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Among the eight delicacies of the ancient Zhou Dynasty, there was one called the cannonball, which refers to the suckling pig.
Li Qi once said when selecting ingredients that for real masters to compete, the choice of ingredients is very important. No matter how good your cooking skills are, you cannot beat someone else's abalone fin and fried rice with egg fried rice.
This dish is one of the eight delicacies, which shows how fierce the competition is.
The eyes of everyone present fell on the red suckling pig in the middle.
Gao Ping suddenly said: "Your Majesty, this dish is actually not called roast suckling pig."
Everyone was stunned again. Song Huizong asked curiously: "What is that called?"
Gao Ping replied: "Precious pig."
"pearl?"
Song Huizong couldn't laugh or cry and said: "Master Gao, this is obviously a roasted suckling pig, how could it be a pearl?"
Gao Ping knew that Song Huizong had misunderstood, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the rare pig I am talking about is the rare pig of pearls and the pig of suckling pig."
Song Huizong was stunned for a moment when he heard his tongue-twisting introduction. Then he realized what he was talking about and said word by word: "You're talking about the pig?"
Gao Ping nodded and said: "It's the rare pig."
Cai Jing laughed and said, "Master Gao, the name of your dish is really interesting."
Everyone couldn't help but laugh.
Song Huizong still didn't understand, and said: "But your dish is clearly roast suckling pig, why do you call it a rare pig?"
"Your Majesty, please wait a moment."
Gao Ping took a knife from an assistant and cut it open from the suckling pig's back. Immediately, a rich aroma accompanied by hot air wafted out from the suckling pig.
Everyone stood up one after another and stuck their heads out to look inside. Suddenly someone said: "There are really pearls!"
What he said was Richard.
After Gao Ping completely broke open the suckling pig, he saw that there were indeed more than ten or twenty bright white balls inside the suckling pig's belly. At first glance, they looked a bit like pearls.
"That's it." Zuo Boqing nodded thoughtfully.
Song Huizong pointed his hand and said, "What do you have in here?"
Gao Ping nodded and said: "This is a chicken ball made by a villain using chicken, egg white, scallops and starch. After frying it in chicken oil, it is then put into the suckling pig belly."
"Chicken balls?"
Song Huizong smiled and said: "This method is interesting, so hurry up and present it."
"yes."
Gao Ping cut the suckling pig into five-centimeter cubes and served it to everyone sitting with a chicken ball and his own special sauce.
Li Bangyan was a relatively open-minded person, so he grabbed the piece of pork with his hands. He dipped a little sauce into his mouth and stuffed it in his mouth. Before he could swallow the pork, he shouted: "Hmm, um, um, this suckling pig is really delicious. Crisp, tender, fragrant and sweet, it’s much more delicious than what I’ve eaten before.”
Cai Jing took a bite more reservedly. After savoring it carefully, he said: "It's fragrant but not greasy, and it's soft and melts in the mouth. It's really rare for a roasted suckling pig to do this. But Master Gao, why are you sucking pig so different from others?" It’s made differently, the outside is crispier than others, but the meat inside is more tender and delicious.”
Song Huizong also nodded and said: "Cai Aiqing is right, and there seems to be a milky aroma in the juice. This pork is really delicious with this milky aroma. This is the first time I have eaten such delicious suckling pig. How did you make it? of?"
Gao Ping cupped his hands and said: "That's because when I was baking, I also applied sesame oil on it. This is to make it crispy but not burnt, red but not black. And your Majesty said that the milky smell is because I was taking out the food. After removing the internal organs, first wash the blood with water, then wash it again with milk, and finally apply a seasoning made of milk and honey to keep the meat inside tender and smooth."
Song Huizong nodded and said: "That's it."
Zuo Boqing said with a smile: "There is an old saying that the color is the same as amber, and it is similar to real gold. It disappears when you enter it. It looks like snow and contains soy sauce. It is extraordinary. But in my opinion, Master Gao's rare pig
More crispy and tender, even better than the ancients. And this chicken ball is roasted together with the suckling pig in the belly of the suckling pig, as if it is topped with lard, and it can also absorb every stage of the suckling pig during roasting.
The essence of it is as good as the suckling pork itself."
Song Huizong nodded slightly and agreed: "This chicken ball is indeed very delicious. I think it is more delicious than this pork."
The rest of the people also nodded frequently. Some people had already finished eating. They wiped their mouths and wanted to ask for more. But when they thought there were three dishes after them, they swallowed them with saliva.
The second person who came in was Guo Qian, the imperial chef of Xixia. Everyone felt very tired when they saw the dishes he served.
It turned out that what was placed on the iron tray was a mountain of meat piled up with pieces of meat as white as jade. As for the dishes, it was really not that good. The color of the meat was more attractive, but it had a...
Everyone smelled the strange fragrance and whispered to the people around them, but they all shook their heads.
Song Huizong laughed and said: "Master Guo, what kind of food are you eating?"
Guo Qian bowed his head and said: "To answer your Majesty's question, this dish is called 'Huidang Ling Jueding', and it is made from camel humps."
"hump?"
Everyone suddenly realized that many of the people sitting here had actually tasted a camel hump, but after all, there were no camels in the Central Plains, so they all ate very little, so they didn't smell it as a camel hump just now.
Song Huizong was not surprised by the ingredients, but he was quite curious about the name of the dish and asked: "Why is it called 'Huidang Ling Jueding'?"
Guo Qian replied: "The name of this dish has two meanings. One is because all the essence of a camel is gathered on the hump; second, do you think the camel's hump should be the best among the eight delicacies?"
