"The two of us are getting ready to participate in the competition." Fang Ze raised his eyebrows and said to Lin Xiaoxin, "Would you like to come over and be an assistant?"
"Ah, you two are not joking. How did you become a chef? Are you causing trouble?"
"How is that possible?" Fang Ze took out the temporary competition card that the staff just gave them and handed it to Lin Xiaoxin, "Look, we are a regular participating team."
Fang Ze asked Lin Xiaoxin to enter the exhibition area first, and then told her what happened just now.
"Awesome." Lin Xiaoxin was dumbfounded. "It's still possible."
"Anyway, there is nothing to lose by participating in the competition, and you can still eat delicious food." Fang Ze prepared the tableware and waited for the staff to deliver the ingredients.
"By the way, do you really know how to cook?" Lin Xiaoxin still didn't believe Fang Ze.
Fang Ze turned the kitchen knife handsomely, and then said to Lin Xiaoxin, "Even if I don't know how to do it, I can still be an assistant in chopping vegetables. Is chopping vegetables more difficult than dissecting?"
"When you say that, it makes people not want to eat your food." Lin Xiaoxin looked at Fang Ze and said.
Forehead.
Fang Ze thought to himself that if you knew who I learned my cooking skills from, you would probably never want to eat my cooking in this life.
Not long after the two chatted, the staff brought the ingredients that Fang Ze and Liu Pleiades needed.
At the same time, the food competition on the first floor also officially started.
All contestants must prepare two to three dishes within half an hour to participate in the competition, but the final score is determined by the dish with the highest score rather than the sum of the scores of all dishes.
Chefs who are not confident in their dishes usually cook three dishes in order to have a high chance of getting high scores, but Fang Ze and Liu Pleiax certainly don't have to. They are confident that one dish will conquer everyone present.
Of course, Liu Pleiades' confidence comes from himself, while Fang Ze's confidence comes from Liu Pleiades.
However, Fang Ze was not completely prepared to win. On the contrary, his mission was also very important.
If you want to make different shredded green pepper pork, knife skills are the key.
In the original plot of The Little Master of China, Liu Pleiades once made green pepper shredded pork with his senior brother Tang Sanjie, but the first time they made it was just ordinary green pepper shredded pork, which was not perfect.
Because the key to shredded green pepper pork lies in knife skills, all ingredients must be cut into the same size so that they can be heated evenly.
In the limited time, Liu Pleiades also had to season the meat, so all the knife work fell on Fang Ze.
If it were anyone else, Fang Ze wouldn't dare to vouch for it, but he's a knife expert.
Fang Ze is absolutely confident, because his cooking skills are inherited from Hannibal, and Hannibal's greatest skill is that he is very stable with his knife, no matter where he is.
So Fang Ze picked up the kitchen knife and started to deal with the green peppers.
The green peppers used in stir-fried shredded pork with green peppers do not specify which kind of green peppers should be used. To a large extent, they vary with regional characteristics.
If they were in some areas that can eat spicy food, Fang Ze and Liu Pleiax would definitely prefer Erjingtiao when choosing green peppers.
Because green peppers that are spicy enough will have a strong aroma, the fried shredded pork with green peppers will taste delicious, especially the fresh green peppers. One bite will definitely make your mouth explode.
However, this food festival is hosted in Lin'an, a typical southeastern city, so choosing Erjingtiao will make some diners who can't eat spicy food feel uncomfortable, especially when they have to face unprofessional ratings from diners on the first floor. Personnel, once it is too spicy, it will definitely lead to polarized ratings.
So to be on the safe side, the two chose bell peppers, which are fragrant and tender.
Although the bell pepper lacks a lot of spiciness, the taste of green pepper shredded pork is defined as 'salty and fresh'. Whether it's spicy or not depends purely on the region.
This is also a characteristic of Chinese chefs. They will change the dishes according to different regions and different tastes so that people can get used to it.
That's why there are so many improved Chinese food in the United States and Europe to cater to Western tastes. Not sticking to tradition is the greatest thing about Chinese food.
Fang Ze held the kitchen knife in his hand like a scalpel. Every cut was made with incomparable precision. The length and width of the green peppers cut out with each cut were exactly the same, which looked extremely beautiful.
Not only were some curious onlookers stunned, but even the reporters and photographers who were filming the video were attracted.
"Can I ask, where are you chefs from and what kind of dish do you want to cook?" A reporter who looked particularly young came over and asked Fang Ze with a microphone.
"We are chefs from Sichuan Juxia downstairs." Fang Ze said into the microphone.
"A chef from Sichuan, right?" the reporter said while looking at the various ingredients being prepared on the booths of Fang Ze and Liu Pleiades. "Then it looks like what we are bringing to you today is Sichuan cuisine, right? Can you? Ask me what specific dish it is.”
"Shredded pork with green peppers." Fang Ze cut his own green peppers seriously, without much excitement, and looked cold. After all, he is not a professional chef, so becoming famous will not bring him any benefits.
