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In the kitchen, the little master and Ah Ling are thinking about how to make the legendary magic mapo tofu.

As for Wu Xian, he helped them prepare the ingredients needed for the cooking.

After explaining who he was and what he was doing here, he told them that he had helped them too, and in the end they let themselves stay first, after all, the previous chef, Master Mei, had passed away, and now he was facing a crisis.

"Sister, Brother Xian, I'm going to start."

"Good"

Light the fire and put the pot in the pot.

Wait until the oil is ready.

First comes ground pork, minced garlic, tempeh, and sweet noodle sauce, followed by the soul bean paste of Sichuan cuisine.

After putting them in turn, they were cooked over high heat, and suddenly a spicy flavor wafted out.

"Yes, that's the first spicy." Wu Xian said.

The next step is to sauté these until they are brightly colored, and then add them to the soup.

Continue stir-frying, then add tofu, wine and seasonings to taste.

Cook over low heat for a while, add soy sauce and sprinkle with young garlic leaves.

The aroma gushes out, and it makes you want to eat it when you smell it.

"Second taste, fragrant." Wu Xian continued: "At the same time, the red of chili peppers, the white of tofu and the green of young garlic leaves constitute the third color. ”

After adding the oil along the edge of the pot, immediately turn on the high heat, and when the temperature reaches a certain level, when the pot is about to burn off, mapo is finished.

After that, when serving on a plate, sprinkle with a sufficient amount of pepper powder and you're done.

"Yes, the exuberant perm and tongue-stirring numbness are also done."

Placed in three small plates, the little master handed it to Wu Xian and A Ling: "You can taste it and see how it goes." ”

I tasted it carefully, and suddenly the taste of mapo tofu wafted in my mouth, and five flavors swam in my mouth one after another, which greatly satisfied my taste buds.

This is already the top-level mapo tofu, even the dishes made by those masters are only at this level, but this alone cannot meet Admiral Li's requirements.

Wu Xian tasted it, and Ah Ling and the little master also tasted it.

"What can I do about this, if I let a guy like Shao'an become the chef of Ju downstairs, then it will be a disaster." Ah Ling was already sweating profusely, urging the little master to hurry up and find a way.

An evening passed quickly, early in the morning.

In the kitchen, the table was full of plates, and Ah Ling touched her swollen belly and fell into despair.

It's been a night of continuous cooking of mapo tofu, but the little master still only makes five flavors, and he doesn't know what the sixth flavor is.

And after trying the dishes I made overnight, my stomach is like this.

"Little master, I feel so tired now, I can't eat it at all." Just when the little master brought another plate, Ah Ling replied weakly, obviously eating so many dishes at one time had made her completely unappetizing.

Wu Xian also shook his head, he was not a person who likes spicy food, eating so much has paralyzed his sense of taste, how can he still eat it.

"By the way, I think back to when we were young, we once ate a lot of mapo tofu, but we didn't feel tired of eating it at all, but the more we ate it, the more we wanted to eat it." Ah Ling suddenly thought of when she was a child.

"Yes, the meat used in the mapo tofu made by my mother is not oily at all, it is crispy and fluffy, and the meat seems to be a little different from other meats."

Hearing that the two of them were discussing there, Wu Xian also came over: "Is it the problem of meat, didn't Admiral Li also say that the kind he once ate was the ultimate in the perfect complement of tofu and meat." ”

With Wu Xian's reminder, the little master suddenly realized that he remembered the key to this.

At noon, Admiral Li sat in the main hall downstairs of Juxia, closing his eyes and resting.

Soon, the little master and Shao'an each took the prepared dishes and put them on the table, waiting to taste them.

Opening his eyes, Admiral Li saw the two of them standing below and said: "Sichuan's mapo tofu pays attention to the five flavors of spicy, fragrant, color, hot, and hemp, and now I ask you, what is the sixth taste." ”

"It's a crisp"

The two replied in unison, and then looked at each other.

"This kid would know."

"I didn't expect Shao'an to find out."

A little surprised by the discovery of the two, Admiral Li couldn't help but praise a few words: "I didn't expect you to think of it, that's right, the sixth flavor is crisp." ”

"Since you've all found out, I'll taste it, let's start with Shao'an's."

The attendant standing next to him first put the tofu on the large plate on the small plate, and Admiral Li picked up the spoon and tasted it carefully.

As if he had found something, Admiral Li slowly picked out the tofu one by one with a spoon.

When the onlookers were still thinking about why he did this, Shao An smiled slightly: "It's worthy of Admiral Li, I didn't expect to find out." ”

People see that the pieces of tofu are like stacking arhats, stacked one by one, and they don't even collapse.

"What's the matter, so much tofu is stacked so high, it stands to reason that it should have collapsed, how can there be nothing at all."

"What a miracle this is!"

The exclamators kept crying out, expressing their bewilderment.

The elasticity of this tofu is quite excellent, the taste is also first-class, and in the process of eating, the moisture contained in the tofu neutralizes the spicy prickly sensation, so that the stomach can be slightly soothed, which is the crispy tofu.

Next, the attendant put the little master's tofu on a small plate.

After tasting his mapo tofu again, Admiral Li didn't speak for a long time.

"What's the matter, what the hell do you mean, sir." Ah Ling was a little worried.

"It's okay, you have to believe in the little master." Wu Xian sat on the side and comforted Ah Ling.

Sure enough, Admiral Li suddenly seemed to be enchanted, and after eating all the tofu on the small plate, he directly picked up the large plate and ate it quickly.

The onlookers were already a little confused about Admiral Li, but they just looked at it in surprise and couldn't speak.

After eating, after a long time, Admiral Li said again: "Both of you have appreciated the meaning of the sixth taste, but each of you embodies it in different ways, and the real magic mapo tofu is made by the little master, which is a crispy ground meat." ”

Shao An was full of puzzlement and stepped forward: "My lord, even if it is a crispy ground meat, but the meat I use is also the top, how can I lose to him." ”

Admiral Li pushed out two small plates, each containing two people's ground meat.

picked up the spoon and pressed it to Shao'an's meat, which was directly flattened, but there were still tendons connected in the middle, and Admiral Li pressed the meat of the little master again, and it turned into two halves and flew out.

"How is that possible?" Shao'an's eyes shrank, a little incredulous.

"What kind of meat is this, how can this be."

"That's not meat, it's soy." The little master explained, taking out a soybean from his pocket.

The crowd was puzzled.

The little master breathed a sigh of relief, led everyone to the kitchen, and opened a large cauldron with soybeans piled up in it.

"But how do soybeans make the taste of meat?" Admiral Li asked.

"The soybeans soaked in water are boiled in a broth, then flattened and crushed, and then the sauce is used to make the flavor a little heavier, and the deliciousness of the gravy is replaced by this moisture and flavor."

"No, if you put it in the pot like this, it should all be scattered, and it can't smell like meat."

"So, in the end, you need to fry it in oil very quickly, and finally the flavor of the sauce is locked in, and at the same time, it will be given the right amount of hardness, so that it is very close to meat." ”

I see, in fact, this question was also made by a person you are familiar with.

It's Master Mei.

"How so?" Shao An seemed to have heard something terrible, and his face was very ugly.

"And so it is," the little master cheered.

"Shao'an, you are the apprentice of Master Mei, you don't have her kind of care for them at all, you don't have the enthusiasm for the chef, the result this time is already obvious, the winner is the little master."

Shao An couldn't stand the blow and ran away, while the masters downstairs also cheered, celebrating the victory of the little master.