Ma Wenbing took the peony petals and looked at them, "The petals are a little old, it's best to use relatively new petals, but they can't be too small and too tender, do you know what I mean?"

Tianxiang thought for a while, nodded and said, "I understand, I'll go and pick peony petals for you in person, you can put this, and continue to think about the soup method." ”

Tianxiang and the eunuchs just now walked out of the main hall, and under the leadership of the eunuchs, they came to the back garden, as if they had arrived at a sea of flowers.

There are too many varieties of flowers here, but the classification is still very regular, each variety of flowers is planted together, all the colors must be carefully counted, there are not more than 30 kinds of more than 20 kinds.

Each flower is blooming very brightly, and the butterflies and bees do not know how many they surround, and the fragrance is permeating, and if you take a break in this garden, it must be refreshing.

But Tianxiang didn't feel anything, because when she was a child, she often came to this garden to play, and now when she came to this garden, at most she was stunned, after all, she came this time to have something very important, and she didn't have time to think about those things in the past.

Tianxiang personally picked the peony petals that had just opened, not by relying on the inner buds and the outermost petals, and taking the middle of the two, which was neither old nor tender, which was just what Ma Wenbing needed.

Tianxiang picked about fifty peony petals, and happily returned to Ma Wenbing's side, now Ma Wenbing has just boiled a pot of soup, tasted it, and quickly poured it out, he should not be very satisfied.

Tianxiang put the peony petals on the table and said softly, "It's all here, you think slowly, don't worry, we still have a lot of time, we are the first to choose the materials, so come on, I believe you." ”

Ma Wenbing nodded, in fact, he was also getting better, and he also knew how to cook, and said with a smile, "You wash your hands, help me do it, I need your help." ”

He Yiping, who was standing on the side, said: "Do you need my help? If you need to, just speak, it's not good for me to stand aside and do nothing." ”

Lord He Yiping has always kept his head down, because he is a familiar face, both Xian Yi and Rui Gonggong know him, in case they are recognized, although they dare not make a mistake on this occasion, but it is still very dangerous.

Ma Wenbing smiled, "I don't need it now, if I need help, I will definitely say it." ”

Lord He Yiping He nodded, didn't say anything more, his eyes kept waiting for the people from the Western Regions next to him to see what the hell they were doing?

The people in the Western Regions were also very quick to choose ingredients, the ingredients they chose were very different from the ingredients they selected, and the ingredients they chose were all light vegetables, and they chose either onions or garlic, which made people have to be incredible.

Tianxiang smiled, "What do you want me to do?" ”

Ma Wenbing replied, "First soak the freshly picked peony petals in water, no more than a minute, and then clean the peaches, lotus seeds and bamboo shoots." ”

"Okay. After Tianxiang finished speaking, she started to get started, these jobs are very easy to do, even if she doesn't cook, she can do it very well.

Just when Tianxiang was doing those things, Ma Wenbing was not idle, he got a pot of water and began to boil, he got a few bitter gourds, and dripped the bitter juice of the bitter gourd into the pot.

Tianxiang was puzzled, and didn't know why Ma Wenbing was dripping bitter gourd water, so he hurriedly asked what?

Ma Wenbing replied, "I want this soup to become bitter, don't they have four flavors of this soup? This soup of mine has a bitter taste, all their soups will not be bitter, all I want to make a special soup." ”

When Tianxiang heard Ma Wenbing's words, Tianxiang asked in shock, "Bitter soup? Are you going to make bitter soup? Can this work? Who likes to drink bitter soup?"

Ma Wenbing said with a smile, "Just put your heart in your stomach, believe me, my bitter soup will definitely conquer them, this bitter soup of mine is not an ordinary bitter soup, it is the overlord soup among the bitter soups." ”

"What kind of soup is that?"

Ma Wenbing thought for a while and said, "Well, it's still bitter soup." ”

Tianxiang almost burst out laughing, but she held back, if it weren't for this critical moment in the game, she would definitely be able to laugh.

"Okay, then make bitter soup and bitter them to death, I believe you. Tianxiang smiled.

