PFC Chapter 761: Brushing Fish with Salt Water
Chapter 761: Brushing Fish with Salt Water
"Cousin, when do we start grilling?"
Zhou Dinghai couldn't wait to eat some barbecue, even though it was less than an hour before the meal was over.
"Boil water first and pluck the bird feathers." Chen Feng ordered.
"All of them?" Zhou Dinghai couldn't hide his excitement in his voice.
"Can you finish eating?"
Chen Feng asked with a smile.
"You can save them for tomorrow morning!" Zhou Dinghai took a look and realized that they could not be finished, but he was worried that after Chen Feng left tomorrow, his elders would cook the birds.
Barbecue is delicious!
When it comes to cooking meat, unless it’s braised meat or canned meat brought by my cousin, homemade meat is not as delicious as grilled meat.
"No, just bring out the empty cans and bottles. I'll make braised meat for you and seal it in the bottles. This way, you can still eat it after ten days or half a month."
"Oh!"
The two cousins were immediately extremely happy.
Boiled meat is really not as delicious as roasted meat. When they heard that my cousin wanted to make it into braised meat, they were very accepting of it.
Grandma, aunt and others were all enjoying the cool air in the yard. The sea breeze was blowing, and it was much cooler outside than in the house.
People in the city have electric fans and like to use them in the house when it’s hot, but there are no such conditions in the countryside, so we can only use them outdoors. However, there are also a lot of mosquitoes now, so it’s also a pain.
That is to say, if Chen Feng opens a small bottle filled with his blood, he can scare these things away.
"Xiao Feng, don't bother with that. Just cook it directly. Grilling it will waste oil, and we don't have brine at home."
Chen Feng smiled and said, "It's okay, I brought the marinade ingredients."
He got a lot of seasonings from Sha Zhu, including half a pound of marinade specifically for marinating meat, which was enough to cook a lot of meat.
"I'll go boil some water!" Zhou Fubo happily went to the kitchen to light the fire.
Zhou Dinghai killed all the birds.
After a while, the water boiled and the whole family came to help pluck the feathers. When they were done, Chen Feng didn't have to do anything. Four little birds were left, and the rest were made into braised meat and cut into pieces as his grandmother suggested.
Chen Feng wanted to do it himself, but was stopped by his aunt.
"I'll do it, just teach me how to do it."
Chen Feng took out the prepared oil and marinade ingredients, and taught his aunt to marinate the ten pounds of bird meat according to Sha Zhu's instructions.
The iron pots in the countryside are several times larger than the coal stoves in the city, with a radius of almost one meter. They can cook everything in one go, unlike the Chen family, who had to cook the meat several times because there was too much meat.
The aroma of the marinade is so strong that you can smell it throughout the yard.
It took more than half an hour to braise the bird meat. I picked out a few bird legs and shared them with everyone to taste.
"Well, not bad, almost the same as a chicken leg." Zhou Jing said with a smile, grabbing a small bird leg with two fingers.
The two children also nodded and took small nibbles.
Grandpa laughed and said, "This is much better than barbecue. The roasted bird we had at Lao Wu's house last time was burnt, hard and tasted terrible."
Chen Feng also ate one. It tasted good, but it was certainly inferior to venison.
After filling up all the empty bottles and removing the air inside, there was still about two kilograms left.
"Grandma, you must finish eating these things tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."
"Let's cook tomorrow morning. Since you're here too," said Grandpa.
Chen Feng shook his head and said, "Forget it. I came here specially. I prefer seafood. I will go get some red sea bream and yellow croaker tomorrow morning."
Why not eat braised meat when you come to Tianjin? Of course, you should eat seafood!
Otherwise, he would have come here in vain!
Grandpa smiled and said, "That's fine, we'll go fishing with you, but we'll have to get up early."
"Save this meat for dinner."
"How about, the day after tomorrow, Jing, you can take some braised meat back to your parents-in-law's house." Grandma looked at the big pot of meat and said,
Zhou Jing smiled happily. He couldn't bear to eat venison and pork, but he had nothing to be reluctant about eating this kind of migratory bird meat.
"it is good!"
The two little cousins instantly looked like they wanted to cry, as they were still thinking about eating braised bird meat every day for the next few days!
Now I have to share it with my cousins!
After waiting until around eight o'clock, Chen Feng and his two cousins were roasting the bird in the yard. Zhou Jing also took out a few fresh mackerels that the village brigade had distributed this afternoon.
As a small cadre, he is treated well.
"Brush less, there's oil!" Zhou Jing felt distressed when he saw his son brushing several times in a row.
Zhou Dinghai had to brush three times before stopping because he was afraid of being beaten.
"Grandpa, grandma, mom, eat this!"
Chen Feng roasted a large Spanish mackerel that was cut into two halves and was more than 30 centimeters long. He then placed them on two plates and asked Zhou Dinghai to give one of them to the grandparents who were looking after the place.
"We don't eat it, you eat it."
Zhou Dinghai looked to his father for help.
"Dad, grandpa won't eat!"
"Dad, there's still half of it left. Let's try it!" Zhou Jing said as he sat beside the stone stove, holding a string of five prawns ready to be grilled.
If he hadn't used too much fuel today and had used salt water, he would have planned to call a few of his brothers of the same age to have a meal together.
"Let's eat it first. It won't taste good if it gets cold. We can bake it later."
Chen Feng smiled as he ate the grilled Spanish mackerel with chopsticks. His two cousins and Zhou Jing picked up the meat with chopsticks and ate it while continuing to grill the remaining conchs, oysters, prawns and the like.
After it was baked, he didn’t forget to give half of it to the old man.
Bird meat takes longer to cook than fish, so when the time is up, Chen Feng asked his two cousins to turn it over and grease it with oil.
The Zhou family uses oil to grill fish and meat, but the other little ones don't have this resource, so they can only brush the bird and fish meat with salt water to prevent the meat from burning and carbonizing after the water evaporates.
"Dad, it's really much more delicious!"
The boy nicknamed Little Fish Head ate the fish cooked with salt water and said happily to his father.
"Well, salt water won't burn the fish." The adult fisherman showed an enlightened expression and turned to the wife who was grilling the fish and said, "Grill it a little longer. It will taste better than cooking it in a pot."
On the stool next to the stone stove, there was a plate with several sea fish, two of which were mackerels. They were not big, only as wide as a palm, otherwise they would not have been shared.
There were a few big sweet potatoes on the stove, which made them want to dig them out and eat them.
Unfortunately, this thing takes even longer to mature.
There are many stone stoves in Zhoujiagou. Basically, every family with a child aged five or six will have a stove.
Children love to follow trends, especially when it’s for barbecue.
It’s just that the previous grilling was a mess, and most people gave up on eating grilled fish. This time Chen Feng came over to teach them a method, and most of the children couldn’t help but pester their parents to try grilling fish tonight.
There is no bird meat, but there is plenty of fish in the fishing village.
"Grandpa, Brother Chen Feng's method is really effective!"
"Haha, okay, then from now on when we grill fish at home, we'll brush it with salt water. Next time, we'll use less salt. It's still a little salty."
"What should I do with this bowl of water?"
"Put half of it in this empty bowl and add some water."
Soon, the way of grilling fish by brushing it with salt water spread among children in nearby fishing villages.