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Chapter 30 Stewed Bamboo Rat with Dried Soybeans and Bamboo Shoots

Chapter 30 Stewed Bamboo Rat with Dried Soybean Bamboo Shoots

Handing the basket to Uncle Bale Carpenter, Uncle Bale Carpenter took a look inside and said, "Oh, yes, it must be over ten catties!"

Li Junge said with a smile: "There is a guarantee at noon, now we can see if we can add another dish."

Uncle Bamboo Carpenter smiled and said, "Go and have a look, I don't know where the cover you put is, or I would have gone early."

Li Junge handed him [-] again and said, "This wine was given to you by Zhuer Chong, thank you for the bird cage you gave yesterday."

Uncle Bamboo Carpenter said: "Oh, this is good wine, nephew, you are so kind. Why don't we drink it at noon today."

Li Junge said: "Don't, this is a special filial piety for you. People in the city like to drink the wine from the countryside. We will drink your loquat wine at noon."

Uncle Bamboo Carpenter said: "Then go to the back mountain to have a look, and I have to come back earlier to cook. I can only eat but can't cook. You have to come to the stove."

Li Junge agreed, and found a cage with big eyes, and the four of them hurried back to the mangosteen forest.

Leave the catfish basket on the ground and don’t worry about it, because this fish can live for a long time out of water, and this thing often goes ashore in the middle of the night to catch insects and eat them.

When he came to Houshan, Li Junge began to check the condoms one by one.

Several bamboo poles with covers had already been sprung up.

Li Junge pointed to the one in the distance and whispered to the three of them: "Did you see that? Those covers have been bounced up. Everyone, don't talk, walk lightly, and follow me. By the way, don't try to catch bamboo rats, this one I have to come, that guy bites people very badly."

Walking gently to a springing bamboo pole, I found that the rope of the cover had been dragged into a bush.Crouch down and look carefully in the bushes, there is a fat little animal hiding in it.

The guy wrapped himself around a bush and made several tight turns.

This situation is easy to catch, the fat animal has immobilized itself.

Li Junge walked over, grabbed its neck with his hands, and took off the cover on its body. The cover was a slipknot, and the more he struggled, the tighter it became, but it was easy to remove after it was loosened.

Li Junge showed this guy to the three of them and said, "I caught one."

From the moment he was caught, this guy showed his sharp and thick incisors, and made a "ho-hoo-" sound in protest, and his short legs were still struggling.

This is a bamboo rat, about 30 centimeters long, weighing more than four catties, with a brown-gray fur and a round, cylindrical body.The head is blunt and round, chubby, with bulging cheeks, very muscular, big mouth, small eyes, ears hidden in the fur, almost invisible.At first glance, it looks a bit like a small-eyed rabbit without long ears.

"Hahaha, this thing looks so fat, it looks like a pig worm." Wang Congjun joked there.

"Get away!" Zhu Chaoan cursed while opening the cage with thin eyes, and put the bamboo rat in Li Junge's hand into it.

Li Junge also laughed, and said: "This thing is mainly because of its thick hair, but its body is not too big."

After walking for a while, there was another bamboo mouse hiding in the grass.Li Junge stepped forward to grab it.

This bamboo rat was also big, when Li Junge reached out his hand, he turned his head and took a bite, almost biting him.

"Hey! It's still noisy!" Li Junge quickly retracted his hand, then stretched forward, and caught the big bamboo rat's neck.

"This one is pretty big, a circle bigger than the one just now." Liang Huili clapped her hands and said.

The four received four bamboo rats from the cover one after another, and one was too small to weigh more than a catty. Li Junge let it go, laughed and said, "Go, continue to wreak havoc on Uncle Bamboo Craftsman's forest!"

Putting away all the covers, the four happily descended the mountain.

Seeing the little fellows in the cage, Uncle Bamboo Carpenter laughed and said, "This thing is a disaster to me, and it's a waste of bamboo."

