Chapter 403 Even More Delicious

"The Third Immortal Jiang is actually the Third Immortal Jiang!"

"I didn't expect that I would be able to see the Three Immortals in my lifetime!"

"We are so lucky. You can only see the three immortals being made, but as one of the judges, I get to taste the three immortals!"

"Fellow Daoist Luo Jin, do all the elders in your sect know that you are so annoying? Is this really okay?"

When they learned that the dish Gu Zheng and Song Xiu were competing against was Jiang Sanxian, everyone watching was a little excited.

The dish Jiang Sanxian is very famous in the cultivation world, but Gu Zheng has never made it. He also had the idea of ​​making Jiang Sanxian once, but he was unable to achieve his wish because of the lack of ingredients. .

In the secular world, Jiang Sanxian, to put it more tackily, is a sauced pork dish consisting of sauced pork, sauced knuckles, and sauced pig's trotters. But in the world of cultivation, in addition to its more elegant name, the ingredients used are also extremely extraordinary.

The ingredients used by Jiang Sanxian are all from a high-level spiritual beast called 'Xianyun Pig'. The attack method of this spiritual beast is to emit a smoke that seriously blocks people's vision. If you want to get rid of it, , is not an easy thing.

Naturally, there is no 'Xianyun Pig' in the real world, but there are both in Shu Ruins and Kunlun Ruins. After Guzheng entered Shu Ruins, he not only fantasized about meeting the 'Xianyun Pig', but also wondered about the whereabouts of the 'Xianyun Pig' , I asked about the guide long-mouthed dog in the Shu Ruins, but in the end I still didn’t encounter it.

"If I had known that the dish he was going to make was Jiang Sanxian, I would have asked him to add some 'Xianyun Pork' to the bet." Gu Zheng thought to himself.

"Are you sure?" Qi Ling asked.

"Although I have never cooked Jiang Sanxian, I am a descendant of Tie Xian. With my understanding of the ingredients, it is not a problem at all to win this dish." Gu Zheng said confidently.

After announcing the dishes to be tested, the Kunlun Sect's people also started preparations. It didn't take long before the stove and other things were already set up in the open space next to Longzhan Square.

"Master Gu, check the kitchen utensils and ingredients. If there are no problems, we can start." Song Xiu said.

"No problem."

No need for Song Xiu to say, the weapon spirit had already checked it for Gu Zheng, so Gu Zheng answered simply.

"Okay, since there is no problem, we can start now. Although the cooking time is not mentioned in advance, if one person's cooking is too late than another person's cooking, the person who is later will still lose. Drop! Does the ancient leader have anything to say about this?" Song Xiu asked.

"There's nothing to say about this. It's just that when you use the same ingredients to make the same food, the choice of accessories can only be those on the chopping board, right?" Gu Zheng asked.

"That's right." Song Xiu nodded.

"I see that there are a lot of auxiliary materials on the chopping board. Are there any requirements for the use of these auxiliary materials? Are there some differences in production methods?" Gu Zheng asked again.

"The auxiliary ingredients are originally used as auxiliary materials. If you think they are useless, you don't need to use them. As for the production methods, as long as the ingredients used are the same as those on the chopping board and the dishes are cooked, it will be fine." Song Xiu Bu He said patiently.

"Okay, let's get started!"

Gu Zheng smiled, and the two of them stood behind a chopping board.

The ingredients used to make the Sauce Sanxian are all the same, including a few pieces of Xianyun pork with skin, two Xianyun pig knuckles, and four Xianyun pig trotters. As for the auxiliary ingredients, all kinds of spices are also available.

The ingredient grade of Xianyun Pork is medium, but the ingredient grade of various spices and accessories is a bit uneven. Although it is said that there are no poisons and garbage, there are also low-level ones. This is why Gu Zheng just asked Song Xiu if there are any requirements for the use of spicy and auxiliary ingredients! Since Song Xiu said there were no requirements, Gu Zheng would discard all the ingredients that were lower than the second grade and were not necessary for making the Three Immortals Sauce.

Under normal circumstances, when paired with Xianyun pork, a rare mid-level ingredient, the minimum standard for auxiliary ingredients, Gu Zheng would require it to be ordinary level. But things are different now. Now we are competing with others. For example, the cooking sauce three immortals, the indispensable sweet noodle sauce and rock sugar, their ingredients are only second-rate! Under normal circumstances, Guzheng will never allow them to lower the taste of Xianyun pork, but today's competition is 'Jiang Sanxian'. If the sweet noodle sauce and rock sugar are missing, the result will not be Jiang Sanxian, but can only be regarded as stew. Meat.

