Reborn in Dunhuang, I am farming and doing business in the desert

Chapter 52 Meatballs

Shen Zhao turned his head and rolled his eyes at him, then picked up the pig liver and said, "Okay, then you come over and light the fire."

"Light the fire then! I want to see what kind of amazing dish you can cook?" Shen Heng ran towards the kitchen heroically.

After entering the kitchen, Shen Zhao rolled up his sleeves and took out two pieces of fatty pork from the tub. He removed the skin and lean ribs on the low table without washing them, cut the snow-white fat into small pieces and put them into the iron pot.

Cut a large piece of ginger and put it in, then scoop a few scoops of water into it.

Shen Heng had already lit the stove, and leaned over to ask, "Do you want to cook fat?"

"I'm boiling the oil." After putting the wooden lid on the iron pot, Shen Zhao cut off several pork ribs and removed a lot of lean meat.

She chopped the ribs into pieces and prepared to make braised spare ribs. She added some fat to the lean meat and chopped it into minced meat. She wanted to make lion's head.

The recipes for these dishes are all in the small bronze mirror. They are very easy to learn. The only drawback is that you don’t have the corresponding seasonings at home.

However, as long as there is ginger, onion, sugar and soybean paste, there will be no bad dish as long as there is enough oil.

Shen Heng added a few more pieces of wood to the stove, stood up and came over, deliberately saying: "Why do I see you having such a hard time chopping the meat?"

"You do it!" Shen Zhao simply stuffed the kitchen knife in his hand into his hand: "Chop it carefully, I want to make big meatballs."

"Hmph! I knew you couldn't live without your second brother!" Shen Heng tightly gripped the kitchen knife, pushed his sister away, and chopped the pile of meat with the knife.

Fortunately, I asked Uncle Qin to make a tree root chopping board for my family, otherwise the table would have been chopped into pieces by him.

While Shen Heng was chopping the meat, Shen Zhao ran back to the side room and bought a bunch of vegetables, including potatoes, cabbage, yam, radish, rice, salt, etc., spending a total of one hundred coins.

I have finished eating the radishes I bought last time, so I will buy some more and store them in the side room temporarily. I can just use them when I cook at home.

When the meat is minced, the fat in the iron pot begins to produce oil, and the rich aroma of oil fills the entire kitchen.

Shen Zhao found a clean large jar and scooped the clear pork into it.

When boiling lard, use low heat and scoop out the fat while boiling to prevent the residue from being burned by the fat.

When the oil in the oil residue is almost out, immediately remove the firewood from the stove and put the oil residue into a yellow basin.

Shen Heng picked up a piece of oil residue and stuffed it into his mouth, sighing as he ate, "It smells so good! I can eat a whole bowl of it by myself."

Shen Zhao brought a ceramic bowl, picked up some with chopsticks and handed it to him: "Give it to Ah Zhu and the others to try, and you should eat less too. If you eat too much, you won't be able to eat the meatballs later."

Upon hearing this, Shen Heng immediately retracted his hand, picked up the ceramic bowl and walked out: "Come on! Come and try the lard residue made by my sister, it's so delicious."

Shen Zhao, who was stirring the minced meat:
Mother came in with a basket of washed rice and said, "We have many guests today, including the elders and the village headman. Ah Zhao, you cook more meat and vegetables, and I'll light the fire and cook."

"Hmm." Shen Zhao quickly sprinkled fine salt on the minced meat, added sugar and soybean paste, and stirred it with chopsticks.

After the meat is minced, clean the small iron pan and pour in the grease.

I wanted to make big lion's heads, but considering that there are so many people here today, if one person eats a few, half of the pork at home will be consumed.

Shen Zhao simply fried the meatballs, each as big as a bird's egg, and then added some cabbage to cook them. He guaranteed that they would eat them in silence.

As they were frying meatballs, Shen Heng and his brother came in and asked, "Can we eat it?"

