PFC Chapter 371 Shredded Pork with Green Pepper
Chapter 371 Shredded Pork with Green Pepper
Shredded pork with green peppers was an expected popular dish, and none of the contestants were surprised at all. After all, they knew what the ingredients were as soon as they came in and saw the prepared ingredients on the small table.
On the small table were a basket of screw peppers, half a basket of green peppers, half a basket of chili peppers, a piece of lean meat cut into squares, two eggs, onions, ginger, garlic, flour, starch, a series of seasonings, and everything you could think of that was related to making stir-fried pork with green peppers.
Zhao Xiaojing stood in front of the small table, lowered her head and silently opened the quality inspection module, scanning the quality of the ingredients in front of herself and other contestants.
[Screw pepper: Level 3, common variety grown in greenhouses, fresh, slightly spicy. ]
[Green pepper, grade 3, common variety grown in greenhouses, fresh, medium spiciness. ]
【Chili pepper, grade 3, common variety from the planting base, fresh, high spiciness, etc.】
[Lean meat: Grade 3, fresh hind leg meat from pigs from a farm.]
I scanned the surrounding area continuously and found that everything was level three, neither good nor bad, but fresh.
After all, it was an open audition, and the quality of the green pepper and pork shreds, which was provided by such a large number of applicants, was already quite good, and Zhao Xiaojing's impression of Baitao TV improved a little. Although it had a lot of advertisements, it had to be said that for such a low cost of hosting a competition, a lot of advertisements was acceptable.
Zhao Xiaojing felt relieved and began to look at the contestants around her. The name of the competition was Fresh Chef Competition, which, as the name suggests, was a competition among the younger generation of chefs. The age limit for registration was also under 3 years old, so there were young faces everywhere around her.
Originally, I thought that based on the gender distribution of chefs, there should be more men than women at the scene, but when Zhao Xiaojing looked around, she found that the male to female ratio was about 3:7, and there were actually far fewer men than women.
"The game is about to officially begin! Next, our big screen will count down, and when the pointer points to 'zero', the game will officially begin!
Now, all contestants are requested to make final preparations, adjust your state, and show your best cooking skills. Audience friends, please hold your breath and witness the arrival of this wonderful moment together! "
After some impassioned encouragement and big praise, the host left the stage, and the temporary big screen on the stage began to count down. All the contestants stared at the big screen.
Five, four, three, two, one, zero!
The countdown ended, the competition began, and many contestants started moving at the same time.
Zhao Xiaojing estimated the amount of lean meat. A piece of lean meat was the size of a palm, which was about the amount of a large portion of shredded pork with green peppers. However, there were only twelve judges, and there were too many dishes to taste. They could only take one bite of each dish at most. To avoid waste, half would be enough.
Although the dish is made with shredded pork and green pepper, Zhao Xiaojing, who is used to making stir-fried pork with peppers, is actually more accustomed to adding a little fat, keeping the fat-to-lean ratio at 9:1 or 8:2. This increases the oiliness of the lean meat, and it doesn't even need to be marinated in advance, and it can still be fried without being dry and with a full meaty aroma.
However, the organizer only provided pure lean meat, so we can follow the conventional method and marinate it with some scallion and ginger water.
Zhao Xiaojing picked up the scallion and ginger, cleaned them, cut them into thick strips, added a small half spoonful of salt, and began to mix the scallion and ginger. After a while, the surface of the scallion and ginger became sticky and slowly oozed yellow juice. Zhao Xiaojing mixed half a bowl of warm water from the water dispenser at the back and poured it into the mixture, then added a few peppercorns to soak it.
After making the onion and ginger water, Zhao Xiaojing began to prepare the dishes.
Taking into account the different levels of tolerance of spicy food among the judges, Zhao Xiaojing took half a frame of the slightly spicy screw pepper, only one of the highly spicy chili pepper, and three of the medium-spicy string peppers. This ratio is not too spicy, but you can still taste the spiciness.
