The same ingredients.
There can be different variations in cooking methods.
Or rather, the same dish can have different ingredient combinations!
When to add oil, when to use high heat, or low heat, there are actually ways and means to do it.
After all, an excellent dish needs to satisfy all three aspects: color, aroma, and taste, and vibrant color is a basic requirement.
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Cooking!
Does it glow?
In the real world, probably not.
But some ingredients, under specific conditions, can glow.
For example:
Some meats, after being cut and cooked, may show green or rainbow-colored fluorescence on their surface.
This is not spoilage, but rather muscle fibers being cut, forming many regularly arranged concave-convex structures on the cut surface.
When light shines on this cut surface from a suitable angle, this optical effect occurs, and you can see colors like a rainbow, including various shades from green, yellow to red.
Bird feathers, insect wings, and the colorful reflections of computer discs, etc., all follow this principle.
Similar phenomena.
May also appear in some fish or other ingredients.
Especially when they are rich in trace elements and have specific crystal structures.
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But!
Anyway.
No matter how visually stunning a dish may be, it cannot emit such dazzling rainbow-colored light as Chu Yang's Rainbow Porridge!
"Wow, that's amazing!"
"Last time's Comet Fried Rice."
"It looked completely like a comet streaking by, finally erupting in yellow light when it landed on the plate, which was surprising enough."
"Result… result… a bowl of health-preserving detox porridge can emit seven colors of light?"
Annie covered her small mouth.
Her eyes sparkled with both surprise and curiosity.
Her gaze was fixed on the bowl of health-preserving porridge quietly placed on the table.
The porridge seemed to be touched by magic, slowly flowing with brilliant rainbow-colored light, each color soft and vivid, interwoven together, forming a dreamlike picture!
This light seemed to contain a warm and healing power.
Making the surrounding air filled with a faint, indescribable fragrance.
Fresh!
Mellow!
It made Annie unconsciously take a deep breath, trying to deeply imprint this beauty in her heart.
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People are always curious about the unknown.
In Annie's opinion, the pot of rainbow porridge Chu Yang was making now must have incorporated rare ingredients from the world, or been meticulously cooked through some ancient secret method, to be able to bloom with such incredible radiance!
And beside her.
Manami, after the shock, slowly extended her hand.
She scooped out a bowl of porridge from the clay pot, then her fingertips gently touched the rim of the bowl.
What she felt was an unexpected warmth and delicacy, as if even the bowl wall was stained with the spiritual essence of the porridge.
Finally.
Nakamura Manami was impatient.
She carefully scooped up a spoonful, gently parted her cherry lips, and savored the meticulously cooked health-preserving porridge.
The porridge was warm and smooth like jade, with a rich aroma of ingredients and grains intertwined in the steaming heat, as if it could instantly awaken dormant taste buds and every cell in the body.
As the first mouthful of warm porridge liquid slid down her throat.
An indescribable warm current instantly surged through her entire body, like the first gentle sunlight in spring, soft and full of vitality.
"Huh?"
"This… this porridge…"
Manami's eyes instantly lit up, revealing an undisguised vitality and surprise.
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That bowl of porridge not only warmed her stomach.
It also seemed as if an invisible force rose from her dantian, flowed through her limbs and bones, dispelling the fatigue and weariness of the past.
Manami could feel her body lighter than ever before, every movement filled with strength and agility, as if she had an endless supply of energy.
She unconsciously straightened her back.
Gently clenched her fists, feeling the energy surging within her body.
Between breaths.
The air seemed to become fresher.
Every deep breath was like a cleansing of body and mind, bringing peace and tranquility to her soul.
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Ordinary people.
If not sick, they don't need to take medicine.
But appropriate consumption of some health-preserving medicinal meals is beneficial for body maintenance.
Especially those who are inherently deficient, have poor innate constitution, or are old and frail, are more suitable for consuming medicinal meals to improve their constitution and prolong life.
Of course, Nakamura Manami, who suffers from anorexia, should also be treated with medicinal meals.
You can't just let her eat big fish and meat right away, can you?
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It is recorded and proven.
As early as over 1000 years ago, the term "medicinal meal" already appeared.
After continuous development, the content of medicinal meals continued to enrich, and various books on medicinal meals appeared, such as: "Shennong Huangdi Food Taboos", "Huangdi Miscellaneous Food Taboos", "Food Recipes", "Food Classics", etc.
And since the famous physician Sun Simiao's "Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Gold for Emergencies", dietary therapy has become an independent discipline!
Medicinal meals can only work effectively when medicinal materials and ingredients are skillfully combined.
Since medicinal materials and ingredients share the same origin, they both possess the four qi and five flavors, meaning they both have the four qi of cold, hot, warm, and cool, and the five flavors of sour, bitter, sweet, pungent, and salty.
Some ancient sages in China generally believed: "Whether it's land or water creatures used for food, regardless of their hundreds of varieties, their four qi and five flavors, their properties of cooling, heating, nourishing, and purging, all originate from yin and yang and the five elements, no different from medicine…"
"If a person knows their food properties and uses them appropriately, they will be many times more effective than medicine… Those who are good at treating with medicine are not as good as those who are good at treating with food."
Hmm!
To put it bluntly.
Porridge gives the first impression of being light and ordinary.
But under the theory of medicinal meals, how to make it unique is the ultimate test of a chef's skill.
And obviously, Chu Yang's Rainbow Porridge.
It's no longer just "amazingly delicious," but under the effect of medicinal meals, it has also successfully purified Nakamura Manami's soul!