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After roasting, this aroma becomes more intense and blends with the flavor of the seasoning to form a unique and rich flavor. ”

With his fingers against his chest, Kadozaki Taki opened his eyes and told everyone he felt, his cheeks looking a little red.

“It feels a little different from real beef jerky, but overall it’s very similar, and it’s really suitable for this theme.”

Leah spoke up. After Bai Yuan's explanation, she had completely understood the meaning of the theme of this assessment, which was to use non-beef ingredients to make dishes that tasted similar to beef.

It turned out that she had made such a big mistake before. No wonder the examiner was so angry. It was too outrageous to directly participate in the competition with snail meat!

Damn it, it’s just a few Chinese characters, why is it so hard to understand!

"Are all the contestants using soybeans and mushrooms to make vegetarian beef...

Even though vegetarian beef is the best solution to tonight's theme, if all chefs in China think in this way, it would be a bit too rigid. "

The skillful mother-in-law looked at everything in front of her and couldn't help sighing in her heart. In fact, she would like to see some non-beef that is different from the traditional beef.

It seems that it will be difficult to appear this year.

"Well, the last person to come up is the Japanese chef Kadozaki Taki."

After everyone had finished tasting, the skillful grandmother turned her eyes to the last contestant, Kadozaki Taki. She wondered what kind of food this little girl from Japan would bring. Would it be a surprise or a shock?

"Come on, let me see your level."

Looking at Kadozaki Taki who was a little nervous and was breathing heavily, Bai Yuan raised his hand and patted her on the back, and his internal force directly circulated in her body.

In an instant, the feeling of tension disappeared.

“My dish is called Spanish Nutty Vegetarian Beef Stew.

It is to mix chopped walnuts, chopped almonds, flax seeds, and chia seeds, add water starch, bean dregs, and seasonings, and mix well so that the mixture can be slightly bonded together to form a texture similar to beef cubes. "

Kadozaki Taki stood beside Bai Yuan and talked incessantly. She had thought about this dish for a long time and finally came up with the idea of ​​using various nuts, adding water starch and seasonings to make vegetarian beef with a texture and taste similar to beef.

However, she later found that this method did not work. The mixture of water starch and nuts tasted worse than she had imagined. Just when she was puzzled, she discovered that Jin Lanyu used bean dregs.

For some reason, she ran to the food section and got a bowl of soybeans. She quickly squeezed out the soybean milk and added the soybean dregs to her nut vegetarian beef. The taste was noticeably better! So she adjusted the ratio and made the second generation of nut vegetarian beef.

“In order to make the vegetarian beef cubes regular, I pressed them slightly with a mold, and then used a knife to cut them into small, one-centimeter-wide nutty vegetarian beef cubes.

The rest is cooked using the Spanish stew method. Heat olive oil in a pan, sauté onions and chopped garlic, then add red pepper powder and spices such as rosemary and thyme to enhance the overall flavor.

Then add the chopped tomatoes, red peppers and green peppers into the pan and stir-fry. After the vegetables are slightly softened, add the potato cubes and continue stir-frying.

After this part is completed, add vegetable stock, salt, black pepper and a little red wine to enhance the flavor. Then add the previously processed vegetarian beef cubes with nuts, spread them on the vegetables, cover the pot and simmer on low heat.

Stir from time to time during the stewing process to ensure that the nut vegetarian beef can fully absorb the flavor of the soup.

When the soup thickens, the vegetables are cooked, and the nut beef becomes soft and chewy, turn off the heat and serve.

This is the Spanish Nut Vegetarian Beef Stew, and it is also my understanding of the dish of beef not beef. I hope everyone can give it a fair evaluation. "

Because it was his first time participating in this kind of assessment, Kadozaki Taki directly explained the entire cooking process and finally bowed deeply to everyone.

After finishing these things, she looked at Bai Yuan, her eyes full of anticipation.

“Using nuts to make vegetarian beef is a very good idea in every way.

First of all, nuts can bring a unique taste to vegetarian beef cubes.

Secondly, different types of nuts have their own unique flavors, such as the sweetness of almonds and the mellowness of walnuts. These flavors are constantly intertwined and blended in the vegetarian beef cubes, which can significantly enhance its overall flavor and make it more delicious. "

Bai Yuan did not disappoint Kadozaki Taki and spoke for her very actively. However, he did not make up stories either. Using nuts to make beef is indeed unique here.

