Chapter 192 Sweet and Sour Eggplant Stir-Fried Eggplant Flavor Eggplant! 【Additional Updates for the Coming and Going of Ashes】

Chapter 192 Sweet and sour eggplant + stir-fried eggplant = flavored eggplant! 【Additional updates for the coming and going of ashes】

Back at the judges' table, Liu Zhengyu was still thinking about the Yangzhou fried rice made by Lin Xu.

It’s not that the staple food made by other contestants is not delicious.

Mainly because the Yangzhou fried rice was too much for his appetite.

All the ingredients have a rich and fresh aroma, and the fried dry and delicious rice grains also exude the aroma of lard, which is so delicious.

As the president of the National Tourism Association.

Liu Zhengyu has been to almost every restaurant in five-star hotels in China.

I have eaten countless delicious foods.

But I have never been so obsessed with a piece of fried rice as I am today.

Unfortunately, Lin Xu only made one portion, and there were about ten judges, so everyone only had one or two bites, which was not satisfying at all.

At the advisory table not far away.

Dai Jianli handed the biscuits on the plate to Xie Baomin:

"You really guessed it right. Our brother's bowl of fried rice directly grasped the fate of the judges. We deserve the first place!"

Xie Baomin was really hungry now.

He pinched two pieces, tasted them, and then said to He Baoqing:

"Boss, can you swap the chefs in your dessert room with me?"

When He Baoqing heard this, he immediately said:

"Don't even think about it, you will definitely fool me with a helper."

Xie Baomin pinched another piece of biscuit and put it into his mouth:

"No, I'll trade you with Shang Zao's chef. Qin Wei, our up-and-coming chef in the cooking area, is good at all kinds of home-cooked dishes. Have you heard of him?"

As Building No. 1 is the closest to Building No. 2, He Baoqing naturally knows Qin Wei.

Apart from his introverted personality, this young chef really doesn't have much of a problem.

Unlike Wei Qian in Building 1, he is becoming more and more slick now.

In the past two days, he kept swapping days off with the chef who bullied him, and he didn't know what he was planning.

Thinking of this, he looked at Xie Baomin and asked:

"Lao Xie, are you really willing to trade Qin Wei for my pastry chef?"

"Yes, but let's agree first, you have to be able to make these biscuits. If you get me a helper from the pastry room, I will fall out with you."

When He Baoqing heard this, he immediately shouted:

"Do you think I'm just as willing to trick people as you are? As long as you nod, I'll change it!"

"Then I'll talk to Qin Wei when I get back. When I get here, you can give him a symbolic bonus of one or two thousand yuan to appease him. That kid has a lot on his mind, so just don't let him be wronged."

"Don't worry, Lao Xie, I know how to do it."

Within Diaoyutai, this kind of personnel transfer is actually normal.

Especially with the tacit approval of the head chefs, the HR side will fully cooperate.

After arranging Qin Wei.

Xie Baomin said to Qiu Zhenhua:

"Qiu Qiu, the front desk manager who wears a cheongsam at the front desk...is called Xiao He, right? I want to trade her with Shu Yun, are you willing?"

Qiu Zhenhua was eating melon, but he didn't expect Xie Baomin's words to bring the topic to him again.

But wait...

Shu Yun?

Wasn't he just selected as the most popular front desk manager in the first half of the year a few days ago?

He looked at Xie Baomin and asked:

"Stop bluffing me. Would you be willing to trade such an excellent employee like Shu Yun?"

Xie Baomin sighed:

"It's okay not to let go. Two days ago, Shu Yun and I had a quarrel because of Lin Xu. We have reached the point where we can no longer work together, so I want to transfer her out."

oh? ? ? ?

The chefs around all looked like they were eating something.

Unexpectedly, there are still people in Diaoyutai Bar who dare to quarrel with Lao Xie.

Qiu Zhenhua still couldn't believe that such a good thing would happen to him.

