Chapter 147,
Su Guoer was speaking very seriously. To be honest, she just wanted to get rid of all this as soon as possible, so she spoke without hesitation.
"Today, the winner of the Bian Jing Chef God Competition will be chosen. If nothing unexpected happens, the championship will definitely not be mine, but someone else. So I think this person would be more suitable to prepare this banquet."
Please listen to her slowly.
"This chef was chosen by the emperor himself. He has nothing to do with you, Your Majesty. Even if there's something wrong with his cooking in the future, it won't be your fault. It also prevents anyone from throwing mud at you. Isn't this killing two birds with one stone? We have a variety of tricks, and safety is guaranteed. If I were Your Majesty, knowing this is a setup, I would do everything I can to distance myself from it."
"Instead of going after one of our own people, that would just give them something to talk about, and then they'd catch them all in one fell swoop. Wouldn't that be even more troublesome?"
What Su Guoer said makes a lot of sense.
This made Qingluan's eyes light up, and then she said, "That makes sense, doesn't it? If the person is personally appointed by His Majesty, then even if something goes wrong, the one in the Central Palace can't blame us, and the Emperor won't complain either. Besides, many ministers and officials are participating in this Cooking God Competition, and this Cooking God was also selected by them together. If something really goes wrong, none of them can escape!"
"The most we can do then is blame Her Majesty for not doing her job well."
"And..." Qingluan said worriedly.
"This state banquet is to welcome the Hu Kingdom delegation. If it is really messed up by the Empress, I am afraid the emperor will punish it severely..."
Qingluan: "Why don't we just do as Su Guoer said?" she advised.
Concubine Zhang did not speak for the time being, but was thinking about the feasibility of Su Guoer's words.
Asking the chef of this competition to cook, at least the food is guaranteed, and no one else can tamper with the food. Secondly, even if someone does tamper with the food, she can still pass herself off as perfect.
This way, she has less responsibility.
Why not?
"You are a smart little girl?" Concubine Zhang said this at last.
But: "What if the emperor doesn't want to use that chef to cook? Are you willing to serve me?"
After hearing this, Su Guoer knelt down and said in a long voice, "I am willing to share your worries!"
This was of course a joke, but she didn't think she could escape. Concubine Zhang had already set her sights on her, and she and she were on the same side. If she didn't do as she said, she would get nothing good. There was no other way. When she chose to rely on the noble, her path was already doomed.
However, she didn't realize that retribution would come so quickly.
Soon, it was afternoon. The cooking place was in the main hall of Chaoyang Palace. Someone had already set up a stove there, but... Su Guoer and her group did not see the emperor. Only an eunuch came and wrote down their names one by one, as well as the dishes to be cooked.
Allocate ingredients according to what the dish requires.
What Su Guoer is going to make today is: wonton noodles.
Yes, that’s right, a simple bowl of wonton noodles.
A bowl of wonton noodles cooked in clear soup.
Each bowl contains about three or four wontons, a chopstick of clear noodles, and clear soup, which is the wonton noodles used in the competition.
Doesn't it sound rather shabby? Su Guo'er herself actually thought it was rather shabby. She turned to look at the other people's tables, which were piled high with palm-sized pieces of fish and seafood: abalone, shark fin, bear paws, and freshly cut, still-bleeding venison.
It makes Su Guoer look even more shabby.
A piece of prime pork tenderloin, a grass carp, and some spices—nothing else. Even rare and precious ingredients were not on her table.
But she did it on purpose.
Since she had just told the Imperial Concubine that she would let the God of Cooking prepare the state banquet, she would definitely avoid the limelight. So after much thought, she changed the "Shanhai Dou" she had prepared in advance into this simple bowl of "Wonton Noodles".
Don't say she's being perfunctory, this is a matter of life and death.
and…………
This wonton noodle sounds ordinary, but it is actually very difficult to make...
It is particularly complicated and tests the craftsmanship of the chef. Su Guoer chose this to participate in the competition. It will not be embarrassing at all, nor will it appear to be perfunctory. Anyway, they will know when they actually do it.
The ministers on both sides had already taken their seats. Through the curtain, Su Guoer could only see countless people wearing black hats moving around behind the curtain. Finally, she found a seat and sat down. After all the seats were filled, the eunuch here spoke.
He raised his voice and said, "The game begins!"
Su Guoer calmly spread the pork out on the chopping board, then took the small hammer she had prepared in advance and started beating it gently, continuously for about 20 minutes.
Until the whole piece of pork turns into extremely delicate and warm meat paste, add refined potato starch into the meat paste and knead it repeatedly.
I have to say, this is indeed hard work.
But because of these, this dish doesn't seem so perfunctory.
It’s not over yet. Next, you need to use a rolling pin to press the entire piece of pork paste into a thin layer. It looks like wonton wrappers, but it is thinner than wonton wrappers made of flour and looks a little translucent.
This is how a great wonton wrapper is made.
The dumpling filling of pork and shrimp has been prepared long ago. The fresh meat filling is wrapped in this layer of meat skin, forming a unique flavor of meat wrapped in meat. The inside and outside are clearly layered, and the firm wonton skin made of pork tightly locks in the deliciousness of the meat filling.
Su Guoer could already imagine how delicious these wontons would be.
She packed more than 150 in total, all because there were so many people at the scene.
Next it’s time to make the noodles.
If you think these noodles are ordinary noodles, you are wrong.
The things that can be taken to participate in the competition are naturally those that Su Guoer has selected in advance. Although they are not as exquisite and beautiful as Shanhaidou, in terms of taste, these wonton noodles are not inferior to Shanhaidou at all.
However, these wonton noodles appear to be colorless and tasteless. Being colorless and tasteless, it's only slightly inferior in appearance, so it's naturally not going to win an award.
This was Su Guoer's original plan. Replacing the Shanhaidou with wonton noodles would ensure she survived this ordeal safely.
The noodles for wontons are not ordinary noodles, but made of fish. Any fish meat can be used, of course, the one with fewer bones is better. Su Guoer ordered two grass carps.
First, use a blade to remove the bones from the fresh fish, leaving the pure fish meat.
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