Eternal Food Paradise.

Chapter 266
The atmosphere became anxious.

Hu Jun sensed something was wrong, even Xie Qi, who had had a fierce eye contact with her before, was focused on the ingredients provided by the judge.

Ren and Mrs. Lei Hua even changed their previous posture of watching the show, and took two steps forward, sticking close to the stone table, and closely observing the ingredients in the bag.

no doubt.

The ingredients are the source of the change in the atmosphere!

"why?"

Dazed, Hu Jun's eyes narrowed slightly, fixed on a green branch that Xie Qi was holding in his hand.

At first glance, it looks like a willow branch, but the leaves are far from willow leaves, as wide as the palm of your hand. From the area of ​​the leaves, it seems that the growth environment of the plant can be inferred, which must be a primitive jungle with abundant rain.

and.

Regardless of the branches or leaves, their color and appearance, to be precise, are dark green, with a hint of darkness, rather than the delicate green.

Suddenly, Jie Qi smelled something strange, his complexion changed slightly, he took off a leaf and threw it into his mouth to chew.

After not chewing twice, Jie Qi turned green, gasping for breath as if gagging:
"What a strong stench!"

stench...

Hu Jun continued to be at a loss.

Is this really a description of plants and vegetables?

Even the most unpalatable vegetables are described as bittersweet...No, there are also strange flowers like 'Houttuynia cordata'...

'Houttuynia cordata' passed through my mind.

So Hu Jun's eyes on the branches suddenly became subtle——

Something dark?
"so."

"The trick of cooking is how to use or remove the 'fishy smell'?"

Hu Jun was thoughtful.

"It's not the smell of Houttuynia cordata!" Jie Qi took a deep breath, "It's more like the smell of meat!"

In order to prove that his judgment was not wrong, Jie Qi broke off a section of the tail of the branch in his hand, let the juice seep from the break, and caught it with his palm. As the juice dripped more and more, the strange smell in the air became stronger and stronger. full-bodied.

Hu Jun, Lei En, and Mrs. Lei Hua all changed their expressions.

What is this?
Unheard of!
Can the vegetables still smell like meat?

Xia Yan met everyone's curious eyes and coughed, "It's just ordinary wild vegetables."

Saying this on the lips, but adding something in my heart——

This is unremarkable and ordinary.

It is placed in a different world, in terms of the vast elf forest.

In another environment and world, the so-called "ordinary" is suddenly full of special and mysterious colors.

"All right."

Xia Yan clapped his hands and looked at the slanting sun, "The duel begins, and the deadline is when night falls."

The announcement of the judges undoubtedly brought the atmosphere back on track.

Without saying a word, Hu Jun took one of the bags containing strange wild vegetables, and under Xia Yan's instructions, he chose the kitchen hut where he had just finished cooking.

Xie Qi still uses his room.

Watching the two contestants split up and walk towards the opposite kitchen.

Ren sighed: "I suddenly want to get off the field and become a 'player'."

"Yes!"

Mrs. Lei Hua agreed without any hesitation: "If I knew the benefits of being a contestant in the end, I would have the opportunity to handle and cook these gods and ghosts with my own hands. Maybe at the beginning, I would grab it before solving Qiqi. This wonderful 'misunderstanding'."

Xia Yan heard a black line.

He has realized that the target of Hu Jun's challenge is him, not Master Xie.

Let's not talk about Hu Jun's "misunderstanding".

The majestic Mrs. Lei Hua, if she takes over this "misunderstanding", isn't it just bullying the small with the big?
Perhaps because she noticed the weirdness in Xia Yan's eyes, Mrs. Lei Hua laughed a few times: "But this girl is not stupid, how could she think that I am that famous new celebrity chef... Well, maybe It can be easy to relax..."

A strange look flashed in her eyes, as if she was really considering the feasibility of "changing tendons and changing appearance", if another challenger came to her in the future.

Hello!

Virtue, madam!
Xia Yan made 1 complaints.

……

the other side.

But Xie Qi, the 'steel stick' who stepped into the kitchen again, had already started to deal with the wild vegetables in the bag.

His solution was to pick off all the leaves but not the branches, soak them in water and wash them, put them on the chopping board with a knife, cut them into equal strips, grasp them with one hand, and spread them on the plate.

Leaves and vegetable roots are clearly distinguished.

Xie Qi glanced over.

"The ingredients are limited, how to use the limited ingredients reasonably to cook special dishes?"

One kilogram per person, say more or less, if you want to make a complete vegetable dish, the error tolerance rate is within two or three times.

Let's find a way to get rid of the fishy smell first, at least suppress it!Repression!

Jie Qi took the lead in adopting a daily and common practice——

Soak in hot water.

He threw a leaf and a few rhizomes into the hot water basin, and dripped some white vinegar. After a while, he picked up the leaves and rhizomes, chewed and tasted them, shaking his head while biting, with a gloomy face:

"no!"

"The effect is there, but very weak."

The thought turned.

Xie Qi secretly thought, what if all the juice from the rhizomes that produce meaty smell is "cleaned"?

After trying for a quarter of an hour, he shook his head again.

No no no.

The juice has passed too much, and when you chew and eat, the taste becomes obviously old and the flavor is gone!

Thinking of this, Xie Qi's gaze towards the wild vegetables on the table gradually changed.

He is not the kind of old-fashioned, dead-headed chef. On the contrary, because he has been promoted to the super class, he has traveled all over the country, met many strange people, and watched many culinary styles. Therefore, Xie Qi's philosophy has always been open And flexible.

At this time, a bold idea suddenly appeared in Xie Qi's mind——

Simply.

Treat "wild vegetables" as "meat"!
Treat it like a meat dish!

In this way, Xie Qi found that his vision suddenly opened up.

The way to deal with the smell of meat and meat, those fried garlic, ginger and scallions, and traditional spices such as star anise, cinnamon and grass fruit.

Xie Qi thought that he had found a path of light in the barren jungle. His originally gloomy face suddenly showed a confident smile: "Just do this, I want to win—"

When Xia Yan walked into the room, he found out that Zhiqi was doing extremely weird operations.

He put the leaves and small rhizomes into the pot.

A handful of snow-white salt grains was wiped on his hands.

In terms of movement, it appears gentle and cautious, applying salt grains to the leaves and vegetable roots, as if afraid of hurting the delicate cortex.

"Is this 'pickled'?" Xia Yan stood for a while, and saw some tricks.

On the stove not far away, a pot was boiling water. At this time, the water boiled to a boil, and scallions, ginger slices, and some various spices floated on the surface of the water.

Whoo, whoo, whoo!
After completing the "marinating", Jie Qi set up a frying pan on the stove, and the pan heated up quickly.

Immediately afterwards, Zhijian Qi tipped over the copper basin, threw the leaves and vegetable roots into the hot water pot, and within a few seconds, quickly salvaged them with a large colander, and hung the colander in the middle of the waste water tank. The shaking shakes out the moisture brought out by the vegetable leaves visible to the naked eye.

Put the oil into the frying pan, but instead of frying vegetables, fry a huge amount of minced garlic.

Both are cooked separately.

When it was plated, the frying spoon shook off a slice of minced garlic, which landed on top of the steaming green vegetables.

"Finish!"

Xie Qi's excitement was beyond words.

Unexpectedly, a voice of pouring cold water came from the kitchen cabin behind:

"I've been waiting for you for a while."

Jie Qi turned around in astonishment, and found Hu Jun standing outside the door, holding a plate in both hands, staring at him coldly.

(End of this chapter)