Becoming the Villainess: I Reign Over the Cultivators’ Realm With My Wok!

  Chapter 35 Hot Pot Base

   After inspecting the spices, Chen Muxue brought a big basin.

  Put cinnamon bark, star anise, grass fruit, cumin and white buckle in the pot, wash it with water and soak for 20 minutes, so that the impurities and bitterness in the spices can be basically removed.

  Back when Xiaohu went to buy spices, Chen Muxue had soaked a lot of dried chilies in water. Now, while soaking the spices, he just took out the soaked dried chilis to make Ciba chilies.

  Dried chili is soft after soaking, and it is easy to chop into chili paste. Because of the large amount, chopping peppers is not an easy task.

  Twenty minutes later, the peppers are almost chopped. Chen Muxue shook his sore arm, took out the spices, and put them into a stone mortar to crush them. The aroma of the crushed spices would be more intense and the cooking time could be shortened.

   "Let me do it!" After peeling the garlic, Dafu couldn't help feeling a little guilty when he saw that beads of sweat on Chen Muxue's forehead had wetted his broken hair.

   It’s okay to not be able to help in other places, this kind of thing is still possible!

   Seeing this, Xiaohu and Dagui joined in one after another, so Chen Muxue let them take over, and by the way picked out Xiaohua who was joining in the fun, so there was no need for the child who was not as tall as her waist to add to the chaos.

Cen Lizhui, who was secretly observing, sighed in his heart. He never thought that cooking was such a complicated thing. In the past, when Chen Muxue cooked home-cooked dishes, at most he thought it was too troublesome to cut and wash vegetables. Now she seems to be serious about doing something. It's such a complicated dish.

   Cooking is really bad! The worst part is that he can't eat it.

  Cen Li's face turned dark when he thought of this.

   Let the children pound the spices, and Chen Muxue chopped the **** and scallions, smashed the heads of the shallots and cut them into scallions, and chopped the coriander. The coriander here really adds flavor. Most of the hot pot ingredients are actually used in coriander, but if it is used to boil oil, the taste of coriander can be well blended in, and it is not as unique as usual. the taste of.

  Actually, Chen Muxue couldn’t accept coriander when she was a child. Later, for some reason, her taste changed, and she gradually began to like coriander. However, she has read a study that said that most people who can’t eat coriander are because they cannot accept the taste of coriander in their genes, so in the past, she would repeatedly tell the new waiters to ask whether the guests have any taboos. It can prevent some guests from being allergic to some ingredients, such as peanuts.

  Take out a bowl, add green peppercorns, mix well with wine. This wine was already in the sect, and she didn't know what it was, only that it smelled very mellow.

Among the spices soaked just now, there are some dried chilies and fragrant leaves that have not been mashed, and some chopped ginger, because in this era, cattle are used as arable land, and the town at the foot of the mountain is not prosperous enough, and there are no beef cattle from the Western Regions to sell, so The next best thing is to use lard. Chen Muxue boiled it a lot before, but now it can be taken out and cut into small pieces.

  Finally about to start making, Chen Muxue took out her precious iron pot and sighed: "It would be nice if it could be bigger."

  Unexpectedly, as if understanding what she said, the iron pot jumped up by itself, spinning in mid-air, and it really became bigger, just like the first time she saw him in the cauldron!

   "Do you have two faces in one pot?" Chen Muxue thought it was a little funny, but the pot was quite a bit arrogant and shocked.

  The spices are almost pounded. Seeing that Chen Muxue is about to start, Xiaohu hurried over to control the fire. Chen Muxue is very satisfied. Xiaohu's fire root is very practical.

  Heat the pot, put the lard in the pot to boil, put the ginger, onion and coriander in the pot, and fry until golden brown. Now the fragrance that comes out is full of the whole kitchen, and it goes straight to the head of Cen Lizhui on the roof!

  (end of this chapter)