Nongmen fierce girl head chef

Chapter 1149 What medicine is sold in the gourd?

Lin Yuan didn't care what other people thought, and now she was only thinking about herself and the two people around her.

Bai Jing is a man with high eyesight and low power, he has been instructing the little eunuch to work, and he doesn't move at all.

The little eunuch must also be aware of his temper, and he was in a daze without daring to say a word.

What's more interesting is that the little eunuch doesn't know how to cook at all. He can still do the washing of vegetables, but he can't do the job of choosing and cutting vegetables.

Either leave the vegetable leaves that should be thrown away, or throw away the vegetable stalks that should be kept, which naturally caused Bai Jing to roll his eyes for a while.

Lin Yuan shook her head. She no longer had any hope for this Bai Jing. A cook can tell his character by cooking. What good things can such a person make?
As for Lu Chong, it was different. Before asking the little eunuch to choose and wash the vegetables, he patiently told him how to do it, and he went to the side to deal with the fish.

At first glance, Lu Chong is a person who often does things by himself, and he is very familiar with handling fish.

Especially his slender and well-articulated hands, where are they cleaning up dirty fish?It is clearly performing a fancy show.

Just by looking at their ingredients, they can basically determine what kind of dish they are going to cook. The ingredients that Lu Chong prepares most here are fish, carrots, and lotus root. Presumably they are going to make a vegetarian dish and a fish.

As for Bai Jing, there are many kinds of green vegetables, and I don't know what kind of vegetarian dishes to make.But the meat dish is a chicken.

Lin Yuan curled her lips into a smile, remembering something Xia Zheng told her before.

The old emperor likes to eat meat the most, and the favorite of all meat dishes is chicken, but unfortunately, his teeth are not very good, so he has high requirements for chicken, and he wants to make it tender and smooth without clogging his teeth just work.

With Bai Jing's craftsmanship, it was hard for Lin Yuan to imagine that he could make such chicken. It seemed that Bai Jing was not very clear about the old emperor's situation.

But Lu Chong's choice of fish was much wiser, the fish itself was tender and delicious, as long as the taste was cooked well, there was no need to consider the emperor's teeth.

Seeing the packed fish in Lu Chong's hands, Lin Yuan blinked. It seemed that Lu Chong was not as indifferent as he appeared on the surface, and even the old emperor knew about his bad teeth.

While watching the two of them packing up the ingredients, Lin Yuan's hands were not idle, and she had already taken care of the piece of meat that was cut from the pork.

This piece of meat is the tenderest tenderloin on the pig, and what Lin Yuan is going to cook is the famous Beijing sauce shredded pork.

Shredded pork with Beijing sauce is a sweet dish. It is very simple to make, but in addition to shredded pork, you also need to prepare small pancakes or tofu skins for wrapping the shredded pork.

When she was just choosing ingredients, Lin Yuan did see tofu on the chopping board, but unfortunately, there was no tofu skin or fresh tofu, only a piece of dried tofu suitable for long-distance transportation.

Lin Yuan did not open a tofu shop in the capital, and there are some tofu dishes in Dongtian, but they are all freshly made in a small mill in the backyard, and they are not mass-produced.

Now even the palace has this kind of dried tofu, and it must not have been obtained from Dongtian, it must have been transported from the tofu workshop in Zhuma Town.

Because the distance is too far, only the dried tofu that is convenient for transportation can be transported, and there is nothing else.

Since there was no bean curd skin, Lin Yuan had no choice but to make shredded pork pancakes by herself.

This small cake is actually very easy to make. After reconciling the noodles, make small doses. After rolling into small pancakes, brush a little oil in the middle of each two cakes to prevent sticking, and then put these small cakes into the pan Just steam it.

Because the pancakes rolled with shredded pork have to be thin and not transparent to be delicious, so Lin Yuan chose to steam them rather than fry them, which would make the pancakes softer and more delicious.

Of course, in fact, she is more to take care of the old emperor who has bad teeth.

Putting the pancakes on the pan to steam, Lin Yuan began to prepare the shredded meat, cut the tenderloin into long strips, mixed some egg whites and flour, then added some salt to season and put it aside.

The two dishes that Lin Yuan is going to cook are both stir-fried vegetables. She has learned the lesson from the last time she competed with Zuixianlou that she always prepared chicken drumsticks stuffed with vegetables. Delicious and fresh too.

For the old emperor, shredded pork with Beijing sauce was prepared, and for Empress Su, who only ate vegetarian dishes but liked meat, Lin Yuan was going to make a vegetable stir-fried fish-flavored shredded pork.

