Chapter 72 Hot Pot with Barbecue (Part 2)
"Delicious! How can it be so delicious!" Eslan used a twisted and unskilled posture to pick up the two thin bamboo sticks given by the skeleton chef and stuffed the meat slices from the pot into his mouth. "So tender! So fragrant! It melts in your mouth!"
The mushroom soup is rich and mellow, full of the delicious taste of the mountains. The red and white lamb slices sway a few times in the bubbling soup and turn into a beautiful brown color.
The lamb slices, soaked in broth, are rich and flavorful eaten straight from the broth. However, the dipping sauce has its own unique flavor: a perfect blend of sweet and savory soy sauce, combined with a rich, oily peanut butter, coated with garlic, scallions, and cilantro. With the addition of the hot pot broth, the distinct ingredients in the small bowl instantly meld together, evolving into a strange, unique, and incredibly delicious flavor.
Seasoning in the Huntington has always been a polarized concept. This, of course, is also due to the high cost of seasonings and spices. For ordinary people, adding salt to a dish is considered average, pepper is considered above average, and sugar is a rare luxury. Furthermore, the ingredients used are unreliable, often fishy, smelly, and unprocessed. The result is a tangled tug-of-war between the raw fishy flavor and the minimal seasoning.
The nobility were more particular. Among other things, their ingredients were fresher than those of the poor, and they were also generously seasoned. However, the skill of removing fishy and odorous ingredients varied greatly from chef to chef, with most relying on heaping spices to determine their success. Consequently, it was common for a meal to leave one's mouth saturated with the taste of spices, leaving them unable to discern what they had just consumed.
Chicken, beef, mutton, fish...different ingredients are rolled in the same lethal dose of spices, and when they come out they all taste like chunks of meat, and you can't tell the quality or freshness at all.
Before noon today, Eslan, who had only ever drunk heavily milky mushroom soup, had finally tasted clear mushroom soup for the second time in his life. His brain, overwhelmed by this complex and unique umami attack, was unable to process it and nearly shut down.
…It’s so delicious, so delicious! Although cooking so many different types of mushrooms together is already a top-notch delicacy, it turns out that mushrooms are best cooked with meat to bring out the best aroma!
When eating the salted pork and mushroom soup at noon, Eslan thought it was the best bowl of soup in his life. But compared with the perfect mushroom and mutton hot pot in the evening, that bowl of soup was only half as delicious!
I have to say that the bacon pickled by the hotel owner is really lame. It is not as delicious as the bone soup stewed with fresh goat!
This kind of mutton has a unique texture: all the fishy smell is in the skin and internal organs, with no trace of strange taste in the bones or meat. The thick goat fat has stewed into the broth, completely absorbed by the dry mushrooms.
The mushrooms used in the soup were a variety that required heavy oil cooking to be delicious. Eslan still clearly remembered that when they followed their instructor to record ice element data in the mountains, they had eaten mixed mushrooms made by the owner at this inn.
The boss was very stingy. He cooked the mushrooms in water and only added a little oil and a lot of salt. As a result, the whole dish tasted like chewing dry tree bark, salty, hard and astringent.
After the meal, they not only didn't feel full, but also felt like their stomachs had been stripped of two layers of fat and water. When the study was over and they returned to school, each of them had lost 5 kilograms!
Compared to those painful memories, the taste of this mushroom hotpot is truly divine! The same mushrooms, now happily stretched out in the broth, revealing plump, tender, and juicy flesh. With one bite, the juices explode in the mouth, and a complex array of flavors unfolds on the tongue: a perfectly balanced salty aroma, a refreshing umami flavor, and a gentle yet gentle, tidal-like sweetness...
His brain seemed to have become the dark night sky, and those wonderful flavors were like fireworks, exploding on his taste buds, dancing on his nerves, and presenting a brilliant color in his vision.
Eslan Cosmic Cat Head: "I, I seem to see gorgeous fireworks!"
Jiangyou rushed to their table immediately and used several poison detection techniques on the pot again, only feeling relieved after confirming that there were no uncooked or poisonous mushrooms mixed in.
"Didn't you see any strange little man?" she asked cautiously.
Eslan shook his head blankly. "No, I'm just saying this mutton and mushroom hotpot is so delicious! Woohoo, every flavor is like a brilliant firework, exploding before my eyes! I feel like reciting poetry!"
As he spoke he began to ponder over the subject of a sonnet, but Shabu's hands and mouth did not stop moving.
Jiang You breathed a sigh of relief: "Good, it's not mushroom poisoning, it's just a funny thing."
The funny magician trio: “?”
Lani, holding a hot pot in one hand and a lamb skewer in the other, only managed to utter a couple of grunts. He couldn't stop eating, not even thinking about talking. Just kidding, the time it took him to finally utter the word "delicious" was enough for him to chew that huge leg of lamb! Only a noble heir like Eslan would ponder such a question at the dinner table!
Henry, who was in tune with his friend, knew what Lani wanted to say just by hearing his humming. He nodded in agreement and continued to cut up the oversized leg of lamb with his dagger.
The thick, tough skin of the goat has been peeled off in advance, but after being roasted, the outer layer of meat and fascia form a new, crispy shell.
It is golden and greasy, and it makes a crisp sound when you knock it. Use a knife and fork to poke the meat along the grain and tear it apart, and steaming hot air and rich gravy will overflow.
Henry divided the big lamb leg into three parts as evenly as possible. Each part has a crispy crust, tender and juicy interior and roasted tendons that are soft and sticky. It is sprinkled with green chopped green onions and has a strong aroma.
Henry placed the divided mutton on a plate and handed it to his friend, keeping the bone for himself. The joy of gnawing on the bone was indescribable; every bite was a hearty, wild indulgence. Even though he looked nothing like a nerd and his face was covered in grease, Henry had no complaints. After chewing the entire thigh bone, he even sucked his gravy-soaked fingers with unsatisfied satisfaction.
"This is the best meal I've ever had in my life!" Not only did the magicians say this, but the hunters, servants, and even the innkeeper all nodded in agreement. Hot pot and barbecue, what a perfect combination! Any side dish tasted delicious after being dipped in the mushroom soup. Even the wild vegetables they originally disliked became especially delicious after absorbing the mutton and mushroom broth. They were no longer the dry, astringent, and greasy vegetables they used to be!
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