"Is there no difference? If there is no difference between the ingredients, why do you need to wash them? Wouldn't it be better to just cook them?"
Gu Zheng glanced at Huang Ying and continued: "Don't underestimate certain details. Sometimes the deliciousness of a dish is accumulated through some small details. Now you don't have to rush to question me. If you want to
My cooking skills have improved to the next level. You just need to pay attention to what I do. Am I just cheating or am I really capable? Let’s wait and let the dishes speak for themselves!”
Tie Xian only had a few direct disciples in total, but there were many people who were mentored by him. Back then, he even lectured on the art of food in Wanxian Square. He was also the founder of the top ten immortal chef sects when he was traveling in the world.
Accepted as a named disciple.
Gu Zheng is now experiencing all this as Tie Xian, and he has to work hard on the way of eating. So he also has to experience what Tie Xian did back then. Otherwise, he doesn't want to talk to Huang Ying and others.
What.
Although Gu Zheng asked Huang Ying and others to pay attention, Huang Ying and others were obviously not so obedient. When he was handling the ingredients, there were voices of doubt and surprise from time to time. After all, they had a very good understanding of the ingredients.
Gao, some of Gu Zheng's methods of handling ingredients are simply unnecessary in their eyes.
Finally, Gu Zheng finished processing the ingredients. Among the four dishes and one soup, he wanted to make the mountain delicacy soup first.
"What a nonsense. God knows how the delicacies soup tastes like!"
"Who says it's not? Let's not talk about the quality of the taste, but the time spent processing these ingredients is much longer than before!"
"Just wait and see, but don't make the soup that makes you want to vomit."
Doubts and cynicism returned.
Ignoring the buzzing of these noisy flies, Gu Zheng put the clay pot on the stove.
There are six kinds of ingredients used in Shanzhen Soup. Except for spring bamboo shoots and a hen, the remaining four are mushrooms. Two of the ingredients are ordinary and the remaining four are inferior.
Originally, to make mountain delicacies soup, you just put most of the cleaned ingredients into the pot at the same time. After boiling to a certain level, add the remaining ingredients, then add salt and seasonings, and finally cook it until it is ready.
.The difficulty of cooking mountain delicacies soup in this way is just the timing of adding the ingredients and controlling the heat.
Gu Zheng is very particular about the processing of ingredients. He used four different processing techniques for the four kinds of fungi, and also adjusted the order in which they were put into the soup. As for the seasonings that were originally needed to make mountain delicacies soup, he only added salt.
Except for this, discard all the rest.
As Gu Zheng's soup-making process continued, the original voices of doubt and disdain disappeared. No matter how unconvinced Huang Ying and others were, the aroma wafting from the clay pot was already beyond their imagination. This was what they had in mind.
The mountain delicacy soup has a refreshing fragrance that makes people feel refreshed and refreshed after smelling it.
"Hahaha……"
Bai Li, who had been watching from the sidelines, couldn't help but laugh. Even without tasting it, the smell alone proved Gu Zheng's cooking skills. How could he not be happy? After all, Gu Zheng was also the chief chef he hired.
, when Gu Zheng was ridiculed by Huang Ying and others before, although he didn't say too many words, his face was also not very good-looking.
Compared to Bai Li's cheerful laughter, Gu Zheng's brows were slightly frowned.
After thinking about improving his cooking skills today, there was a roar in his mind, and the feeling that followed made him understand that if he wanted to discover something through food, this path would not be easy.
Although he had known about it in advance, when he actually started cooking, Gu Zheng discovered that if he wanted to discover something through the way of food, this road was more difficult than imagined!
First of all, Tie Xian's body does not have the Eye of Tao, so Gu Zheng cannot see the substances that make up the ingredients. The reason why he can still cook the mountain delicacies soup so fragrantly is entirely because in his own memory, he has no knowledge of the ingredients.
knowledge of these ingredients.
