The ingredients used in Monica's Milanese fried steak mainly include veal, eggs, dry bread, parmesan cheese, macaroni, tomatoes, butter, vegetable oil and salt.
This dish is fried steak. In fact, the oil used to fry steak is not ordinary oil, but a mixture of vegetable oil and butter in a 1:1 ratio.
Before frying the steak, you must first carefully prepare it and coat the surface of the steak with a layer of egg liquid.
The egg liquid is not just simple egg liquid, but a mixture of eggs and vegetable oil. Some pepper is sprinkled on it. After wrapping it on the steak, some dry bread and powdered cheese are spread around the steak before frying.
After the steak is fried, put it on a plate and add macaroni and tomato sauce as side dishes.
The macaroni can be cooked directly, but as for the tomato juice, the method is a bit special. Put the washed tomatoes in a bowl, and then knead them with both hands until the tomatoes become a juice.
Tomato juice can be said to be indispensable to Italian cuisine, and this method of making tomato juice by hand-squeezing is also a tradition of Italian cuisine.
Place the tomato juice and macaroni next to the steak, and a plate of Milanese fried steak is ready.
Compared to this Milanese fried steak, Sister Han’s fried eggs are much simpler.
She first took out an egg and boiled it in water. When it was 70% cooked, she took it out of the shell and carefully peeled off the egg.
At this time, the egg white has coagulated, but the egg liquid inside is still in liquid state.
Han Yuyan then set up a wok, heated the oil in the wok, and carefully used chopsticks to make a few small holes on the surface of the eggs, as if they were frying them in the wok.
The egg liquid inside the egg is squeezed out in the oil pan, and when it encounters the high temperature oil, it immediately condenses and spreads out like leaves.
The eggs only needed to be lightly fried before Han Yuyan fished them out and put them on a plate.
At this moment, the white egg white in the middle of the egg becomes slightly yellow, and flat golden yolks extend out and spread around the egg white.
Sister Han added a little salt. The fried eggs she was going to make were done, but seeing Monica next to her still busy, she thought about it and made two more of these special fried eggs in the same way. She put them on the plate together.
Seeing Sister Han's behavior, Ye Chui and others who were watching nearby all felt that they couldn't bear to watch directly - this sister must have completely given up, and was definitely making this dish for fun...
"Master..." Tian Xiaodu, who came to watch the game, wiped the sweat from his forehead and said to Ye Chui, "What does the fried eggs made by Da Yu taste like?"
"You ask me, who should I ask?" Ye Chui rolled his eyes and said, "She had never even tried this dish before. She just took it to participate in the competition..."
"It seems that Sister Yuyan has no chance of winning this time." Tang Shanshan looked at the Milanese fried steak made by Monica, smelled the faint fragrance in the air, took a deep breath and said, "That fried steak looks very delicious, I feel like eating it. As for Sister Yuyan's fried eggs... Is this thing edible?"
It was obvious that both Han Yuyan himself and everyone on Ye Chui's side had serious doubts about whether Han Yuyan could win the competition.
However-
The results are always so unexpected.
"Chef Monica's Milanese fried steak is delicious, better than any fried steak I've ever had, but the fried eggs made by this Korean chef are beyond my imagination. The simple steps seem to bring endless surprises to people's future, so I choose this fried egg as the winner!"
“I’m a little undecided. Milanese fried steak is the best in every aspect, but this fried egg is unparalleled in innovation... It’s really hard to decide... Okay, I’ve decided, I think the fried egg is better!”
"I also think this fried egg is better. This dish made me realize that there is such a unique way to cook eggs!"
After tasting the two dishes, the three judges spoke one after another. They were all American gourmets, and the word fried eggs, which was full of spoof meaning, could only be translated into fried eggs in their mouths, but there was no doubt that they all liked this fried egg very much.
And after hearing this result—
Ye Chui and others: "..."
Han Yuyan: “…”
When the host congratulated Han Yuyan with a look of surprise, Sister Han finally woke up and pointed at herself: "Hey, I won again?"
She glanced towards Ye Chui, her face full of confusion.
How could I win even if I was like this!
Ye Chui was also speechless. Han Yuyan's luck was simply amazing... Well, that's not right. It couldn't be said to be luck at all. The egg dishes she researched were indeed extremely delicious. It could only be said that Sister Han was truly invincible in the field of egg dishes.
The chef named Monica seemed a little disappointed about losing the competition, but in the end she just smiled calmly, walked up to Han Yuyan, shook her hand, and said in English: "Chef Han, I admire your cooking skills. If I have time, I hope to visit you in China and ask you for advice on cooking."
"Ah... Okay, welcome. I also want to ask you for cooking advice." Han Yuyan responded quickly.
The game ended just like that. On the way back to the hotel, Han Yuyan was staggering the whole time. She already felt that her luck was overflowing after winning the last game, but she didn't expect to score twice and win this game again...
How can my luck be so good
Ye Chui and the others were also a little uneasy. Looking at Han Yuyan's confused expression, they felt that this matter was weird and incomprehensible.
All the way back to the hotel.
It was nine o'clock in the morning. Ye Chui and An Xiaoxiao would not return for the competition until ten o'clock. An Xiaoxiao was constantly making her own dishes within nine o'clock, trying to make them perfect. The chef she was about to face was very powerful. When Ye Chui and others came back, An Xiaoxiao was bringing a portion of mutton soup steamed bun to the table for Lin Wei and others to taste. When they saw Ye Chui coming back, they said to Han Yuyan without thinking: "Dayu, don't be discouraged." "Yes, sister Yuyan, you have done very well." "It's good that you can do this step."
Han Yuyan smiled a little embarrassedly: "Well, actually I won."
"oh."
