The soup is simple, with a minimum of four ingredients, seasonings or even just salt. The soup is not simple, and the simple ingredients bring out the highest level of wild flavor. The key is not only to emphasize the flavor, but also to make use of the aftertaste of the appetizer.

The afterglow becomes the finishing touch, making the snake and turtledove instantly transform, as if they have become real dragons and phoenixes on the tip of their tongues. The dragon and phoenix are auspicious, as the name suggests...... Wait, where's the yam?!

The yam is sweet, and after boiling for a long time, the yam almost melts into the soup. At this time, the yam makes the soup more mellow and suppresses the wild flavor of snakes and turtledoves. It can be said that it is precisely because of the yam as a buffer that the flavor of the two main ingredients is not too strong. As the saying goes, it is too much, and at the same time, it is necessary to avoid too strong flavor.

A top-notch dish can be said to be a fine line between good and bad. Every dish of the Imperial Banquet is the result of continuous trial and improvement by the imperial chefs in the field of responsibility. Defective products will naturally not be served.

It can even be said that if there is a defective product. The chef in charge naturally has to take responsibility, Wang Yong, the head chef of the imperial chef, cannot avoid it, not to mention Yang Xiu, after all, her duty is to assist Wang Yong and arrange the work of various imperial chefs.

With this soup, the guests were polarized: those who could eat, such as Lu Bu, would look like they were enjoying themselves, and they were swaggering happily; Xun Yu commented on the benefits of this dish, while Cao Cao echoed a sentence or two. The three princes and nine qing tasted it slowly, and they had to say a few words of praise.

As for the more than 2,000 Yue people in the back, they can basically only say: I am so delicious!

A bowl of soup is really not much, and the largest two or three sips can be drunk. Even if you taste it slowly with a spoon, it is only five or six mouthfuls, and it has already bottomed out. However, as a pre-soup, although it is full of wildness, it is also very elegant. This feature makes this soup not too show-stealing, especially giving people a feeling of unfinished, and it is also very qualified as a pre-soup.

The key is the dishes in the back. After eating the appetizer and soup, all the guests couldn't wait to get into the theme!

And at this time, the eunuch obviously realized this, and immediately announced: "The third course - salt pond deer hunting"

"Salt ponds? Don't be the ...... in Yuncheng," Wang Yun joked, after all, Yuncheng Yanchi was already famous in the Spring and Autumn Period.

"Probably not, you can't go to the salt pond just to hunt a wild deer, right?" Cao Cao replied.

It's just that this kind of thing is a little unreasonable. After all, you can't use a big pot of salt to boil venison, right? Xun Yu frowned.

"That's going to be dead!" Dong Cheng shook his head and directly denied this idea.

"Cured meat, perhaps?" Yang Biao thought about it, if it is related to salt, the possibility of cured meat and bacon is quite high.

With the miscellaneous servants in the back kitchen, after serving the dishes one after another, everyone realized that this meat did not look like bacon! The tender venison, accompanied by a fragrant sauce, makes people wonder why this dish has something to do with the salt pool.

"It seems that you still have to taste it before you can understand!" Cao Cao directly put down his chopsticks, picked up a piece of meat, and put it in his mouth.

When the tip of the tongue touches the meat, the first thing you feel is not the taste of sauce or venison, but a faint taste of salt. The taste of this salt is very pure, as if the outer shell of the meat is wrapped in a layer of salt armor.

"Salt-baked, this venison is salt-baked!" Xun Yu, who also tasted a bite, immediately sighed.

"If you bake it salt...... How can the meat be so tender? Wang Yun thought for a while, "Could it be the result of a period of salt?" ”

"If you bake salt for a short time, you can indeed avoid the problem of excessive water loss, but the degree of salt baking will also be limited." Cao Cao shook his head, "In terms of the degree of gravy retention of this meat, I'm afraid it's not as simple as salt baking." ”

"So, what's the secret?" Liu Xie was also a little unpredictable at the moment.

"In the final analysis, a salt kettle is made of crystal salt, protein and the like to make a container of salt, and then the meat is put into it for salt baking. There was plenty of space in the salt kettle, and at the same time, the water vapor could not be discharged and absorbed by the salt kettle, which ultimately allowed the venison to retain enough moisture. Of course, before salting, the venison has been detendied and marinated, and the oil seal has been baked in the roasting kiln! Wang Yong explained.

Olive oil is used, and the venison is made of hind leg meat with little fat, which is ultimately a 'oil' for the venison.

Finally, the salt baking is not only for the sake of flavor, but also to bring out the wild flavor of the venison. It is not denied that it does not take long, or that it does not take too long to bake.

"For the sauce, it's supposed to be pepper, right?" Liu Xie nodded, dipped the dipping sauce, and asked after tasting it again.

"Indeed, the sauce is made with deer bones and deer offal, and wild pepper is added to release the wild nature of the dish in a real sense." Wang Yong replied.

"A dish with a great impact!" Cao Cao, who was at the bottom of the place, said with emotion, it was a little far away, so he didn't hear the conversation between Wang Yong and Liu Xie, but there was no doubt about the deliciousness of this dish.

“?? ~?? ~?? ~" The three dumb hairs on Lu Bu's head have turned into a heart shape at this moment, and he is obviously very satisfied with this dish.

"It's like a wild deer coming to the edge of the salt pond and licking the crystal salt, full of wildness and vitality!" Xun Yu nodded, "No wonder it's called Yanchi to find deer, it's not Yanchi to look for deer, but the deer to run into Yanchi!" ”

"The deer should be a wild deer, the smell of the wild deer is stronger than that of the raised deer, this dish has not completely removed the smell, but the retained, very rare smell, has become the flavor of this dish!" Yang Biao nodded.

"Lamb, for example, has a strong flavor, but some people like that unique flavor. In other words, if it doesn't have that taste, it doesn't look like mutton. Dong Cheng sighed, "It's just that when cooking, the special chef will choose to remove the smell and highlight the tenderness and mellowness of mutton or beast meat...... It's really ...... to keep the smell intact."

"It's a rare taste of the wild!" Wang Yun echoed, "Could it be that tonight's theme is wildness?" ”

"From the current point of view, it is indeed very possible!" Cao Cao nodded.

"Although it's very similar, I always feel that there seems to be some kind of rule...... Xun Yu thought about it seriously, "The first dish is pickled, but strictly speaking, this side dish is also pickled, so there is a suspicion of repetition." If it is not pickled, then the first course is characterized by being eaten raw, the second is stewed, and the third is pickled and baked...... What if we were to switch the order? ”

"In a different order?" Sangong looked at Xun Yu suspiciously.

"For example, change the side dish to the front of the soup......," Xun Yu thought for a moment, "so it is eaten raw, pickled, and stewed." In the wilderness era, when people didn't know how to use fire, they basically ate it raw, and then after having fire, they learned to bake food, so they had cooked food. After that, it is marinated so that the food can be retained for a long time. Eventually, there was pottery, and stew began to appear. ”

"Indeed, if you get the first soup, there are indeed only very simple ingredients, and the cooking technique is very pure, and it can even be said to be primitive!" Wang Yun apparently realized something.

"You mean, tonight's theme is the evolution of civilization?" Cao Cao seemed to understand.

"If the next dish is baked, then it should be like this!" Xun Yu replied.

"Seriously, I'm kind of looking forward to the next dish right now!" Dong Cheng picked up the last piece of meat and put it in his mouth.