ebookland Chapter 146 Seafood with Sauce
Chapter 146 Seafood with Sauce
Li Yuer cleaned the remaining seafood, including abalone, oysters, cat's eye snails, etc. and poured them into the pot.
“This will be one of our signature dishes from now on.”
"What? What's the signature dish?" Li Erlang said in surprise, "Are we really going to set up a food stall?"
Li Yuer put onions, ginger, garlic, rice wine and soy sauce into the seafood and marinated it.
"Well, during the temple fair, we will try to set up a stall. The tide will gradually come in a few days, and we won't go fishing anymore. Let Nao Nao and the others do it, and we will only be responsible for selling food.
The temple fair is held from the first to the fifteenth day of the lunar month. Let’s take these to the temple fair the day after tomorrow and try it out.”
Li Meir said: "We still have to pay New Year's greetings on the morning of the first day of the new year."
Li Erlang was afraid that Li Yuer would change his mind, so he quickly said, "New Year's greetings are usually in the morning. People in the town also want to pay New Year's greetings and have reunion dinners in the morning, so it's just right for us to set up the stall in the afternoon."
Li Laosan said: "They will be full at noon after setting up the stall in the afternoon. Will they buy our products?"
Li Yuer said confidently: "Of course, our food is just like snacks, it won't make you feel full, it's perfect to buy it back and have a drink in the evening."
Li Erlang asked: "Where will we set up our stall in the future?"
Li Yuer said: "I plan to buy a shop of my own."
"Buy a shop?" Li Mei'er said disapprovingly, "Do you know how much a shop costs? A good one could cost a hundred or eighty taels."
Li Erlang stopped talking. Li Yuer gave him more than 180 taels, a full 500 taels.
"Will you buy shares?" Li Yu'er asked, "If you do, we will give you dividends according to your shares."
“What is equity investment?”
"It means investing money according to share, and then dividing the money according to share."
Li Erlang calculated in his mind that he probably had more than twenty taels of silver now.
"I'll invest twenty taels."
He was planning to bet his entire fortune on this. He had confidence in Li Yuer. After all, he was guaranteed to make money by following his sister.
Li Laosan said, "I'll join too. I can offer ten taels of silver."
He made twelve taels of money from selling oil lamps for the last time, and spent all the money he earned before that.
Li Mei'er thought for a moment and said, "I'll invest, too. I'll put in 10 taels."
She probably had the most money, as she was the first to follow Li Yuer and had saved about thirty taels of silver. But she didn't plan to use it all to invest, she wanted to buy land that could be passed down from generation to generation.
Li Yuer said: "Brother, go ask your eldest cousin if he wants to buy in."
After a while, the seafood was pickled and Li Erlang and Li Dalang came.
"Yu Baoer, are you really planning to open a shop? Why don't you discuss it with your grandparents?" Li Dalang's eyes were full of worry.
"Of course we need to discuss it. We are a family and we can make money together, but I think our brothers and sisters can also have their own ways to make money and can't always ask our family for money."
Li Dalang felt that what Li Yuer said made sense. After the New Year, they would all be adults, and Li Meir would also reach the age of marriage. It was time for them to take on the burden of the family, especially him, as he was the eldest grandson in the family and should share more of the burden.
"Well, I will also invest ten taels of silver."
This was about all he had, so he kept the rest just in case. After all, doing business was risky.
"Okay! Let's start making the seafood with sauce and the marinated seafood. Let's make the seafood with sauce first."
Li Yuer started to light the fire. "When the water boils, put the seafood in to blanch. Remember, blanch them separately. Different seafood takes different times to cook. Take out the clams as soon as they open and drain them. Use cold water to drain, and then add the seafood one by one."
Li Laosan and two other people blanched the seafood together, rinsed it with cold water and put it into a basin.
Li Yuer said: "The next step is to fry the spices. Put the scallions, ginger slices, peppercorns, and star anise into the oil and simmer over low heat. When the spices are golden and dry, remove them from the pan."
