The strongest gourmet food system

Chapter 256 Chapter 5 Lecture on Cooking
"Dong dong dong..."

Holding an iron basin in one hand and a fork in the other, Zheng Ke shuttled through the corridors of the room.

The contestants who were in deep sleep opened their eyes one after another, glanced at their mobile phones, it was 7:00.The seven people got dressed immediately, hurriedly washed their faces and brushed their teeth, and then came to the hall in a panic.

Bai Shilong stood with his hands behind his back. After all the contestants stood up, he glanced at his watch. It read 7:10.

"There is one more person who didn't come." Zheng Ke who was standing on the side said suddenly, if he remembered correctly, the absent one was the middle-aged man with a big beard, his name was Takeda Kumasuke, "Does anyone know what he is doing?" ?”

The six people looked at each other in blank dismay, silent.

Bai Shilong's face was gloomy, but considering the camera behind him, he temporarily swallowed the anger in his heart: "Wait another 5 minutes."

Time passed minute by minute, and Shiraishi Ryuichi kept looking at his watch.Just when everyone thought it was about to time out, Takeda Kumasuke hurried over.

"Chef, I was just shaving." Takeda Kumasuke said.

The beard on his face was indeed gone, but his chin and lips were cut several times, and there were faint blood oozing out.

"Hurry up and join the team. Now, let's talk about today's mission." Bai Shilong walked to the dining table closest to him and lifted the lid of the dinner plate.

Under the cover of the dinner plate are two slices of tender red and blood-colored steaks, which are tender and attractive. On the outside of the steaks, there is a layer of puff pastry.

"Wellington steak?" Nagata Chiharu said in surprise, while the others looked confused. Apart from thinking it looked good, they didn't realize that it was different from other steaks.

"You know this dish?" Bai Shilong asked in surprise.

"I learned some things when I was in school." Chiharu Nagata's cheeks were slightly red.

"Student Nagata is right. This dish is indeed Wellington steak. In the early 19th century, the British general Wellington liked this dish very much, so he named it. And your task today is to make this dish. By the way, remind me For a moment, for tomorrow's competition topic, you will have to choose between today's and tomorrow's cooking. So you must keep your spirits up."

Bai Shilong took a fork of the steak and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Wait...wait a minute, chef. We don't know how to cook this dish at all, you are forcing us like this." The big fat Chi Neihui raised his hand in protest.

Others also nodded, expressing their agreement with Chi Neihui's opinion.

"I will let Zheng Ke give you a demonstration. Didn't you doubt his strength yesterday? I will let you all see it today." Bai Shilong touched his chin with a serious smile.

"Follow me here?" Zheng Ke waved his hand and led the contestants into the kitchen.

The two cameras followed closely. Like yesterday, the small camera was placed inside the restaurant, and the large camera was placed outside the restaurant.

Seven people surrounded Zheng Ke in complete silence.

The cooking last night left these people exhausted. Although they wanted to give up, Zheng Ke's stern eyes still made them tremble.They have no doubt that if they don't try their best, they will really be eliminated.Therefore, everyone has complex feelings towards Zheng Ke, full of fear and some disdain.

Today's dish, to a certain extent, is for them to judge whether Zheng Ke is qualified to teach them.If Zheng Ke can't make a good steak, they will definitely not listen to his orders in the future.

Of course Zheng Ke understands these people's thoughts, but he has seen even bigger scenes, so of course he doesn't take them to heart.

"This dish is actually a stuffing made of mushrooms, diced bacon and beef, because it uses puff pastry. So, before we start cooking, we can make puff pastry.

"The principle of puff pastry is very simple, that is, add butter to the dough, and then fold it repeatedly to mix the butter evenly into the dough. This dough will have distinct layers, crispy and delicious texture."

Zheng Ke sifted high-gluten flour and low-gluten flour, mixed them, slowly poured clean water, kneaded the dough repeatedly, wrapped it in plastic wrap after molding, and recorded the time.

"Because it needs to be refrigerated for half an hour to enhance the elasticity of the dough. Taking advantage of this gap, we can process the beef." Zheng Ke put the dough into the refrigerator and took out a steak at the same time.

"We generally choose filet steak, which is actually beef tenderloin with a certain thickness. This kind of steak is fresh and delicious, and at the same time contains thin fat. After frying, the taste of the steak will be richer and the taste will be excellent. But before that, let’s season it.”

Zheng Ke sprinkled salt and black pepper into the steak and marinated it for a while.At the same time, take out a pan, add olive oil, wait until the oil is hot, and add the whole steak.

Nagata Chiharu listened and took notes while holding a pen, while the others stared intently at Zheng Ke. Not long after, a strong fragrance escaped from the pan.

After taking out the steak, Zheng Ke applied a layer of mustard on the surface of the steak, "This is to increase the taste of the beef. Of course, if you are confident in your own strength, you can also directly fry the steak in a pan. During this process During the process, you need to add barbecue sauce to the top of the steak from time to time to ensure that the beef is moist and also makes the beef more flavorful. After doing this, all we have to do is deal with the mushrooms."

The people who were still complaining about Zheng Ke were immediately speechless. Although the food was not ready yet, the strong fragrance had already convinced everyone, and even the cameraman on the side couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of saliva.

Compared with Zheng Ke's cooking, it is not an exaggeration to say that the food they cooked yesterday was food.

While everyone was staring at Zheng Ke, Norimi Nakai and Nohoshi Chiyo also came over with their team.

"Mr. Shiraishi, you guys came quite early." Nakai Kiyomi said with a chuckle.

"Actually, we just came out not long ago, but I haven't seen you wearing this outfit for a long time." Bai Shilong looked at Nakai Kiyomi who was wearing a chef's uniform, and was a little surprised.

"After all, I am also a chef. Of course I cannot forget my profession. However, there have been too many things in recent years, and I have been unable to take care of my restaurant. In fact, I still like the kitchen very much." Nakai Nori Daimi flipped up her long hair.

Bai Shilong took a look at her fingers, the nails were covered with a layer of lavender nail polish, he snorted inwardly, but did not show his expression on the surface.

"By the way, Mr. Shiraishi, don't worry about being so young...Young students lead them to cook alone? The champion of this competition is a restaurant worth tens of millions of yen." Nakai Kiyomi looked at the non-stop busy in surprise Zheng Ke.

"I don't think there's anything wrong with him." Bai Shilong took a sip of tea, "With this level of teaching, he should have no problem."

(End of this chapter)