Dare to cook

Chapter 55 Zijunlou Seafood PK
Is stew a soup?

This question is totally different.

Some dishes are counted, and some dishes are not; sometimes the judges have the final say and they don’t count.

There is no standard answer at all.

After being reminded by Chu Xinmei, Yao Yu also realized that there might be a big hole hidden in Liu Zicheng's exam questions.

Wow, Mr. Liu wouldn't be so shady in his questions, would he?
No!

This has to be confirmed!
Yao Yu thought to himself, walked up to Bai Yuanchu and asked, "Excuse me, we have some doubts about the competition questions. I would like to ask whether stews are soups or not?"

Bai Yuanchu is the supervisor of this competition, and is also responsible for the communication between the contestants and the restaurant.

Seeing his former rival suddenly politely ask him a question, this kind of dark feeling is something that others cannot understand.

The corner of Bai Yuanchu's mouth turned up slightly, "What did you say? I didn't hear clearly."

ha?
Can't hear?
Yao Yu was startled, and repeated it again.

However, Bai Yuanchu still said: "I don't quite understand what you mean, please repeat it again."

Yao Yu couldn't see that Bai Yuanchu was playing tricks on him on purpose.

His face darkened, and he said, "Bai Yuanchu, what do you mean? You're making fun of me, aren't you?"

Seeing Yao Yu's displeasure, Bai Yuanchu felt even more joyful, but on the surface he said with a serious face: "This contestant, please pay attention to your attitude. Otherwise, I have the right to report to the competition team and disqualify you!"

i wipe...

Bai Yuanchu, you're a bastard, you're using chicken feathers as arrows, and you're kicking your nose in the face, right?

Yao Yu was so overwhelmed that he almost wanted to have a fight with Bai Yuanchu.

Mao Yuan and Xu Lin saw that something was wrong, so they hurried up to grab Yao Yu: "Calm down! Yao Yu, you have to calm down! During the game, you can't hit anyone!"

While talking, Xu Lin smiled awkwardly at Bai Yuanchu and said:
"Well, please don't get to know him. He is just anxious and wants to ask some questions."

Bai Yuanchu's attitude towards sister paper is much better than that towards Yao Yu.

After thinking about it, Lang Sheng said to both players at the same time:

"In this competition, clear stews are not counted as soups, but dry stews are not counted. In addition, seafood porridge is not allowed, because the main ingredient of seafood porridge is rice, which does not meet the regulations of the competition."

With Bai Yuanchu's answer, the doubts of the players of the two teams were eliminated.

Mao Yuan pulled Yao Yu back to his position in the group, and said worriedly: "Yao Yu had a dispute with the inspector, will this affect our dish rating?"

"No." Chu Xinmei had already seen through everything:
"Bai Yuanchu and Yao Yu are old acquaintances, they were just flirting just now."

What?
What a flirting god!
Yao Yu staggered and almost fell to the ground.

He found that Chu Xinmei, who was as handsome as a girl, was not a good bird either.

Proper black belly man!

Yao Yu was about to open his mouth to defend himself, but Chu Xinmei quickly said:

"Now that our doubts have been resolved, let's hurry up and decide on the recipe!"

When it comes to the game, several people are no longer joking.

Mao Yuan said:

"Soup and steamed vegetables, I think it's better to have soup, otherwise it will be dry."

Yao Yu nodded and said:

"That's the right idea. So should we make scallop vermicelli soup or cod tofu soup?"

"Make cod fish tofu soup! I checked just now, Zijunlou's tofu is not bad." Chu Xinmei said immediately.

"Okay! You can make cod tofu!" Yao Yu had no objection, and said again, "I'm in charge of cooking braised abalone, pan-fried cod, and baked lobster with cheese. Which one of you will cook the remaining two scallop dishes?"

"Come on, I can cook scallops in oyster sauce and pan-fried scallops in Italian white sauce!" Xie Zhixuan said without saying a word.

"White sauce? It's too troublesome to make, do you have enough time?" Yao Yu frowned.

Xie Zhixuan said:

"You forgot, starting from this round, we can use our own seasonings. I brought white sauce."

"That's fine. I'll leave the scallops to you. Xu Lin will help you, and Mao Yuan will help me. It's okay, right?" Yao Yu waved his hand and made a conclusive decision.

After assigning tasks, everyone quickly got to work.

In terms of selecting ingredients, Yao Yu has advantages that ordinary people do not have.

He directly scanned the entire back kitchen with the [Clearness] skill, and picked out all the best quality lobsters, scallops, cod, and abalone in an instant.

The efficiency of selecting ingredients left the others dumbfounded.

"Damn it! How did he know that the big abalones and scallops were all under the bottom of the box!" Chen Zhengyang and his teammates exclaimed in amazement.

Because all the ingredients are shared, the more Yao Yu gets, the less Chen Zhengyang gets.

By the time Chen Zhengyang and the others realized it, Yao Yu had already pocketed all the best.

After grabbing the best ingredients, Yao Yu ignored everyone's surprise and said to Mao Yuan: "I'll deal with the abalone first, and I'll leave the lobster and cod to you!"

"No problem, wrap it on me!"

Seeing Yao Yu's strength, Mao Yuan is also full of energy and confidence.

Braised abalone has always been Yao Yu’s signature dish.

There are actually many ways to make this dish.

The simplest method can be prepared in only 10 minutes, but if the most complicated method is used to make this dish, it will take more than ten hours.

Yao Yu is an expert in cooking abalone.

He is proficient in almost all the methods of braised abalone.

The time for today's game is actually very tight.

Two and a half hours, six courses, servings for 20 people.

This means that he must not waste too much time on the dish of braised abalone.

Therefore, Yao Yu still can only cook abalone in the simplest way as in Renhe Restaurant.

First, put a cross-shaped knife on the dried abalone that has been prepared in advance, then pour cold water into the pot, pour in cooking wine, boil it for two and a half minutes, then take it out and cool it for later use.

After roughly handling the abalone, Yao Yu was not in a hurry to adjust the sauce and stir fry it.

It does no good to fry the abalone too early, as all the dishes have to be served together at the end of the game.

If you make this dish too early, it will taste bad once it cools.

After Yao Yu processed the abalone, he began to process the cod.

The first step in making pan-fried cod is marinating.

Rinse the sliced ​​fish fillets, absorb excess water with kitchen paper, then sprinkle with salt, pepper, and sprinkle some wine to marinate.

Generally speaking, white wine will do just fine for marinating cod.

If you don't have white wine, you can use rice wine and sake, but you can't use beer.

Because beer can't improve the freshness, it will overshadow the umami taste of cod.

However, Yao Yu has his own secret recipe when making this dish.

That is pickled with ice wine.

Ice wine is not a frozen wine, but a wine made from naturally frozen grapes.

That kind of wine has a sweeter and sweeter taste than ordinary wines, and it is a perfect match for marinating deep-sea cod.

This is also Yao Yu's luck, although he didn't bring ice wine, and he didn't expect to be able to cook this dish today.

But there happened to be an unopened bottle of ice wine in the back kitchen of Zijun Building.

According to the regulations of the competition, all the equipment, ingredients, wine and cooking of Zijunlou's back kitchen can be used by the contestants.

Therefore, when Yao Yu scanned the ice wine in the wine cabinet with the skill [Clearness], he used it unceremoniously.

And when Yao Yu opened the wine cabinet and took out the bottle of ice wine, Bai Yuanchu, who was supervising the contestants, turned green.

What the hell!

I just bought ice wine yesterday!
How did Yao Yu find out!
(End of this chapter)