Gently and easily throw the duck into the pot to blanch.
Skim off the foam and remove the fishy smell.
Take the duck out of the pot, put it into clean water and rinse it again and again until there is no more turbidity in the water, only a light layer of oil floating.
"This duck is too clean!" The crowd began to discuss.
"Hey, you can't say that. Look at that girl, she is only eleven or twelve years old. She is at most a small handyman in the back kitchen. Her skills are not as good as those of the chefs on the stage. The duck has a strong fishy smell. Chef Wen chooses it." Ducks must be excellent! It’s just difficult for this girl, if you don’t wash them thoroughly, how can you remove the fishy smell from the ducks?” Someone shook their heads for Rou Rou.
Ren Yue frowned slightly, and muttered in his heart: "You girl, what are you doing dawdling around? Other people's dishes are almost ready, but you are free, washing ducks over and over again!"
With a gentle face and a calm face, it seems that there is no one in front of your ears, but yourself in the midst of the various ingredients.
The duck was finally washed and put aside to control the water.
At this moment, Rourou picked up the vegetables that Wen Shouzheng had just blanched, raised the kitchen knife and scratched lightly a few times. The originally intact vegetable cores instantly turned into strings of garlands, which were placed casually on the white table. Long plate.
"Look, let me tell you that she can't do it! Look at the cut vegetables! What a look! The pieces here and there are neither neat nor beautiful, and they have not been trained at all!" Someone said disdainfully.
"Hey, don't ask too much. A little girl who can successfully lift Chef Wen's kitchen knife is already good. If she didn't cut her hand, it's all luck." Xiao Anzi stood aside, really not listening down.
Gentle is still expressionless, completely immersed in the artistic conception of cooking cold dishes.
"spring".
What kind of cold dish is she going to cook!
After cutting the vegetables, he touched all kinds of radishes. Green radishes, orange carrots, red and tender radishes, and ordinary white radishes.
"Crack!" With a few knives, all kinds of radishes were chopped into pieces. Scattered scattered on the table.
"This is also called cutting vegetables!" Someone laughed.
"Girl, be careful. Don't cut off your hands!" Someone yelled.
"You people are so annoying! What are you arguing about! Didn't you see the competition on the stage? If you are arguing again, I will drag you out one by one and chop your heads off!" Liu Xian was sitting there, really bored, and had no food, and was irritated Unbearable, when I heard the chattering of the crowd behind me, Xiao Huo rushed up!
If they were in the palace, how could they hear such noisy discussions. All were silent, bowing their heads and hands respectfully.
"Look, let me just say, that child is not simple. Hearing this, he is still a royal family..."
"Shh, don't make noise."
The crowd suddenly fell silent.
"What's wrong with this girl? Although I haven't seen her chop vegetables in the past, the knife skills are not so bad!" Ren Yue murmured in his heart.
"Miss Wen, don't be nervous." Sheng Yaoshan couldn't stand it anymore. Since it was the closest, I couldn't help reminding in a low voice.
How could Ruan hear everyone's words, she is now concentrating on this pile of rotten radishes.
Grab a piece of white radish, and the "欻欻歘" white radish transforms into a white and blooming water lily. Blooming layer by layer, jumping out of the palm.
Grab a handful of carrots, the inside is white flesh, the outside is red skin, three times and two times, a few white and red peach blossoms are lifelike.
Grab and push the carrots, first change the knife again, cut them into smaller pieces, and then carve them one by one skillfully, and the jasmine flowers with lifelike shapes are blooming brilliantly in clusters.
As for the green radishes, they were carved into shapes of different sizes, round lotus leaves, long receptacles, and even the remaining radish skins were used to make branches, which intersect and naturally run through the Among the radish flowers.
"Wow!" Everyone exclaimed in unison.
The people who spoke just now have no voice at this moment.
"It turned out to be carved into flowers! This girl! Humph." Ren Yue's nose fluttered slightly, and he thought to himself.
"Miss Wen really has an extraordinary shot! I knew that Miss Wen would do it!" Sheng Yaoshan said to himself, clenched his hands into fists, and looked more nervous than the contestants on the stage.
When the flowers are all carved, the duck's water is almost controlled.
Rou immediately began to set up the pan and poured hot oil.
In order to prevent the tragedy of her father from happening again, Ruan no longer believed in the pot ears, but took a quick kitchen cloth, wrapped it around the side of the pot, and gently shook the hot oil in the pot.
"Look at this technique..." someone in the crowd murmured.
"At such a young age, I can lift half a pot of hot oil with my arms..." The man hadn't finished speaking.
Liu Xian's round eyes stared fiercely over.
"It's really amazing..." The man hurriedly finished the second half of the sentence in a desperate manner, and then he didn't dare to speak again.
"The girl is actually heating the oil. Could it be that the duck is going to be deep-fried? Well, it tastes good too!" Mr. Songtao was amused by the sight, stroking his beard and relishing it.
Wen Rou put down the pot, held the whole fat duck in his left hand, and lifted a small knife with his right hand.
There was only a slight sound of "swish, swish, swish", and the fat duck in Gentle's hand was sliced open layer by layer like a magic trick, and dropped piece by piece into the bubbling hot oil.
After a while, the whole duck was sliced, and what was rolling in layers in the pot was none other than the duck meat with skin on.
Duck meat was fried in the pot here, and the boiling water was boiling in the other pot over there.