There is no fish in fish-flavored shredded pork, and now there is no more shredded pork. Lin Yuan couldn't help but feel ashamed when she thought that this classic dish had been changed beyond recognition in her own hands.

In fact, she planned to make a vegetarian abalone at first, but after looking around the chopping board, she couldn't find such ingredients as shiitake mushrooms, so she had no choice but to give up.

However, fortunately, she saw dried tofu, and decided to use dried tofu instead of shredded pork to make fish-flavored shredded pork.

"Princess, do we have to start quickly? You see, Lord Lu and Lord Bai have already started the pot!"

I don't know if the tomato from before had an effect, but before Lin Yuan was in a hurry to cook, the little eunuch behind her was already anxiously urging.

Lin Yuan bent her lips, shredded the dried tofu slowly, and said to him: "Don't worry, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry! One of them cooks fish and the other cooks chicken. Naturally, it takes more time than we need Yes, we're just cooking, and we'll be done in a while!"

While peeling the onion for her, the little eunuch looked anxiously at the other two sides, wanting to say something more, but seeing Lin Yuan's calm expression, he shut his mouth.

Princess Pingxi's ability is impressive even in the palace. Since Princess Pingxi is not in a hurry, she will definitely be able to complete it!
After cutting the dried tofu, Lin Yuan shredded carrots, fungus and other side dishes together.

After everything was ready, Lin Yuan looked around, smiled, and whispered something in the little eunuch's ear.

The little eunuch's face suddenly changed, and he asked again uncertainly.

Everyone could only see Lin Yuan's giggling face and the little eunuch's shocked face. No one knew what kind of medicine was in the gourd of the two of them.

While everyone was guessing, the little eunuch rubbed his little hands awkwardly, bowed respectfully to the old emperor, then ran up to Xia Zheng's side, and took the empty little eunuch next to him. The stools were moved to the competition table.

It's a game, what are you doing with the stool?
Everyone looked at each other, and then they saw Lin Yuan calmly took the little eunuch's stool and sat down on it.

Not only did he sit on it, but he also took a washed cucumber and gnawed on it.

The little mouth that baji baji moves looks lively and cute.

The corners of everyone's mouths couldn't help twitching. This, Princess Pingxi is too casual, oh my god, she actually gnawed a cucumber in public. Doesn't she know that this is a competition?
Everyone else was racing against time to cook, but she was lucky enough to eat cucumber leisurely!
Everyone only saw Lin Yuan eating cucumbers, but they didn't hear that she was actually chatting with the little eunuch.

"Hey, go and move a stool too, we still have a while to cook, don't worry."

The little eunuch felt bitter, and wiped cold sweat with his mouth curled up. Lin Yuan was the only one who could sit and eat cucumbers in front of the old emperor throughout the ages!
"Princess, you, you should eat quickly and cook quickly, didn't your majesty say that? We are not only competing to see who cooks deliciously, but also to see who cooks faster!"

This princess is too in a hurry, let's not talk about Mr. Lu, even Mr. Bai is rarely serious, and puts all his body and mind into the competition.

After eating a cucumber, Lin Yuan picked up another carrot and gnawed it off, muttering, "This carrot is quite delicious, but it's still not as good as the carrots in our greenhouse." !"

While talking, Lin Yuan suddenly remembered something, and asked casually, "Hey, little eunuch, let me ask you, do you know where all the dishes in the imperial dining room come from?"

This little eunuch is not affiliated with the imperial dining room, but after staying in the palace for a long time, he can naturally inquire about some things.

"Well, I heard that they are collected from various places. Princess, you also know that in winter, it is cold, where can there be these fresh and delicious vegetables? It is nothing more than whoever has a greenhouse, so I go to collect some. It's not like summer , Just grab some food on the street. But, since it’s delivered to the palace, it’s not just ordinary people’s food. These people all have backers!”

The little eunuch already talked a lot, and after getting along well with Lin Yuan, he talked even more eloquently, gurgling non-stop.

Sure enough, as Lin Yuan guessed, the things in the palace are not something that ordinary people can come in at will.It seems that if she wants to bring the green vegetables from Liu Siliang's greenhouse into the palace, she still needs to spend some thought.

While nibbling the carrot in her hand, Lin Yuan began to look at the movements of the players on both sides.

Although there was a screen in the middle, but helplessly, the screen was not tight, so Lin Yuan could still vaguely see their movements.

This may be the benefit of choosing the middle competition platform!
As she said, what Lu Chong is holding is fish, and what Bai Jing is holding is chicken, and seeing that both of them put steamers on the stove, they must be steaming.

