Chapter 972 Venison wrapped in crystal salt
The front soup is very simple, using the most four ingredients, seasonings or even salt. The front soup is not simple, and the simple ingredients can be boiled to create the most advanced wild flavor. The key is that it not only completes the emphasis on the taste, but also uses the afterglow of the starter.
The afterglow became the finishing touch, causing the snake and the turtle dove to transform in an instant, as if it turned into a real dragon and phoenix on the tip of the tongue. The dragon and phoenix are auspicious, just like the name... Slowly, where is the yam?!
The yam is sweet. After a long time of boiling, the yam almost melts into the soup. At this time, the yam makes the soup more mellow, and at the same time suppresses the wild flavor of snakes and turtle doves. It can be said that it is precisely because of the yam as a buffer that the flavor of the main ingredients of the two flavors is not too strong. As the saying goes, too much is too low. While emphasizing, it is necessary to avoid too strong flavor.
A top-notch dish can often be said to be a top-notch dish. Every dish in the imperial kitchen is the result of continuous trial and improvement in the area in which he is responsible. The defective products will naturally not be served.
It can even be said that if there are defective products, the responsible chef will naturally have to bear the responsibility. Wang Yong, the chef of the imperial chef, cannot be avoided, let alone Yang Xiu. After all, her responsibility is to assist Wang Yong and arrange the work of each imperial chef.
With this soup, the guests became polarized: those who could eat it, such as Lu Bu, would look enjoyable and sway happily; Xun Yu commented on the benefits of this dish, and Cao Cao echoed one or two. The three dukes and nine ministers slowly tasted it, and there were no words of praise.
As for the more than 2,000 Yue people in the next, I can basically say: My stool is so delicious!
There are really not many soups in a bowl, and the most large ones can be finished. Even if you use a spoon to taste it slowly, it will only cost five or six sips, and it will be bottomed out. However, as a front soup, although it is very wild, it is also very elegant. This characteristic makes this soup not too stolen, especially gives people a feeling of not being satisfied. As a front soup, it is also very qualified.
The key is the dishes behind. After eating the appetizer and the front soup, all the guests couldn't wait to get into the topic!
At this moment, the eunuch obviously realized this and immediately announced: "The third dish - looking for deer in the salt pond"
"Yanchi? Not the one from Yuncheng..." Wang Yun joked, after all, Yuncheng Yanchi was already very famous in the Spring and Autumn Period.
"It shouldn't be. You can't run to the salt pond to hunt a wild deer, right?" Cao Cao replied.
"It's just that, it's a bit unreasonable. After all, you can't use a large pot of salt to cook venison, right?" Xun Yu frowned.
"That will definitely be suffocating!" Dong Cheng shook his head and directly denied this idea.
"Maybe it's cured meat?" Yang Biao was thinking. If it was related to salt, there was a high possibility of curing meat and bacon.
After serving the dishes in the kitchen one after another, everyone realized that the meat did not look like bacon! The tender venison, paired with the fragrant sauce, made people wonder why this dish had to do with the salt pond.
"It seems that you still have to taste it before you can understand!" Cao Cao directly put down his chopsticks, picked up a piece of meat, and put it in his mouth.
When the tip of the tongue touches the meat, the first feeling is not the taste of the sauce or the venison, but the faint salty smell. The salty smell is very pure, as if it is wrapped in the shell of the meat with a layer of salt armor.
"Salt baked, this venison is salt baked!" Xun Yu, who also tasted it, immediately sighed.
"If it is salt-baked... why is the meat so tender?" Wang Yun thought for a while, "Is it the result of salt-baked for a while?"
"If you bake salt for a short period of time, you can indeed avoid the problem of excessive water loss, but the degree of salt baking will also be limited." Cao Cao shook his head, "Just the degree of gravy retaining of this meat is not as simple as salt baking."
"So, what is the secret?" Liu Xie also looked at Wang Yong with some difficulty at this moment.
"A salt kettle, after all, is to use crystal salt and add protein to make a salt container, and then put the meat in it for salt baking. The salt kettle has enough space, and the water vapor cannot be discharged or absorbed by the salt kettle, which ultimately keeps enough moisture in the venison. Of course, before salt kettle, the venison has been marinated after removing the tendons and marinating it, and the oil seal is entered into the baking kiln to bake!" Wang Yong explained.
I use olive oil, and the venison chooses hind leg meat that has no fat. After all, it is to "replenish" the venison.
Finally, salt baking is not only for the sake of flavor, but also for the wild flavor of venison. It is not deny that the time is not long, or it does not take too long for salt baking.
"In terms of sauce, pepper should be used?" Liu Xie nodded, dipped it in the dipping sauce, tasted it again and asked.
"Indeed, the sauce is made with deer bones and deer internal organs as the base, and wild pepper is added at the same time. The purpose is to truly release the wildness of this dish." Wang Yong replied.
"A dish with a great impact!" Cao Cao sighed at the bottom of the road. It was a bit far away, so he didn't hear a conversation between Wang Yong and Liu Xie, but the deliciousness of this dish was beyond doubt.
"?~?~?~" The three dazed hairs on Lu Bu's head have turned into heart shape at this moment, and they are obviously very satisfied with this dish.
"It seems like a wild deer licking crystal salt is full of wildness and vitality!" Xun Yu nodded, "No wonder he is called looking for deer in the salt pond. It is not looking for deer in the salt pond, but the deer ran into the salt pond!"
"The deer should be a wild deer. The mutton smell of wild deer is stronger than that of the deer raised. This dish does not completely remove the mutton smell, but the very rare mutton smell that remains has become the flavor of this dish!" Yang Biao nodded.
"For example, mutton has a strong smell of mutton, but some people like that unique flavor. Or, if it doesn't have that smell, it doesn't look like mutton." Dong Cheng sighed, "It's just that when cooking, the special chefs will choose to remove the smell of mutton and highlight the tenderness and mellowness of mutton or wild animal meat... specifically retain the smell of mutton, which is really..."
"This kind of wild delicacy is really rare!" Wang Yun echoed, "Could it be that the theme of tonight is wildness?"
"From the current perspective, it is indeed very possible!" Cao Cao nodded.
"Although it's very similar, I always feel that there seems to be some rules..." Xun Yu thought seriously, "The first dish is pickling, but strictly speaking, this side dish is also pickling, which is suspected of repetition. If it is not pickling, then the characteristic of the first dish is to eat raw, the second dish is to stew, the third dish is to pickle and bake... What if it changes the order, what's going on?"
"Change the order?" The three dukes looked at Xun Yu in confusion.
"For example, change the side dishes to the front of the soup..." Xun Yu thought for a while, "this is to eat raw, marinate, and stew. In the wilderness era, when people didn't know how to use fire, they basically just eat raw. Then after the fire, they learned to roast food, so they had cooked food. After that, by marinating, the food can be preserved for a long time. Finally, with pottery, stewing began to appear."
"Indeed, if you get the previous soup, there are indeed only very simple ingredients. The cooking technique is very pure, or even primitive!" Wang Yun obviously realized something.
"What do you mean is that the theme of tonight is the evolution of civilization?" Cao Cao seemed to understand.
"If the next dish is a baked product, then that should be it!" Xun Yu replied.
Chapter completed!