Shokugeki: Start with an izakaya, making everyone cry

Chapter 224 A grain of rice contains the strongest taste in the world

Black-bone chicken, so called black-bone chicken.

Just because it was completely black and couldn't find any white spots.

If you see a Silkie at night, you probably won’t be able to see it singing, dancing, rapping, or playing basketball at your feet!

However, I believe no one would be so bored that they would run out to watch Silky Chicken at night...right?

……

Fresh Silky Chicken.

The chicken's mouth is dry and shiny, and the oral mucus is off-white, clean and odorless.

The black eye fills the entire eye socket, the cornea is shiny, the skin pores are raised, the surface is dry and tight, and the muscles are strong and elastic!

Male black-bone chickens generally weigh 1 to 2 kilograms.

Hen, about 1 and a half pounds.

At present, the raising of silky chickens is very common in China, with many varieties and different names.

The most famous variety is the silky silky chicken native to Taihe County, JX Province. Of course, the silky chicken, a specialty of Xingwen County, Sichuan, is also very famous.

The black-bone chicken used by Zhang Fan is a nourishing and medicinal treasure:

Xingwen Silky Chicken!

According to legend, during the Qianlong period, villagers presented Xingwen silky chickens as tribute to the emperor.

At that time, Emperor Qianlong saw that the silky chicken not only had an outstanding appearance, but also had tender meat and a unique aroma, so he regarded it as a rare product and classified it as a "tribute chicken", and the eggs it laid were also classified as "tribute eggs".

"Is it really black chicken?" Leonora was confused when she saw that the ingredients used were really black chicken.

Although silky chicken does taste more delicious than ordinary chicken, if it is cooked alone, its strong aroma will affect the entire dish.

Moreover, silky chicken is very lean and has a very low fat content, so it is not easy to produce oil when stewing the soup.

Ah!

Chicken rice?

Would rice be delicious without the blessing of animal oil?

Leonora expressed doubts about this, and even Nakiri Shinagi next to her also held this view.

……

Prepare ingredients.

Black-bone chicken, glutinous rice, matsutake mushrooms, chives, ginger slices, white wine.

There are also black fungus, black beans, shiitake mushrooms, and their own special soup ingredients.

First, Zhang Fan hollowed out the internal organs of the black-bone chicken, and then washed the inside and outside.

Then chop the matsutake mushrooms, add a little salt and long-soaked glutinous rice, stir evenly, and stuff it directly into the belly of the silky chicken.

After filling in a little bit, press it gently with your fingers to ensure that the ingredients do not fall out.

The whole process seems to be a bit heavy.

After all, who would have thought that a silky chicken that had been practicing for two and a half years would end up like this?

Then, Zhang Fan put the chicken into a casserole, added water, boiled it and skimmed off the blood foam, and then put everything else in.

Wait for the soup to boil, then reduce to low heat and simmer for 30 minutes. Finally, take out the chicken and cut it open from the back, then put all the contents inside the chicken belly into another casserole.

Cover it with a casserole and continue to use the remaining heat to simmer!

……

"Using a casserole?"

"And the stuff stuffed into the chicken belly seems to have been taken out again just now, and is it just put in this casserole?"

"Strange, wouldn't this approach waste ingredients like silky chicken?"

"don't know!"

"I really don't understand!"

"Silk chicken should be the main ingredient."

“In the end, it was discarded as if it had no value at all.”

Leonora Nakiri looked at the casserole with great confusion. She had seen Zhang Fan's entire cooking process before.

"That's right, the stuff inside is indeed not silky chicken."

With that said, Zhang Fan took a step forward and slowly opened the lid of the casserole.

……

Whoosh!

There was a loud bang.

But a dazzling white light burst out from the casserole and shot straight into the sky.

In the past, when Zhang Fan cooked these special recipes, it would indeed glow, but it usually emitted a softer yellow light instead of this more dazzling white light!

"Ah! This light... is so... so dazzling!"

Alice, who was already very curious, inevitably poked her head over to see what was inside the casserole.

As a result, the sudden white light almost blinded her eyes.

The entire izakaya suddenly became as bright as day, with light overflowing and every corner clearly illuminated.

Soon, the white light dissipated, and the true face of this mysterious "silky chicken dish" finally appeared in front of everyone!

"This is... rice?"

"You've been tinkering for so long, and then it's just food?"

Looking at the steaming casserole of white rice, everyone present was stunned for a few seconds.

Black-bone chicken and white phoenix soup, black-bone chicken stewed with wolfberry, steamed black-bone chicken, black-bone chicken and red date soup, black-bone chicken stewed with cordyceps, crispy black-bone chicken, black-bone chicken stewed with yam... These black-bone chicken dishes may or may not be required.

But your so-called black-bone chicken rice must at least be like black-bone chicken steamed with glutinous rice, right?

However, who would have thought?

The entire silky chicken rice dish is actually just a bowl of rice.

Correct!

Pure white rice!

……

"interesting."

“This dish may not be inferior to Shenglong Dumplings.”

Nakiri Shinagi calmed down for a moment, his eyes flashed, as if he thought of something.

Zhang Fan, with an indifferent expression on his face, looked at Nakiri, Leonora and Alice, mother and daughter, who looked surprised.

"Just one bite and you guys will understand."

With that said, Zhang Fan came to the casserole, picked up a crystal clear rice grain, and said, "In every grain of rice you see, there is actually a chef's incomparable passion for chicken cooking!"

"What?" Leonora was obviously stunned, apparently hearing the implication of this sentence.

"Okay, then let's come and eat."

Her eyes tightened, she quickly took the small spoon and said.

Since her mother said so, Alice naturally had no reason to refuse.

And she really wanted to taste it herself to see how much magic this rice-only dish had.

I scooped up a spoonful of rice and sniffed it in front of my nose. I could smell the rice mixed with a mysterious fragrance.

"This luster, and this fragrance... Could it be that the intention is to stuff all the ingredients into the chicken belly, cook it, and then take it out and put it into another casserole..."

Halfway through the words, Reno Nora couldn't hold it in anymore and put a spoonful of rice into his mouth: "Ah... This, does this taste like chicken? Yes, this taste is definitely the best, and it's the best." Chicken flavor!”

Seeing what her mother said, Alice took a spoonful of rice and put it in her mouth. After eating, her face was full of disbelief.

……

Then, under everyone's gaze.

The mother and daughter kept putting rice into their mouths, eating faster and faster with their hands.