Chapter 409: The Medicinal Diet to Heal the Heart
As its name suggests, "The Empress's Glory" is the "Five Elements Medicinal Food" that Xia Kui can only make when she uses the special kitchen utensils.
Therefore, this dish essentially exceeded Xia Kui's ability limit and belonged to a product similar to cheating level.
But it is meaningless to say this now. Since Teacher Jiang Yun asked Xia Kui to kill the other party by any means and gave her these two special kitchen utensils, Xia Kui will naturally use it to the end.
So sorry for Ji Xuan, "Xuanwu Imperial Chef", you are indeed very strong, but you will definitely not win this time.
Just as the lid of the pot was unbuttoned, a glimmer flashed in Xia Kui's eyes.
As the cloud-like fragrance floated from the pot, Li Lao Tao and others were also immersed in the mysterious fragrance for a moment.
It smells so good that the whole person is floating in the clouds, and he is staying in a forest that is indifferent to the world.
After a few seconds passed, Li Lao Tao reacted and shook his head quickly, trying to make his mind clear.
But even so, the strong fragrance that filled the judges' seat still caused his saliva to be secreted in large quantities, and his stomach couldn't help but whine.
This dish is really terrible, especially the fragrance, which is simply unheard of.
Li Laotao has never smelled such a strong fragrance before. How should this fragrance be described? Grass fragrance? Wood fragrance? Honey sweet fragrance? Fat wax fragrance? Amber fragrance? Bean fragrance? Fruit fragrance?
Because the fragrance is too complicated and too strong, Li Laotao doesn't know how to describe it.
You know, this is the heir to the Food Review Family, but the top food reviewer who has been commenting on Chinese food all his life.
The aroma that Li Lao Tao didn't know how to describe, and it was just a matter of lifting the lid of the pot, which was enough to remind people of how strong the taste of this dish was.
Just when Li Laotao was shocked by food for the first time in his life, Xia Kui had quickly served the steamed food from the pot and brought it to the five judges and Ji Xuan.
"This dish is the "Empress's Glory", please enjoy it, so is Senior Ji Xuan."
Accompanied by Xia Kui's extremely confident tone, six plates appeared on the table, and even Ji Xuan had one.
How should we describe this dish? Compared to the scent of ancient times, although the dishes are extremely exquisite, the shape is ordinary.
There are five oval "dumplings" on the elegant light-colored lace. Looking closely, the outer skin of the dumpling is as light and white as snow gauze, and it is obviously wrapped with bamboo fungus known as the "Queen of the Fungi".
The white and delicate bamboo fungus is filled with many fillings that are finely chopped with a knife. It is impossible to tell what the filling is full of texture, crystal clear, and the juice is everywhere, making people want to take a bite at a glance.
I have to say that this is indeed a dish that makes people feel very appetizing, and Li Lao Tao instinctively raised the chopsticks, but he seemed a little hesitant before getting the chopsticks off.
After all, if he remembered correctly, Ji Xuan said just now that the dish was poisonous.
As if he noticed Li Lao Tao's hesitation, Xia Kui took out a piece of bamboo fungus from the pot and put it into his mouth. After chewing for a while, he smiled with satisfaction.
"Don't worry, eat it." She said with a smile: "This dish is absolutely not poisonous."
Seeing that Xia Kui had eaten it by herself, the judges Li Lao Tao and others finally put aside their concerns, picked up a piece of brewed bamboo fungus and stuffed it into their mouths.
The moment the thick brewed vegetables were put into the mouth and bitten, Li Lao Tao's body trembled suddenly.
This! This! This! This! What is this! This!
The next moment, Li Lao Tao and the four judges on the side suddenly opened their eyes wide, their bodies trembled, and then they waved their chopsticks frantically and started eating the things on the plate.
The aroma of this dish is extremely complex, but it is not messy, as if this gorgeous dance is being performed in the nasal cavity.
The taste is also very complicated when eaten, but it is very mixed. It contains several different changes in one mouthful, which is extremely gorgeous.
The strange alcohol of black truffle, the strong aroma of chanterelles, the thick aroma of boletus, the strange aroma of matsutake, the fresh aroma of morels, the deliciousness of Cordyceps sinensis, the sweetness of hydrangea, and the crispness of bamboo fungus
The taste of the eight kinds of mushrooms is combined with eight unique taste in one dish. It can be said that the Eight Immortals cross the sea, each showing their magical powers.
This "Five Elements Medicinal Food. The Glory of the Empress" presents an all-round three-dimensional compound flavor that Li Lao Tao never thought about and never knew about.
Xia Kui first cut seven kinds of mushroom ingredients into different sizes and mixed them into the pot according to different proportions.
Add a small amount of salt and sugar and other seasonings and mix them with egg white, starch, and beat together.
