo chicken, it must have the sense of ritual that Bobo chicken should have.

Although it's the same if you put it directly in the pot, but without bamboo sticks, it always feels soulless.

Put all the meat dishes and vegetarian dishes on the bamboo sticks, and put them in a bowl for later use.

There is chicken soup that has been boiled before in the store. This kind of time-consuming and labor-intensive thing is naturally not used when it is old.

After boiling the chicken soup again, add seasonings such as salt, chicken powder, sugar and pepper, etc., and wait for them to melt in the chicken soup, put the previously dressed vegetarian dishes into the chicken soup and boil them until cooked.

But these vegetarian dishes need to maintain a crisp and tender taste, so they only need to be blanched.

After scalding, continue to store it for later use. Chen Nian took another large bowl and added salt, pepper powder, monosodium glutamate and chicken juice to the bowl to enhance the freshness.

At this time, add the boiled chicken soup and stewed red oil to the bowl.

Both myself and red beans can eat spicy food, so Chen Nian added four or five spoonfuls into it. After a simple stir, the soup base turned completely red, with a layer of white sesame on top, and a rich chicken soup aroma mixed with chili. Together, the cook Chen Nian couldn't help swallowing a few times.

In the end, he still couldn't hold back, took a little with a spoon and put it in his mouth to taste.

It is spicy, spicy and fragrant.

Although the taste of the soup base is slightly salty, the ingredients need to be soaked in it later, so only the soup base is slightly salty, and the taste of the ingredients can be just right after a while.

After all these are done, Chen Nian soaks all the previously prepared ingredients into it.

The airport is about an hour away from here, and the red beans should have been in the car for more than 20 minutes now, so we can just wait until the soup is completely cooled.

Because Bo Bo chicken is not edible when it is first soaked, and the taste is not fully tasted. Only after it is naturally cooled, the taste can be attached to it.

Taking advantage of this time, Chen Nian used cucumbers to make a cucumber as a cold dish. He did not put chili in it, but added garlic, vinegar, soy sauce, salt and other seasonings for seasoning.

Just like that, after a few more 10 minutes, a car stopped at the entrance of Honghong Hotel, and a girl with a suitcase stepped down from it.

"The red beans are back?"

When Chen Nian came to the door and saw the red beans, he greeted him warmly and asked.

It's just that at this time, Chen Nian has already put on a thin sweater, and An Hongdou is still wearing a cotton jacket.

"Yeah, I'm back." An Hongdou opened her arms and wanted to hug Chen Nian, but considering that there were staff behind her, she was really embarrassed in the end.

When Chen Nian saw this scene, he immediately went up and hugged An Hongdou tightly into his arms.

It took a while to let go.

At this time, Chen Nian looked at the car behind again. Besides the driver, there was a girl sitting in the car, who probably also went to pick up An Hongdou's assistant or something.

"Thank you for your hard work at night. Come in and eat something. I just made something delicious. I'll go back after eating."

But both the driver and the assistant girl shook their heads, they didn't want to stay here as light bulbs.

"It's okay, we've eaten before, and we're not hungry now, sister Hongdou, then you have dinner with brother-in-law here first, and we'll go back first."

"Hey, wait a minute." Chen Nian let the car wait outside for a while, and he himself went back to bring out a box of drinks, and knocked on the window to signal them to open the door.

After they opened the door, Chen Nian directly put the box of drinks in the car: "Keep these for drinking, you drive very hard, and I don't have anything to sell here."

"Ah, thank you so much brother-in-law."

"It's okay, you're welcome. If you have time in the future, you can come to my place for dinner. I'll treat you."

"No problem. I won't be polite when the time comes. Brother-in-law, let's go first. You and Sister Hongdou have a good chat. I haven't seen you for so long. You must have a lot to say."

After saying hello to An Hongdou, they drove away.

Chen Nian took the luggage from An Hongdou and entered the house.

"Hongdou, is it cold over there now?"

"Yeah, it's cold over there now. It's better at noon, but it's very cold in the morning and evening. When I left today, I checked the temperature, and it wasn't even ten degrees."

"It's really cold, but we're fine here."

"Yeah, I'm still a little hot now."

"Take off your coat, are you hungry? Shall we eat now or wait a while?"

"Or let's eat now, I'm hungry right now."

