Chapter 708: Use Grape Juice to Make Grape Fish, Perfect! Chen Yan: If You Come Out to Fool Around, You Will Have to Pay Back Sooner or Later! 【Please Subscribe】

"I think the best thing is the eggs."

After Chen Yan finished the eggs, she tasted the pig's trotters and felt that the eggs were more delicious. The outside was sweet and sour with the spiciness of ginger, while the yolk inside was soft, glutinous and delicious, giving it a unique taste.

No wonder Cantonese people like to eat pig's feet and ginger. The taste and texture are really impressive.

Shen Jiayue swallowed a large piece of stewed elbow meat:

"I think they are all delicious... Let's take them out for everyone to eat. It seems very rude to stay in the house all the time."

In fact, she wanted to hear a compliment.

After all, this is a delicacy made by Lin Xu and herself, so rounding it off, it means that Shen Jiayue made it alone.

Chen Yan also wanted her relatives and elders to try it, so she nodded immediately and said:

"Yes, yes, let everyone have a taste. Come on, let me hold the pot."

After saying that, she was about to carry it out, but was stopped by Shen Jiayue:

"That's not okay. You are the key protection target of the family now. I can't let you do the work. I will do it...Xubao, do you want to serve some for you?"

Lin Xu said:

"I'm going to start making grape fish. I won't take care of it. Let's eat it together during meal time."

Upon hearing this, Shen Jiayue was not polite, put on insulated gloves, and walked out with the casserole.

At this time, there were many people sitting outside, including Mr. and Mrs. Shen Guofu, Mr. and Mrs. Shen Guofang, Ren Jie’s family, Mrs. Shen, Shi Wenqing’s family, Chen Yan’s aunt, uncle, grandparents, and Ren Jie’s family and relatives. etc……

A bustling crowd of people gathered together because Chen Yan was pregnant.

Shen Guofu originally thought that the small jar of wine that Kai brought was enough, but he did not expect that so many people would come today, so he moved out a box of ten-year-old Wuliangye that he had hidden in the kitchen cabinet.

According to wine collectors, wine that has been stored for about ten years is the best.

After ten years of storage, the unique spiciness and punch of liquor have become softened, but the alcohol content is not lacking. You can smell the rich aroma of liquor when you open the bottle, and it tastes very soft.

Over ten years, the alcohol content will gradually decrease, the alcohol content will decrease, and the taste will gradually begin to become sour.

But the price of wine that is more than ten years old will skyrocket, so even though the taste and mouthfeel have declined, it will still make people's hearts beat when drinking it.

After all, it is expensive. Once it becomes expensive, the feeling will naturally come up.

"Grandma, you guys try the pig's trotters and ginger I made. It's so delicious!"

Shen Jiayue took out the casserole and quickly brought bowls and chopsticks for everyone to serve.

There were so many people that there wasn't much pig's feet and ginger in the small casserole, but it didn't matter. There were two large pots in the big kitchen, so everyone present could definitely eat it.

Zeng Xiaoqi, who had just come from the company, approached Chen Yan and looked at her flat belly:

"I didn't expect that I would be pregnant with a baby. You can pay attention to your words and deeds in the future and don't teach the baby bad things."

Chen Yan touched her belly, her face full of maternal love:

"As long as you don't say bad words in front of me, my child will not be taught bad things...Besides, babies who don't have enough to eat learn to be bad. We have been eating well since we were young, so there is no reason to learn bad things."

Not enough to eat?

Zeng Xiaoqi looked at her bear blankly, and immediately became angry:

"Hey, baby Yan, don't forget to laugh at me even after you become a mother. Tomorrow I will start playing Das Kapital wherever you appear, so that your baby will know from an early age that you are a black-hearted capitalist."

Humph, if you dare to mock me, I will defeat you with magic.

Chen Yan whispered in Zeng Xiaoqi's ear:

"Xiao Qiqi, these pig's trotters and ginger have breast enlargement effect, the effect is super good."

When Zeng Xiaoqi heard this, she didn't care about the bickering. She took the initiative to serve herself a large bowl, then came to the side and started eating.

It doesn’t matter how big you can grow, as long as you can surpass Xiao Qing.

Han Shuzhen filled a bowl of pig's feet and ginger and brought it to Shi Wenqing:

"Pig's trotters and ginger promote lactation. Wenqing, eat more. Pack some to take away after dinner. Don't wrong yourself or the baby."

"No, auntie, I've gained a lot of weight recently for the sake of my child. You should eat too."

