Food conquers the world

Naturally, the kitchen of the administrative mansion cannot be compared with that of Mrs. Huo Sen's house. The area is more than ten times that of Mrs. Huo Sen's kitchen. But after Zou Kai walked around in it, he found that the things were not as complete as Mrs. Huo Sen's house.

The kitchen is full of pots and pans, but the condiments Zou Kai only found salt, sugar, oil and other necessary kitchen condiments, and a few things he had never seen before, but he couldn't find soy sauce and starch after searching around. But he found the rice that he thought he would never be able to eat in his life!

Already in a big city, Zou Kai naturally wants to eat meat, but now that there is no starch and soy sauce, his choice of meat dishes is suddenly much smaller.Soy sauce is an essential condiment for enhancing the flavor and color of many meat dishes, while starch is an essential thing for making meat tender when making meat dishes.

Zou Kai looked around in the kitchen again, but still didn't see soy sauce and starch, so he had to ask Chef's uncle Angke who came to help him.Ang Ke is the chef in the administrative mansion, and he is quite familiar with where to put the seasoning.

When Angke came over, Zou Kai asked directly: "There is no soy sauce and..."

Speaking of this, Zou Kai frowned, and he realized that he didn't know how to say the word starch in the language of this world.He finds it very strange that since he came to this world, he speaks the language of this world more smoothly than Mandarin, just like this is his mother tongue, but now he can't speak starch.

After searching quickly in his mind, Zou Kai found that there is really no word to express starch. He suddenly thought, could it be that there is no starch in this world, so there is no word starch?

Having figured this out, Zou Kai didn't bother with the starch anymore, and only asked, "Is there no soy sauce here?"

"Soy sauce?" Angke's expression was a bit puzzled, he thought for a while and then suddenly realized, "You said soy sauce, no."

"Buy me some soy sauce, I want to use it." Zou Kai said.

Angke hesitated: "I need to ask the administrator for instructions."

Zou Kai wondered: "Just to buy some soy sauce and still need to ask for instructions? Should I buy some salt and write a report to get some tolerance from the superiors?"

Zou Kaiyue said that Ang Ke looked at Zou Kai's expression strangely, and finally Zou Kai shut up wisely. He knew that he had touched something that was common sense to the uncle in front of him. He didn't know what he said at all. It's something that lacks common sense, so it's better not to say anything.

Seeing that Zou Kai didn't say anything else, Angke bowed slightly, and went out of the kitchen to Chief Executive Chef's study.He has great respect for Zou Kai, just because this is the person who was personally interviewed by the administrator.

Chev was playing chess with his young son in the study, which is a popular pastime among nobles these days.Hearing someone knocking on the door, he casually said to come in. He looked up and saw that it was Ang Ke, then bowed his head and made a move before asking, "What's the matter?"

"Master," Ang Ke hesitated before saying, "He said he wanted soy sauce?"

Of course Chev knew who he was referring to, but what was soy sauce?Since it's for food, it's not expensive, so Chef didn't take it seriously, and said directly, "Give it to him if he wants it."

"Master." Ang Ke said respectfully, "Soy sauce is very expensive, and only one gold coin can buy a small jar."

One gold coin is indeed a very expensive price. On the Wilder Continent, one gold coin is equal to one hundred silver coins, and one silver coin is equal to one hundred copper coins. People like Ang Ke only earn two gold coins after working for a year.

But a gold coin is not a big deal to Chev, after all, he is the administrator of a very prosperous city, he just thought for a moment, and said: "Give it to him."

Ang Ke replied: "Yes." Then he went to buy soy sauce.

During the time when Ang Ke went to buy soy sauce, Zou Kai was already busy in the kitchen. He first poured the rice into the pot and cooked it, and then picked and picked in the kitchen for a long time, and picked a piece with a little fat. Lean meat, throw it to Maier, and say: "Chop it up, chop it into puree."

No matter in Dunn Town or Shatie City, apprentices are obliged to help the teacher with chores. Maier took it as a matter of course and helped Zou Kai chop meat.

