Citrus leaves can be added to the dish, crispy meat makes a sweet and spicy taste of "strange bean", and a piece of fish and meat shreds has won many masters. On October 17th, the "Bayu Artisan" Cup Chongqing Second Rural Revitalization Skills Competition Rural Cuisine Cooking Competition was held in the South Bank Campus of Chongqing Vocational College of Commerce.
After the preliminary round and the second round of selection, 31 contestants from Jiangbei, Yubei, Nan'an, Jiulongpo, Beibei, Changshou, Hechuan, Xiushan, Pengshui, Fengdu and other districts and counties finally entered the final with superb cooking skills.
It is understood that the competition is sponsored by the Chongqing Municipal Commission of Culture and Tourism Development, the Chongqing Municipal Commission of Commerce, the Chongqing Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, and the Chongqing Rural Tourism Association and the Chongqing Farmhouse Industry Association, aiming to improve the service skills and service levels of rural tourism and farm industry practitioners in our city, promote the construction of skilled talents, and help rural revitalization.
Finalists cook the prescribed dish "Fish Fragrant Meat Shredded" and 2 dishes of their choice based on livestock and freshwater aquatic products.
At the scene of the practical competition on the afternoon of the 17th, the chefs took out the unique skills of the housekeeper and used a variety of cooking techniques such as stir-frying, frying, frying, braising, and boiling to produce exquisite rural specialties.
One contestant used the citrus leaves from his hometown to create a tangy lamb chop, which was very creative.
There is also a contestant who will eat the crispy meat every day, after the taste improvement, actually made a sweet and spicy taste that is crisp on the outside and tender on the inside, which is the "strange taste of hu bean" that Chongqing people are familiar with, and it is very bad to eat.
Chinese cooking master, national first-class judge Pan Lian said that this year's rural cuisine competition, to fish fragrant meat shredded as a compulsory work, looks simple, in fact, very difficult, because the fish fragrant meat shredded not only to test the knife worker, but also to test the contestants of the main ingredients with harmony, fried meat shredded not only tender, but also sour, sweet, salty, spicy at the same time, ginger, onion, garlic flavor outstanding characteristics, this is very difficult to grasp, the same person's different mood, fried taste may be different.
In the dish display area, the contestants carefully prepared a variety of dishes, beautiful shapes, mouth-watering.
The jury scored according to the knife work, taste, texture, perception, regional characteristics and cultural connotation.
Pan Lian said that compared with the previous session, this competition also showed many highlights, and many of the contestants' optional dishes were very creative, and they also began to pay attention to the use of rural elements, reflecting a higher competitive state.
Cai Shunlin, the judge of this competition and the dean of the School of Continuing Education of Chongqing Vocational College of Commerce, said that this competition fully interprets the unique culture and characteristics of rural dishes from the aspects of color, aroma, taste, shape and nutrition, and the dishes presented in the rural cuisine competition are to "see nostalgia" and "see far away", and there must be more elements of rural revitalization.
It is understood that on the afternoon of the 17th, Six players from Xiushan County SanwuDao Resort Hotel Yang Yi, Fengdu County Chashan Zhuhai Leisure Farm Huang Ming, Chongqing Guilongyuan Catering Co., Ltd. Mei Zhangwei and other six players entered the top six, after the practice, the organizing committee awarded the winners and units on the spot.
Upstream journalist Xu Ju