Chapter 305: Buns
The topic of the semi-final is simpler than that of the preliminary round, with only two words: noodles. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Everyone was stunned.
Especially the contestants.
In order to prepare for this competition, these people can be said to have made a lot of energy, just waiting to show their skills and become famous in one fell swoop. But the organizer is too uncooperative, and the questions are all so tricky, so simple that they hardly give people any room to play!
The home-cooked food in the preliminary round was already very surprising, but it was indeed cooking. But what about now? What the hell is pastry?
Which food contest would have such a question!!
No matter how crazy everyone complains in their hearts, since the organizers have given such a topic, they have to do it.
Zhang Hai and Yu Kangning exchanged a while, and quickly decided what they wanted to do in this competition.
Xiao Long Bao.
Xiaolongbao is a very famous traditional noodle snack in China with a long history. There are also many ways to make it, the most famous of which is to pour soup dumplings.
What Zhang Hai and Yu Kangning have to do is to fill soup dumplings with xiaolongbao.
It is not difficult to make xiaolongbao, but the difficult thing is to make the stuffing and pinching the skin.
Especially if you make a slight mistake in pinching the skin, it is easy to make four dislikes, which will definitely reduce the effect of this pastry.
Zhang Hai and Yu Kangning have their own expertise in cooking, once the noodles of xiaolongbao are decided, the two immediately decided to divide the work, Zhang Hai is responsible for kneading the dough and kneading the skin, and Yu Kangning is responsible for the filling.
After all, Zhang Hai has a lot more time to learn to cook than Yu Kangning, he is already very familiar with kneading noodles, and it is even more powerful after Fu Yonghan's teaching. Even, Zhang Hai's handmade noodles are also well-known in Yongji Restaurant, and many people will come to order the handmade noodles he makes!
Although Yu Kangning has mastered some of the work that requires time and experience in kneading, it is impossible to reach the sky in one step after all. So now he is learning more things that can be done quickly, and making stuffing is one of them.
Yu Kangning took a piece of meat and came back, in which the ratio of fat and lean was one to four. Fat is essential in the filling, otherwise the filling will be too dry, not lubricated enough, and not sweet enough.
The stuffing that Yu Kangning wants to make this time is very simple, that is, pork mixed with shallots, and some other seasonings will be added to it to facilitate the taste.
The simpler the filling, the easier it is to conquer people's tastes.
After chopping the meat, Yu Kangning added the chopped green onion and various seasonings.
Nowadays, there are many auxiliary tools in the kitchen, among which there is a machine specially used for grinding meat. More and more restaurants are also using these tools to handle ingredients, but there are also many chefs who still prefer to do it themselves.
There is a die-hard fan of traditional cooking, Fu Yonghan, and this kind of auxiliary tool is almost extinct in the kitchen of Yongji Restaurant.
And although these tools are easy to use, more and more people think that the taste of the ingredients processed by the machine is always worse than the ingredients that have been processed by traditional methods. As for the reason, no one can say one, two, or three.
Yu Kangning's ability to chop meat is also a must in the kitchen of Yongji Restaurant. I saw him holding a knife in both hands, one left, one right, one up and one up and down quickly chopping the pieces of meat on the board. Because his movements are so fast, most people can almost only see the afterimage of two kitchen knives, which makes people reluctant to look away.
As for the meat on the board, it was chopped into pieces at a speed visible to the naked eye, then into minced meat, and then into minced meat.
During the whole process of chopping the meat, not a single scrap of meat splattered from the board and landed elsewhere.
It's incredible!
How the hell did he do that?
Some viewers who paid attention to Yu Kangning's knife technique had a lot of discussions, and more people thought that Yu Kangning's knife technique of chopping meat looked beautiful and handsome. In addition, Yu Kangning himself is also a young handsome guy, and it has attracted the attention and love of many young girls for a while, which can be regarded as an unexpected joy.
Yu Kangning's knife technique has attracted many people, and Zhang Hai's kneading technique has not been ignored by the best players.
Although it was just a simple kneading of dough, Zhang Hai's expression was very temperamental, and the movements of his hands when kneading dough actually had a bit of Tai Chi gossip style, which gave people a feeling of a master in a trance, and people were immersed in it unconsciously.
After everyone came back to their senses, they found that Zhang Hai had already kneaded the noodles!
How can it be so magical?!
Zhang Hai used his thumb to squeeze the kneaded dough into small doughs, and then used a rolling pin to roll out the small dough into round dough and throw it aside for later use.
I don't know how he rolled the dough, it looked thin, almost transparent. The audience was terrified, for fear that if his hand shook, the skin would be broken!
But in fact, not only did the dough not break, but it remained perfectly shaped, neatly stacked there, crystal clear as if the crystals overlapped, and it was very beautiful.
Yu Kangning's stuffing has also been adjusted, he picked up Zhang Hai's rolled dough, pulled a ball of meat filling and put it on top of the dough, and with a movement of his fingers, before the audience could react, he actually made a small xiaolongbao!
The xiao long bao is very cute, through the thin skin can even faintly see the filling inside, and there is a small flower shape in the middle of the dough, the whole xiao long bao looks like a budding lotus flower, it is completely a work of art, where is it like what kind of bun?!
Zhang Hai and Yu Kangning cooperated, and the two made a total of dozens of xiaolongbao, and then they went to the steamer to steam.
That's it?
The audience who had been watching their performance was a little uncomproper.
With such an obvious action, of course they could see what Zhang Hai and Yu Kangning were doing. But it is precisely because of this that they are even more confused.
Can such a simple bun really make them make it to the finals?
There are other contestants around who make steamed buns. But the so-called buns made by those people are either very complex fillings, and all kinds of precious materials are added as if they don't need money, or they are very good and unique in appearance, and all kinds of strange shapes are made, which makes people dizzy.
In contrast, the xiao long bao at Yongji Restaurant, although it also looks outstanding, is also a little more plain.
Fu Yonghan didn't look at the two apprentices anymore after she determined what they were doing, not that she didn't want to watch them, but Gan Yingtong, who was sitting next to her, had been pulling her to watch Jiudingxiang's game, so that she didn't have time to watch other games at all.
What Shi Jie and Zhu Liangtai made was sweet soup. (To be continued.) )