Zou Kai wanted to make braised lion head. This dish is a home-cooked dish, which is relatively easy to make, but because the place is really short of ingredients, it became difficult to make a home-cooked dish.

He looked in the kitchen for a long time, finally found a section of lotus root and chopped it for later use, and chopped two pieces of ginger, a few cloves of garlic and a handful of shallots.

After Maier finished chopping the meat, Zou Kai put the minced meat into a basin, added minced ginger, garlic and lotus root, beat two eggs, and added some salt.There should have been some starch added, but since there was none, he left it out.Then he found another bottle of beer and put a few drops into it to remove the fishy smell.The ale smelled similar to rice wine, so Zou Kai made do with it.

After putting everything into the meat, Zou Kai started stirring and beating directly.This is a critical step in making braised lion heads. Only after being fully beaten will the lion's head not be too soft to eat, but will be more elastic.

Zou Kai kept turning the minced meat and beating it in one direction. When the minced meat looked like a whole, he stopped and instructed Maier: "Light the fire and pour oil." Then he continued beating the minced meat

At this time, Ang Ke, who was buying soy sauce, also came back, and Zou Kai was already busy, so he asked, "Is there anything I can help you with?"

"No need," Zou Kai didn't even lift his head.

"Really don't need it?" Angke was a little puzzled. Usually, when preparing dinner for Executive Chef, there were ten people in the kitchen busy together. It wasn't that Chef ate a lot, or ate very well.In fact, Chef ate about the same as the people in small merchants with a little money in Sandiecheng, and he couldn't find better food, so in order to show his difference, he had to increase the quantity.Every time Chef didn't finish the dishes, it was cheaper for them servants.

But seeing that this young man named Kai only needs one person to help him cook, he suddenly wondered if it is because this person is from a small place that cooking is also poor?Ang Ke originally wanted to remind Zou Kai, but he remembered that he had heard that this was the man the prince was looking for, so he also wanted to see what kind of abilities this man had, so he didn't make a sound.

Before Maier could start the fire, the servant rushed to go, so Maier had to do the next step: pouring oil.No one competed with him to do this matter, and no one knew how much he needed to pour.

Under Zou Kai's command, Maier poured half a pot of oil into it, and after the oil heated up, Zou Kai dexterously rolled out a meatball half the size of a fist and threw it into the pot.There was a sudden "stab" sound in the pot, and the hot oil was bubbling happily around the meat balls just out of the pot.

He easily but quickly rolled all the meatballs into balls and put them into the pan, pushing the fried meatballs with a spoon, and the skin gradually turned golden yellow, making Ang Ke, who had doubts about Zou Kai just now, drooling .

He thought he probably understood why the prince fell in love with Zou Kai because Zou Kai could cook.Zou Kai's current cooking method is something he has never been exposed to before, but from the effect point of view, the food produced by this cooking method will be very attractive!

When the surface of the meat balls was fried golden, Zou Kai fished them out of the oil pan one by one and put them into a bowl. Just when Ang Ke thought they were ready to eat, Zou Kai scooped up a lot of oil from the pan. There was only a little bottom of the pot left, and then the freshly fried meatballs were poured in again, and water was started to be added to the pot.

"This is it!" Angke was a little dazed. He had just imagined the crispy surface of the meatballs, and it would definitely be a pleasure to bite into it. But wouldn't adding water destroy the crispiness?

Hearing Angke's doubts, Zou Kai turned his head and looked at him with a smile, then turned his head and continued to add soy sauce, scallions, ginger slices, and a little pepper, and put some spinach in, and then covered the pot.

At this time, the eyes of the people in the kitchen were all focused on the pot. Even with the lid on, the strong fragrance in the pot slowly overflowed. They had never seen this kind of cooking method, but it was undoubtedly the result of this method. Judging from the smell alone, the food is very delicious.

At this time Zou Kai washed his hands very calmly, and lifted the rice pot.

Although the aroma of the rice is not as good as the aroma of braised lion's head, it is still alluring, and Angke's attention is naturally attracted to it.Angke naturally knew what the fragrance was, and he thought to himself, it really was the chef that the prince liked, and he didn't even bat an eyelid when cooking expensive food like rice.

