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Chapter 215: How can Wowotou be so delicious? The eel version of dragon eel in black bean sauce!

"Well... I'll just say it!"

Shen Baobao immediately picked up Lin Xu's cell phone and sent a message to Guo Xinghai.

Not long after, I received a reply:

"Compared to eel, eel has a more earthy smell. It will be much better if you wash it with salt, cooking wine and other ingredients a few times. In addition, when marinating in black bean sauce, don't forget to add minced garlic and white pepper. It will have unexpected effects. ...Why did you ask this suddenly, Lin Xu? You don’t want to secretly test me, do you?”

Wow! It was seen!

"Xubao Xubao, how should I reply?"

Shen Baobao found it very funny. One of them asked the question and the other answered the question, and they both understood what the other meant...wait, why do they have such a tacit understanding?

"Tell him that I have nothing to do today to make eels. When I think of this, I just ask."

After knowing how to make it, Lin Xu felt confident and immediately started to prepare the dipping sauce for eating the steamed buns.

In the past, eating steamed buns was just for filling your stomach, so there was nothing particular about it.

However, modern people eat steamed buns either as snacks or to lose weight. When paying attention to nutrition, they will also find ways to improve the texture and taste of steamed buns.

This gave rise to dips and side dishes.

There are different ways of eating Wo Wo Tou in different places. In some places, it is served with chili oil, in some places, it is served with garlic sauce, and in other places, it is fried with grandma's vegetables.

What Lin Xu wants to make now is a Central Plains-style dipping sauce.

This dipping sauce is based on farm-pickled watermelon bean paste, stir-fried with garlic, spicy millet, chili pepper, dried chili pepper, scallions, and other ingredients.

The taste is salty and delicious, super appetizing with rice.

Others don't know, but Lin Xu has never been tired of it since he was a child.

After preparing all the ingredients, Lin Xu went to the jar in the storage room and scooped out half a bowl of watermelon bean paste made by his second uncle Shi Wenming.

This scene made Baobao Shen curious:

"With so many ingredients, the sauce should be delicious, right?"

Lin Xu pinched the girl's collagen-filled face and said with a smile:

"At least it will give you an appetite."

After the watermelon bean paste is served.

He directly set up the wok and started making it.

Pour a little more peanut oil into the pot than you normally would for cooking.

Heat the oil, first pour the dried chili segments in the bowl and stir-fry to bring out the aroma of the dried chili peppers. Then add the green onion segments, chili peppers, spicy millet and chopped garlic, and start stir-frying.

Stir-fry until cooked through, pour in the scooped out watermelon bean paste, and then add two small spoons of white sugar into the pot.

A large amount of salt has been added to the watermelon bean paste when it is pickled, so only white sugar is needed when frying. In addition to neutralizing the saltiness, white sugar can also increase the umami flavor of the dipping sauce.

After adding the sugar, turn down the heat.

By simmering it slowly over low heat, the fermented mold smell in the sauce is boiled out, leaving only the fragrance of the sauce. This way, whether it is dipped in steamed buns, steamed buns, or served with porridge, it will be addictive.

"Wow, my grandma also made this kind of dipping sauce when I was little. I could eat two flower rolls every time..."

Baby Shen smelled the delicious sauce fragrance and immediately became interested.

Lin Xu said while stirring the pot with a spoon:

"If you want to eat it from now on, just tell me and I will cook it for you."

"Thank you Qin Xubao."

Shen Baobao hugged Lin Xu's waist from behind, rested his head on Lin Xu's shoulder, and guarded her for four years. Now he finally felt Xu Bao's hot and warm response.

Thank you for letting me experience all the beauties of life.

When the young couple was getting bored, Chen Yuanyuan's voice came from outside the kitchen:

"Is breakfast ready? I'm really hungry..."

Seeing her younger siblings hugging her cousin tightly, Sister Yuanyuan, who was feeling very hungry, burped unconsciously.

"Go on, I...I didn't see anything."

After saying that, Sister Yuanyuan, who was alone, went to play with Dundun.

"Dundun, call Auntie!"

Dundun: "..."

There is an aunt who is a fool in the capital, but I didn’t expect that there is an aunt who is a fool in my hometown.

This is so difficult!

After Chen Yuanyuan's interruption, Shen Baobao quickly let go of his hand in shame.

Lin Xu continued to stir in the pot.

