Chapter 381: Barbecue
But for Orientals, barbecue without these seasonings is not considered barbecue at all!
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This is also the biggest reason why Pu Yuan and Lian Zhiwen have lost in international food competitions one after another.
Fu Yonghan plans to make barbecue this time, according to Pu Yuan and Lian Zhiwen's meaning, naturally hoping that she will follow the Western-style barbecue method to cater to the tastes of the judges.
But Fu Yonghan's words convinced them.
"Western-style barbecue is not what we are good at, and we can even say that we are weak." Fu Yonghan said this as if eating and drinking, "If we really follow the way of Western-style barbecue, we will definitely not win too many people." It's better to find another way and start with your strengths. ”
Instead of using the means that you know you will lose, you should fight for a position that is barely better than the past, it is better to fight and look at the longer term.
Pu Yuan and Lian Zhiwen were so aroused by Fu Yonghan's words.
Although Pu Yuan and Lian Zhiwen agreed that Fu Yonghan would use Chinese barbecue techniques to participate in the competition, it was not an easy task to make this Chinese barbecue satisfactory to so many Western judges.
I don't know what Fu Yonghan plans to do.
Pu Yuan and Lian Zhiwen were very curious.
When Fu Yonghan was mixing spices, the two of them almost couldn't hold back the curiosity in their hearts several times and wanted to turn their heads to look.
However, thinking of the things in their hands, they can't tolerate the slightest negligence, and now that they are in such an important arena, the two of them slowly calmed down.
Fu Yonghan picked out some spices commonly used in barbecue, such as bay leaves, star anise, and peppercorns and dried chili peppers, and prepared to fry them all and grind them for later use.
And Yu Kangning and Sun Shi had already set up an iron stove on the side, selected the best charcoal, and began to light the fire.
Fu Yonghan's method of homemade spices is different from the common ones, she uses the same spice preparation techniques as the imperial dining room, which can not only bring out the characteristics of various spices to the extreme, but will not let the aroma of these spices be too strong, so that the noisy guests will steal the status of barbecue.
The most important thing is that when these spices are integrated into the grilled meat, the aroma will be completely absorbed by the grilled meat, leaving no traces. When you eat it, you can't even tell what's in it.
This is also the cooking habit of the Imperial Dining Room.
For the sake of the emperor's safety, the food presented in the imperial dining room, except for some obvious ingredients, the other ingredients added to it, especially spices, were almost always made indistinguishable.
Because in this way, it will be difficult for those with ill intentions to know the emperor's preferences, and it will be even more difficult to manipulate spices.
However, in the people, this method is actually ineffective most of the time.
After all, many people eat barbecue because they want that strong taste. You can't distinguish the spices, and some people may not accept the delicious barbecue, no matter how delicious the barbecue is.
Even if they did accept it, they would not want to confuse such barbecue with ordinary barbecue.
And in addition to cooking for the emperor, everyone usually can't use such a technique.
If it weren't for this participation in the International Food Competition, Fu Yonghan would have almost forgotten that he still has such a skill.
Didn't the Western judges dislike Chinese barbecue? Then she erased all the traces of Chinese barbecue, leaving only the delicious, to see how those people can find faults.
Fu Yonghan had just finished preparing all the spices, and Pu Yuan and Lian Zhiwen had also made the lemon juice.
With such a large pile of lemons, the two of them have been busy for so long, and they have finally finished squeezing the juice.
The lemon juice is packed in a transparent glass bowl, and it really looks exactly as clear as water as Fu Yonghan requested. If it weren't for the fact that lemon juice is so much more colored than water, I'm afraid that no one might be able to distinguish it.
Everything is ready and it's finally time to start grilling!
By this time, more than half of the two-hour competition time stipulated by the competition had passed.
Some of the chefs have even made their dishes almost ready, and they can be served to the judges with a little finishing touch.
Pu Yuan looked at the surrounding situation and said in a low voice, "Are we still in time?" ”
It's Herman and Tiffany next to them, and their work seems to be in the late stages!
Fu Yonghan replied while hooking the charcoal in the stove with an iron hook: "Don't worry, it will definitely be in time." ”
Seeing that Fu Yonghan spoke so lightly, Pu Yuan had no choice but to suppress the worries in his heart.
The fire was turned on, Fu Yonghan smeared a layer of sesame oil on the iron shelf, and then served the lamb chops that he had marinated a long time ago and placed his pieces of mutton chops on it.
The size of the iron stove is limited, and at most five lamb chops can be placed at a time. In other words, the nine pieces of lamb chops prepared by Fu Yonghan are scored twice for barbecue.
The lamb chops were grilled over a charcoal fire and quickly reacted. The lamb at the bottom slowly began to change color, and the lamb on the edge of the lamb chops had a tendency to curl.
Fu Yonghan had a calm expression on his face, and occasionally turned over the lamb chops, so that the lamb chops could be grilled more evenly.
Seeing that the lamb chops had almost changed color, Fu Yonghan began to sprinkle spices on them.
The spices had already been ground into a fine powder, and if you didn't get close to smell the fragrance, you could hardly guess what each of them was by the color of the various spice powders.
Pu Yuan and the others looked at the movements of Fu Yonghan's hands seriously, and their expressions were even a little reverent, as if they were apprentices learning to cook with Fu Yonghan.
When several spices were just sprinkled, Pu Yuan and Lian Zhiwen's noses could still distinguish the order of cutting the different spices. But as Fu Yonghan turned over the lamb chops a few more times, the fragrance that filled the nose gradually dissipated.
In the end, except for the faint smell of the mutton itself, there was really no taste left.
Pu Yuan and Lian Zhiwen were shocked.
Sun Shi and Yu Kangning next to them may not know what this means, but Pu Yuan and Lian Zhiwen will not know.
The two looked at each other, their eyes complicated.
Before the competition, they knew that Fu Yonghan's craftsmanship was better than the two of them, but at that time, they could barely comfort themselves because they were cooking Western food that they were not good at, and they could save some face for themselves.
But now, Fu Yonghan is clearly making Chinese barbecue, and she uses Chinese food skills.
Even if they don't know what this barbecue will taste like, Fu Yonghan's ability to handle spices is already far above them.
Fu Yonghan's cooking skills are even more superb than they imagined before.
No matter how reluctant they are to admit it, they have to face this reality. (To be continued.) )