Chapter 166 Because of Love (2) (More rewards for the leader of Zhiyuan Rush!)
Cao Guixiang did it casually. She heated the oil and deep-fried the chicken nuggets. There was no problem with that, but she cut the chicken nuggets cross-cut before putting them in the pot.
It can be said to be quite arbitrary.
"What are you doing with the knife?" Zhang Chu, a master of cooking theory, asked.
"The thickening will be more delicious when the time comes, otherwise Yunyun will lick the outside of the sauce and spit out the meat after taking two bites." Cao Guixiang, a cooking master, answered the question.
After the chicken pieces are fried, take them out and drain. Leave a small amount of oil in the pot, add the ingredients, add the chicken pieces, stir-fry evenly, take it out of the pan, thicken it, and drizzle with sesame oil.
It may seem simple, but it requires a lot of control over the ingredients and heat. The fake General Tso's Chicken looks no different from the genuine one after it's cooked. The chicken pieces are uniform in size, because they deform more or less differently when fried. After thickening, they are as clear as amber, red and translucent, and the sweet and sour aroma hits the face and makes the mouth salivate.
"Oh, this looks delicious. Let me try a piece first!" Zhang Chu, a master of cooking theory, instantly became a master of tasting theory. He picked a small piece and took a bite. The sauce was sweet and sour, the outside was crispy, and the inside was rich. juice.
"Ouch, it's a bit hot. Very good, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, sweet and sour." Zhang Chu pretended to comment, then stuck his head out and called Zhang Zhiyun, "Yunyun, come and eat you. I'll make it for you." General Tso’s Chicken”
"Call him later. You won't be afraid of scalding Yunyun's mouth when it comes out of the pot. Do you think everyone is as thick-skinned as you? Go and see if the rice is ready..." Cao Guixiang turned around and saw that there was no inner pot and it was empty. of rice cooker.
"It's broken. It's all your fault, old man. Come in and cause trouble for me. I forgot the rice!" Cao Guixiang's face suddenly changed, and she rushed to the living room with a quick step.
Sure enough, Zhang Zhiyun lay on the carpet and had a great time playing with the rice that had been soaked in the inner pot for nearly half an hour.
"Ah, the rice is ready!" Zhang Zhiyun didn't have any consciousness of working hard and fished, so he got up and took credit.
Cao Guixiang forced out a smile: "Yunyun is great, come on, give me the inner bladder."
Holding the pot in hand, Cao Guixiang's face changed instantly when she turned around. She returned to the kitchen and placed the pot on the kitchen counter, making a "clang" sound.
Zhang Chu's heart also skipped a beat.
"Ahem, Guixiang, the kid is playful, don't blame him!" Zhang Chu looked flattering.
"This rice has been soaked for half an hour. Chi Yuan and his wife will go home from get off work in ten minutes. The chestnut roast chicken will be out of the pot right away, and the remaining three vegetarian dishes can be fried in ten minutes. Now that the dishes are ready, the rice is ready. Wu Ying, tell me what to do." Cao Guixiang had a gloomy face.
"This, haha, that, haha, isn't this me? I'm so excited to win against Old Man Zhao again! It's a little unexpected. Look, there are quite a lot of dishes today, and there's no rice... haha..." Zhang Chu laughed weakly. .
Cao Guixiang rolled her eyes at him, poured out the off-white water in the tank, and refilled it with water. He opened the lid of the casserole on the stove and tasted a piece of chestnut to make sure it was fragrant. Then he took out another casserole from the cabinet and poured all the rice and water in the pot into it.
"Put the roast chicken with chestnuts on the table and have porridge for lunch today. The porridge will be ready in ten minutes over high heat."
Zhang Chu asked worriedly while carrying the casserole: "Isn't the porridge half cooked after ten minutes of boiling it?"
Cao Guixiang glanced at him, and Zhang Chu immediately shut up and went to work.
The porridge was cooked on the stove over high heat. Cao Guixiang also turned on the other stove and began to stir-fry vegetables.
The movements were very quick. As the last dish of fried carrots was taken out of the pot and plated, Zhang Zhiyun's parents also returned home from get off work.
