Stop pretending, I am the God of Cooking and I am showing off my cards!

In the kitchen, hearing his father-in-law praising him so much, Lin Xu sighed helplessly:

"As for my father-in-law, who always thinks that his son-in-law is the best in the world, it is only a matter of time before his character collapses... As expected, one person is pink and the other is black."

He planned to redeem all the basic cooking techniques while he had points, so as to avoid being stabbed by his father-in-law, a die-hard assassin.

The vendor selling the crocodile was relatively considerate. He had already turned over the crocodile's intestines and performed a preliminary cleaning.

At this moment, Lin Xu only needed to wash it several times with flour, salt, and cooking oil in the same way as pig intestines.

As for the raw and fried part, it needs to be specially washed with baking soda to increase the crispiness of the crocodile intestines.

After everything was packed, Lin Xu started making.

Take out the crocodile oil soaked in water, cut it into mahjong pieces and put it into the wok, then put the wok on the stove, add a bowl of water and start boiling.

The recipe for boiling animal fat is basically the same.

Cut it into large pieces and put it in a pot with water to boil. While the water slowly evaporates, the fat in the fat pieces is also slowly boiled out.

When the water is completely boiled away, the oil has also been boiled out of fragrance.

"Yeah, what is this?"

Baby Shen found that when he went out to take a drink of water, a frying pan had been placed on the stove, and it was still full of the crocodile's white fat.

"It's boiling crocodile oil. You can taste the crocodile oil residue later. It should be more delicious than lard residue."

Crocodile is not as greasy as lard, and it is rich in umami flavor. It tastes like a combination of lard and chicken fat, with both umami and aroma.

Using this kind of fat to cook vegetables, let alone crocodile meat, even a handful of the most common vegetables can whet your appetite.

The process of boiling crocodile oil is relatively long and relatively safe, so Lin Xu gave this job to Shen Baobao:

"Call me when the oil residue is fried to a golden color. If not, just keep waiting. Don't worry, the oil will only become more fragrant as it cooks. It won't go bad."

Although it's enough to boil the crocodile oil and just watch it, you don't need to do anything else.

But it gave Shen Baobao a strong sense of participation.

She even took a short video of herself being busy in the kitchen and sent it to the group.

"Today Xu Bao and I are making a whole crocodile feast. If you have a chance, I'll treat everyone to it!"

Not long after posting in the group, Chen Yan, who had just washed the crocodile lungs and liver, said:

"So am I working in vain? I am also responsible for this alligator feast. If my name is not added, I will never finish talking to you young couple!"

Lin Xu, who had just moved the entire crocodile back to the workbench, was immediately happy.

It's not like you're writing a high-level academic paper. How can you two be so qualified?

Use a cutting board to pad the crocodile's back, and first trim off the thicker parts of the meat, removing the tenderloin and outer loin. This will make it easier for the big bones to be cooked.

The removed tenderloins and outer loins can also be used for stir-frying or deep-frying.

After picking off the excess meat, Lin Xu grabbed the bone-cutting knife and chopped the spine into large pieces, then washed it with water and prepared to start cooking the soy sauce bones.

These big bones can actually be used to make soup.

But since we have decided to use the tip of the tail to make soup, it would be a bit repetitive to make soup dishes, so we simply make it into sauced bones, so that my father-in-law can experience the deliciousness of his hometown again.

Set up a large frying pan, pour a little cooking oil into the pan, use a spoon to scoop out a few pieces of crocodile fat that is being cooked and throw it in, and finally add half a spoonful of lard.

Heat the oil, add onion, ginger, garlic and dried chili and stir-fry until fragrant. Add two tablespoons of Northeastern soybean paste. Stir-fry until fragrant. Add water, dark soy sauce and rock sugar, then add the bones.

Wait until the soup in the pot boils and pour it into the pressure cooker.

Add a few star anise, bay leaves and a piece of cinnamon, then cover the pot and start stewing directly.

Doenjang is relatively salty, so there is no need to adjust the taste. Press the pressure cooker for about an hour, and wait until the meat in the pot is simmered until it is mushy.

Lin Xu then followed the steps of making rock sugar elbows, frying the slightly smaller front paws of the crocodile and cooking them until they were raw, and then started stewing them in another pressure cooker.

Like the big bones, this front paw also needs to be pressed for about an hour, so that it can reach the point where the skin is crispy, the meat is rotten, and the marinade is like glue.

As for the hind claws, Lin Xu planned to cut them into large pieces and braise them.

However, it was still a little early to cook the braised pork, so he had to quickly cook the tail tip first to satisfy the ladies' demand for collagen.

