Chapter 628： Father, how come there are always good things (2/2)
The air-dried yak meat is thicker than normal beef fiber, and the color is heavier and heavier, and the redness is dull. The difference in meat quality can be completely seen by the naked eye.
The yak meat at this time is actually very similar to the dry-aged steak, except that the snow-like fat is almost non-existent, at least the marble-like solidification pattern is not visible on the surface of the beef.
Wei Qingyu was in a daze.
”Yak? Strange thing... it smells really good, I'll try it.”
A piece of beef entrance, full of wild fun, full of wild flavor,
”Hi...so spicy...!”
In the breath, there was a warm spiciness bursting from the yak meat, quickly occupying the oral and nasal cavity.
At this time, the air-dried yak meat is like a waxy layer formed by oil and the original flavor is sealed. Although the water in the meat is volatile, it is not complete. It has toughness and smoothness.
Lin Chou was surprised,
”Sister Qing Yu originally liked semi-finished products like this?”
Wei Qingyu smiled embarrassedly. She was really embarrassed by what she had just eaten, and almost spit out her tongue and fanned it.
”It's delicious anyway, sizzle...spicy...where is the water?”
”It doesn't matter if it's a semi-finished product or a finished product-but I don't like the taste of beef. I like to eat lamb. Can lamb do it like this?”
Handed a glass of water over,
”It's not impossible, but the specific preparation method is slightly different from beef.”
Lin Chou thought for a while, ”Generally speaking, the production of air-dried mutton before the cataclysm is mainly the characteristics of the Tibetan and Mongolian people, because of the heavier smell and the tendency to deteriorate, except for these two places and individual regions such as Ningxia. Are there any types of air-dried mutton that use this kind of production process? There are original, sour, spicy, and even smelly—just like stinky tofu, which smells and tastes fragrant.”
Wei Qingyu seemed to really like to eat mutton. After listening to Lin Chou's description, saliva secreted sharply, and the corners of her mouth had a little sparkle.
”Ahem, Sister Qing Yu? Sister Qing Yu... the corner of her mouth... There is saliva...”
Wei Qingyu snorted coldly, turned around and left, and dropped a card casually.
”My sister ordered a few dried lambs, I want all kinds of flavors!”
Lin Chou yelled hypocritically,
”Eh Sister Qingyu, I don't need this money~”
”Then you pay me back, this is my sister's dowry!”
”Oops.”
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In the early morning of the second day, Bao Er ran to the old man who raised chickens and brought back many sheep to Lin Chou.
Bao Er said nonchalantly,
”The old man will not let me take those third-order rock sheep, he said this is better, and he said you can understand it at first glance.”
Lin Chou looked up and down, and said with some surprise,
”Sheep can... I have time to take a look at the old man. I really want to know how he cultivated so many original ingredients.”
What surprised Lin Chou was still behind. Bao Er dragged a few bales of sturdy grass from the car.
”The old man asked me to bring this to you.”
Lin Chou just glanced at it, and he felt like a confidant. The old man obviously knew what he was going to do.
Bao Er was a bit hooded,
”This sheep... is okay? The rock sheep is third-order, this sheep is second-order, and it's twice as expensive as that.”
Lin Chou smiled and said,
”No, no, no, many ingredients can't be treated in the same order. This sheep lives at an altitude of 5,000 meters...Wait a minute, where is such a high mountain near Mingguang?!”
”Mountain? What mountain? The old man is a whole piece of saline-alkali land, a depression like an oven, and the living corpses go in and become mummified. There are no mountains anywhere, but there are a few small hills.”
Lin Chou was silent,
”Okay, it's okay, you go back first.”
”Okay, talk to you when something is up.”
Lin Chou made up his mind. In a few days, if he has time, he must go to the old man to see what is going on. There is still a treasure bag for this miraculous old man?
Lin Chou was pleasantly surprised by the sheep sent by his father. This sheep was not an ordinary sheep, but a Gamba sheep that thrived on plateaus above 5,000 meters above sea level.