The traditional way of making the Sauce Sanxian is to grill all the three main ingredients with skin on the fire, then soak them in cold water for a period of time, then blanch them again, brush the Xianyun pig trotters with the sauce and steam them in a cage The Xianyun pork is fried once, while the Xianyun pork knuckle is stewed directly. When the Xianyun pig knuckles are cooked to the right level, put the steamed Xianyun pig trotters and fried Xianyun pork together and simmer them together before taking them out of the pot.

The main ingredients provided by Song Xiu have only been roughly processed, so they need to be carefully processed before cooking.

I saw that Song Xiu and Gu Zheng both put the meat on the lit charcoal fire to remove the hair. The sound of "sizzling" was heard all the time.

After completely burning off the fine hair remaining on the main ingredient, Gu Zheng and Song Xiu put the main ingredient into cold water.

There was not much time to soak, so the two people who put the main ingredients into the cold water used their own methods. The originally clear cold water in the basin instantly turned blood red.

After initially removing the blood, Gu Zheng and Song Xiu put the main ingredients into a pot and blanched them in water to further remove the blood. After doing all this, the next thing to do is to separate the ingredients.

Song Xiu's method of handling ingredients separately seems very traditional, but Gu Zheng's side is a little different. He first puts the Xianyun pork knuckle into a pot with mixed water and boils it, and then deep-fries it. The Xianyun pork was grilled on the fire.

Xianyun pork uses pork belly. Whether it is fried in the traditional way or grilled in the ancient and modern way, the basic purpose is to remove the oil from Xianyun pork.

However, when Gu Zheng was baking, he used the water control technique to condense all the excess fat together, and when the time was right, he caught all the dripping Xianyun lard in a small bowl.

"It smells so good!"

"It's Xianyun pork. Just a simple roasting can give off such an appetizing aroma that it makes me hungry."

"I'm curious, what does Master Gu want that oil for?"

In the traditional sauce three immortals, the pork belly has to be fried. Gu Zheng doesn't know whether it was because Song Xiu was in a hurry and did not prepare well, or for some other reason, the oil he provided was not the high-quality lard from Xianyun Pig. , but a kind of rapeseed oil whose ingredient quality is only inferior, which is why Gu Zheng changed from frying to roasting. As for the oil from Xianyun Pig, Gu Zheng wanted to make the pig's trotters in the Sauce Sanxian more layered. He wanted to fry the pig's trotters in oil before steaming them.

The Xianyun pork was already roasted. Gu Zheng put some of the lard into the pot. After the oil was hot, he colored the pig's trotters and put them into the pot for frying.

The aroma wafted from the pot. Gu Zheng took out the pig's trotters that were fried until golden brown on both sides and bubbling on the skin. He then brushed a layer of sauce on the pig's trotters and steamed them in a basket.

Gu Zheng had already preliminarily separated the three main ingredients. He glanced at Song Xiu who was aside and saw that Song Xiu had just completed the separation process.

"I have to say that he has improved this time compared to during the food competition. His processing speed of ingredients alone is much faster than that time." Gu Zheng thought to himself.

"Just from these details, I don't see that he has any confidence in winning. After all, he has used all the auxiliary materials that should and should not be used! From this point alone, what he has done Jiang Sanxian, the taste will be worse than what you made." Qi Ling said.

"I'm also a little curious. I have chosen two of the three judges. They have also sworn the inner demon oath, so there should be no problems. So what does Song Xiu dare to rely on to continue betting with me? What?" Gu Zheng murmured in his heart.

"Master Gu, don't just look at me, be careful of the food you cook getting burnt." Song Xiu snorted at Gu Zheng.

"Don't worry, it won't burn out."

Gu Zheng smiled and continued to use the fire control technique to stimulate the fire, and the fire became more intense.

Song Xiu said nothing more, and also controlled the fire with his inner strength. Even from the outside, his fire was stronger than Gu Zheng's.

Gu Zheng and Song Xiu are not ordinary chefs. The time it takes them to cook a dish is much faster than ordinary people. It doesn't take long for them to process the ingredients separately. When it's time to stew them together. Time to cook.

The most important flavor of the dish "Jiang Sanxian" is the 'sauce', and the time used for this sauce is when the three ingredients are put together.

Add the sweet noodle sauce to the oil to make the fried sauce. Song Xiu and Gu Zheng both did this process very quickly. Then they poured the sauce into the soup pot where Xianyun pork knuckle was cooked before, and added the other two ingredients and changed the sauce to small Stew over fire.

He didn't find anything unusual about Song Xiu before, so Gu Zheng paid special attention to Song Xiu's actions in this almost the last step of Jiang Sanxian. Seemingly, Song Xiu accidentally flicked a little bit of black powder into the soup pot.

"It's so disgusting!"

The weapon spirit who had also been paying attention to Song Xiu couldn't help but cursed.

