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Chapter 79 Red Dates, Longan and Black Chicken Soup

"However, if you chop a cow's bone, at best, you can only say that your knife skills are good!"

Dongmenli walked to the ingredients area, grabbed a handful of star anise, and looked at Xia Jin.

"Although these spices can increase the flavor, they also cover up the freshness of the ingredients. Chef Xia is here for the spices, but in my opinion, too many spices will only pollute the taste of the ingredients!"

"If you want to get these spices, I can actually give them to you directly, but what I hate the most in my life are those cooks who have no cooking skills and rely on spices for opportunism! If you want to take them away, you have to see if you have the ability !"

He walked to the live poultry area, pointed to the black-bone chicken with white feathers and black face in the cage, and said:

"Today we will use nourishing soup as the content of the competition. We can only take one black-bone chicken and mix it with other ingredients without using any spices. We will cook the most delicious nourishing soup in the most primitive way. If you beat me, I will give it to you." I will give you a third of the spices in my hand!"

"That's what you said! Chef Dongmen, don't regret it!"

Xia Jin walked to the side of the chicken coop and chose a three-year-old black-bone chicken that had laid eggs, slaughtering and plucking the feathers without delay.

After dealing with it, I looked at Dongmenli, and saw that he didn't slaughter it himself, but had someone kill it and send it to his cutting board. Is this a cleanliness?
Xia Jin looked away, black chicken soup, nourishing... As a woman, the first thing that comes to mind is red dates!

After all, women and red dates are a perfect match. Every month after my aunt leaves, I have to nourish myself, and stewed black chicken with red dates and longan is definitely a good choice!

Xia Jin went to the dry goods area, and chose red dates, longan, ginger, and some wolfberries, but did not choose any other ingredients.

In fact, what Xia Jin is best at is stewing soup. Sanmai real fire can stimulate the delicious taste of ingredients, which is the same as opening a cheat.

For Xia Jin, stewing soup is definitely the easiest dish!
Dongmenli chose Tang Lai as the subject of the competition, just looking for abuse.

Put the processed black-bone chicken into a casserole, add red dates, longan and ginger slices, add water submerged in the chicken, and start to simmer.

With a flick of the finger, a mass of Samadhi real fire is mixed into the stove, wrapping the casserole to form a heating layer similar to a vacuum bag.

Next, just wait until the time is up.

Xia Jin looked towards the east gate of the stove next door.

The outside world has passed on the Dongmen family as miraculous, and it is said that it is the family with the best cooking skills. As someone who came from a family in the pyramid of the chef world, Xia Jin is looking forward to his performance!

I saw that he rolled up his sleeves, and with his slender fingers, he was massaging the whole body of the treated chicken.

He should have smeared rice wine and a little salt on his hands. This kind of massage is to make the chicken more tender, and the salt and rice wine can also remove the fishy smell.

and many more!

That is……

While he was massaging, the fat under the chicken skin was pulled out!
He only put the black-bone chicken into the casserole after there was no fat left under the chicken's skin, adding sea cucumbers and yams...

This Dongmenli has some skills!

It can be seen from his attitude towards every ingredient that he takes every dish seriously.

Stewing soup is no different from other cooking methods. What is important is the chef's control over the combination of ingredients and the heat.

It takes time to stew the soup, so the waiting time is very long, Xia Jin looked at the fire while looking at the imperial kitchen.

Dongmenli's exclusive royal kitchen is divided into three areas, the cooking area, the vegetable selection area, and the area for selecting ingredients.

The one who enters the entrance is the cooking area, and the one who enters directly through the gate is Dongmenli, which is a special kitchen exclusively for Dongmenli. On the side, there is the imperial kitchen in charge of the harem, and a kitchen in charge of cooking "big pot rice" for other people in the palace. , now past the busy hour.

Everyone looked this way one after another, originally there were only four or five people, but as the fragrance became stronger and stronger, all the people in the imperial kitchen surrounded them.

As the sky gradually darkened, Dongmenli closed his eyes and opened them.

"All right!"

He stood up and lifted the lid of the pot.

The heat wave spreads with a burst of fragrance!

"It smells so good! Back then, the head chef of Dongmen conquered the emperor's picky mouth with a pot of soup and became the royal chef!"

"This pot of soup, just smelling the taste, makes my mouth water!"

"Yeah, I've already eaten!"

There was a sound of swallowing saliva one after another, and the tempting fresh fragrance aroused the greedy worms in their stomachs.

Dongmenli took out the soup and put it in three bowls.

As a witness and the only judge, Mr. Liao couldn't wait to taste it!

Picking up the bowl and spoon, he took a sip of the soup, and another bite of the chicken and sea cucumber.

"The chicken is tender and smooth, the sea cucumber melts in the mouth, and the delicious smell fills the nostrils, giving people the illusion of riding a black-bone chicken to swim under the sea!"

"In short, just one word, fresh!"

Xia Jin saw that Mr. Liao was so intoxicated by eating, so he picked up a bowl. The color of this bowl of soup was light amber, and it smelled of strong chicken soup. After taking a sip of the soup, Xia Jin's eyes lit up!
This pot of soup actually cooks out the essence of the ingredients!

You know, the control of the heat is extremely strict. Once there is a little mistake, there is no way to get this feeling similar to the real fire extraction of Samadhi!
But he did it!
Seeing Xia Jin's shocked face, Dongmenli seemed very satisfied, "Chef Xia, what do you think?"

Xia Jin put down the bowl, "Do you want to hear the truth?"

"Of course!"

"The taste is really delicious, but don't you think the taste of the sea cucumber overwhelms the sweetness of the chicken? If you can reduce the number of sea cucumbers and the timing of putting them into the pot, the taste will be even better!"

Xia Jin analyzed it very seriously.

Dongmenli frowned, he picked it up and took a sip, thoughtfully.

"He actually said he was looking for the chef of Dongmen? This person is too arrogant!" The royal chefs who watched the excitement all complained.

"Even the emperor is full of praise for Dongmen Chef's soup! It's enough for him to belittle others in order to win!"

"That's right, but no matter what he says, Chef Dongmen will definitely win! After all, Chef Dongmen's signature is soup!"

"That's it!"

There was a lot of discussion around, and they made no secret of Dongmenli's exaggeration.

Xia Jin walked to her casserole and said:
"The soup I made is called 'Black-bone Chicken Soup with Red Dates and Longan'!"

After finishing speaking, Xia Jin lifted the lid of the casserole. In an instant, the heat rushed upwards and then spread rapidly.

All of a sudden, a sweet fragrance permeated the entire imperial kitchen!
Everyone swallowed in unison.

"It's red dates!"

"It also tastes like longan!"

"There's also black-bone chicken! The kind that's stewed just right!"

“Smells like ginger!”

"Goji berries!"

Everyone guessed the ingredients in Xia Jin's soup by talking to each other.

"It restores the taste of the ingredients themselves, retains them to the greatest extent, and exudes their own unique fragrance. Please taste it, both of you!"

Xia Jin brought out three bowls of soup, and Lao Lao picked up one bowl. The soup was reddish in color and fragrant, with a few goji berries floating on it, and red dates and longan floating in the soup.

After taking a sip, he felt a rush of heat follow the soup into his stomach, and quickly spread throughout his body. The exhaustion of his limbs and bones dissipated, and even his spirit was lifted!
Lao Lao squinted his eyes in comfort, as if he was soaking in a hot spring.

Seeing Lao Lao being so abnormal, Dongmenli picked up another bowl of soup, picked up a spoonful of soup, and put it in his mouth...

(End of this chapter)