Daqin: When I return from sea, I will offer you a map of the world

Chapter 77

When he came to the kitchen, Zhao Si fell into deep thought as he looked at the pile of ingredients in front of him.

It’s useless to think about the impact of the halo of raw jade on crops now. It doesn’t take a year or two, and there is a high probability that there will be no empirical evidence if there are not many crops.

Growing food is hard work, not overnight, and the halo of raw jade can't make the food premature.

In contrast, instead of thinking about it here, it is better to think about how to cook today's dinner so that Emperor Shihuang can eat comfortably, so as not to care about his own little actions.

"Hmm... Mu Wuzun doesn't seem quite right." Zhao Si thought for a while, and he was sneaking a glance, obviously all eyes were on the First Emperor.

He looked down at the various vegetables in front of him.

The first is the tender corn. Thanks to the golden finger, the corn cobs are large and full, and no special cooking is required. The taste of the tender corn is the best when it is boiled in white water.

The second is sweet potato leaves, which can be used for cooking, but Zhao Si plans to change it.

Then take out the flour. White flour is extremely precious these days.

Stone mills these days are very expensive, and it is not appropriate to call them stone mills, but should be called 硙.

Secondly, the key point of white flour is peeling. In ancient times, it could only be ground with arbors and then manually screened.

Wash the sweet potato leaves slightly, without drying them, directly dip the sweet potato leaves with some flour and steam them.By the way, knock out the garlic juice, and sprinkle the garlic juice after steaming, which is a must.

Garlic juice can be seasoned with chili and salt, but Zhao Si likes to simply order garlic juice, adding chili and salt will affect the original taste of sweet potato leaves.

The next step is to simply make a few small stir-fries.

Zhao Si had been craving this for a long time because he picked up a few small potatoes that hadn't fully grown up, and made another potato stewed beef by the way.

One stir-fried spinach, one spicy diced chicken, and one vinegared cabbage.

In addition, I made a white noodle soup with flour, and frangipani was beaten in it.

If you don’t have the time to make dough and make steamed buns, just spread out a few white flour pancakes, and eat them directly with vegetables, which are called steamed buns in Mesopotamia.

As for the small sweet potatoes that were not fully grown, Zhao Si simply threw them in the fire and roasted them after thinking about them.

Half an hour later, Master Zhao, who had been busy for a long time, began to serve the dishes.

Simple five dishes and one soup!
The first emperor did not invite Zhao Si this time.

Fortunately, there are still some left in Zhao Si's back kitchen.

The First Emperor glanced at Zhao Si, and Zhao Si immediately stepped forward to introduce him.

"Your Majesty, this is a sweet potato leaf."

Flour, garlic juice, sweet potato leaves, steamed, simple.

Without any hesitation, Shi Huang picked up a few pieces and put them in his mouth.

Among the taste buds, the fragrance and crispness of sweet potato leaves and the embellishment of garlic juice instantly activated Shi Huang's taste buds.

There is no extra seasoning, and the taste and texture of the ingredients themselves are unique.Just right, steamed but not steamed, retaining the crisp and refreshing taste and the softness of the flour,

The first emperor's originally lacking appetite quietly opened up.

"Your Majesty, this is beef stew with potatoes." Zhao Si said with a smile.

"It's grown?" When mentioning potatoes, Emperor Shihuang naturally put the food aside.

"It hasn't fully grown yet, so I just pulled out a few to see how it grows, but I can't waste it. I specially stewed beef. This is a perfect match with beef." Zhao Si said with a smile.

The First Emperor nodded and picked up a piece of beef.

Entrance!

Slightly spicy, chewy.

Chili, mature vinegar, rice wine, pepper, scallion, coriander, Zhao Si's cooking skills are not very good, but the dishes are novel.

Then he picked up a small potato the size of a thumb.

The small potatoes are relatively tender, and Zhao Si stewed them with the skin on, which tastes better.

The entrance is soft and glutinous, the powder is tender and soft, and the beef soup is thoroughly eaten. The first taste of potatoes is amazing.

"This is sautéed spinach."

"This is spicy chicken!"

The first emperor tried them one by one, the spinach was refreshing and tender, and the spicy chicken diced was explosive.

After tasting the hot pot for the first time, the freshness disappeared, and Shi Huangdi's appetite declined again, and he went to Lantian again. Unexpectedly, Zhao Si had already brought forth new ideas in food art.

The way of eating steamed buns and cabbage also made Shihuang very satisfied. After all, he is a man from northern Shaanxi.

The rest is the big game.

Roasted sweet potatoes and boiled corn.

The sweet potatoes are not big, and they are not fully grown, but because they are not fully grown, there are not many old tendons in them, so they taste better.

The boiled corn made the first emperor's eyes shine.

Tender, waxy, slightly sweet.

The First Emperor vaguely remembered that Zhao Si's evaluation of corn seemed to be not very tasty?

It is obviously much tastier than wheat.

Even if wheat is made into fine white flour, the taste and texture are far from that of boiled corn.

"When the corn is tender, it is best to cook. Chicken soup and bone broth can be put in it. But you need to pay attention to the season, a little older, the taste will be much worse."

Zhao Si's explanation made the first emperor's doubts clear.

Fully ripe corn isn't tasty, not even when it's ground into a meal, but that's a bonus, tender corn is delicious when boiled.

Emperor Shi Huang miraculously discovered that his appetite seemed to have improved again.

Might be a mood factor?Or maybe it was a new trick Zhao Si came up with?
In short, the first emperor had a rare appetite recently, and once again ate a round belly in Lantian Daying, so that the first emperor was even more lazy. He lay on a deck chair among the fields, looking at the corn-eye belt that was as tall as a person. smile.

"How long will it take for these crops to mature?" Shi Huang looked at the lush [-]-acre field.

What is planted here is the future of Daqin.

"It's almost a month away." Zhao Si answered while standing beside the First Emperor.

"Corn should be the fastest. It will take another ten days or so, and sweet potatoes will follow." Zhao Si replied.

At this moment, Zhao Si also has some expectations.

After all, the growth of these three crops is related to his subsequent rewards.

Moreover, Zhao Si also wanted to know how much his raw jade aura would affect these three crops.

If it is true that the yield of sweet potatoes and potatoes is one to two thousand catties per mu, and the yield of corn is three to five hundred catties per mu, and with the credit for returning from the sea, even if you don't have to do anything in the future, you may not lose your position as a marquis in the future.

The First Emperor didn't speak, but just quietly looked at everything lush and vibrant, feeling comfortable and happy.

As for Zhao Si, he continued to peek at Shi Huangdi who hadn't looked back.

How fresh, if I didn't bring my mobile phone, I would have to give Shihuang a co-production and send it to Moments.

In the end, the First Emperor didn't bother with Zhao Si's slightly disrespectful gaze, and left with Meng Yi before dusk fell.

And by the way, several sets of reclining chairs were taken along, even Wang Jian's reclining chair was taken along by the first emperor.

If there were no other arrangements for Zhao Si, Bao Buqi and Zhao Si would have to be shunned into the palace as the royal cook.

(End of this chapter)