Tao Nanfang sat in her office with a white projection screen hanging on the wall.

There are a lot of small boxes on the projection screen, and above them are the live conditions of the four exam rooms.

Tao Nanfang will not watch all the arenas one by one, she came to see Qiao Zhi's performance on the court today.

Song Hengde walked up to Tao Nanfang and said softly, "It's Qiao Zhi's turn." ”

Song Hengde's mood is very complicated, and Qiao Zhi has a great proportion in Tao Nanfang's heart.

Although he can't pose any threat to himself for the time being, Song Hengde always feels that the tiger cub is gradually growing.

Tao Nanfang bowed slightly, Song Hengde operated the remote control, and the screen in the upper right corner suddenly enlarged, quickly occupying the entire screen.

"What did he draw on?"

"Eggplant with minced meat. ”

Tao Nanfang frowned and fell into deep thought.

She knows the principles of the preliminary round, and in order to test the skills of the chefs, all the questions are home-cooked.

It is not only the basic skills of the chef that is tested, but also the ability to innovate on the original basis.

There were many innovative dishes on the scene, such as the mapo tofu made into a fish sauce flavor, and the fried fish scales of sweet and sour fish surpass the fish itself......

More than 600 senior chefs can successfully create at least 200 innovative recipes for home-cooked dishes suitable for popularization, which is why Tao Nanfang will invest such a big capital.

Not only to select qualified talents for the King of Chef Competition, but also to reserve recipes for Huaixiang Group, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

Eggplant with meat foam is a simple dish, how to make this dish ingenious and make the judges nod their heads in recognition is a severe test in front of Qiao Zhi.

Qiao Zhi on the screen picked up the knife and began to chop vegetables.

Wash the eggplant and cut it into cubes, there is not much difficulty.

Qiao Zhi is still a little clever, and carved an eggplant into the shape of a peacock's head, which is eye-catching.

Eggplant is not a common carving material, such as winter melon, radish and other vegetables with high hardness, more suitable for carving.

Being able to carve eggplants into lifelike peacocks is not only a superb knife skill, but also requires a very high level of control of hand strength.

The four judges all realized that Qiao Zhi was not in vain, and his basic skills were very solid.

Gong Fachao wondered in his heart that the intern chef who didn't even have an impression in the back kitchen had such a superb knife work.

At his level, there is no difficulty in the dish of Wensi tofu.

Luo Yi's expression became solemn, she had the highest level of carving among the four.

In the book "Pipe", it is mentioned that "egg carving", that is, carving on eggs, is the world's earliest food carving.

In the Song Dynasty, carving food on the table became a fashion, carved for fruits, ginger, candied fruit made of bamboo shoots, and the shape was a variety of birds, beasts, insects, fish and pavilions.

Qiao Zhi carved peacock, belongs to the whole carving, the carving raw materials carved into a three-dimensional artistic image, in the carving technique is more difficult, the requirements are also higher, the sense of reality is very strong, and a look is to play on the spot, completely by instinct creation.

Luo Yi wrote "10" points in the column of knife skills.

Shen Bowei did not hesitate at all, and wrote "10" points.

Tang Long glanced at Luo Yi, this woman has never scored more than 8 points in a single item until now, why did she suddenly change sex.

However, no matter how good the knife work is, no matter how exquisite the carved dishes are, it is only an auxiliary role, and it depends on the completeness of the work.

Qiao Zhi began to process the ingredients.

When making this dish of eggplant, the biggest difficulty for ordinary people is to pay attention to controlling the amount of oil.

Because eggplant has high requirements for oil, if it is too little, it will not be moisturizing enough, and if it is too much, it will make people feel greasy.

Although it is a home-cooked dish, it actually requires more experience to handle than a dish like sweet and sour fish.

"Why is he tossing tofu?"

The judges glanced at each other, but they didn't expect that after Qiao Zhi processed the eggplant, he didn't choose the meat, but processed a bunch of tofu.

"Do you add tofu to the eggplant, what does that taste like?" Tang Long squinted his eyes and said with a smile.

Gong Fachao said in a deep voice: "I have done this before, and the taste is okay." ”

Shen Bowei said: "The knife work is so good, as long as the taste is not too problematic, it will definitely be no problem to pass the preliminary competition."

Luo Yi did not speak, remained silent.

Although tofu can be added to the dish of eggplant with minced meat, if there is one more ingredient, the name of the dish will change, which will affect the score.

Although Tao Nanfang doesn't cook by herself, the basic cooking process is still very clear.

What's more, what Qiao Zhi is doing now, as long as it is a normal person, he can see the problem.

Let him make eggplant with meat foam, and he actually picked tofu, and spent so much effort, is it deliberately perfunctory?

"There are still five minutes left until the dish is finished. Gong Fa reminded in a loud voice.

There were still five minutes, and Qiao Zhi didn't go to handle the meat.

Three minutes to go, still.

There was still a minute left, and the judges finally realized that Qiao Zhi had given up meat as an ingredient!

Eggplant with minced meat no meat!

The judges were stunned, what kind of operation is this?

Song Hengde glanced at it secretly, and Tao Nanfang's whole face was turned green with anger.

