Chapter 006: The Phoenix Spreads Its Wings
"Senior brother, we don't need the dishes we cooked in the Garan Temple before." After thinking about it for a long time, Jian Ning said firmly into Liu Leshan's eyes, "This time, we will also make palace meals!" ”
Liu Leshan couldn't turn a corner, looked at Jian Ning in confusion and asked, "Ning'er, why don't you want to win?" Why should we abandon it when there is a simpler way to insure it? ”
"It's because I want to win, because I don't want to lose, that's why I have to do it!" Jian Ning looked ahead, as if she was saying to Liu Leshan, and seemed to be saying to herself again.
Looking at Jian Ning like this, Liu Leshan seemed to feel that he didn't know what to say. Since Ning'er woke up from a coma for seven days after being seriously injured a few months ago, he always felt that he didn't know Ning'er more and more.
"Senior brother, don't you want to know who is more powerful between me and that old imperial chef?" Jian Ning could see that Liu Leshan didn't understand. But he didn't want to explain more, he just looked at Liu Leshan with a smile and said.
"Naturally, I wanted to see it, but I didn't expect it to be at this time." Liu Leshan didn't say the next sentence, but said silently in his heart.
"Now that Ning'er has made up her mind, Senior Brother won't say anything more. Senior brother believes that with Ning'er's cooking skills, he will definitely not lose to anyone here! In the end, Liu Leshan could only give absolute support.
He should believe in Ning'er's cooking skills, and believe that Ning'er's insistence on doing so must have her reasons.
"Since it is the imperial meal made for the Empress Dowager, the first choice is the phoenix spreading its wings!" Jian Ning said to Liu Leshan and Ruan Zijin.
The phoenix spreads its wings and Jian Ning has never made zuò here, so Liu Leshan and Ruan Zijin don't know how to start, especially Ruan Zijin.
Although the materials used for the phoenix wings are not complicated, the process of making zuò is very cumbersome and exquisite. There is only time for three sticks of incense in the competition. If it was done by her alone, it would definitely be too late, so she now had to help Liu Leshan and Ruan Zijin.
Jane pondered. Liu Leshan and Ruan Zijin whispered in their ears respectively, and gave a detailed explanation of the work they needed to do.
After a qiē are clear. Jian Ning habitually looked at the location of Tianxiangyuan, settled down, and devoted herself to making zuò.
Jian Ning took a stuffed duck from the ingredients, disemboweled it from the tail, neatly took out the five internal organs, chopped off the duck's paws, and rinsed the blood with water. Cook in a pot of water until five are ripe, then remove the stuffed duck. Take another pot. Pour in the braised soup and green onion and ginger, bring to a boil, put in the stuffed duck, and start to marinate over low heat.
This whole process requires a stick of incense, and the requirements for the heat are also very high, not too big or too small. Jian Ning was also fully focused on this heat at the moment.
At the same time, Liu Leshan and Ruan Zijin are also busy. Although Ruan Zijin doesn't know how to cook, it doesn't mean that he can't participate in cooking.
I saw that she was very careful to handle the eggs one by one. Crack the egg whites and yolks into two bowls and beat together. According to the amount mentioned before, add cooking wine, salt, water, etc. in turn and stir well.
In order not to make a mistake with the seasoning. Ruan Zijin even tasted every spice carefully.
After preparation, two square iron molds were taken out from the tools of condensation, and oil paper was placed in the molds. Pour the beaten egg whites and yolks into two molds and steam them in the drawer.
After taking it out, it is a real egg yolk cake and meringue cake.
On the other side, Liu Leshan is also preparing for the battle among cucumbers and carrots.
After washing the cucumber, cut it into two-inch pieces with a knife and then slice the cucumber skin. Put the cucumber peel in a basin, add salt, marinate for a while, decant the soup, and then add a little sesame oil and mix well.
This is also the first time that Liu Leshan has known that the skin of cucumbers can also be cooked alone. I feel strange and a little worried at the same time, can the Queen Mother like this taste?
Like it or not. The current situation does not allow him to think too much. Without stopping, take another cucumber and carrot, cut it in half, and marinate it in the same way. Dispose.
After processing, Liu Leshan glanced at the contents of the three bowls in front of him. Red, red, green, and green, it's quite attractive to look at this way.
The time for a stick of incense passed quickly, and Jian Ning's cramming was completed. After taking it out, apply a layer of sesame oil on the duck skin, and it is Jane's authentic sauce duck.
Jian Ning swallowed her saliva unconsciously, has she been treating her mouth and stomach badly recently? Looking at this sauce duck, I still feel tempted!
Shaking his head, putting aside the thoughts in his head, Jian Ning quickly took his knife and split the sauce duck vertically from the back, barely taking a second look, skillfully removing the duck bones and leaving a part of the duck skin.
