Friday, June 10, 2016

Food Wars Recipes - "Gotcha" Roast Pork

Note: I've made a follow up of this recipe here.

Since the second season of the anime is due in July, I think I should post my takes on some Shokugeki no Soma recipes (and also to serve as a refresher of the various delicious foods presented in that show). I'll start with the first "outrageous" dish Soma cooked, the Gotcha/Just Kidding Roast Pork! (Warning, image heavy!)

And thus begins the trend of food giving people foodgasms and stripping them of their clothes.

Before I post my take on this recipe, I'm posting a series of screenshots from the anime showing the process of making this dish (with commentary from yours truly).






Since there were no specific measurements for the ingredients, the temperature of the oven, and the duration of roasting, I based my take on this recipe from various recreations by other people. Due to lack of certain ingredients, I had to substitute some things. This was the result:

Close enough...?

Like many others who made this dish, I did not account for the bacon shrinking so much. (I should have bought more bacon...) Also, I didn't have twine so I used toothpicks to hold the bacon down. 8D;;; I also didn't have fresh rosemary but I did have dry ones, which I sprinkled over the bacon before roasting.

For the sauce, I used chinese rice/cooking wine instead of sweet sake (because I didn't bother to buy it). We did have red wine, so at least that's one aspect of the sauce that stayed true to the recipe.

At least the shrunken bacon made it easier to divide the fake roast pork. 8D

Overall the taste was nice. It didn't blow my clothes away but it's probably because there isn't enough bacon to completely enclose the mashed potatoes for it to absorb its juices. Speaking of mashed potatoes...


There were leftovers that did not fit in the bacon wrap. 8D;;; I used 3 potatoes and 2 eringi mushrooms which turned out to be too much for just 8 slices of bacon... These tasted good with the sauce but it still needs bacon.

Just so you know, I have written a proper recipe for this dish HERE.

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