The Young Master of the Chamberlain's Family

☆ 20. Hawthorn Meat Strips

Hawthorn Meat Strips

After drinking two cups of sweet and sour plum soup, it was almost time for lunch. Xu Anheng asked someone to remove the teapot on the table and then grabbed Zheng Qingyan's wrist and left the room.

"Brother, I want to drink more." Zheng Qingyan turned his head to look at the white jade teacup on the table while being pulled away, with a hint of reluctance.

Xu Anheng refused without even turning his head, saying, "I can't drink now. I need to save some space for lunch."

After saying this, Zheng Qingyan knew that it was useless to continue talking, so he had to retract his gaze and asked, "Brother, where are we going?"

Xu Anheng pulled people along the shade of the tree and the house, and replied, "To the small kitchen. I bought a lot of dried hawthorns at the medicine store yesterday, just in time for cooking at noon."

Dried hawthorns are sour and sweet and appetizing. Everyone in the family has a poor appetite now, so it's just right to use them. When Xu Anheng saw this medicinal ingredient at the medicine store yesterday, he had an idea, so it's just right to try it today.

After the dried hawthorn is boiled with water, white sugar is added until it is soft. The soft hawthorn is mashed into a paste. Then the sliced ​​meat is mixed with salt, cooking wine, eggs, etc., and then coated with a layer of flour. Fry it in an oil pan until it is cooked. After it is cooked, take it out and fry it again in the pan. This way it tastes crispier. Then pour the mashed hawthorn paste into the pan with scallion and ginger shreds and stir-fry. After the aroma comes out, pour the fried meat strips and stir-fry evenly in the pan. Finally, sprinkle a handful of sesame seeds before serving.

After sweating in the small kitchen, the hawthorn meat strips were finally served. Xu Anheng tasted it and thought it was good. He picked up another piece and blew it, and fed it to the little brother who had been with him all the time.

"Is it delicious?" Xu Anheng asked with a smile.

Zheng Qingyan looked at him with round eyes, his cheeks puffed up as he chewed happily. After he swallowed his meat strips, he licked his lips and said, "It's delicious, sour and sweet."

Xu Anheng pinched his face, put half of a large plate of hawthorn meat strips into a lunch box, and asked Qingmu to send it to the Imperial College along with the prepared sour plum soup. He took Zheng Qingyan by the hand and walked to the dining hall with the still steaming hawthorn meat strips.

Imperial College.

It was lunch time for the students. Xu Chenwen got two vegetarian dishes and a bowl of soup from the dining hall and brought them back to his seat. In addition to him, two of his classmates were already sitting at the table.

Liu Zechuan, who was sitting on Xu Chenwen's left, glanced at the food on his plate: "Are you going to eat only these two dishes?"

"The food in the dining hall is the same every day. The meat looks greasy and hard to swallow. I really can't eat it." Xu Chenwen used chopsticks to pick up the stir-fried lotus root slices in the bowl and sighed.

Meng Qiyan, who was sitting opposite, also sighed. The food in the dining hall was indeed hard to swallow, but he couldn't not eat it. He couldn't hold it, so he just dealt with two bites casually.

Just as several people were looking bitter and picked up bamboo chopsticks to eat, someone came over and shouted: "Brother Chenwen, someone from your house has sent food."

Xu Chenwen was stunned, thanked him, then put down the bamboo chopsticks and walked towards the door.

Outside the door, Qingmu was waiting with a food box in his hand. When he saw the second young master coming out, he hurriedly went to greet him and bowed: "Second young master, this is what the young master asked me to bring. He said that this meat dish tastes sour and refreshing, and asked the second young master to eat more, not just vegetarian food. In addition to a meat dish, there is also a pot of sour plum soup. The young master said that it is best to drink it in the afternoon to refresh the mind and cool down."