Bai Jing made white-cut chicken. After processing the chicken, he threw all the preparations into a large bowl, and then put it in the steamer to start steaming.

But Lu Chong's fish is not so simple.

Lin Yuan took a closer look, her eyes widened suddenly, hehe, why does this fish look familiar?
The fish in Lu Chong's hand had already been cut into many strips, but it was not cut at the belly of the fish, and after he skillfully placed it, soon, a peacock-like bird appeared on the big plate. Screen-like guppy.

Isn't it familiar?

This guppy is exactly the one he made for Xu Muqing that day!

The carrot in Lin Yuan's hand stopped at the corner of her mouth as if frozen, and she even forgot to chew it.

She clearly remembered that Xu Muqing said at the time that she had never eaten guppy, but why did Lu Chong suddenly make guppy now?
Xu Muqing's family background is not ordinary, she has participated in many palace banquets, and she is a very gluttonous little girl, Lin Yuan believed her words.

Xu felt Lin Yuan's gaze. After putting the guppies into the steamer, Lu Chong turned his head and smiled at her mysteriously. The meaning contained in that smile was very complicated.

Lin Yuan curled her lips, trying to figure it out. Lu Chong is the apprentice of Zhuang Kangping, the teacher's father of Zuixianlou, so he is very familiar with the people in Zuixianlou.

And Xu Muqing and Yan Ruchun are good sisters, it should be that Xu Muqing happily told Yan Ruchun after eating guppies at Lin Yuan's place.

Yan Ruchun's family owns a restaurant, so he must be very sensitive to dishes, so he kept this guppy fish dish in his heart.Presumably that's how Lu Chong knew about this dish.

"Humph!"

Slightly humming in her heart, Lin Yuan gave Lu Chong a big white eye. This guy deliberately cooked this dish in front of her.

That look just now has already expressed all his intentions, this guy just wants to use the same dish to verify whose cooking skills are better.

That being the case, let's compare whose cooking skills are better!
After stuffing the remaining piece of carrot into her mouth in two or three bites, Lin Yuan clapped her hands and signaled the little eunuch to prepare a pot for cooking.

Compared to Bai Jing, Lu Chong is the biggest opponent in this competition, so Lin Yuan naturally cannot take it lightly.

All she cooks is stir-frying, and she is a bit tricky in her skills, so she deliberately stopped and waited for a while before the last stir-fry, just to have a relatively fair competition with these two people.

But is fairness really fair?
Lin Yuan shook her head, put all distracting thoughts behind her, and concentrated on cooking.

The first thing to fry is shredded pork with Beijing sauce. Put the bottom oil in the pot. After the oil is hot, slide the shredded pork in and stir fry evenly. Then put in the sweet noodle sauce prepared in advance, and finally season it.

After frying the shredded pork, Lin Yuan changed to another pot and continued frying the shredded pork with fish flavor.

The fish-flavored shredded pork is most particular about the fish-flavored sauce. After adjusting the sweet, sour and salt in an appropriate ratio, pour it into the stir-fried vegetables. Soon, the whole hall begins to be filled with the aroma of the fish-flavored sauce. .

Everyone who was wondering before that Lin Yuan was sitting and eating without cooking, now they were all attracted by the dishes in her hands.

Seeing that she cooked two dishes so quickly, she was even more surprised, and some people even started whispering.

"Does Princess Pingxi only cook these two dishes? It's too simple!"

"This, this is simply fooling! How dare you think you can fool Your Majesty with the protection of the General's Palace?"

"Hey, what an embarrassment to Dayong! Before, I thought Princess Pingxi's cooking skills were really good, but now, I think it's just an embroidered pillow!"

"But when she competed with Zuixianlou before, the dishes she made were really delicious. I saw it with my own eyes!"

"You don't understand that, do you? Can that match be compared with today's match? How long did she prepare for that time? It must have been practiced for a long time in advance with the chefs of Dongtian. Let's look at today's match. All of a sudden, this is not, the original shape is revealed!"

"Ah? So that's the case, hey, I'm so disappointed!"

Lin Yuan put the pot aside, brushed her hair casually, and turned a blind eye to the mutterings of these people. Whether it was real or a lie, I will know later.

If she could prove it with facts, she didn't even bother to move her mouth!Just like a problem that can be solved with hands, never move your mouth!

Others didn't know, but the little eunuch who followed Lin Yuan could really smell the aroma of these two dishes, and his saliva immediately flowed down the corners of his mouth.

"Princess, these two dishes are really delicious! The little one has been working in the palace since he was six years old. It's been almost ten years, and he has never seen such dishes!"