"Okay, then you wait here for a while." Chen Nian took the red bean's coat and put it in the cabinet at the counter to avoid getting dirty.

Finally, I went back to the kitchen to touch the big bowl, and it was completely cold by now.

So Chen Nian first took two small plates and put them on the table, and then brought out the big bowl.

"Wow, is this Bo Bo Chicken?"

"Yes."

"You are amazing, I have always wanted to eat this before, and I still wanted to eat it when I was in the car, but I thought it might be troublesome to make this thing, and I thought you prepared me other food , but I didn't expect it to be this!"

"Hey, that's good, I'm still worried that you don't want to eat at night."

"No, no, this is what I want to eat the most now. You don't even know that I eat those stir-fried vegetables every day when I work there. I'm already tired of eating them."

"That's just right, I also made coir raincoat cucumbers, and we'll eat them together later."

After bringing out the cucumber again, Chen Nian asked again: "What to drink?"

"What should I drink? Beer or Coke... It's better to drink beer. I just took a break. I don't have much work here. I can rest more. It's okay to drink a little."

"That's fine, what you want is ice..."

"Ice, you have to drink ice, how can you eat spicy food without cold beer?"

"OK, OK, no problem."

After Chen Nian had prepared the beer and the evening snack, they first opened the cans and had a touch.

After finishing the drink, the coolness of the beer came over instantly, and the two of them covered their foreheads at the same time, their brows were wrinkled, and their teeth were clenched.

It took a while to recover, and then they looked at each other and started laughing.

"The seemingly useless tacit understanding between us has increased again."

"Who said that a useless tacit understanding is also a tacit understanding, okay? It shows that the two of us have the same heart, and we are more and more husband and wife."

"Hey, be careful with what you say, we're not married yet." An Hongdou said shyly, although what she said was a warning, her expression didn't look serious at all.

"That's coming soon, it's a matter of time." Chen Nian said, "Come on, first taste how the Bo Bo Chicken I made tastes like."

An Hongdou nodded, raised her hand to pick in the bowl, and finally took out a bunch of chicken gizzards.

"Is this a chicken gizzard?"

"Yeah, this is quite delicious."

"But which part of the chicken is the gizzard?"

Chen Nian thought for a while: "Chicken gizzards are actually chicken stomachs, and Xiaojun liver sold outside is actually chicken gizzards. Because it is mainly responsible for storing and grinding food, its meat is relatively thick and particularly tough. It also tastes very chewy.”

"Actually, I really like chicken gizzards, but we didn't eat many of them when I was a child. They were mixed with cold dishes sold outside. Every time my dad bought cold dishes, I would pick out the chicken gizzards first. Finish eating."

"Isn't this a coincidence? I was like this when I was young, but we eat more chicken offal here. At that time, I especially liked to eat chicken offal noodles, especially the chicken gizzards inside, which are crunchy and delicious. "

While Chen Nian was talking, Hongdou licked off the chicken gizzard on the tip in one gulp.

An red bean in the mouth only feels a very strange fragrance, followed by spicy and numb.

Followed by the aroma of sesame and chicken broth.

The chicken gizzards made a crunching sound when chewing. After eating a bunch, An Hongdou felt delicious but not satisfied, so he picked up another bunch and started eating.

Not even a review.

But after eating the second bunch of red beans, I feel much tastier than the first bunch, because people need to eat some salt-heavy food when they are tired.

And these heavy-tasting foods can also bring satisfaction.

When I ate it for the first time, although it tasted good, but in the second bite, part of the seasoning of the first bite was superimposed, so the taste would be stronger.

But this is just right for An Hongdou.

So she ate one after another.

The more you eat, the more refreshing you are, the more you eat, the more enjoyable you are. From time to time, clink glasses with Chen Nian and take a sip of beer.

When Chen Nian saw this, he was very relieved. Fortunately, he had done enough before.

"The potato chips are also delicious. I love potatoes very much. I think potatoes are great no matter how they are made."

After eating the potato chips, An Hongdou couldn't help but admire again.

It's just that when Chen Nian heard this, he suddenly remembered the potato recipes he had learned with Brother Genzhu when he was in Lingma County.

"Red bean, you suddenly talked about potatoes. I have learned a lot about how to make potatoes recently. Then I will cook them for you one by one. I promise that I will not bring any duplicates for a week."

"Okay."

(End of this chapter)