Li Junge carried the bamboo rats and catfish to the back of the house, and said to Uncle Bamboo Carpenter, "I think you have too many bamboo rats behind you. If you get four out of ten sets, there is a half chance."

Uncle Bamboo Carpenter said with a smile: "Then if you have nothing to do, come and catch two, and we will beat the teeth for a sacrifice."

After arriving at the house, he left Uncle Orion with a big bamboo rat and a catfish weighing more than two catties, and Li Junge was going to kill the rest in one go.

First cut the catfish clean and cut into sections.

Then bled the bamboo rat, put it in a pot of boiling water and scalded it for a while, then took it out to shed its hair.

After the rough fur is removed, the bamboo rat looks half smaller than when it was alive.

Then start to burn the grain grass, singe off the fine hairs on the bamboo rats, and burn them until the skin starts to turn yellow and smell meaty, and then put them in clean water to scrape and wash.

After scraping and washing, cut the bamboo rat open, remove the internal organs, cut it into small pieces and put it in a basin, add ginger, wine and salt to pickle it.

Boil another pot of water, soak the dried bamboo shoots and soybeans.

After marinating for half an hour, put the bamboo rat meat in the pot with lard. When the oil starts to smoke, stir-fry the bamboo rat meat in the pot. After the meat changes color, add water and boil.

After the water boils, take out the rat meat with a colander, and shake it on the water surface a few times to clean the floating foam on the meat.

Put the clean rat meat into the casserole, then take out a shroud and put it on the casserole, spread a layer of gauze, and pour the broth of the bamboo rat that has just been cooked, so that the foam will be left on the gauze, leaving the casserole What came next was clear bamboo rat broth.

Then add soaked dried bamboo shoots, soybeans, a few slices of ginger, and a few white scallions with beards into the broth. After boiling on high heat, turn to low heat, cover the lid and slurp slowly.

Then start preparing the catfish ingredients.

Li Junge is going to make a dish of garlic catfish.

First use cooking wine, salt, onion and garlic to taste the catfish.

Peel half a catty of garlic, cut off the pointed end and garlic stalk, wash it and put it in a bowl, add a little salt, add cooking wine, add a little soup, and steam it in a basket.

Take out two taels of soaked red pepper and soaked ginger, cut the ginger into small square slices, soak the hot pepper, remove the pepper seeds, and cut into small pieces.

Slice the ginger, cut the scallions into sections, and chop the coriander into short sections.

Then dig out a few tablespoons of watercress and chop them finely.

After the garlic is steamed until soft, take it out and let it cool.

Then go out and chat with people.

After an estimated two hours, Li Junge returned to the kitchen, poured out the cooking wine for the catfish, added a little bean flour and kneaded it well.

The stewed bamboo rat was ready, so Li Junge added some salt and took the casserole out first.

Then come back and put the frying pan on the high heat, and heat up a large pot of hot oil.

The vegetable oil has a raw smell, so it must be boiled completely, then let it cool until it is slightly hot, put it back on the low heat, and start frying the fish pieces.Deep-fry until the catfish pieces turn white, then pick up the meat and drip the oil.

Leave a small amount of oil in the pot, add bean paste, soak chili, soak ginger, stir-fry until the red oil comes out, add broth, remove the bean dregs after boiling, add fish pieces, salt, soy sauce, sugar, fermented glutinous rice juice, cooking wine, vinegar , green onion, ginger, after boiling, turn to low heat, cover and cook until the fish is cooked and delicious, add steamed garlic, when the sauce is thick, add some gravy, shovel the fish into a plate and arrange it.

Sprinkle with cilantro, and bring out this large plate of garlic-roasted catfish.

A few more vegetarian dishes were fried casually, and the five of them were ready to eat.

Li Junge lifted the lid of the stewed bamboo rat casserole, and the aroma immediately filled the whole hall.

"Wow! It smells so good!" Liang Huili praised first.

"Come, come, sit down quickly." Uncle Carpenter called everyone to sit down, while pouring loquat wine for everyone.

