Food Familiar

Chapter 55 Vegetarian Braised Pork
"It does look like meat skin."

Facing Danbao's curious question, Qin Lang announced the answer slowly.

"This dish is called vegetarian braised pork. As the name suggests, it uses vegetarian ingredients to make a vegetarian dish that looks like braised pork."

"Winter melon with fleshy skin is just the beginning."

Vegetarian ingredients for braised pork? !

Danbao's eyes widened again.

Although the wax gourd slices do look like meat skin, what about the meat?
It couldn't help but look at the winter melon slices and tofu slices that had been prepared.

Wouldn't it be these?
"Google?"

"You guessed it right." Qin Lang said with a smile, and then stacked four slices of tofu and winter melon to form a square shape, and covered it with freshly fried winter melon slices as the skin.

Trim the edge, and tie the ingredients with string along the cross knife that was cut before.

A piece of fat and thin "pork belly" is ready.

In the same way, after making fake pork belly like 16 yuan, Qin Lang put them aside, let Dan Bao curiously come up to observe, and started the follow-up steps in his hands.

Thin oil over low heat, add sugar and stir-fry to make it melt.

Naturally, there will be no meat flavor in vegetarian dishes, so if you want to make it have a taste similar to meat, you must cook it in the same way as meat dishes.

Braised in brown sauce is a cooking method that is highly adaptable to raw materials and can be used on a variety of ingredients.

Even if there are no meat ingredients, the dishes made with this method can still have a salty and fresh taste, which is very similar to meat dishes, which is the so-called meat flavor.

On this basis, using ingredients that are relatively light in taste and easily covered by the braised sauce to create a taste close to that of pork belly can imitate the real braised pork.

When the white sugar in the pot is completely melted, fine bubbles appear and gradually turn into dark reddish-brown old sugar color, quickly pour in a small bowl of hot water to prevent the sugar from continuing to coke, stir well and put it out for later use.

Pour in the oil again. After the oil is hot, add onion, ginger, star anise, cinnamon and other spices, stir-fry until the aroma is released, then pour the sugar back into the pot, add light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, cooking wine, oyster sauce and salt.

Put the fake pork belly into the pot, add water to submerge the ingredients, cover the lid, and simmer on low heat.

All the steps are exactly the same as braised pork.

Four or ten minutes later, one person and one spirit returned to the stove.

"Are you ready to witness pork belly made from vegetarian ingredients?"

Hearing Qin Lang's question, Dan Bao hastily nodded his head.

"Gudu!"

Want to see want to see!

"Dangdangdangdang~"

Qin Lang opened the lid of the pot, and with a surge of heat, everything in the pot gradually became clear.

The fake pork belly that had completely turned brown appeared in front of one person and one spirit.

Tofu is lighter in color, showing almost the same light brown color as the fat part of braised pork.

Winter melon is darker in color, and the dark brown color it shows can also be mistaken for the lean part of braised pork.

With the string fixed, the fake pork belly did not fall apart even after such a long stew, but kept its regular shape.

With the "meat skin" fried in advance, the tempting pork belly trembles slightly in the pot.

"Gudu~"

Dan Bao swallowed deeply, smelling the rich fragrance in the air, he was already impatient.

"Don't worry, wait until I get some juice." Qin Lang comforted him, and then turned up the heat.

The water in the soup in the pot evaporated rapidly, but the delicious taste in the soup became more and more intense.

It wasn't until the soup became thick that Qin Lang skillfully put it on a plate.

Put the fake pork belly on the plate, cut off the string and pour over the thick soup to add a layer of luster to the surface.

This is how a vegetarian braised pork dish is completed.

"Come to have a taste?"

Qin Lang picked up one piece with a smile and put it into the mouth of Dan Bao who was already eager to try, then picked up another piece and put it into his own mouth.

After chewing for a while, he nodded slightly.

Compared with real braised pork, vegetarian braised pork still has a lighter meat flavor, but the seasoning is almost the same, making the difference between the two not obvious.

Whether it is tofu or wax gourd, it is full of soup at this moment. After a long time of stewing, the soft and glutinous taste can bring an experience not inferior to that of braised pork. It is crispy and the taste is even more wonderful.

After the taste of the initial braised sauce gradually fades away, the very light bean aroma of tofu and the aroma of winter melon can be felt in the aftertaste between the lips and teeth.

"Googling!"

After tasting a piece of vegetarian braised pork, Danbao's face was full of doubts about Dansheng.

Can't taste the taste of vegetarian dishes at all!

If it hadn't been for watching Qin Lang cook it with his own eyes, it would have thought it was meat.

No, I want to eat another [-] million yuan to verify it!
Seeing Meimei enjoying the vegetarian braised pork egg, Qin Lang smiled.

In one more day, he can still debug and optimize this dish.

For example, to make the texture of pork belly more realistic, such as to make the meat flavor of vegetarian braised pork more intense.

He was very curious about what kind of evaluation the [-] judges would give to this dish in the scoring competition the day after tomorrow.

...

This night, not only Qin Lang was preparing for the municipal cooking competition the day after tomorrow, but also 25 contestants who were also on the list.

In the practice kitchen at home, Tang Xie's eyes were bright, even the darkness of the night could not conceal half of it.

He has already lost to Qin Lang twice, there will be no third time!
As for the other contestants...

Tang Xie frowned slightly, with a bit of pride.

Except for a few who are unfamiliar, the others are almost all defeated by his men!

Keep training hard!

Tang Xie cheered himself up in his heart, and then, together with the two food spirits flying beside him, devoted himself to the adjustment and preparation of the dishes again.

Beside him, leftovers of food materials have been piled up into a hill.

And the out-of-town imperial chef, who Tang Xie didn't know the details of, was busy in the back kitchen of a restaurant in Dongxia City at the moment.

"Tuk Tuk Tuk."

The owner of the restaurant walked to the door of the back kitchen and knocked on the door beside him.

"Rick, it's closed."

Hearing the sound, Reick in the kitchen raised his head, revealing those piercing brown eyes.

He glanced at the restaurant owner and said calmly, "According to the previous agreement, I only need to make ten serving dishes for the day, and this kitchen can be used by me."

"That's right, but do you want to continue?" The restaurant owner couldn't help but ask, "Have you been in the kitchen all night?"

"Not enough." Lake shook his head, as if there was a fighting spirit burning in his eyes.

He is the champion of the Danju City cooking competition, and the purpose of coming here is not for fun, but for the champion's second-level food recommender badge.

In the scoring competition, how is it enough to just advance to the top eight?
He wants to take the first place in the scoring competition!

He wants to win the second-level food recommender badge with no suspense!
"Okay." Seeing Lake like this, the restaurant owner shook his head helplessly, "I leave the key to you, don't forget to close the door when you leave."
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Contents of Easter egg chapter at the end of this chapter:

【Vegetarian Braised Pork】

【Broiled Pork】

(End of this chapter)