Lin Xu cut some minced meat and stir-fried it with onion, ginger, soy sauce and other ingredients until it was cooked through. This is the meat dumpling that is indispensable for eating shredded fish.

Then he prepared some ingredients, such as braised dried tofu, fried eggs, Xuanwei ham slices and chili sauce. They were all ready and started cooking the shredded bait.

Add water to the pot and bring to a boil, put the bait shreds in and cook.

Taking advantage of this time, put the casserole on the stove, add pork bone broth and bring to a boil. Wait until the bait shreds in the large pot are cooked until soft and then put them into the casserole.

Put the meat dumplings and other ingredients, sprinkle with chopped green onion and coriander, and drizzle some chili sauce. This is the most basic version of the casserole shredded bait.

There are no strict regulations on how to make the bait, you can eat it however you want.

At the stalls in southern Yunnan, these ingredients can even be combined at will, and the degree of freedom is very high.

Lin Xu brought out the casseroles one by one from the kitchen. Lao Huang and his wife's eyes immediately went straight. Obviously, this taste was what they wanted.

The cooked shredded bait looks a bit like wider noodles.

However, when you eat it in your mouth, you can clearly feel the soft texture and rich rice aroma of the bait silk.

This kind of aroma and taste is not available in rice noodles, especially industrially produced rice noodles, although the production of rice noodles has increased significantly.

But the rice flavor of the rice noodles itself is gradually fading.

"It's delicious. Brother Lin's craftsmanship is really unparalleled. Only some remote stalls in southern Yunnan can eat bait silk with this kind of taste and texture."

Mrs. Huang was full of praise for Lin Xu’s craftsmanship.

Not only are the shredded bait delicious, but the combination is also very reasonable. For example, the shredded ham may not seem to be a lot, but every bite is full of deliciousness.

Shen Jiayue originally thought that Lin Xu had finally settled down, so eating this at night was too simple.

But after tasting the texture of the bait silk, this girl couldn't stop, especially after eating a few mouthfuls of the bait silk, and then scooping up a little broth from the pot with a spoon and drinking it in sips. This feeling of satisfaction is more satisfying than eating clay pot rice noodles when she was a child.

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Lin Xu took a few chopsticks from Shen Jiayue's casserole and tasted it. It tasted really good, and the soft texture of the bait wire was something that noodles did not have.

However, he didn't like this kind of soupy food, so he planned to go to the kitchen, get some more shredded bait, and try making a fried shredded bait.

Traditional fried shredded bait requires soaking the bait overnight until soft, then shredding it with a knife the next day, then adding fresh meat slices, eggs, tomatoes, pea tips or cabbage and other seasonings, and frying it in hot oil.<

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But now he only had the bait pieces that Shen Jiayue had smashed before, and there was no time to soak them, so Lin Xu soaked the bait shreds prepared in the morning in hot water and started frying them immediately.

When frying, he not only added more meat, but also added some ham slices.

The fat used for frying shredded bait is also the fat steamed from ham, which is full of the unique aroma of ham.

The shredded bait has strong water absorption, so water needs to be added during the frying process. Lin Xu changed it to soup made from ham.

Under this premise regardless of cost, the fried bait shreds were successfully made.

Compared with the casserole shredded bait, the fried shredded bait has a more flexible texture. The shredded bait is also full of the unique aroma of ham, which gives people the feeling of eating fried noodles with ham.

As for the meat slices and other dishes, each has its own characteristics, making the shredded fish more delicious.

"Oh, I didn't expect fried food to be so delicious!"

Chen Yan was eating shredded fish in a casserole when she saw Lin Xu bringing out several plates of fried food. She couldn't help but pick up a pair of chopsticks and taste it, and she immediately fell in love with the taste.

Two different methods use bait silk, but the resulting delicious food has its own merits.

I have to say that bait silk is really a delicious ingredient no matter how you cook it.

Mrs. Huang said:

"Actually, it's also delicious when steamed. First steam the shredded bait for fifteen minutes, then mix it with special soy sauce and sauerkraut, and finally pour it with thick soup made from tube bones and chopped green onion. That's it."

Lin Xu originally thought it was the same delicacy as steamed noodles, but he didn't expect that the step of boiling the shredded bait in white water was replaced by steaming it in a basket.

The shredded bait is hard and will become soft due to the absorption of water vapor during the steaming process. However, because it is not cooked, the texture of the shredded bait will be tougher.

