LingLing followed the Amy family to the Indian neighbor's house as a guest, I have to say that Lingling was impressed by the warm hospitality of Indians, the table was full of all kinds of fragrant meat curry, Lingling ate is addictive, because it is indeed too delicious, let Lingling never forget the mellow milk tea, if you add less sugar, more in line with Lingling's appetite.
Fortunately, when Ling Ling mentioned that she wanted to learn how to make curry and make milk tea before leaving, the young indian wife actually agreed. Lingling is also embarrassed to confirm the time with her on the spot, fortunately, lingling often waters flowers in the garden, often see the Indian neighbors, the next time find an opportunity to ask again, Lingling thought.
Unexpectedly, the opportunity came quickly, that morning Amy went to work, Mike went to school with her three children, and when Lingling went to clean up the garden, she just walked out the door and saw the beautiful Indian lady playing in the garden with her son. Of course, Lingling would never miss this opportunity, so she thanked their family in stumbling English for inviting her to dinner that day, and asked if there was time to teach her to make milk tea?
Unexpectedly, Mrs. India actually readily agreed. And she invited Ling Ling to come early this afternoon, so that she could teach her to cook curry and milk tea, and lunch could be eaten directly at her house.
Ling Ling originally only wanted to learn milk tea, but she didn't expect that not only could she rub into the curry cooking class, but even lunch was solved. Ling Ling immediately said thank you happily, and said that she would pass at 11 o'clock.
Back at the house, Lingling speeded up the cleaning so she could learn to cook and enjoy a delicious lunch at her Neighbor's house in India.
At 11 o'clock, Ling Ling arrived at the door of her Indian neighbor's house on time and rang the doorbell. The young Indian lady who opened the door was greeted by Lingling. In the living room, the old Indian couple was watching cartoons with their lovely grandson, and when they saw Lingling come in, they got up and said hello. Anyway, Lingling, indian English with a unique curry flavor, can't understand it, so she doesn't have the embarrassment to stay in the living room. The young lady took her into the kitchen, and Aunt Zhang was busy preparing in the kitchen, when she saw Lingling come in, she greeted her politely and said: I heard my wife say that today you come to learn to cook curry and milk tea. Ling Ling smiled and said yes.
The young Indian wife also stayed in the kitchen and began to arrange lunch, and she took out chicken breast, okra, tomato and other ingredients from the refrigerator. The hectic preparations began.
Apparently Aunt Zhang knew their eating habits very well, she cut the chicken breast into large pieces, poured in some yellow powder and began to scratch and mix. Aunt Zhang explained: This is turmeric powder, as long as it is meat, they will first take turmeric powder to mix, even if it is fish, they will also apply turmeric powder.
Li Li wondered: Is it coloring?
Mrs. India explained: This is our habit, our family has done this for generations, and applying turmeric powder has the effect of sterilizing and disinfecting and removing fishy smells.
While Aunt Zhang was busy handling the chicken, Li Li offered to help, and Mrs. India asked Ling Ling to cut the onions and potatoes. Mrs. India said: In India, onions and potatoes are essential foods and the soul of curry, of course, potatoes are also replaced by jackfruit, unripe bananas and baobab because they are rich in starch.
Ready, the key link began: Aunt Zhang poured mustard oil into the pot, added onions, ginger and minced garlic after the oil was hot, and Mrs. India had taken out a large box of various seasonings while putting them inside, while explaining to Lingling: coriander seed powder, cloves, fragrant leaves, fennel powder, cumin powder, turmeric powder, etc., and there are several things that Lingling has not heard of.
Aunt Zhang explained: Some seasonings are exclusive to India, and we don't put them here.
As the spices are added to the pot, the rich aroma spreads out. Then add the chicken and stir-fry, finally add the coconut milk and potatoes, and slow simmer the tomatoes.
Next to make okra, Aunt Zhang poured oil into another pot, and after the oil was hot, Mrs. India grabbed a handful of tan seeds and put them into the oil pan until it was fried until it was browned. Aunt Zhang said that it was rapeseed, and when they made many dishes, they would first put the rapeseed in it and fry it. Next put the tomatoes, the tomatoes fried into a paste, mrs. India began to put a variety of spices, compared to chicken, this time the spices put a few less, of course, turmeric powder is still a must. Finally, add okra, add the right amount of water, and cook over low heat.
Ling Ling finally understood the essence of Indian curry: all kinds of ingredients, all kinds of spices, of course, the more spices, the better to put in the stew, until you and I, you have me, curry dinner is good!
Mrs. Indian explained: Spices will be different according to meat and vegetables, and now many Indians directly buy mixed spices, such as vegetable masala, chicken masala, fish masala, but the traditional conservative family, each family will have its own recipe according to its own family's taste, its own recipe, its own concoction. Because her mother-in-law is there, she basically makes her own, not only does it taste better, but also does not get complained by her mother-in-law that her daughter-in-law is lazy.