Duan Zhengwen smiled and said: "The first point is somewhat fair. The hump is indeed the most delicious part of the camel. But you said that the hump is the most delicious part of the camel. Do you have proof?"
"have."
Guo Qian said seriously: "Because the hump is the highest."
"puff!"
Li Bangyan immediately squirted out a sip of tea, and then laughed and said: "I like this statement. Among the eight treasures, the hump is indeed the highest. It also confirms the next line of the poem, one can see all the mountains and small ones."
The others also laughed.
Guo Qian also giggled. His three dishes were all based on the culture of the Central Plains. He once summarized his past failures. He found that the other chefs were eloquent and the names of the dishes were also very nice.
There is also a meaning, so this time he came prepared and greatly improved the culture of the Central Plains.
Song Huizong laughed for a while. Do you want to say that this statement is wrong? In fact, it is not wrong, but if you want to say it is right, it feels a bit forced. He smiled and said: "Okay. If you make it right, it will be
Be the best. Bring it up, bring it up."
After the maid presented it, Song Huizong took a bite and said, "Well, this fresh camel hump meat is really delicious, and the aroma is also very special. And it seems to contain these two different flavors, which is really good."
Cai Jing nodded and said, "What the emperor said is that this hump meat is crispy, soft and glutinous, fresh and refreshing, plump but not greasy, and its flavor is fragrant and smooth. It has a long aftertaste. Compared with the suckling pork, it has a really unique flavor."
Guo Qian said: "In fact, the meat quality of camel hump meat is very delicious. The male and female humps have very different tastes. Each has its own characteristics. Compared with pigs and sheep, it is definitely better than that of pigs and sheep."
His words were obviously intended to suppress Gao Fangcai's rare pig. Anyway, the bayonet was already on the verge of seeing red. Whether you lose or win depends on this dish, so there is no need to be hypocritical anymore.
Song Huizong smiled slightly and said nothing more.
Duan Zhengwen said: "I have tasted this hump meat before. Although it is sweet, fragrant, refreshing and smooth, it has a special smell, so the cooking requirements are very high, but your hump meat has no trace of it.
Shame, how did you do it?"
Gao Ping cupped his hand and said: "The villain first buried the camel hump in coarse salt and simmered it, then put it in hot water with fermented juice and simmered it, gently kneaded it, squeezed out the water, washed it with water, sliced it, and served it with
Stir-fry winter bamboo shoots, tooth yellow and other ingredients briefly, then add cooking wine, salt and other seasonings, stir-fry a little, and then pour a layer of sesame oil after taking it out of the pan."
Everyone nodded frequently, but except for Zuo Boqing, everyone else had only a partial understanding of what he was hearing. However, the hump meat still left a very deep impression on everyone, and many people applauded it.
After a while, Long Jiang came in with a tray in one hand. The tray was not small, but compared to the previous two dishes, it was really small. You must know that there was still a lot left over from the previous two dishes.
However, this does not affect everyone's expectations for this dish at all. In the past Four Kingdoms Banquet, Longjiang's second soup was slightly lacking, but this year his fish soup made everyone's eyes shine, so he is
I am even more looking forward to the dish.
Long Jiang put the plate on the table, bowed to everyone, opened the iron cover, and said loudly: "What I bring to you today is the 'Golden Pearl in the Palm'."
This name alone earned He Shiliebohe an admiring look.
When everyone took a look, they saw a huge golden red shiny and steaming bear's right paw on the plate, surrounded by scallops and green leaves. Of course, the most eye-catching thing was that there was a shining gold bead on the palm.
The dish really lives up to its name.
Duan Zhengwen laughed and said: "To see three of the eight treasures, this trip is really worthwhile."
Song Huizong smiled and asked: "Master Long, what are the golden beads on your bear's paw?"
Long Jiang said with his hands: "It's fish honey juice. I first made fish honey juice with seabass juice and honey, then rolled it into a thin crust with flour, applied a layer of golden special material on the flour, wrapped it, and then took two
Ice bricks, dig out a hemispherical shape on each ice brick, put the dough into the round pit of one of the ice bricks, press the other one on top, freeze for a while, after it is set, remove the dough, and it will be like this."
This was the first time for everyone to hear this approach, and they wondered what the benefits of it were. Even Zuo Boqing couldn't figure it out for the time being.
Song Huizong asked again: "Then how do you make these bear paws?"
Long Jiang said: "I chose the right paw of a black bear, dug a hole in the ground, put half of it in lime, put the palm inside, added lime on top, and poured cold water on it. After a while, stop cooling, pick it up, and the hairs will be together with the roots.
out, so that the fishy odor can be completely removed.”
Song Huizong was shocked: "You said you used lime to remove hair?"
"Exactly."
Long Jiang nodded and continued: "Wash the bear's paws, put them into the prepared mixed bone soup, boil them and simmer them to remove the fishy smell. Use hundreds of fine needles to place them in the palms of the bear's paws.
Prick hundreds of small holes on the back of the palm, then take a casserole, put a bamboo grate on it, put the bear paws in, palms facing up, pour in the simmered thick soup, simmer over low heat until the bear paws become crispy, then add salt.
Add soy sauce and other condiments, take out the bear paw and drizzle with sesame oil."
Song Huizong was puzzled: "You said you used a white thin needle to prick hundreds of small holes in the bear's paw? Why is that?"
Long Jiang pointed at the bear's paw and said, "It's all because of this golden bead."