Cao Cao's chef

Chapter 726

"Miscellaneous fish soup? What is that? It sounds very ordinary..." Cao Ren complained.

"That's why we changed the name temporarily. It should be named Baiyu Wuxia Soup based on the color of the soup." Cao Cao thought, "The secret of this soup is that almost no other seasonings are added, and only ordinary spring water is used. Salt, add some pepper at most, and the ingredients are only two kinds of miscellaneous fish and cabbage. On the contrary, because of this simple configuration, the delicacy of the miscellaneous fish is emphasized.”

"So what is miscellaneous fish?" Cao Ren asked.

"It's the small sea fish caught along the coast. There are no restrictions on the types and are messy, so it is called miscellaneous fish soup. But because the umami flavors of several kinds, even more than a dozen kinds of sea fish are gathered in this soup, this umami taste It is very outstanding." Cao Cao replied.

"The question is, if the former soup is so delicious, is it okay?" Liu Bei on the other side was a little puzzled.

"No, no, although the purpose of the previous soup is to appetize, it does not necessarily need to be light. For example, the stewed turtle soup with chicken is actually very delicious. The secret of this miscellaneous fish soup is that although it is extremely delicious, it does not have much fat. !" Cao Cao replied, at most two or three oil stars, the chef removed all the excess oil during cooking.

After a long time of stewing, the deliciousness of the fish is completely integrated into the soup, so only the soup is used, not the fish.Put it in a transparent glass bowl and serve it up, giving people the feeling of holding a piece of flawless suet jade.White jade flawless, truly worthy of the name!
I have to say that this banquet is really not simple. Let alone the selection of ingredients and cooking skills, the arrangement and names are all taken care of, and other dishes are unknown, but the soup before is already considered an imperial banquet level.

"Ah... the effect seems to have come out... After drinking this soup, I seem to be even hungrier..." Cao Ren rubbed his stomach, and he drank almost five or six spoonfuls of a bowl of soup. , but make the stomach more hungry.

"Relax, the side dishes are coming soon." Cao Cao smiled, "The side dishes are usually a bit heavy, but they won't overwhelm the main course. Fish, stewed meat, and poultry are still very likely to appear. "

"Then when I think about it, he said at the time that 'no chicken can't make a feast'. If this is the case, the appetizer might really be chicken, or it must be duck." Cao Ren laughed.

"The third dish, the baby swallows return to the nest!" Huangmen shouted, and then the maids brought out the first side dish one after another, and presented it to everyone.On the plate, between two broccoli, there were one or two quail eggs, and then there was some meat, which should be some kind of poultry meat as expected.

"Swallows are not really stewed, are they?" Cao Ren was a little skeptical, "Swallows don't have that much meat!"

"It's just a nice name. I guess it's quail meat...but this dish does have the feeling of a baby swallow returning home." Cao Cao smiled, picked up a piece of meat, and ate it.

"Huh? It's not quail meat!" Cao Cao was a little surprised, "It's not chicken or duck either... what is this..."

"Eh? Isn't it quail meat? I can't eat it at all!" Cao Ren was a little puzzled.

"Pigeon..." Lu Bu took a bite, and then said slowly.

"Who has eaten this stuff?" Cao Ren complained, "And what is this? The baby swallow returned home, but the meat was pigeon meat, but the eggs were quail eggs. The pigeon laid quail eggs, there is a story in it!"

"Don't say that, the food will become unpalatable!" Cao Cao reprimanded, "For a chef, the most important thing is the taste, not the name of the dish. After all, this should be pigeon... no, squab roasted quail eggs, But the taste is undeniable!"

Of course, it can also be pigeon eggs, but because they are two different types of poultry, the two different flavors are mixed together during the cooking process, which doubles the umami taste.If it is pigeon eggs and roasted pigeons, the effect will not be good.

It is rare to slice all the meat of the pigeon, squeeze the bones to squeeze out the gravy, and use this as the basis to build the sauce.Although the broccoli is just removed by adding oil and salt and blanching, it absorbs the excess sauce during the serving process, making it more delicious in itself, and also has the effect of removing greasy.

"Leaving aside the issue of the name... this dish is actually quite delicious!" Cao Ren ate a piece of pigeon meat, and then ate a quail egg. The pigeon almost melted in the mouth, tender and juicy, while the quail egg The Q bomb is delicious, rich and mellow, which is very rare.

"Especially because there are no more popular things like chickens and ducks. It should be because it is related to the imperial banquet." Cao Cao nodded, "I have to say that the appearance of the pigeons is still beyond my expectations."

"Speaking of which, Meng De, how do you know these things so clearly?" Liu Bei looked at Cao Cao suspiciously.

"I was also an intermediate chef... For a while, I even thought that if I couldn't join the army or politics, it would be good to learn how to cook well, and then it would be good to help my husband and children at home..." Cao Cao said with emotion, "Another person changed his way. It’s been two or three years since I cooked it for me, and I’ve tasted most of the ingredients, even some of them are rare.”

Otherwise, she wouldn't know the two dishes of mixed fish soup and squab.

"That's right, let alone worry-free cooking skills, the understanding of ingredients is probably the most comprehensive in the world." Liu Bei nodded. Wang Yong is going to marry Guan Yu, so he is her brother-in-law. serious.

"Speaking of which..." Cao Ren looked at the two of them, "If Wang Yong marries Guan Yu, and Meng Meng marries Wang Yong...how do you two address each other?"

"..." For a while, Liu Bei and Cao Cao were silent, including Guan Yu next to him, who were all stunned.

"Cough...it's just..." Cao Cao stretched out his hand, tapped Cao Ren on the head, and then replied.

"Uh... each of them has his own way, yes, each of them has his own way..." Liu Bei and Guan Yu also smiled politely.If you really want to count, on Xia Houba's question, the seniority is already messed up.On Guan Yu's side, it's all small problems!
"By the way, isn't the second side dish served yet?" Cao Ren could only change the subject.

"The serving time is relatively fixed. You won't serve it quickly because you eat fast, and you won't stop serving it first because you eat slowly. The time for a dish should be the time of a cup of tea (10 minutes). I will give you enough time to taste it, and you won't have to wait too long." Cao Cao replied.

"Who remembers so much and doesn't intend to go into politics, otherwise I wouldn't join the army." Cao Ren stuck out his tongue.Banquets, especially the banquet etiquette, there are too many things to know, and it is too grand, especially the royal banquet in the palace, which makes her feel very troublesome.

"Okay, it's almost time. The second side dish is probably about to be served. Did you find out that the dishes tonight are not large, which means that there are probably at least a dozen or so after a set of banquets tonight. Dishes." Cao Cao counted the time.

"Indeed, I didn't expect the second dish to be squab. The chicken, duck and geese are not served. I guess tonight will really be a real treat!" Liu Bei nodded.

"Not only that, Yang Xiu, the head chef of the imperial chef, is majoring in poultry dishes, and pigeons are also considered poultry dishes, so it seems that tonight's banquet should mainly focus on poultry dishes." Cao Cao thought for a while.

"The fourth dish! The house is full of gold and jade!" Huangmen shouted again, which meant that the second side dish was about to appear.

　I'm going to dinner tonight, so I guess Chapter 3 will be a little later.

　　At the same time, I wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)