Vegetarian dishes often mix different vegetables.
In dishes with both meat and vegetables, various vegetables are often mixed in, but pure meat dishes rarely use two or more different types of meat.
For example:
Di San Xian (Three Earthly Delicacies).
It includes eggplant, potato, and green pepper.
Then, in terms of dishes with both meat and vegetables, there are also dishes like Mapo Tofu and Big Plate Chicken, which combine vegetables and meat, and the proportion of vegetables is almost always very high!
But when it comes to pure meat dishes, if you don't count seafood, or mushroom ingredients with a similar texture to meat, or small amounts of fish sauce, ham, etc., used for flavoring, then it feels like dishes made by mixing different types of meat are particularly rare!
Of course, it's not to say there aren't any.
Buddha Jumps Over the Wall.
Fish Bites Lamb.
Dragon Phoenix Soup.
Pork Ribs Chicken.
Meat Hook Chicken.
Li Hongzhang's Mixed Stew.
And, like dumplings with three fresh fillings!
These dishes all contain two or more types of meat ingredients.
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The world is vast, so vast that the number of culinary dishes can rival the stars in the sky, making it impossible to count them all.
Therefore, there must be many dishes that combine different meats, but as just mentioned, they are relatively "rare."
This rarity refers to order rate, exposure ratio, attention, recognition...
Under normal circumstances.
It also won't appear in home settings.
There are many reasons for this phenomenon.
First, "more vegetable dishes" are easier to cook and handle than "more meat dishes."
"More vegetable dishes" like Mu Xu Rou and Di San Xian have become common dishes in restaurants.
In Mu Xu Rou, for example, vegetables like cucumber, carrot, and wood ear mushrooms can be cut into different sized slices to control cooking doneness. If the control isn't perfect, it's fine, as vegetables, even if slightly undercooked, don't significantly affect the taste, offering high tolerance!
Meat ingredients are different. Even if it's pork from the same pig, sliced pork liver, when coated and put into the wok, only needs a few seconds to be cooked, resulting in a tender and crisp texture.
But if the time is a little longer, and the pork liver is overcooked, it will become tough and dry, difficult to swallow.
Pork belly, on the other hand, needs to be stir-fried for a longer time, allowing the fat to fully permeate and melt, releasing the aroma of the lard...
Hmm!
These are just two types of meat.
If more types of meat ingredients are mixed in, then controlling the doneness of the ingredients will definitely become very complex!
On the other hand, "more meat dishes" with more than three meat ingredients are usually very heavy-flavored.
Because meat ingredients themselves have rich and unique flavors, multiple meat ingredients mean complexity of taste. To blend multiple rich flavors together, one can only suppress them with heavy salt, heavy oil, heavy spice, and heavy sauce!
These rich-flavored and meat-rich dishes are traditionally considered "main courses" in banquets, precious and respectable.
So, to put it plainly, it's still a cost issue.
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"A dish."
"It's not unheard of to mix several different types of meat."
"But generally, meats without much fat are easily mixed, like various seafood and some offal."
"Dried shrimp, dried scallops, and other similar meats, though they are meat, can be used as seasonings due to their small quantity. As for abalone and sea cucumber, which are very bland-tasting seafood meats, they need other meats to enhance their freshness, such as the Buddha Jumps Over the Wall dish in Celestial Empire."
"Offal like pork liver and chicken gizzards, which don't have much flavor, are eaten primarily for the sauce, like in 'Double Explosions'."
"As for common meats like pork, beef, lamb, chicken, and fish, each has its own main flavor."
"A dish can only have one main flavor."
"Any more…"
Eizan Etsuya said in a low voice, shocked.
They say that an expert's move reveals their skill, and although he has not done much research in cooking, it does not mean that he knows nothing!
To dare to use 5 different types of meat ingredients, which are also strongly fishy, to make a dish to entertain diners.
Just for this boldness.
This Shopkeeper can easily defeat many Far Moon students.
Until this moment, Eizan Etsuya finally understood why this seemingly ordinary Izakaya had caused the monthly turnover of his 5 restaurants to decline.
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Then, add carrots, egg yolks, tomatoes, etc. to the meat filling.
The purpose of adding some vegetables is to achieve a higher level of taste.
Next, Sosuke took out a well-ventilated bamboo steamer.
Seeing this, Eizan Etsuya was even more puzzled, not that he hadn't seen this thing, but he couldn't imagine that he would choose to steam this dish!
Finally, gently roll up the 5 types of meat filling mixed with carrots, egg yolks, and tomatoes, forming them into strips.
Then put them into the steamer and wait for them to cook slowly.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Time, it passed quickly.
When the time was right, Sosuke opened the steamer.
At once, the hazy steam instantly flowed out, enveloping everything in sight, truly like this:
Myriad flavors presented, ever-changing.
Just like a martial arts master's endless moves, unpredictable to all.
And at this moment, the dish named "Jade Flute, Who Hears the Plum Blossoms Falling??" was finally born!
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"5 kinds of meat?"
"Looking at it… why does it all seem to be beef?"
Slightly raising his glasses with his hand, then staring blankly at this never-before-seen dish, Eizan Etsuya's emotions inevitably became complex.
Because he found that this dish had completely exceeded his comprehension.
After that, he paused for a few seconds.
Only then did he pick up his chopsticks, pick up a small piece, and slowly put it into his mouth.
As soon as he bit down, he felt his mouth filled with a delicious taste, a taste that was definitely not ordinary beef.
"Hmm?"
"This… this is…"
Eizan Etsuya wrinkled his nose several times.
He quickly reacted, his movements becoming very swift, each time he lifted his chopsticks it was as if he was snatching precious food.
His mouth, moreover, was wide, so wide that it could almost fit an egg.
No, it was an apple.
So much so that his eating manners were quite ungraceful now.
His originally handsome face was distorted by the amount of food he stuffed in, causing his cheeks to swell and his eyeballs to protrude, like an ugly "toad."
The sound of his chewing was also like a wild and joyful melody, as if the world only contained him and this dish of "Jade Flute, Who Hears the Plum Blossoms Falling??".
Perhaps?
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