Fill the earthen pot used for making soup with mountain spring water, bring to a boil over high heat, then add the washed and cut tail tips into large pieces, then add dangshen, astragalus, cordyceps, onion and ginger, salt, and rock sugar, and cover Cover and cook over low heat on the stove.

While Lin Xu was busy in the kitchen, there were more and more relatives in the living room.

We just had a big meal at Lam Kee yesterday. We were all lacking in appetite, but we didn't expect that today we would have an alligator feast, which made the relatives look forward to dinner.

"It is said that all crocodiles are full of treasures. Today we will try to see if this crocodile is as good as the legend says."

Shen Guofu was holding a cigar in his mouth and was full of confidence in his son-in-law's craftsmanship.

I'm even a little curious as to whether the crocodile I bought today is big enough to meet everyone's requirements for eating meat.

After all, a crocodile weighing around ninety pounds may seem quite large, but if you remove the skin, internal organs, and bones, there won’t be much meat left.

"Don't think about eating meat all the time. Eat something vegetarian."

Mrs. Han, the new cat slave, hugged Dundun and warned her son-in-law seriously.

After Lin Ji Food reopened, my son-in-law thought about eating meat all day long, and the belly that he had lost weight in the past few days was starting to bulge out again.

If you continue like this, let alone lose weight, you will gain weight to a new height.

Shen Guofu said to his mother-in-law:

"Everything has its own ingredients. Just now I saw Xiaoxu asked Sister Liu to give out some bean curd sticks. I really want to make pork belly and stewed bean curd sticks. Isn't this a vegetarian dish?"

Mrs. Han: "..."

Why didn't you say that the chopped green onions in it are also vegetarian?

When I was young, my family was not well-off, so I just wanted meat. Why do you still like eating meat so much now?

If he keeps eating this, it will be a matter of time before the three highs come to his door.

Han Shuzhen brought some small dried fish to Dundun, and while feeding the little guy, she said:

"From tomorrow on, you are not allowed to go to the store for dinner at night. You should go home and give me a fat-reducing meal. I won't let you eat until the Mid-Autumn Festival."

These words made the smile on Shen Guofu's face suddenly freeze.

The happy old Shen also turned into a melancholy old Shen.

Can’t eat meat again?

He did not dare to disobey his wife's orders, so he could only try his best to fight for his own rights:

"Then I have to eat low-fat dishes like stuffed pork with winter melon and spicy shredded chicken. In addition, I have to eat less of the dried fish baked by Xiaoxu every day, as well as wine..."

Han Shuzhen glanced sideways:

"Still want to drink?"

Shen Guofu immediately panicked:

"Red wine, red wine. Not to mention that a glass of red wine before going to bed is good for your health. Then you drink fruit vinegar and I drink red wine. We will both be healthy, okay?"

Seeing her husband's timid appearance, Han Shuzhen couldn't help but feel happy:

"Bargain like a child all day long. You can have some drinks, but not just food. Don't prepare a bunch of snacks for me before going to bed."

"No, no, how could I hide food like Yueyue?"

Baby Shen in the kitchen:? ? ? ? ? ?

I originally wanted to secretly give my dad some crystal elbows and crystal skin jelly.

It's better now, the elbow and skin jelly are all gone.

Boss Shen, Boss Shen, please accept this stage of labor reform honestly. I will often give you food in the family to comfort you!

At this time, the crocodile meat is ready.

Lin Xu stood in front of the workbench, carefully chopping the meat filling composed of crocodile tenderloin and crocodile belly.

Crocodile meat is tender and fresh, and is naturally suitable for making some meatball dishes.

What Lin Xu wants to do now is to make raw crocodile balls, including vegetables and soup. People who are not used to the herbal tail tip soup can also try the meatball soup.

The preparation of this soup is not complicated.

Chop the meat filling, add ginger juice and onion-ginger water, and then pour in some pepper water.

Add salt, light soy sauce, and cooking wine. Egg white, then add some green onion, ginger water and pepper water, stir well first, then grab the meat filling and beat it hard to let the meat filling produce gelatin during the beating.

When the meatballs are cooked in this way, the meat fillings will stick together.

"Wow, it looks a lot like the clay we played with when we were kids. Can we try throwing it a few times?"

Lin Xu glanced at the nail polish on Baby Shen's nails and the manicure on her aunt's fingers, and shook her head to reject their request to participate.

Don’t let your relatives get a surprise by sticking your nail art into the meat filling.

It's more appropriate for me to do this kind of strenuous work myself.

Seeing that the two helpers were a little idle at the moment, he ordered:

"Why don't you two peel the garlic and prepare it in a small pot? I think we are almost finished with the garlic sauce at home. I will fry some later and make a garlic alligator belly."

