Baozi Xishi's Struggle

Chapter 184 Pancakes and Shredded Pork with Beijing Sauce

Shen Yu asked Zhou Dalang to add some coal, pull the bellows a few times, and stir-fry quickly to absorb the sauce until every piece of chicken was coated with the glossy sauce.

The bean paste is already very salty, so there is no need to add salt to season it. Just drip a few drops of balsamic vinegar along the edge of the pot, shake the wok twice, and then take it away from the stove. Then put the shiny brown and reddish-brown fried chicken cubes with a strong aroma into the covered casserole brought by 7-Up.

After a fat chicken was fried, it filled an entire casserole.

Shen Yu picked up a handful of chopped coriander from the vegetable mound and wanted to sprinkle it into the casserole, but stopped: "How about wrapping some coriander in lotus leaves and adding it before eating? If you add it to the dish now, it will lose its flavor during the stewing process."

Qixi quickly took the lid of the casserole, put it on, put it in the food box and smiled: "My young master never eats coriander. He says coriander is smelly."

Shen Yu smiled and shook his head without saying anything.

After sending Qixi away, Mrs. Li and Mrs. Jiang had already started steaming the buns.

Shen Yu went to the kitchen and looked at the prepared pots and pans.

The oven for baking pancakes was dry enough to use, but the steamer had a larger stove and dried more slowly, so some of it was still not completely dry.

Shen Yu put his hand into the stove and felt the stove wall and said, "It will be almost dry in another day. Tomorrow at noon, we can use this stove to burn coal and steam two pots of buns in one try."

Zhou Dalang was particularly interested in this stove and the newly built pancake oven. He came to check on it three times a day to see if it was completely dry.

When the craftsman was setting up the pancake oven, Shen Yu was standing by and discussing with the craftsman.

The final pancake oven has a very large body. Not only can pancakes and Hu pancakes be baked in the oven walls, but a wire mesh can also be set up in the middle to make roast chicken and roast duck.

Remove the iron mesh and replace it with a flat iron pan, and you can use it to bake shortbread and pies.

Shen Yu even felt that if he had an egg beater, making a chiffon cake would be a piece of cake.

One oven can be used for multiple purposes and the fire is evenly distributed. Its design is much more ingenious than the pancake oven that Zhou Dalang's family used before.

The reason why Shen Yu spent so much time on the cake oven was that he planned to continue making seasonal cakes for festivals in the future.

With this bakery oven, it will be more convenient to make fancy cakes and shortbreads. One oven can bake thirty or forty cakes, which is quick and easy.

After delivering lunch, Shen Yu did not let Jiang prepare lunch today, but asked them to help.

She planned to cook a few stir-fried dishes and let her family taste them first.

When I was making stir-fried diced chicken in the morning, it smelled delicious. Thinking that Lu Lang was still in the county government office, eagerly waiting for this chicken as a snack, I didn't feel comfortable giving myself half of it to try.

When Shen Yu ordered the meat yesterday, he ordered pork tenderloin, intending to make a dish of shredded pork with Beijing sauce. He asked Zhou Dalang to use the pancake oven to make some pancakes and stir-fry a few side dishes. This would be quick and easy, and he could also test out the performance of the pancake oven.

Making pancakes is a piece of cake for Zhou Dalang. With Shen Yu's careful instruction over the past few days, Zhou Dalang has become better and better at kneading dough and making pancake bases. Even learning how to pinch the folds of the buns is much faster than Li at the beginning.

Shen Yu felt more and more that it was a right decision to keep Zhou Dalang. He had basic skills in countertop handling and with a little guidance, he would be able to handle the job on his own.

Zhou Dalang agreed and went to make the dough for the pancake. He had wanted to try this new pancake oven for a long time.

Shen Yu asked Jiang to help him cut the green onion and tofu skin into shreds and put them aside for later use.

After Li washed the vegetables that Shen Yu asked her to wash, she and Yutao watched Shen Yu cook.

Shen Yu cut the tenderloin into evenly thick slices and then into thin strips.

After mixing evenly with fine salt and rice wine, add egg white and prepared starch paste, and stir in a bowl until it becomes starchy.

Arrange the chopped green onion on a large plate.

Open the stove door, add some coal, and when the fire is strong, put the wok on and add half a pot of oil.

When the oil is 40% hot, add the already starched and tough shredded meat and stir quickly with long bamboo chopsticks until smooth.

Use a colander to scoop out the shredded meat, pour out the oil, leave a little oil in the pot, and add the sweet sauce when it is slightly hot.

Stir-fry over low heat to bring out the aroma of the sauce, pour in the minced pork shreds, add a little rice wine and fine salt, and pour in a small amount of thickening sauce made from broth and starch, until the pork shreds are evenly coated with the sauce. Then you can remove from the pan and pour it on the shredded green onions on the plate.

Shen Yu cleaned the pot, added a little oil, added peppercorns, onions and ginger to sauté until fragrant, then poured in the mung bean sprouts and stir-fried over high heat for a few seconds until the mung bean sprouts became slightly softened.

Add sweet soy sauce, a little salt, and pour two small spoons of balsamic vinegar along the edge of the pot. With a sizzling sound, the sour and fragrant taste immediately spreads.

Add a handful of green onion segments and stir-fry for a few times, then serve immediately.

The method for cooking fresh mushrooms and rapeseed is the same. Add some scallions and ginger to sauté until fragrant, then add thickly sliced ​​fresh mushrooms, stir-fry until soft, then add the chopped rapeseed and stir-fry over high heat.

While stir-frying, Shen Yu asked Jiang to pull the bellows a few times, and the fire in the stove immediately became more intense.

Shen Yu flipped the wok beautifully, causing the food in the pot to bounce up steadily and then fall back into the pot, shocking the people watching on the side.

Li was so frightened that she covered her mouth tightly, not daring to make any sound, for fear of disturbing Shen Yu. In a moment of instability, the flames burned her daughter's hair and cheeks.

After the two stir-fryers had started, before anyone could react, Shen Yu had already added a little salt, stir-fried the food, and poured it into a plate on the side.

After frying, Shen Yu had a happy smile on his face and wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand.

It's been a while since I've enjoyed cooking over high heat. The new wok is really heavy, so I need to practice my arm strength.

But this iron pan is well made, evenly distributed and thick, making stir-frying very easy.

While Shen Yu was still immersed in the refreshing experience brought by the good kitchen utensils, he suddenly found that several people standing next to him neither spoke nor came to serve the dishes.

When they looked up, they all looked surprised and stunned.

Shen Yu asked with a smile: "What's wrong with you? Come over and serve the dishes."

Li put down her hand that was covering her mouth and said fearfully, "Yuzhi, cooking like that just now was too scary. What if, what if you get burned by the fire and get disfigured? Don't cook like that next time. I was scared to death just now."

Shen Yu realized at this moment that no one in this era had ever stir-fried food with such a high fire. The Li family members were frightened by the sight of the flames.

She quickly explained: "Mom, it's okay. Stir-frying over high heat can make the food cook faster and more delicious. The fire looks scary, but it's actually far away from me."

Zhou Dalang and Yutao had a look of admiration on their faces and didn't think about the danger at all.

After Shen Yu finished explaining, he said, "We will eat at the table in the store today. There is no need to take it to the kitchen in the backyard. You can take it over first. There is also a scallion fried egg, which will be ready soon.

As he said that, he put the pot back on the stove and added an appropriate amount of oil.