"So-called rice bowls are not just about the meat. A dish where meat and rice are served together in one bowl is what is called a rice bowl.
When using premium ingredients like rare ingredients to make a rice bowl, meat that is too delicious can easily steal the spotlight from the rice.
A rice bowl cannot have delicious meat while the rice is merely ordinary.
I was the same as you before. I was too focused on competing with you over the meat ingredients, so I overlooked that point. It was only after someone else pointed it out that I realized it."
"The Frozen Bison meat in my rice bowl was simply seasoned with red wine and onions, with no excessive processing afterward. As a rare ingredient, Frozen Bison meat already had a top-tier texture and flavor on its own.
In this Shokugeki, I put more effort into the simmered rice. After all, it was no easy task to make rice cooked from ordinary grains pair with such high-grade meat."
As Soma Yukihira spoke, he carried a wooden tub onto the stove and opened it before Nikumi and the others.
The moment the wooden tub was opened, Nikumi and Erina caught a fragrant aroma.
Besides the distinctive scent of rice, the fragrance carried a sweet-and-sour note, along with an astonishing savory aroma.
"I used a wooden tub to cook the rice—what is known as wooden tub rice. Cooking it this way brings out the rice's fragrance to a greater extent.
I also didn't use water to cook the rice, but chicken stock prepared in advance, along with a little beef tallow rendered from Frozen Bison.
As for the sweet-and-sour scent you smelled at the end, the answer is this."
Looking at the red pellets in Soma Yukihira's hand, Nikumi