Li Meir was instructing and controlling the heat from the side, Li Laosan was doing it himself, and Li Erlang was watching from the side first.
After the spices were fried, Li Yuer began to teach the next step. She took out a small wooden basin and put in appropriate amounts of coarse chili powder, fine chili powder, sesame seeds, and dried chili segments.
“When you prepare chili sauce in the future, remember the approximate proportions, which is about the same as mine now. It is best to prepare the chili ingredients before frying the spice oil, otherwise the effect will be poor when the oil cools down.
Pour the spice oil you just prepared into the chili sauce in small amounts and multiple times, stirring as you pour the oil. This way, the chili oil is ready. ”
Li Erlang was dazzled and said with a bitter face: "This is too complicated! I was wondering why you went to the pharmacy to buy medicine. It turns out that medicinal herbs can also be used to make dishes."
Star anise and Sichuan peppercorns are still considered medicinal herbs. Li Yuer said, "Medicinal herbs can nourish the body, and they can naturally be used in cooking. Eating them can strengthen the body."
After the chili oil was prepared, Li Yuer began to ask them to prepare the spicy marinade.
"Pour in so much soy sauce," Li Yuer demonstrated, "and sugar, chicken juice, garlic slices, chili rings, and finally add an appropriate amount of boiled water. Stir well and it will become a sauce.
It would taste better with chicken soup and pork bone soup, but we’ll talk about that later.”
Li Yuer picked out some blanched seafood and placed them on a plate, saying, "First pour the sauce over it, then pour the chili oil over it. Add more or less according to your taste, or add nothing. You can eat it after adding. It will taste better after it sits for a quarter of an hour.
Seafood with sauce is especially suitable for eating in summer. It is very refreshing when served cold with the sauce. Come and try it.
This season is also suitable for drinking. "
Li Yuer still let Li Laosan taste it first, "Uncle San, if you are the chef in the future, you should taste the dishes carefully and summarize their advantages and disadvantages."
Li Laosan took an abalone, which was cooked to the perfect softness and texture, and served with sauce.
"Yeah! Delicious!"
Li Erlang couldn't help but pick up a cat's eye snail, pulled the lid and pulled out the snail meat, "Hmm! Fresh! Spicy! Delicious!"
As he ate, he said, "This seafood sauce is amazing. It will definitely make money. Yu Baoer, where did you get this recipe?"
Li Yuer smiled and said, "Of course I figured it out myself."
"So amazing!" Li Erlang didn't believe it, "Are you that amazing? Could it be..." He looked around and saw that there was no one else around except them, so he said, "Could it be that he stole the knowledge from Nongchao Tower?"
Li Yuer snatched the sea cucumber from his hand, threw it into her mouth, and said, "This is my own secret recipe. Nongchao Tower doesn't have it either. If you don't believe me, go and have a look. Aren't all the recipes in this world invented by people? Why can they do it but I can't?"
"Well said, Yu Baoer, Erlang, who are you looking down upon? Don't encourage others to become more ambitious and destroy your own prestige." Li Meir said.
Li Yuer looked at Dalang, who had been silent, and said, "Big cousin, do you want to learn how to cook?"
Dalang was silent for a while, then nodded firmly, "I do."
He has been having an idea in his head recently. He feels that he is the most useless person in the family. In the past, he was the eldest grandson in the family, the most capable and the least troublesome. Now, he seems to be nothing but diving and chopping wood at home every day.
He wanted to learn a skill and become a useful person so that he could continue to protect his younger brothers and sisters.
Li Yuer nodded and said, "Then you will be the one to prepare the braised seafood next."
Li Yuer pointed at the remaining seafood and said, "The process of braising seafood is also to blanch the seafood first, then rinse it with cold water, and then stir-fry the base ingredients. Okay, heat the oil in the wok first."
Li Yuer was still in charge of lighting the fire because she wanted others to have the opportunity to watch the cooking process. Lighting the fire requires watching the fire, and one cannot do two things at the same time, which would affect learning to cook.