As the saying goes, only 35 acres of pasture can fatten up the fat of a sheep, not to mention that Gamba lamb has short legs and big teeth. It has an excellent appetite and lives in a Tibetan area with relatively poor conditions and fewer plants.
Because it only eats alpine crops and drink glacier snow melt water, its meat is more delicious, tender, and tasteless. The recipes of Gamba sheep include dwarf edelweiss, crowfoot, gentian, fescue, Stipa purpurea, Caragana, Alpine plants such as chamaejasme, dandelion, astragalus, Potentilla chinensis, golden wintersweet, sand grass, carex, astragalus, Oxytropis, alfalfa, Elymus saffron and other precious medicinal plants such as Saussurea sinensis, Cordyceps sinensis and saffron.
Gamba sheep has such strict requirements on the living environment, so it is very cherished, and people in Tibetan areas also love this hard-won high-protein food. In addition to the common eating method and air-dried meat preparation method, they prefer one Alternative cuisine-Payee.
Paye is a kind of spoiled and smelly dried lamb, which is undoubtedly very unbelievable to the outside world. People who eat lamb mostly pursue the deliciousness of lamb, and the smell is rare outside the Gamba area.
Paye’s production is quite simple. After the sheep is slaughtered, the internal organs are taken out for use.
Please take out the large pile of dead grass that the old man brought—this is the common white horse grass on the plateau, with a faint medicinal aroma.
The father brought a total of three kinds of ”withered grass”. Except for the white horse grass, which is the most abundant, the remaining two are Gentian grass and the Tibetan medicine called Xia Guo Tianjia.
Light the white horse grass to roast the lamb, burn the sheep's skin until it is slightly charred, and then use a knife to scrape off the black surface of the sheep's skin to clean it up.
Then, fill the lamb's belly with gentian grass and Xia Guo Tianjia, and coat the inner wall of the lamb cavity with dried pepper and salt.
Gentiana can effectively lower blood lipids, while the Tibetan medicine Xia Guo Tianjia can prevent colds. They are both very good natural medicinal materials.
After kneading a few strands of woolen thread to sew up the belly of the lamb, stuff the sewn lamb into the sheepskin tube left over from the previous killing of the lamb, and hang it in the underground cold storage to blow it.
The lambskin tube is almost airtight. When the fresh lamb is put in the bread, it will slowly ferment and peel off the moisture and grease inside. This is where the smell of Payee comes from.
He cooked several other sheep, and Lin Chou clapped his hands.
”You're done, let her take it away for a week... Emmm, why do I always feel like someone asks me to do something and I have to turn over to give him gifts?”
As soon as Lin Chou came out, the mountain master who walked the chicken everywhere saw him.
”I said Linzi, I see you messing with that sheepskin package, it is stuffed and sewn, what do you do, making a quilt? Do you want to warm up that sheepskin package quilt? I have heard that some people use sheep before. The intestines are used as a sleeve. You are a bit exaggerated. Put it directly on the sheepskin bobbin.”
Lin Chou choked silently.
Shan Ye laughed and said,
”Lin Zi, I have seen something wrong in the limelight these days, don't you really go out to hide from the limelight?”
This handsome hides from the limelight!
In fact, Lin Chou was also a little frightened, always thinking that Wan Junru and the three thousand behind her were ready to go.
There is really no conspiracy?
Sighing, stepped forward and patted Master Shan on the shoulder.
”No one came to deliver the cob bones yesterday. Are you still going hunting? You **** will be hungry again right away.”
The Lord Shan was tangled and painful for a long time.
”These two boys are inseparable from me. They are only so tiny. I'm going to take them to hunting. I can't step on them when I can. Then I won't have any place to cry-you've heard Can anyone trample on himself to death?”
Lin Chou is satisfied,
”Sure, you just let it go and cry slowly. I just saw a guest in front of me, so I won't accompany you.”
Shan Ye cursed at Lin Chou's back,
”Friends of Daoist, please stay, I have a saying about MMP, Shen Gongbao, I don't know it should be said or not!”