Chapter 153: Little Kitty, come and eat the fish
Chapter 153: Little Kitty, come and eat the fish
Robb said, "What are you planning?"
The Queen said, "nothing! My cooks are going to make me a midnight snack."
Robb said, "Why are they preparing exactly the same things as my little maid?"
The Queen said calmly, "coincidentally it's just a coincidence."
Robb couldn't help laughing. "I say, your Majesty, you must be upset about the cream cake, aren't you? There is obviously delicious food in front of you, but your cook can't cook it, so he has to buy it from me. So, when you see that I'm going to cook new food, you quickly want to plagiarize on the spot and try to copy every step, lest your cook can't handle it again. "
The Queen shook her head solemnly. "No, it's just a coincidence."
Robb smiled and said, "well, let's take it as a coincidence."
He smiled and ordered: "cut the fish first and remove everything from the gills, scales, and belly of the big black fish."
The kitten girl started to do it first, not waiting for Lillian to start. The cat folk is all good at dealing with fish. Although the kitten girl is young, she is really quick and good at taking care of the fish. It only took a few minutes to wash and peel the big black fish clean.
Robb glanced at the side of the crystal ball and saw that the Queen's two cooks also took care of the two big black fish, in the same way, doing every step exactly as he said. After all, they were professional royal cooks and did a better job than Kitty.
Robb was happy, "I said, your pirated copy is even better than the genuine one on my side."
The Queen looked calm and said, "I don't understand what you're saying."
Hahaha, continue doing that. Robb turned his head and commanded, "make a few cuts on the fish. It's hard to describe it clearly in words, so I'll do it myself. "
He picked up the knife and made several parallel cuts on the fish.
To be honest, Robb is not very good at cooking. These cuts are so bad that he knows the original will lose again. Sure enough, when he turns around, two of the Queen's cooks have cut out a row of beautiful cuts in the fish.
Queen, "the moon is beautiful tonight."
The next step is to rid of the fishy smell. Originally, steamed fish would use cooking wine and ginger, but where could he find cooking wine and ginger in this strange place? Robb had to shake his head and sigh, "it's a pity that there is no ginger and no cooking wine, so we will just use ordinary wine.
He said to himself. It was heard by the Queen. She whispered something. After a while, the cook on the other side of the crystal ball unexpectedly took out a piece of ginger.
"Damn it!" Robb pointed to the crystal ball and said, "you cheated."
The Queen said faintly, " I am a royal. It is not surprising that I am rich in resources. This is from the sea merchant in Lost City, the precious spices shipped from Big Tang through the ocean. If you really want it. it's not that I can't sell you some, but you have to tell me how to use it first.
Robb rolled his eyes, "just use a little bit of ginger, shred it into pieces and paste it on the fish with the wine. Leave it for a while to get rid of the fishy smell."
He said as he covered the fish with the wine.
The cook opposite was flying, not only keeping up with Robb's movements but also doing better than Robb. Soon, the two big black fish had been pickled with ginger and wine.
Everything is ready!
Robb told Lily to set up the big pot, filled half of it with water, placed a rack higher than the whiter, and then began to boil it.
Robb used a wooden rack on this side, but the Queen on the other side used a silver rack.
When the water boiled, steam came out.
Robb asked Lillian to marinate the fish, put them on a large plate, and then on the rack. Of course, the cooks on the other side did the same.
Robb covered the pot.
Timer started
After eight minutes, Robb shouted, "lift the lid of the pot and pick up the fish."
Westerners almost never come into contact with "steaming," not to mention the Queen. Even the two great cooks have no confidence in what they are cooking and have no idea what they will see until they lift the lid of the pot.
It was not until the lid was taken away and the steam drifted away that they saw that the fish they had just put into the pot had been steamed into a very strange shape.
The oblique cuts in its stomach were all turned up, revealing its white and tender insides, which looked so glittery and translucent that one could not help but move his finger at a glance.
The fragrance rushed out of the pot and filled everyone's noses.
"Oh, that smell, it smells good!" Her Majesty was overjoyed, but on the surface, she was unmoved but said faintly, "it seems that my side has succeeded. My fish seems to be more beautiful than yours."
Isn't that nonsense?
The fish that a royal cook handled with his own hands compared with Robbs wild cooking. They were not of the same grade at all. If you only look at the shape, the steamed fish on the princess's side beats Robb, and there is more ginger on the princess's side to increase the fragrance, but not on Robb's side!
However, Robb's face had an evil smile: "your Majesty, I admit that you have plagiarized my work perfectly. However, my last step is something you can't plagiarize anyway. "
The Queen thumped in her heart and thought, [really? What else is left? Wait, soybeans, salt, and wheat have not been used yet. Is there anything we cant learn about these three things?]
Robb grabbed a handful of soybeans in his hand and said with a smile, "the most important thing to eating steamed fish is to have soy sauce. Itll taste soulless otherwise.
With that, Robb used his "chef" skills, choosing material: "soybean," "salt," "wheat," and "glass bottle," and then rubbed his hands. The materials automatically fused together into a bottle of brown "soy sauce."
He took the soy sauce and shook it from side to side in front of the crystal ball, "come on, copy the way I made soy sauce."
The Queen's face darkened and turned to the two cooks. "did you see what he did just now?"
The two cooks shook their heads together, "I couldnt see it clearly. I don't know how to rub soybeans, salt, and wheat into that strange liquid. Gugu and Jiji said that he made the cream in the same way."
The Queen cried in her heart.
Robb opened the bottle and slowly poured soy sauce on the steamed fish. The fish, which had been steamed a little white, turned into an attractive maroon as soon as it was drenched by the soy sauce, and it seemed that it now tasted a hundred times better.
Robb pushed the plate in front of the kitten girl and said with a smile, "Kitty, come and eat the fish!"