Chapter 539: Appearance Beauty? Inner beauty?
Rabbit meat as game in Yueliang country is also very popular on the table, Yueliang country's breeding industry is prosperous, these breeding industry is usually based on pig breeding, pig farmers have caused a lot of pork in Yueliang country, because pork is not short, so the price is cheap, the common people are eating, and therefore, Yueliang people have formed the concept that pork is ordinary, beef and mutton, river fresh, seafood, and game are more advanced than common pork. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć People have vanity, and when they see a recognized high-quality ingredient, they will subconsciously think that dish is high-class.
But rabbit meat is not easy to do, like cattle and sheep, rabbits are herbivores, and they have a fishy smell of herbivores, especially hares, the fishy smell is heavier, and this fishy smell is very difficult to remove, so there are very few chefs who dare to challenge the unusual choice of rabbit meat as the main ingredient in the competition, after all, it is difficult to make delicious and exquisite appearance.
Today is the first time that a contestant has used rabbit meat in the Liangdu Competition, and this novel choice has made the eyes of the judges who want to yawn brighten.
Xia Jinxuan's jade rabbit is a high-end product even in the eyes of the judges, but what interests them more is the outer layer of algal gum, which is something they have never seen before, a new taste, soft and soft, but full of elasticity, with a faint smell of seawater. The texture of seaweed jelly is fresh and smooth compared to the greasy texture of the jelly, and the fishy rabbit meat becomes soft and refreshing. The rabbit meat itself is more tender than ordinary meat, embedded in seaweed jelly, seeping into the cool fresh air, accompanied by a sour and hot sauce, soft with a slightly stimulating taste, making people have an endless aftertaste and unforgettable food.
"It's special!" The judges who had tasted it began to exchange opinions with each other, and Xia Jinxuan's jade rabbit was still very gripping, so that the judges couldn't help but want to talk about their feelings with others after taking a bite.
"The exterior is gorgeous!" Zheng Yuanwai said.
"The outer layer is like skin jelly, but not as unpalatable as skin jelly, I love to eat the outer layer, it is light, and it is also refreshing without dipping in sauce."
"The rabbit meat is soft."
"The appearance of the dish is indeed very beautiful, and it has the artistic conception of 'sitting alone in the secluded fence'."
"What does Cheng Lao think?" Master Jingming asked the old man next to him, who had lost his teeth, and the old man was drinking warm water.
Cheng Wanshan showed an expression of not knowing how to comment, thought about it, and said:
"The food is a good dish, but it's too cold, and it can be eaten with a little wine in summer, and it doesn't suit the situation in late autumn."
"It's decent. However, the appearance of this dish is indeed beautiful, like a painting, Miss Xia is ingenious, the appearance of this dish is very in line with the theme of this time, compared to her, it is ......" Deputy Director Liu of the imperial dining room looked at another plate of cabbage rolls dipped in soup and water with a very speechless look, and said in an extremely helpless tone, "Which piece of this dish is like 'jasper', and it actually has such a name?" It's not that I said, Miss Su's craftsmanship naturally didn't say, but her casual temperament, if she entered the dining room, she would not be guilty of deception every day! ā
Deputy Chief Manager Liu said what Master Jingming was thinking, Master Jingming rubbed the corners of his forehead, sighed helplessly, and then said with a smile:
"It's impossible for her to enter the dining room, don't care about the name of the dish, taste, taste, maybe it's delicious!"
As a strict judge, everyone is still struggling with the name of the dish that is not worthy of the name, but Master Jingming is right, the taste is also very important, because they already know Su Miao's craftsmanship, everyone is still looking forward to Su Miao's inconspicuous jasper cabbage roll, even if the appearance is completely unrelated to "beauty", they still want to taste the taste that makes them look forward to it.
It looks very ordinary steamed cabbage rolls, blanch the young leaves of the cabbage with boiling water, then put them in cold water to cool, wrap the pork stuffing roll into a roll, steam it in a pot, and pour it on the soup stock drizzled with green onion and ginger juice. There is nothing difficult to do, the whole process is not as long as Xia Jinxuan's pot of algal gum, as long as you master the time and heat, choose good food ingredients, and roll the cabbage rolls better, basically this dish will be completed. Using such an ordinary dish in a competition with a clear theme that only requires the beauty of the dish, the judges couldn't guess at all, Su Miao was letting go of herself, acting casually, or if she was not in the mood today, she didn't want to compare at all.
Picking up a cabbage roll, the jasper cabbage roll that has just come out of the pot is still full of hot air, which envelops the fragrance of the broth, which has been completely attached to the green leaves, soaked in the fragrance of vegetables. The aroma of the broth mixed with the aroma of vegetables is refreshing and attractive because the heat wafts from the pot when it is just out of the pot.
