Dreaming of Lion Rock: Recipe in Hand

Chapter 262 Rabbit Hot Pot

Chunni looked at the time. It was already past eleven o'clock. It was too late to prepare a table of food. She was riding her bicycle while thinking about how to quickly prepare a table of delicious food! The first thing that came to her mind was hot pot, but she was a little late in terms of ingredients.

Suddenly, Chunni had an idea. The rabbits in the village had grown to a certain size, which completely exceeded the needs of Chunni Restaurant. Almost every household raised rabbits, with as few as ten and as many as thirty or forty. The villagers had always sold their rabbits to Chunni Restaurant. Even if there were merchants from outside who wanted to buy rabbits, the villagers would not sell them.

Chunni has been looking for another way to solve this problem of oversupply.

This gave Chunni an idea, which was to open a restaurant specializing in rabbit hotpot. Let Guan Jian and his party be the first customers of rabbit hotpot, Chunni thought.

Chunni went to her aunt's house and caught two big fat rabbits, asking the uncle to help her peel them. She also asked He Baixiu to pick some vegetables from the vegetable garden and bring them home. Then she went into the kitchen with Ma's wife.

Upon seeing this, Old Mrs. Chu handed the two children to the two old men and went to help in the kitchen.

"Chu Chu's cold hasn't fully healed yet, so don't take her out to get some fresh air! Just play in the yard."

Could Old Master Chu have any other opinion except agreeing?

As for Old Man Li, hey, he can eat delicious food again. It’s no big deal to take care of the baby for a while!

Chunni took out dried kelp, dried black fungus, and some dried mushrooms and soaked them in water.

Old Mrs. Chu sat in front of the stove and lit the fire. Chunni quickly washed the pot and boiled water.

"Grandma, turn down the heat! I want to cook some dried chili peppers."

"Have it."

At this time, the old man brought the processed rabbit over. After putting the rabbit down, he was about to leave, but Chunni stopped him.

"Uncle, County Magistrate Guan and several other leaders will be coming to our house for dinner later. Yan Qing can't make it in time for work, so please help and accompany them."

"Okay." The old man readily agreed. Seeing Chunni was busy, he went back to his home. It would be better for him not to cause trouble.

Chunni asked Ma's wife to help chop the rabbit meat into small pieces, and then soaked it in clean water until the blood was soaked out. She then pounded the old ginger, cut it into pieces, added some water, and mixed it with the shallots, and the shallot and ginger water was ready. Rabbit meat has a fishy smell, and the shallot and ginger water has a good effect in removing the fishy smell.

Chunni poured out the water from the rabbit meat, washed it several times, and then added onion and ginger water, salt, pepper, eggs, sweet potato flour, etc. in turn to marinate the rabbit meat.

The chili peppers are cooked, and Mrs. Ma mashes them together with garlic. This is the glutinous rice peppers.

On the other side, Chunni heated oil in a pan, poured the spicy oil into the rabbit meat and stir-fried it, and when the rabbit meat turned slightly yellow, she took it out.

Chunni put star anise, galangal, cumin and other spices into the oil, frying them until they turn slightly yellow, then remove them. Then pour in ciba chili peppers, bean paste, Sichuan peppercorns, rice wine, and fermented black beans, stir-fry until fragrant, add boiling water, and then pour in the rabbit meat.

After the rabbit meat is cooked, add your favorite vegetables and the delicious rabbit hotpot is ready!

After Guan Jian and his group arrived, Chunni put in the wild vegetables, shepherd's purse and bracken, that He Baixiu had just picked on the road.

There were many people today, so we divided them into two tables. The hot pot was served in a large pot. Chunni thought that she should get a table and pot that were specially used for hot pot. After all, hot pot is more delicious when you eat it while rinsing it.

The rabbit hotpot was very popular and received high praise from everyone.

"Chun Ni is worthy of being a chef. The food in this pot tastes really good."

"It's spicy and numbing. But the taste isn't too strong, which suits my taste!" Guan Jian is from the north, and his appetite is bland. Even after so many years in Sichuan, he can't eat spicy food like the authentic Sichuanese.

"Yes! This rabbit meat is fragrant on the outside and tender on the inside, and it has no fishy smell at all!" Secretary Wang praised generously. To be honest, she really didn't like eating rabbit meat before. Because she felt that there was an indescribable smell in rabbit meat, which was not pleasant. She was reluctant to eat rabbit hot pot, but she didn't expect that after eating it, she found that rabbit meat was really delicious.

"Director Yang is really good at cooking and running a factory. He's amazing..."

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Wang Lamei pulled Chunni aside and said she wanted to learn how to cook this dish. After the summer vacation, she would take the children to Guangzhou to make this rabbit hotpot for the man.