Baozi Xishi's Struggle

Chapter 261: Cheap, large, and delicious fried shredded pancakes

Li paused, then continued, "She cited many examples of people who got into trouble because of careless words, and also said that our family now has a restaurant and is a business owner, so it's easier for people to be jealous and take advantage of us."

"Let me think about you in everything. Don't cause trouble. Make money and live a good life. That's the serious thing."

Shen Yu was moved and felt much more at ease when he heard Li, who used to be rash and impulsive, say such words.

The mother and daughter chatted in the kitchen for a while.

Li patted Shen Yu's hand and said, "I'm going to go to the store to get busy. You can try to cook here. If you can make it, it will be a good deed for the recruits to eat better."

Having said that, Li went back to the shop.

Shen Yu was lost in thought for a moment, then stood up and went to where the vegetables were kept, picked some, and came back with a head of cabbage, a small pot of bean sprouts, a piece of scallion and a piece of ginger.

Shen Yu roughly calculated the price of the vegetables and took another egg.

Because the flour used to steam buns is of the best quality, if we only use this flour, the cost of a meal will go up.

Shen Yu went to the cupboard where rice and flour were kept and took a look. There was also some specially bought multi-grain flour in there. When making pancakes, he used half flour and half multi-grain flour. The pancakes would be particularly fragrant and taste better than those made with pure flour.

Shen Yu scooped most of the multi-grain noodles from the bag, added a small half bowl of flour, and poured it into the basin.

Pour an appropriate amount of boiling water to blanch the noodles, stir them and then add some cold water to form a hard dough.

Knead the dough until smooth, then set it aside and cover it with a cloth. The advantage of using boiling water to mix the dough is that the pancake will not become hard even if it cools down, and it tastes better when used to stir-fry pancake shreds.

While the dough was relaxing, Shen Yu chopped the green onion, ginger, and cabbage, rinsed the bean sprouts, and set them aside to drain.

Although he only planned to fry enough for two meals with one egg, Shen Yu still carefully cracked the egg into a bowl and beat it.

After adding a little salt, light up the small stove that is often used to try out new dishes, heat the pan and add a little oil, pour the egg liquid into the pan, fry the egg into fine crumbs as much as possible, and set aside.

At this time, the dough is almost relaxed. Knead the dough into a ball and divide it into four pieces.

Zhou Dalang was busy making sauce-flavored pancakes and thousand-layer meat pancakes. He knew that Shen Yu was trying out new dishes, so even though they were working in the same kitchen, he didn't come over to help unless Shen Yu asked.

Shen Yu saw Zhou Dalang using a flat iron pan to make pancakes, so he simply used the wok on the small stove to make pancakes.

Put the rolled out dough in, turn the stove on low heat, wrap the edge of the pan with a cloth and slowly turn it. The bottom of the wok is thick, so you have to keep turning the pan when baking. The pancakes baked are almost the same as those baked in a flat iron pan specially used for baking pancakes.

Fortunately, since it was a trial, there were only four pancakes, so they were baked quickly.

If you usually make the pancakes for this kind of fried shredded pancake, you need to spread a little pastry on the pancake base, and then add a little oil to the bottom of the pan when frying it to make it taste good.

But in order to make food that tastes good and is filling, Shen Yu resisted the urge to add more oil and prepared to use the oil to stir-fry the shredded pancakes.

The pancakes made from boiling water and flour are soft and chewy, and have a unique flavor when fried.

After the pancakes were baked, they were allowed to cool slightly. Shen Yu took a knife and cut them into even shreds. He shook them out and placed them on the dough board. Shen Yu took a look and thought they were pretty good. He cut a pretty big pile of shreds.

Put a little oil in the pot, cut a small piece of pork fat into small pieces and put it in. Simmer it on low heat for a while. The pork fat will be boiled into pork fat residue and there will be more oil in the pot.

He added a piece of charcoal into the stove, fanned it twice, and when the fire got strong, he put the pot back on.

When the oil is hot, add chopped green onion and minced ginger, stir-fry until fragrant, then pour in shredded cabbage and bean sprouts and stir-fry until cooked.

At this time, there is vegetable juice at the bottom of the pot because of the fried cabbage shreds. Even if you don’t turn the pot over, it won’t get stuck. So spread the shredded pancake evenly on the vegetables.

Cover the pot and simmer until steam comes out from the edge of the pot, and the vegetables inside are almost cooked.

Remove the lid of the pot, use a spatula to turn the pancake shreds evenly, pour in the scrambled eggs, add a little bean paste, an appropriate amount of salt, and a circle of vinegar on the side of the pot, and the sour and fragrant taste will come out.

When it was time to serve the food, Shen Yu took out two large large bowls that were not usually used, cleaned them, and put the fried shredded pancakes in them.

These large bowls are used to make cold noodles when the weather is hot. They are about the same size as the soup bowls at home.

Shen Yu bought it so that it would be easier to mix noodles and not spill easily. If he used it to eat rice, with Shen Yu's appetite, just half a bowl would be enough for a meal.

Today I specifically used it to serve fried pancakes to see how many there are in one serving.

After all the food was served, one portion was almost the size of a large bowl, not too full. Shen Yu calculated that if the flour was of a higher quality, there would be more cakes.

As soon as I put down the spatula, Qixi came to the kitchen as if he knew the place well.

Shen Yu heard footsteps and turned around to see it was him, so he smiled and said, "You came at the right time. Take a look. This is about twenty-five silver coins worth of ingredients. It can be used to make two servings of fried pancakes. The remaining five silver coins are for the charcoal."

Qi Xi looked at the two large bowls of fried shredded pancakes on the table and swallowed unconsciously.

The shredded pancakes and vegetables in the large bowl were slightly oily and covered with sauce, giving off a sour and fresh flavor.

Qi Xi took a closer look and exclaimed, "Eggs were added to it. What, what is this?"

Shen Yu took a look and found that it was brown lard residue. "This is lard residue made from pig fat. It doesn't sound good, but it tastes delicious. We can't afford to add meat to the food, so more animal fat is always good, it will make us fuller."

Qi Xi nodded happily: "With such a big bowl, I can definitely eat a full meal. It's much better than what that black-hearted cook makes."

Qixi paused, and said in disbelief: "Girl, are you sure it only costs twenty-five cents to make these two large bowls of food?"

"Don't let the government's kitchen start doing it, or the cost will exceed the limit, and we won't know who to ask for compensation."

Shen Yu smiled and said, "I've calculated that cabbage and bean sprouts only cost a few coins to buy a pound of vegetables. More than two pounds of green vegetables can be fried into these two large bowls."

"This season is the time when cabbage starts to be sold, and the price is very cheap. Bean sprouts are available all year round, and the price is stable."

"If the flour used to make the pancakes is replaced with a lower grade one, there will be more pancakes. These two pancakes are added with an egg, a small piece of pork fat, vegetable oil, bean paste, vinegar, green onion, ginger, and salt. That's all."

"The eggs and pork fat are added to make the food more filling. If there are only vegetables and oil, it is easy to get hungry."

"I use coal, which is hard to estimate. Even if the cost of coal is five cents, if you cook a big pot every time, it might be less if you share the cost."