Han Yuyan had been planning to just be a bystander in the Super Chef Competition since the beginning. She didn’t know how to cook anything other than fried eggs, and she thought she would fail in the first round...
But who could have thought that among Ye Chui's group, two very good chefs, Dong Qian and An Xiaoxiao, both knelt down directly, but she was still standing strong.
Judging from the situation, there is a tendency for them to qualify directly from the group stage.
This is a very emotional thing...
Even Han Yuyan himself found it incredibly magical.
That night, when Wang Shiyu was browsing domestic websites, she found that Han Yuyan was now one of the most popular chefs in the country. Her name as the Scrambled Egg Xishi had become famous all over the country. The Super Chef Competition was broadcast live on the Internet, so many people had seen Sister Han's figure, and some were even preparing to form a group to support her.
The granddaughter of Old Han, the apprentice of the God of Cookery, worth more than 10 billion, and she has the figure of an international supermodel, the appearance of an angel, and her cooking skills are so amazing... Her fame is almost as great as Ye Chui.
In the past, when people mentioned Han Yuyan, they said Han Yuyan was Ye Chui's second apprentice. Now, when people mention Ye Chui, they say he is Han Yuyan's god of food master...
Because of this reason, Han Yuyan was still drowsy until the next morning, as if he had suffered from severe insomnia at night.
On the morning of this day, Jim from Ye Chui's group was going to have his third chef competition. His opponent was a French chef named Adele. Adele was going to cook strawberry and cucumber, a simple salad, while Jim was going to cook sweet and sour pork with candied strawberries.
This is a sweet and sour pork dish made with strawberries. The raw materials needed include soy sauce, sugar, oil, sesame oil, cooking wine, pork, and bell peppers, but the most indispensable one is strawberries.
To make this dish, you first need to make sweet and sour pork, which is a Cantonese dish. The meat is cut into small pieces and marinated with light soy sauce, sugar, etc. for half an hour.
Dice the bell peppers, add a little salt and stir-fry for a while, then add the marinated pork. After stir-frying, take out the pork and drain it, then coat it with a layer of starch paste, continue to fry in the pan, and take it out after the surface changes color.
This is the sweet and sour pork. The next step is to make the shredded pork.
Strawberries are needed for candied pork. Use your hands to squeeze the strawberries into a sauce and set aside. Add oil and sugar, stir until it becomes a juice, then add the strawberry sauce and stir evenly. Add the previously prepared sweet and sour pork, stir evenly, let the strawberry sauce completely cover the surface of the sweet and sour pork, then take it out and put it in ice cubes to let the temperature of the ice cubes solidify the strawberry sauce naturally, and serve it on a plate. A plate of crystal-colored candied strawberry sweet and sour pork is ready.
The most important thing about this dish is the heat. Only by controlling the heat well can the sweet and sour pork have the most appropriate texture. Similarly, only by controlling the heat well can the sugar and strawberry jam be fried into a perfect crystal color.
The dish is crystal clear, yet exudes the rich aroma of delicious food. It makes your mouth water, and it is absolutely delicious.
In comparison, Adele's strawberry cucumber looks much worse. It is just a salad made of cucumbers and strawberries. It looks very simple and it is hard to believe that this dish can compete with the sweet and sour pork with candied strawberries.
It seemed as if the Sweet and Sour Pork with Candied Strawberry was a sure win, but Ye Chui knew it would not be that simple.
Adele is a charming woman in her thirties. In her previous competitions, she had used simple-looking French dishes to compete with others, but she always won in the end. It seemed as if she possessed a magical power that could turn decay into magic.
Strawberry and cucumber. The only ingredients needed are strawberries and cucumbers, sugar, white vinegar, and some salt. The method seems to be to mix these things together. It doesn't seem to be anything surprising.
But after it is made, the cucumber and strawberry seem to have a kind of harmonious sense of compatibility, giving people a fresh and moving feeling.
"This dish is amazing, or rather, this Adele is amazing..." Ye Chui said in a deep voice.
"Master, why do you say that?" Tian Xiaodu asked puzzled.
"This dish of Adele pursues the most basic original flavor. The sugar and salt only play the role of embellishment. This dish is still based on the original flavor of the ingredients. Whether it is strawberries or cucumbers, although they are mixed together, they can maintain their original flavor to the greatest extent. Coupled with the taste of another ingredient, this kind of control of taste has reached a very precise level. This strawberry cucumber dish, even if I were to make it, I might not be able to make it so delicious..." Ye Chui said solemnly, "Jim's sweet and sour pork with candied strawberries, this time there is a high possibility of something unexpected happening."
"Really?" Tang Shanshan was a little surprised. "It looks like Jim is going to win. If I were a judge, I would definitely not choose the strawberry cucumber dish. It doesn't look tasty at all."
"Chef competitions are not just about whether the food tastes good or not, but about the level of cooking skills. There is an essential difference here. Maybe simply from the taste point of view, Jim's sweet and sour pork is more popular, but in terms of cooking skills, Jim is definitely not as good as Adele." From Ye Chui's words, he seemed to have determined that Jim was bound to lose this competition.
