Chapter 8: 40% Ingredients, 40% Cooking Skills (Additional Chapter 1 for the Leader Xiaokoudai)

Pour the last few drops of honey into the sorghum rice, and Gu Zheng heaved a sigh of relief.

The sorghum rice is already cooked. Sorghum is a coarse grain. It tastes average when steamed. Adding honey can enhance the taste of sorghum rice and increase its fragrance, making this meal more delicious.

"What are you doing?"

As soon as he opened the sliding door of the kitchen, Gu Zheng found three people standing behind the door, looking sneaky.

"Is it ready, Gu Zheng? If it's not good, I will be worried to death if I don't starve to death!"

Du Yang said anxiously, and the other two nodded vigorously. They didn't want to go out. Staying and smelling the fragrance of Gu Zheng's cooking all the time, it tortured them enough.

"It's ready. You sit at the dining table, I'll serve the dishes!"

Gu Zheng nodded gently. The three rushed to the dining table immediately after hearing the words. The speed made Gu Zheng stunned. They had never reacted like this before.

"Wash your hands before eating!"

Bringing out the black chicken soup, Gu Zheng said again, and the three raised their hands at the same time. Wang Tao said resentfully: "When you were cooking, we all washed our hands three times. We know your rules and are waiting to eat!"

Gu Feng does have many rules. When he is cooking, others are not allowed to enter the kitchen or help. They must wash their hands before eating and cannot talk loudly while eating.

Despite the many rules, because the food is delicious, several people are still looking forward to the food made by Gu Zheng.

"Wait, it will be ready soon!"

Seeing that the hands of the three people are really clean, Gu Zheng did not mention it anymore and brought out the food one by one. Gu Zheng's tableware is Jingdezhen porcelain, which is specially ordered tableware. Gu Zheng does not know how it is fired, but most of these tableware are exported to foreign countries for use by famous foreign restaurants.

Gu Zheng's set was ordered by his father.

Three dishes and one soup, each person has a small bowl, and the bowl contains slightly golden sorghum rice, which exudes a faint sweetness, which makes people appetite.

"What a nice smell!"

The lid of the black chicken soup was opened first, and the three of them sniffed together. The soup was the first one to be made, and it was stewed for two hours. The nutrients of the black chicken and wild ginseng were all integrated into the thick soup. It had been covered with a lid before, and now it was opened, the accumulated fragrance instantly sprayed out, attracting the exclamation of the three.

"So beautiful!"

The next thing to be opened was the stir-fried wild lotus seeds. After Gu Zheng fried the wild lotus seeds, he arranged them in a heart shape, with two green leaves under the heart, like a hand holding up the green heart. There were a few mountain mushrooms dotted around the wild lotus seeds, which did not conflict at all, but made the colors look richer.

Ten prawns were placed in a circle. The prawns were all processed and the shrimp threads were removed. There were a few wild lotus seeds in the middle of the prawns. There was still a little black inside the prawns. When the prawns were almost cooked, Gu Zheng used a straw to pour soy sauce into the body, so that the prawns could fully absorb the aroma of soy sauce without affecting their own freshness.

The last thing to be opened was the honey chicken, which was made from the wings and legs of a black chicken and some chicken breast meat.

The golden chicken wings and legs were arranged in a crescent shape. As soon as the lid was opened, the most intense fragrance that had been accumulated under the lid for a long time rushed out completely. This time, even Gu Zheng couldn't help sniffing. If there weren't several people there, he would have wanted to take a piece to taste it first.

"Can I eat it?"

Wang Tao swallowed his saliva and whispered. Before Gu Zheng could answer, Du Yang and Zhao Yongkui simultaneously stretched out their jade-like bamboo chopsticks and picked up a chicken wing each.

"Delicious, really delicious!"

Biting the chicken wings, the two made vague sounds in their mouths. Seeing that the chicken wings were gone, Wang Tao hurriedly picked up a small chicken leg. Gu Zheng looked at them and shook his head with a smile, then gently picked up a cut chicken leg and put it in his mouth.

Gu Zheng's eyes suddenly brightened. The chicken was fat but not greasy, and it melted in his mouth. The sweet chicken made Gu Zheng chew quickly, his mouth full of saliva stimulated by the fragrance, and soon the whole piece of chicken was swallowed by him.

"Delicious!"

Gu Zheng couldn't help but say it himself. He knew that it was very fragrant just now, but he had never tasted it. This taste was also something he didn't expect. He had eaten a lot of good things before, but never had such a taste.

"It's just average, but it's precious to you!"

The voice of the spirit suddenly appeared, Gu Zheng quickly picked up another piece of chicken, and asked in his heart: "I have eaten a lot of delicious food and cooked a lot, but I have never made such delicious food. Why is it like this?"

"Ingredients are the most important for any food. Even if there are superb cooking techniques, if the ingredients are not good, you can't make real delicious food. According to your customs, if a food is rated ten points, then four points are for ingredients and four points for cooking!"

"You are right, I think the proportion of ingredients should be higher. How come you have changed it to four points for ingredients, four points for cooking, and what is the other two points?"

Gu Zheng asked while eating. The chicken was delicious, and the sorghum rice was not bad. The honey he added to the sorghum rice was simply a stroke of genius. It not only completely changed the taste of the sorghum rice, but also made the sorghum rice smoother, and it was comfortable and delicious to eat.

Of course, the raw materials of this sorghum rice are also very important. Gu Zheng knows that if other sorghum rice is used, unless it is sorghum rice that has reached a lower grade, it will definitely not have this taste.

"Your ingredients are too poor. In the prehistoric times, an excellent natural ingredient, without any cooking, is more delicious than anything you have. As for the remaining two points you mentioned, it is cultivation. Cultivation can enhance cooking." Art, enhance the level of ingredients. The higher the cultivation level, the better the food you make. The food made by Master Tiexian is famous in the ancient world!"

Before Gu Zheng could say anything, Qi Ling continued: "For example, this time, if you didn't have honey that reaches ordinary quality, you wouldn't have been able to achieve such a good effect. Even though the chicken you chose was not contaminated, you could still eat it." There are some inferior ingredients, but the honey is not of ordinary quality. At most, it just tastes better, and it definitely has no such appeal! ”

"I understand. You are right. Without honey, this honey chicken would never taste like this, even if the other ingredients are inferior!"

This time Gu Zheng did not refute Qi Ling's words. He was a chef and he knew the role of honey in it. No wonder Tiexian would grade the ingredients. The difference in each grade was really big. It was just black-bone chicken with ordinary ingredients like honey. , the taste became so delicious, and Gu Zheng had expectations for the ingredients collected by Tiexian for the first time.

According to what Qi Ling said, many of Tiexian's collections are of high grade, and the high-grade Taoran ingredients are more delicious than any existing delicacies without cooking. I really don't know if the delicacies made with high-grade ingredients are any better. To what extent.

"I've finished eating, is there anything left?"

Gu Zheng was thinking when he suddenly saw three pairs of eyes looking at him eagerly. Just as he was communicating with Qi Ling, they ate all the three dishes and one soup on the table, leaving nothing behind. , not even a grain of rice was left in the three-person bowl.

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Xiaoyu will update a minimum of two chapters every day from now on. According to the usual practice, if there is an alliance leader, he will definitely update. The alliance leader will update three chapters. This is the first chapter, and there are two more chapters.