But seeing that Xie Baomin didn't look like he was lying, he nodded and said:

"I'll talk to Xiao He when I get back. If she's willing to go to Building 2, I'll switch with you. Don't worry, Shu Yun went to Building 6, and the bonus will be indispensable."

Although Xiao He in Building 6 is pretty good, there is still a gap between him and Manager Shu Yun.

After all, Shu Yun has even been praised by foreign heads of state, and he is the benchmark for all front-end managers in Diaoyutai.

This round of swaps is definitely not a loss.

After the exchange was confirmed, Xie Baomin breathed a long sigh of relief.

Although the junior brother has not yet scouted Shu Yun and Qin Wei, his thoughts are almost written on his face. As a senior brother, he can naturally see it clearly.

In order to prevent the younger brother from being embarrassed to poach his own corner.

He had an idea.

Replace Shu Yun and Qin Wei so that the junior brother can invite them to join Lin Ji Cuisine without any distractions.

As for what to do with He Baoqing and Qiu Zhenhua after they are poached.

Harmful! The world is inherently sinister. If I use this opportunity to make He Baoqing and Qiu Qiu have a better understanding, they will not be able to thank me enough!

While several people were chatting.

Once again, a player was eliminated, and now there were only ten players left on the field.

None of the Diaoyutai trio was eliminated. They were far ahead in the group standings and were basically untouchable.

At this moment.

Two staff members brought a large basket of eggplants.

By the way, new shelves were brought in.

Various ingredients such as pork belly, salted fish, beef, onions and ginger are placed on it.

Chief judge Liu Zhengyu stood up with the microphone and said:

"Eggplant is a very common ingredient, and there are many kinds of dishes. The content of this round of competition is to use eggplant to make a dish. There is no limit to the flavor and method. The competition time is half an hour, and the timer starts!"

eggplant?

The ingredients are limited this round.

Fans in the live broadcast room immediately became excited:

"My garlic eggplant cannot have a name!"

"Please make minced pork and eggplant, this is my favorite!"

"Burning eggplant asks for battle!"

“Don’t my fish-flavored eggplants from Sichuan and Chongqing deserve to appear?”

"I like to eat eggplant stew. I hope all contestants can make it and let me see the upper limit of this dish."

"Where's the sweet and sour eggplant? Doesn't the sweet and sour eggplant deserve a name?"

"I think the eggplant is delicious. It's fried until it's crispy and fragrant. Then it's topped with a soup made from minced meat. The taste is really amazing!"

"Everyone can try the eggplant box. If it doesn't taste good, I'll take off my head."

"..."

On the barrage in the live broadcast room, eggplant lovers of various flavors started fighting, which made Chen Yan, who was paying attention to the live broadcast room, hungry.

She pinched a piece of snack from her cousin's hand and stuffed it into her mouth, and asked curiously:

"My brother-in-law doesn't seem to have cooked many eggplant dishes. Yueyue, which dish do you think he can cook?"

This question really stumped Baby Shen:

"I don't know. I've eaten the eggplant marinade he made before. This round only lasts half an hour. He shouldn't have time to roll out the noodles, right?"

It doesn't matter what Xu Bao does.

What matters is that he can win.

Chen Yan rolled her eyes at her sister helplessly.

If husband control was a disease, Yueyue would probably be terminally ill.

Game scene.

The contestants are all picking out the ingredients to use.

Guo Xinghai took a piece of salted fish from the shelf, which was the rhythm of making salted fish and eggplant stew.

Wei Gan, on the other hand, took a piece of pork belly. This time he was probably going to make minced pork and eggplant.

Lin Xu looked at everyone busy selecting ingredients, feeling a little confused and not knowing what to do.

Although he likes to eat eggplant, the only eggplant he has ever cooked is diced eggplant.

It is definitely not possible to make eggplant marinade on this occasion today.

