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Chapter 466: Whatever it looks like, the most important thing is to taste good

While the glutinous rice was being steamed, Shen Huazheng and others in the kitchen began to prepare other ingredients.

Peel and cut the ginkgo nuts, remove the core, and set aside after cooking.

The white sesame seeds should also be fried first to bring out the aroma.

Soak the red dates first so that they will be more flavorful when cooked with syrup later.

Clean the water chestnuts, peel them and cut them into pieces.

Shen Huazheng lit a pot, poured in the prepared syrup, then put in the red dates and ginkgo nuts, brought to a boil and then turned to low heat to start cooking the cake.

Zhou Ying helped to chop the sugar-coated winter melon into pieces, and Princess Lejia also obediently cut the tangerine cakes into small pieces.

Seeing that it was almost cooked, Shen Huazheng asked someone to take the red dates and ginkgo nuts out of the pot.

At this time, the red dates and ginkgo nuts have been cooked to perfection, and the glutinous rice has also been steamed.

Shen Huazheng asked someone to bring a large porcelain bowl, poured the glutinous rice into it, and while it was still hot, poured in white sugar, white sesame seeds and sugar-coated winter melon shreds, and then added a few spoonfuls of special scallion oil.

Then she took the spoon and started stirring the glutinous rice in circles.

Since the glutinous rice is very hot at this time, the white sugar and scallion oil poured into the porcelain bowl can be easily dissolved and stirred evenly.

While stirring, Shen Huazheng said to Zhou Ying and Princess Lejia: "In addition to the ingredients, the cooking time of the glutinous rice is also very important in the Eight Treasure Rice Pudding."

As she spoke, she gestured to them to look at the glutinous rice in the bowl: "If the glutinous rice is still intact after mixing, it means that the glutinous rice is not overcooked. If the glutinous rice becomes broken after stirring, then the glutinous rice should be a little soft."

Zhou Ying nodded and silently took note of it in her mind.

Princess Lejia's eyes still did not leave the glutinous rice in the bowl. She uttered "hmm" softly to indicate that she understood.

As Shen Huazheng stirred, the aroma of scallion oil slowly overflowed along with the fragrance of glutinous rice, with a charming sweet scent.

The tempting aroma kept drilling into people's noses, arousing the gluttony in the stomachs of everyone around.

Princess Lejia stared at the glutinous rice in the porcelain bowl and couldn't help swallowing.

The glutinous rice grains are crystal clear and plump after being taken out of the pot. Now after adding sugar and scallion oil, they look even more fragrant.

This dessert looks neither like a dessert nor like a meal.

But it smells so good~~

No matter what it looks like, what matters most is that it tastes good.

However, it seems like something is missing.

Princess Lejia looked at the red bean paste, tangerine cakes and other ingredients that seemed to have been forgotten, and couldn't help asking, "Zhengzheng, should we put these up there too?"

Shen Huazheng carefully mixed all the seasonings, ingredients and glutinous rice in the bowl thoroughly: "They are not placed on the glutinous rice."

As she spoke, she asked someone to bring a large porcelain bowl, spread oil evenly inside, flattened the red bean paste and placed it in the middle of the bowl.

Then place the tangerine cakes and red dates in the order of one tangerine cake and one red date around the edges.

Ginkgo nuts and horseshoe pieces are placed above the tangerine cakes and red dates. At a glance, there are all kinds of colors, including vermilion, dark red, orange, yellow, white, and light green.

Princess Lejia & Zhou Ying:? つ ?_? ?つ

Aren’t these ingredients served with the sticky rice? Are they to be eaten separately?

Or, do these ingredients also need to be cooked and then put into the glutinous rice? ?

Just as they were daydreaming, Shen Huazheng poured the glutinous rice into the porcelain bowl, covering the colorful ingredients underneath.

Use a spoon to smooth the glutinous rice, put it back into the steamer and start steaming.

Princess Lejia: (╯□╰)

Zheng Zheng had just arranged the dish so beautifully, and now she was covering all the ingredients with glutinous rice.

Then why put it there? ?

Also, isn’t the glutinous rice just out of the steamer?

"Zheng Zheng, wasn't the glutinous rice already steamed? Why do we need to steam it again?"

Shen Huazheng looked at Princess Lejia with a curious look on her face and couldn't help but smile.

"The glutinous rice has indeed been steamed just now. Steaming it again now is to make the glutinous rice softer and smoother, and to allow the aroma of other ingredients to blend better with the glutinous rice."

In fact, there is another more auspicious saying that steaming glutinous rice twice means prosperity.

About a quarter of an hour later, Shen Huazheng asked someone to take the rice out of the pot and neatly turned the large porcelain bowl containing glutinous rice upside down on the plate.

This eight-treasure rice pudding, just like the original preserved vegetable and braised pork, landed safely on the plate.

At this time, Princess Lejia, Zhou Ying and others finally understood why Shen Huazheng had arranged the dish just now.

