The morning breeze blew slightly, and the crystal clear dew drops slid down the leaves, jumping happily. The green grass wakes up in the soft morning light, and looks even greener under the dew.

In such weather, the last game of the first round of the Qin'an finals officially began!

Or tofu.

This time, the tofu used as an ingredient is much more tender than the tofu in the previous two games, with a white color and a delicate texture, and it is extremely soft.

"This is the last time tofu was used, and the two have been tied in the previous two games, and hopefully that luck won't continue into this one." Master Jiang said with a smile, paused, and raised his hands, "This game is the same as the previous two games, there are no hard rules, the two of you try to play the best skills as much as possible, and turn decay into magic!" ”

He finished his opening remarks and then struck the golden gong with a golden mallet.

The guy who was shouting on the side shouted loudly like a song: "The third game of the first round has officially begun!" ”

Su Miao and Tong Ran glanced at each other, and when Tong Ran looked at her face, she smiled and unfolded the Xiangfei bamboo folding fan in her hand, shook it gently, shook her head provocatively, turned around, and walked away.

Su Miao looked at his dashing and departing back, the corners of her mouth twitched fiercely, and she puffed out her cheeks and muttered:

"Sassy bag!" Turn around and lead the three assistants to their own cooking area.

On the VIP seat, Su Xian took a potato chip from the paper bag in Su Chan's hand, clicked it and ate it, and sighed boringly while eating:

"I'm tired of tofu, three games in a row are all tofu. My appetite is almost as raw and jerky as that tofu. ”

"Your stomach is uncooked tofu?" Su Chan stared at the stage and said a sentence casually.

"That's all left for this last one. There must be no problem with this game! Lin Yan comforted with a smile while eating the potato chips in the bag in her hand.

Su Xian glanced at her: "Since you have been mixed with Su Chan, even you have developed the habit of eating snacks, you can see that your face is two circles round than when you first came." ”

Lin Yan was shocked, held her face with both hands, and hurriedly retorted: "How can there be! Xian Xian yourself is, round as the moon! ”

"Where am I like the moon. You're embarrassed to say me with a bun face! Su Xian sneered, and at this moment, Su Chan, who had been staring at the stage beside her, suddenly patted her arm. What? She glanced at her and asked suspiciously.

Su Chan silently pointed to the audience area behind her.

Su Xian turned her head suspiciously, but saw Feng Erniu, whom she had just met yesterday, standing in front of the fence at the front of the audience area. The people standing in front of the fence usually come before dawn to occupy their seats, and this girl stands in the front row. I don't know what time she came. At this moment, the child was putting his hands on the fence, his little face was flushed, his big eyes were shining brightly, and he was staring intently at Su Miao on the stage, for fear that he would miss the excitement of the game if he made a mistake.

"This girl is lazy when she is shopping for groceries again?" Su Xian smiled and shook her head.

"Who's that?" Chun Niang asked curiously.

"The little girl I met yesterday seems to like our Miao'er." Su Xian replied with a smile, and it happened that Feng Erniu felt her gaze looking over. Su Xian beckoned her to come in, but Feng Erniu just smiled shyly. Shake your head.

"I hate her." Su Chan's eyelids drooped, and she spit out a sentence stiffly.

"Who else do you hate?" Su Xian asked coldly.

"There are many, Lin Yan, Chunniang, Lu Hui in the past, and a lot of people." Su Chan was not afraid of offending people at all, and replied coldly.

"What's wrong with me?" Chun Niang unhappily stretched a delicate little face, puffed out her cheeks and asked.

"Whatever Miao'er likes, she hates everything she likes." Su Xian replied with a smile.

"I still hate you!" Su Chan glanced at her and said coldly.

"That's because you're jealous of my beauty." Su Xian raised her spring-like hand, brushed the hair on her forehead with a smile, and smiled proudly and complacently.

Su Chan rolled her eyes and ignored her.

Su Xian liked to see her speechless and almost hiccup, giggling, laughing, but she noticed a look with deep inquiry, and looked at that gaze, but saw Liang Chang, who was sitting in the first row of judges, looking at her, that look seemed to be looking, more like studying.

Su Xian was in a happy mood, waved lightly at him, and squeezed her eyes charmingly.

Liang got goosebumps, trembled, and hurriedly turned his head to look away.

