Chapter 552: Escape (6)_1
"Master, it’s ready!"
Chang Mei brought the chopped wild chicken from the basin, offering it to Cai Wei like a precious treasure, his eyes full of anticipation.
Cai Wei glanced into the basin, seeing that the meat was prepared cleanly, she immediately expressed her satisfaction.
"Master, what else do you need done? I can help you!"
"Boil some water!", Cai Wei ordered. Chicken meat should be blanched in boiling water before stewing, not only to remove the dirt attached to the meat, but also to make the texture more tender and delicious.
After blanching, Cai Wei retrieved the chicken, cleaned the pot, added oil, then stir-fried the pre-cut spring onions, ginger slices, star anises, red chillies and other condiments in the pot. When they were about done, the chicken meat was added and stir-fried until it turned golden. She then added broth, covered the pot, and began to stew.
During this period, Chang Mei obediently stoked the fire, sniffing the tempting aroma coming from the pot.
The wild chicken stewed in the large iron pot over a wood fire was easily a hundred times better than the fodder chicken cooked in an electric pot from her previous era. Especially since she used the Spirit Stream Water from her space and the mushrooms were pure natural wild ones grown in her space. This made her chicken dish incomparably delicious, far surpassing any dishes from the imperial banquet she ate in the palace!
In the interim while Chang Mei was tending the fire, Cai Wei prepared some wild fern vegetables she collected from the mountain in the morning, mixed and tossed them in a similar fashion to her morning’s salad, so that they wouldn’t feel greasy while eating the chicken.