Gentle and trustworthy, he threw the duck rack into the oil pan and turned it over, until it became a layer of golden brown, then threw it into the boiling water pot, added some green onion and ginger, covered and simmered.
Then carefully take out the duck meat in the oil pan with a strainer, control the oil, separate it out piece by piece, and let it cool.
When the time is about the same, open the pot and take out the cooked duck rack, chill it in spring water to remove the heat, and then put it on the plate.
At this time, the duck meat has also cooled down, and the thin duck meat is golden, shining attractively.
Gently use chopsticks to carefully cover the pieces of duck meat back on the cooked duck rack.
After a while, the duck, which had been intact until now, appeared on the plate again.
It's just that the whole body is more oily and golden, and the gaps between the pieces are slightly shining, it looks like a fat duck with plump wings.
And those green vegetables that looked messy just now, under the background of the ducks, everyone finally saw the way.
That's no ordinary green vegetable. It's like rippling blue waves.
And the fat duck with plump wings is leisurely wandering on the lake.
With a gentle and satisfied smile, he took the carved radish flower. After gesticulating left and right, a water lily was placed beside Fat Duck. A few peach blossoms bloomed behind Fat Duck, and golden winter jasmine bloomed in clusters beside the plate.
Finally, the creamy duck soup was served in small delicate porcelain cups and surrounded by the plate.
"It seems that something is missing!" Rou Rou looked around, still not satisfied.
There it is!
Seeing that Wen Shouzheng also took a few noodles, he was as gentle as picking up a treasure. Throw it into the frying pan again.
The snow-white noodles swell with oil and come out golden.
Gentle three times and two times, cut it into several sections. In the blink of an eye, a plastic bamboo fence was built on one side of the plate.
Adjusted some sauces and put them in delicate small plates.
At this time, the incense stick that was lit by the timer burned out the last touch.
"It's time! Everyone stop!" Shopkeeper Li raised his right hand and announced.
Chef Tang is holding golden spring rolls. smiling.
Chef Zheng wiped the sweat off his brow, looked at the freshly made vegetables and vegetables in front of him, and let out a deep breath, it's shredded! Can cut me to death! Too bad it almost didn't finish.
Chef Zhang crossed his arms. A plate of exquisite fried noodle flowers is placed on the table.
On the gentle side, in the middle of the fat duck, the water is shining, and the flowers are on both sides.
"Next, all contestants, please come and unpack the dishes first!" Shopkeeper Li said.
"My dish is spring rolls!" Chef Tang said first.
"Chef Tang, who doesn't know that you are spring rolls! You can tell it!" Someone laughed.
"Spring rolls, there is a word for spring! It's very relevant!" Chef Tang muttered, and after a long time he came up with this sentence, which made everyone laugh.
Immediately, Chef Tang's spring rolls were moved in front of the judges. Seven judges, oh no, six judges, picked up their chopsticks one after another, and the tasting began.
Liu Xian was young and still not used to using chopsticks, so when he saw that the royal dignity was not in consideration of the delicious food, he immediately grabbed it.
Fortunately, the spring rolls have been left to cool, otherwise, Liu Xian's tender hands!
"Delicious, delicious!" Liu Xian was already full of praise before anyone else could speak.
"It's a great honor to be appreciated by His Highness the Ninth Prince!" Chef Tang did not know where to find out about Liu Xian's life experience, and hurriedly bowed his hands in thanks.
"Ah! This..." Liu Xian swallowed the last mouthful of spring rolls, and suddenly remembered that he was going to be the judge. His eyes skipped over Chef Tang, and when he saw the gentleness, he hurriedly changed his words, "My prince just praised you for the good dishes Eat it, but other people have not tasted it yet, so there is no way to compare it, so don’t worry about this chef.”
Chef Tang's mood instantly fell from a mountain peak to a trough. Although Liu Xian was only six years old, how could Chef Tang dare to challenge the dignified prince! Just stay aside and wait obediently.
Chef Zheng rubbed his chest, feeling a little guilty, thinking that Chef Soup's spring rolls were all like this, and his own plate was just a collection of vegetables with superior cutting, so there must be nothing to hope for.
"Chef Zheng, this is..." Shopkeeper Li asked while pointing at the dishes.
"Oh, my lords, this dish made by Xiaomin is called Chuncai." Chef Zheng spent a long time trying to come up with such a name.
"Hahahaha!" Sheng Yaoshan couldn't hold back and laughed outright.
"We need to eat fresh seasonal vegetables in spring, so Xiaomin made this." Chef Zheng's voice became smaller and smaller, and finally he couldn't hear it.
"Well, the knife skills are top-notch!" Boss Lu of "Yipinxiang" picked up a chopstick and put it in his mouth.
"Yeah, the knife skills are good!" Mr. Songtao also picked up his chopsticks.
Master Qiao and Qiao Zizhang nodded frequently.
"Is the only knife skill good?" Chef Zheng asked in his heart, but he dared not say anything.
"Hmph, it's all the work of three-legged cats!" Chef Zhang hummed in his heart.
"My lords, try my dish of flowers in full bloom! It comes from the spring!" Chef Zhang presented the plate of noodles confidently!
"Yo! Are these flowers really made of dough? If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have known that dough figurines can be made so exquisitely!" Boss Lu nodded in satisfaction.
Chef Zhang was very happy.