Several girls responded casually. After a while, Lin Wei was the first to react. She turned her head and looked at Han Yuyan: "What did you say?"
Ye Chui smiled and interrupted from the side: "Da Yu won this game."
Several people stared at Han Yuyan in a daze, their eyes still full of incomprehension, and then they came to their senses and congratulated Han Yuyan. Han Yuyan's victory seemed to finally give An Xiaoxiao some confidence. So what if the opponent was very powerful? She was not completely without hope of winning - Han Yuyan, a half-baked chef, could win two cities in a row, so she might be able to do it too!
After staying in the hotel for more than half an hour, An Xiaoxiao and Ye Chui set off for their respective competition venues.
In this match, Ye Chui will compete with Korean chef Meng Qiyong, and An Xiaoxiao's opponent will be the top-notch beauty Elliot, whom they met on the first day they arrived on the island.
Because the competition was held at the same time, the people around Ye Chui had to separate. Chen Tian, Qin Yiyue, Jim, Lin Wei and Tang Shanshan followed Ye Chui, while Wang Shiyu, Tian Xiaodu, Dong Qian, Dong Youyou, Xing Sen and Qin Li followed An Xiaoxiao.
The ingredient that Ye Chui and Meng Qiyong are going to compete with is rice cake.
Rice cake, in layman's terms, is a steamed cake made from sticky rice or rice flour. It is a traditional Chinese food. After it was introduced to Korea, it also gradually occupied a place in Korea's traditional cuisine.
Rice cakes are usually used as snacks, but there are times when dishes made from rice cakes are served on the table. The hot and sour rice cakes and spicy rice cakes made by Ye Chui and Meng Qiyong are both of this type.
The rice cakes are provided by Food King Enterprise on the island. They are made by hand using a rice cake grinder. After being frozen, the blocks of rice cakes are soft but tough.
To cook with rice cakes, the first thing to do is to cut them into long strips. Cutting rice cakes requires the chef's knife skills. Rice cakes are soft, so if you want to cut them into long square strips, you have to cut them quickly, steadily, and accurately. You may not need to pay attention to these in ordinary cooking, but you must be serious in a chef competition.
Ye Chui and Meng Qiyong attacked at the same time.
Soon, square and angular strips of rice cake were cut out, and there was almost no difference between the two in terms of knife skills.
Meng Qiyong glanced at the chopping board on Ye Chui's side, and a solemn look appeared in his eyes. He was already very famous in Korea, and even a TV station specially found him to start a program to teach celebrities how to cook. It was no exaggeration to say that he was the national chef. When he knew that his opponent was Ye Chui, he expressed his disdain for Ye Chui to the TV media. Now Korean cuisine has long surpassed Chinese cuisine. He believed that he, as a Korean national chef, could crush Ye Chui, but now seeing the rice cakes cut by Ye Chui, he felt a little nervous and began to take this test seriously.
As for Ye Chui, he never paid any attention to Meng Qiyong from beginning to end.
In short, hot and sour rice cakes are cooked in a Sichuan style. The rice cakes must be steamed before they can be cooked. Meng Qiyong's method is to soak the rice cakes directly in hot water, while Ye Chui puts the rice cakes in a steamer for steaming.
The water in the steamer also has its own requirements. Ye Chui used chives, onions, tomatoes and lemon juice here.
Fry these ingredients into the pot one by one, add a cup of water to make a sauce, and then use the sauce to steam the rice cake. The rice cake will naturally have the aroma of the sauce after being steamed.
Then set up a wok, add chili peppers and star anise, pour in the steamed rice cake and stir-fry, and add appropriate amount of rice vinegar and cooking wine. The stir-frying skills must be reflected. The rice cake is fragile and must not be broken into pieces. This requires superb cooking skills.
Meng Qiyong also prepared a variety of ingredients, including carrots, onions, green onions, garlic, and the Korean staple kimchi.
Slice and cut various ingredients into shreds, put them into the wok one by one, and pour in the kimchi juice after stir-frying - the spiciness of the spicy rice cake comes from the kimchi juice.
After the domestic sauce is cooked, pour the soaked rice cake into the pot and simmer for two to three minutes, then cook over high heat until the sauce thickens. A Korean-style spicy rice cake is ready.
Both Ye Chui and Meng Qiyong spent about an hour cooking the dishes, and they were served to the judges almost at the same time.
Just as the two of them finished their dishes, An Xiaoxiao and Elliot in the ninth competition venue also finished their dishes almost at the same time and brought their dishes to the judges' seats.
Elliot's goat cheese with minced lamb is a classic Greek dish.
Goat cheese is a specialty of Greece. After a special roasting process, the surface of the cheese becomes smooth and soft. Dots of grilled lamb pieces are dotted around the cheese, and green olives and pink onions are used as side dishes, making the whole dish full of charming charm.
An Xiaoxiao's mutton soup with steamed bun is served in a bowl and a spoon is needed when eating it. Mutton soup with steamed bun, also known as mutton soup, is a delicacy from the northwest. Su Dongpo, a great Chinese foodie and writer, once left a famous poem "Long cuisine includes bear bacon, Qin cuisine includes mutton soup". The mutton soup in this sentence refers to mutton soup with steamed bun.
The characteristics of mutton soup with steamed bun are delicate cooking, rich ingredients and mellow flavor, tender meat and thick soup, fat but not greasy, overflowing with fragrance, tempting appetite, and endless aftertaste after eating.
Mo refers to pancakes, which are cut into small pieces and put into the boiled mutton soup. They are eaten when the pancakes are neither too mushy nor too soft but still retain their shape. This is a delicious dish.
The two dishes were placed on the table. The three gourmets showed their appetites at the same time and began to taste the two delicacies one by one.
Elliot looked calm, but An Xiaoxiao clenched her fists nervously. (~^~)