Chapter 324: A New Style of Swedish atballs
Translator: Xiong Guoqi Editor: DesTheSloth
The western restaurant, judged by Yuan Zhou as being useless, was busy with their own preparations at the mont. Yet, it was only noon now.
As for Yuan Zhou, he was preparing the dishes earnestly.
The cooking thod of Swedish atball wasn’t actually complex but the ingredients required were nevertheless not little.
As Yuan Zhou’s requirents on dishes were getting higher and higher, he had practiced for a long ti before starting to serve it.
Of course, Yuan Zhou could swear that he never intended to serve the dish at the sa ti as when the new restaurant comnced business. Well, after all, it was him that had chosen the ti first.
As for the matter of it being the first day of National Day Holiday, that was totally God’s will.
Who should one bla if one wanted to seek embarrassnt themselves?
As was known to all, Yuan Zhou was a good boy and a good chef, always honest and kind.
The Swedish atball dish was quite influential in Sweden and the neighboring countries. In Norway, Denmark and Finland, it was a very popular dish.
Besides, the atball could be seen everywhere, in various restaurants, fast food restaurants, supermarkets, companies or school canteens.
Even among the top 10 cuisine hot list, the atball had never fallen far behind.
After Yuan Zhou obtained the recipe, however, he studied the dish for quite a long ti and tried every classical cooking thod.
By the way, the chef that appeared in Yuan Zhou’s mind this ti was really like what Yuan Zhou had imagined, all foreigners except for a single Chinese.
"Carry them to the custors." After Yuan Zhou prepared several servings of atball, he directly carried them onto the countertop and instructed Zhou Jia to carry them to the custors.
Yuan Zhou had finished most of the preparation work beforehand this ti, so the speed of producing dishes was much quicker.
Of course, it was also because that the Nordics were reluctant to spend more ti and efforts on cooking, compared with Easterners.
"Holy sh*t. The atball is way too beautiful," Wu Zhou said first in surprise.
"Is this a peacock?" Zhao Yingjun craned his neck long and was rather curious.
Indeed. The Swedish atball on the table was truly good-looking.
An ordinary dish would have no more than a few atballs at one side and the prepared mashed potatoes at the other on a white plate with surrounded edges. Accompanied with that would be a small plate of blueberry dipping sauce or even so pickled cucumbers.
However, the atball cooked by Yuan Zhou was quite different. The atballs were placed on a stage on the plate. In the middle part that was left vacant, he made the body of a peacock with the mashed potatoes. At first glance, people would almost mistake the jade-color thin pieces inserted beside the atballs as the peacock tail.
"How aweso is this styling!" Wu Zhou rotated the plate slowly and watched it carefully.
"Not only is the styling marvelous, but it also has a chanism inside." Wu Hai said at the side with a showing-off manner.
"chanism? By the way, aren’t you providing the cranberry sauce, Boss Yuan?" Manager Shi suddenly thought of this important supporting role.
"I do. You can try to find it out by yourself." Sotis, Yuan Zhou would make so small jokes with the regular custors.
Of course, his custors generally believed that Yuan Zhou’s jokes weren’t funny at all.
Speaking of which, Yuan Zhou had mastered a tip of not shedding tears while cutting the onions after he made the atballs for so many tis. Although it wasn’t quite necessary for him due to his swift cutting skills, it was nevertheless fairly simple.
First, even the onions chosen by Yuan Zhou were different. Wash it clean and then cut it from the top down in parallel lines without breaking it. Then rotate the onion towards the right and vertically cut several straight lines with an angle vertical to the forr lines.
After that, it would beco easier. This was because the onion was basically cut into the connected long strips, he only needed to lay it down and then started to cut it. That way, the onion strips cut would be very uniform. Apart from that, the juice wouldn’t spatter and the taste of pungency would be locked, thus not causing people to shed tears.
"What the hell do you an by finding it out by ourselves? Shall we eat it just like that?" Wu Zhou straightforwardly picked one up and stuffed into his mouth.
The atball was covered with thick glossy brown sauce and was scattered with little green leave pieces on the surface. Furthermore, there was a glimr of delicate fragrance blended along in the strong at flavor, which appeared fairly mouth-watering.
"Slurp slurp". Unlike the girls who ate the atball mouthful by mouthful, Wu Zhou directly stuffed the entire one in the mouth and started to eat.
When the atball was in touch with his mouth cavity, the outer layer was the soft and smooth gravy while the inner layer was the scorched and crisp shell. When Wu Zhou gave it the first bite, the intense gravy burst out from the atball.
When he chewed, the gravy penetrated the at. While the scorched shell wrapped the freshness and tenderness inside, there was occasionally a crisp texture. It was the onion that could be distinguished easily.
The strong pungency of the onion beca weak and in the anti, the fragrance beca stronger. The slight pungency helped to get rid of the underlying bad sll of the at while the fragrance increased its layers of the taste. The onion itself nevertheless improved the texture of the atballs.
When the entire atball was in the mouth, multiple tastes swept by directly like the heavy storm that never gave an opportunity for a single breath.
The stimulating fragrance of black pepper, the llow flavor of milk and cheese, the onion that provoked the great sll of at and the thick gravy that had a tender and smooth texture pushed the atballs to the epito of taste.
"This is absolutely delicious. Boss Yuan really thinks a lot for us at-eaters." Wu Zhou squinted his eyes contentedly and said with an expression of enjoynt.
"Absolutely. It has abundant gravy and is tender inside and scorched outside. The texture is fresh and sweet. It’s the authentic Swedish atball that is free from much grease, yet; it brings the intrinsic delicate flavor of at into play," Manager Shi said contentedly while eating.
"It’s indeed delicious. A good news for the at-eaters. Never did I expect that a atball could be so delicious. Boss, when will you serve the Chinese dish, Lion’s Head①?" While eating the food in the bowl, Zhao Yingjun was still thinking about those in the cooking pot.
"I think we can order another serving of the atball." Wu Zhou looked at his girlfriend and said nervously.
He was truly perturbed. Just in a little while, he had eaten four atballs with gravy filled in his mouth while uttering "so delicious" continuously. When he reacted, however, there were only two atball left in the plate.
Such a thing had never happened before. Wu Zhou was fairly uneasy and afraid that his girlfriend would be unhappy.
"Never mind. I don’t really like dishes made with cream." Zhuang Xinmu was only interested in watching the exotic dish rather than eating it.
"I think this thing is very interesting and should be edible." Right after that, she pointed at the decorative peacock tail and said.
"Have a taste, now." Wu Zhou picked up the chopsticks and handed them to Zhuang Xinmu flatteringly.
"Ok. Don’t worry." Zhuang Xinm said smilingly. Then she received the chopsticks and picked up that piece of peacock tail as thin as a cicada’s wings and with natural lines.
After a light sound of "Ka La", the atball that had been placed on it suddenly disappeared.
"What’s this?" The atball rolled out again before they beca puzzled.
It’s just that the atball this ti was different from the forr one. It was surprisingly wrapped in a rose red layer outside and appeared extraordinarily beautiful, llow and full.
"What’s this?" Wu Zhou, Zhuang Xinmu and others custors at the side all revealed a surprised expressions and looked at Yuan Zhou with puzzlent.
Only Wu Hai smiled complacently at the side. The chanism...
①Lion’s Head is a particular dish of large atballs in Chinese. It’s a very famous Chinese cuisine.
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