As a fellow cook, Nakiri Senzaemon naturally knows what the famous specialties of Yaoshu and Sho Province are.
Smelling the lingering aroma of cured meat in the air, my Adam's apple rolled a few times.
But he seemed to have remembered something.
"By the way, during the last ghoul rebellion, those guys used ghouls to attack the cooks, which already aroused the dissatisfaction of the IGO. Now it seems that they had planned this!"
"IGO has sent more combat forces to Dongying to protect the cook!"
Nakiri Senzaemon's voice had a deep meaning.
"Now that I think about it, they are taking emergency measures. They will first let the chefs of Kyoto Imperial suffer some losses, and then after the IGO people take action, they will not have to worry about their subsequent plans affecting ordinary chefs."
"Everything has really been calculated, even people's hearts have been calculated properly!"
This was the first time I heard about this, and a flash of thought flashed in Zhao Youqian's eyes.
But soon he smiled.
"If you are too scheming, you may lose your life."
"I always feel that this game is clearly intended to be grand, but when it comes to reality, it has an indescribable sense of pettiness."
"If my guess is correct, one person should have proposed the main axis, and then many people joined forces. However, those people behind claimed that they were full of calculations and comprehensive, but they fell to the bottom."
Zhao Youqian's expression was slightly awe-inspiring.
"If we follow the original idea and directly force the supernatural forces to fight, without taking into account the many people's hearts, forces, and chaos, and directly engage in a war to destroy Kyoto Imperial Palace, I always feel that the situation at Sengen Shrine will be much more difficult to endure. .”
But soon he smiled freely again.
"It's all in vain to talk about these things. Anyway, I'm too lazy to interfere anymore. Let's see what the great priest will do after he recovers from his injuries..."
Then Zhao Youqian brought the topic to the food cooked in the casserole on their previous table.
This is one of his favorite dishes in winter. It is convenient and unique, and can also be eaten richly.
The most important thing is that it tastes delicious and warms you up.
"Come on, in order to make this dish today, I put in some things that I wouldn't have added before. Can you take a look?"
Different from the traditional bacon hot pot in Hunan Province, which has a layer of dried chili peppers and garlic leaves floating on it, the bacon hot pot made by Zhao Youqian this time has a few wolfberries floating on it. It is not like a bacon hot pot at all, but more like a bacon hot pot. What a chicken soup pot.
Even the color is a light soy-yellow amber rather than a rich soy-sauce brown.
"Oh? New cuisine? This really makes me need to taste it."
Nakiri Senzaemon has also tasted the cured meat hot pot of Hunan Province. You must know that cured meat, a special specialty of Hunan Province, is not something that is difficult to accept.
In other words, the tastes of the entire world have a high tolerance for smoked and salted dishes.
This is also because traditional methods of preserving food ingredients have a fairly consistent development trend in various countries.
It's nothing more than air-drying, salting, and smoking.
However, the memory of the last time he tasted this kind of food left a deep impression on Nakiri Senzaemon. He was an extremely traditional Hunan cuisine chef. Simple vegetables that pack a punch.
However, the strong smoky flavor of this cured meat hot pot, combined with the heavy spiciness commonly used in Hunan Province, is simply a bomb for Nakiri Senzaemon's taste.
Not to mention the memory of this dish, he didn't even have much memory of how the clothes on his body burst apart later.
If it weren't for his super gourmet cell digestion, he might have spent the next few nights in the toilet after trying that preserved meat hot pot, and would even have unspeakable pain that needed to be relieved with chrysanthemum tea.
So Nakiri Senzaemon has always had some lingering fears about this kind of cured meat hot pot.
If it weren't for the dish Zhao Youqian cooked, he wouldn't have smelled the chili pepper yet, and I'm afraid he would have been thinking about finding some excuse to escape.
In fact, Nakiri Senzaemon doesn't have to worry so much. In fact, there are many ways to make cured meat hot pot. The chef he met happened to be proficient in the Xiangxi local cuisine school in Xiangxi Province, which has an already humid environment. The most humid and coldest place in the world.
Therefore, the emphasis on cooking is to be spicy and intense, so as to dispel dampness. Even the famous dishes have names such as bandit's liver, which shows the wild attitude of the people there towards cooking.
This time Zhao Youqian came back from the world of Naruto and got a lot of inspiration, and the ingredients he used were unique. At least in Hunan Province, very few people would use this method, and it was even more unheard of to do this in cured meat hot pot.
After scooping a spoonful of soup, Nakiri Senzaemon was quite surprised when he saw that the soup base was light yellow amber in color and that there was not as much fat floating on the top as expected.
"It seems that the addition of white radish and winter melon does have some effect!"
It is actually normal to add these two ingredients in the cured meat hot pot. In particular, white radish can reduce the heat and reduce the greasiness. Its inherent sweetness can also be blended with the salty cured meat soup base. However, winter melon is much less common. Winter melon can remove grease. The effect is also superior to that of white radish.
Looking at the ingredients in the cured meat hot pot, Nakiri Senzaemon was a little surprised by the clear soup of the hot pot, but it was still reasonable.
But when he took a sip of the soup, all his underwear and outerwear suddenly fell off, and the vision of his clothes exploding was not enough to cover up the shock in his heart.
He seemed to have entered a fortress with copper and iron walls, but the gentle and elegant style inside the bunker was completely different from the solemn appearance of the bunker at the beginning.
At the beginning, there is a rich smoky flavor and the unique saltiness released by the cured bacon. While hitting the base of the tongue, there is also a faint astringency of smoked wood.
But soon a rich, fresh and sweet taste hit me, blending the astringent taste into an aftertaste that no one would find boring.
"That kind of sweetness...can't be caused by white radish and winter melon!"
Not surprisingly, Nakiri Senzaemon tasted the biggest change and highlight of this cured meat hot pot in one bite, and Zhao Youqian showed a smile on his lips.
He also took a sip of the soup he had carefully cooked and felt the flavors that should be there being released one by one, making his eyes brighter and brighter.
"This is how it feels!"
"Tenderness and wildness go hand in hand, all melting into this mouthful of soup."
In order to achieve this sweetness, Zhao Youqian chose a special kind of cured meat. Instead of using conventional bacon, he used parts like cured pig trotters, and instead of using the back knuckles, he used the front hooves and the tips of the hooves.
This way, there is less fat and more bones, but the taste is also richer and mellower because of the thicker collagen layer.
Without giving away, Zhao Youqian looked at Nakiri Senzaemon and told him an ingredient that surprised him. In his concept, this kind of thing would never be put together with bacon.