Shokugeki: Start with an izakaya, making everyone cry

Eat and drink enough.

Both mother and daughter felt that they still had something to say.

Maybe you eat it quickly, or maybe the flame dumplings are cooked directly over an open flame and the temperature is very hot.

As a result, after Leonora finished eating, beads of sweat appeared on her forehead and slowly dripped down her cheeks, as if she was injecting soul into this flame dumpling dish.

Upon seeing this, Zhang Fan enthusiastically held a clean handkerchief and handed it to her.

"Thank you."

Leonora was stunned for a moment.

Then he took the handkerchief from his hand and wiped his sweat.

Then, she stared at Zhang Fan deeply and said with a smile: "Zhang Fan, this flame dumpling is crispy and delicious on the outside, soft and charming on the inside. It's delicious no matter how you eat it. Alice and I like it very much!" "

After giving some praise and comments, Leonora handed back the handkerchief she had used to wipe off her sweat.

"Well, as long as you like it."

Taking back the handkerchief, Zhang Fan just chuckled.

……

"Alice, do you understand this flame dumpling dish?"

"There are two most important attributes of any dish: one is taste, and the other is texture."

"Most people are only familiar with the taste, but the taste is often ignored."

"Actually, texture and taste are equally important."

"Imagine a fried chicken leg with soft skin, a plate of fish-flavored shredded pork with as lean meat as rough as sawdust, and a piece of stewed pork ribs that cannot be chewed..."

“Dishes of these qualities, no matter how good they taste, are probably hard to make up for.”

"If you can carefully examine it, you will find that Zhang Fan's cooking is all about pursuing various cooking techniques. Although they are complicated, they are all exquisite."

"The emphasis is on using ordinary ingredients but processing them in unexpected ways to create delicacies with a highly unified texture and taste."

"In short, there is a lot worth learning from him!"

After calming down for a moment, Leonora couldn't help but turn her head and look at her daughter, and spoke seriously.

Since coming to Totsuki Academy, she can feel some changes in Alice herself. She is no longer confident and no longer so vain.

You know, as a genius in the field of molecular cuisine in Northern Europe, she attaches great importance to these new technical cuisines and is quite confident in her own strength.

But now these molecular cuisines gradually feel like they are no longer superior in her mind.

It’s time to lose to traditional cuisine.

You will still lose!

……

"The texture and taste are highly consistent?"

“Can any cooking technique bring out the best use of ingredients?”

After hearing this, Alice's eyes couldn't help but flash.

Then, she used the corner of her eyes to secretly glance at Zhang Fan.

For some reason, when she learned that Erina actually worked part-time as a temporary worker in an izakaya, she was shocked at first, but envy and jealousy followed.

After all, being able to stay with Zhang Fan in this way, even if you don't do anything every day, just watch how he cooks, listen to what he says and does every day, will be a very happy thing.

And in this world, it is true that only his cuisine can completely surpass molecular cuisine!

Ok.

For example:

This flame dumpling.

Use a spray fire to instantly dry out all excess moisture, making the dumpling wrappers crisper and more delicious.

I'm afraid she would never think of doing such an outrageous thing in her life.

……

As another daughter of the Nakiri family, Alice has never had the "aura of a heroine".

In the residential training activities, her performance was quite impressive, but after the autumn selection, she was completely reduced to the level of a second-rate chef.

Due to the lack of understanding of the people, he lost the cooking problem to Soma.

Then he lost to the New Ten Elites and was almost expelled from school.

Obviously, judging from her various experiences in Yueyue, she can definitely be regarded as a girl full of tragedy.

From Zhang Fan's perspective, he felt that Alice and Erina had similar problems.

Both of them are so-called empiricists.

He has great potential and strong talent, but because his early development was too smooth, his own development was limited by his own successful experience.

As for Erina, she was brainwashed by Nakiri Thistle, and her mind was filled with questions about the difference between noble cuisine and common people's cuisine, and that cooking should be divided into categories like people.

This rigid concept of cooking naturally turned her into a arrogant and paranoid person.

All day long.

Either he is against this, or he is against that.

Anyway, as long as it doesn't satisfy God's tongue and conflicts with her own values, she will reject it and completely deny it.