After sending away the senior Shen Baobao and his sister-in-law, Lin Xu beat him for a while. When the meat filling was completely sticky to his hands, he poured in a little starch water made from sweet potato starch and stirred the meat filling again.

To make raw meatballs, you need to add an appropriate amount of starch water to the meat filling. This can effectively prevent the meatballs from falling apart and not forming a ball, and it can also increase the chewy texture of the meatballs.

Mix the meat filling evenly and set aside to marinate.

Taking advantage of this time, he boiled a pot of water and scalded the crocodile's head inside and out.

After blanching, tear off a layer of white mucous membrane from the mouth. This membrane cannot be eaten and must be torn off, otherwise the cooked dishes will be full of fishy smell.

Clean the mouth, use a knife to cut the inside and outside of the mouth, and then add the fried chopped peppers to marinate the meat skin and neck meat.

Apart from the outer layer of skin, crocodile heads are not very edible. People like them mainly because they look domineering and have good coloring.

In fact, for people who really know how to eat, it is more cost-effective to stew soup.

After the crocodile head was marinated, it was placed on a plate and then brought to the steaming cabinet for steaming. Taking advantage of this time, Lin Xu boiled a pot of water on the stove.

After the water boils, turn off the heat and let the water temperature in the pot drop to 70 or 80 degrees. Then turn on the fire again and reduce the heat on the stove to the minimum to keep the water in the pot in a shrimp-like state.

This is the most suitable temperature for boiling ingredients.

Dishes such as boiled shrimp, boiled conch slices, and boiled baby octopus are all cooked with water of this temperature.

This water temperature can break the rawness of the ingredients while maintaining a fresh and tender taste.

The raw meatballs that Lin Xu is going to make now have the same requirements for water temperature.

Bring the marinated meat filling to the stove, beat it with your hands a few times to make the meat filling become sticky again, then dip your left hand in water and grab a few times in the meat filling to expel the air in the meat filling.

Then release the tiger's mouth with your left hand and squeeze it gently to squeeze out the meat filling you just grabbed several times from the tiger's mouth.

When squeezed into a cylinder, hold a ceramic spoon in your right hand and dip it in water, then dig lightly into the tiger's mouth of your left hand, and a small round ball will be formed.

Carefully put the meatballs into the pot along the edge, then continue to squeeze the meat filling and dig out the meatballs.

"Wow, Xu Bao, I want to learn this?"

Shen Jiayue, who was peeling garlic, saw this scene and was immediately attracted.

Squeeze gently with your left hand and dig with the spoon in your right hand, and a round meatball is made. It's like a magic show.

Lin Xu said:

"This is not easy to learn. It's a bit over the top for you."

"Oh, that's awesome..."

Chen Yan asked unwillingly:

"It's a bit over the top, but by how much?"

I'm a good cook who can even make jelly custard and fruit cheese. If you're a little over the top, wouldn't this be a good challenge?

After all, a good chef must have the courage to step out of her comfort zone!

Lin Xu still admires his sister-in-law's courage to challenge herself.

But when it comes to cooking, the more reckless people are, the more likely they are to get burned or cut their hands when chopping meat...

Forget it, it’s better not to increase the workload of the medical unit.

Lin Xu said:

"It's equivalent to a first-grade elementary school student calculating a system of three-dimensional linear equations. You two should save your time. This is not something that novices can learn."

With half of the meat filling left in the basin, Lin Xu stopped.

He turned the fire on the stove to a boil and cooked the meatballs, which could effectively prevent the meat filling from being cooked in the meatballs.

Soon, the water in the pot boiled.

Use a spoon to skim off the foam in the pot and cook for another two minutes. The meatballs are ready.

While the meatballs were cooking, he brought a small basin, put dried shrimps and seaweed in it, and then added some white pepper and salt.

After placing it, hold the pot with the meatballs in it and pour the meatballs and water into the basin.

Soon, the delicious smell wafted out from the basin.

Cover the pot and bring it directly to the table. This can not only keep it warm, but also simmer the umami flavor from the seaweed in the soup, making the soup more vivid.

After finishing this, Lin Xu brought over the remaining meat filling and half a bowl of steamed pork powder.

Roll the meat filling into meatballs, roll them into the steamed meat powder, and then place them on a plate.

After all the meat filling is used up, a plate full of round meatballs is made. After steaming it thoroughly in the steamer, it will be steamed crocodile balls.

Not long after, the dishes began to come out one after another.

Braised crocodile legs, rock sugar crocodile claws, steamed crocodile with garlic vermicelli, braised crocodile belly with bean curd, fried crocodile intestines, salt and pepper crocodile steak, stir-fried crocodile intestines, stir-fried crocodile liver, spicy crocodile lungs, boiled crocodile meat, overlord crocodile head, Crocodile steak in black bean sauce, boiled crocodile tenderloin, dried crocodile skin, black pepper crocodile fillet, raw braised crocodile balls, steamed crocodile balls, Codonopsis astragalus crocodile tail soup...