Secondly, Tiexian is an innate spirit. Even if he does not deliberately practice the Five Elements Immortal Technique, he still has the "source of the five elements of his destiny" in his body, but this "source of the five elements of his destiny" is hidden, that is, internal
It is a state that is not easy to find even if you look at it. This special state of the 'source of the five elements of life' can activate some five elements magic, and it is even very powerful! However, if you want to use them to participate in the cooking of food,
But it is not particularly easy. It feels like asking Gu Zheng to carve a five-inch-long radish with a three-foot-long carving knife.
Although it was a little difficult, Gu Zheng was not anxious because of it. He found that if Tie Xian's body wanted to understand the Eye of Tao, it didn't need anything like enlightenment and food cultivation. What it actually needed was the cooking of ingredients! This
In other words, as long as Gu Zheng cooks with enough ingredients, he will naturally open the Eye of Tao, and as long as he opens the Eye of Tao, he will truly reach the state of 'Tao produces one' on the Tao of food.
As for the hidden sources of the Five Elements, Gu Zheng wants to turn them into the real sources of the Five Elements through practice. Only in this way can the Five Elements Magic like 'Fire Control Technique' and 'Water Control Technique' be used in cooking.
When improving the quality of food ingredients, they should play their due role.
The aroma of the delicacies soup became stronger and stronger, and some of the chefs could not help but breathe hard.
Huang Ying looked at Gu Zheng, who was concentrating on the clay pot, and her eyes suddenly lit up.
"I said, are you a god?"
Huang Ying's words surprised everyone. Although they occasionally saw immortal cultivators flying in the sky in Qingfeng City, these were people from two different worlds. Immortal cultivators were gods to them. How could they be like the ancients?
Try to stay in the same kitchen with them like this.
"Why do you say that?" Gu Zheng asked.
"My master once saw gods cooking food. He said that the process of cooking food by gods is very complicated, but he didn't tell me in detail what the complicated method was. Naturally, I didn't know much about it. However, I
The master told me that the god can control water and fire through magic. If he wants the water to roll, he will roll it, and if he wants the fire to be strong, it will be strong. You have made the fire strong before, and it is also very complicated for you to handle the ingredients, so I
…”
Huang Ying had a smile on her face. She felt a little scared when she thought that if Gu Zheng was really a god, she had been making offensive remarks just now.
Before the ancient war, the source of fire was indeed used to make the fire bigger, but now the source of the five elements of the natal life is hidden, which is very troublesome to control. Moreover, without the cooperation of the Eye of Tao, it is difficult for the five elements of magic to be used in the way of diet.
The effect was so good that he didn't use it any more. Unexpectedly, Huang Ying actually noticed something different.
"I'm not an immortal. I'm the same person as you. However, in my early years, I came into contact with some techniques practiced by immortals, so I'm different from you ordinary people. I have energy in my body. The fire became stronger just now.
, and it is indeed caused by my anger fueling the fire."
Gu Zheng represents Tie Xian. Before his way of eating had reached the level of "Tao Sheng Yi", he didn't want others to know that he was an immortal chef. Otherwise, he himself would feel a little embarrassed if others didn't say anything.
"Okay, so that's it!" Huang Ying said suddenly.
Although immortal cultivators are existences that are difficult for mortals to come into contact with, immortal cultivators will also choose their disciples from the mortal world. Therefore, there are also some people like Gu Zheng in the mortal world who have come into contact with some immortal techniques.
"Hey, I've offended you for what happened before, but don't take it to heart. After all, you are very young! If the four dishes and one soup you made this time are really more delicious than what we made, then the position of the head chef will naturally be
I want you to come sit down!"
At this time, Huang Ying was convinced by the aroma of the mountain delicacies soup. Even before she tasted it, she knew that the taste of the mountain delicacies soup was definitely the same. However, she had to do what she should have done before, such as provocation and ridicule.
She had already done everything, and if she really had to put down her dignity and apologize to Gu Zheng, it was impossible for her to do it, so what she said was relatively smooth.
"Yes! We will probably do things together in the future, so don't just appreciate what we just did."