Finally, the meatball fillings are mixed with good flavor and wrapped around four sides with a grid umbrella cover of bamboo fungus and steamed in a pot. This is the whole picture of this dish.
It seems not complicated to do, but the key points are outrageous.
First of all, the ratio and seasoning of eight mushrooms are very important.
Different mushrooms have different flavors and different tastes. They need to present complex and non-conflicting fragrances and unpredictable tastes. There are so many things to consider, which can stump chefs all over the world.
But Xia Kui obviously made it almost perfect. Seeing that Li Lao Tao, who couldn't stop eating and his face was blushing, would understand.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Compared to the arrogant and arrogant look at the beginning, Li Lao Tao's expression can be said to be, well, very honest.
His cheeks were bulging high, and after eating the dish in front of him quickly, he looked at the pot not far away, and even started adding dishes by himself.
A judge was crazy about adding food to himself during the review. This was simply impossible to appear in Li Lao Tao.
It's delicious, it's really delicious.
Five minutes later, Li Laotao, who had eaten his fill quickly, breathed a deep breath and a smile appeared on his face.
Unlike the serious expression he often tightened before, the smile on his face was obviously sincere.
How many years have I not enjoyed food like this?
Looking at the empty plate in front of him, Li Laotao couldn't help but feel nostalgic.
Ten years? Twenty years? Thirty years?
Because it was too long, the food critic could not even remember when the last time she smiled like this because she had something delicious.
In order to consolidate his position as the number one Chinese food critic, Li Laotao regards commenting on food as a job and a career, and deals with the food in front of him with a harsh attitude.
Over the years, Li Laotao has gained fame and money.
But if there are things you get, there are things you abandon.
When he looked at the empty plate in his hand, he realized that he seemed to have abandoned more things than he had imagined.
The love for food, the pursuit of delicious food, and the purest things have long disappeared in Li Laotao's memory, but this special medicinal meal awakened him.
Alas, after this competition, leave the noisy city, return to the countryside of my hometown, and start over.
Feeling the satisfaction of being healed by food, Li Lao Tao closed his eyes and took a deep breath, and said with a smile to Xia Kui: "Little kid, I still can't beat your master and apprentice when I'm doing it beautifully."
However, these things don't matter anymore.
Before he finished speaking, Li Laotao pressed the blue button and voted for Xia Kui.
At the same time, the other four judges made the same decision and they didn't even eat a bite of the dishes served by Ji Xuan.
Because after eating Xia Kui's "Empress's Glory", the five judges felt warm and lazy all over their bodies, just wanted to find a place with beautiful mountains and rivers and birds singing and flowers singing and fragrance, and they could not care about other trivial matters.
So when the five judges pressed Xia Kui's blue lights together, the whole audience was silent, as if no one expected that the game would end in such a strange way.
It was not until the next second that a roar of rage gathered everyone's expressions back.
"Impossible! This medicinal food is obviously poisonous! Have you eaten it badly? How could my medicinal food lose?"
Seeing that he lost inexplicably like this, Ji Xuan finally couldn't help but yell.
His old voice was filled with anger and reluctance, and he was obviously not convinced by this result.
The referee didn't eat the "Li. Sixiang Medicinal Meal and Heaven and Earth" he made, so why do you think the mushroom stew made by Xia Kui would be delicious?
It seemed that he had known that he would have such a reaction, so Li Lao Tao made a "please" gesture and smiled and said, "If you don't believe it, just eat it yourself. Compared with this dish, your dish is full of utilitarianism and aggression, which seems to make people not want to talk."
"It's outrageous! No matter how much my dish is, it's more full of mixed toxins than this. I'll just take a bite?"
Just as Ji Xuan was roaring, he grabbed a piece of brewed bamboo fungus and threw it into his mouth, he was stunned.
How is this possible? Why does the taste of this dish taste like this?
Ji Xuan, who was still furious a second ago, took a bite of the "Empress's Radiance", as if he was immediately impressed by the aura of the fairy mountain and the brightness of the moonlight surrounding him. For a moment, he could not say a word.
There is no poison. Not only is there no poison in this dish, but it also has a powerful force that seems to heal people's hearts while being extremely delicious.
Even Ji Xuan, the most experienced food doctor in the world today, had no idea why this situation occurred. He only knew that this was a new field that he had not entered.
Seeing that Ji Xuan had nothing to say for a moment, Ying Long, who was standing on the ceiling, also let out an incredible roar.
"Impossible! How could this happen?"
Looking at the one-sided result below, Ying Long almost glared at his eyes.
He never dreamed that this "Four Saints Cooking Competition" that thought it was a self-contained entertainment event would end with such an outrageous ending.
Yinglong originally thought that they were entertaining each other, but in the end they felt that they were the ones who were being entertained!
Chapter completed!