Ling Ling did not expect simple kitchen chatter, and actually began family gossip. Ling Ling glanced at it, and the kitchen door was tightly closed. It seems that the issue of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law has become an international problem. According to some news that Lingling has seen on the Internet before, the problem of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in India should be more difficult to deal with.
The last thing to prepare is a vegetable salad, but it is not special, and Lingling does almost every day. But in the end, Aunt Zhang put some finely chopped onion rings in a plate, and sliced tomatoes, sprinkled with lemon juice, salt, olive oil, pepper, and set aside.
Aunt Zhang explained: It is a traditional Indian salad, and the old man likes to eat it, so he will make a special one for him. After making the salad, Aunt Zhang began to cook rice, Basmati rice. Aunt Zhang explained: Indian rice does not have to be cooked for too long, it can be cooked in 20 minutes, and it is not delicious to cook for a long time.
Then it's time for the big play: authentic Indian milk tea.
Before boiling milk tea, the young Indian wife smiled and explained to Lingling that the next Indian milk tea recipe, her in-laws have been passed down for several generations, all of which are this recipe, almost, her mother-in-law can taste the difference in taste. Ling Ling muttered in her heart: It seems that this is their heirloom secret recipe, is she really willing to tell me the cooking method directly?
Milk tea is operated by Mrs. India throughout the process, and Lingling observes the whole process. Mrs. India took out a small pot with a heavy brass deep bottom, turned on the heat, and put 6 spoons of tea in with a measuring spoon. Tea leaves are not the large pieces of tea we often drink, but the tea powder. After a quick stir-fry, the aroma of the tea leaves is like a shadow, after 2 minutes of stir-frying, the wife poured the fried tea into a small bowl for later.
Mrs. explained: Fried tea must grasp the heat, can not be fried paste, after frying paste milk tea will have a burnt paste taste, but also can not fry enough time, time is short, milk tea is missing the soul taste, only milk taste no tea taste.
After pouring out the tea leaves, the wife used the milk tea cup to measure a cup of water and poured it into the pot, the fire began to burn, and then poured in 5 cups of milk, after boiling, the wife poured in the previously fried tea powder, and immediately added yellow-brown sugar.
The wife explained that she was adding their Indian sugar cane sugar, which could also be added with coconut sugar. After 1 minute, turn off the heat. The wife stressed again: after adding tea leaves, the cooking time should not exceed one minute, otherwise the tea will be old and it will lose its slippery feeling. The tea is then filtered into a glass container that looks very tempting.
Li Li thought it was good, but the highlight was in the back, Mrs. India held a glass container in one hand, and a small basin in the other hand, poured tea from a very high place from a glass container into a small basin, and then exchanged positions, took a high small basin, and poured milk tea into a low glass container. Back and forth a few times, like a flowing stream!
It turned out that this was pulling tea, and without a long period of practice, it was difficult to complete that set of actions in one go. Finally, the milk tea all returned to the glass container, Mrs. India took out 5 cups, and then slowly poured the tea into the cup from a very high place, when the cup was full, LingLing found that the top of the cup was full of large and small bubbles, which was very beautiful.
After pouring the tea, Mrs. India gave Lingling a cup and Aunt Zhang a cup, and then took out a delicate small tray, put two cups of tea, and walked toward the living room, where Lingling immediately trotted to help open the kitchen door. Needless to ask, those two cups of tea must have been given to her in-laws.
Ling Ling said: It seems that this milk tea has no arm strength and no skill, and it is really not easy to make!
Aunt Zhang said: It looks simple, but the details of things still need to be practiced frequently, basically mrs. cooking, she never let me cook, afraid that the taste is not right, her mother-in-law is not used to drinking.
Ling Ling said: It seems that your wife is very filial to her in-laws, make milk tea, and before she has taken a sip, she will first serve it to her in-laws.
Aunt Zhang said: Indeed, the filial piety of Indian women to their in-laws also opened my eyes, anyway, the mother-in-law basically does not care about things, unless there are guests at home, she will cook to help, and usually she instructs her daughter-in-law to do it.
The rich taste of milk tea made Ling Ling feel that her mouth was fragrant, or a little too much sugar. Drinking milk tea, Ling Ling finally figured out why Mrs. India would demonstrate the practice of giving her milk tea throughout the whole process, not to mention the ingredients, the methods and techniques of pulling tea were enough for Ling Ling to practice for a long time! It seems that there is no simple thing in the world, but we forget the hard work of other people behind us!
Half a cup of milk tea was in the belly, and the fragrant curry was also out of the pot, lingling swallowed the saliva hard and helped Aunt Zhang prepare the meal together. What Ling Ling did not expect, she had come to learn to cook milk tea, not only rubbed into a free lunch, but also received an unexpected gift package!
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