"We only obey those who are capable. If you really make four dishes and one soup delicious, we will obey you in the future!"
"Yeah yeah!"
Seeing Huang Yingdu say that, the other chefs also expressed their opinions.
"Okay, then just wait and be convinced!" Gu Zheng smiled slightly.
It has to be said that Gu Zheng's cooking speed is much slower now than before. When he was making soup in the past, he could cook other foods. Even if the soup requires control of the heat, this is the silent secret of "fire control".
Something he could do without resting. But now, without the Eye of Tao, he could not observe the changes in the food in real time. He could only stay in front of the clay pot and go through the smell and color of the soup based on his comprehensive experience.
By controlling the heat, the process will naturally be much slower.
Finally, Gu Zheng took the clay pot off the fire, and he sighed in his heart.
If it were Gu Zheng's real cooking skills, then this mountain delicacy soup would definitely have to be extremely fragrant. But now that he doesn't even have the Taoist Eye, it would be very difficult to achieve the extremely fragrant delicacies in the mountain delicacies soup.
Easy. After all, even if he has some previous experience, these experiences have become vague and incomplete. This is also a drawback that cannot be ignored.
"Smells, it smells so good!"
"This is not an ordinary fragrance, this is a different kind of fragrance. Smelling this fragrance, I feel refreshed and refreshed like never before!"
"It feels very comfortable, like entering a mountain forest where it has just rained."
Even though Gu Zheng was dissatisfied with the mountain delicacy soup, the fragrance it exuded still attracted praises from Huang Ying and others.
Shanzhen Soup Guzheng has been prepared, and the next thing Guzheng will do is braised pork ribs.
There are only two ingredients used to stew pork ribs, pork ribs and yam.
Because the pork ribs were previously put together with unprocessed mountain delicacies, their original quality became low-grade. As for the quality of the yam, it was average.
According to Piao Xiang Lou's method, pork chops, spices and yams will be stewed together. The only things that need to be paid attention to are a little control of the heat, skimming off the foam in the soup, and the timing of adding salt.
Gu Zheng handled the ingredients carefully. He had fried the yams beforehand, and as for the downgraded pork chops, he grilled them over fire.
Watching Gu Zheng put the spices and pork chops into the pot, Li Tong on the side couldn't help but ask: "Chef Tie, this is the first time I've seen this way of stewing pork ribs. This method may be more delicious, but this
Or braised pork ribs?”
Facing Li Tong's doubts, Gu Zheng smiled slightly: "If I added a lot of other things to this dish, then it might not be called braised pork ribs. However, I didn't add anything else, I just processed the ingredients.
The method is different from the traditional braised pork ribs, but the dish I made is still braised pork ribs!"
"Don't be too rigid in your mind. There are also many variations in the way of eating. It's okay if you say this just to find faults, but if you don't want to improve your cooking skills, then such an idea is outrageous. If the idea is like this
If the things we grow remain the same, then the food we eat will not be varied, and we will still stay at the stage of raw food, or barbecue." Gu Zheng added.
After hearing what Gu Zheng said, Li Tong nodded sheepishly. Although he already had some recognition of Gu Zheng as the head chef, the recognition was definitely not high, so some doubts were inevitable. However, even if
Questioning, his attitude is much better than before.
"Tiechu, why don't you put the yams in together?" Huang Ying asked.
"I need pork rib soup to simmer the braised braised vegetables later." Gu Zheng said.
Quancai is a kind of dry food, and it is better to stew it with something like meat. In the original dish, the meat used was rabbit meat.
"If you use pork ribs soup, do you also use rabbit meat?" Huang Ying asked again.
"Use it! You think the rabbit meat stew is delicious and it is the best combination. But if you add the pork rib soup I made and stew it with rabbit meat, you will find that the taste is greatly improved later.
"Gu Zheng said with a smile.
The dish of stewed pork ribs does not require too high heat. After Gu Zheng put the yams in, he didn't need to take care of it anymore, and he started cooking and stewing the box vegetables.