At this moment, he saw Hui Gan, who was yawning boredly on the stage with one hand on his cheeks, suddenly stopped yawning, and then picked up the monocular bronze lookout on the table, looked at Tong Ran's hand on the stage carefully, paused, and frowned:

"Our little brother and sister are not good, Tong Ran still has such skills, why did he lose last year? Although it was true that he was inferior to Ah Wei in that game, ......"

Liang Chang listened to him talking to himself there for a long time, and finally felt impatient, stared at him coldly, and asked:

"What are you talking about when you're alone there?"

Hui Gan put down the bronze telescope, flipped the telescope on the back of his hand dexterously, and pointed to the opposite stage:

"This kid, the knife work is amazing! actually made a Jade Emperor-level tofu! ”

"Jade Emperor level?" The corners of Liang Chang's eyebrows twitched fiercely, "Why don't you say it's 'Buddha level'?" ”

"Those are two concepts, and the tofu he made is definitely the most gorgeous tofu in tofu, not only in appearance, but also in technique." Hui Gan tapped his palm with the lookout and said slowly.

Liang Chang still didn't understand.

Jade Emperor-level tofu - Wensi tofu.

The process is not complicated, it is the knife work that is complicated.

Peel off the skin of the tofu and cut it into thin strips.

Cutting into thin shreds sounds simple, but the tofu to be cut is soft and tender, and the tofu that will break if you touch it is cut into thin shreds about the thickness of shredded potatoes. This is not just a test of cooking knife skills, it is also a test of endurance and patience, which must be done with bated breath. Not being able to shake your hands, not being able to move your eyes, and even breathing can affect the quality of shredded tofu. This tofu is cut horizontally and vertically, and if the square-shaped tofu is to be cut horizontally and vertically, there can be no broken knife and pause in the middle, because tofu is an extremely soft and tender ingredient, once there is a pause. If you don't do it, you will break the whole piece of tofu and cause it to fall short.

After cutting all the tofu into thin strips, blanch it with boiling water to remove the yellow water and beany smell.

This step must also be meticulous and meticulous. Tofu shredded into shredded tofu is more fragile and brittle than shredded tofu in chunks, and with a little force on your fingers, the shredded tofu will be folded into several pieces and can no longer be used.

In the process of blanching, Tong Ning was careless. Use too much force when scooping it out with a colander. As a result, many tofu shreds were broken, attracting Tong Ran's cold look.

Finally, all the shredded tofu was blanched, and the shiitake mushrooms were washed and cut into the same thin strips as the shredded tofu. Peel the bamboo shoots, wash and cook them and cut them into shredded tofu-like shreds. Then rinse the chicken breast with water, cook it, and cut it into shreds as well. Shred the steamed cooked ham and set aside. After washing the lettuce leaves, blanch them with water and cut them into thin strips.

Wensi Tofu has very high requirements for knife work. Shiitake mushrooms, bamboo shoots, ham, and chicken must be cut into thin strips of consistent thickness, which is the most basic.

Place the shredded shiitake mushrooms in a large bowl. Add the chicken broth and steam on a steamer.

After that, put the pot on the fire, scoop in the chicken broth and bring to a boil, then add shredded mushrooms, shredded winter bamboo shoots, shredded ham, shredded chicken and shredded green cabbage leaves, pour in a little refined salt, wait for it to boil again, put it into a soup bowl, add a little chopped shrimp.

In addition, take an iron pot and put it on the fire, scoop in the chicken broth and boil, after boiling, add the tofu shreds, carefully cut them apart, wait for all the shredded tofu to float on the soup noodles, then take them out with a colander and put them into the previous soup bowl, and then serve.

Wensi tofu is a very elegant dish, and in the last match of the first round, Tong Ran still maintained his style of behavior, spring and snow, and beautiful and graceful.

Thousands of strands of tofu as thin as a hair seem to float in it, light, white, delicate, and dotted with a few brightly colored vegetables, adding a touch of beauty to this soup.

To say that it is not very beautiful, in fact, this shredded tofu looks like a bowl of dragon whisker noodles with clear soup and little water from a distance, but when you observe and taste it up close, the shredded tofu is tender and smooth, the side dishes are fresh and showy, the soup is mellow and nourishing, soft and fresh, and melts in your mouth.

This dish is not complicated in terms of process, and it is even inferior to some vegetarian dishes that need to be fried and blanched. This time, the dashi, which occupies the most important position in other dishes, takes a back seat, and the most important position has become the knife work.

