Chapter 401 - Cooking Battle with Riko

Name:Anime Mashup Author:LittleApple
"The match is pretty simple, you need to make food that you can as healthy as fruit, you can get every ingredient you want in front of you."

Up on the stage are hundreds of ingredients from fruit, vegetables, species, and meat, whatever you want, they have it.

They also have fresh-cut meat, live fish, even exotic insects an animal is available.

"You guys only have 3 hours to cook inside of the special environment that we prepared,"

Outside of the stage a bunch of magicians is waiting, holding their staff.

"But in real-time you guys will only spend 3 minutes, while we are going to make the time inside faster."

"Is everyone clear?"

"Yes!"

"Then, let the match begin, Cooking Battle Start!"

And then the magician outside starts to cast a spell to make the area inside of the doom faster, from the outside perspective, Lou and Riko moving fast in incredible speed, while inside they are still picking the ingredients that they are going to use.

Lou walks and carefully picks ingredients that she needs to use, suddenly he sees Riko took Potato, Carrots, Celery, and other ingredients.

"Are you going to make Curry? He asked.

"That's right, a delicious and nutritious Curry," Rikuo

"Good luck then,"

"Thank you,"

Lou took his own ingredients and walked to his designated area, he then started preparing the vegetable and started boiling the water when he suddenly noticed what Riko was doing.

Lou's cheek twitch seeing what he did, he put the whole carrot, potato, onions, garlic into the pot and started mixing it.

What is more absurd is that she is holding a cookbook while adding vitamins C Capsule and some unknown powder on the pot.

"H-Hey, you did not even cut the vegetable?" Lou asked.

"Cut the vegetables? Does the vegetable need to be cut?" Riko confusedly asked.

"....." Lou felt speechless for what she said, is that a question of a normal person.

"Did you ever eat food with a whole vegetable on it?"

Riko thought," Well... your right,"

She then starts cutting the vegetable then throws it into the pot that she just boils with other uncut vegetables and starts to stir it.

Lou can't help but to face palm himself, she really cut it, but she did not make another pot for her new ingredients.

"You're wrong!." Lou can't help but to walk to her area and said,"

"You need to redo it, you're going to make curry right?"

"Yes."

"The first thing you need to make is rice, without urice, your curry is useless, do you know how to cook rice?"

"Of course, do you think I'm an idiot?" Riko takes a rice cooker, scoop rice and add water, she then plugs it and turns on to cook it.

"Easy right?"

Lou helplessly looked at her," Are you going to make porridge?"

"Of course not, I'm going to cook plain rice."

"Then why did you add so much water to it?"

"Is my water too much?"

"Of course," Lou opened the lid of the rice cooker, then reduced the water, and then closed it again.

"Listen, I will teach you how to cook Curry, you just need to follow my instructions."

"Okay."

Typically, curry rice consists of onions, carrots, potatoes and beef. That's the classic combination and the most popular one used across Japan. However, you can use pretty much any combination of vegetables and protein to create your own special curry. I've added kabocha squash, mushrooms, green peas, zucchini, chicken, even chickpeas.

"First, you need to cook the beef cubes in a large pot and transfer them to a plate once they are cooked."

"Add onions to the pot and cook them until tender. Stir in garlic, ginger and grated apple and cook for two minutes."

"Sift flour and stir."

"Add carrots, potatoes, and spices and stir. Add tomato paste and red wine and bring to a boil."

"Stir in sugar, soy sauce and water and bring to a boil. Return the beef to the pot, cover and simmer for half an hour."

"Remove the lid and cook for an additional 30 minutes, then check if it's already ready," Lou said.

"Thank you, I did not expect that cooking is too complicated, but still, are you fine?"

"Fine?"

"There's only a couple of minutes until the times up and you only have boiling water and chope ingredients,"

"Shit!," Lou hurry ran back to his position and saw that he only had a couple of minutes to make, he can only helplessly take some egg, condolence and ask Riko for the rice to make fried rice.

Then he cooks in a hasty manner, the most basic and simple fried rice vs Curry Rice.

"Times up, stop cooking, we will going to judge your own food, but the judges are going to be simple, the food you made will going to eat by your own teammates,"

"This is the test of your own teamwork, we will cast a special spell on the person you want to eat your food and ask them if your food is good or bad."

Both of them nod and walk back to their own teammates, they can see on the giant monitor whose classmate they are going to choose.

Lou chose Rika, while Riko chose Junpei Hyūga, and then, the tasting started.