"Why don't you change the exam room?"

"No, I'm going to see what he thinks. ”

Tao Nanfang knows that Qiao Zhi's strength is not bad, even if he can't break through the internal selection competition, he can't be screened out in the first round, right?

Moreover, it has nothing to do with strength.

Qiao Zhi's attitude was problematic, and he obviously didn't put this selection in a very important position.

In the last thirty seconds, Qiao Zhi poured the food in the pot into the peacock cup.

Judging from the appearance, it is extremely delicate and meticulous, which is in line with the consistent style of Huainan cuisine.

However, this does not change the fact.

Qiao Zhi didn't add meat foam, it can only be regarded as eggplant roasted tofu.

is similar to the college entrance examination essay, no matter how beautiful the language is, the marking teacher can only give you zero points.

"Do you know what your problem is? The proposition is eggplant with meat foam, but you don't use meat. ”

Shen Bowei darkened his face and criticized in a deep voice.

"You're off topic right now, and I can't rate you. Tang Long smiled regretfully.

Luo Yi and Gong Fachao also shook their heads gently.

They wanted to know what Qiao Zhi thought.

Why make a very simple thing so complicated!

With superb carving skills, as long as there are no major problems with the food, there is absolutely no problem after the first round of screening.

"I chose to give up pork as an ingredient for this dish because the price of pork has been so expensive lately. ”

Qiao Zhi felt that the judges' reaction was expected.

"No matter how expensive pork is, what does it have to do with you, there is pork on the scene?"

Gong Fachao felt that Qiao Zhi's reason was strange enough.

It's a game too!

Are you engaging in behaviorism?

Protest with your own practical actions that now the people of the whole country can't afford pork?

"Let's give a few of you a taste of the dish. Qiao Zhi was very calm, "I believe that after you taste it, you will know the essence of this dish." ”

Luo Yi took a deep breath, although Qiao Zhi digressed, but for the exquisite carving, he still had to taste the taste.

She added a piece of eggplant with chopsticks and put it in her mouth, her expression changing greatly and shocked.

As if she wanted to confirm something, she took another tofu grain with her chopsticks.

"I think all three of you need to taste it. Luo Yi put down his chopsticks, his face was expressionless, and he said softly.

The other three judges gave Luo Yi a strange look, but still followed her advice.

Before the eggplant was in his mouth, Gong Fachao felt a wonderful aroma, and he knew that it was a good dish.

The moment he tasted the full taste of eggplant, he felt a sense of enlightenment.

Why didn't Qiao Zhi choose meat as an ingredient?

It turns out that he perfectly replaces the taste of meat with tofu!

The strategy he adopted was similar to that of making tofu into "vegetarian meat".

Vegetarian meat is often encountered in daily life, and the texture similar to meat obtained through processing is obtained.

For example, tofu sticks, tofu skin, dried tea, spicy strips, etc. can be regarded as vegetarian meat, and some taste even better than meat.

The creativity of Qiao Zhi's dish lies in the special seasoning to make the tofu into a meat foam taste, which perfectly neutralizes the greasy feeling caused by too much oil in the eggplant during the cooking process.

Gong Fachao struggled to control the irritation of the food and put away his chopsticks.

When he looked sideways, he found that Tang Long and Shen Bowei had both started to eat the third chopsticks, and sighed secretly in their hearts, and the other three judges seemed to have been conquered by this dish.

The clumps of eggplant resemble jade-colored jade, and the aroma goes straight to the nose, mixed with a flavor similar to minced meat, and the umami flavor of the soup makes you want to soak in a large bowl of rice.

Gong Fachao couldn't hold back, picked up the chopsticks, and "tried" to eat again.

It's not greasy, it's still delicious.

The rest of the judges seemed to be not to be outdone, and soon the eggplant was almost wiped out.

An awkward atmosphere spreads in the air.

The four judges realized they had lost their temper.

"Alright, you can go back and wait for the results. Tang Long smiled and put down his chopsticks.

This smile is not a smile from the bottom of my heart.

"Goodbye, judges. Qiao Zhi slowly stood up and left the room.

No wonder Mei Ling admires him so much, he can adjust the taste of tofu into a meat flavor in a short period of time, and he has reached the peak of the level of seasoning. "It's rare for Shen Bowei to approve of a dish so convincingly.

"What's more, it's an innovative dish worth promoting. Tang Long found that the other three judges did not hit the point, "Now that the price of meat is so expensive, if our hotel launches this kind of vegetarian dish that does not use pork, but is full of meat, it may cause a huge repercussion in the society." ”

"It's still a vegetarian dish, and it's also suitable for people who are losing weight. Loey added.

The judges discussed, understood each other's opinions, and began to score Qiao Zhi.

At present, the highest score, the average score, 99.2 points - Qiao Zhi successfully passed the first round of screening, which impressed the judges.

Tao Nanfang could hear every word of the judges on the scene through monitoring, and found that Qiao Zhi finally made the cut.

She glanced at Song Hengde.

Song Hengde's expression was strange, obviously he didn't expect this result.

"Qiao Zhi, Qiao Zhi, how many surprises can you bring me?"

Tao Nanfang thought silently in her heart.

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