Chapter 186 Explosion

Because the competition is about speed, there is almost no time to think about how to prepare the dish.

Once the start is announced, you must start cooking immediately. The slightest hesitation will cause you to fall behind others and ultimately fail.

In this regard, Li Yan, who has been preparing for this for many years, has a huge advantage.

The taste and cooking method of the fried lobster in his hands have been refined through thousands of trials.

For Xu Qing, every step of this duel, from thinking to answering, took time.

Therefore, Li Yan was fully confident about the second match. After he won the second match, the score between the two sides would be one win and one loss, and the third match would be the real key.

Xu Qing looked at the lobster, wondering what he was thinking.

Lai He said loudly: "Now, the second match of the three lobster battles - fried lobsters, starts now!"

As Lai He's voice fell, both sides moved at the same time.

The second showdown in the three lobster battles - fried lobster, is not as simple as just frying the shrimp, it also needs to be paired with soup as an ingredient to highlight the texture and taste of the lobster.

There are six ways to fry food, namely dry frying, soft frying, light frying, crispy frying, crispy frying and pouring frying.

Dry frying means marinating the food, coating it with dry flour or batter, and frying it in oil until golden brown. The food is usually some tender meat or plants, such as fried tenderloin or fried mushrooms.

Soft frying, also known as wet frying, is to coat the outside of the food with a layer of egg white, then coat it with batter, and then fry it in a pan until it is golden. The batter is crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, and the food inside is even more tender and delicious.

The biggest difference between deep-frying and the above two methods is that you don’t need to coat the food with flour or batter, just throw the food directly into the oil pan and fry it. For example, deep-frying potato chips.

For deep-frying, the ingredients must be cooked, that is, they need to be pre-processed. First, the ingredients must be steamed to make them cooked through, and then coated with special crispy powder to make the food crispy during the frying process. For example, deep-fried fish.

Crispy frying is similar to deep frying, but the ingredients are raw. The ingredients are usually tender boneless meat, marinated and coated with a special crispy paste, and fried until golden. The final product is puffy and full, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside.

Deep-frying, also known as oil-splashing frying, is to pour hot oil on the ingredients. Generally, the way to make chili oil at home is to pour it on. There are also roasted chicken, roasted pigeon, etc., where the ingredients are marinated and steamed, and then hot oil is poured on the skin to make the skin crispy.

The chef will choose different frying methods based on the characteristics of the selected ingredients and the final effect.

Among these frying methods, the most suitable for lobsters is crispy frying.

The lobster is soft and boneless. After being marinated, it is coated with crispy batter. The crispy skin is fried and becomes puffy and crispy. The shrimp meat is soft, tender and delicate. Two completely different tastes bloom in your mouth at the same time, bringing a different kind of enjoyment and satisfaction.

The key to fried lobster lies in two things: one is the marinating, and the other is the crispy batter.

Since the second competition requires a test of speed, the marinating time should be as short as possible while also allowing the shrimp meat to be fully flavored.

The mixing ratio of the crispy batter is a key point. Different mixing ratios will produce different tastes.

Finally, there is the third important point besides the other two, which is taste.

In order to maximize the delicious flavor of the lobster, additional sauce is needed for the final seasoning.

At this moment, Xu Qing and Li Yan first marinated the lobster in seasonings, and then made crispy paste.

Then comes the preparation of the sauce.

Li Yan has great confidence in his sauce.

This is the best ratio he achieved after years of hard work and in-depth research.

Lobster has a unique sweet taste, which makes it stand out among many seafoods, and this is also the biggest feature of lobster.

When it comes to fried lobster, the key is the fried texture and the taste of the lobster.

The color and crispiness of the crispy skin are the requirements for frying.

How to perfectly display the unique sweetness of lobster is exactly the requirement of taste.

After continuous experiments, Li Yan found that in order to present the sweet taste of lobster, one of the first things to do is to use nuts as the crispy skin. The unique fragrance of the nuts after frying will make the sweet taste of lobster more intense, and then add the sauce made with ingredients such as apples and onions to maximize the flavor of lobster.

Even though he had done it countless times, he knew all the procedures by heart and had almost formed perfect muscle memory. Li Yan also had sufficient confidence in the final taste of the food. However, even so, Li Yan still did not dare to be negligent in the slightest.

He had experienced the duel between Xu Qing and Lai He before, and later witnessed Xu Qing's inhuman knife skills with his own eyes.

In Li Yan's mind, Xu Qing's threat level had risen to an extremely high level, comparable to Jidi.

No, it should be said that it is higher than the passing score.

Because the pressure Li Yan felt when facing the imperial examination was far less than the pressure he felt when facing Xu Qing.

This young boy is even more terrifying than the top chefs who have been famous for many years.

Li Yan knew Jidi's strength inside and out, but he had no idea about Xu Qing's strength.

Xu Qing always does things beyond people's imagination.

When Li Yan faced him, it was like facing an unfathomable deep pool of water, and he always subconsciously became extremely alert.

He was sweating all over at this moment, not only because of fatigue, but also because of nervousness.

Li Yan didn't even bother to see what Xu Qing was doing. He just focused on making his own dishes.

Just standing opposite Xu Qing made people feel a huge pressure out of nowhere, making Li Yan feel as if there was a tiger chasing him from behind. The only thing he could do was to run as hard as he could.

Therefore, Li Yan cooked at the highest speed, even surpassing the best result he had ever achieved.

When the fried shrimps were finished, Li Yan's sauce was also ready.

He did not dare to delay for a moment, quickly took out the fried golden shrimps, poured the sauce on them as quickly as possible, and then shouted loudly: "I'm done."

At the same time, Xu Qing on the opposite side also immediately said: "I'm done."

Li Yan was shocked.

He doesn't need to think at all when cooking. He has a method that has been honed over and over again, and an ultra-fast speed that is born out of tremendous pressure. With these three favorable factors combined, he still finishes the dish at the same time as Xu Qing.

This opponent is really terrifying.

Li Yan was terrified, but at the same time he felt it was natural.

After all, anyone who possesses such extraordinary knife skills must not be an ordinary person.

Things that are impossible for ordinary people to do are as easy as pie in the sky for him.

Both sides prepared the food at the same time, and there was no clear winner in terms of time, so the key to victory was taste.

Lai He walked up to the two of them and said, "Although I'm not a judge in this round, can I try these two dishes?"

On one side are the dishes made by Li Yan after going through hellish training, and on the other side are the dishes made by Xu Qing, who possesses extraordinary talent. What do these two dishes taste like?
And who will be the final winner?

Lai He was really curious.

Xu Qing said: "Of course."

Li Yan also nodded at the same time.

Xu Qing handed the dish in front of him to Li Yan, and at the same time took the dish handed to him by Li Yan. The two of them then used a knife to cut small portions of the food and gave them to Lai He on the side.

“Let’s start tasting.”

(End of this chapter)