"Hey, what did mom cook today that makes it so fragrant!" Zhang Chiyuan sniffed exaggeratedly, "Chestnut roasted chicken."
"Wrong, it's Zuo Zongtang's chicken!" Zhang Zhiyun loudly refuted his own father.
"Zongtang Zuo's chicken?" Zhang Chiyuan walked to the living room, picked up Zhang Zhiyun, and pinched his ears, "Yunyun, you are the one who cooked it again because you were clamoring for it."
"Liao Luo Luo!" Zhang Zhiyun made a face at Zhang Chiyuan.
Zhang Zhiyun's mother put down her bag, rolled up her sleeves and walked into the kitchen: "Mom, let me help you."
"No, it's all ready. You must be tired after working all morning. The porridge is on the stove, you go and get it." Cao Guixiang came out with the dishes, "Chiyuan, stop teasing Yunyun, come over and eat."
Zhang Chiyuan put down Zhang Zhiyun and sat happily at the table, waiting for his wife to serve him food. Seeing that what was served was porridge, he was surprised and said: "Hey, I'm having porridge today!"
"You have the same character as your father. He only eats but doesn't do much. He doesn't even know how to hold a pair of chopsticks, so he just sits and waits for food. When I get old and can't cook, you just wait to starve to death. The same goes for your father. "You guys are really like father and son!" Cao Guixiang scolded, turning around and going in to get the chopsticks.
Zhang Chiyuan silently opened the lid of the casserole and looked at Zhang Chu.
Zhang Chu gave him a helpless look.
Zhang Zhiyun stared longingly at the General Tso's chicken on the table.
With a "click", the wall covering on the top suddenly cracked, and a large piece of wall covering fell down, with half hanging on the top and unable to fall off. It made people want to climb up on the chair and tear it off.
All eyes were focused on that unusually strong wall.
"Has it been cracked for three or four days?" Zhang Zhu sighed.
"Yes, it finally fell off. Hey, it's still too damp in the south. The floor of our house is low and the walls fall off every day. I'll find a painter to repaint the top tomorrow." Zhang Chiyuan said.
Cao Guixiang came out with a pair of chopsticks, and was instantly attracted by the hanging wall covering. Each of them had a pair of chopsticks, and said to Zhang Chiyuan: "Chiyuan, please contact the decoration master tomorrow to repaint our ceiling." , it keeps falling down all day long, and it can’t even be swept away.”
"I just told Dad about this." Zhang Chiyuan pointed at the chestnut roast chicken and used his chopsticks.
Zhang Zhiyun picked up a large piece of General Tso's chicken, his mouth was full, and the sauce was smeared on the sides of his mouth.
After finishing the roast chicken, Zhang Chiyuan sighed: "Mom, you should have continued to be a cook. Your skills are better than those of the chefs in big hotels outside."
"The restaurant your mother stayed in back then was not much better than these hotels outside. It was your father and I had the ability to chase your mother and make your mother give up her job as a cook." Zhang Chu proudly puffed up his beer belly.
"Bah, just blow it." Cao Guixiang also sat down to eat.
Zhang Zhiyun reluctantly swallowed the meat in his mouth and asked, "Well, why didn't you do it in the restaurant?"
"Isn't it just to take care of you?" Zhang Chiyuan blamed his son and framed him.
"Dad, you are lying. You must have been disobedient when you were a child. I have to take care of you!" Zhang Zhiyun exposed his own father's lie on the spot.
"I heard others say that General Tso's chicken is sweet and sour, but why isn't this spicy?" Zhang Zhiyun's mother asked.
"Because this is not Zuo Zongtang's chicken at all." Zhang Chu said it for a moment.
Zhang Zhiyun immediately stopped and started making a fuss: "Ah, ah, you lied to me again, you bad guy, you know how to lie to children every day!"
"Then do you still want to eat?" Cao Guixiang said with a straight face.
"Eat."
Zhang Zhiyun continued to eat the chicken nuggets in the bowl.
After a while, he couldn't sit still anymore and started asking questions.
"Well, you haven't told me yet, why didn't you do it in the restaurant?"
Cao Guixiang took a sip of porridge and thought for a moment.
"Because of love." (End of Chapter)