Chapter 43: Erina's Change

Pig's trotters and pork barrel bones are common ingredients and can be used all year round.

However, hairy crabs themselves have an exclusive name for autumn, crucian carp is also the most delicious and fatty in summer, and lambs and hens are the best choices for winter supplements.

Only the spring ingredients have not yet been seen, but as long as you sweep the other vegetable ingredients that Zhao Youqian took, you can see that they are full of spring.

To say that the ingredients he uses are full of the four seasons is definitely not an exaggeration.

Even when Nagi Senzaemon saw the ingredients used by Zhao Youqian, he only felt that it could only be described with a dazzling array of dishes.

But the ingredients are one part, and how to cook is another.

Regarding this point, Zhao Youqian knows the importance better than anyone else.

There are several large pots on the stove, and there are pots and pans for boiling stock, which is much more convenient and faster than boiling stock in the general kitchen, and can even be directly pressurized with the pot of the soup pot.

It can also have some pressure cooker effects, which can greatly save boiling time.

After all, the theme of this cuisine, Zhao Youqian's decision is 'soup jelly'!

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At this time, it was not only Zhao Youqian who had already begun to do it, but the dishes that had been repeated many times reappeared in Erina Nagikiri's hands.

In order to evolve her nirvana cuisine, Erina has improved the production of this dish many times, and even once there were some shadows of french jelly in addition to the name, and the recipes and ingredients have been completely different.

Later, it gradually transformed into what it is now.

Relying on her familiarity with Zhao Youqian, Erina even got the information on the halberds he had before, and constantly imitated him in the processing of cooking and the use of ingredients.

As this imitation progressed, the proud princess was surprised to find that her cooking skills had begun to improve dramatically.

So much so that later, her cooking techniques are not only the unparalleled perfection pursued by her own cooking heart, but also a little shadow of Zhao Youqian.

It is precisely this shadow that allows Erina Nagikiri's cuisine to break through the original barriers and enter a new world.

In addition to pursuing flawless taste, she has also begun to think about bringing a completely different taste experience to her diners, and has integrated the exploration of a new world of cooking.

What was originally just a light and elegant French consommé jelly has now been integrated into more of her cooking system.

The boiling soup is not only familiar with various vegetables, chicken, but also seafood and fish that are very different from ordinary French consommé.

This also represents that Erina's cooking this time is completely different from the last time Zhao Youqian saw it, and it also reflects her mastery of several ingredients.

But there is one thing she firmly grasps, even if it is innovative, it must revolve around a theme, which is also a core that Erina Nagikiri learned from Zhao Youqian's halberd!

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"Grown, Erina!"

Just by looking at the concentration of cooking, Nagi Senzaemon knew that his granddaughter had entered a new realm.

Originally, I thought that Erina had only made a breakthrough in some aspect, but now it seems that Erina's potential has not been fully realized.

The food she usually serves him may only be half of her true strength.

"It's really interesting..."

With the eyesight of the Demon King of Food, it can naturally be seen that Zhao Youqian's choice of cuisine is also a soup jelly.

It's easy to guess what he thinks, compete with the same type of cuisine, and even have the same theme, and then let Erina feel the level of on-site cooking of a Lin-level chef.

This will neither be too brilliant to hit Erina, nor will the level be so bad that the gutter capsizes.

However, Zhao Youqian's idea is very good, and whether he can achieve the suppression he wants depends on how far his cooking level has come now.

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Just a glance at the gap between the ingredients, Zhao Youqian sensed the familiar aura on Erina Nagikiri's body.

I wasn't annoyed that I had learned something stolen, but I was a little surprised by the talent of this halberd spirit heroine.

It's very difficult to grasp the essence of the primary meditation by imitation alone, otherwise Erina Nagi is not the only one who can do this.

'It's interesting...'

There was a smile on his face, which was Zhao Youqian's joy that he wanted to see how much Erina could learn.

After all, his cooking style is very different from most people, and it may not be a good thing for him to have someone who can learn some of it.

At the very least, it means that his cooking is something that others can learn.

At this time, the cauldron in front of Zhao Youqian had also begun to boil.

Pig's trotter stock, bone stock, chicken stock, and the most special lamb soup are almost all starting to emit steam.

However, the crucian carp has not yet been processed, because if it is boiled for too long, the flavor of the crucian carp soup will fade, and it is enough to leave about 40 minutes or so.

So for the time being, Zhao Youqian just cleaned up the four or five crucian carp and put them aside.

It uses crucian carp that grows naturally in the stream, and the meat taste is top-notch, and the fishy smell is relatively light, but it also needs to be rinsed repeatedly to remove the black membrane in the stomach, and the teeth and gills must be cleaned.

This is the key to freshwater fish processing, these two parts are not removed, no matter how you cook it, there will be a faint fishy smell.

And how to apply these soup jelly is actually the highlight of Zhao Youqian's cooking today.

Just tasting and feeling it directly is not the point of Zhao Youqian's cooking, and it doesn't require a lot of other vegetable ingredients.

In fact, it is simple to say that it is simple, and it is quite troublesome to deal with this dish he makes.

What he wants to make is one of Yaozhou's most famous snacks.

Xiao Long soup dumplings!

One of the most famous snacks in Huhai City can even be regarded as one of the city's business cards, and one of the most famous small shops simply sells crab roe soup dumplings, which has won the top three of IGO Huhai City's must-eat list.

You can know the status of xiaolong soup dumplings in Huhai City.

Using xiao long bao against French consommé jelly seems to be incompatible, but in fact, it is all about tasting the taste of soup.

Moreover, the two forms of soup jelly, one cold and one hot, can be regarded as making Erina truly understand the truth that there is no fixed formula in cooking.

Of course, the four seasons xiao long bao needs to be kneaded separately just for the skin, which is difficult for ordinary chefs to complete in a short time.

Different flavors of fillings and soup jelly require different crusts to soften them, and the four seasons buns themselves also need to be blended.

It can be said that just this step of cooking takes two or three hours for many special chefs to complete, but Zhao Youqian is different.

Not to mention that his background Xie Jia is the king of the white case world, after the overall training of 'listening and arguing', his progress in this area is beyond the scope of ordinary people's understanding!