Chapter 156: The Cooking Skills of a Senior Chef
"Family Master, I'm ready!" In another twenty minutes, Kuang Chu's side had already finished announcing. Interestingly, he also prepared a pre-soup, a main dish, and a side dish.
The main dish was not chosen, it was directly the eel rice bowl, so he worked on the soup and side dishes. The reason why cooking according to this configuration is also to hope that under the same circumstances, Wang Yong will be defeated in a dignified manner.
"Very good, then ......" Xun Qi clapped his hands, and naturally someone moved the prepared tables and chairs over. Thanks to the clean kitchen environment, I don't feel good about eating here.
"In the first soup, Kuang chose eel belly, which is also called fish maw locally. The main ingredient is rock sugar white fungus, with ginger as the ingredient, this soup is sweet and delicious, and the white fungus eel belly is smooth and delicious, which is a rare appetizing soup. The key is white fungus and eel belly, which are also good for whitening. Kuang Chu brought the soup up.
The soup is clear, but it has a thick feel. The eel belly is actually a fish maw, slender as an eel, and it is named after it, and there is another name, which is one of the "eight treasures" of "fish maw". Literally, it can be seen that the gelatinous quality of the eel belly is still quite high.
Rock sugar white fungus eel belly soup, for women, is nourishing and nourishing, obviously Kuang Chu also intends to please the second daughter through this.
"Alright, let's start with this!" Xun Yu made a decision, and Xun Yu couldn't help it. The two picked up a spoon, scooped a spoonful each, and tasted it.
The entrance is the sweetness of rock sugar, then it is led by the faint ginger flavor, the aroma of the eel belly, and finally the fragrance of white fungus. This is very good, white fungus is an adjunct in the end, if it covers up the taste of eel belly, then eel belly has become a supporting role.
This time, the theme is River Fresh, and if River Fresh becomes a supporting role, it is wrong.
"This kind of light is very good, I don't put too much rock sugar, too much will be greasy; If there is more white fungus, the soup will be slightly astringent; If you put too much eel belly, it will be fishy; And in order to remove the fishy, if you put too much ginger slices, then the soup will be too spicy! These situations do not appear at all in this bowl of soup, and the ratio of several ingredients is very good. Xun Qi tasted it slowly, and then commented carefully.
"Simmering slowly, extracting its essence, the ingredients are completely in the best proportion, whether it is the selection of ingredients, seasoning, or heat, it is indeed the level of a senior chef." Xun Yu must also admit that this soup is indeed very comfortable to drink.
The key is the front soup, the fragrance of the white fungus soup after drinking, and the slight fishy smell of the eel belly, but it arouses the appetite, and people can't wait, hoping to eat the second dish.
Yes, Kuang Chu cooks according to the configuration of the banquet. Soup, main dish, and side dishes to finish the meal.
"Oh, there's still an hour before dinner time, but I didn't expect to be hungry!" Xun Qian touched his stomach, "Let's bring the staple food!" ”
"Yes!" Kuang Chu nodded, and then brought up the two large bowls with lids.
"Young master, the eel rice you wanted!" Bringing the bowl to the two of them, Kuang Chu opened the lid. As a burst of water vapor rises, the eel rice reveals its true face.
Grilled over white charcoal, a lot of effort has obviously been put into the sauce, and in terms of visual effects, this bowl of eel rice is not inferior to the kind that Wang Yong has cooked before.
"It looks delicious, but I didn't expect that eel, which no one had eaten before, could make such a meal." Xun Qi couldn't help but marvel, and at the same time sighed, her daughter is still that daughter, and she really knows how to eat.
"Honey?" Xun Yu picked up the eel, took a bite, felt burnt and fragrant at the same time, with a little sweetness, after tasting it carefully, he looked up at Kuang Chu.
Indeed, Kuang brushed a layer of honey, which can not only improve the color, but also make the epidermis more crispy and flavorful. This subtle sweetness also adds flavor to the rice bowl. Kuang Chu said proudly.
The rice aspect is impeccable, everyone uses the same rice, so the key is the understanding of the rice bowl, as well as the cooking aspect of the eel. Since it is a banquet dish, when Kwong Chu cooks the eel rice bowl, it is mainly fragrant, so that diners can be fully satisfied.
"It's just ......" Xun Yu plucked the rice, "The gravy didn't soak the rice, but the surface was soaked with a layer of ......"
"Oh, is that a saying?" Kuang Chu asked curiously.
"After all, it's a rice bowl...... Xun Yu pointed to the bowl of rice, "If it's delicious, eat the eel first, and then what will happen to the remaining rice?" If the gravy is soaked with one-third of the rice, it will be delicious even if you eat it straight away......"
"I see, this is a rice bowl...... Kwong didn't fully understand this essence, and I lost this staple dish. Kuang Chu admitted his failure very frankly, but in fact, he also gave Xun Yu a face.
If all three dishes are lost, it will not only be Wang Yong, but also Xun Yu's side will be embarrassed. Lose a game, no harm! Could it be that as a senior chef, he can't see the essence of the so-called rice bowl?
"Actually, this rice bowl is already delicious, but since Yu'er said so, there is no way to do it. So, let's take the next dish! Xun Yu obviously also intends to give Xun Yu a face, just like Kuang Chu's thoughts, if the three dishes are lost, then not only Wang Yong will lose face, but I am afraid that Xun Yu, who has always admired him, will be a little difficult to get by.
"The third course is cucumber with shrimp!" Kuang Chu nodded, and then brought the third dish, "Use courgette as an ingredient, select prawns to pick the shrimp line, blanch them, remove the shells and cut them, and mix them into the chopped cucumbers." Seasoned with refined salt and aged vinegar, it is made cold! ”
"That sounds great, try it!" When Xun Qi heard this, he was also a little nervous, so he picked up the spoon, scooped a spoonful, and put it in his mouth to taste it.
The entrance is the coldness of courgette, and then the warmth of shrimp, and I only feel the ice and fire in my mouth in an instant. The twofold, before you have time to feel it, is the sweetness of the courgette, and the fresh fragrance of the shrimp. Under the blend of aged vinegar, a perfect whole is formed.
"It's a little light, but it's just the finishing touch. The umami of the shrimp inherits the umami of the above two dishes, and when you put it in your mouth, it is as if the shrimp are still alive, which is sweet and delicious, which is very rare. Xun Qi was very intoxicated by the deliciousness of this last dish, the three dishes were like a whole puzzle, and with the last piece put on, the whole picture was completely presented.
The eel belly is unknown, but the umami condensed in it is precipitated on the taste buds, waiting for the moment of outbreak; The umami of the eel is connected from the previous to the next, and the umami of the eel belly is refined, and finally through the fresh fragrance of the shrimp, the umami forms a whole. At the same time, it evokes the body's memory of the previous soup and staple food.
This is a perfect banquet dish, and if you eat the latter and forget the previous dish, it is a failure in itself. It is said that an excellent chef can connect the memories of more than a dozen dishes at the same time, and a special chef can make diners fall in love with every dish at the banquet, which is the gap in the realm.
"But...... I didn't see your face in these dishes......" Xun Yu complained.