"Ye Chui ran over there, hurry up and catch it! Over there! Over there... eh?"
On the hilltop of Maple Leaf Mountain, Lin Wei was excitedly directing Ye Chui to use a net to catch chickens. As a result, the pitch-black Tibetan pheasant rushed towards Lin Wei...
This Tibetan pheasant is small in size, agile in movement, and very aggressive, making it very difficult to deal with. After being forced into a corner by Ye Chui, it actually fluttered around to attack Lin Wei. Lin Wei had been shouting loudly just now, but at this moment she screamed in fright, dropped the net bag in her hand, and subconsciously squatted down and hugged her head.
Ye Chui followed closely and finally caught the Tibetan pheasant before it pounced on Lin Wei.
The chicken was still struggling in the net bag, as if it could escape at any time. Ye Chui stepped on the net bag with his foot and asked Lin Wei with concern: "Are you okay?"
"It's okay. Phew, I was scared to death." Lin Wei patted her chest lightly and said, but a smile appeared on her face, and she felt very amused. "It was so dangerous just now. Fortunately, you came in time."
"Today's chickens have been raised in the wild for more than 80 years, so they have become wild and not easy to tame. I didn't expect it would be so difficult to catch them." Ye Chui said while panting. Just now at the foot of the mountain, Chen Sitang originally wanted Ye Chui to pick a few chickens from the chicken catching team, but Ye Chui proposed to go up the mountain to catch chickens himself. Ye Chui planned to prepare the ingredients himself. Besides, he had to accompany Lin Wei here for the fun.
Chen Sitang thought Ye Chui was just a young master with nothing to do, so he let the two of them into the mountain without giving it much thought.
At this moment, Ye Chui squatted down and looked at the chicken in the net bag. He nodded with satisfaction, "This chicken is only a few months old, and it is the most delicious time. Not bad, this chicken can be used to make that dish!"
"Ye Chui, what dish are you going to cook?" Lin Wei asked hurriedly. This girl was most interested in this.
"The dish is called Chicken Stewed with Mushrooms." Ye Chui replied with a smile.
Chicken stewed with mushrooms is a home-cooked dish with Northeastern flavor. Although it is a home-cooked dish, it is also a veritable high-end cuisine with delicious taste and high nutritional value. In the chicken dinner that Ye Chui was going to serve to Mr. Han a few days later, he would serve this dish of chicken stewed with mushrooms on the table.
Lin Wei muttered the name of the chicken stewed with mushrooms, her eyes sparkling: "It sounds delicious, Ye Chui, I want to eat it."
"Haha, I'll cook it for you when I have the chance later, but now I want to make another dish for you."
"Is it the beggar's chicken you mentioned yesterday?" Lin Wei asked immediately with a smile. Obviously she still remembered what Ye Cui said yesterday.
"That's right. This is called Flower Chicken. It's easy to cook. It only requires simple preparations. It's most suitable to eat in this situation." Ye Chui said with a smile. He carefully picked up the Tibetan Mountain Chicken that was being tossed in the net bag. He brought a chicken cage with him when he came up just now. There were three other chickens in the cage now. These three were ordinary dwarf broiler chickens. They were relatively honest. After being caught, they squatted in the cage and didn't toss much.
After Ye Chui stuffed the Tibetan chicken into the cage, he took out a broiler chicken from it. This broiler chicken was going to be made into beggar chicken. As for the remaining two broilers, they were to be prepared for the chicken feast prepared for Mr. Han in a few days. Since it was a feast, of course it couldn't just be chicken stewed with mushrooms. Ye Chui also prepared two other famous chicken dishes, as well as a [Imperial Cold Dish] from the Manchu-Han Banquet...
The Manchu-Han Banquet is the highest realm of Chinese food culture. The complete menu contains 328 dishes, which are divided into four grades: ordinary dishes, delicacies, imperial dishes, and special dishes. Spicy chicken, a top-level dish, is just an ordinary dish in the Manchu-Han Banquet. From this, we can see how great the imperial cold dish that Ye Chu is going to make will be.
"Ye Chui, how do you make beggar's chicken? Can I help you?" Lin Wei asked excitedly as she followed behind Ye Chui.
"Help me pick up some hay and firewood around first, I'll go cook the chicken." Ye Chui said with a smile. Killing a chicken is a technical job and is somewhat bloody, he didn't want Lin Wei to see it.
