Chapter 370: Ryohei's Deep-Fried One-Horned Bear Meat Cake!
The group was led to the "Matsuya Group's" temporary base nearby.
Not long after, Minos had a large amount of specialty snacks brought over, filling two large tables.
"The table on the left is homemade by our 'Matsuya Group', and the one on the right is from 'Yoshinoya'... Everyone, come and taste."
Minos raised her hand to introduce.
She had prepared plenty of each snack, enough for everyone.
"Mn." Ryohei responded, glancing roughly over the tables, finding quite a few snacks needing improvement.
Besides, many of these were ones he had eaten in the past few days.
For example, Deep-Fried One-Horned Bear Meat Cake, Cthulhu Takoyaki, Grum Blood Sausage, Tomahawk Steak with Yakisoba, Multi-Layer Burger, Black Fries, Teppanyaki, various fried foods...
The air was filled with the intertwined aromas of various foods, making one's index finger twitch and appetite surge just by smelling it!
Ryohei casually picked up a Grilled Demon Swordfish, and Jashin-chan, Lucoa, and Pekola also picked up what they wanted to eat.
The group chatted while eating, making Minos crave food just by watching, so she joined in the feast.
By the time they finished the two big tables of specialty snacks, an hour had passed.
"Minos, prepare a kitchen for me, and get these ingredients ready."
Ryohei took out paper and pen from his storage space, wrote down a list of ingredients and seasonings, then handed the list to Minos.
"..." Minos took it, scanned it quickly, and looked up thoughtfully: "Some ingredients are not in the warehouse; I need to arrange for someone to buy them fresh, gotta wait a bit."
"Okay." Ryohei nodded casually.
Minos immediately called her assistant and instructed her to arrange personnel to purchase ingredients and seasonings...
More than half an hour later—
All the ingredients and seasonings Ryohei needed were ready. He was led by Minos to a modern kitchen.
Looking around casually, Ryohei handed his phone to Lucoa and instructed: "Lucoa, film my entire cooking process."
He planned to record a tutorial video for Minos so that the demons of the "Matsuya Group" could understand and learn more easily.
"Okay, leave it to me!"
Lucoa took the phone, puffed out her chest, gave a thumbs up, and boasted: "Not to brag, but my filming skills are top-notch, guaranteed clear picture, absolutely no blur!"
"Ah! By the way, I'm best at filming 'artistic' videos!" She deliberately emphasized the word "artistic."
"No need to mention that!"
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Ryohei understood instantly and retorted speechlessly.
Turning to Jashin-chan and Pekola, he said: "Jashin-chan, you be my assistant. Pekola, help apply a few 'Time Acceleration' buffs later."
"Mn."
Jashin-chan and Pekola responded one after another.
Everything was ready!
Ryohei, having tied on his apron, came to the cooking counter, looked at Lucoa who had already raised the phone on the other side, and said: "Then... let's begin!"
"First, we start with the Deep-Fried One-Horned Bear Meat Cake."
Facing the camera, Ryohei's voice was steady and clear:
"Bear fat has a very strong gamey smell, which will seriously affect the overall flavor, so I decided to discard the fat part."
"Jashin-chan."
He turned his head and gave instructions to Jashin-chan beside him, who had tied her hair into a high ponytail and was wearing a naked apron:
"Go get a piece of bear meat, remove the fat and fascia, cut it into suitable sizes, put it in cold water, and soak with a small amount of salt."
"Change the water every half hour. Let Pekola coordinate with you, change until no more blood water seeps out."
After speaking, Ryohei looked back at the camera and explained: "This step can effectively remove most of the gamey smell from the bear meat."
"Understood!"
Jashin-chan, entering kitchen assistant mode, responded crisply and went to the ingredient counter to find bear meat. Pekola also gave an "Mn," indicating she would coordinate well with Jashin-chan.
Ryohei assigned some simple tasks and didn't stay idle himself, preparing to make the dipping sauce—
"For a good fried meat cake, the dipping sauce is also extremely important."
"As mentioned earlier, I plan to discard the bear fat. This will reduce the gamey smell, but correspondingly, the wild deliciousness of the bear will also be relatively reduced."
"Therefore, I decided to add a wild deliciousness through the dipping sauce!"
While speaking, Ryohei brought the camera to the ingredient counter, precisely grabbing a large bone with some lean meat and fat layer.
"So... how to give the dipping sauce the wild deliciousness of a bear?"
Ryohei looked at the camera and answered his own question: "My plan is to use bear bone broth as the base to make the dipping sauce!"
"..."
Outside the camera—
Minos crossed her arms, wagging her tail gently, staring unblinkingly at Ryohei, her eyes shining.
They say focused people are the most handsome, and people focused for you are even handsomer!
She felt Ryohei was incredibly handsome at this moment!
Especially that sentence—
"Add a wild deliciousness through the dipping sauce" really hit her!
She felt Ryohei was amazing!
"..."
With Pekola's assistance, Ryohei smoothly completed a series of steps: soaking the blood out of the large bone, blanching with the three-piece set for removing gamey smell, and simmering the broth.
At the same time, Jashin-chan also processed the bear meat according to his instructions.
Ryohei continued to issue instructions:
"Next, go get a piece of pork back fat, mix it with the bear meat in a 3:1 ratio. Reserve a portion and mince it with a knife to retain granularity, and grind the rest with a meat grinder."
Pork back fat is the key to the juiciness of the Deep-Fried One-Horned Bear Meat Cake; it can also enhance the overall flavor!
"Okay."
Jashin-chan responded concisely and wriggled her tail to get the pork back fat.
Ryohei prepared other ingredients for the meat filling—
White apple, Demon Face Ginger, Tulip Garlic, Thyme, Sweet Marjoram leaves, Onion...
"..."
Everything proceeded methodically!
Soon, the three steps of mixing filling, shaping and refrigerating, and coating with batter were completed, reaching the final step—
Deep frying!
"..." Ryohei set up a deep pot, boldly poured in half a pot of peanut oil, and lit the fire to heat it.
When ripples appeared on the oil surface, he used a skimmer to slide the prepared One-Horned Bear Meat Cakes into the pot one by one.
Sizzle—!
The moment the hot oil collided with the meat cakes, a joyous sound burst forth. Countless golden oil bubbles surged up happily, crowding around every meat cake.
Rich and enticing aroma steamed and permeated, weaving an invisible net in the air—
That was the most primitive fragrance excited by the Maillard reaction of the meat cakes in the rolling oil!
Smelling quite tempting!
"..." Ryohei smelled this fragrance, fried the meat cakes at low temperature for five minutes, fished them out to drain oil and cool, then fried them again at high temperature.
Two minutes later—
A plate of piping hot, fragrant Deep-Fried Bear Meat Cakes was fresh out of the pot!
He drizzled them with the special sauce and greeted everyone: "Alright... come and taste!"
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