Chen Yan brought a bowl of pig's feet and ginger to Mrs. Han, and then picked up Dundun in the old lady's arms:

"Little fat cat, you haven't let me wear high heels since the past few days. Did you notice something?"

Dundun naturally refused to admit it:

"Meow~~~~~~"

The little guy screamed in grievance, and then jumped into Shen Guofu's arms next to him.

Shen Guofang whispered to Chen Yan:

"Xiaoyan, don't touch the cat if you're pregnant, just in case..."

"Don't worry, Mom. Wenqing just said that cats don't have so many viruses and bacteria. It's up to us to scare ourselves. Besides, Dundun is my eldest nephew, so I can't offend him."

It's not that he can't be offended, but he's threatening Dundun to make Yueyue happy.

For people with children, their weakness is naturally their children, and for people without children, their weakness is their cats.

Shen Guofang couldn't convince her daughter, so she didn't say anything more. Instead, she held a bowl and ate pig's trotters and ginger while asking Han Shuzhen what mothers should pay attention to in their daily lives.

"Keep a good mood, don't be impatient when doing things, try to wear flat shoes, don't wear heavy makeup or dye your hair, try to stay relaxed as a whole, and pay attention to those around you, don't create tension for her..."

Han Shuzhen talked about what she had learned in the obstetrics and gynecology department before, and asked Ren Jie to pay attention to Chen Yan's emotions, which is very important for the development of the fetus.

After Shen Jiayue greeted everyone outside, she entered the kitchen:

"Xubao, can I make sweet and sour fish fillets?"

Lin Xugang cooked the fish belly and said with a smile:

"That's it. Just beat an egg into the fish fillet, grab two handfuls of starch and a handful of flour, stir evenly, then use chopsticks to hold the pieces piece by piece and put them into the oil pan for frying."

In order to prevent this girl from having any accidents during the production process, Lin Xu simplified the steps as much as possible.

When Shen Jiayue heard this, she immediately brought over the marinated fish fillet, took out half of it, and started beating eggs to prepare the batter.

As for the rest, make it directly into boiled fish later.

Lin Xu put the oil pan on the stove, turned on high heat, and poured peanut oil into it.

When the oil was hot, the fish fillets had been hung with batter. Shen Jiayue brought the fish fillets to the stove, held the fish fillets with chopsticks, and lowered them into the pot one by one.

At the beginning, she actually wanted to make a video to show off.

But when I started frying, I forgot about this and devoted myself wholeheartedly to cooking delicious food. I concentrated on observing the fish fillets in the pot, and even turned the fried fish fillets over in the pot.

Wait until the fish fillets are fried until golden brown, take them out with a slotted spoon, and then start frying in the next pot.

"Wow, Xu Bao, how did I explode?"

Shen Jiayue asked as if taking credit.

Lin Xu glanced twice:

"Yes, the color is very good. Don't forget to fry the fish heads and tails for presentation later."

"Okay!"

There are so many people today that one table cannot be seated, so two tables are required, so the sweet and sour fish fillet requires two fish heads and two fish tails to serve on the plate.

The remaining ingredients, two fish tails are made into boiled water, and two fish heads are mixed into the boiled fish.

All dishes are clearly arranged and nothing is wasted.

Shen Jiayue fried all the dishes that needed oil, then raised the oil temperature and fried them again.

After taking the fish fillets out again, start arranging them.

Arrange the fish neatly in the middle of the plate, put the fish head and tail on top, and pour the sauce over it.

The sweet and sour sauce she makes is also the simplest one. Add a little oil to the pot, heat it up and add two tablespoons of tomato paste, one tablespoon of white vinegar, one tablespoon of sugar, and one teaspoon of salt.

Use a spoon to stir-fry quickly in the pot until it becomes a paste, then scoop a little hot oil from the fish frying pan and pour it in, stir-fry a few more times, then turn off the heat and remove from the pot.

Pour the sweet and sour sauce over the fish and call it a day!

Shen Jiayue looked at the dishes she had cooked with her hands on her hips, her face full of pride:

"Wow, I can't believe that I can have such cooking skills. Xu Bao, if I were to take the chef certificate test, what level would I be able to take?"

Lin Xu smiled bitterly:

"You can't even pass the knife skills test, so don't think about taking the exam."

All the preliminary work is done by others, and this kind of chef cannot pass the exam.

Shen Jiayue was not angry, but handed him chopsticks:

"Then you try my craftsmanship and see if there is anything that can be improved."

Lin Xu really wanted to try it. He picked up a piece of fish fillet covered in sweet and sour sauce and put it into his mouth. He took a bite. The rich sweet and sour flavor formed a strong contrast with the crispy fish meat.

