Gourmets in the Heavens

In other words, the tastes of the whole world have a high tolerance for smoked and salted dishes.

This is also because the traditional means of preserving ingredients has a fairly consistent development trend in various countries.

It is nothing more than air-dried, salted, smoked and so on.

However, the memory of Nakiri Senzaemon's last taste of this kind of cuisine is quite deep. He is a very traditional Hunan cuisine chef. Simple veggies can pack a punch of flavor.

However, the smoky taste of this cured meat hot pot is too strong, coupled with the combination of several spicy flavors that Hunan Province is used to, it is simply a bomb for Nakiri Senzaemon's taste.

Not to mention the memory of this dish, he doesn't even have much memory of how the clothes on his body exploded later.

If it weren't for the super strong digestion of gourmet cells, I'm afraid that after he tasted the cured meat hot pot, he would spend the next few days in the toilet, and even have unspeakable pain, which needs to be relieved with chrysanthemum tea.

So Nakiri Senzaemon has always had lingering fears about this kind of cured meat hot pot.

If it wasn't for the dish prepared by Zhao Youqian, he hasn't smelled the pepper for the time being, I'm afraid he's already thinking about finding some excuse to get away.

In fact, Nakiri Senzaemon doesn’t have to worry so much. In fact, there are many ways to make cured meat hot pot. The chef he met happened to be proficient in the Hunan local cuisine genre in Hunan Province. Xiangxi is the humid environment of Hunan Province. The most humid and coldest place in the country.

That's why the cuisine is about hot and violent, so as to dispel dampness. Even the famous dishes have names such as bandit pork liver, so you can know the wild attitude of the people there towards the cuisine.

This time, Zhao Youqian came back from the world of Naruto and got a lot of inspiration. The ingredients he used were also unique. At least in Hunan Province, few people would use this method, and it was even more unheard of to do this in the cured meat hot pot.

He scooped up a spoonful of soup, seeing that the bottom of the soup was light yellow amber, and there was not as much fat floating on the top as expected, Nakiri Senzaemon was quite surprised.

"It seems that the addition of white radish and winter melon is indeed effective!"

It is normal to add these two ingredients in the cured meat hot pot, especially the white radish can remove the heat and reduce the greasy feeling. The effect is also above the white radish.

Looking at the ingredients in the cured meat hot pot, although Nakiri Senzaemon was a little surprised by the clear soup of this hot pot, it was still reasonable.

But when he drank the soup in a gulp, all the underwear and coat on his body fell off, and the vision of the clothes bursting was not enough to cover up the shock in his heart.

He seems to have entered a bunker with iron walls and iron walls, but the gentle and elegant style picture scroll in the bunker is completely different from the solemn appearance of the bunker at the beginning.

At the beginning, there is a strong smoky taste and the unique saltiness released by the cured bacon. While hitting the root of the tongue, there is also a faint astringent taste of smoked wood.

But soon a strong fresh and sweet taste came up, and the astringent taste was rounded off, and it became an aftertaste that people would not feel bored.

"That kind of sweetness...can't be caused by white radish and winter melon!"

It's no surprise that Yu Nakiri Senzaemon tasted the biggest change and highlight of this cured meat hot pot in one bite, and a smile appeared on the corner of Zhao Yougan's mouth.

He also took a sip of the soup that he carefully cooked, and felt that the flavors that should exist were released one by one, making his eyes brighter.

"That's how it feels!"

"Tenderness and wildness go hand in hand, all melted into this soup."

In order to aim at this kind of sweetness, Zhao Youqian chose a special cured meat. Instead of using conventional cured meat, it used parts like cured pig's trotters, and instead of the pig's knuckles at the back, it used the front hooves and hoof tips.

In this way, there is less fat and more bones, but the taste is also richer and more mellow because of the more collagen skin, and the soup will be more mellow after boiling.

Zhao Youqian looked at Nakiri Senzaemon and told him an ingredient that surprised him. In his philosophy, this kind of thing would never be put together with bacon.

"It's red dates, I used dried red dates!"

Chapter 88 A New Taste World

"Red dates? This kind of medicinal material and tonic can be combined with cured meat?!"

Nakiri Senzaemon quickly changed his clothes with the help of his servants, and he looked incredible when he heard Zhao Yougan's words.

You must know that in order to prevent embarrassment, he brought a lot of servants with him. When he heard Zhao Youqian's words at this time, he couldn't hold back the reserved identity of the Patriarch of the Nakiri family, and he showed a look of surprise. You can know how good Zhao Youqian's answer is. It was beyond his expectation.

Speaking of things like red dates, it seems that almost no one will associate them with the preserved meat in Hunan Province.

Maybe some people put some goji berries, this is occasionally seen, for example, when stewing pork ribs and pork trotters, stew them in clear soup, put white radish and other ingredients, and end with goji berries, I hope you can bring some goji berries taste and lusciousness.

As for other ingredients of this type, no one has ever tried to combine them with preserved meat.

After all, in my impression, the cured meat, especially the preserved meat from Hunan Province, must be combined with chili. Even if it is the original flavor, it has a strong taste, and no one will add these nourishing things.

"Ah, I got the inspiration by accident. In fact, it's not that the smoky flavor of cured meat cannot be combined with nourishing medicinal materials."

"In the past, there was an example of goji berries, and there were also dishes in Europe that used smoked sausage and medicinal materials such as saffron."

In fact, it is not a completely new taste world, but such a technique is indeed very rare for Hunan or Yaozhou cuisine.

Especially the cured meat in Hunan Province has a strong smoky taste. If the cured meat is smoked and grilled with firewood after stewing, it will inevitably have a smell of wood smoke left in the mouth, with a slightly astringent taste.

In fact, this kind of taste can be alleviated by pairing with white radish and other ingredients, but even so, there is still a little bit of astringency at the end of the tongue. The best way is to pair it with chili. taste.

But Zhao Youqian took a different approach this time, directly using the mellow sweetness of red dates to neutralize the astringency. This is very rare, and it also opened up an idea for Nakiri Senzaemon.

Since red dates can blend in such a smoky taste, can longan, which is also a dried product, be able to do so?

Thinking about it this way, it seems that many dishes can be discussed again, and there is even room for improvement.

"Yeah!"

"The cooking this time really opened my eyes!"

Nakiri Senzaemon has already experienced the explosion of his clothes, so he will not be easily shocked again. He continued to drink the soup in the bowl, and couldn't help but praise again and again.

"Yugan, your idea is really extraordinary. The sweetness of red dates combined with the sweetness of white radish and winter melon vegetables perfectly rounded the astringent taste of smoke into a special aroma, which no longer burdens the taste buds. burden."

"It's an idea to open up the wilderness of taste beyond imagination!"