Tong Ran's exquisite knife work is vividly played in this dish, and the kung fu of this water mill is ingenious and superb.

When the Na Wen Si tofu was brought to the table, the tender tofu as thin as a hair was so delicate that the people who should have tasted it immediately just held a spoon and looked at it dryly, and they were reluctant to move the spoon for a long time.

Wensi tofu soup, eat a bite hot, fresh and tender, mellow and dense, delicate and soft, strong color and fragrance, no beany smell, chicken soup is very fresh, eat a bite, can make people energetic, physical and mental fatigue swept away, the whole person becomes energetic.

"Good! This knife work is amazing! After tasting a bite, Mr. Yan slapped his thigh hard and praised loudly.

"Indeed, this knife work is amazing, and the taste is endless!" Xia Chang stroked his beard and admired, even he couldn't help but be impressed by this exquisite Wensi tofu.

"I originally thought that Miss Su was the best at boiling soup among this year's contestants, that little girl, boiling the soup one after another, but I didn't expect that this Tong Sishao is also a good hand at boiling soup, this clear soup is also a must-have in Qin'an this year!" Lord Zhao bent his white eyebrows and sighed happily.

"That's just the case with 'delicious delicacies, fragrant teeth and cheeks'!" Mr. Yan nodded and said approvingly.

At this moment, another group of guys came forward and placed the small blue and white soup cups covered with porcelain lids in front of the judges one by one, and the leading guy gave a dish name with an expressionless face:

"This dish is Miss Su's 'Chicken Juice Chrysanthemum Tofu'."

"Chrysanthemum tofu?" Xia Chang repeated with interest, raising his gray eyebrows.

He is still very optimistic about Su Miao, so he has great expectations for Su Miao's works, of course, this is not only because Su Miao's craftsmanship is good, but also because Su Miao is a little girl with outstanding skills, mainly because of the "young and beautiful little girl" Xia Chang likes it more.

With a hint of anticipation, Xia Chang smiled and lifted the porcelain lid of the soup cup.

It was as if a beam of golden light burst out at the moment when the porcelain lid was lifted!

"What a big flower! Did this girl put a whole flower in the soup? Are the flowers used to make soup? But where is the tofu? Mr. Yan squinted at a pair of presbyopia eyes and asked puzzledly.

Most of the judges present were younger than Mr. Yan, and their eyes were naturally better than him, and after three seconds of silence at the scene, Xia Changyan stared at the blue and white porcelain soup cup in front of him, and said angrily:

"Elder Yan, take a good look, that's not a flower!"

Mr. Yan still didn't react, and said angrily: "What is not a flower, this is not what a flower is, I am not blind, I can still see such a big flower, this is clearly a flower......"

He didn't finish his babbling words, he looked at the flowers floating in the soup cup lined with a small green rapeseed, and stayed for a while, suddenly picked up a spoon and poked the flowers in the soup, and then exclaimed:

"Master, this is tofu! This is actually tofu! ”

Chrysanthemum tofu is carved into the shape of a chrysanthemum with exquisite knife work, and steamed in a steamer basket with mellow chicken juice for a quarter of an hour.

The side dish is only a blanched small green cabbage and a few wolfberries that are decorated with stamens, from the point of view of the method, this dish is simpler than Wensi tofu, but in terms of knife work, Tong Ran's exquisite knife work is not enough in front of this chrysanthemum carved from tofu, and it is completely forced down to a notch.

I don't know if it's because she knows that Tong Ran wants to make Wensi tofu, so Su Miao chose to show off the knife in this game, or if she has played enough of the local flavor of the first two courses, this time she just came to the finale of spring and white snow.

Chrysanthemum tofu, slice and cut, take the tender and white tofu, cut it into a rectangle, leave a small piece at the top, slice it one by one, and then turn it over, hold your breath, knife by knife, cut into thirty-six knives in one breath, it only takes one minute from the tofu block to become a ball of filaments, and there is no break in the middle.

Then, put a ball of tofu shreds into the clear water, gently pick it up with chopsticks, and the tofu shreds slowly spread out, like a white chrysanthemum blooming in the water, white as jade, silk hanging silk, chic, elegant and refined.

Accompanied by mellow chicken juice, chicken juice is not chicken soup, chicken juice is the concentration of chicken soup, taking the most essential part of chicken soup, because of this, the chrysanthemum tofu cooked from chicken juice is more thick and attractive. (To be continued.) )