Orc Girl's Tribal Daily Life

Chapter 73 Rabbit Meat is Ready to Serve

Mao shook his head at the cub again.

Jiang Luoluo rested her chin on her hand, looking at the roasted chili peppers in front of her, and realized how difficult they were to prepare.

There were other options, but after glancing at the sky outside, Jiang Luoluo realized she had already wasted a lot of time, and with the earth rabbit waiting for her to deal with, she didn't propose any more experiments.

Let's wait until next time.

After soaking for a day and a night, the air-dried rabbit became plump and its meat became much softer, even turning a bit whitish in color.

Brown cut the whole rabbit into small pieces according to the cub's request, washed away the blood that flowed out during the cutting with water, and then cooked the pieces of meat in cold water.

At the cub's request, a lot of chopped scallions and garlic cloves were put into the pot—but Jiang Luoluo didn't add the ginger, star anise, spices, cooking wine, and other essential ingredients that should have been added.

While processing the rabbit meat, Jiang Luoluo was also cleaning up the experimental products of the roasted chili peppers.

Jiang Luoluo felt it was a waste to throw away the water used to soak the roasted chili peppers, but she couldn't use the chili water right now.

Just then, Cong delivered a lot of containers, so Jiang Luoluo picked out the largest wooden jar, put some chili water and chopped chilies into it, and sealed it up.

—Actually, only one roasted chili pepper was used in the experiment.

The remaining fractions were all cut off separately from the first whole roasted Sichuan pepper.

Even the last roasted chili pepper was a repurposed product of this ill-fated chili pepper; not a second one was used from beginning to end.

The wooden jar had limited capacity, and the excess chili water was splashed into the heavy rain before Jiang Luoluo's regretful eyes, disappearing with the rainwater.

After blanching the rabbit meat chunks, they were cooked and taken out. Jiang Luoluo curiously tasted a piece, wanting to know just how unpalatable the rabbit meat, which everyone opposed, really was.

Ge thought so, and even He and Mao had tried to dissuade her when they first learned that she was going to make rabbit meat.

In the past, rabbit meat was considered to have a similar reputation, so a lot of spices were needed to suppress its inherent fishy smell in order to bring out its deliciousness.

Jiang Luoluo had never eaten raw rabbit meat in her past life, nor in this one, but she wanted to try it.

Even after being boiled in water with scallions and garlic, the rabbit meat still emitted a strong earthy smell, as if you were chewing on a handful of dirt.

However, what is quite surprising is that the meat of the native rabbit is quite tender and chewy, but most people don't really pay attention to how it tastes when they eat it.

Brown and Mao stared intently at the cub. In their eyes, the cub always loved good food, and rabbit meat was something so unpalatable that the cub probably couldn't accept it at all.

To their surprise, after a moment of ferocity, the cub gritted its teeth and swallowed the small piece of rabbit meat.

Wasting food is not allowed in the tribe. Jiang Luoluo knew this, and she also knew that even if she vomited it up, He and Mao would clean up after her and eat the food she vomited up, so that not a single bit would be wasted.

But Jiang Luoluo herself couldn't accept it. It was her own curiosity that made her curious, so she should bear the consequences herself.

Don't touch things you can't afford to lose.

Fortunately, the piece of meat wasn't big, and Jiang Luoluo ate it despite her gritted teeth, even managing to distinguish it from other meat.

The earthy smell of the rabbit was definitely stronger than the rabbit meat she had eaten in her previous life, but the taste was also better.

I can't imagine how delicious the meat would be if it were a live rabbit instead of one that had been dried for so long.

The prerequisite is to find stronger spices to suppress the earthy smell of the rabbit itself.

It's really strange. Where does this earth rabbit get its smell, which is almost like it's eaten dirt? Is it normal for it to have this kind of fishy smell? Jiang Luoluo wondered.

The oil from the white fatty meat chunks sizzled in the stone pot, and chopped scallions and minced garlic jumped into the hot oil, frying until fragrant. Then, the drained rabbit meat was added to the pot and stir-fried.

Just as Jiang Luoluo had predicted, the aroma of scallions and garlic could not mask the earthy smell of the rabbit. Even after stir-frying, the lingering earthy smell remained.

Jiang Luoluo's gaze drifted to the chili water that had just been put out. She would only add half a spoonful of chili water, definitely not more. That should be okay, right?

While Mao and He were both focused on the rabbit meat in the pot, Jiang Luoluo took a wooden bowl, quietly scooped out half a spoonful of chili water, and then diluted it with water.

Then he poured the bowl into the hot pot.

A sizzling sound rang out, and a wisp of white steam rose from the bottom of the pot. Mao was still helping to stir-fry the rabbit meat inside when he quickly noticed something was wrong. A pungent, irritating smell appeared.

Because of the distance, He Li was not as quick to notice as Mao. Mao looked up at the cub, then immediately looked down, pretending not to have noticed.

It wasn't until the aroma from the pot spread that He sneezed from the spiciness, and only after a moment did he realize something was wrong.

An incredulous look appeared in Brown's eyes. He looked at the audacious cub, then at Mao, who was bowing his head and enduring the spiciness.

Suddenly everything went black.

It was too late to stop them. The bowl of chili water had already evaporated. The cub acted as if it hadn't done anything, calmly handing the bitter salt to Mao and adding it to the pot to continue stir-frying.

After waiting a while, the cub went and got some more jam and added it to the pot.

In general, there's a step in cooking to add sugar to enhance the flavor. Jiang Luoluo thought that she had already modified quite a few things, so she didn't mind replacing the sugar with jam, since it was all sweet anyway.

Almost, almost.

Seeing that the stir-frying was ready, Jiang Luoluo added some wild greens at the end to further neutralize the earthy taste of the rabbit meat.

Having exhausted all available methods, Jiang Luoluo looked at the freshly cooked rabbit meat and was eager to try it herself.

Until he looked over with a cold, indifferent gaze.

Mao and Jiang Luoluo stood side by side, both with their heads down, not daring to look He in the eye. The freshly cooked rabbit meat was placed in front of He.

Brown wasn't trying to eat it all by himself; rather, he wanted to make sure the rabbit meat was soaked in water infused with roasted chili peppers before letting the cubs eat it.

The intensely stimulating flavor bursts in the mouth, overpowering all other tastes.

Needless to say, Brown had already felt the redness on his lips and inside his mouth, but to Brown's surprise, that was all.

It only made his lips and mouth turn red.

Edible... In the next instant, He tasted the rabbit meat. Gone was the disgusting earthy smell of the past, and the deliciousness of the rabbit meat was finally noticed.

The meat is so tender.