The tenderness inside the fish fillets makes the taste richer.

However, it is not without its shortcomings. The fish fillets were a little over-fried, the sweet and sour sauce was not fried enough, and the sour aroma of the tomatoes was not fully fried. It should have been stir-fried for a while.

However, just when he was about to tell the truth, he accidentally caught a glimpse of a good boy wiping a kitchen knife and said quickly:

"The taste is very good. With my limited taste, I can't fault it at all."

"Really? You're not lying to me, are you?"

"No, no, absolutely not... Can you put down the kitchen knife first?"

Shen Jiayue put down the kitchen knife and kissed Lin Xu:

"Forget it, I won't tease you anymore... Xu Bao, hurry up and make grape fish. I still want to see it."

Lin Xu agreed and started production.

But before doing it, he also assigned a task to Shen Jiayue:

"Wash the grapes and blueberries, dry them, and use a juicer to squeeze out the grape juice. Don't make the ratio of blueberries too high. Just put a handful. Too much will make the color heavy and unsightly."

Shen Jiayue didn't expect that she could still participate, so she immediately asked the waiter to bring out two plates of sweet and sour fish fillets, and then started washing the grapes to prepare the juice.

Lin Xu beat two eggs, took the marinated fish, poured the egg liquid on it, and rubbed the fish inside and out.

Especially in the gaps between the knife patterns, it is applied very evenly.

After doing this, he took the fish out of the basin, controlled it a little to let the excess egg liquid flow out, and then put the whole fish into the bread crumbs and passed it through so that the surface of the fish was covered with bread crumbs.

Shen Jiayue looked over here while washing the grapes. She wanted to know how the original square fish pieces turned into round grape shapes.

After being wrapped in bread crumbs, the edges of the fish have disappeared and become much rounder, but there is still a gap between it and real grapes.

Lin Xu said:

"Actually, this dish makes use of visual dislocation. Regardless of whether it is round or not, the first thing you think of is grapes, which is the success of the dish. Moreover, after being coated in bread crumbs, it is also topped with a thick layer of sugar. Vinegar juice, relatively speaking, will be more like the grape itself."

Cover all the fish with batter, open the oil pan where Shen Jiayue fried the fish just now, heat the oil again, then put the fish in and fry it.

When you put it in, the fish skin begins to shrink when heated, and the knife edges open quickly.

What was originally a whole piece of fish was immediately rolled up and turned into a skewer of meat that really looked like grapes.

At this moment, Chen Yan walked in. Dinner was already served upstairs. She couldn't stand everyone's excessive concern, so she came downstairs to get some fresh air and order the dishes.

Uh-huh, a delicious dish that belongs exclusively to my baby Yan!

She pinched a grape that Shen Jiayue had just washed, put it into her mouth, tasted it, and then said:

"Wow, so sour!"

Shen Jiayue was stunned:

"You don't like sour food?"

"I like it, but it's too sour. And the pig's feet and ginger are a bit spicy for me, so I don't dare to eat more."

I don’t like sourness or spicy food. So, should the baby in my belly be a boy or a girl?

Shen Jiayue felt that her CPU was going to be burned out.

But then I thought about it, the baby probably hasn't started growing yet, so don't guess.

She washed the grapes quickly, put them together with the blueberries and squeezed them into juice. At this moment, Lin Xu had also fried the fish.

"Xubao, why don't you start now?"

Shen Jiayue asked anxiously when she saw that Lin Xu didn't arrange the dishes.

"I'm going to fry it again later. I'll make the grape-flavored sweet and sour sauce first. If you want, you can learn from it. Grape fish of this color shouldn't be available outside."

Due to cost considerations, most grape fish are made with tomato sauce.

Because better grapes are too expensive, if you want to cook with grape juice, you need at least two kilograms of grapes per serving.

And there are so many people in the kitchen. If you make two kilograms of grapes, one person and another will eat them up before they even start cooking.

In addition, it is difficult to control the color of grapes. Some are dark and some are light. Relatively speaking, it is more cost-effective to use tomato paste, which is cheap, has less loss, and has stable color.

Lin Xu set up the wok, moistened it first, then added half a spoonful of peanut oil and two sections of green onions.

After the green onions are fragrant, take out the green onions, add half a spoonful of tomato paste, stir-fry with the fat in the pan until the tomato paste becomes sandy, and add a basic color to the sweet and sour sauce.

After the tomato sauce is fried, pour the grape juice along the edge of the pot.