If nothing else, at least it’s very creative!

Take a spoonful of the vegetarian beef mixed with the Spanish-style soup base. The sweetness of onions, the sourness of tomatoes, the spiciness of red and green peppers, and the softness of potatoes blend together during the stewing process, forming a harmonious taste balance.

“The unique crunch and chewiness of nuts, after proper processing, are integrated into this vegetarian beef. The nut particles form a structure similar to beef fiber, which brings an extremely rich and intoxicating taste.”

Tiebi Amu savored the taste in his mouth with a slightly surprised expression, as if he had not expected that nuts could actually have such a beef-like taste.

"Not only that, the oil content of nuts makes this vegetarian beef more moist in taste and not dry.

During the stewing process, these fats penetrate into the entire stew and blend with the other ingredients, making every mouthful of the soup full of nutty flavor. "

Feeling the richness of the soup base and the unique taste of the nut vegetarian beef, Jin Lanyu showed a look of enjoyment on her face.

“The combination of these two is really great! It feels like they complement each other.”

Leah nodded as she tasted the dish. The taste of this dish was amazing. The flavor of the nutty vegetarian beef combined perfectly with the base soup, influencing each other to achieve the effect of one plus one being approximately two!

"Boom~"

A drum sounded, and the scene instantly fell silent. The skillful grandmother walked up to the crowd, glanced at the food on the plate, and said:

"All food tastings are now over. Now we will move on to the scoring phase. Please rate the works of your two competitors other than yourself out of a full score of 10 and write your scores above."

At the same time, several staff members came over and placed scrolls and brushes in front of Jin Lanyu, Amu and Kadozaki Taki respectively, and asked them to rate each other's cooking.

As for Leah, because she misunderstood the question at the beginning, she did not participate in the cooking scoring and directly lost the qualification for the competition.

Normally, she should have left after the failure, but Bai Yuan had just agreed to lend her the dragon-shaped armband, so she chose to stay and wait until the game was over before leaving.

Not to mention Bai Yuan, these people are not qualified to comment on his cooking, and as for commenting on others? To be honest, it doesn't make much sense.

This assessment is more of a test of the contestants' mutual evaluation.

It is important for top chefs to see whether they can correctly understand themselves and have the ability to correctly evaluate the work of others.

"score..."

Looking at the scroll in front of him and the brush stained with ink, Amu leaned back in his chair with his arms folded across his chest, a look of struggle on his face.

"Correctly evaluate other people's works. Both of them have excellent works. If this is the case, then I think this score should be the most fair..."

Without much hesitation, Kadozaki Taki closed his eyes to savor the taste of the food he had just cooked. Finally, he opened his eyes and began writing on the scroll.

"In that case, then..."

Jin Lanyu closed her eyes and thought for a long time. Finally, she picked up the brush and wrote a six and a four on the scroll.

"Okay, now hand in your scores."

Watching the three people finish writing the scroll contents one after another, the skillful grandmother ordered the servants around her to collect all the scores and put them in a small box.

"Please wait here for a moment and wait for the results to be revealed."

After saying this, Grandma Skillful left the competition venue with her two attendants, leaving the few people looking at each other in bewilderment.

Do we need to go back and count these few scores? Is it a sense of ritual?

"Kadozaki-senpai, there shouldn't be any problem..."

As Grandma Skillful left, Kikuchi Engo, who had been standing in the distance watching, came up and looked in the direction of Kadozaki Taki with a worried look.

Although senior Kadozaki Taki performed very well when she was in Totsuki Academy, this is Guangzhou after all, where the special-level assessment is the most difficult!

Those who can stand here are all top-notch chefs. It is very difficult to defeat them.

"Gudu..."

Kadozaki Taki swallowed her saliva and was very nervous. Even when she was competing with Yueyue for the first place among the top ten, she was not as nervous as she was now.

The same goes for others. Even though they are very confident in their cooking, the waiting process is undoubtedly very painful.

This is also the purpose of the skillful grandmother, she wants the few people to recognize themselves while waiting, and recall their own shortcomings in cooking through anxious waiting.

In this way, after the memories are over, you will be able to make a certain degree of progress, which can be regarded as the final gift of this special assessment!

the other side.