Princess Lejia couldn't help but exclaimed: "It's so beautiful. It looks like a cake."

Ahhh, looking at this glutinous rice, she suddenly wanted to eat cake.

The kind with various fruits and cream decorations on top.

Zhou Ying: "It is indeed very delicate, and looks like a painting."

On top of the white glutinous rice, there are dark red red bean paste, bright red red dates, orange tangerine cakes, white water chestnuts, yellow ginkgo nuts, and tender green sugar winter melon...

The colors of the various ingredients complement each other, making them look bright and giving people a strong visual impact.

This rich color combination not only makes people's eyes bright, but also makes people can't wait to taste the deliciousness of this dish.

Princess Lejia looked at the glutinous rice carefully and murmured to herself: "No wonder it is called Eight Treasure Rice. There are really eight treasures."

There are now a total of six ingredients on the glutinous rice, plus the pine nuts and white sesame seeds hidden in the glutinous rice, making it exactly eight.

Shen Huazheng: "In fact, you can also add other sweets, as long as you like them. There is no specific quantity or category limit."

As she spoke, she poured the remaining syrup over the glutinous rice, and the eight-treasure rice pudding was officially ready.

Shen Huazheng looked at the "finished" eight-treasure rice pudding and a satisfied smile appeared on her face.

Eight Treasure Rice Pudding has a long history, and it is difficult to trace it back to the exact year of its birth.

However, its traces can still be found in some ancient books and documents.

In the Western Zhou Dynasty's "Book of Zhou: The First Chapter of Tianguan Zongzai", it was mentioned: "The food on the dish is made of glutinous rice, bait and flour."

At that time, "Qiuer Fenpian" was a food made by grinding grains into powder. Some scholars have suggested that this may contain the grain-based production concept of Eight Treasure Rice Pudding.

Some people also believe that this is most likely the prototype of Eight Treasure Rice Pudding.

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Jia Sixie mentioned the production method of "zongzi" in "Qimin Yaoshu", which included a combination of various ingredients, which is similar to the eight-treasure rice in terms of ingredient combination.

Although the name "Eight Treasure Rice Pudding" had not yet appeared at this time, the early records of these food production laid the foundation for the formation of Eight Treasure Rice Pudding.

Moreover, just as zongzi can be divided into sweet and savory ones, eight-treasure rice pudding can also be divided into sweet and savory ones.

My grandfather said that because of different customs in different parts of the country, the tastes and ingredients are also different.

The eight-treasure rice pudding made is naturally different.

But no matter where the eight-treasure rice is from, it always carries the meaning of reunion, happiness and auspiciousness.

This eight-treasure rice pudding, which has a colorful appearance and good meaning, is also an inseparable part of Shen Huazheng's memory.

Today I can finally eat the eight-treasure rice pudding that I remember.

There was a lot of food for afternoon tea, but for dinner Shen Huazheng and the other two simply had a bowl of mutton noodles, and then moved on to dessert.

The maid scooped a little eight-treasure rice pudding for each of them and put it in a bowl, then placed it in front of them.

Princess Lejia had been craving for the food for a long time, and she immediately picked up the spoon, scooped up a spoonful of eight-treasure rice pudding, and put it into her mouth.

The glutinous rice mixed with the delicate and soft bean paste enters your mouth. It is fragrant, soft, smooth and sweet with a slight salty taste.

Incredibly delicious.

Princess Lejia swallowed the eight-treasure rice pudding in her mouth, and surprise suddenly appeared in her big eyes.

When steaming the glutinous rice for the second time, the aroma of various ingredients permeates into the rice grains.

The glutinous rice absorbs the flavors of other ingredients, and the red bean paste is delicate, smooth, and rich in flavor.

While eating, you can also taste white sesame seeds and pine nuts hidden in the glutinous rice.

The soft, glutinous and delicate taste adds a layer of crispy fragrance.

What’s even more surprising is the aroma of scallion oil added to the glutinous rice.

She never imagined that the combination of scallion oil and glutinous rice would be so harmonious, it was simply a perfect match.

The aroma of scallion oil and the fragrance of glutinous rice blend together, which not only makes the glutinous rice smoother, but also improves the taste level, making it taste unique.

Zhou Ying tasted the glutinous rice and squinted her eyes slightly because it tasted so good.

Eight Treasure Rice Pudding has attractive color and overflowing aroma.

With every bite, you can taste the softness of the glutinous rice and the deliciousness of the various ingredients.

The steamed glutinous rice has more distinct grains than the boiled one, is soft but not sticky, and has an excellent taste.

The glutinous rice is soft and the red bean paste is delicate.

The ginkgo nuts have been soaked in syrup and taste sweet.

Take a bite, and the unique aroma of ginkgo and the fresh fragrance of glutinous rice intertwine in your mouth, and the more you chew, the more delicious it becomes.

Zhou Ying scooped up another piece of tangerine cake with a spoon and put it into her mouth.