Liang Huili said to Li Junge: "Erpi, I just checked on the Internet, and this bamboo rat is full of treasures."

Li Junge took the mobile phone and read it. It said that bamboo rats contain a variety of rich nutrients, among which the content of lysine, leucine, and methionine is higher than that of chicken, duck, goose, pig, cattle, sheep, fish, shrimp and crab. No less.

It can also be used medicinally. It is recorded in "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Bamboo rat meat is sweet, flat, and non-toxic. It nourishes the middle and nourishes qi, and detoxifies."

Then it was mentioned that modern medicine has proved that bamboo rat meat can also promote the growth of human white blood cells and hair, enhance liver function and prevent vascular sclerosis, etc. It has good effects on anti-aging and delaying puberty.

Wang Congjun didn't believe it at first, and said: "Hahaha, this is not an elixir of life!"

Li Junge said again: "Also, it says that bamboo rat fur is also precious and can be made into fur coats."

Uncle Bamboo Carpenter first objected: "This thing is soft and waxy after being stewed with skin. It's delicious. It's a pity to make a fur coat."

This statement was so funny that it made several young people laugh out loud.

On the contrary, fur coats are not needed in Lijiagou, but everyone likes to eat stewed meat with skin on.

Li Junge finally said: "The above also said that the meat of the bamboo rat is delicate and delicious. It is a game with high nutritional value, low fat and low cholesterol."

Everyone said together: "The first half of the last, that is the truth!"

There was another burst of laughter, and everyone began to drink and fish for meat.

Zhu Chaoan picked up a piece of catfish and put it into his mouth, saying: "This catfish is fat and tender, fresh and fragrant, it is really rare and delicious."

"That's it!" Wang Congjun also picked up a piece and said, "This is authentic river fish. If it's farmed, it's inedible, and the smell of earth hits your nose! This big plate is five or six catties, and it's a lot in the provincial city. Where's the money?"

Liang Huili held a bowl of bamboo rat soup, drank it slowly, and said, "Then it's at least a thousand dollars less."

Then he pointed to the casserole and said, "This pot of soup costs more than 1000 in the provincial capital."

Uncle Bamboo Carpenter clicked his tongue and said, "Hey, it's so expensive. Didn't we eat more than 2000 yuan for this meal? Hey, if people from the provincial capital come to us, then opening a restaurant will make a lot of money." go."

Li Junge smiled and said: "But if they don't come, we are not lucky to earn this money!"

Uncle Bamboo Carpenter smiled and said: "That's because they are unlucky, they can't get such delicious food! Come on, girl Liang, Xiao Wang Xiaozhu, let's make ourselves full first!"

Li Junge took another piece of catfish to Liang Huili, and said, "Come on, girl, this smells strong, don't keep chewing on the bamboo rat meat."

Liang Huili said: "This skin has a lot of gelatin, which is very good for the skin. I should eat more."

Li Junge said: "Catfish still nourishes blood, nourishes kidneys and regulates yin. It's better to eat more blood."

Zhu Chaoan said: "Hey, the bamboo rat moisturizes the skin, and the catfish nourishes the inside. This is a table of beauty dishes."

Uncle Bamboo Carpenter laughed, and said, "It's our table, no one can use it except Liang girl!"

Wang Congjun said: "That's fine, as long as it tastes good and can cure our gluttony!"

　I was discussing with book friends that day, and book friends asked me why I didn’t write something about the city, and Zhong Tian said that it hit the street very hard.Hahaha, in fact, one is that Lao Zhou is clumsy and can't write well. He thinks farming is the easiest way to get started. The other is that he wants to leave some childhood things of his parents to the children living in the city.As a result, in response to a sentence in the book, all snakes bite people!Farming is actually not so easy to write!However, in the process of writing this book, there were a few moments when I was able to be amused by the jokes I arranged and moved by the things I wrote. It is really a very wonderful experience.

　　
　
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