Chapter 24: Saffron
Of course, this is a joke, making spicy chicken, the taste is indeed a little choking, but it is okay in the open air, compared to making bean paste and chili minced that taste is much weaker.
In the last round of the group stage, the Chinese Sichuan cuisine team has locked the first place in the group in advance, while the other groups still have a battle to qualify, so the attention received here has slightly decreased.
When Fang Hong arrived at the venue, he obviously found that there were fewer reporters here, fewer cameras, and many print media.
Because the TV station considers the ratings, there is competition to have the ratings, and the food magazines in the print media only consider the problem from the perspective of food, they know very well how many teams in the current competition are worth looking forward to, and they know even more that Fang Hong is definitely one of the ones worth looking forward to.
At 4:30, the game started on time.
The Iranian team is out, but they hope to score points, for many countries, in the current world, they have nothing to be proud of, Iranians are proud of the toughness of the United States, and the memory of history.
The Turks believe that they have inherited the Turks, and the other Iran and ancient Babylon have no half-dime relationship, although Egypt claims to have inherited ancient Egypt, but the cultural fault line among the people makes this perception very fragile, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the two major oil countries, are fighting in the capital battlefield, and other Arab countries are in dire straits in the war, only Iran, which can represent the long-standing culture of the Arab world, is unwilling to go out with zero points in this kind of game.
Fang Hong began to knead the dough, and immediately smelled a special smell, and when he looked back, there was indeed a lot of saffron on the Iranian side.
"Saffron is a feature of their diet, and I expected them to use it. ”
Fang Hong kneaded his dough with living water, and said: "If you travel to Iran, people who taste food should be careful, especially pregnant women, saffron is actually saffron, and eating it has a chance of causing miscarriage, although it is not 100%, but there is a certain danger." ”
Saffron is a native species of southwestern Asia and was first cultivated by the Greeks. Mainly distributed in Europe, the Mediterranean and Central Asia, the Yuan and Ming dynasties were introduced to China, the "Compendium of Materia Medica" will be included in the category of medicines, Zhejiang and other places in China have been planted. It is a valuable Chinese herbal medicine, with strong physiological activity, its stigma is used as a medicine in Asia and Europe, with sedative, expectorant, antispasmodic effects, used for the treatment of stomach disease, menstrual regulation, measles, fever, yellow bile, hepatosplenomegaly, etc.
Actually, saffron is a wrong name, because xizang does not produce saffron, so it makes more sense to call saffron in the correction of the name of saffron. In the 10s, Tibetan areas tried to grow saffron, but failed.
"Brother Gun, what are those saffrons for?"
"The spice, the golden stigma of the saffron stamens has a spicy flavor and is a precious spice. ”
Saffron has many uses, and it can also be used to dye, and the fuel for the positive color of the robe when Sakyamuni died is saffron, and the Bible also mentions the spice made of saffron, which can be mentioned in the Buddhist scriptures and the Bible at the same time.
"Such a big pot of saffron, how many golden stigmas can be taken out and used as spices?"
"It's not just the golden stigma, in the vast Mediterranean and Arabian regions, there is a dietary habit of using saffron gold stigma as a spice, but Iran's saffron specialties are directly used as an auxiliary material, not as a spice. ”
The golden stigma of saffron is, to put it bluntly, the same as spices such as chili pepper, which is stimulating, and saffron itself has its own special taste, and if it is used in the dish, it will also change the flavor of the dish.
Fang Hong took out the chili oil jar: "This thing, I think it's better to do it in advance, if you are in a hurry, you will be cheated if you are in a hurry." ”
The appetizer is the couple's lung slices, which are laborious to make.
The translation of the husband and wife lung film, the translation in the United States is called Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the so-called translation should be trustworthy and elegant, the letter is accurate, the degree can be reached, and the elegance is the literary style.
This is true from the English translation, and the same is true from the Chinese translation to the English, the name Mr. and Mrs. Smith sounds like nothing that can be praised for being literary, but there is no such thing as literary talent in English, and it is great to have a few more words that others don't understand, which is called rare and not called literary talent, but as soon as you hear this name, you will let people know what the essence of this dish is.
Beef scalp tripe, husband and wife lung slices are really very exciting, if you do it badly, it is called an unpalatable, there are few points to grasp, and if you are wrong, you will lose everything.
The minced meat and vegetables on the Iranian side are also doing well.
According to general tradition, Iranian cuisine does not distinguish between noon and evening, and similar to traditional Chinese food, minced pork is more suitable for the main course, but this dish is served with fried rice as the main dish.
Iranians really don't dare to use rice on the premise of Chinese noodles, so the cut part is also good as an appetizer, and after adding dates, the flavor is rich, and it is not bad as an appetizer.
However, any appetizer is struggling in front of the bright red oil.
The strong aroma is a side of the taste, which ranks very low in the human senses, and the visual impact is stronger than the five flavors combined.
To win the red oil in the color link, unless it is a plate of fried oily green vegetables.
It seems that the Iranians are going to give up the appetizer and focus on the last three dishes, so the first dish is decent, Fang Hong won the S, and Iran won the A.
The second knife is boiled fish, a special dish in the boiled series.
There are many things that can be avoided from the fishy smell, but in the boiled series, it can only be achieved by spicy green onions, ginger, garlic and plenty of chili peppers, and in fact Fang Hong does the same.
But this kind of dish is very unflattering to foreigners.
Foreigners can't see the water underneath, they think it's a pot of fish fillets soaked in oil, and for vegetables with thick oil, it suffers from the senses.
Fang Hong also knows this, but anyway, today is an attempt, if you can't get a high score today, then the boiled series will not appear in the future.
Bean sprouts and lettuce leaves are the base, the fish fillets are put into the basin, the soup is in, the chili noodles are sprinkled, and the hot oil is poured from above, and the squeaking sound attracts the attention of the audience.
This step is only available in the boiled series, which is sensually appealing, but accentuates the impression of the thick oil of the dish.
On the other hand, the Iranian side dish is a refreshing salad.
After the judges ate the fish, they already had a bad first impression, no matter how good it was, it was not much better, and after discussion, the boiled fish A and the salad A+.
For the first two dishes, the two teams drew 1-1.