What's more, it is very tiring to cut all the green peppers exactly the same.
"Is it such an ordinary dish?" The reporter did not expect that in this kind of competition, someone would actually come up with home-cooked dishes. Aren’t you afraid that diners won’t buy it
While he was talking, Fang Ze had already finished cutting the green peppers and cut the bamboo shoots. Then he pushed the bamboo shoots to Liu Pleiax and continued cutting the tenderloin.
"Whether a dish is ordinary or not depends mainly on the chef." Fang Ze answered the reporter while starting to cut the tenderloin.
Being a chef means that I am not an ordinary chef.
After hearing Fang Ze's crazy words, the reporter couldn't help but look at the three people cooking at the station.
Needless to say, Fang Ze is serious about chopping vegetables. He seems to have good knife skills. But what the hell is that kid next to him.
Can a thirteen-year-old child also cook
The reporter initially thought that Liu Pleiades was probably brought here as a mascot because there was no one to take care of her at home, but then she saw Lin Xiaoxin standing in the back taking photos of Fang Ze who was concentrating on chopping vegetables.
This loli seems to be the one who can't cook, and is the real mascot.
So these three chefs who came all the way from Sichuan, brought a shota and a loli as mascots, and then cooked all the dishes by themselves
Judging from how he made shredded pork with green pepper, he probably came here to cook while traveling.
The reporter who lost interest was about to leave when he saw Liu Maoxing starting to oil the bamboo shoots.
I saw three iron pots as big as Liu Pleiades' face being lifted up instantly by Liu Pleiades. Under the illumination of the strong flame, Liu Pleiades effortlessly shook the iron pot and began to oil the bamboo shoots.
At this time, Fang Ze also finished cutting the tenderloin and poured a neat pile of meat into the pot.
Then, while filtering the oil, put the green pepper on the strainer and add it, so that the green pepper passes through the oil in disguise.
Because there is no light or dark soy sauce in traditional Sichuan cuisine, the oil used in traditional shredded pork with green pepper is soy sauce, which is also called soybean oil in Sichuan dialect. It is now rare on the market.
But fortunately, there is a time-honored Jiang Chuang flavor in Fang Ze's memory that can be substituted, so it's not a big problem.
The real difficulty lies in the fresh soup that needs to be added to the green pepper shredded pork.
Fresh soup is the essence of traditional cuisine, and its function is equivalent to today's MSG. If they had enough time, Fang Ze and Liu Pleiades could use dozens of kilograms of good meat to make a pot of seasoned soup.
But because time was short, the two could only use chicken broth, bone broth and MSG chicken essence plus boiling water instead.
It was at this time that Liu Pleiades' ability as a top chef truly emerged. After tasting a few modern chicken essence and MSG, he immediately judged the dosage and added it to the chicken soup and bone soup. Then he made a seasoning soup that could replace the fresh soup and poured it into the shredded green pepper and pork.
While Fang Ze and Liu Pleiades were busy, the reporter observing on the side realized that this child was really good, so he quickly asked the cameraman to give more shots to the child who was cooking.
"Is this kid your assistant? How old is he now?" The reporter then asked Fang Ze.
However, Fang Ze did not answer him for the time being because he was busy pressing the persimmons.
A key secret to Liu Pleiades' specialty green pepper shredded pork is persimmons.
Press ripe persimmons into a paste to replace the sweetness of sugar. Add sauce and Taibai powder for seasoning to make the green pepper pork shreds more round and bring out the purest aroma.
The flavors of overripe persimmons and vegetables go well together, and they can bring out the crispness and tenderness of the shredded green pepper meat even more, presenting a perfect shredded green pepper pork.
After Fang Ze pressed the persimmons, Liu Pleiaxing quickly put the green pepper shredded pork back into the pot and seasoned it, and started preparing to make the most perfect green pepper shredded pork.
However, there is one last question left.
"Assistant, are you talking about the person next to me?" Fang Ze picked up a large pot lid while speaking to the reporter.
"Actually, I am the assistant. The person next to me is the only heir of our Kiku downstairs."
"What?!" The reporter was a little surprised. He couldn't help but turn his head to look at the child-looking chef Liu Pleiades. At this time, Liu Pleiades was about to put down the pot.
Because the shredded green pepper pork is about to be made at this time.
At this time, Fang Ze, who had always looked very serious, suddenly pointed to the ceiling on the first floor and shouted, "Look, the plane."
airplane? What plane
Although no one knew what Fang Ze was talking about, humans all have a herd mentality, so everyone, including the lens in the cameraman's hand, looked up at where Fang Ze was pointing.
It was naturally empty, with a simple-looking ceiling and nothing else.
And the moment everyone looked up, Fang Ze had already put the lid on the iron pot. If you look carefully, you can vaguely see a few rays of light emerging from the gaps in the lid.
That’s right, this shredded pork with green pepper inherits the greatest advantages of the dishes in Chinese Little Master.
It will shine!
(End of chapter)