When the watermelon bean sauce is first poured into the pot, the oil and sauce are separated.

But after frying and stirring, the fat has been fully integrated into the sauce, and the originally slightly thick sauce has become a little thinner.

Stir-fry for a while, and as the water decreases, the sauce in the pot becomes thick again.

When the sauce becomes more fragrant, turn off the heat and use a spoon to transfer the fragrant sauce into a large bowl.

This bowl of watermelon bean paste that many Central Plains people dream about is ready.

In addition to watermelon bean paste, Lin Xu also used minced garlic to make a portion of garlic sesame oil and a portion of spicy oil to enrich the variety of wowotou dipping sauces as much as possible.

After everything is done, the steamed buns in the steaming cabinet have also been steamed.

After stopping the fire and steaming for two minutes, pull out the steaming tray from the steaming cabinet.

Place the steaming tray on the workbench, fasten it with another steaming tray, flip it over with Baby Shen lifting both ends, and then remove the cage cloth. All the steamed steamed buns will be dried in the new steaming tray.

After drying out all the corn grits, the corn grits are ready.

Baby Shen ran to the visitor center and called his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and today's breakfast began.

"Well, this bean paste is well made and smells delicious."

When Lin Hongqi came to the restaurant and smelled the delicious bean paste, the scene of bringing bean paste to school in cans came to mind unconsciously.

At that time, students' families were in dire straits, and a bottle of bean paste would be regarded as a treasure. They would even carry it with them during class, for fear that someone would take it away in the dormitory.

If you lose this, not only will the food for two weeks be wasted, but you will also be scolded when you get home.

Because cans and bottles are precious, relatives will give some as gifts during New Years and holidays. If you lose them, you have to find a way to find them again...

Thinking of the difficult times in the past and looking at the happy family scene now, Lin Hongqi felt very emotional.

The days are getting better and better after all.

"Dad, your porridge."

While he was thinking about it, Shen Baobao brought a bowl of corn grits porridge in front of him, which made Lin Hongqi more satisfied with his current life.

Who would have thought that a child of our old Lin family could marry the daughter of a wealthy family in the capital?

Chen Meijuan on the side also sighed with emotion:

"It would be great if we had a jar of bean paste like this when we were in school."

Lin Hongqi smiled and handed her a pair of chopsticks:

"What? My mother doesn't cook enough for you?"

When he was in school, Lin Xu's grandfather was a small cadre. Mrs. Lin was also teaching in the school at that time, and her family's conditions were relatively better.

When Lin Hongqi lived on campus in high school, Lin Hongqi would share some of the food and drinks she brought from home with Chen Meijuan, the most beautiful girl in the class. Sometimes she would even let Chen Meijuan eat when she was hungry.

The two of them got along secretly.

In that era, students were not allowed to fall in love. Not only would the school punish them, but even the parents of both parties would strongly oppose it.

Chen Meide and Chen Meiliang, who had just started working at the time, heard that a teacher's son was pestering their little sister. They immediately became furious and rode their bicycles straight to the village where the Lin family lived.

He planned to give Lin Hongqi some color and warn him to stay away from his little sister.

The two brothers rode their bicycles for dozens of miles and arrived in the village just in time for the Lin family's new house to be built.

The big pot full of fatty meat slices and steamed white flour buns made the two tired and hungry people extremely greedy.

The two brothers who were originally looking for trouble suddenly felt that it would be good for the younger sister to follow such a wealthy family, so they put aside their thoughts of beating others, rolled up their sleeves and started to help with the beam.

After finishing the work, each of us had two large bowls of vegetables and four large steamed buns.

Mrs. Lin originally disagreed with Lin Hongqi's early engagement. She felt that if Hongqi worked hard, it would be okay to go to college later.

But now the woman is so proactive.

I heard that Shang Liang at home actually rode his bicycle and traveled dozens of miles to help.

It was really unreasonable not to propose a marriage, so I asked someone to propose marriage, and sent two complete pig hind legs along the way.

Well, for people to go so far to help, whether this thing is successful or not, two pig hind legs should be given away.

The Chen family naturally didn't expect that things would turn out like this, but two pig legs had been delivered to the house, and Meijuan was very satisfied with the boy.

Two of my children even went to help lift the beam.

Then agree!

Just like that, Lin Hongqi, who was still in her second year of high school, got engaged to her classmate Chen Meijuan. They were in love with each other all day long, making all the teachers and students in the school extremely envious.