This situation gradually became clear to me after meeting Zhang Fan.

Alice Nakiri, on the other hand, is too obsessed with the power of high-tech and thinks that all dishes can be made purely by relying on new technologies.

As a result, her own understanding of many things was stuck in the same place, and she even completely lost the direction of progress and was at a loss.

……

In the late night city, the veil of tenderness towards people has been torn off.

The elite business people in the society began to drink and mingled with each other, while the social beasts just wanted to indulge their desires and release their own pressure after finishing the day's repression.

Often, two or three men can decide who they belong to tonight through eye contact, but mostly there are three choices:

nightclub.

Accompany the bar.

Izakaya.

The three places belong to the same nightlife area and have many similarities.

But for old gourmets, the three types of drinks are clearly distinct. They are similar to the popular second-party and third-party meetings in Neon Country. They are also drinking, but how to drink is completely different.

At this moment, after undergoing the second renovation and upgrade, the business hours of the izakaya have finally changed:

The original operation from 7 o'clock to 12 o'clock in the middle of the night has been extended to 2 o'clock in the morning.

With the departure of regular customers such as Annie, Akane Kubo Momo, Nakiri Leonora and Alice, this izakaya has finally closed its doors.

"Ding dong!"

"Host, successfully signed in once."

"Ding dong!"

"Congratulations to the host for successfully obtaining the special recipe Silky Chicken Rice, the recipe Dengying Beef, and the ingredients Silky Chicken*10"

Dengying beef, this is a delicacy in DZ City, Sichuan.

The word "lantern shadow" is used to refer to this kind of beef, which shows that the meat is so thin that objects can be seen under the light, just like the curtain in a shadow play.

According to legend, this dish was created by Jia Zhongming, a writer in the Ming Dynasty. Jia Zhongming was from Yueyang. He once served as an official in the capital, but because of his homesickness, he often stayed in his hometown of Yueyang.

He discovered the tender texture of local beef and created a special preparation method.

Just cut the beef into thin slices, dry it, hang it on a bamboo pole and bake it under the light, and then use the light to illuminate it.

In this way, the color of the beef slices can produce a special light and shadow effect.

<divclass="contentadv">Of course, the current Dengying beef.

The method is much more complicated and must be sliced ​​from beef hind shank meat.

Then it is made by pickling, drying, baking, steaming, frying, stir-frying and other processes.

The finished beef should be as thin as transparent paper, firm, chewy, spicy, and maroon in color, which can stimulate appetite from the senses.

It has to be said that during the production process, this dish requires extremely high mastery of heat, knife skills, and cooking skills.

Only experienced chefs can create it.

……

Next.

It’s the special recipe, Silky Chicken with Rice.

The so-called silky chicken should be produced in Indonesia, and due to genetic mutation, it causes fibropigmentation hyperplasia.

This modern chicken is completely black, even its bones and internal organs are black, and only its blood is dark red.

Its feathers can change from pure black to emerald green under the illumination of certain lights, so it is also known as: "Lamborghini in the chicken world"

Silky Chicken with Rice, actually the key point lies in the word "bao".

The magic of this special recipe is that it is a dish of rice with white flowers.

Comments on the plot of "The Little Master of China" once described it this way: "This is such a solemn and gorgeous sweetness, as if the waves are sweeping in, but it is also extremely colorful, as if you can hear the sound of the blood rushing in the body!"

To put it bluntly, the method is to stuff all the rice into the inside of the silky chicken.

Then use various spices, medicinal materials, etc. to cook the black-bone chicken, and finally only eat the little bit of rice in the belly of the black-bone chicken.

"Silkies?"

"If I remember correctly, this is an ominous chicken in the original work!"

Zhang Fan, who got two recipes and 10 silky chickens, was naturally in a happy mood.

However, he also did not forget to complain a little about people's fear, panic and rejection of silkies in the original "The Little Master of China".

……

"Amazing."

"Extended operation by 2 hours."

“The number of customers received by the izakaya actually exceeded 500!”

At the same time, Kikuchichi Sonoka, who was busy sorting out various bills at the izakaya for the day, finally said to himself with a look of astonishment on his face.

God!

If it's a five-star hotel.

It is not surprising at all to entertain 500 people every day.