Of course, the remaining duck skin and duck meat could not be wasted, and after a "tuk tuk" sound, the duck skin and duck meat were no longer intact on the board. Rather, each one is almost an inch and a half long filament.
If you don't look closely, many people may think that it is good meat. It can be seen that the exquisite knife work of Jianning is breathtaking!
The people in the stands naturally kept an eye on the chefs of the seven restaurants on the field. However, many people may not be able to see Jian Ning's movements clearly, but they only know that Jian Ning's hands are shaking rapidly.
But just because the average person can't see clearly doesn't mean that no one can see clearly. At least the emperor on the high platform and Xiahou Yan, Long Zening, and the second prince of Lingsui can see it clearly.
Xiahou Yan had seen it a few times before, and he was not much surprised by such a situation. I just couldn't help but sigh in my heart, in less than a month, I didn't expect that her cooking skills seemed to be much higher.
And Long Zening began to look at who would win the championship in this game. Originally, I thought that without Jian Baiwei, it should belong to Tianxiang Garden. No matter how powerful Jian Ning is, she is just a girl with a small success, and the rumors in the market are just exaggerations, after all, she can't compare with an imperial chef who has been cooking for decades.
But now I gradually feel that my previous opinion seems to be wrong, this woman not only has shocking ideas, but also has amazing and glamorous appearance, and seems to have miraculous cooking skills.
Looking at Long Zeye in a bright yellow dragon robe on the top, his eyes gradually narrowed.
He has heard a lot of rumors about Jian Ning during this period of time. From the beginning of the remarks presented by King Xiang that "the king takes the people as the sky, and the people take food as the sky", he has heard a lot of news about Jian Ning.
Originally, I only thought that it was a little bit of a little literary woman, and these remarks may have been heard from elsewhere. But later, when there was a plague in Luoxia Town, this woman actually entered Luoxia Town to treat the people without hesitation. Later, even the name of this woman appeared in the mouth of the Queen Mother.
In less than a month, he became more and more curious about this woman. Seeing it today, even if he saw all the women in the world, he couldn't help but be surprised by her appearance and that Qinghua temperament.
In today's palace, after this competition, I have to say that she is a strange woman in Yuan Chu!
At this time, Jian Ning, who was cooking wholeheartedly, naturally didn't know that she was being observed by so many people, and was still busy with what she was doing.
Take some of the egg yolk cake and meringue cake made by Ruan Zijin just now, and the cucumber skin made by Liu Leshan. In addition, the duck skin in sauce is cut into two inches and five minutes long, one end is three points wide, and the other end is a pointed strip.
Then use a knife to carve the yellow strips into a phoenix mouth and claws, the egg gold cake into a phoenix crown shape, and the cherry into an eye. Cut the remaining cucumber strips and carrot strips into comb pieces 5 minutes wide. Cut the remaining cucumber peel into four 1-inch long strips.
After doing this, Jian Ning put down the knife in his hand, and after carefully washing his hands twice, he looked at the incense burning in front of him, and the time for half a column of incense.
And Ruan Zijin also completed his last task, took out the steamed pigeon eggs on twelve spoons, and handed them to Jian Ning.
The butter noodle tray made by Liu Leshan was also completed at the same time.
Finally, Jian Ning glanced at all the things that had been prepared, took a pair of chopsticks, and began to carefully arrange them.
Put the shredded duck in sauce in the middle of the big fish plate, yard it into the shape of a phoenix spreading its wings, and use five colored strips to stagger into a feather shape, and then stack the mouth, claws, eyes and phoenix crown. A comb made of cucumbers and carrots is stacked into two tails, on which are cooked pigeon eggs, and a butter noodle is placed at the tip of the tail, and a phoenix with wings spreads in front of it.
"Dang!" The gongs and drums at the end of the competition resounded throughout the sky, and the God of Food Competition, which lasted for more than a month, was over at this moment, and the next time was to judge the winner of the God of Food Competition.
Seeing that a special palace maid brought her dishes to the table in front of the stands, Jian Ning suddenly didn't know what it was like in her heart.
This is the first event I have participated in since I came here, and it is also one of the most solemn competitions in the country.
Suddenly, Jian Ning was even more nervous than the special chef certificate at that time. Although I was nervous back then, I didn't have much pressure after all.
At that time, I was already alone, and no one would care if I passed the test, and it would not affect anyone. But now it's different, she has people who care about her, her senior brother, and Ruan Zijin. It also has its own responsibility, Shiwei Garden.
Although the food garden is not his own effort, it is painstakingly managed by the father of this body. How could she let it be destroyed in her own hands? Besides, in this world, if there is no food garden, how can I support myself?
Everyone in Yuanchu knows that Jian Baiwei is the god chef of Yuanchu for more than ten years, if he doesn't keep this signboard, how should he be the master of this body, and be worthy of his first-hand cooking skills from elementary school to adulthood! (To be continued) R861