Bai Yuan was also resting with his eyes closed, but compared to the others, he seemed more relaxed and at ease because he already knew the final winner.

With his super sense of taste, he can naturally easily taste the quality of food, and the difference between the three people in front of him is not small.

Chapter 70: The Crown of the King, the Badge of Glory

"Boom~"

The clear sound of a gong awakened the people who were lying on the table. They looked around and finally gathered on the city wall, in the direction of the skillful grandmother.

"I will now announce the total scores obtained by the three of you."

As soon as Grandma Qiaoshou finished speaking, Kadozaki Taki, Amu, and Jin Lanyu all stood up. Their heartbeats quickened at the same time, their eyes fixed on the city wall.

next moment.

Three staff members dragged the white banner to the top of the city wall, then let go, and the banner immediately poured down like a waterfall.

Jade 14

泷八

Wood Eleven

"Hunan cuisine chef Jin Lanyu, 14 points."

"Chaoweifang Amu, 11 points."

"Japanese chef Taki Kadozaki, eight points."

The voice of the skillful grandma came from the city wall, reading out everyone's scores from high to low.

"Eight points, I only got eight points..."

Looking at the score in front of him, Kadozaki Taki's body swayed, like a deflated ball, and he almost fell down. Fortunately, Bai Yuan supported him in time.

At this moment, her face was full of unwillingness, but she didn't say much. She just looked at the other two people, wondering why her score was so low.

“Your dish uses innovative nut-based vegetarian beef and also adds okara to enhance the taste.

But you forgot the most important point, which is to remove the bean smell of the bean dregs. Only by removing the bean smell of the bean dregs can you make qualified vegetarian beef! Otherwise, it will just be vegetarian meat with a bean flavor!"

Noticing the puzzled look from Kadozaki Taki, Jin Lanyu explained that every aspect of this dish was excellent.

The only downside is the bean smell!

Although it is very faint and even suppressed by other spices in the dish, if you taste it carefully, you can still feel that slight disharmony.

And this is also the reason why she gave a low score!

If this bean smell can be removed, the taste of the vegetarian beef will be perfect.

Then she could give this dish a score of more than six points. As for a higher score...that is not something that Taki Kadozaki can achieve now.

The basic skills and craftsmanship are still a bit lacking.

"Beany smell?"

"That's right. You should just boil the soy milk and then use the dregs directly. This won't work. There will be a lot of bean smell left in it."

Seeing that Kadozaki Taki was looking at him with doubt, Bai Yuan nodded slightly to indicate that Jin Lanyu was right.

"In fact, it is very simple to remove the beany smell. Heat the soy milk containing bean dregs to boiling and keep it boiling for a while. This will inactivate the activity of lipoxygenase and volatilize the bean smell components in the bean dregs.

After boiling, use a fine strainer to skim off the foam, and then add cold water to boil several times to further remove the bean smell. If you simply boil it and use the bean dregs directly, you will not be able to remove the bean smell. "

After briefly explaining the reason, Bai Yuan was also a little surprised.

After all, Kadozaki Taki used bean dregs to make vegetarian beef, so how could he forget the most basic step of removing the bean smell? It made him feel like a child who could do multiplication but couldn't do addition.

"I see. It seems I was careless."

After hearing Bai Yuan's explanation, Kadozaki Taki suddenly realized what was going on, and there was obvious disappointment in his eyes.

She learned the technique of making vegetarian beef with bean dregs from Jin Lanyu, but because the distance was too far, she only learned the general idea and did not learn how to remove the bean smell.

It seems that what is not hers is not hers after all. After all, she does not have super vision, so it is impossible for her to grasp all the opponent's skills with just her eyes.

Thinking of this, Kadozaki Taki felt much better.

She had no idea of ​​achieving success overnight, she just felt a little confused. Now that her doubts were resolved, she was completely relieved.

"My score is actually eleven points, which is about what I expected. I am indeed not as good as you in this special chef assessment."

Looking at his own score, Tiebi Amu looked in the direction of Jin Lanyu and gave a bitter smile with a gloomy look in his eyes.

There is no doubt that he lost this time.

Although he really wanted to give Jin Lanyu a low score to make his own result stand out, he finally held back.

Because he is unwilling to resort to such despicable means, he will not be happy even if he wins the final victory, and this is not in line with his style!