books44 Chapter 254 Sausage Steamed Rice
Chapter 254 Sausage Steamed Rice
It was almost lunchtime, so Lin Chunyi went back to the kitchen to get a cleaver, stepped onto a stool, and was about to cut a piece of sausage to cook.
Lin Lanshan watched excitedly from below the steps. Pointing her index finger at the leftmost sausage, she shouted, "Sister, sister, sister! Cut this piece, cut this piece! This piece is more!"
"This?" Lin Chunyi asked, pointing to a sausage about the length of a forearm that was hanging in mid-air beside her.
"Yes, yes, yes!" She clapped her hands, jumped a few times on the ground, and nodded frantically in response.
So Lin Chunyi stepped back onto the ground, moved the stool around, stepped back onto it, and then used a kitchen knife to cut the sausage.
"Sister, please have some spare ribs and sausages too~" Lin Lanshan clasped her hands together, making a "please" gesture.
"Okay, eat! How many pieces do you want?" This is the first meal of sausages, so we can't be stingy. Eat as many as you want.
This is the real meaning of making these delicious foods!
"Ahhh! I want three pieces, no, five pieces!" She held up her left hand, pointing with three fingers, then immediately changed her mind, releasing the other two fingers and opening her palm.
If there's a sausage that tastes better than regular sausage, it must be the "Hermes" of the sausage world: spare rib sausage!
Besides tasting better than regular meat sausages, they also look exceptionally good.
The sections of pork ribs and sausages, each about the length of a thumb, hung under the eaves. From a distance, they looked like round fruits suspended in mid-air, serving as a curtain.
Oh, right! They even look like the little sausages they used to love eating when they had hot pot—round and chubby, so cute, hehe~
Finally, they took a piece of sausage and ten pieces of pork rib sausage back to the kitchen.
Lin Lanshan gathered firewood and lit both pots.
Lin Chunyi used warm water to clean the grease and dust off the sausages and pork rib sausages.
After hanging outside for so many days, not to mention the ash from the cypress branches must be dirty. The wind must have carried a lot of dust from the ground, so it definitely needs to be washed clean before eating.
After washing it, she sliced the sausage diagonally.
Then, pour two bowls of rice into a pot of water. When the rice is about 50-60% cooked, scoop it out and invert it into a steamer. Then, evenly place the pork ribs and sausages and sliced sausages on top, and start steaming over low heat.
"Lanshan, go pick some cabbage sprouts and stir-fry them into a vegetable dish. Eating only meat is too greasy." Lin Chunyi thought that since the meat dishes were so heavy today, it would be better to stir-fry some small green vegetables to make a balanced meal.
"Okay!" Lin Lanshan put down the firewood and went to the vegetable garden in the outer courtyard.
The outer courtyard is now basically empty. Apart from a radish patch and a cabbage patch, nothing is planted, and nothing can be planted.
This year, they plan to try making some sauerkraut and spicy cabbage when the cabbages are ripe, so they planted quite a lot of cabbages, a whole field of them.
She found some large but still immature cabbage seedlings and pulled them up by the roots.
After both hands were filled with handfuls of cabbage seedlings covered in soil, that small patch of land was completely bare...
Not long after, Lin Lanshan returned to the kitchen carrying a pot of cabbage seedlings. "Sister, this well water is so cold! I only washed the vegetables for a short while, and my hands are already red from the cold."
She put down her things and stretched out her hands, trembling slightly, to show them to her sister.
Lin Chunyi glanced at her red hands and said, "Go sit down and warm yourself by the fire, or you'll get frostbite. I'll stir-fry the cabbage sprouts, and then we can have lunch."
It seems this weather is no longer suitable for washing vegetables and dishes with cold water. Next time, I should boil half a pot of water before cooking.
Tender cabbage sprouts are delicious stir-fried with lard or used in noodle soup.
