Food: How come this boss knows everything?

Chapter 26 Whose cooking smells so good?
The first floor of the shop was renovated into a large kitchen, and the second floor was decorated into a bedroom and a living room.

Li Rui went to bed at the new store in Fangda Plaza that night.

Fat Orange is also very good at choosing a place. As soon as you enter the door, you will find the cat bed at the corner of the stairs.

After getting up in the morning, Li Rui first went to the supermarket in Fangda Plaza to buy some vegetables - cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplants, onions, ginger, garlic, and two bags of rice.

Young people today live a fast-paced life and few people cook, let alone buy groceries.

So many times, we don’t have enough experience in buying groceries. In fact, we just need to remember two points.

First, vegetables are also a world where appearance is everything. Vegetables with bright colors and good looks will never taste bad.

Second, seasonal vegetables are usually fresher and more nutritious.

As for the two places to buy vegetables: fresh food supermarkets and vegetable markets.

The prices in supermarkets are clearly marked and generally accurate to the weight. Even if the food does not look good, it will be placed in the discounted sales area.

The vegetable market tests the experience of buyers and the conscience of vendors. Vendors prefer to serve different dishes to different customers, and they use many tricks to do so.

The latter is very similar to the computer mall of the past, so many people now buy groceries online.

After buying the vegetables, Li Rui called Mr. Jin, the owner of the butcher shop.

The meat sold here by Boss Jin is really good, and fresher than what I saw in the supermarket today.

Moreover, from observing these days, it seems that Lao Jin is a pretty honest businessman, so Li Rui has become his regular customer.

After buying vegetables and meat, Li Rui drove his newly purchased GL8 to the mission location for a tour.

Cars have many advantages over electric tricycles, including space, speed, safety, passability, etc.

But the only drawback is that when reversing, there is no soul, only an empty picture.

Jianghai Avenue is a section of national highway that goes east into Jianghai Port. There are highway entrances and exits not far away in the north and south directions.

It is a major transportation route.

Li Rui was driving on the road, feeling troubled.

Is it okay to sell boxed lunches on the side of the road?

After a while, we arrived at the intersection of Jianghai Avenue and Ganghang Road.

He was pleasantly surprised to see that there was an abandoned concrete ground here, with trees on both sides to provide shade.

The system also considerately marks the locations of the stalls.

It's really possible here.

The parking area is spacious.

Selling boxed lunches doesn’t count as occupying the road.

We can test the waters today. Anyway, the mission has just begun. As long as the sales volume of seven-day lunch boxes reaches the target, it will be fine.

Just do it.

Li Rui drove home quickly. It was only nine o'clock, so he could still cook a few dishes.

He went into the kitchen and steamed the rice first.

At least two 100L large rice cookers are needed to prepare 30 lunch boxes.

Fortunately, the kitchen is very large, so putting two rice cookers doesn’t take up much space. If it were before, they would have to be placed in the living room.

After cooking the rice, he began to wash the vegetables, cut the vegetables, cut the meat, and marinate the chicken legs.

The actual cooking process is not long, but preparing and chopping the ingredients is a more tedious process.

Everything is ready, let’s start making scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

Scrambled eggs with tomatoes is a very common home-cooked dish. The soup is rich and goes very well with rice.

Heat oil in a pan.

Li Rui's iron pan is heated up high, and greasing the pan with hot oil first can prevent the egg liquid from sticking.

The household fire is low, so if you are using a coated non-stick pan, you can skip this step.

The egg liquid was poured into the pot, and Li Rui poured the hot oil that he had scooped out with a spatula in advance onto the egg liquid.

Hot oil on both sides can not only make the egg liquid heated more evenly, but also prevent the egg liquid from sticking to the bottom of the pan after turning it over.

Under high temperature, the originally liquid eggs quickly denature and a fluffy golden color appears on the surface.

Li Rui pulled his hand out to turn off the range hood for a while, and specially smelled the aroma of the fried eggs.

It smells really good. Fat Orange stood quietly outside the kitchen and meowed twice.

After frying the eggs, serve them and set aside.

There was still a small amount of oil at the bottom of the pot, and Li Rui put the tomatoes cut into crescent shapes into it.

This time, the tomatoes were washed but not peeled. In fact, the skin of tomatoes is very nutritious, and eating them with the skin can also enhance the taste of the whole dish.

Li Rui is very responsible when cooking, and it is definitely not because he finds it troublesome.

Stir-fry the tomatoes for a few times and add half a bottle of tomato sauce.

Ketchup adds a sweet and sour flavor.

Add water to tomato sauce and bring to a boil, then add seasoning.

The whole dish requires little seasoning, just add the right amount of salt and sugar, so that the taste of the original ingredients can be preserved to the greatest extent.

The eggs fried previously are a bit old, so there is no need to stir-fry them with the tomatoes again.

Just thicken the sauce and put it in the pan to allow the egg liquid to fully absorb the soup.

A large pot of scrambled eggs with tomatoes was bubbling on the stove, and the scrambled eggs were soon soaked in the bright red juice.

Li Rui put the scrambled eggs with tomatoes into a stainless steel thermos bucket. He prepared eight such thermos buckets.

There is also a base underneath that can be heated and kept warm.

After frying scrambled eggs with tomatoes, he started to make braised chicken legs.

Heat the pan with cold oil, add ginger slices, then put the chicken legs skin side down into the pan and fry.

This can better remove the fishy smell of chicken legs.

After a few minutes, the chicken skin has turned golden brown, the chicken leg meat inside has gradually turned white, and fine bubbles of oil have appeared on the surface of the chicken leg.

Remove the chicken legs and ginger slices, and keep the base oil to continue frying the base ingredients.

Star anise, bay leaves, onions, ginger, several classic stewing spices, are quickly brought out in the hot oil to give off their spicy aroma once put into the pot.

Then add light soy sauce to bring out the aroma, and add rock sugar and dark soy sauce to color.

When the sauce started to bubble in the pot, Li Rui put the chicken legs back into the pot, covered the pot, and counted down the timer for twenty minutes.

While the chicken legs were stewing, Li Rui started to stir-fry other dishes.

At the same time, there was a fan outside the back of the shop.

Several girls who were shopping in the mall stopped.

"Wow, it smells so good. Why am I suddenly hungry?"

"Which restaurant is this? Is it new?"

"I don't know. Let's go around and take a look."

"Didn't we agree to go shopping for clothes? Forget it, I'll go with you."

They crossed the pedestrian street and came to the door of Li Rui's shop.

But the shop door here was closed and there was no sign. Through the glass door, one could only see the back of a big orange cat.

"Mimi? Where's your boss?"

One of the girls knocked on the door.

But Li Rui was cooking in the kitchen, stir-frying braised eggplant over a high fire, and the range hood was roaring so loudly that he could not hear any noise outside.

The fat orange cat meowed a few times, as if indicating something.

"I'll feed you later."

Li Rui didn't even turn his head and continued to concentrate on cooking.

A few young ladies waited outside for a while and then had to leave silently.

The aroma from the kitchen continued to waft out of the flue.

From time to time, people would come to Li Rui's shop to inquire about the situation.

Fatty Sun, who has always had a keen sense of smell, also passed by the pedestrian street. He came to the gym in Fangda Plaza to lose weight today, but he didn't expect to walk here by smelling the fragrance.

As he walked, he secretly analyzed the ingredients of the dishes:

"Twice-cooked pork and stewed chicken legs are so delicious."

(End of this chapter)