Due to the presence of blueberries, the squeezed grape juice is dark purple, but when neutralized by the tomato sauce, it turns a very beautiful purple-red color.

Bring to a boil over high heat and add some sugar and white vinegar.

At this time, turn on the stove of the oil pan next to it and prepare to fry the fish again.

When the taste is about the same, add some water starch to make the soup thicker.

Compared with other sweet and sour dishes, the sauce for grape fish is a little thicker, so that after the sauce is poured, it will take on the round shape of grapes.

After thickening, the temperature in the oil pan next to it has also risen.

Lin Xu scooped up half a spoonful of hot oil and poured it into the purple-red sauce, then poured the fish into the oil pan and started frying it again.

It doesn’t take long to re-fry the fish, it can be out of the pan in seven or eight seconds.

Use a slotted spoon to take out the fish and place it on a plate. Then take a few spinach leaves and cut them into the shape of grape leaves with a kitchen knife. Blanch them in hot water and place them next to the grape fish.

When everything is ready, pour the purple-red soup full of grape flavor.

The thick soup instantly soaks into the seams of the fish, making it look very tempting.

When everything was ready, Shen Jiayue and Chen Yan couldn't help but exclaimed:

"It's really just like grapes. It's amazing."

"It's so awesome that I can't bear to eat it. I quickly bring it upstairs for everyone to see."

Shen Jiayue and Chen Yan each carried a portion and prepared to send it upstairs for their relatives to have a taste.

However, as soon as I went out, I met the rich sister who came to get the pig's feet and ginger. When she saw the grape fish on the plate, the rich sister was also a little surprised:

"This dish is so beautiful. How much does it cost? I want to buy one."

Chen Yan said:

"These two portions are for our own family and we cannot sell them. If you want to eat them, you can only make a reservation in the afternoon."

Shen Jiayue also echoed:

"Yes, the herring used in this dish is hard to buy in the capital. If you want to eat it, you have to make a reservation first."

Since she couldn't eat it today, Sister Fu had to ask curiously:

"Where's Dundun? Why didn't you see it when you just went upstairs?"

"My grandma is holding it. Sister Fu, do you still want to buy Dundun?"

Shen Jiayue speaks more directly. She is really afraid that someone will miss her child. If this happens, she must be careful.

Sister Fu quickly waved her hand:

"I can't afford it, I just want to make friends with it. You guys go to eat. When I have time, I'll call Ms. Shu at the front desk to order this dish... Is this grape fish? It's different from what I usually see. ."

"Yes, yes, it's grape fish. It's made with grape juice. It's not easy to buy outside."

At this time, Zhuang Yizhou walked out of the kitchen carrying a large thermos bucket and handed it to Sister Fu:

"Is it the pig's trotters and ginger you ordered? It's already done. If you can't finish it, you can reheat it so it won't go bad. But you can't heat it in a metal pot. It's best to use a clay pot or a casserole."

Pig's trotters and ginger are stewed in vinegar. Vinegar can react chemically with the iron pot, causing an iron smell. Therefore, try to avoid iron pots for this dish.

"Okay, thank you for the reminder."

The rich sister took the large thermos bucket and turned to go downstairs.

Shen Jiayue carried the grape fish and Chen Yan upstairs, chatting in a low voice as they walked:

"Yan Bao, why do I feel that this rich lady is weird?"

"Everyone has a different personality. What's so weird about that? I have to thank her. If the rich lady hadn't ordered the pig's feet and ginger, we probably wouldn't have thought of eating it."

Chen Yan has decided to eat pig's trotters and ginger once a week in the future to make the baby in her belly thrive.

Shen Jiayue smiled:

"I've learned how to make it, and I'll cook it for you when the time comes."

"Okay, my sister is nice to me."

"That is, an older pregnant woman like you must be carefully taken care of and nothing can go wrong."

Chen Yan: "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

On the day I became a mother, you didn't forget to laugh at me, right?

Thinking about the secret taunting she had made to Zeng Xiaoqi when she ate pig's feet and ginger, she didn't expect retribution to come so soon.

If you come out to hang out, you will have to pay it back sooner or later!

When the sisters went to the banquet hall, in the small kitchen, Lin Xu took a piece of tenderloin and cut it quickly, preparing to make a rare Fujian dish in the north - lychee meat while all the relatives were there!

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There was originally going to be a third update today, but I have to go out for a day due to family matters next week, so it will be a second update today. I have to save a day's worth of manuscripts in the past two days, and I'll do the third update when I get back from dealing with things. This chapter has 5100 words. Please vote for me!