Chapter 157 Strange Creative Dishes (1/2)

Granny looked at Xiaolu with a kind smile, which reminded Long Xi of her grandma involuntarily. Long Xi felt upset and nearly broke down.

Now she had a long way to go and did not know if she could survive to go back to see her grandma for the last time.

Lu Hua picked up a bucket of ice and poured it over Weiwei’s head.

Hulala! The whole bucket of ice fell down, drenching Weiwei into a freezing drowned rat. She was so cold and started to shiver.

Granny Piao felt horrified.

She thought in her mind that the next would be her. “Ah, will I die over here?”

Weiwei sadly walked aside, shivering because of the coldness.

Long Xi did not care about their actions at all.

She neglected all the external interference and concentrated on making her own dish without any distracting thoughts.

Just now, she had already found a huge log cutting board at a diameter of more than one meter, a height of half a person, and a weight of at least 100 jin, and two iron hammers each at around 300 jin. She hammered the bloody things into a meat slurry.

The cutting board was made of thick log planks that were 100 years old, which could withstand the heavy hit of the hammers.

She scooped up the meat slurry and put it on a plate. Then, she put a large piece of fresh beef weighing about 5 kg on the cutting board.

“How fresh is this beef?”

Long Xi could see clearly the muscles’ jumping on the fresh beef. When lightly touching it, she could find that it was still warm. The flesh surface was slightly sticky.

The beef should have left the cow for less than half an hour.

Of course, Long Xi had to be a professor to choose beef!

Then, she hit the beef violently with the two heavy hammers one after another.

This special cutting board, hammers, and fresh beef were exactly the three elements needed to make authentic, hand-made, Chaozhou beef balls!

Regarding the origin of Chaoshan beef balls, its most popular version was from Hakka. But Chaozhou people were much better at this.

Hakkas hit the beef balls with the back of a kitchen knife.

Because of lacking strength, the stickiness of the meat was affected.

Chaozhou people switched to use two special “iron maces”, each of which was a special rectangular hammer weighing 3 kg. The chef used the two hammers to hit the beef in succession until the beef turned into a meat slurry.

Hakkas used clear water to boil the beef balls, while Chaozhou people were more exquisite in that they switched to use beef bone soup to boil the beef balls. This ensured that the meat flavor would not penetrate into the soup and enriched a thicker beef flavor.

Xiaolu finally realized that Long Xi was about to make beef balls.

He could not help worrying about her.

Hand-made beef balls were delicious indeed, but had no relation to cruelty.

Would she stray from the topic?

Long Xi saw the worry in his eyes and said with a smile, “Don’t worry, I have a secret weapon!”

“Bang, bang, bang!” She clenched her teeth and widely opened her eyes, speeding up her hitting rate and strength. It seemed that she had some hatred for the beef.

Xiaolu and Yan Wangchuan were both amused by her expression.

This was Long Xi’s personality. No matter how difficult she was, she would be really strong and knew how to enjoy herself in a hardship.

She looked at another large pot on the stove, boiling soup with pigskin.

This pigskin soup would be added to the beef slurry. It would prevent more pectin of the beef slurry, to make the beef balls more tender and elastic.

However, this pigskin soup had to be added into the beef slurry several times. After the slurry fully absorbed the soup, the soup could be added in again.

After all, this dish did not need any deep technique, just patience.

She scooped out a spoonful of soup and evenly added it to the beef slurry.

After 10 minutes or so, she touched the beef slurry and added another spoonful of soup when seeing that the soup from before had been absorbed by the beef slurry.

She hit the beef around 23,000 times, while the fresh meat had turned into the beef slurry.

She picked up a little slurry to rub it and found no fiber in it.

She mixed the beef slurry with the previously prepared mixed meat slurry. Adding in a suitable amount of salt and pepper powder, she stirred them all in evenly.

Then, she hit and kneaded the meat slurry with strength until it would not fall when being held in her hands.

This step was the so-called “Adding Stickiness through Hitting”.

When this step was completed, the beef balls would be more tender and elastic.

She divided the meat slurry into several equal parts, and then took out pigskin jelly made of pigskin soup from the solar-powered refrigerator.

She cut the jelly into pieces of one cubic meter and wrapped them with some beef slurry and made it into a ball.

After wrapping up about 20 meatballs, she put them into the 90-degree soup made of beef bones to absorb the soup slowly.

Beef balls could be shaped firmly in this process and slowly absorb the delicate flavor of the soup.

At this time, Yan Wangchuan had completed his dish, living loaches braised with tofu.

Lu Hua had a taste and vomited it out at once.

The special feature of this dish was that loaches needed to be prepared one day in advance to spit out all the mud. Then, they could be used as ingredients.

However, Yan Wangchuan had no time to do this step.

Lu Hua gave him a bad comment and thought Granny Piao’s dish was better than his.