Stir-frying doesn't require many seasonings, so she only chopped two cloves of garlic, and waited for the lard in the wok to heat up before adding the garlic to sauté until fragrant.
Next, add the drained cabbage shoots and stir-fry for a few seconds.
"Lanshan, you can put firewood away from the pot over there now."
"okay!"
Next, while the pan is still warm, quickly sprinkle in a thin layer of fine salt and stir-fry a few more times. Once the cabbage sprouts are completely softened and their tender green color has deepened, they are ready to be taken out of the pan.
This stir-fried cabbage sprouts has a crisp and refreshing texture, and it's also simple and easy to make.
She put down the spatula and said with a smile, "Time to eat."
Then I placed a plate of stir-fried cabbage sprouts on the stove and went to lift the lid of the steamer.
Steam billowed out of the pot, filling everything with a white mist, making it impossible to see what was inside.
It's okay if you can't see clearly, you can still smell it!
Just then, Lin Lanshan, whose hands had warmed up from the heat, leaned closer and took a deep breath. "It smells so good! It's the smell of steamed sausage, hehe~"
The familiar aroma of chili oil and smoke in her nasal cavity almost made her drool.
As the fog dissipated, a layer of rice topped with sausage and pork rib sausage was revealed in front of the two sisters.
The glossy deep red paired with the fresh pale white looks very appetizing!
Lin Chunyi used chopsticks to pick up the sausages and sausage ribs that were still covered with rice grains and put them on a plate, causing a large indentation in the surface of the rice in the steamer.
The color of that large patch of rice was different from the color of the white rice that didn't touch the sausage at the edges.
It should be noticeably redder and brighter.
Just as she was about to scoop rice into the bowl, Lin Lanshan pointed to the concave part of the rice and said, "Sister, scoop out the top layer for me."
The rice on top has absorbed most of the sausage's chili oil, making it glistening and incredibly fragrant. She can easily finish two bowls of it, even without any side dishes, just with a little salt and soy sauce!
Lin Chunyi smiled and laid the rice paddle flat, scraping the layer of rice coated with sausage and chili oil into the bowl before handing it to her: "Here you go~"
Yes, my sister is still the same as before; she loves eating rice soaked in sausage chili oil.
The two sisters carried their rice bowls and dishes to the kitchen counter, then moved two chairs over and began to eat.
Lin Lanshan first used a spoon to mix the oily rice in the bowl, and then used chopsticks to pick up a slice of sausage and put it in the bowl.
The sausages they make, which have a local flavor, don't require the meat to be chopped; they use thick slices of meat that are three parts fat and seven parts lean.
One bite and you'll find firm, spicy lean meat, and a touch of fat that's been soaked up by the rice... the taste is absolutely amazing!
She ate her sausage and rice happily, without saying a word.
"How does it taste? Not bad, right? I'll try the ribs then." Lin Chunyi reached out her left hand and took a piece of ribs and sausage from the plate, taking a bite.
"Looks like our sausages turned out pretty well. Hmm, the ribs are a bit too salty though."
Although they are called sausage and pork rib sausage, they are actually both types of preserved meat. They need to be salted and dried more to last longer.
Because the sausage is sliced before steaming, the rice absorbs some of the saltiness, resulting in a more balanced flavor.
The ribs, which are mostly wrapped in sausage casings, don't lose much of their spicy oil, resulting in a firmer texture and a richer salty and spicy flavor.
But it must be said that the taste of pork ribs is far superior to that of ordinary meat, truly deserving of the title "Hermes" of sausages!
Salty food is no big deal. Just eat some refreshing cabbage sprouts or drink some rice water that has been used to cook rice, and the problem will be solved.
Lin Lanshan looked up, her mouth greasy, and asked, "Sister, are we having steamed rice with sausage again tomorrow?"
Lin Chunyi tossed aside the bones she had just finished eating, rubbed her fingers together, and replied, "Let's eat! We steamed so much today, we can't possibly finish it all in one meal..."