"Oh, it's 'placket blooming' again, Zheng Ke is doomed now. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Asami oozed sweat from her forehead.

"My brother's soup is pretty good, but this time it might be flawed. Catherine looked at the judges' bench earnestly.

"Flawed, what's going on?" asked Tanzo beneficiahly.

"To put it simply, although saffron is expensive, it is not necessarily suitable for my brother. Because he rarely uses saffron, but replaces it with turmeric. So in terms of dosage, there may be flaws. If Zheng Ke seizes this point, it is not that he has no chance to win. The smile on Catherine's face was intriguing.

However, although this is a rare opportunity for Zheng Ke, it is also a crisis. If his soup doesn't satisfy the judges, I'm afraid the score will be pitiful. Catherine's gaze followed Zheng Ke's figure and moved to the operating table.

"Why?" Asami didn't understand what Catherine meant.

"Do you look at the judges' expressions?" said Catherine, pouting.

"Their expressions?" Asami's gaze fell on the faces of the five judges, but she saw that they had a feeling of repulsion from Zheng Ke, "What's going on?"

"The taste of that seafood soup hasn't faded yet, right? Because saffron is so expensive, most chefs don't know about it. In fact, the taste of saffron has a strong permeability, which can remain in the taste buds for a long time. It can even erode wooden kitchenware, so when using saffron, you generally don't use a wooden spoon or spatula.

In this case, if the judges drank Zheng Ke's soup, then they felt the mixture of the two soups. If a dish has a cross-flavour, its quality may drop by several notches. ”

After listening to Catherine's explanation, Asami immediately looked at Zheng Ke nervously.

Zheng Ke took a deep breath and gently placed his food on the judges' seat.

The mouths of the five judges were still filled with the taste of seafood soup until this moment, but when they saw the utensils on Zheng Ke's tray, they had some expectations in their hearts.

Zheng Ke has a medium-sized casserole on his plate, and next to the casserole are five porcelain bowls.

For the judges, who are accustomed to drinking Western soups, when Zheng Ke brought out the casserole, there was really some surprise, and at the same time he was full of curiosity about his cuisine.

"Five judges, this is my dish, casserole tendon soup. Zheng Ke lifted the lid of the casserole, and the fragrant steam overflowed at an extremely fast speed.

In the casserole, the rich soup takes on a yellowish color, and the beef tendon and winter bamboo shoots are soaked in the soup to give it a bright color and rich flavor.

Zheng Ke picked up the porcelain bowl, poured the soup into the bowl unhurriedly, and put it in front of each judge.

Shimamura Yukie frowned slightly, not that he had any opinion on Zheng Ke's soup, but that the taste of the seafood soup just now was still in his mouth.

Drinking this bowl of soup directly is definitely not good for Zheng Ke, but this is a competition, and it is impossible to give him time to eliminate the taste of the previous dish.

So, Shimamura could only silently say "I'm sorry" in his heart, and then picked up the soup spoon and gently scooped up the yellow soup.

As the soup enters the mouth, a warm current runs down the tongue and into the stomach, and every cell in the body seems to be revived. What's more, the taste of saffron, which has been hovering around the taste buds, is also gradually disappearing.

If a strong tornado blew in Absolon's seafood soup just now, forcibly allowing the soup to soak into the body, then Zheng Ke's soup was like a gust of wind, which made people feel a sense of relief from the heart.

Before you know it, the flavor of the soup is already all over your body.

"How can this be? I obviously didn't have an appetite just now, but after entering the mouth, I couldn't stop. Yukie Shimamura screamed in surprise.

"Firm beef tendon, crispy winter bamboo shoots, and mild broth...... It's wonderful. Taku Hosoki ate all the soup in the bowl in one go, then leaned back in his seat and said refreshedly.

"The soup is made of hen's broth, and the rich umami contained in the hen's muscle tissue, as well as the rich protein, vitamins and other substances are incomparable to other raw materials, fragrant and delicious, fresh and delicious. Yuka Nakama muttered to herself as she savored the taste of the soup.

Absolon looked at the five judges dumbfounded, and tried his best to drink Zheng Ke's beef tendon soup into his stomach, not understanding what Zheng Ke's soup put in it, which could remove the strong taste of the seafood soup.

"This classmate, you should have a secret in the soup that we don't know, right? We just drank such a rich seafood soup, why...... How comfortable is this bowl of soup to drink?" asked Yukie Shimamura, puzzled.

The other judges also nodded and looked at Zheng Ke in puzzlement.

"This ...... Maybe it's because I joined Shannai in this bowl of soup, right?" Zheng Ke scratched his head, the only thing that could make the judges just receive the puzzle was this spice.

In fact, if it weren't for the three or four hundred recipes that Xuan Li asked him to order, he wouldn't have known that there was such a spice.

"Yamanay?" the judges glanced at each other, vaguely familiar with the name.

Yuka Nakama suddenly slapped the table, "I know, it's Sha Jiang." ”

Zheng Ke nodded, "It's Sha Jiang." This spice is produced in the south of China, the fragrance is strong, the cooking oil seasoned by it is not greasy, and the sand ginger has the effect of dissipating cold in the warmth, appetizing and digesting, which can enhance the appetite of diners.

"In addition to sand ginger, I also put cinnamon bark in the soup, which has an aromatic flavor that stimulates people's appetite in addition to the effect of dispelling fishiness and relieving greasyness.

"Of course, the most important part of the whole dish is it. Zheng Ke gently patted the casserole placed on the table, "Because the casserole transfers heat evenly and dissipates heat slowly, it is easier for the soup and ingredients to penetrate each other, and the taste of this dish will become more delicious as time goes on." If it can be cooked for another hour or two, the soup will have a richer and more flavorful taste. ”

After listening to Zheng Ke's explanation, the judges kept nodding.

Knowing how to do it does not mean that everyone can make it, and it takes a lot of practice to grasp the heat and the amount of ingredients.

I ate the last bite of beef tendon meat into my stomach, but the richness of the soup lingered in my mouth for a long time.

(Although it is not deliberately mentioned, the ability to remove the beef tendon meat and cut the meat shows the delicacy of the knife work.) Although the taste of cinnamon and kaempfera also works wonders, if the amount is not used correctly, it will have the opposite effect. From beginning to end, this dish fully embodies his heart...... ）

Nagi Senzaemon let out a loud shout, and the clothes on his body faded.

"Bloom!"