Chapter 741: Food and Wine Go Better Together
To be precise, Ma Teng should have eaten pumpkin for the first time, and this sweet and mellow taste surprised him. The key is that the deliciousness and mellowness are really unimaginable, especially the sticky feeling of the pumpkin when boiled......
"It's all soup!" Ma Teng sighed.
"It is true that pumpkin is a vegetable and a food, and it is highly productive in itself, and it is also eaten as food in some places. However, the pumpkin I chose this time is a creamy pumpkin, which is slightly sweeter and has a creamy smoothness (oiliness), which is relatively smaller than the average pumpkin. Wang Yong replied.
It's all about the essence, that's probably what it means. However, it has to be said that the shape of the cross-section of the creamy pumpkin ...... Cough.
"It's stuffed with onions and chicken...... Carrots and garlic? Pepper and cardamom are added to the spices, right? Cao Cao tasted it carefully, because the pumpkin was not the first time to eat, and it was not so amazing, so he was able to evaluate it calmly.
"Yes, I had to add sage and leeks, but because it was a soup, I improved it a little. The cream that was supposed to be added was not added, and the natural freshness and stickiness were maintained. Wang Yong replied.
Adapting to different levels of improvement according to different needs is the chef's best ability. If you follow the script, then it will become a cooking machine.
"As the front soup is qualified, but there is a feeling of unfinished ......" Cao Cao is somewhat resentful, this complete version of roasted pumpkin soup seems to be sweeter, but because it is the relationship of the front soup, the mellow and sweet taste has decreased.
Yes, as a loyal sweet party, she protested this reform from the depths of her soul...... No matter how appropriate it is!
"There are other dishes, and it's not good to eat such mellow food right now." Wang Yong smiled, "The next appetizer, I prepared New Orleans roast chicken......"
"New Orleans, what do you mean?" Cao Cao thought about it and felt very strange.
"It's a place name, the Far West, or somewhere in the Far East......," Wang Yong replied casually. At this time, the kitchen has already served four new dishes.
Half a roast chicken is the main one, deboned and chopped, garnished and served. The roast chicken is charred and fragrant, and it is very appetizing when you look at it. It is rare to choose that the chicken is not big, and half of it is only four or five taels of meat, which is very tender.
"By the way, I prepared white wine as a table wine." Wang Yong added, and there was another person in the kitchen who brought out four glass goblets, and at the same time took out a bowl of ice cubes.
"You can add it to your liking, and the ice cubes are a great way to suppress the astringency in the wine." Wang Yong introduced. This small glass of wine is estimated to be enough to eat all this chicken, not even that. There is no need to drink too much, because there are different drinks in the back, and according to different dishes, he prepares different drinks.
"White wine, it's so rare!" Maten guards the northwest, but wine is not often drunk, mainly because it is expensive.
"Wanshiwu cooperates with fruit farmers under the name of Wanshiwu and seems to have opened several wine planting bases in Liangzhou. The red and white grapes produced are used to make wine. Wang Yong replied, "Pure domestic white wine, please taste it." ”
"Okay......" Ma Teng nodded, then picked up the wine glass, he seemed to drink it all, but then he endured it and took a sip. The wine is a good wine, you can feel it in the mouth, the astringency and fruitiness are just right, but unfortunately it is not very strong.
But then again...... Ma Teng picked up a piece of chicken, and the first thing he felt was sweet, sour and spicy, followed by the tenderness and deliciousness of the chicken. This roast chicken should have been marinated with a special sauce, but the roasting process is really very clever. How do you say the key...... It feels really pleasant to eat a bite of this chicken and take a sip of white wine......
I don't know why, there is a sense of tranquility, which is different from the warm and bold atmosphere of the drinking party, and Ma Teng seems to feel another wine culture. Although he is not used to it, he does not hate it.
"Tranquility from the soul...... It's pretty good......" Cao Cao slowly tasted the wine. In fact, before the banquet began, she was still a little worried, Wang Yong took a heroic route, although she catered to Ma Teng, but she was not used to it.
It seems that the other party still implemented his request, but in the end it was only the first three dishes, and it couldn't explain anything.
"The third course, charcoal oysters!" Wang Yong saw that the four of them had finished eating, so he continued to announce. The back kitchen quickly came over and brought the new dishes and removed the old ones. At the same time, another group of people stepped forward and put down a small porcelain cup.
"As the name suggests, it is made by adding minced garlic and chili peppers to oysters and grilling them over a charcoal fire. To accompany this dish, I prepared a doukang wine. Wang Yong said with a smile.
Low-alcohol Du Kang wine, fragrant and delicious, soft in the mouth, slightly sweet. The key is that it can bring out the sweetness of roasted oysters, and sometimes baijiu is a good choice, but the degree and alcohol also need to be considered.
There are actually only five oysters, which I think is a lot in the shell, but there are really not many in the sandwich. The point is that it still feels half-baked, but it has already tasted.
Ma Teng picked one up, the first time he had seen an oyster, the shape of which reminded him of a woman. He touched it gently with the tip of his tongue, then gently took it into his mouth. A mixture of sauce and spicy flavor swept in, fortunately, he was more accustomed to spicy, and Wang Yong did not prepare too spicy, just used for seasoning.
In the mouth, there is a soft sensation, and then a milky umami flavor bursts. This umami is not found in meat, and it has a slightly fishy smell, but Ma Teng feels that this fishy smell is just right.
"Luscious, this roasted oyster is truly unbeatable!" Ma Teng praised with a kind of praise, this thing will never be tasted in the northwest. In the past, it was believed that roasting this thing was basically pigs, cattle and sheep, and at most chickens, ducks and geese. I didn't expect that there are so many varieties that I haven't eaten, it's really unimaginable.
Seriously, before today, he didn't care much about food himself, because he was more like a qualified military man. But after today, he found that his understanding of food was still too superficial.
He picked up the glass and took a sip as the oysters removed the flavor of the white wine, so he could actually taste it. In fact, it was Du Kang, he had drunk it, but after entering it, he found that it was different from the Du Kang he had drunk before.
"The taste is much better and mellow, like a clear stream entering the body, but when it settles, you can feel the temperature contained in it." Ma Teng felt the feeling that this glass of wine brought him, it was amazing, it was obviously still the Du Kang wine he had drunk, why was there such a big difference.
Then he understood that it was the oysters that sublimated the taste of the wine. Unexpectedly, different dishes, with different wines, can not only make the dishes more delicious, but also make the wine more delicious!
"In the past, it seems that I was still too superficial......," Ma Teng sighed, "I am suddenly looking forward to what dishes will be next, and I believe that the chef will not let me down......"
"Of course!" Wang Yong smiled, his goal seemed to have been achieved.
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