Some people around Ye Chui didn't take it seriously, thinking that Adele's dish looked bland and there was no chance of her winning. However, the result was unexpected - after discussion, the three judges actually chose Adele to win the competition!
"This French chef actually won?" Everyone was a little surprised, and then they all looked at Ye Chui. What surprised them most was that Ye Chui had already predicted the result in advance.
Ye Chui smiled bitterly and said, "Don't look at me like that. I just rely on my intuition... If nothing unexpected happens, the final winner of this group should be this Adele."
Jim was hit hard, but he was an eight-star chef with a high standard for cooking skills. He already understood why he lost. He spoke a few words to Adele in a friendly manner, then walked out of the arena in a carefree manner and came in front of Ye Chui.
Tang Shanshan tried to comfort him, but he shook his head: "There are many hidden talents in the Super Chef Competition. I am very happy to have made it this far."
“Yes, cooking competition doesn’t rely on luck. We lost this time, but we just need to work harder next time.” Ye Chui also said with a smile.
Wang Shiyu, a kid next to him, was unhappy: "Brother, I think Sister Yuyan got to where she is now just by luck..."
Everyone: “…”
Han Yuyan's case is a special one and does not count...
At this point, Ye Chui's team had completely finished the third game.
Ye Chui, Tian Xiaodu, Han Yuyan and Qin Yiyue advanced, but Jim was unfortunately eliminated.
Han Yuyan had a bye in the fourth game, so only Ye Chui, Tian Xiaodu and Qin Yiyue would compete.
Up to now, only 70 people are left out of the 540 participants in the Super Chef Competition. Each group has 10 people. The next match will be from seven to four, with one person getting a bye. Each group only needs to play three games, so one day is enough.
Ye Chui, Tian Xiao, and Qin Yiyue contacted their next opponents and discussed the topic of the game. In this game, Ye Chui's opponent is a Mexican named Gustavo. The dish they are competing in is beef. The dish the opponent is going to make is onion and black pepper beef, while the dish Ye Chui is going to make is a famous traditional Chinese dish, beef with lantern shadow.
Qin Yiyue's opponent was a Frenchman, and the dish they were competing in was fish. The French chef's name was Jean Renault, and he was going to make a dish called French grilled steamed fish, while Qin Yiyue's dish was squirrel fish.
As for Tian Xiaodu, the opponent he will face in the next round is a chef he has met before, a Japanese chef named Kensuke Kumimon. On the first night on the island, Ye Chui and others had met this crazy Japanese chef...
The dishes they decided to compete in are stews. Gu Meimen will make a Japanese-style cream stew, while Tian Xiaodu will make pork stewed with vermicelli, one of the eight Northeastern stews.
The fourth game was officially confirmed.
Ye Chui vs. Gustavo, onion and black pepper beef vs. Dengying beef.
Qin Yiyue vs. Jean Reno, French baked steamed fish vs. squirrel fish.
Tian Xiaodu vs. Gu Meimen Kensuke, cream stew vs. pork stewed with vermicelli.
The fourth game was completely completed within a day.
On the day of the competition, in the morning, Ye Chui and Jim will compete at the same time in the first match, and in the afternoon, Tian Xiaodu will compete.
Ye Chui's opponent, Gustavo, was a bald man wearing glasses. He had dark skin, a calm face, and was serious. He gave people a very calm feeling in what he said and did. He even shook hands with Ye Chui in a serious manner.
In this game, Gustavo will cook the traditional Mexican food onion and black pepper beef. The main ingredients of onion and black pepper beef are onion, beef, and black pepper.
Stir-fry the shredded beef slightly, put onions in another pot, when the onions are soft, add the shredded beef and stir-fry over high heat, finally pour in the sauce made of "cooking wine, light soy sauce, starch, sugar, and black pepper", stir evenly and pour into the plate, this dish of Mexican-style onion beef is ready. The method does not look complicated, but it is not easy to make that unique Mexican flavor.
In comparison, the Dengying Beef that Ye Chui wants to make is more difficult.
This dish is a Sichuan dish, characterized by beef slices as thin as paper, bright red in color, spicy, fresh and crispy, and chewing it slowly will leave you with an endless aftertaste.
The process of making this dish is very complicated. First, the beef must be dry-dried for 24 hours, but Ye Chui certainly does not have the time to do this. He can only use a shortcut and slice the beef into thin slices, and then slowly bake it in the oven to speed up the drying process.
Then cut the dried meat into small long strips and steam them in a steamer for thirty minutes. At this time, the mutton slices are crispy, tender and delicious.
The next step is to stir-fry in a pan with oil. Peppercorns, sugar, MSG, five-spice powder, chili peppers, etc. are all indispensable. Finally, drizzle with sesame oil and garnish with a few corianders when serving.
A spicy and crispy beef with beef strips is now ready! (~^~)