Because there were no noodles on the shelf, it was too late to make the noodles right now.

Recalling the techniques I have mastered, it seems that there are several ways to choose from, such as sweet and sour eggplant, or stir-fried eggplant, which can all be made now.

But sweet and sour eggplant and dry stir-fried eggplant are too common.

Moreover, these two dishes, one is sweet and sour and the other is spicy, are too simple in taste and may not necessarily get high scores when cooked.

Think again and again, and see what other dishes you can come up with that taste good and get high marks at the same time.

Ingredients are limited this round.

Everyone is making a fuss about eggplant.

So you must come up with new ideas so that you can impress the judges.

He thought carefully about how to make sweet and sour eggplant and stir-fried eggplant, and suddenly a new idea came to his mind:

Would it be better if these two dishes were combined?

Follow this idea.

He gradually derived the recipe for the entire dish.

First, fry the eggplants until they are crispy enough, then pour the cooked sauce over them. The crispy texture will be more intense when it hits the sweet and sour spicy sauce.

To achieve this, the eggplant should be sliced ​​slightly thinner.

Otherwise the fried eggplant will definitely become soft.

As for the sauce, it also needs to be simmered until it is thick enough.

It’s best to cook it until it feels as sticky and gummy as rock sugar elbow.

Only in this way can it be hung on the eggplant.

It also keeps the eggplant crispy for a long time without becoming soft.

After all, after cooking for so long, Lin Xu's cooking experience has become richer and richer, and he can even deduce new dishes based on the experience he has mastered.

After understanding the entire cooking process.

He picked two long purple eggplants, took dried chili peppers, Sichuan peppercorns, garlic, sugar, vinegar, corn starch and other ingredients and condiments, and returned to his stove to start preparing.

"What is Boss Lin going to do?"

"White sugar and mature vinegar should be used to make sweet and sour eggplant, while chili pepper and Sichuan peppercorns should be used to make stir-fried eggplant or spicy eggplant. When these two are put together, don't you understand?"

"Is it the spicy sweet and sour eggplant?"

"Maybe it's sweet and sour spicy eggplant."

"Upstairs, where are you two staying here?"

"No matter what I do, I just want Boss Lin to win the championship quickly and don't make any trouble."

"..."

The live streaming car at the back door of Building 1.

Zeng Xiaoqi said excitedly:

"Mr. Zhen, Mr. Zhen, we have surpassed Minsheng Channel's "Hot News Tracking" and are not far behind Sports Channel's "Today's Sports". With this momentum, when the finals are held later, maybe we can become the No. The ratings champion of the time slot.”

This is such a joy.

The channel with the lowest ratings in Taiwan suddenly turned around.

Is there anything more awesome than this?

Zhen Wensheng was watching a live broadcast on the Internet at the moment, and the barrage in the live broadcast room gave him inspiration.

"Xiaoqi, what do you think we can also interact with the viewers watching TV? Let them leave messages on the WeChat official account and guess the dish Lin Xu will cook. If they guess correctly, they will receive tickets to the scenic spot."

this……

Zeng Xiaoqi thought she could give it a try.

It just happened to attract a wave of traffic to the official account of the Travel Channel.

In front of the stove.

Lin Xu washed the eggplants with salt.

Then place on the chopping board.

This is a new attempt and there is no reference point, so everything must be done cautiously and cautiously.

In this round of competition, he no longer expects to get first place, as long as he ensures that he is not eliminated.

Place the washed eggplants on the chopping board.

First cut off the eggplant stems, then cut the eggplant in half.

After cutting it, he thought about it and cut the eggplant in half again.

Well, that looks like a thing.

However, after cutting it like this, there is too much flesh in the eggplant. According to his experience of eating fried skewers, such eggplants are easy to fry until soft, but it is not easy to fry them crispy.

The excess eggplant pulp must be removed.

He used a kitchen knife to slice off the flesh of the eggplant, and then cut the remaining parts diagonally into strips about one centimeter wide.

