Chapter 082: Cooking to meet friends
Lin Xia asked the chef to move the grill to the gate and try it on the spot, so as not to cheat on both sides, and called the chef to grill the skewers and said that he roasted them himself. The boy has no opinion, if the skewers are grilled well, the fragrance is ten miles, it is the easiest to attract customers, if it is placed in front of the store, it will definitely attract a lot of people, and if they win the competition, it can be regarded as adding some popularity to their store.
Suddenly, a big man with cheeks rushed from the street, somewhat similar to the appearance of the young man, but the skin was bronze, at first glance, it was perennial activity in the sun, and through the clothes, you can also see that the arms are strong and powerful, revealing the lines of the muscles, I saw him grabbing the young man's collar with angry eyes, "You little rabbit cub, what are you doing for Lao Tzu, if you don't stare at you for a while, you will make trouble for me, what do you want!" ”
When the young man saw that it was his own old man, he shouted: "I'm here to maintain your dignity, kill the old man, people say that your cooking is not delicious!" ”
Lin Xia, who was eating melons next to him, heard the young man's words and immediately explained: "Hey, hey, I didn't say that the stewed mutton was not delicious, it was my husband who said that the lamb skewers I grilled were better." ”
As soon as the cheeky man heard this, his eyebrows tightened, and he immediately put the young man down, turned to look at Lei Biao, and found that he was standing half a step in front of Lin Xia, with a sense of protection, but looking at Lei Biao's figure, it was almost the same as him, and then looked at the woman beside him, petite, looking like a pampered young lady, how could she wash her hands and make soup?
"My name is Tsering Nyima......"
"Poof-" Lin Xia couldn't help but laugh out loud when he heard the name, "Hahaha, your name is Nima?" Really? ”
Tsering Nyima saw that the woman was laughing so wildly, and only looked inexplicable, "Tsering means longevity outside our Saiwai, and Nima means the sun, what is your opinion?" ”
Lin Xia quickly silenced, and hurriedly waved his hand and shook his head, "No opinion, no opinion!" ”
"You're the woman who is going to try the kebab with Loden?" Tsering Nyima looked carefully from top to bottom, and it was hard to believe that this woman would make her better than them.
Lin Xia immediately got serious and introduced himself, "Yes, my name is Lin Xia, this is my husband, Lei Biao." ”
Both nodded their heads as a greeting.
"You don't look like a cook, but like a boudoir girl raised in a boudoir." Tsering Nyima said bluntly.
"A man shall not be a man, nor shall the sea be measured." Lin Xia replied lightly, "Let's know the result by competition." ”
Tsering Nyima nodded, "Okay, it's better!" As he spoke, Tsering Nyima turned around and patted Loden on the shoulder fiercely, "Little rabbit, you have to win for me, don't lose the face of our outsiders!" ”
Like an arrogant little rooster, Loden held his head high and patted his chest and promised, "Don't worry, old man!" ”
By the time the oven was set up, Lei Zhong and Loden's little servant Ah Han had already invited fifteen people, five different races from each place, and they were all invited to be judges for free, and these fifteen people were quite happy.
Lin Xia bought mutton directly from Tsering Nyima's shop, asked Lei Zhong to go back to Fuzhong to bring her ingredients, and then the two sides moved all the things to the door of the store and began to compete in cooking skills on the spot.
When Lei Zhong returned to the house, he also asked Aunt Fu where the ingredients were placed, and when he learned that Lin Xia was going to compete with outsiders for roast mutton, a large family brought Li Yunfei and Cuiyu to join in the fun, and they all wanted to support Lin Xia.
Everything was ready, Lin Xia and Luo Deng stood at the gate, and there were already many people gathered around, all curious about what they were going to do.
I saw Lei Zhong shouting next to him: "Come and take a look, Yalinju and Saiwai cattle and sheep are competing for lamb skewers!" ”
Yaohai City is far away from all cities, but there are many merchants who come and go, so many people have heard of the name of Yalinju, and when they heard that Yalinju was going to compete with Saiwai cattle and sheep for barbecue lamb skewers, some were surprised that Yalinju actually came to Yaohai City, and some saw that the chef of Yalinju was actually a woman, and they were disdainful.
Hearing that the word Yalinju appeared frequently in the crowd, obviously slightly famous, Luo Deng frowned and asked, "Yalinju?" Do you own a restaurant? ”
I saw a smile on the corner of Lin Xia's lips, "Yes, but we don't have a barbecue restaurant, only noodles and hot pot." ”
Loden suddenly had a sense of foreboding, how could he feel as if he had fallen into a trap?
"The rules of the competition between Yalinju and Saiwai Beef and Sheep are very simple, the two sides grill twenty skewers of mutton, and five people from the Wu Dynasty, Saiwai and Yuliang who we pulled from the street will each score, and the other five skewers will be tasted by the chefs of both sides, of course, more can also be randomly given to the guest officers present!" Lei Zhong was very sharp-tongued, and immediately made the rules clear.
"The game is officially on!" Han immediately ordered.
Luo Deng was not polite, he directly took the mutton and cut it into small pieces, then put it in a bowl and poured salt and homemade sauce to marinate for a few minutes, and took advantage of the free time to glance at Lin Xia next to him.