"When his brother lost to you before, he secretly used flavor-enhancing flowers when cooking to enhance the freshness. Now, his brother said before the game that he can't add supplements to it, but who would have thought that he would actually do it again? Used auxiliary ingredients!" Qi Ling said in disdain.

"What are the supplements used by Song Xiu? It doesn't look like flavor-enhancing flowers!" Gu Zheng thought to himself.

"Although the flowers he used are not flavor-enhancing flowers, they have similar effects to the flavor-enhancing flowers. In sauce jars that are more than a hundred years old, a very disgusting bug will appear. This bug is black in color and its name is 'Jiang Jing'. Although soy sauce essence looks disgusting, it is made from the essence of soy sauce. They are dried by special means, ground into powder and put into sauce-flavored dishes, which can double the aroma of soy sauce. "Qi Linghen. Hate said.

"Xianyun pork itself is very delicious. Even ordinary cooking can leave a lingering aroma in people's lips and teeth!"

"Song Xiu's cooking skills are already good. On a dish like this, for the non-professional judges, my better cooking skills than Song Xiu's won't give me much of an advantage."

"Now that things have happened, Song Xiu actually used something that can enhance the flavor of the sauce. If this kind of thing enhances the flavor of the sauce, it is estimated that the difference in the taste of the meat, which is not too obvious, will be directly noticed by the non-professional judges. Ignore it! After all, the extraordinary flavor of sauce can make a big difference."

Gu Zheng calmly analyzed it, but still couldn't think of a way to solve it. Song Xiu, who thought the overall situation was settled, looked at Gu Zheng with a smile.

"It's okay, don't worry. Everything has its pros and cons. In the eyes of Master Tiexian, 'soy sauce essence' is a low-level means of enhancing freshness. It is not as good as the flavor-enhancing flower that is used to increase the freshness! In addition to the fact that the things made of it are disgusting, there is another reason that it cannot stand the test!"

The smug voice of the weapon spirit made Gu Zheng's eyes light up: "So, you have a way to break this situation?"

"Of course there is a way to break the situation, but since he uses despicable means, this situation cannot be easily broken. Let him fully enjoy the feeling of falling from a high altitude! After all, you want to win him by your ability, which I value very much. I don't allow him to do tricks secretly when you want fairness!" The weapon spirit said hatefully.

Gu Zheng and Song Xiu's three sauces came out of the pot one after another. The time interval was not long, so there was no problem.

"Master Gu, according to the order of the three immortals coming out of the pot, your three immortals are already a little cold. Should we let the judges taste them first?"

Song Xiu's seemingly considerate words made Gu Zheng feel even more disgusted with him.

First of all, Gu Zheng certainly knew that the weather in Kunlun was very cold. Although the three immortals were out of the pot, he would not be stupid enough to leave them on the chopping board and wait for them to cool down.

Secondly, Gu Zheng's three immortals seemed to be placed in a pot that had been off the fire, but the temperature in the pot was controlled by his immortal power, enough to keep the three immortals warm.

In addition, tasting delicious food is not about being the first to taste it and taking advantage. The first to taste it is more likely to forget the taste, especially when the taste difference between the first and second foods is not big.

Looking at Gu Zheng who frowned, Song Xiu shrugged and said, "Master Gu, if you feel that you are at a disadvantage with my suggestion, you can also let the judges taste your food and then give the score first."

"What a good calculation! In such a bet, even if the score is given first, it will still have an impact, right? After all, the judges are still thinking about the next dish, so they will inevitably be reserved in the scoring. After all, everyone is not a professional judge." Gu Zheng sneered.

"Master Gu, you are really fussy. Why didn't I notice it before?" Song Xiu paused and said indifferently, "I was thinking about you, but you are so ungrateful. Then I'll go first. Anyway, real gold is not afraid of fire."

"What a real gold is not afraid of fire. I want to see what tricks you can play. I'll go first!"

Gu Zheng smiled and brought out the three immortals in the sauce that was still steaming in the pot. The sound of swallowing saliva suddenly rang out all around. In fact, this kind of sound almost never stopped during the process of Gu Zheng and Song Xiu cooking! Don't say these cultivators are useless. After all, this is a delicacy made from medium-quality ingredients cooked by masters. Although it has not reached the realm of extreme fragrance, its charming fragrance still makes people unable to help but have a normal reaction.

"Who of you three will go first?" Gu Zheng looked at the three judges.

"I'll go first!"

The three judges spoke almost at the same time, but the female cultivator who contributed blood was the loudest.

"Okay, you go first!"

Gu Zheng smiled and handed over the chopsticks. The female cultivator couldn't wait to pick up a piece of Xianyun pork elbow that had been cut and put it in her mouth.