A dish like this that doesn't even pay much attention to the presentation is really not comparable to Xia Jinxuan's jade rabbit in terms of appearance, and it has already lost at first impression. Like the elegant and faint artistic conception of the jade jade rabbit, even if the steamed cabbage rolls are put in the shape of flowers, these two dishes are basically two types, in contrast, it is obvious that Xia Jinxuan's jade jade rabbit is more in line with the theme.
It's not that the jasper cabbage rolls are ugly, the bright green leaves have been steamed to translucent, and the glittering meat filling faintly leaks out from behind the leaves, although there is no way to call it "beautiful", but as a dish, the faint oily luster and the sparkling broth color are half-hidden behind the translucent leaves, not to mention beautiful, it does look very attractive, and people have an urge to taste it as soon as possible.
When you put it in your mouth and take a bite, the smoothness of the leaves and the slight roughness of the texture of the leaves are intertwined, and the taste buds on the tip of the tongue are deeply imprinted the moment you touch them. This is followed by an abundance of gravy, which is smooth and delicate, and the rich aroma of the meat is warm and intoxicating. At that moment, all the other senses ceased to function, leaving only the senses of taste and smell firmly occupied by the rich aroma of gravy, calm but rapidly eroding, unable to get rid of it for a long time. The mind is blank, and the only thing I can do is to feel the aroma of meat that can completely relax people's body and mind and just want to indulge.
The minced meat wrapped in the leaves of the vegetables is not a mess, but on the contrary, the minced meat is made up of meat grains that are gathered together and tastes very textured. The gravy is abundant, the taste is smooth, not a whole lump melts directly in the mouth, but after being touched by the teeth, the grains are scattered, falling on the taste buds, the tip of the teeth bites, when the slippery but not greasy gravy flows out, the soft meat particles will melt in the mouth with the thick and fragrant gravy.
This jasper cabbage roll retains the sweet and mellow taste that can sublimate it, and it is also a layer of paving for the wonderful taste of "melt in the mouth", step by step, it will not appear and disappear instantly, but people will look forward to it more and more in the heart of "it's coming soon", until the wonderful taste that melts in the mouth comes faintly, and the feeling of being hit by the soul can't help but be amazed, and at the same time feel that every cell in the whole body is stretched out naturally.
Although in meat, the raised cattle and sheep, wild fresh goods, fish and shrimp of the rivers and seas are more advanced in people's minds, relatively speaking, the most common pork is the most ordinary and inconspicuous, but there is a saying that pork is the most fragrant meat in the ingredients, because of the fat rate of pork, so the fat of pork is more mellow and fragrant, and the meat juice is more abundant. Although pork is not the highest quality, when the fat and lean meat of pork are stirred together in precise proportions, the resulting gravy is the most fragrant and intoxicating.
The leaves are crisp and tender, the meat is fragrant, the stock is delicious, mellow and smooth.
This is the taste that will never be forgotten as soon as you eat it.
The surrounding colors seemed to brighten up a lot at once, and Master Jingming burst out laughing.
"Delicious!" Deputy Manager Liu blurted out, and before the chopsticks were put down, he had already subconsciously said a two-word comment.
Jasper cabbage rolls, after tasting them, one finds that the theme of this dish could not be clearer.
So here's the problem.
"The beauty of the outside," Master Jingming pointed to the jade rabbit and then the jasper cabbage roll, and laughed, "The inner delicacy, which one do you choose?" ā
Guo Wanshan stared at the two dishes on the table, suddenly showed several yellow teeth missing, and laughed:
"Gentle and beautiful but not interesting everyone, only a delicate but lively and lovely little jasper, which one do you choose?"
The male judges glanced at each other, and suddenly laughed, laughing quite obscenely/trivially, and the only two female judges glanced at them with strange eyes, and the corners of their lips showed a little contempt.
Mr. Jiang's favorite favorite thing to come out when he was discussing Zhenghuan at the bottom brought the atmosphere to an abrupt end, and he struck the golden gong briskly with a golden mallet, urging the judges to start grading.
Twenty judges, using the vote to determine the winner of the scoring mode, each judge has a sign in his hand, the front and back of the brand are pasted with the player's number.
Twenty judges raised their cards at the same time!
Jade Jade Rabbit vs Jasper Cabbage Roll - Three votes to seventeen votes!
In the first round between Xia Jinxuan and Su Miao, Su Miao easily overpowered Xia Jinxuan with an inconspicuous-looking jasper cabbage roll and won the first battle. (To be continued.) )