And Lin Xia was unhurriedly put the bamboo skewers in the water and soaked, and he didn't know what to do, and then cut the lamb leg meat into small pieces one by one, fat and thin, it was too late to marinate at this time, and the mutton was still very fresh, Lin Xia directly omitted the pickling step, and directly skewered the cut mutton on the bamboo skewers, and brushed two layers of oil on it after the skewers, and asked Lei Zhong to light the charcoal fire, and directly roasted the skewered mutton skewers.
Not only Tsering Nyima and Loden, but even the outsiders who were present frowned when they saw this step, and some of them spoke directly, saying bluntly: "Hey, do you know how to grill mutton skewers, you don't marinate the mutton, so how can it taste good?" ”
Lin Xia gave the man a direct look, "You care about me?" As long as I'm baking it, it's delicious! ”
"You!" The man was stunned by Lin Xia, and his face turned blue with anger.
And Uncle Fu, Aunt Fu and others, who were watching the battle on the side, were covering their mouths and snickering, Cuiyu secretly poked Li Yunfei and whispered, "Sister Xia is still the same as always." ”
Li Yunfei gently held the jade in his arms, with a faint smile on his face.
After Loden marinated the mutton, he skewered the mutton, let people take out the burning fertilizer commonly used outside the plug and light the fire, and began to roast it, sometimes brushing a layer of sauce on it, and after a while the color of the roast was red sauce, which made people appetite, and after a while the aroma wafted through the tip of everyone's nose, and even spread to the end of the street.
Lin Xia also kept up with the progress, seeing that the mutton skewers had changed color, Lin Xia sprinkled salt, chili noodles and cumin powder on the mutton skewers respectively, added a small amount of them many times, divided the mutton skewers in his hands into two sets and grabbed them in his hands, rubbed the seasoning on the meat with each other, so that the seasoning was more evenly wrapped on each piece of mutton, and the fragrance swept everyone's sense of smell, which was worse than the taste of Loden's kebabs.
"Oh my God, that woman's kebab is so delicious, I'm hungry." In the crowd, someone touched the belly that was screaming, smelled the fragrant smell, and swallowed saliva violently.
"It's the first time I've smelled such a fragrant lamb skewer, I wonder if she can sell a skewer of grilled lamb?" Someone thought about Lin Xia's grilled lamb skewers and wanted to buy them at a price.
And Luo Deng's face changed a little when he smelled the smell of Lin Xia's grilled mutton skewers, and this aroma was also something he had never smelled.
About two moments later, the steaming, oily lamb skewers were baked, and after a long wait, the already hungry fifteen judges were already salivating.
Lin Xia grilled seventy skewers of mutton skewers, and asked Lei Zhong to divide one skewer of the grilled mutton skewers to each judge, and then evenly out five skewers for the other party to taste, and gave the rest to Uncle Fu and Aunt Fu, and did not forget to advise, "Take out five skewers for your husband to eat." ”
Then in the eyes of envy, jealousy and hatred of everyone, Lei Zhong distributed the mutton skewers one by one to Uncle Fu and Aunt Fu who came to see the excitement, and Lei Biao held five skewers of mutton skewers in his hand, and he ate the mutton skewers in one bite or two, which made others angry.
Lin Xia didn't seem to care about the judges' scores, but Zheng Lu called over and dealt with all the remaining mutton for him, at that time, when he opened a barbecue stall in Qinghou County, she had taught Zheng Lu the trick of barbecue, and this mutton skewer was not difficult for him at all.
Zheng Lu was under the gaze of everyone, and he operated like flowing water like Lin Xia, and the aroma of the mutton skewers did not dissipate for a long time.
Luo Deng saw that Zheng Lu was still continuing to barbecue, exactly the same as Lin Xia's movements, his face darkened, and he pointed at Zheng Lu and shouted, "How can you grill lamb skewers?" ”
Zheng Lu said as a matter of course, "It was taught to me by my wife, I once opened a barbecue stall, in addition to mutton skewers, you can also roast pork and beef, eggplant and leek, and the business is good, but it has never been opened again." ”
Luo Deng looked at Lin Xia with a sad face as if he had been hit.
The review over there has ended, all the people of the Wu Dynasty voted for Lin Xia, one of the outsiders defected and voted for Lin Xia, as for the Yuliang people, unexpectedly, only one person voted for Luo Deng, and the two sides ended with ten to five, and Lin Xia won completely.
Loden was very unconvinced and took the five skewers of mutton skewers exchanged between the two sides and tasted it, originally wanted to pick out something wrong, but found that he couldn't pick it out at all, originally thought that this meat had not been marinated, did not taste, but could be eaten in the mouth, the taste was three points, not greasy or fatty, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, the meat was delicious, compared with the mutton skewers he roasted, it was indeed better.
Tsering Nyima, who is the golden tongue of the Saiwai, also tasted a bunch and found that he couldn't eat one of the seasonings, which was extremely unique in the texture, presumably because of this seasoning that made this lamb skewer so outstanding.
I saw him walk in front of Lin Xia, stretched out his right hand and put it on his left heart, gave her a bow, and said sincerely: "We lost." ”
Luo Deng saw that his old man had admitted defeat, and the originally imposing little rooster turned into a dejected puppy, "You are so powerful, your husband didn't tell a lie, I, Tsering Luo Deng, am willing to bow down." ”
Lin Xia smiled and said, "It's just a matter of learning from each other, some people will meet friends with literature, friends with martial arts, and we will meet friends with chefs, I, Lin Xia, really want to make friends with you." ”