But Zhang Fan's izakaya is, first of all, not large in scale, and secondly, it has only been open for more than two months.

Although even big names like WGO Executive Officer Anne and Special Executive Officer Nakiri Managi fell at his feet and surrendered to him because of Zhang Fan's cooking.

However, according to the rules set by the WGO Food Organization, Zhang Fan's personal information and all the information about this izakaya have not been updated in the book "THE·BOOK", and the restaurant has not been rated as a star!

Therefore, the reputation of his izakaya is not very dazzling in the entire culinary world.

Mu Jiuzhiyuanguo couldn't help but stare at Zhang Fan.

He began to think in his heart that if he was willing to cook some high-end dishes, run a five-star hotel, or even take over the entire resort like Dojima Gin did.

So, I guess his achievements will be even more terrifying, right?

……

In order to reward Erina and Kikuchi.

Zhang Fan, after cleaning up some messy things in the izakaya, made rice-free fried rice himself.

The first thing is the ingredients. I saw that he prepared cauliflower, broccoli, mushrooms, coconut oil... in short, not a grain of rice.

Next, after the ingredients are ready, wash the cauliflower.

Then grab a sharp kitchen knife and quickly chop the cauliflower into fine pieces.

Hey!

Hey!

Hey!

The sound of the kitchen knife colliding with the chopping board is like a beautiful melody.

And looking at Zhang Fan who was quickly chopping cauliflower, Mu Jiuzhiyuan Guo who had just finished his work here was instantly confused.

The progress of a chef has always been based on accumulation, but it seems that this rule cannot be applied to Zhang Fan.

He is a weirdo, you never know when he will suddenly make rapid progress!

After that, dice the carrots, broccoli, and shiitake mushrooms respectively. Pour coconut oil into the pot, stir-fry the broccoli and shiitake mushrooms, then add a little coconut oil, add the chopped cauliflower, and stir-fry. Add a little shiitake mushroom water to enhance the freshness.

Finally, pour the cauliflower into the pot, add black pepper and salt. When the vegetables are cooked, add the onions, add the eggs and stir-fry evenly before serving.

……

"Erina, Kikuchuchi."

"This is my last dish tonight, rice-free fried rice. Come and eat it. It's a reward for being able to work with me until 2 o'clock in the morning."

Soon, three bowls of golden cauliflower fried rice were placed in front of Erina and others.

Although not a single grain of rice is used, it cannot be called fried rice.

But the aroma of this riceless fried rice dish is extremely strong, giving it a strange and novel feeling.

Erina only glanced at it with the corner of her eyes and found it incredible.

"Ok?"

“Cauliflower instead of rice?”

She seemed to understand something and couldn't help but observe more carefully.

The tiny cauliflower particles look like rice, and even if you move your nose slightly, they smell like ordinary rice!

As we all know, among the staple foods we usually eat, the calories of fried rice are 403 kcal, the calories of fried dough sticks are 388 kcal, the calories of whole wheat bread are 246 kcal, and the calories of fried rice are 188 kcal...

In comparison, the calories of fried rice are relatively low.

Of course, compared with the same volume of rice and "cauliflower rice", the calories of rice are 10 times that of "cauliflower rice".

Therefore, white cauliflower is chosen. Although the color and texture are closest to rice, it is also the best for reducing fat and best reflecting health.

……

"No creative food, right?"

"At least it's much duller than the flame dumplings just now."

“But it’s quite suitable to eat this kind of late-night snack with relatively low calories when it’s after 2 o’clock in the morning.”

After saying that, Nakiri Erina quickly picked up the small spoon, gently took a small mouthful of cauliflower fried rice, and tasted it carefully.

Although many of the ingredients used are vegetarian, there are also long beans, carrots, cabbage flowers, etc.

But their nutritional value is also very high, the colors are red, green, and white...the combination is bright and bright, which makes people appetite.

"Hmm~"

"This grainy cauliflower tastes exactly like rice."

“Especially every time I take a bite, the taste buds of the entire tongue are instantly surrounded by an unspoken feeling of happiness!”

"As you savor its taste, your brain will go blank. Even the restless tongue of God will gradually be satisfied and calm down."

"No!"

"wrong!"

“This tantalizing aroma of cauliflower…”