Cut and serve on a plate.

Then pour a little water and grab a handful of dry starch and sprinkle it in.

If you want the eggplant to be fried and crispy, you can no longer use salt to kill the water, otherwise the eggplant will be soft and the crispy texture will not be achieved.

Stir in the basin with your hands so that the dry starch hangs evenly on the surface of the eggplant.

After hanging, heat the oil in a pan and prepare for deep-frying.

Lin Xu was not idle while waiting for the oil to come up. He cut the dried chilies into chili segments, peeled and washed the garlic, cut it into slices, and added a handful of green peppercorns.

This is what you need to make this dish.

When he first started doing it, Lin Xu was actually a little nervous, fearing that he might overturn if he didn't do it well.

By this time, he had become calmer.

I don’t even care about the rankings, I just want to make the deduced dishes, taste them, and see if there are any shortcomings.

When the oil temperature is 60% hot.

Lin Xu scattered the eggplant strips covered with dry starch into the pot and poured oil.

Do not turn the eggplant strips when they are first removed, otherwise the dry starch on the surface will be detached.

Fry until the eggplant strips are slightly browned, then gently stir them in the pot with a spoon to separate the stuck ones.

under the influence of hot oil.

The originally soft eggplant strips quickly became hard.

When stirring in the pot with a spoon, you can even hear the friction sound of the eggplant strips colliding with each other.

When the surface is browned, use a slotted spoon to remove the oil.

By the way, use a leak-proof drain to beat the fat in the pot to prevent the fallen dry starch from being fried in the pot and causing the fat to become bitter.

The oil temperature is 70% hot.

Put the eggplant strips into the oil pan again and fry again.

The surface of the re-fried Neng Neng eggplant strips will be crispier and less likely to soften.

Re-explosion for fifteen seconds.

Remove the eggplant strips from the pot and pour out the oil in the pot, leaving a little base oil. After heating, pour in the dried Sichuan peppercorns, dried chili peppers and garlic slices.

Stir-fry over low heat to bring out the spicy flavor.

Then add a little dark soy sauce into the pot to increase the color and flavor of the sauce.

Stir-fry twice and then add half a spoon of mature vinegar, then add the same amount of white sugar as the vinegar, then add a small spoonful of salt and pour in a little light soy sauce.

Start stirring the pot with a spoon.

This step cannot be rushed.

Just like making rock sugar elbows, you have to boil the sugar juice thoroughly and dry out the water in the juice at the same time, so that the eggplant can become more delicious.

It didn't take long.

The sauce in the pot begins to thicken, and a mixture of sweet, sour and spicy flavors wafts out of the pot.

Xie Baomin was surprised.

When did junior brother learn about flavored eggplant?

And it was done so authentically.

I originally thought that this round would be difficult to pass, but now it seems that this round of competition is still about pinching the snail with three fingers - a sure shot!

Guo Weidong on the side said:

"The so-called food must be paired with rice to be delicious. If you eat the food without a meal menu, you will either feel salty or greasy, or both salty and greasy. In this round, only Lin Xu did not cook, so he is a sure winner. "

A layman looks at the excitement, an expert looks at the door.

Guo Weidong guessed the final result of this round without even waiting for the result to come out.

Of course, this is what he hopes too.

Who doesn’t want to see someone from Diaoyutai win a cooking competition held in Diaoyutai?

The sauce in the pot is getting thicker and thicker.

When it was ready to hang on the spoon, Lin Xu put the fried eggplant strips into the pot and sprinkled a handful of cooked white sesame seeds on it.

Sesame seeds can add flavor and make it look better.

After placing it, stir-fry the sauce and eggplant strips evenly so that each eggplant is coated with the sauce and white sesame seeds.

After doing this.

Remove from pan and plate.

Just took out the dishes.

