Gourmet Beast Tamer

Chapter 185 Soup dumplings

The next moment the competition started, Qin Lang and Ji He's movements were quite consistent.

They picked up the flour they had prepared.

In a competition based on pasta, mixing noodles is naturally the top priority.

Although there are processed noodles on the market, this is obviously not the choice of the two Yuling chefs who have won municipal cooking championships.

Even when it comes to flour, the two choose differently.

Qin Lang chose high-gluten flour with higher protein content. The protein in the flour combines with water during the dough mixing process to form gluten, which directly affects the gluten properties of the dough.

Ji He's choice is all-purpose flour with moderate protein content.

While taking out their own flour, the two of them were also observing their opponent's dough-making process with their peripheral vision.

The surrounding audience and even the five judges on the judging bench also stared carefully at the movements of the two spirit chefs in the field with wide eyes.

There are very few open competitions like this where you can see the entire cooking process.

Qin Lang's dough kneading is relatively simple. Mix high-gluten flour and water in a ratio of two to one and knead the dough vigorously. After the dough takes on a "three-glow" state, wrap it in plastic wrap and set it aside.

Ji He, on the other hand, in addition to adding the necessary water during the noodle mixing process, also added a lot of seasonings and other invisible things.

"interesting."

Looking away from the basin in Ji He's hand, Qin Lang murmured softly.

Then, he started the next cooking steps.

For the noodle dish Qin Lang is going to make today, kneading the noodles is very important, but there are still many steps that are equally important as kneading the noodles. If it weren’t for the help of spicy cooking speed, he would not even consider cooking it on such an occasion. it.

Thinking of this, Qin Lang opened the foam box that was kept cold and took out the ingredients to be used next.

Five…ten…fifteen…twenty…

Amid the exclamations from the surrounding audience, Qin Lang took out twenty huge female crabs from the foam box.

Ji He, who regarded Qin Lang as a powerful enemy and treated him with all his strength, slowed down his movements the moment Qin Lang opened the foam box and focused more on the ingredients Qin Lang took out.

As soon as the competition started, he noticed the tightly covered foam box next to Qin Lang.

At this moment, when he saw the size of the twenty hairy crabs, his pupils suddenly shrank.

The pasta prepared by the other party actually used hairy crabs?

And it’s not just any hairy crab.

Seeing that head, Ji He knew very well that the local food market would never be able to easily provide hairy crabs of such quality.

These hairy crabs are exchanged for cooking competition points!

After winning the cooking competition championship, Ji He also received 100 cooking competition points with a solemn look on his face.

Qin Lang exchanged tournament points for food in such a competition, which was obviously beyond his expectation.

Fortunately...he was not completely unprepared.

Glancing at a small box next to him, Ji He retracted his gaze and continued to concentrate on his dough-making process.

In his eyes, a faint blue light flashed slightly.

Food skills and insights into ingredients.

This cooking skill, which Lake has also demonstrated before, has the ability to clearly detect deeper changes in ingredients during the cooking process. It is even more powerful for a seemingly simple process like making noodles that involves changes in the internal structure of flour.

This is why he dares to add more seasonings and accessories during the noodle mixing process without fear of overturning.

Ji He was not the only one who was surprised to see the hairy crabs.

The five senior judges sitting at the judging table all had lights shining in their eyes.

Being able to be promoted from a low-level reviewer goes without saying that they have great eyesight.

With just one glance, they saw the details of the twenty hairy crabs.

"The hairy crabs produced in Mengze Prefecture must be redeemed with cooking competition points, right?"

"Qin Lang doesn't seem to be an ordinary person if he's willing to use his tournament points to exchange for ingredients to compete in a competition?"

"I seem to have heard of him. If I remember correctly, he is the cooking competition champion in Dongxia City, and his cooking skills are also very good."

"I see. I didn't expect that this seemingly informal competition could actually pit two city-level cooking champions against each other."

"That's interesting."

They exchanged a few words in a low voice that only each other could hear, and quickly focused more on Qin Lang.

Before that, they paid more attention to the more famous Ji He.

He didn't pay any attention to the exclamations around him. After putting the hairy crabs into the steamer, Qin Lang quickly started to deal with the old hens.

This pasta dish also requires chicken broth!

Qin Lang quickly cut the old hen into pieces, blanched them, and added them to the stew pot. Qin Lang then took out a large piece of pig skin that weighed several kilograms.

Standing opposite him, Ji He, who had just completed the kneading process, frowned slightly.

Hairy crab, chicken, pork rinds.

In just a moment, Qin Lang had already produced three different ingredients.

In his opinion, these three ingredients are not closely related to each other.

What kind of pasta is this guy going to make?

While thoughts were swirling in his mind, Ji He opened the box next to him and carefully took out the ingredients inside.

Qin Lang, who noticed this scene from the corner of his eye, paused slightly and glanced at the ingredients in Ji He's hand with a bit of surprise.

Is that...a pufferfish? !

Jihe’s pasta actually uses pufferfish?

His expression suddenly became serious.

If you read it correctly, this should be the golden puffer fish from Wuhe Prefecture. After artificial breeding, there is basically no tetrodotoxin present, but it does not reduce the deliciousness of its meat at all.

These are also ingredients that need to be redeemed with cooking competition points.

Just by seeing these ingredients, Qin Lang could imagine that the final pasta would be outstanding in terms of umami taste.

What a strong opponent.

Of course, the pasta prepared by yourself is not bad either.

He picked up the blanched pig skin with a confident look in his eyes.

There is often only one possibility for using pig skin in pasta.

That’s soup dumplings!

The colloid in the pig skin is used to solidify the delicious soup, mix it with the fillings, and then add it to the buns. As the buns are heated, the solidified colloid turns into soup again inside the buns, turning it into a delicious soup wrapped in dough. Soup dumplings with juice.

As for hairy crab soup dumplings, there is also only one possibility.

That’s crab roe soup dumplings!

This is the dish Qin Lang prepared for this competition!

Qin Lang lowered his head again, cooled the blanched pig skin and scraped off the surface oil.

And as Ji He took out the blowfish, exclamations came from all around again.

Qin Lang, who was busy with his head down, didn't notice that among the exclamations, many people showed "Sure enough" expressions.

Seeing the puffer fish, they already guessed the dish Ji He was going to bring out.

What he wants to bring out is the pasta dish that won him the Qingyang City cooking competition championship——

Qingjiang River Porpoise Noodles!

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