But correspondingly, because it is not cooked, the rice aroma of the bait will be more intense.

This may be the reason why steamed bait shreds are so delicious.

9:30 pm.

Lin Xu was playing games in the study when Shen Jiayue, wearing a little dinosaur pajamas, walked in with pink cotton slippers.

Then she lifted her long porcelain legs onto the computer table.

This made Lin Xu, who was originally killing a lot of people in the game, suddenly lose interest in continuing to play.

He took off his headphones and asked curiously:

"Have you taken a bath?"

"Xubao, I'm hungry... Those baits are delicious, but I'm not very hungry. I just soaked in the bathtub and I'm even hungrier."

If you're hungry, tempt me with your big white legs, right?

Lin Xu quit the game and asked with a smile:

"Tell me what you want to eat. I'll go downstairs and cook it for you. I happen to be a little hungry too."

Shen Jiayue put down her legs and sat in Lin Xu's arms:

"I want to eat meat, any kind of meat will do."

Lin Xu turned off the computer and hugged the girl:

"If you want to eat, just wait patiently, otherwise it won't be you eating the meat, but me eating you."

Shen Jiayue's pretty face turned red:

"Hate it, I'm talking about business, but you're thinking in a wrong way... Go quickly, I've also changed into pajamas, so you don't keep looking at me like a villain."

Lin Xu:??????

Look at my wife, how can she become a villain?

Isn’t it okay for me to covet my own wife’s body?

He came downstairs and originally wanted to show off his skills based on the delicacies drawn in today's lottery, but after looking around, he realized that there were no pheasants and wind chickens at home, so he couldn't make three braised chickens.

Tea oil duck is no good either. That thing needs to be marinated for four months, so you won’t be able to eat it for a while.

There is pork belly, but eating a big piece of meat in the middle of the night always feels sinful.

Let’s make some ordinary dishes.

Lin Xu plans to cook the perfect Huaiyang dish - red crispy chicken - which he got from eating melon and watching a movie in the morning.

I happen to have a few chicken legs at home, as well as pork and fresh shrimps, and the cooking time of the red crispy chicken doesn't take long, so I can definitely eat it in my mouth within an hour.

Thinking of this, he took out the chilled chicken legs without saying a word, washed them with salt to remove impurities in the pores, and then rinsed them.

Use a kitchen knife to cut the chicken legs vertically and remove the leg bones inside.

While deboning, the meat on the entire chicken leg has also been fully expanded.

Place the chicken leg skin-side down on the chopping board, and then use a kitchen knife to cut the chicken. This step is to cut off the fascia on the chicken leg.

But be careful not to damage the chicken skin when cutting it.

The chicken skin must be intact so that the crispy red chicken will look complete, otherwise it will be ruined.

In this way, the chicken legs turned into pieces of skin-on chicken.

After the chicken legs were reshaped, Lin Xu took another piece of pork belly, peeled it and cut it into minced meat. He also took out the prawns in the aquarium, peeled off the shrimps, and cut them into small pieces.

Put the minced meat and shrimp into a small basin, beat a few egg whites into it, then add chopped green onion, minced ginger, salt, sugar and light soy sauce, stir evenly, and beat until vigorous.

Then take the chicken over and place it on the chopping board with the skin still facing down.

First sprinkle a thin layer of starch on the surface of the chicken, spread the meat filling on top, and press it flat.

The purpose of adding starch is to make the meat stick to the chicken more firmly, and to press it is to further bond the meat filling and chicken together.

After this step is done, stir up the remaining egg yolk from the egg white you just beat, and spread it evenly on the surface of the meat.

Shen Jiayue, who had changed into pajamas, stared blankly at the scene. She didn't expect that chicken could do this, so she asked curiously:

"Xubao, can this dish be made in an air fryer?"

Baby, the air fryer is really not omnipotent... Lin Xugang just wanted to complain about this girl, don’t think that everything can be done with the air fryer, but suddenly she thought of a similar delicacy, which seems to be really suitable for the air fryer.

He smiled and said:

"You can do it, but you have to replace the chicken."

"What? What should I change it to?"

Shen Jiayue was overjoyed. She just asked casually, but she didn't expect it to be possible.

"Replace it with mushrooms, remove the roots, spread the meat filling into it, then put it in the air fryer and bake it for fifteen minutes and it will be ready."

When Shen Jiayue heard this, she immediately rolled up her sleeves.

In this case, the chef will show off the strength of executive chef Lin Ji!

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Chapter completed!