The system prompt sounded in my mind:

"The host uses his existing cooking experience to boldly innovate and make a perfect dish of flavored eggplant, and is rewarded with an outstanding dish - fish head with chopped peppers."

Wuhu!

The bet was right!

I really didn’t expect that after three rounds of the chain of tasks, there was no decent task rewarded. As a result, I tried to make a new dish and was actually rewarded with chopped pepper fish head.

What a surprise!

At this time, all the players have already prepared the dishes.

The judges stepped down from the judges' seats and began to comment.

In the audience below the stage.

Lu Lu asked Zhu Yong sitting next to him:

"Can Boss Lin win this round?"

As one of the top three players in the last Diaoyutai Competition, Zhu Yong had a clear understanding of this round of competition. He said with a smile:

"Whether Boss Lin can win or not depends on whether the judges have rice. If they want to hand out a bowl of rice to each person, he will definitely lose. But if there is no rice, he will definitely win this round."

rice?

Isn't this a cooking competition?

What does it have to do with rice?

Lu Lu couldn't understand Zhu Yong's words for a while.

However, Guo Xinghai and others on the stage realized this. They looked at the dishes they cooked, and then looked at the dishes Lin Xu cooked...

Careless, careless.

You should review the topic before taking action.

No wonder Lin Xu hesitated for a long time before taking action.

I'm definitely thinking about what to cook.

After Liu Zhengyu and the others came down, they sighed with emotion every time they tasted a dish:

"It would be nice if there was a bowl of rice."

One thing about these dishes is the same, and they are all very delicious. However, this is a cooking competition, and there is no rice prepared for the judges. Everyone can only taste it and regret it.

finally.

Come to Lin Xu's dish.

Liu Zhengyu adjusted his glasses and asked with a smile:

"Lin Xu, they have all cooked the food, why didn't you?"

Lin Xu said truthfully:

"I won't."

Liu Zhengyu immediately became happy:

"Look how humble this young man is."

Other judges also laughed and agreed, praising Lin Xu for not having the arrogance of young people and for being a role model for others to follow.

Lin Xu: "..."

I'm just telling the truth, I really don't know how to cook eggplant.

After the judges finished speaking, they began to taste this flavored eggplant under the leadership of Liu Zhengyu.

It tastes sour, sweet and spicy, with a hint of sesame flavor.

When you take a bite, the crispy eggplant strips are wrapped in a rich sauce. The four flavors of sour, sweet, numb and spicy, as well as the fresh taste of the eggplant itself, come together in your mouth.

It tastes absolutely amazing.

And the eggplant strips are salty and mild.

Finally, I no longer have to worry about running out of rice.

"It's delicious! Lin Xu, your craftsmanship is incredible! It's great!"

"Indeed, it refreshed my understanding of eggplant."

"Looking forward to your performance in the next round!"

"No, I have to take another bite. These eggplant strips are really well done."

"..."

After the judges finished eating, they returned to the judges' seats and started scoring.

Lin Xu took the opportunity to taste the salted fish and eggplant stew made by Guo Xinghai and the minced meat and eggplant made by Wei Gan.

The flavors were all perfect.

It's a pity that there is only one bowl of rice missing.

Soon, the scores came out.

Lin Xu won first place again.

The system prompt also sounded in my mind:

"Congratulations to the host for winning first place in this round of competition, completing the fourth level of the chain mission [Breaking Levels], and receiving an excellent cooking learning card."

Oh haha!

Finally rewarded with something useful.

Unfortunately it came too late.

If I had come earlier, I might have learned how to cook a meal just now.

But it's okay.

You can continue to steal lessons in the next round of competition.

For example, Huo Yifan glared at me several times at the beginning of the competition, so it wouldn't be too much to secretly learn a dish from him later, right?

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Thanks again to the boss of [Ashes Come and Go] for the reward. I will add a new chapter to show my appreciation. This chapter has 5,400 words. Please vote for me, brothers!