"Wow! Mom and Dad's love is so romantic!"

After hearing this, Baobao Shen's eyes were filled with little stars.

I originally thought it was quite abrupt to get engaged to Xu Bao right after graduation. Who knew that my father-in-law and mother-in-law had already been engaged when they were in their second year of high school. Sure enough, what young people are having fun with now are all leftovers from the older generation.

She followed Chen Meijuan's example and used her chopsticks to pick out some watermelon bean paste and spread it on the wowotou, then took a bite.

Cool!

Is multigrain wowo so delicious with bean paste?

If I had known, during the time when I was eating cereals at home, I would have asked Aunt Liu to make some bean paste to go with it.

Chen Yuanyuan took some wild vegetables and dipped them in chili oil. She said while eating:

"I really didn't expect my father and uncle to have done such embarrassing things. When they come later, I have to interview them carefully. Why did they betray my third aunt over a big pot of food?"

Lin Xu took a sip of porridge and said with a smile:

"You'd better stop asking."

"Why, brother, don't you think it's interesting?"

"It's interesting, but my eldest uncle and second uncle will most likely bring the topic to your marriage... Then it's time to mobilize the whole family to urge the marriage."

It seems it's time for my sister-in-law to teach Sister Yuanyuan some skills on how people hide themselves all the time.

How can you take the initiative to expose yourself at this time?

Isn't this taking the initiative to set a target for relatives?

Chen Yuanyuan curled her lips when she heard this.

well! Single people at home don’t even have the right to gossip.

Fortunately, there was still delicious food to soothe my young mind... She planned to be a transparent person who ate and drank freely today, and not hang out in front of relatives, so as not to be caught and used as a negative example to her cousin.

Although today's meal is simple, it tastes really good.

The wild vegetable wowo has the unique freshness of plants and tastes very delicious, while the multigrain wowo tastes more delicious the more you chew it because of the addition of soybean noodles.

Two types of steamed buns come with three different styles of dipping sauces.

The taste is simply unmentionable.

"It's so delicious. I didn't really want to eat it at first, but this nest of steamed buns and bean paste made me unable to stop eating...Mom, do you think I eat too much?"

"Silly boy, why would Mom think you eat too much?"

Seeing that her daughter-in-law liked eating steamed buns so much, Chen Meijuan said to Lin Hongqi:

"If you're not busy, you can ask who grows sweet potatoes. Pinch some tender sweet potato leaves and bring them over. I'll steam some sweet potato leaves for Yueyue. I'll also fry some sweet potato stems and scald some sweet potato leaves..."

These are relatively rare ingredients in the city.

While your daughter-in-law is at home, make it a few more times to try it out.

While eating, Shi Wenming came back from shopping for groceries.

"Hey, there are so many steamed buns. Fortunately, I didn't eat flat noodles on the street, otherwise I would have missed another meal."

Mrs. Lin needed a lot of dishes for her birthday party today, so Shi Wenming drove over in a hurry after buying the dishes.

Today, all the relatives are here, even more than those who greeted Baby Shen two days ago.

There are a lot of dishes to put away, so prepare them early.

After the meal, Chen Yuanyuan rode to the ticket office alone. Chen Meijuan stayed to help in the kitchen, while Dundun also circled the pool, trying to catch a prey for the birthday of the elderly at home.

Not long after, relatives came one after another.

In order not to affect the restaurant's business, we used the restaurant on the second floor to celebrate my birthday today.

When the restaurant was being renovated, I felt that one floor was not enough, so I added another floor. But until now, the restaurant on the second floor has never been used.

Lin Xu wore an apron and was busy cooking in the kitchen.

Today is a birthday celebration, so there are a lot of dishes to prepare.

White robe shrimp, almond tofu, shredded white jade lotus root, steamed rice noodles, water hibiscus, milk soup tofu, fish head with double pepper, sweet and sour pork loin, braised pork with pickled vegetables, braised prawns, rock sugar elbow...

When I was a kid, I ate so many dishes made by my grandma.

Today is her seventieth birthday, and Lin Xu can't wait to cook all the perfect dishes for her grandma to try.

The usual hard work and busyness are just to make the family live comfortably and peacefully.

More and more relatives are coming.

The gifts you get are also different.

There are local products, nutritional products, gold and silver jewelry and the like.

Birthday wishes, as long as the old man is happy.

