Rich Peasant Girl: The General's Wife Has Space

After entering the inner hall, Duan Hongyi ordered tea and snacks to be served, and invited Xiao Wan and Xiao Laoer to have some tea.

Xiao Wan took a sip of tea and looked into Duan Hongyi's glowing eyes.

He said calmly, "Boss Duan, I have a few recipes here. Some are family heirlooms, and some are my own creations because I love cooking. It's useless for me to just talk about it. Can I borrow your kitchen?"

"Of course, Shopkeeper Liu, take Miss Xiao to the kitchen."

"Okay, Master, Miss Xiao, please come this way."

Xiao Wan followed Manager Liu to the kitchen.

When the chef in the kitchen heard about Xiao Wan's purpose, he looked indignant. Such a young girl actually had the audacity to say that she had a recipe. How could she even use a knife?

Xiao Wan's expression remained calm, as if she didn't see those gazes, and she walked straight to the prepared chopping board.

Then she turned around to look at the many pairs of eyes looking at her in anger, and said to Shopkeeper Liu, "Shopkeeper Liu, are you going to let all your chefs watch me cook?"

Shopkeeper Liu realized that this was true. He was stealing other people's skills in front of them, so he asked all the chefs to leave. Xiao Wan asked him and the head chef, Chef Wang, to stay.

Xiao Wan stopped and picked a piece of pork belly from the ingredients.

Wash it and cut it into mahjong-sized pieces, then put the cut pork belly into a pot with cold water and add ginger slices and green onion segments. Seeing this, Father Xiao hurried over to help his daughter light the fire.

After boiling over high heat, remove the pork belly, skim off the foam, drain the water, and place on a plate for later use.

Xiao Wan puts the chopped pork belly into a water-free and oil-free pot, stir-frying over low heat until the surface of the pork belly is golden brown and a lot of oil appears at the bottom of the pot, then removes the pork belly and sets aside.

Continue to use the lard fried in the pan, add an appropriate amount of white sugar (without rock sugar), and stir constantly with a spoon until it turns into a distinct caramel color.

Pour in the stir-fried pork belly and stir-fry until the pork belly is evenly coated with caramel color. Add scallion segments, dried red pepper, star anise and cinnamon powder. After sautéing, add appropriate amount of dark soy sauce and light soy sauce to color the pork belly so that each piece of pork belly is evenly colored.

Finally, add an appropriate amount of water to cover the pork belly, cover the pot, and simmer over low heat.

After finishing all this, Shopkeeper Liu was already attracted by the fragrance, his eyes shining.

Chef Wang was even more surprised, thinking that he had really underestimated this girl.

At such a young age, he has great knife skills and can make pork belly so fragrant that I am drooling just by smelling it.

I really underestimated this girl.

Xiao Wan didn't care what Manager Liu thought. Seeing that there was tofu in the kitchen, she asked Manager Liu if there was any bean paste or something like that in the kitchen.

After hearing this, Chef Wang quickly found a jar of slightly red sauce without any instructions from Manager Liu.

Xiao Wan took a sip with chopsticks and tasted it. The taste was just okay. She would wait until she got all the ingredients and then improve the bean paste.

Xiao Wan plans to make Mapo Tofu, a classic Sichuan dish, again.

First, flatten the garlic and chop it into pieces, and then chop the green onions. Even the shopkeeper Liu secretly admired Xiao Wan's knife skills.

Xiao Wan first cut the tofu into small pieces, put it in a pot and cook it on low heat for two to three minutes, adding a little salt. This will allow the moisture in the tofu to come out faster and also give the tofu a little salty taste.

After cooking, keep it in water to prevent it from sticking together when you take it out. Then find a piece of pork, chop it into minced meat, heat oil in a pan, add the minced meat and stir-fry quickly until it turns slightly yellow.

Xiao Wan scooped a spoonful of bean paste and added it to stir-fry until red oil came out. After the red oil came out, she added minced garlic and dried chilies and stir-fried them until fragrant. Then she added a bowl of water, light soy sauce, and a little bit of sugar to enhance the flavor.

The bean paste is already very salty, so there is no need to add salt. Then pour in the tofu and simmer for a few minutes. Finally, add a thin layer of water starch to thicken it.

Finally, Xiao Wan took out her own unique seasoning: pepper powder, and sprinkled a little in.

This is her secret recipe. The pepper powder should not be added too early, otherwise the whole pot of tofu will turn black.

Finally, cut a handful of green onions and sprinkled them on the surface of the tofu. The color, aroma and taste were all perfect. Xiao Wan stopped with satisfaction, but she still felt a little regretful that there was no peppercorns, otherwise the aroma would be even stronger.

After doing all this, Manager Liu was full of praise.

Fortunately, the owner had a keen eye and trusted this young girl, otherwise their restaurant would have suffered a huge loss.

Just these two dishes, with their colors and aroma, he had never seen them in the Beijing branch.

"Miss Xiao, I apologize for my rudeness earlier. Your cooking skills are truly amazing. Can we hire you in our restaurant? The salary is negotiable."

Shopkeeper Liu looked at Xiao Wan with stars in his eyes. He was recruiting people for his restaurant, but Xiao Wan was shocked. She really couldn't adapt to being cute and begging her at her age.

"I'm sorry, Shopkeeper Liu, I don't want to work anymore. I just want to sell you a recipe. Please serve the dishes first."

Xiao Wan refused, saying, "Are you kidding? She wanted to open a restaurant in the future."

I don’t dare to think about opening a big restaurant for the time being. I just want to take it slow and start running a small shop step by step.

"Is that so? Okay, let's go out and talk later."

Shopkeeper Liu was very disappointed, but he didn't dare to force it.