Chapter 74: See the stitches

After presenting the dishes, he returned to his place, and Zhang Chen continued to introduce his dishes.

"This needle is made of beef brisket and pork hind leg meat, which is known to have a loose tissue structure and many internal voids, and I cut the pork hind leg meat into thin strips along the texture to fill these gaps one by one."

"That's where the dish got its name."

"The specially treated brisket is then cooked in a variety of cooking steps, resulting in a dish that combines the flavors of pork and beef."

"The hind leg meat is not tender enough because it has a low fat content, but it blends with the brisket, allowing it to fully absorb the fat in the brisket, completely changing its taste and texture."

"And the brisket has more layers in cooking because of this, and the flavor has gone up a notch."

"There's more to this dish than that..."

Zhang Chen obviously had a draft, and his expression and tone were very good when he introduced it at this moment.

And with his introduction, close-ups of the eleven diners tasting the dishes were also presented on the big screen.

The details of this seam are displayed in the eyes of every audience by the ultra-high-definition electronic screen.

It looked like a whole piece of brisket, but when you cut it, you can see a lot of snowflake-like texture from the section, and there are countless exclamations in the field.

The texture of this snowflake is similar to the snowflake pattern of high-end beef, but its essence is the pork filaments that stand out from the color of the beef after cooking.

The delicate cooking of the hamstrings hidden in the meaty crevices of the brisket is breathtaking.

Hearing the exclamations in the field, the joy in Zhang Chen's eyes became more and more intense.

He felt like he was close to victory.

After a few moments, eleven diners finished their tastings and his presentation ended appropriately.

The host on the side walked out quickly, with a smile on his face, "According to the information of the event party, Zhang Chen has won a total of three first-class food recommender badges in Dongxia City, namely the gray feather badge, the antler badge and the fish scale badge. ”

"Please ask Ms. Zhang Ting, Mr. Liu Yunju and Mr. Zhou Qing to comment on Zhang Chen's dishes today!"

This is a unique part of the knockout round, and the four players from the previous two knockout rounds have also gone through it.

As the person who gave the contestant the qualification, the referee who awarded the badge knows the contestant's cooking skills best and can naturally give a more specific judgment.

Zhang Chen clenched his hands slightly, looking at the three recommenders who had recognized him and awarded him badges, and the process of obtaining the badges from the three recommenders flashed in his mind.

Among the three food recommenders, Mr. Zhou Qing was the most severe, Zhang Chen tried twice with him before finally passing, and the other party thought that his cooking skills needed to be further improved.

Mr. Liu Yunju is notoriously good-natured, and although his test is the cooking of unpopular wild ingredients, the other party will patiently give guidance so that the examiner can learn something.

Ms. Zhang Ting is notoriously weird and difficult to get along with, but fortunately, the poultry theme that the other party inspected is what Zhang Chen is good at, so she only went through one assessment and successfully obtained the gray feather badge.

The three food recommenders have their own characteristics, and I don't know what kind of evaluation they will give to their own insights.

"I'll start with that." Ms. Zhang Ting is a short-haired woman with sharp facial features, she looked at the stitches in front of her that had been tasted, and then looked at the contestant in front of her who still had some impressions.

"Compared to the dish you made when you passed my test, this dish has improved a lot, but I think this dish could be even better if you replaced the pork hamper's leg with chicken thigh."

As soon as these words came out, the faces of the other food recommenders suddenly became a little strange.

It is said that Ms. Zhang Ting was chased by chickens and cried when she was a child, and since then she has been very interested in poultry ingredients.

I don't know if it's hate or love.

"Let me say a few words." Liu Yunju on the side lifted his glasses and showed his signature warm smile, "The idea of this dish is very good, I have never heard of such a practice, you created it yourself?" ”

"Yes, this is a dish I created based on the existing ingredients in Ingredient Vault 97." Zhang Chen smiled and nodded.

"It's an interesting dish, it's not easy to cook, but the taste is worth it." Liu Yunju gave his own evaluation.

It was Zhou Qing's turn to comment, who was sitting on the other side.

"If I'm not mistaken..."Zhou Qing looked at Zhang Chen calmly, "You passed my test a year ago, and I also said at that time that your cooking skills need to be improved, but you are barely worthy of the fish scale badge." ”

"Yes, I take Mr. Zhou Qing's teachings to heart." Zhang Chen's face showed sincerity.

"Now a year has passed." Zhou Qing looked at the stitches in front of him who had already been eaten, "Your progress is greater than I imagined." ”

Hearing Zhou Qing's evaluation, Zhang Chen showed surprise on his face.

Although Zhou Qing did not give any specific evaluation of this dish, the sentence "progress is greater than imagined" is enough!

"The three food recommenders have already judged this dish, and at this moment, Qin Lang has not yet come out of the competitive standard kitchen, let's wait and see, what dishes he will bring us!" The moderator spoke aloud.

For a while, countless eyes converged in front of the kitchen where Qin Lang was.

In the standard kitchen, Qin Lang has completed all the shredding of tofu, and cut the rape and carrots into thin strips close to the shredded tofu, and cut them into hot water.

The soup cooked on the side is almost the same.

Turn off the heat and boil the pot, remove the ingredients, add the minced pork with the hind leg meat in batches, and when the minced meat is cooked and suspended on the top of the soup, carefully remove it with a colander, and the rest is a pot of clear chicken broth.

Scooping it up with a small spoon and tasting it, Qin Lang nodded with satisfaction.

Although this pot of soup is not so authentic due to the limitation of ingredients, the final effect is not much different from the chicken soup he is familiar with.

It is suitable for the soup base of composition and tofu.

Put the chicken broth into the pot, heat it over low heat to reach the state before boiling, add the starch from the cornstarch in batches, add it and stir gently with a spoon.

In order to make Wensi tofu look its best, thickening is essential.

If the soup is not thick enough, the shredded tofu and shredded vegetables will sink to the bottom and affect the appearance, and if it is too thick, it will affect the taste.

This degree needs to be measured by experience.

Add the shredded tofu and shredded vegetables that have been filtered out of the water, and use the back of the spoon to press against the surface of the soup in the pot to keep them in the soup, so that the shredded tofu and shredded vegetables are completely separated in the soup.

When the heat is ripe, pour the Wensi tofu into the soup bowl that has been scalded in advance.

"That's it!"

Qin Lang breathed a sigh of relief, only to realize that in the process of his full concentration on cooking, Zhang Chen's cooking had been completed.

"Let's go, it's time for us to play."

"Goo-toot!"

Danbao nodded seriously, his face full of burning intent.

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