Chapter 193 Lotus Su faces the surroundings...
Faced with the questioning looks around her, Mo Qingyan completely ignored them.
He worked attentively and the aroma of lotus paste was soon stir-fried out.
The chefs around no longer paid attention to Mo Qingyan.
After all, this is a competition and there is a time limit.
Time limit is two hours.
Therefore, everyone was busy with their own desserts.
Among them, the camera was focused on the international dessert masters, Arus and Ruth.
These two are world-class dessert chefs.
It can be said that dessert is their best competition item.
Arus, his hair is almost completely white. But, his age is actually not that old.
He is only in his fifties.
It’s just that foreigners look old, and after being in the kitchen for many years, they look older than their peers.
Ruth is a female chef in her thirties.
Even with her blonde hair, blue eyes and chef's uniform, she is still full of charm.
Therefore, Ruth has many male fans.
Of course, she is not only good-looking, but also a great cook.
Apart from desserts, Ruth's cooking skills in Western cuisine are no worse than those of other international chefs.
When the two of them were assigned to the dessert group, they were almost assumed to be the top two.
Mo Qingyan didn't know much about them.
While he was busy frying the lotus paste, other participating chefs also started to get busy.
In the kitchen, all kinds of sweet smells mixed together, it smells so good.
In this dessert competition, in order to get high scores, besides making good desserts, there is also a trick.
That is the need to be fast.
In order to get high scores, it is best to let the judges taste the desserts made by the contestants as soon as possible.
After all, desserts are something that can make you sick of them if you eat too much.
Even so, each judge only took a small bite of the dessert.
However, if you eat too much, your sense of taste will still be eroded.
It can be said that the further you go, the less advantage you have.
Therefore, the contestants’ chefs are racing against time to make their own desserts.
Only Mo Qingyan was leisurely, forming a sharp contrast with the busy chefs around her.
After frying the lotus paste, Mo Qingyan put it on a plate to let it cool.
He didn't taste the sweetness of the lotus paste.
As a qualified chef, you don’t need to taste the food you cook to know its taste.
Mo Qingyan had just taken the flour when she heard the sound of a bell.
Mo Qingyan looked over in the direction of the ringing sound and discovered that one of the participating chefs had already prepared the dessert.
The staff immediately took out the number 1 plate, handed one to the chef, and placed the other one in the insulated box containing the chef's dessert in front of the chef.
Afterwards, the dessert prepared by the participating chef was taken away.
The competing chef also left the competition kitchen.
Mo Qingyan didn't expect that someone would finish the dessert for the competition so quickly.
What was even more unexpected was that as soon as one chef finished, another chef pressed the bell.
When the other participating chefs saw that two chefs had already completed their desserts, they immediately sped up their work.
They all knew that in this dessert competition, the further they progressed, the greater their disadvantage would be.
Because the more desserts the judges taste, the more picky their tongues will become.
The later the score is, the lower it will be.
Of course Mo Qingyan knew this.
However, he was not prepared to fight for that slight time advantage.
Just like Arus and Ruth did not fight for that little advantage, they both wanted to get high scores based on the advantages of their desserts.
The filling for the pistil is ready, and Mo Qingyan is now preparing to make the petals of the lotus pastry.
Mo Qingyan took out the medium-gluten flour and prepared to make water-oil dough.
It is not difficult to make water-oil dough.
After taking out the all-purpose flour, add appropriate amount of warm water, lard, beet powder, appropriate amount of white sugar and floral honey, and start stirring.
Then, knead it into a pink dough that does not stick to your hands, wrap it in plastic wrap, and set it aside to rise.
Next, take out the low-gluten flour and start making the puff pastry.
Puff pastry dough is smaller than water dough, so it requires less flour.
Also add appropriate amounts of warm water, lard, sugar and honey, and start kneading the dough.
After the dough is kneaded almost completely, let it rest for another ten minutes.
Then, take out the rolling pin and roll the water-oil dough and the puff pastry dough into thin rectangular sheets.
The area of the water-oil dough is larger than that of the shortcrust dough. After rolling it out, the thin slice of the shortcrust dough is placed on the thin slice of the water-oil dough. Then, the water-oil dough is folded together with the shortcrust dough.
After the water-oil dough is folded three times, the puff pastry dough is completely wrapped in the middle.
Next, roll it into thin slices. Then fold it again and roll it into a thin sheet.
Repeat this three times.
This will form layers of crispy crust.
This is also the key to the crispy texture of lotus pastry.
After rolling out the folded dough again, take out a round mold and cut it into round dough pieces.
Use dough sheets to wrap the lotus seed paste filling in a round shape and seal the edges. Use a knife to carve five petals on it.
This step is very important.
This is also the key to ensuring the lotus crisps bloom and take shape.
