Chapter 87 Pork trotter hot pot
As a fellow cook, Nagi Senzaemon naturally knows what the famous specialties of Yaozhou and Xiang Province are.
Smelling the lingering aroma of lap-mei in the air, it was also the Adam's apple that rolled a few times.
But he seemed to remember something.
"By the way, in the last Meow Rebellion, those guys used Meow to attack the cooks and already caused IGO's dissatisfaction, and now it seems that this is what they premeditated!"
"IGO has sent more combat power to Higashizakura to protect the chef!"
Nagi Senzaemon's voice had a hint of a deep meaning.
"Now that I think about it, they are doing a stress measure, first to make the chefs of Kyoto Go, and then after the IGO people take action, they don't have to worry that their next plan will affect the ordinary chefs."
"Everything is really calculated, even the human heart has been calculated properly!"
This is also the first time I have heard of this, and a flash of thought flashed in Zhao Youqian's eyes.
But soon he let go of his smile.
"It's too scheming, I'm afraid it will cost Qingqing's life."
"I always feel that this game is obviously focused on the atmosphere, but when it comes to reality, there is an indescribable little family atmosphere."
"If you are not mistaken, it should be one person who proposed the main axis, and then many people joined forces, but those people in the back boasted of being calculating and comprehensive, but they fell to the bottom."
Zhao Youqian's expression was slightly awe-inspiring.
"If you follow the original idea and directly force the extraordinary forces to fight, don't take into account the hearts, forces, and chaos of these many people, and directly engage in a big war to destroy the Kyoto Palace, I always feel that the situation at Asama Shrine is much more difficult."
But soon he smiled again.
"It's all in vain to say these things, anyway, I'm too lazy to meddle anymore, let's see what the great priest will do after healing from his injuries..."
Then Zhao Youqian led the topic to the food boiled in the casserole on the table before them.
It's one of his favorite dishes in the winter, it's convenient, distinctive, and varied.
The most important thing is to eat and warm up.
"Come on, I'm making this dish today, but I put some things that I won't add before, can you taste it?"
Different from the traditional cured hot pot in Hunan Province, there will be a layer of dried chili peppers and garlic leaves floating on it, this time Zhao Youqian's bacon hot pot has a few wolfberries floating on it, which is not like a bacon hot pot at all, but more like a chicken soup pot.
Even the color is a light amber with a hint of soy sauce yellow, rather than a rich soy sauce brown.
"Oh? A new cuisine? This makes the old man need to taste it well. ”
The lap-mei hot pot in Hunan Province has also been tasted by Nagi Cutting Senzaemon, and you must know that lap-mei, a special specialty of Hunan Province, is not a very difficult thing to accept.
In other words, the taste of the whole world has a high tolerance for smoky and salt-cured dishes.
This is also due to the fact that the traditional means of preserving ingredients have a fairly consistent trend in various countries.
It's nothing more than air-drying, salting, and smoking.
However, the memory of the last time I tasted this kind of cuisine made Nagi Senzaemon quite profound, it was a very traditional Hunan provincial cuisine chef, not to mention the craftsmanship, the cooking skills of wide opening and closing, even a simple vegetable can taste the rich flavor.
However, the too strong smoky flavor of this cured hot pot, combined with the several spicy flavors that Hunan Province is accustomed to, is simply a bomb for the taste of Nagi Senzaemon.
Not to mention the memory of this dish, even how the clothes on his body later exploded, he doesn't have much memory left.
If it weren't for the super food cell digestion, I am afraid that after he tasted that lap-mei hot pot, he would spend the next few nights in the toilet, and even the pain that could not be told by outsiders would need to be relieved with chrysanthemum tea.
Therefore, Nagi Senzaemon has always had some lingering feelings about this kind of lap-mei hot pot.
If it weren't for Zhao Youqian's dish, he wouldn't have smelled the chili pepper for the time being, but he was afraid that he would have considered what excuse he would have to find to slip away.
In fact, Nagi Senzaemon doesn't have to worry so much, in fact, there are many ways to make lap-mei hot pot, and the chef he met happened to be proficient in the Xiangxi local cuisine genre in Xiang Province, which is the most humid and cold place in the already humid environment of Hunan Province.
Therefore, the cuisine is hot and violent, so as to dispel dampness, and even the famous dishes have names such as bandit pork liver, so you can know the wild attitude of the people there towards the cuisine.
And this time, Zhao Youqian returned from the Hokage World and got a lot of inspiration, and the ingredients used were also unique, at least in Hunan Province, very few people would use this method, and it was unheard of to do this in the lap-mei hot pot.
After scooping a spoonful of the soup, seeing that the base of the soup was a pale yellow amber color, and the fat floating on the top layer was not as much as expected, Nagi Senzaemon was quite surprised.
"It seems that the addition of white radish and winter melon does have some effect!"
It is actually normal to add these two ingredients in the cured hot pot, especially the white radish can reduce the greasy feeling, and the sweetness can also be combined with the salty and strong cured soup base, but the winter melon is much rarer, and the effect of winter melon to remove oil is also on the white radish.
Looking at the ingredients in the cured hot pot, although Nagi Senzaemon was a little surprised by the clear soup of this hot pot, it was still reasonable.
But when he drank the soup in one sip, all of a sudden the underwear and outer clothes on his body slipped off in unison, and the vision of the clothes exploding was not enough to hide the shock in his heart.
He seemed to have entered a bunker with iron walls and iron walls, but the gentle and elegant style of the bunker was completely different from the solemn appearance of the bunker at the beginning.
At first, it is the rich smoky flavor and the saltiness of the unique salted bacon, and while tapping the base of the tongue, there is a faint hint of smoky wood.
But soon a rich sweet flavor hits in, and the astringency is mellowed, and it becomes an aftertaste that does not get boring.
"That sweetness... It's not white radish and winter melon that can be caused! ”
It was not surprising that Yu Nagi Sen Saemon tasted the biggest changes and highlights of this cured hot pot in one bite, and a smile appeared on the corner of Zhao Youqian's mouth.
He also drank a sip of the soup he had carefully cooked, and felt that the flavors that should exist were released one by one, making his eyes brighter and brighter.
"That's how it feels!"
"Warm and wild go hand in hand, both melt in this soup."
In order to target this lusciousness, Zhao Youqian's choice of cured meat is also special, not using conventional bacon, but such a part as preserved pig's trotters, and not bringing the back of the pig's elbow, but the front hooves and the tip of the hoof.
In this way, there is less fat and more bones, but the taste is also more rich and mellow because of the collagen cortex, and the soup will be richer and mellower after boiling.
Didn't sell it, Zhao Youqian's eyes looked at Nagi Sen Saemon and said an ingredient that surprised him very much, in his concept, this kind of thing would not be put together with bacon.
"It's red dates, I used dried red dates!"