Rice is not popular in Shatiecheng, or the main areas of the entire Kenton Kingdom, and rice is only grown in a few places.Because of transportation, rice was expensive, and only some nobles had the opportunity to eat it, and the nobles only wanted to eat fresh rice, and their staple food was wheat.

Zou Kai’s stuffed pot rice is cooked rice in one pot. In addition to stuffed pot rice, there is also steamer rice. It is said that steamer rice is more fragrant, and the rice grains are fluffy and not agglomerated, so it is more delicious.But the tools needed to make steamed rice are not complete, so Zou Kai can only cook stuffed rice.

At this time, the rice was cooked. In order to cater to the habits of the people here, Zou Kai found a few plates and scooped half of the rice into each plate.Then he walked to the pot where the meatballs were burning, raised his hand and lifted the lid.

A gust of hot air gushed out of the pot, and the aroma also overflowed. Ang Ke looked at the bright red meatballs in the pot, swallowed, and asked, "Can I have a taste?"

"Wait a minute," Zou Kai took the spoon and said while scooping the meatballs into the plate with rice, "I made too much, you all have a share."

At that moment, the servants in the kitchen were so moved that they almost burst into tears. They could finally eat the same food as the magistrate. It wasn’t the leftovers from the magistrate’s food. Are the administrators excited?

Zou Kai scooped up a plate and put it on another plate. The eyes of several people kept staring at his spoon. No one saw a white cat walk in through the gate, jumped onto the stove lightly, and took the graceful steps unique to cats. He stopped next to a plate of braised lion's head that was farthest from them.

The white cat lowered its head reservedly, leaned close to a meatball and smelled it. It seemed that the meatball smelled good, so it stretched out its paw and scratched a meatball.The meatballs placed on the rice were not stable, so scratched by the cat's paws, they slowly rolled down from the rice and landed on the stove. The white cat immediately took a bite of the meatballs, and then ate it Eat up.

After Zou Kai scooped up the last meatball, everyone's eyes left Zou Kai's hands. At this time, Angke ordered a maid: "You give the things to Master Chef—where is the cat!"

Angke suddenly roared, and they realized that the meatballs they had been coveting for a long time had been preempted by a cat who had never known where they came from. They were suddenly angry, and they picked up the guy and wanted to chase the cat away.

But the cat didn't show any fear when it was surrounded by so many people. Instead, it raised its head and looked at them calmly, and even stuck out its tongue to lick the sauce on the hair around its mouth.

Angke was the calmest at this moment. Seeing that the cat had smooth fur and was not afraid of people, it didn't look like a wild cat, but rather a cat raised by a nobleman. Does any young lady have a cat?"

The person who was asked was also a little puzzled, unsure: "No... right?"

In the time it took for them to speak a few words, the white cat had already eaten a whole meatball, ignored the unfriendly humans, and jumped onto the windowsill.

At this time, someone suddenly said: "No one keeps cats, Madam was scratched by cats before, do you remember? From then on, no matter whether you are young or young, you will not dare to keep cats anymore!"

"Then this is a wild cat?" Ang Ke picked up a long-handled spoon, waved it and said, "Dare to come to the kitchen to steal something to eat! See if I don't beat you to death!"

"Forget it, it's just a cat." At this time Zou Kai spoke suddenly, he was a little impatient, "The food is getting cold, what's the fuss with a cat?"

The servant sighed in his heart: You don't understand the feeling of a good dish being preempted by a cat...

Hearing what Zou Kai said, Angke only made a few moves to scare the cat, but the cat stood on the windowsill and did not move from the beginning to the end, looking at Angke with a very cold look, That expression seemed to say: Stupid mortals.

After waving the spoon a few times, Angke turned his head and said with a smile, "Eat, let's eat, forget about the cat."

The white cat on the window sill moved its ice-blue eyes to look at Zou Kai, and Zou Kai just turned his head to see it.After the white cat took a look at Zou Kai, it jumped down from the other side of the windowsill nimbly and disappeared, as if it was hungry and ran to the kitchen to have a meal and then Shi Shiran left.