I'm the Culinary God-Chapter 861 - 370: Can Yam and Snow Cake Be Used Together in Cooking? Xie Baomin: Everything for the Children!

Chapter 861: Chapter 370: Can Yam and Snow Cake Be Used Together in Cooking? Xie Baomin: Everything for the Children!

The amount of useless knowledge has increased... Lin Xu looked at Xie Baomin and asked:

"A duck in a suit can’t be made into Eight Treasure Duck, can it?"

"No, Eight Treasure Duck must use a whole duck, not just the duck feathers. There’s even a certain way to add duck blood... if you want to learn, you can go to Building 6. Qiuqiu’s specialty dish is Eight Treasure Gourd Duck."

Lin Xu was just asking casually.

But since it’s Chef Qiu’s specialty, he definitely has to learn it. Once mastered, wouldn’t the shop have another high-end dish?

After frying the last piece of Crisp Chicken, Lin Xu sliced it and served it with a dry dip to the outside, looking at Xie Yufei and Xie Yuhang, he asked:

"Aside from Crisp Chicken, what else do you want to eat? While it’s not busy right now, I’ll make you another dish."

After all, being an uncle means setting an example as an elder.

Before the two could open their mouths, Geng Lele raised her hand and said:

"Brother Xu, I want to eat Top-grade Crispy Yam. It’s where the yam strips are fried till they’re crispy and coated in a crispy layer, sweet, crunchy, and delicious. Can you make it for me?"

Lin Xu chuckled:

"I was planning on making an extra dish for the two nephews. Why are you making a fuss?"

"By generational hierarchy, you’re still my granddad’s sworn brother. I’m the youngest here, so you should all listen to me... Xie Yufei, Xie Yuhang, don’t you want to eat Top-grade Crispy Yam? Quickly, say it!"

This girl shook her mushroom-shaped haircut, looking like a fierce young girl.

"I want to eat."

"Sort of... I guess I want to eat it..."

Their grades weren’t bad, but after Geng Lele threw a few questions at them, they were suddenly speechless. And the problems they thought were unsolvable were easily solved by Geng Lele, who even said they were too simple after finishing.

"Then make Top-grade Crispy Yam. Lele, you should help them with their homework more, and don’t always think about being a bully on campus."

"I know, Uncle Xu!"

Lin Xu: "..."

Faced with such a stubborn person, he really couldn’t do anything.

Well, Top-grade Crispy Yam it is. This dish is quite simple, basically doable as long as you have hands, with no difficulty at all.

Lin Xu held Shen Baobao’s bag and asked:

"Are there any crispy snacks in your bag?"

"I have snow cakes... do you want to eat, Xu Bao? Should I go buy more?"

"Snow cakes are fine. I’m not eating them; I need them for cooking."

Lin Xu opened the bag, reached in, and sure enough, pulled out a few small packs of snow cakes.

Who would have thought, after graduating for so long, this girl still hasn’t kicked her habit of secretly carrying snacks.

"What dish can snow cakes make? You’re not going to use them to make the Top-grade Crispy Yam that Lele wants to eat, are you?"

Director Shen, while eating Crisp Chicken, was also replying to comments from netizens.

She even casually liked some comments about how well she plays the piano.

Upon hearing Lin Xu say he would use snow cakes for cooking, she was momentarily stunned.

The dish Top-grade Crispy Yam sounds so upscale, yet it requires snow cakes. Somehow, it doesn’t feel very professional.

Lin Xu said:

"You’ll see how delicious it is once it’s made."

In the kitchen, grabbing a few sticks of yam from the storehouse, Lin Xu saw his senior brother busy chopping lotus root slices and dried bean curd sticks, so he curiously asked:

"Senior brother, what are you making?"

"I’m making some spicy hot pot for the kids to try. Are there any ingredients you want to eat? If so, I’ll add them in."

Spicy hot pot is a type of dry pot dish, known for its spicy and fragrant flavor. The ingredients can be quite varied, including both meat and vegetables. When Lin Xu was in school, he often ate this with roommates in the school cafeteria, so he had a deep impression of it.

Thinking for a moment, he said:

"Chrysanthemum, sausage, smoked bacon, fatty intestines, duck blood, gluten, luncheon meat, beef roll, kelp knots, beef tripe, Tempura..."

Just as he was talking, Xie Baomin interrupted him:

"Stop, stop, stop, order what the shop has, don’t get creative. If you do, we’ll need to send someone to buy more ingredients."

Since he couldn’t be creative, whatever was there would have to do.

Lin Xu wasn’t picky; it was just that he was used to ordering a long list of ingredients for spicy hot pot in school, so he rattled them off without thinking.

He placed the several small packs of snow cakes provided by Shen Baobao on the cutting board and used the back of a knife to crush them into crumbs through the packaging.

Snow cake crumbs don’t have to be crushed too finely, it’s best if they’re in small granule form. This way, they stick to the yam’s surface, and the taste will be better when eaten, crispy and fragrant, beloved by both adults and children.

Once crushed, he opened the packaging and poured the snow cake crumbs into a bowl for later use.

After finishing these preparations, Lin Xu began to prepare the yam.

He placed the yam on the workbench and used a peeler to clean off the skin.

The reason for using yam is because, aside from having a softer and doughier texture, yams are relatively thinner, eliminating the need for additional slicing after peeling.

If thicker yams were used, they would first have to be split vertically and then sliced into strips, making it relatively more troublesome.

He cut the yam into small segments about eight centimeters long, then brought water to a boil in a pot, added some White Vinegar, and poured the yam in to boil.

The purpose of this step is to scald the yam’s surface mucus so that the yam can be coated with dry starch.

Additionally, boiling the yam until it’s half-cooked makes it easier to fry, without worrying about the yam being insufficiently cooked.

Boil on high for about a minute, use a slotted spoon to remove the yam, drain the water slightly and place it in a bowl, sprinkle with dry starch, and mix well.

Next, drain the water from the pot, clean it, and fill it halfway with vegetable oil.

When the oil is 50% hot, add the starch-coated yam pieces one by one into the oil pan.

There’s no need to move them once they’re in. Wait until the surface is slightly yellow and crispy before turning them over. If you stir them immediately, the dry starch on the yam’s surface will fall off.