"It's not cooked inside. It will be cooked once the food is cooked." Shen Zhao was afraid that his second brother would pick it up and eat it again, so he quickly put the yellow basin inside.

Shen Xun placed a basket of lard on the table, scooped water to wash his hands, and asked, "What can I help you with?"

Shen Heng immediately turned his head and looked at his elder brother, with an incredible look on his face: "You can cook?"

"Yes, I have cooked outside the pass." There were more than ten people in Fengsui, most of them cooked together, but sometimes they cooked their own food. Shen Zhao pointed to the pig liver in the yellow basin: "Then you cut a leaf of pig liver, cut it into small pieces, and I will make fried liver later."

"Okay." Shen Xun rolled up his sleeves and scooped up the pig liver.

Shen Heng looked at his sister, then glanced at his elder brother, and quickly said, "A Zhao, is there anything else you need to prepare?"

"Go to my room and get a yam, peel it, wash a few cabbages, and peel the potatoes." Shen Zhao's men worked non-stop, scooping out the minced meat with a spoon and putting it into the wok.

Shen Heng agreed and went. After a while, he came back with a bunch of vegetables in his hands: "A Zhao, which one is the yam?"

Shen Zhao pointed out the yam and said, "This long one is a yam, and that one is a potato. Hurry up and peel them. I will use them later."

"Okay!" Shen Heng put down the vegetables and sat next to the stove to peel them.

Zhang Shanyue smiled and said, "Since Ah Xun came back, your brother has become more diligent."

Shen Heng was unhappy when he heard this: "Mom, when have I ever been undutiful? Humph! I've done a lot of housework!"

"Okay, okay, I was wrong." When Zhang Shanyue saw the rice pot boiling, he immediately took back a piece of firewood and stood up to take the pot.

If you cook rice in this big iron pot without removing the bottom when it just starts to boil, the bottom of the pot will be burnt and the top layer will be half-cooked.

After frying, keep it warm over low heat and the rice at the bottom of the pot will slowly turn into a layer of rice crust.

The mothers worked together and soon the rice was cooked and the meatballs were stewed with the cabbage.

Shen Zhao also fried two plates of pork liver with yam slices and cabbage stalks, two pots of braised pork ribs with radish, two pots of meatballs stewed with cabbage and tofu, two pots of cabbage stewed with pig blood, two dishes of fried pig ears, and two dishes of fried shredded pork with potatoes.

After all the guests arrived, Shen Zhao asked his second brother to move the large square table that Uncle Qin had just made to the main hall, and move another one to the yard.

There's no other way. There are too many guests, so we have to split them into two large tables.

Shen Zhao also left a large bowl of cabbage, tofu and meatballs stew and sent it to his aunt's house.

The aunt didn't hesitate to take the bowl and hid in the house, which left Shen Zhao speechless.

The two little nieces stared at the delicious meat and vegetables floating away in front of them, not daring to say a word.

Shen Zhao sighed, patted his two nieces' heads and said, "Why don't you go to your aunt's house for dinner?"

Before the two little ones could agree, they saw their grandmother coming out of the house.

"How can a little girl get involved in front of the guests? Ah Zhao, don't spoil them. You can eat the meat dish when Ah De comes back."

Shen Zhao couldn't hold it in for a long time and said, "Aunt, my sister-in-law is about to give birth. Let her eat something first. I'll bring two pieces of pork later."

Aunt Shen waved her hands repeatedly: "No, no! Your sister-in-law can't eat too much now, so that the delivery will be smooth later."

After a pause, he continued, "I'm not being harsh on her mother. I just want them to know that men are the backbone of the family, and food should be given to those who work outside first."

Shen Zhao:.
She couldn't resist.

When we came out of my aunt's house, the sky gradually darkened.

Shen Zhao walked back quickly on the yellow sand.

When she was almost at the door of her house, she suddenly saw a figure standing next to a haystack, looking at her sinisterly.

(End of this chapter)