After all the lotus crisps are made, you can heat the oil in a pan.
After the oil temperature reaches four layers of heat, you can put the raw lotus crisps into the pan and fry them.
During the frying process, the temperature must be strictly controlled.
Then you can see the raw dough of the lotus pastry, which opens layer by layer in the oil pan just like a real lotus.
While Mo Qingyan was making the lotus cakes, the other participating chefs had already prepared all the desserts one after another.
I saw Mo Qingyan actually heated up the oil in the pan again instead of using the oven.
The participating chefs all shook their heads in unison.
I feel that Chinese chefs are hopeless.
How can you make dessert without using an oven?
Can fried desserts be delicious?
Arus also made his dessert and waited for the staff to hand him his number tag and take his dessert away.
I just looked up and saw Mo Qingyan frying lotus cakes.
A look of disappointment couldn't help but appear on his face.
"I thought I could compete with the chefs from China this time. I didn't expect that the ones who came to compete this time were all these incompetent guys."
The same was true for the blonde Ruth next to her.
"Yeah, I originally wanted to compete with the Chinese chefs. I didn't expect that my luck was so bad that I would meet such people. What a pity. Competing with such people is simply an insult to us."
The two of them didn't take Mo Qingyan seriously at all.
I feel that Mo Qingyan is just here to make up the numbers.
After all, Mo Qingyan is a notorious prodigal in China.
At the beginning, I saw Mo Qingyan frying lotus paste and kneading dough.
The audience in the live broadcast room were also confused.
Until Mo Qingyan fried the lotus butter.
They were shocked by the lifelike lotus cakes that looked just like real lotus flowers.
"Oh my god, this, this, this..."
"Am I seeing right? Is this a lotus?"
"How come the dough turned into a lotus flower in the blink of an eye?"
"This lotus is so similar. Yellow stamens, pink petals. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would have thought it was a model."
“That’s awesome.”
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After making the lotus pastry, Mo Qingyan did not stop.
The lotus pastry is ready, but it still needs to be presented on a plate.
So, Mo Qingyan took out the low-gluten flour and added lard, white sugar, honey, and green tea powder.
After mixing evenly, start kneading into dough.
Finally, flatten it and start carving out the shape of a lotus leaf.
Then, put it into the oil pan and fry it until it is set.
Finally, start to arrange the dishes.
On the white porcelain plate, the green lotus leaves and the lifelike lotus flowers form a magnificent picture of blooming lotus flowers.
This ceiling in the dessert world, the lotus pastry, is now ready.
When Mo Qingyan pressed the bell, there were only about twenty minutes left before the two-hour competition time.
He was the only one left in the originally bustling kitchen.
The other participating chefs had already prepared their desserts and left.
The worker handed the number 10 plate to Mo Qingyan.
Then he prepared to take Mo Qingyan's dessert away.
Then, when the staff saw Mo Qingyan’s lotus pastry, their eyes widened.
"This...is this the dessert you're entering for the competition?"
The staff pointed at the lotus pastry in disbelief and asked Mo Qingyan in not very fluent Chinese.
This staff member is from the International Gourmet Association.
Among all the staff members of this International Food Festival competition, two-thirds are staff members of the International Food Association.
"Yes." Mo Qingyan nodded, "This is my dessert for the competition."
This is actually a dessert?
The staff member could not hide his surprise on his face at all. He couldn't believe that the lifelike lotus in front of him was actually a dessert.
How is this done?
Despite having a thousand doubts in their minds, the staff still did their job well and delivered Mo Qingyan's dessert to the judges.
At this moment, all thirty judges were in the judges' room.
Although they were all in the same room, they were divided into six groups.
Each group consists of five judges.
Except for the dessert group, the other five groups of judges need to taste the food of several groups of participating chefs.
Therefore, the dessert group is the most leisurely.
James is the most prestigious gourmet judge in the dessert category.
After tasting the ninth dessert, he wrote down his rating.
Then he sighed: "Except for the desserts No. 6 and No. 9 which are more creative, the other desserts are too ordinary. I am a little disappointed."
The other judges had almost the same idea as James.
"There really isn't anything new in the desserts for this competition."
"It's either cake or biscuit. Although they all taste good, I always feel like something is missing."
"I like dessert No. 9 very much. It's more creative than the other desserts. Of course, No. 6 is also good. But it can't compare to No. 9 in terms of creativity."
"On the contrary, I prefer dessert No. 6. Dessert No. 9 looks very beautiful, but it doesn't taste as good as dessert No. 6."
James sighed, "I wonder which dessert Gao's boyfriend made. But why hasn't dessert number 10 been delivered yet? There's not much time left before the end of the game."
Just as James finished speaking, the staff finally brought up the last dessert No. 10.
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