Tianxiang quickly sucked the bamboo shoots, lotus seeds, and Yin Tao, and the peony petals were also soaked, "What should I do next? ”

Ma Wenbing kept tasting the water in the pot, and said, "Wrap a Yin peach with peony petals, wrap a Yin peach with a peony petal, you try it first, I won't teach you again." ”

What Ma Wenbing said was so interesting, Yin Tao was wrapped in peony petals, I don't know what Ma Wenbing thought, but Tianxiang still did it.

But Yin Tao is too big, and very smooth, the peony petals are too small, and they can't be wrapped at all.

"It's too difficult, I can't wrap it up at all, what should I do?" Tianxiang said anxiously, wanting to ask Ma Wenbing if there was any other way.

Lord He, who was standing on the side, suddenly said, "Ma Wenbing, I've been watching you make this soup all the time, and I'm not very satisfied with the soup all the time, I have my own ideas, I don't know if I can say it?"

Hearing Lord He's words, Ma Wenbing smiled and said, "If you have a good idea, say it quickly, what can't you say? I don't have any good ideas now." ”

"yes, say something good. Tianxiang also said helpfully.

He Yiping, Lord He said, "Did you always fail to blend all the flavors just now?"

"That's right, the four flavors can't always blend with each other, do you have any good way?" asked Ma Wenbing.

Lord He Yiping He continued, "Have you ever thought that chopping Yin peach and lotus seeds into mud and rubbing them into mud balls can not only wrap them up, but also spread the flavor inside, so that you can kill two birds with one stone?"

Ma Wenbing pondered for a moment, although Lord He's method is good, it also has a drawback, "If it is kneaded into mud pills, its taste will come out, and when you eat it, you won't have the original question, and this is not very good." ”

He Yiping continued, "This is not as serious as you said, after all, the mud pill is wrapped in flower petals, and its taste can still be maintained a lot." ”

"What about the lotus seeds? The lotus seeds are just stuffed into the bamboo shoots, and the bamboo shoots have been cut, so they can't hide the taste of the lotus seeds. Ma Wenbing said.

"I've thought of what you said, but can you do this, put the cut bamboo shoots together again and wrap them with silk threads, what do you think?" said Lord He Yiping He again.

"Wrap it with silk threads, what about it when you eat, and remove the stitches, wouldn't that be particularly troublesome?" asked Tianxiang, who had never seen the stitches removed when eating vegetables, so he had to die in a hurry?

"Nope. Ma Wenbing answered, "We can use vegetable thread, very thin vegetable cut thread, and tie bamboo shoots with this thread, so don't remove the thread." ”

"How do you cut vegetables into silk threads, how do you do that? No one can cut them like that, right?" asked Tianxiang in surprise, if you want to cut vegetables into thin threads, imagine that no one can do it.

Ma Wenbing smiled and said, "Can you do it until you see it, I can cut it to you now, how about it?"

"Okay, well, what vegetables are you going to cut with them?" asked Amaka again.

"Let's use cucumbers, cucumbers are relatively long, so it's better to cut them. Ma Wenbing replied.

Master He Yiping He then said, "Let's use bamboo shoots, it's better to use bamboo shoots, can you cut bamboo shoots into threads?"

There are four main ingredients in this soup, and it is most suitable to cut money with bamboo shoots, and now it is not suitable to have one more ingredient, although it is only a very thin silk thread, but it can still add another flavor.

Ma Wenbing is still very confident in his knife work, but he has never cut bamboo shoots, because the hardness of bamboo shoots is very strong, much harder than cucumbers and carrots, so he is not very sure.

"I can give it a try, Tianxiang, you go and help me choose a longer bamboo shoot. Ma Wenbing said that he could only give it a try, and it was not certain whether he could do it, but he thought that cucumbers and carrots could be cut, and bamboo shoots should also be able to do it.

Tianxiang quickly found a long bamboo shoot, peeled off the bamboo shoots, cleaned it and handed it to Ma Wenbing, who rolled up his sleeves, polished the kitchen knife, and began to cut it.

Ma Wenbing didn't succeed when he cut it for the first time, because he cut it the same way as he cut cucumbers and carrots, but the texture of bamboo shoots is different from that of cucumbers and carrots, so it is difficult to cut them.

