Food Wars: Tavern

Vegetarianism.

In recent years, it has been increasingly popular!

However, many people still love the taste and flavor of meat, but at the same time, they also want to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Therefore, to cater to this new dietary trend, many chefs use scientific food processing techniques to give vegetarian ingredients the taste and texture of meat.

Take vegetarian chicken as an example. Despite being a vegetarian dish that has been practiced for more than two and a half years, its essence lies in adjusting the processing method of tofu and adding seasonings to achieve a texture, color, and taste similar to chicken.

To hear of using toast to create a beef effect was a first for Erina.

But after a brief analysis, she felt that this imaginative idea could theoretically be achieved!

"Oh?"

"I guessed half right."

"He indeed made improvements to the hamburger, but the method used was so unique, using toast to create a beef patty!"

At the same time, after looking around, Rindo seemed to understand something.

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Add lard.

Then add wheat flour, mix thoroughly to make the bread more like beef.

Next, add diced onions, eggs, and nutmeg, mix and press until it forms a "beef patty."

Put the beef patty back in the frying pan to fry. Accompanied by the sizzling sound, a rich beef aroma quickly filled the entire tavern.

It is well known that when cooking beef at high temperatures, the proteins and sugars in the muscle tissue undergo the Maillard reaction, which releases various compounds, including aromatic substances.

And now, even the beef patty made from toast could emit this aroma after a brief frying.

"Oh my!"

"This aroma is unique to beef!"

Hisako, who had been acting as a bystander, was shocked as she smelled the beef aroma in the air.

Clearly, successfully creating a beef patty effect from toast was quite mind-blowing for her!

"I see, this method is indeed remarkable."

Erina fell into deep contemplation and finally sighed.

With her current abilities, of course, she could use vegetarian ingredients to achieve the taste and flavor of premium meat.

However, making toast mimic a beef patty was something she would find very challenging.

Until now.

She finally began to see it.

The owner named "Zane" in front of her was not just a person with a false reputation.

Perhaps in his hands, a simple home-cooked dish could indeed surpass the high class dishes that ordinary people could hardly look up to!

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Vegetable juice.

Oyster sauce.

Mustard.

Clear broth.

And most importantly, the teriyaki sauce characteristic of Japan.

Throw all of the above into a pot and simmer over low heat for 5 minutes to make a special sauce.

Then pour this sauce over the beef patty, and assemble it with two bread buns, tomatoes, lettuce, and the beef patty in the style of a hamburger.

So, a hamburger without beef but with a beef-like appearance was completed!

Upon close inspection, the "fake" beef hamburger in front of them could be easily recognized by its appearance.

The bread had a golden appearance, slightly bulging like a small mountain.

Then there was the beef patty, located in the center of the hamburger. With the effect of the special sauce, it had a dark red appearance.

In addition to the bread and the beef patty, there were tomatoes and lettuce, each with a different color, adding a bright color to the burger.

"Wow!"

"It's magical."

"After all these bizarre methods."

"The fake hamburger made can actually be exactly the same as the beef hamburgers sold on the market!"

At this point, Hisako was deeply impressed.

The approach to such cooking was truly eye-opening for her, to the extent of overturning her previous understanding of hamburger cooking.

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Next, prepare tofu dregs.

In the tofu dregs, add low-gluten flour, sugar, water, mix, and knead until it reaches the softness of an earlobe, yes, an earlobe!

After shaping it into tofu-like blocks, cut it into the shape of French fries and deep-fry it.

The fries made from tofu dregs were tasteless.

So, to enhance the flavor experience, Zane deliberately prepared butterfish meat, finely chopped it, and mixed it with unsalted butter to make a thick buttered fish.

Finally, add the buttered fish to the fries.

And the specially flavored fries made from butterfish were thus completed.

"These fries!"

"They're not made from potatoes but... tofu dregs?"

After watching the entire cooking process, Erina was on the verge of losing it.

Only then did she realize that the hamburger, fries, and the upcoming chocolate brownie were all not what they seemed.

"Miss, he's really amazing."

"He actually made fries from tofu dregs."

"And he... also carefully made a sauce using butterfish, allowing flavorless fries to have a unique butterfish taste!"

Unlike the frustrated Erina, Hisako's eyes were shining, filled with profound admiration!

At this moment, even though she had many things to say, all her words eventually condensed into one sentence:

"Chef Zane, you are simply amazing!"

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After ignoring Hisako's repeated exclamations, Zanebegan preparing the final dish: Chocolate Brownie!

As he started, he brought out an ingredient that caught everyone present by surprise—rice bran!

Yes, the kind of rice bran that people discard when polishing rice.

He added coffee and plum sauce to the rice bran, then rum, butter, nuts, and more.

Then he placed it in the oven for baking, setting the temperature at 180 degrees Celsius in the middle for 35 minutes.

Finally, with a "ding," the oven finished its work, and the chocolate brownie made from rice bran appeared before everyone!

"Toast bread."

"Beef patties, then hamburgers!"

"Tofu dregs."

"Made into fries!"

"But these fries have no taste, so he used butterfish to enhance the flavor."

"And then... how could he have thought of using rice bran, such a coarse and broken ingredient, to make the exquisite chocolate brownie!"

Three Western fast foods.

None of these remotely followed traditional methods.

With such cooking techniques, how could Erina not feel amazed and stunned?

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