When eaten alone, the tangerine cake has a smooth texture and is full of tangerine fragrance.

It can be added to eight-treasure rice pudding to give it a different flavor.

After chewing it, your mouth is immediately filled with sweetness and fragrance, which makes you feel happy.

Princess Lejia swallowed the glutinous rice in her mouth and said, "It smells so good. No wonder Zheng Zheng specially cooked some scallion oil two days ago and saved it. It turned out to be for making eight-treasure rice pudding."

This eight-treasure rice pudding tastes particularly moist and delicious. It is really tasty.

If the scallion oil made this time was not completely different from the scallion oil used to make scallion oil noodles before, both in terms of ingredients and methods, she would have thought that Zheng Zheng wanted to make scallion oil noodles.

It seems that Zheng Zheng started thinking about making eight-treasure rice pudding from that time.

Zhou Ying: "A Ning is right. Scallion oil not only goes well with glutinous rice, but also with tangerine cakes."

She even thought that scallion oil and tangerine cake could be used alone to make a dish, which would definitely be delicious.

Princess Lejia scooped up another spoonful of eight-treasure rice and muttered, "They're all called scallion oil, but the scallion oil used in scallion oil noodles, scallion oil chicken, and eight-treasure rice is different."

Shen Huazheng smiled and said, "The food culture is broad and profound, and there are countless types of food, and of course the same goes for sauces. There are still differences between scallion oil and scallion oil."

There are many ways to make scallion oil, including Chaoshan scallion oil, Cantonese scallion oil, Su style scallion oil and Min style scallion oil.

The aroma of Chaoshan scallion oil is mild, not burnt or bitter, and has a light sweet fragrance.

It is usually used when making eight-treasure rice, various fried foods and fish rice.

Cantonese scallion oil has a fresh and delicious flavor and is usually used when eating boiled chicken or steamed fish.

Suzhou-style scallion oil is rich and fragrant and is generally used to make scallion oil noodles.

Fujian-style scallion oil has a caramelized and sweet flavor, and is suitable for seasoning rice and seafood.

Shen Huazheng scooped up a spoonful of eight-treasure rice pudding with a spoon, put it into her mouth, and savored it carefully.

This time, she added Chaoshan scallion oil to the eight-treasure rice pudding, which not only added fragrance to the eight-treasure rice pudding, but also balanced the sweetness.

As you chew, you can smell the faint aroma of scallion oil hidden in the glutinous rice.

The feeling of the subtle fragrance is really fascinating.

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Ning Yu and General Xie sat around the table with a bowl of dumplings in front of them.

In addition to dumplings, there were also mutton soup, barbecue and steamed buns on the table.

General Xie looked at Ning Yu and waved his hand generously.

"You can eat as much as you want from me. If you don't have enough, I'll have someone grill some more meat for you."

"Of course, I won't be polite to you."

Seeing so many delicious foods, Ning Yu instantly forgot all his worries about investigating the case.

He picked up a dumpling with chopsticks, dipped it in the small dish of sauce, then brought it to his mouth and couldn't wait to take a bite.

The dumpling skin is smooth but not too soft, but rather has a hint of toughness.

As soon as your teeth bite open the dumpling skin, the sweet gravy inside will flow out, making the tip of your tongue feel slightly numbing.

Take another bite and you will taste the tender and juicy lamb filling inside.

Ning Yu chewed the dumplings in his mouth, with only one thought in his mind -

So fresh and fragrant!!

The mutton filling in the dumplings did not have too many seasonings, just a simple little ginger and scallion juice.

While removing the mutton smell, the original sweetness of the mutton is retained to the greatest extent.

Served with spicy sauce, it creates a wonderful flavor.

General Xie also picked up a dumpling with chopsticks, blew on it, and then put it into his mouth.

When you take a bite, the meat filling will burst with juice.

General Xie was slightly stunned. The dumplings made with mutton stuffing were so plump and delicious.

Why had he never thought of making dumplings with mutton before?? !!

Not only does it have no smell, it is also tender and juicy.

The toughness and smoothness of the dumpling skin and the sweetness of the meat filling are perfectly combined to form a unique taste.

Ning Yu didn't stop for a moment and ate five or six dumplings in a row.

General Xie was somewhat speechless: "Slow down, no one is competing with you for it. Be careful not to choke."

He is not young anymore, but still so greedy. Isn't he afraid of being laughed at?

Ning Yu swallowed the dumplings in her mouth happily, scooped up the mutton soup in the bowl with a spoon and took a sip.

It is so pleasant to eat mutton dumplings and drink mutton soup.

"Old Xie, you are living a very comfortable life here."

The mutton here is really delicious whether it is roasted, boiled, or used to make dumplings.

To be honest, life in Yuzhang County was so comfortable that he didn't want to go back to the capital.

After I go back, I will never be able to eat such delicious mutton again.

However, it's not possible to never go back.

Once the case is solved, he will have to go back to work.