Ma Wenbing took a bamboo shoot in his hand and looked at it carefully, mainly to see how the texture on the bamboo shoot is distributed, which is very important to how to go under the knife, the texture of cucumbers and carrots is very fine, and the main cucumbers and carrots are relatively soft, so there is no need to observe the distribution of textures.

Marvin observed that there are a lot of textures in the bamboo shoots, and they are very thick, which is troublesome, which is not easy to go under the knife.

"If you don't make it, you can't do it. Tianxiang said, "It's a big deal, you can cut it a little thicker, can you tie it up?" Anyway, you have to use bamboo shoots, and it doesn't matter if you have more." ”

He Yiping, Lord He, then said, "It's better to cut it a little finer, if it's too thick, it will not only be troublesome to tie up, but I'm afraid it will also increase the taste of bamboo shoots, and the taste of the whole soup will change." ”

What Master He Yiping said is very reasonable, a slight change can change the taste of the whole soup, and this Ma Wenbing also knows, so he must think of a way, how to cut bamboo shoots.

Ma Wenbing thought about it, the time is almost half past now, and there is still a lot of time, and there is plenty of time, so he doesn't have to worry about time.

"What do you think of boiling water and then cutting it into thin lines?" Tianxiang suddenly came up with this method, although she didn't know anything about cooking, this method was also suddenly thought up by her, as if the sun suddenly appeared in the dark clouds.

Hearing Tianxiang's words, Ma Wenbing nodded, "You can try this method, I just have a pot of hot water boiling here." ”

Ma Wenbing said that he threw the long bamboo shoot in boiling water, boiled it, and then took it out with chopsticks, and then began to cut the bamboo shoots with his superb knife skills, this time he succeeded, and a few very slender bamboo shoots were cut out.

"Great, it's successful, now chop this Yin peach and lotus seeds into puree, and quickly chop these with a knife first. Tianxiang said and put several Yin Taos in front of Ma Wenbing.

, Ma Wenbing said, "Yin Tao can't be placed here and cut directly with a knife, so it will lose the taste." ”

"You don't need to cut it with a knife?, so what do you use to make Yin Tao into a puree?" asked Tianxiang.

Ma Wenbing smiled, took a small bowl, put all those Yin peaches in the small bowl, and then took a spoon and began to crush those Yin peaches.

Tianxiang said, "I'll do it, you can do other things." ”

Ma Wenbing said, "Okay, I'll cut the bamboo shoots, you can make the Yin peach mud into balls, and then wrap them in peony petals." ”

Tianxiang said, "No problem. ”

Time has passed, and all the ingredients have been selected, which proves that everyone has figured out what they want to do, but how to do it well must be thought through.

Even Tang Dingxian, a master of making soup, is still thinking about how to make it.

Those people in the Western Regions didn't think much about it, they planned not to do it anymore after a few experiments, for them they didn't need to do it well, as long as they did it well, they didn't want to hide from the first place, they completed a very insidious task, that is, to assassinate the emperor sitting on the stage.

It is inconvenient to say too much about the few people in the Western Regions, except that they are all people from the Jin Kingdom of the Western Regions, and they have a great relationship with the owner of the remains of the book that Tianxiang and Ma Wenbing saw in the cave.

La Sisi also figured out how to make a bowl of soup, her inspiration came from Tang Dingxian, because her very annoying behavior made Tang Dingxian have another idea to tell him, there are no such rules in the food competition, so no one will stop La Sisi's method.

What Lasisi made was a bowl of spicy soup, which is also more suitable for her consistent cooking style, spicy is just a taste, Lasisi came up with a few ingredients to fill the four flavors, and it is still a very delicious soup.

As for Lu Quanxiang and Tian Yiping, with their smart brains, they also found what they wanted to do, although they were not good at making soup.

There are also those two who are the imperial chefs of the palace, and they also figured out what soup to make, in fact, their backstage is Rui Gonggong and Xianyi, because they rely on the relationship between these two people to easily enter the finals, as long as the soup they make is not so difficult to drink, they still have a lot of confidence.

They make a bowl of fish soup and chicken soup respectively, which can be said to be very nutritious.

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