Lin Wei immediately nodded and started looking around for dry firewood and grass. She had been spoiled since she was a child and had never done such a thing before, but when she thought about the delicious chicken that she was about to eat, her movements were full of joy and happiness.
There is a small artificial pond on the Maple Leaf Mountain. It is the water source for free-range chickens. There are even a few lotus flowers planted in it. It is May or June now, and although the flowers have not yet bloomed, the lotus leaves are big and round, just right for wrapping chicken.
Ye Chui came here today and brought a small tool box with him. When he opened it, there was a kitchen knife inside. It was a straight and bulky knife, but in Ye Chui's hand it was incredibly flexible and versatile. He cooked the chicken even more skillfully and quickly.
Bleeding, plucking hair, and cleaning internal organs are all basic skills for a chef.
He then took out some paper-wrapped seasoning from his pocket and sprinkled it evenly inside and outside the chicken. He then picked a lotus leaf to wrap the whole chicken and dug some mud from under the pond to evenly wrap the outside of the lotus leaf.
After doing all this, Lin Wei had also collected the firewood.
Ye Chui dug a hole on a flat ground, put the chicken wrapped in mud into it, covered it with a thin layer of soil, and then started a fire on it. The next step was to wait for the chicken to be cooked. The method of making this flower chicken is so simple that it does not even require any extra procedures or seasonings. However, the temperature of the fire requires a lot of skill, and only those with rich experience can truly roast it to have a satisfying taste.
After washing the mud off her hands in the pond, Lin Wei came back and sat by the fire, adding firewood to it. She was already a little impatient.
"Ye Chui, Ye Chui, are you almost well?"
"How can it be so fast? We have to wait a little longer."
after awhile.
"Ye Chui, Ye Chui, are you almost done? I seem to smell a fragrance."
"… There's no fragrance. We need to wait a little longer."
A while later.
"Ye Chui, Ye Chui, are you still not well?"
“… Almost there, but we don’t have enough firewood. Let’s get some more.”
A while later.
"Ye Chui, Ye Chui, I'm so hungry, are you not well yet?"
"No, we have to wait a little longer."
A while later.
"Ye Chui, Ye Chui, I've been waiting for such a long time, and it's still not healed?"
"it is ready."
A while later.
Lin Wei, who was squatting by the fire with her chin supported by her hands, suddenly reacted: "Huh!? It's ready? Hurry up, I really want to try this beggar's chicken."
Ye Chui smiled bitterly and shook his head. It was really joyful to be with the little greedy cat. He waited for the fire in front of him to burn out, then he peeled off the layer of ash on it, carefully dug out the chicken wrapped in mud, and knocked off the outer layer of mud. The aroma of the cooked chicken, mixed with the fragrance of lotus leaves, emanated from it.
The taste is not as strong as spicy chicken, but it has a charming temperament.
The chicken roasted using this unique cooking method showed a bright red color, which made people salivate. Lin Wei looked at the tempting chicken and reached out to grab it, but Ye Chui hurriedly grabbed her hand: "It's hot, be careful."
"Oh." Lin Wei looked at Ye Chui eagerly as he took out a kitchen knife to cook the beggar chicken. She didn't even notice that her hand was being held by Ye Chui...
Just at this moment, suddenly a "crackling" sound was heard in the grass nearby.
The sound was not loud, but at least Ye Chui and Lin Wei heard it, and they hurriedly looked to the side.
"Ye Chui, what's that sound?" Lin Wei looked at the bushes that were more than half a person's height and asked fearfully, "Is it some wild animal?"
"There won't be any wild animals on this small hill, will there?"
Ye Chui frowned, but he couldn't help but think of a scene in The Legend of the Condor Heroes, where Huang Rong and Guo Jing invited Hong Qigong to come when they were cooking beggar's chicken...
Could it be that when Lin Wei and I grill this beggar chicken today, we will attract some hermit expert
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ps: There has never been a unified view on the Manchu-Han Banquet. Since this book is a novel, it is naturally fictional. The 328 dishes are just a folk saying. As for the classification of ordinary dishes, delicacies, imperial flavors, and Shangshan, it is a setting made entirely for the plot to be interesting. Please don't be too serious~~~~~~ Please collect and recommend. A new week has begun. I will rush to the list this week. If I enter the top 20 of the new book list, I will add more~~~