Not only does it look different from the one made by Yuchu, but it also tastes better.

only……

Looking at these two unattractive dishes, the little eunuch frowned worriedly: "My lord, you can see that the dishes made by the imperial chef are all very good-looking. Our two dishes, tsk tsk, why don't you go up How about some decorations?"

No wonder the little eunuch was worried, the food in the imperial dining room always paid attention to the appearance and bright colors, how could it be as ugly as the dishes made by Lin Yuan?

That fish-flavored shredded pork is nothing more, at least there are several colors, but this Beijing sauce shredded pork is really unrefined, the whole body is black, because of the sweet bean sauce, the whole plate The shredded meat piled together is like a lump of sticky mud.

The little eunuch secretly sighed in his heart, if it was him, he would definitely find it delicious, but His Majesty the Emperor...

I'm afraid you will lose your appetite when you see it for the first time?
Keke, Keke.

Seeing the little eunuch's frowning face, Lin Yuan coughed a little embarrassingly. It's not that she didn't want to make it look better, but that's how Beijing sauce shredded pork is, and there's nothing she can do about it.

No way, let her cut some apple blossoms and radish flowers on the spot and put them on it?

Eh, apple blossoms and radish blossoms?

Lin Yuan had an idea. Anyway, the two people's dishes hadn't been cooked yet, and she had plenty of time, so she simply pulled out a water radish and a carrot, and neatly peeled off one large, two small, and three radish flowers.

The large white radish flower is placed on the left, and two smaller carrot flowers are placed side by side on the right.

The little eunuch's eyes lit up, and he grabbed two celery leaves and a few coriander leaves and put them on the side of the radish flower as green leaves.

As the saying goes, safflower needs green leaves to match. After such a decoration, the appearance of this shredded pork with Beijing sauce has really improved by more than one level!

The little eunuch blushed with excitement, looked at the fish-flavored pork shreds on the other side, and asked, "Princess, do you want to add something to this dish?"

Lin Yuan was uncovering the steamed pancakes one by one, looked at him with a smile, nodded and said, "Since you like it, then add some! Well, cucumbers are very juicy, you pick two good-looking ones, Cut it into one-inch pieces!"

what?
The little eunuch was flattered, as if he hadn't thought that Lin Yuan would let him cut cucumbers without worry.

Because he was too nervous, the little eunuch licked his lips and murmured without any confidence: "I, can I do it?"

"Why not? Go and cut it!"

Lin Yuan took off the last pancake, and was rolling up the pancakes one by one to look like flowers and placing them on another plate.

Originally, the little eunuch wanted to wait for Lin Yuan to come and cut the cucumbers after packing up the pancakes, but he didn't want her to take out a green onion immediately after placing the pancakes, and cut the white of the scallion into thin strips.

Seeing that she was also very busy, the little eunuch gritted his teeth and bravely chose two juicy and emerald green cucumbers. Strictly following Lin Yuan's requirements, he cut them into cucumber segments of the same size.

Counted, exactly ten.

After he cut the cucumbers, Lin Yuan had already prepared all the side dishes for the shredded pork with Beijing sauce. Except for the scallions, she cut some thin cucumbers and put them all on a plate.

White shredded green onions, green cucumber shreds, plus small pancakes rolled into flower shapes, not to mention, such a small dish is really eye-catching!

After tidying up the shredded pork with Beijing sauce, Lin Yuan took the cucumber slices cut by the little eunuch into her hand, held the cucumber in her left hand, and held the small knife "loaned" by the old emperor in her right hand, and cut the cucumber The segments were cut into beautiful little flowers.

This little flower is only the size of a little finger. The petals are crystal clear, and there is a circle of green cucumber skin on the edge. It looks really small and delicate.

The little eunuch was startled from ear to ear by Lin Yuan's superb knife skills, and those who were far away could only see her fingers flying, and then saw a small thing appear on the pad of her little finger .

As for what that thing was, before everyone could see it clearly, Lin Yuan put it aside and continued to cut another one.

Everyone's appetites were all whetted, and some people stretched their necks and poked their heads to see what was on the table.

Lin Yuan's fingers fluttered, and she peeled ten cucumber flowers in a short while, and placed them one by one around the plate containing fish-flavored pork shreds, and a dish was completed.

Looking sideways at Lu Chong and Bai Jing who were still busy on the left and right, Lin Yuan showed a confident smile on her face: "Report to Your Majesty, my daughter is finished."

　Going to Xi'an in a few days, la la la, meat buns, mutton steamed buns, uh, my saliva is flowing down, suck~
　　
　
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