The lean meat provided by the organizer is fresh meat. Although the contestants all started to move at the same time and seemed busy, you could tell whether they were just there to join in the fun or to really compete from the way they cut the meat.
Zhao Xiaojing took a quick look, then looked away after seeing several people gritting their teeth and struggling to cut strips, slices, and sticks of meat. She managed to hold back her laughter, chopped all the peppers and other ingredients into shreds, and then started to process the lean meat.
Fresh lean meat is soft and needs to be sliced and then shredded. It cannot be too thick, otherwise the heat will be difficult to control when frying, and it cannot be too thin, otherwise people will not be able to taste the meat.
A minute later, all the lean meat and side dishes were cut into even shreds. Perhaps because the movement was too quick and neat, several people around cast curious glances at him.
After cutting the vegetables, Zhao Xiaojing took out the seasonings she had prepared long ago, added a little pepper, soy sauce, cooking wine, and bean powder to the shredded meat, mixed evenly, then added onion and ginger water, egg white, cooking oil, and stirred well.
Although shredded pork with green pepper is a classic home-cooked dish, if you really want to make it delicious, you still need to follow the standard Sichuan cuisine method of stir-frying and frying. Use short stir-frying over high heat, without adding too much oil, and without changing the pot. The dish should be cooked in one pot over high heat. Therefore, you also need to prepare the starch.
Zhao Xiaojing quickly prepared the starch for the bowl, then turned on the fire, heated the pan with cold oil, and put the shredded pork in at 40% oil temperature.
When the shredded meat is shaped and loose, add the shredded ginger and garlic, stir-fry the sweet bean sauce until fragrant, then add the green pepper.
Just as shredded pork with green pepper is a classic home-cooked dish, whether to put the meat or the green pepper first is also a classic question.
The ingredients for shredded pork with green pepper and stir-fried pork with chili are very similar, and they sound similar, but when you look into it in detail, the taste and techniques are quite different.
When making stir-fried pork with chili, the key is to dry the chili first to remove the green smell and at the same time bring out the spiciness of the chili to the greatest extent so that it can quickly blend with the aroma of the meat. In the end, the chili has the taste of meat and the meat has the taste of chili. As for shredded pork with green pepper, the green pepper has the refreshing and crisp taste and the shredded pork is fresh, fragrant and tender. The chili and shredded pork complement each other and bring out the layering of each other.
Therefore, when Zhao Xiaojing makes shredded pork with green pepper, she is accustomed to stir-frying the meat first, and then adding the green pepper when the meat is cooked. After the green pepper is cooked, she adds a bowl of starch for seasoning.
The stir-fried shredded pork and green pepper came out quickly, but the most time-consuming part of the whole dish was actually the preparation. Zhao Xiaojing placed the shredded pork and green pepper on a plate, moved it slightly to the middle with chopsticks, wiped off the oil stains on the edge of the plate, and then raised the sign to signal.
The staff member came over quickly, took out a number plate from the drawer next to Zhao Xiaojing's small table and stuck it on the tray, then walked towards the judges with the shredded pork with green peppers.
Zhao Xiaojing washed the pot and then began to look around and observe the situation of the other contestants.
More than half of the contestants had not yet finished their dishes. It was normal that their techniques varied, but the various situations were so ridiculous that it was hard to believe.
There was one who was arguing loudly with the staff, shouting that the ingredients were not enough and that another portion was needed, while in front of him was a plate of shredded pork and green pepper that was fried with too much water for some reason; there was one who put two useless eggs in his pocket after cooking, and when he saw that no one noticed, he wanted to poke the small bottle of oil, but was seen and reported by others, and then he quarreled with the reporter; and there was a male contestant who was shouting and yelling in a pot, but the female contestant next to him held the pot and put out the fire with two big flips of the spoon, causing laughter from everyone around him...