Gu Zheng has already dealt with the ingredients. For Gu Zheng, the only thing that needs to be paid attention to when stewing box vegetables is the heat. The heat can make the box vegetables, which are difficult to stew, soak up the soup.
"Smells, it smells so good!"
"How come boxing vegetables have such a fragrance?"
"After being treated by Chef Tie, I feel that the dishes in the pot are not the ones in our kitchen at all."
Seeing that the vegetables in the pot had swelled to double their previous size under Gu Zheng's stirring, the eyes of several chefs also widened.
"The boxing dish is full of soup. The special substances in the two ingredients are combined with some special substances in the boxing dish. The hidden aroma will naturally be forced out, and the taste will be greatly improved as a result!"
Gu Zheng said with some emotion. This was originally a change that could be easily seen through the Eye of Tao. Now he can only use his incomplete experience to carefully control the heat and observe some simple details to make this dish.
The taste is improved as much as possible.
The box vegetables have been stewed, and Gu Zheng starts to cook the third dish of stir-fried spring bamboo shoots.
Stir-fried spring bamboo shoots is a vegetarian dish, and the only ingredient used is spring bamboo shoots. Apart from the poor preparation of this dish at Piaoxianglou, there is nothing major wrong with it.
What Gu Zheng needs to do is to control the heat more perfectly so as to achieve the best taste of the spring bamboo shoots.
Gu Zheng had already processed the spring bamboo shoots before. After heating the oil in the pot, Gu Zheng, who did not add any spices, poured the chopped spring bamboo shoots into the pot. With the sound of "zizi lala", the spring bamboo shoots
The fragrance also rose.
This is a very fast dish, and it only takes a moment for Gu Zheng to cook it. The next thing Gu Zheng will do is the last dish - steamed grass carp.
Steamed grass carp is a relatively quick dish. The grass carp is steamed just right, and then it is taken out of the pot and poured with soup.
Gu Zheng wants to make this dish better, firstly, the control of the heat, and secondly, the preparation of the soup.
Gu Zheng had already prepared the soup, and the water in the pot had been boiled in advance. Gu Zheng put the prepared grass carp into the cage, and then paid attention to the change in the taste of the fish.
The reason why steamed grass carp is placed last is because this dish cannot be left for too long after it is cooked, otherwise it will affect the taste.
At this time, Huang Ying and others couldn't wait. The aroma of the previous dishes had been tempting their sense of smell and taste, so much so that their saliva was a little flooded, hoping that Gu Zheng, the last dish, would be cooked quickly.
Finally, as Huang Ying and others watched eagerly, the last dish of Gu Zheng came out of the pot, and the moment the bright red soup poured on the tender white fish meat, the sound of deep breathing could be heard all around.
"I've never had to wait so unbearably for food like today. Since Brother Tie's food has been prepared, I won't be polite to you!" Bai Li said.
"You're welcome, give it a try and tell us what you think!" Gu Zheng smiled.
For a moment, there was a loud sound of Tachyon touching the plate and chewing food.
"tasty!"
“It smells so good!”
“I never knew this dish could be so delicious!”
"Brother Tie, I am really impressed by you!"
"Chef Tie, we also obey you!"
Everyone was very hasty in praising Gu Zheng, because praising would delay their time to taste the delicious food. Although the portions of the four dishes and one soup were not small, in the face of a group of evil wolf-like beings, they still seemed a little underfed, so they didn't say a word.
They can eat one more bite of food, so they have to hurry up.
The generous portions of four dishes and one soup were all looted in a flurry. Whether it was Bai Li or the chefs in the crowded room, they all looked at the empty plates with unfinished expressions.
"Pop!"
Gu Zheng clapped his hands: "Now that you've eaten, it's time to evaluate what you ate!"
"Does everyone have to say it?" Li Tong asked.
"No need, just send two representatives from among you to speak." Gu Zheng said.
"I'm one of them," Bai Li said.
"Then I am one!" Huang Ying said.
Gu Zheng nodded: "Just right, one of you represents the diner and the other represents the chef."
