Chapter 74: Black Pepper Bitter Melon Beef Tenderloin
Compared with the raw materials on Chen Mo's side, which are incomprehensible, the ingredients on Tan Yu's side are clear at a glance.
Bitter gourd, beef tenderloin, a few other ingredients.
"Chef Tan Yu of Jinyan wants to make a dish, it seems that bitter gourd and beef tenderloin are going to be used, we know that bitter gourd itself is very bitter, if you think about it from the perspective of contrast, then this dish, could it be that Tan Yu wants to make beef tenderloin sweet?" Zhao Ling took the lead in raising her own questions.
Tan Yu started to do it.
Bring a small pot of boiling water, pour in the salt, and when the water boils again, add the cleaned bitter gourd.
Just blanch it slightly, then take out the bitter gourd, dip it in ice water, after a while, take it all out, put it on a colander and drain it to dry, cut into shreds, and set aside.
Shred the onion for the garnish and set aside.
The beef tenderloin is made from beef tenderloin, and the strips of beef tenderloin and onion are kneaded with the marinade for 5 minutes.
So the material is almost all ready.
Heat the pan and pour the oil.
When the oil in the pan starts to crackle, pour in all the marinated beef tenderloin mixed with the onion.
After Tan Yu poured the beef tenderloin with one hand, he immediately turned on the fire, held the handle of the pot with his left hand, picked up the shovel with his right hand, and fried it very skillfully.
As the pot was raised, the beef tenderloin in the pot was pressed against the edge of the pot, and the flames that came out along the bottom of the pot were scorched, and the fire surged along the edge of the pot one after another.
The brightness of the firelight even exceeded the lights on the scene, reflecting Tan Yu's whole body as he was stir-frying.
When the color of the beef tenderloin turns grayish-white, pour in the bitter gourd and continue to stir-fry.
"It's just that, it's just fried beef tenderloin with bitter gourd, where does the sweetness come from?" Zhao Ling explained again suspiciously.
After stir-frying for a while, Tan Yu suddenly took out a seasoning from the table, and poured all the black juice into the pot.
The black juice came to the scorching pot and melted immediately, and white heat gushed out of the pot.
"It's done!"
Before the heat dissipated, Tan Yu had already picked up the pot and poured the bitter gourd beef tenderloin into the plate.
"Oh, Tan Yu has already taken the lead!" Xiao Feng immediately came to Tan Yu's side and motioned for Tan Yu to raise his hand.
As Tan Yu slowly raised his hand, it meant that the first person to complete the dish in this round appeared.
The food lady at the scene brought this black and green, steaming dish to the guest table.
Ni Sheng, Hong Qi, and Li Rong stretched out their heads to take a closer look, only to see the gray beef tenderloin with the green bitter gourd, the color was bright, and a black viscous juice was all over the plate.
The aroma of beef mixed with a hint of spice wafted from the plate.
"What is the name of this dish?" asked Ni Sheng, who was the chief referee.
"Black pepper, bitter gourd, beef tenderloin. Tan Yu held his head high, his eyebrows raised, and he looked confident.
It turned out that the sticky black juice was black pepper juice, and everyone suddenly realized.
The three judges picked up the chopsticks at the same time, Ni Sheng nodded to Hong Qi on the left and Li Rong on the right, and the three of them stretched out their chopsticks at the same time, picked up a piece of beef tenderloin and bitter gourd from the plate, and put it in their mouths with the black pepper juice stuck to the meat.
"Whoa, whoa..."
"Hmm~" Li Rong, who is a representative of the Gourmets Association, raised her eyebrows and her eyelids twitched while eating, and seemed to be very satisfied with the taste of this black pepper bitter gourd beef tenderloin.
After Hong Qi finished eating, he also nodded and put down his chopsticks.
Ni Sheng put the picked up dish in his mouth, his lips trembled slightly, and he paused for a moment in the middle, as if he was savoring the taste of it, and then continued to chew.
After the three tasted it, they exchanged views with each other, and Ni Sheng picked up the microphone and spoke on behalf of the judges.
"Since this round is the final, expressing our opinions now will not only cause psychological disruption to the next contestants, but also will not be conducive to the selection of the final results, so we have unanimously decided to comment together after we have tasted the dishes made by all the contestants. ”
Ni Sheng's words mean that the champion and evaluation will be given together at the last moment, instead of giving the evaluation and result for each dish in the first two rounds.
Tan Yu's expression did not change, and he seemed to be full of confidence.
At this moment, Wang Jue of the Jade Hotel suddenly raised his hand, startling everyone at the scene.
"Isn't this guy wrong about everything?, why did he suddenly raise his hand?" Ni Shuai had a stunned expression.
In fact, not only Ni Shuai, but also the three judges on the judges' bench and the host on the stage all showed surprised expressions.
"Wang Jue... You... Who are you?" Zhao Ling took the initiative to ask.
"Hey. Wang Jue smiled, but there was a hint of helplessness in his smile, and he said, "I'm sorry, this round, I chose to abstain." ”
As soon as Wang Jue's words came out, the audience erupted in huge exclamations.
"Abandon... Abstained?" Ni Shuai couldn't believe his ears.
"I didn't expect last year's champion to abstain because the topic in the final was too difficult. Xu Ming didn't expect that the chef who broke into the final would choose to abstain.
"Old man, I heard you right, did someone abstain in the final?" asked Aunt Peng to her wife beside her.
"Yes, Wang Jue, who made rooster jade dumplings in the last round, seems to have abstained from voting, what a pity. Uncle Zhang sighed.
In the center of the venue, Wang Jue scratched his cheeks and said helplessly: "The masters of this cup gathered, although I was lucky to get the championship of the last Cup, but I was able to break into the final round of this competition, I am already very satisfied, when I came to this Cup, I once said that the reason why I participated is to learn, in the first two rounds of the competition, I have learned a lot from many chefs on the scene, and this round of contrasting cuisine, I still have no clue, so I choose to give up." ”
After listening to Wang Jue's explanation of abstention, many people at the scene made regretful voices.
"Well, you know what? Actually, this kid is not easy. The mustache who sat next to Ni Shuai and rarely spoke suddenly spoke.
"What's wrong?" Ni Shuai's curiosity made him immediately ask the mustache.
"This kid's master is the chef of the Jade Hotel, because he was humiliated in public by a foreign chef in a friendly match of Chinese and foreign food exchanges, and was hospitalized with a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. Soon the kid signed up for the third Youth Cup and won the championship. It is said that he paid all the bonuses he got to his master for medical expenses, but because of his serious illness, although his master rescued him, he could no longer stand in front of the stove to cook, but this kid did not give up and still stayed in the Jade Hotel. However, it is an indisputable fact that the Jade Hotel is declining. ”
"So, almost all of Wang Jue's current improvement in cooking skills comes from learning from others?" Ni Shuai's face also showed a sympathetic expression, "That's really not easy, I didn't betray my master, and I still maintain the heart of pursuing a higher level of cooking, such a person is a person who really loves cooking." ”
While everyone was sorry, Chen Mo was not distracted in the slightest, and was still concentrating on his own cooking.
"Report, my dish is complete!"