While Lin Xu was busy, his uncle Chen Meide walked in carrying a box of water chestnuts:

"Xiao Xu, someone gave me a box of water chestnuts yesterday. You can research how to eat them. I'm completely confused about this southern ingredient."

Horseshoe?

Lin Xu immediately remembered that he still had an unfinished task of making water chestnut cake for Baby Shen.

Let’s study how to do it later.

Taking advantage of grandma's birthday, I made it to cheer up the elderly.

Thinking of this, he said to his uncle:

"This thing can be minced and mixed into meat fillings, or it can be made into desserts. I'll do it later. Uncle, just leave it alone."

"Okay, I'm going out then. It's really hot in the kitchen, and civilization doesn't even mention installing an air conditioner."

Shi Wenming: "..."

Go complain to your sister and her husband, they are the bosses.

In the restaurant upstairs.

Baby Shen took a box and handed it to Mrs. Lin, who was wearing new clothes and holding Dundun in her arms:

"Grandma, before I came here, my dad heard that you were celebrating your birthday and asked me to bring you a gift. Please don't dislike it!"

Mrs. Lin was a little surprised.

She was already very happy that her granddaughter-in-law came to celebrate her birthday.

Unexpectedly, the in-laws also prepared gifts.

This is such a joy.

Aunt Lin Hongxin took it and said with a smile:

"Let me see what gifts the in-laws have prepared... My niece-in-law, is this... too expensive?"

She originally thought it would be a bracelet or something like that, but she heard that rich people would directly turn it into beads after buying good wood, and give one string to each of their relatives and friends.

After opening it, I discovered that there was actually a longevity peach made of gold, and it was quite big.

According to the current price of gold, this longevity peach is worth six figures.

Mrs. Lin especially liked this birthday peach when she saw it:

"This is so beautiful, Yueyue, tell your parents for me. We are all a family from now on, so there is no need to be so polite."

Baby Shen smiled and leaned next to the old lady:

"Just because you are one of my own family, I want to give you something better! Grandma, I wish you blessings like the East China Sea and longevity as long as the Southern Mountains. We are still waiting for you to help take care of the children."

The old lady was even happier when she heard this, even happier than receiving the golden longevity peach:

"Okay, okay, grandma will definitely live well and help you and Xiaoxu take care of the children in the future, but just have a few more, so that your old lady won't compete with me!"

The laughter and laughter upstairs made the relatives in the yard envious.

The daughter-in-law Xiao Xu found is really good at making the elderly happy. It would be great if her children could find such a beautiful and sensible daughter-in-law.

in the kitchen.

Lin Xu finished all the preparations and said to his mother with a smile:

"I finally killed the eel. I scared Dundun yesterday when I killed the rabbit. I have to avoid it today."

"No need to hide, the old lady hugged me as soon as she came. She should be upstairs now."

As soon as Chen Meijuan finished speaking, Shi Wenming, who had finished cutting the meat, said:

"I'll go kill him, Xiaoxu, just wait."

My uncle, who was keen on butchering all kinds of living animals, went out with a kitchen knife. Not long after, he came to the kitchen with a clean eel.

Tsk tsk tsk...such efficiency.

Lin Xu put the eel into the basin, filled it with water, and carefully cleaned the abdominal cavity.

The water in the basin quickly turned into blood.

After changing a basin of water, he took the salt and scrubbed the eel carefully, washing away a lot of mucus. The eel's skin finally no longer felt slippery to the touch.

After changing the water again, grab a handful of flour and scrub the surface of the eel again.

Remove as much blood and impurities from the eel as possible to reduce the fishy smell.

Then he placed the eel on the chopping board and used a kitchen knife to cut off the eel's spine every three to four centimeters, but not completely, as the belly meat had to be still connected.

Putting it on the plate in this way can create the effect of a coiled dragon.

And after being chopped like this, the eel will not be deformed due to nervous convulsions when steamed.

Cut the backbone of the eel from head to tail, then put it into clean water and wash it again.

Wash the blood from the spine and meat again.

Finally, wash it with cooking wine. After washing, place it in a basin. Add white pepper, minced garlic, ginger slices, green onion and black bean juice. Apply the inside and outside of the eel evenly and start marinating.

After finishing this matter.

Lin Xu looked at the box of horseshoes sent by his uncle and said to himself:

"How are horseshoe cakes made?"

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