[You have perfectly reproduced the recipe.]
[Sudachi curd with green apple jelly]
Freshness: 97%
Origins: (Too many ingredients to show)
Quality: High
Cooking Score: 8/10
“Yes……!”
Jo Minjoon opened his mouth unconsciously. His heart beat. When he tasted the sudachi curd he thought that it was good, but he never thought that it would end up being 8 points. Because when he practiced alone, it was difficult to get a score above 7.
Jo Minjoon slowly took in some breaths and looked at the clock. The time was almost up. Three, two, one… and Joseph yelled.
“Time is over! Everybody put your hands off.”
There was no one who couldn’t complete their dishes. But of course, it didn’t mean that they all had satisfying results. Jo Minjoon slightly glanced at Peter. In his dish, there was apple pure and baked apple. The appearance seemed quite delicious, but you couldn’t know how it was in reality.
Joseph opened his mouth.
“Are you all satisfied at the results?”
“Yes, chef.”
“We looked at you cooking and picked the three dishes we expect the most. And the one we are going to call right now is the one we worry, expect, and are the most curious about. Minjoon! Come to the front please.”
It wasn’t really unexpected. Because he still remembered the faces of the judges when he said that he could also guess the proportions of the ingredients. Jo Minjoon went to the judges with a calm face and with his dish. Just placing one dish was enough to fill the small table in front of them. Joseph got in front first.
“Minjoon. Explain your dish.”
“I placed sudachi curd and green apple jelly together. I roasted and grounded cashew nuts for the crispiness. I brought out more of the sour and sweet flavor through a moderately simmered pear in sugar water, and deepened the aroma with nastrium.”
“You said that you have reproduced the dessert in Rose Island, when you recently went there. Ah, there’s no need to point that out. Because imitation is the basics for cooking. Even when Kaya reproduced Alan’s risotto, I have said nothing. Do you remember?”
“Yes. I do.”
“If you have correctly imitated the flavor you ate there, with just that, there will be worth in your dish. Are you confident?”
Jo Minjoon smiled instead of replying and pushed the dish slightly towards Joseph. He looked at Jo Minjoon’s eyes at that moment, and lifted his fork and knife and sliced the jelly. He smeared enough sudachi curd, smeared cashew nuts in that curd and placed a pear on top of the fork.
And that went in his mouth just like that. Joseph slowly opened his mouth. Honestly, he was a little preoccupied. Because there were many cases when you made jelly, that if you made a mistake it would turn a rubber and without flavor. Also, it had the tendency to not suit very well with other ingredients.
The first thing he felt was the refreshing flavor of the sudachi curd. And the cashew nuts that were smeared in the curd, got grounded in his teeth and the oil that came out of it made it heavy.
The pear originally doesn’t have sourness, but the short time it was simmered in sugar water made the sourness disappear and it didn’t disturb the flavor of the sudachi curd at all. In the middle of that, the combination caramel and apple that was felt from the jelly made him clearly feel the ability Jo Minjoon had. He felt the spicy flavor of the nastrium at the last, and Joseph let out a sigh of amazement.
“This…….Is really similar to Dave’s jelly. And the curd is also similar. Really…….. You really reproduced that flavor. It was to the point I felt chills down my spine.”