There were more than twenty dishes, and the portions were quite generous, making relatives and friends immediately greedy.

"Thank you elders for coming. This whole crocodile feast was completed by Xu Bao and Yan Bao together. If you have any opinions, please let us know. We will continue to improve next time we do it."

Baby Shen delivered a pre-dinner speech like a chef.

Relatives quickly put down their bowls and chopsticks and applauded.

Although everyone knows that they are just making soy sauce in the kitchen, making soy sauce is also work. Among the relatives here, these two girls are the only ones willing to enter the kitchen.

The other cousins ​​were so pampered that they wanted the nanny to do the tying of their shoes.

After such a comparison, Shen Baobao and Chen Yan immediately won a wave of praise.

Chen Yan’s mother Shen Guofang couldn’t help but praise her daughter:

"Today at noon, our Xiaoyan steamed egg custard and made jelly for the old lady. After the meal, she also made watermelon cheese and peach cheese, which made the old lady very happy."

This compliment made Mr. Chen, who had always been disliked, grab Shen Baobao's hand with all his strength.

Haha, I didn’t expect that I would be praised one day, and finally I was no longer on my cousin’s background.

While he was getting excited, Shen Guofang said again:

"You said that my Xiaoyan is so beautiful and virtuous. She has made a lot of money in the past two years, so why can't she find a partner? Everyone is worried. She will be thirty soon. If she doesn't get married, she will become an old girl. "

Chen Yan: "..."

Wow wow wow, I'm already so obedient and sensible, why do I bring this up again?

Can't you just let me enjoy the food in peace?

In order to change the subject, Chen Yan stood up and opened the covered dishes one by one.

Every time I opened one, the shock on the faces of the relatives became more and more obvious.

There is no way, these dishes are so beautiful, fresh and fragrant, each with its own characteristics, both in appearance and taste are very attractive.

Shen Guofu grinned from ear to ear with joy:

"Xiao Xu is really hiding it. Fortunately, I bought a crocodile this time, otherwise the child might have kept it secret for a long time."

Lin Xu smiled bitterly and immediately started pouring wine for the elders.

Hurry up and eat quickly, lest my father-in-law, a die-hard fan, cause any trouble again.

Everyone raised their chopsticks and started eating.

"Oh, the crocodile's legs are covered with gelatin, which is more delicious than the skin of an elbow."

"This soup is so delicious, I never thought it was made from crocodile tails."

"This crocodile meat tastes really fresh. It's a bit like bullfrog, but more fragrant than bullfrog meat."

"It's delicious, so delicious. Xiaoxu's craftsmanship is really amazing!"

"Let's eat crocodile next time we have a chance. This meat tastes really good, especially the crocodile skin, which is full of gum. If you eat more, it will be good for your skin."

"..."

Everyone chatted while eating.

Everyone had a great time eating. Even Shen Guofu was completely engrossed in competing with the dishes and even forgot to drink wine.

While eating, Han Shuzhen asked:

"Xiao Xu, so all the crocodiles have been used up?"

"No, there's almost half the meat left. I'm going to take it to the store tomorrow so the employees can have a taste."

"Okay, take it away so that your father-in-law won't worry about it."

Shen Guofu:? ? ? ? ?

I'm not worried about it, are you worried about it?

When he thought about his wife's love for collagen-rich delicacies, Shen Guofu felt that the "reeducation through labor period" could be a breakthrough in this regard.

But how to achieve a breakthrough will have to be figured out by the son-in-law.

Well, my super invincible son-in-law is the best, and he can handle any ingredient with ease.

Xiaoxu, whether dad can eat meat later depends entirely on you!

While people were drinking and drinking in the Shen family villa, the business in Linji Food Shop also ushered in the evening peak.

The boss is not here today, so the management employees have become proactive, fearing that there will be any deviations or mistakes in the business they are responsible for.

At the door of the kitchen, when Wei Qian was busy checking the dishes, Song Tiantian appeared at the door.

"Master Wei, can you come out for a moment?"

Wei Gan walked out of the kitchen and asked curiously:

"What's wrong, Tiantian? Is there anything going on at the front desk?"

"It's not the front desk, it's me who has something to do."

"What's up?"

Song Tiantian whispered a little coyly:

"I heard that some hooligans are harassing girls at night recently. I work late today. Master Wei, can you ride a shared bicycle to see me off after get off work? I'm afraid..."

Wei Qian:? ? ? ? ? ?

You're scared?

What are you afraid of?

Are you afraid that you won't be able to hold back your strength and punch the little gangster to death?

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