To accompany my daughter, I worked as a chef in the kindergarten

Chapter 31 Big boiled dried shredded noodles, Chef Ye’s knife skills are so awesome!

Isn't this girl a bit psychopathic?

You have to be careful yourself.

"Dad Ye, can I try?"

"sure."

Ye Chen took a piece of dough, filled it with fillings and handed it to Su Qingyin.

With a gentle squeeze of the little hands, the dough was lifted up, but there was not a single wrinkle. It didn't look like Shaomai at all.

"That's not it. You need to place your hand like this, so that the Shaomai skin stays in this position, and then spread your five fingers apart, like this."

Ye Chen shook his head, gently held Su Qingyin's hand, and guided her on how to make a perfect Shaomai.

Su Qingyin's face turned red and her cheeks were slightly hot. With Ye Chen's help, she finally made a Shaomai.

Although it can't be called perfect, it does have seven or eight pleats, so it's considered entry-level.

“Chef Ye, I want to give it a try too!”

Jiang Xue laughed playfully and grabbed Ye Chen's arm.

"Ahem, Teacher Jiang, the Shaomai skin is just there. Try it if you want, but can you speak normally? I'm afraid of you."

"Huh? Don't you like my tone? Isn't it said that men like the clip tone the most?"

"I'm getting older and I can't bear it."

Jiang Xue took the siu mai skin and squeezed it with her left hand. She squeezed out the filling with too much force and the siu mai skin was also kneaded into a ball.

Ye Chen felt more and more that this woman was prone to violence. Would a normal person use so much force to pinch a shaomai peel?
  "Teacher Jiang, you don't need so much effort."

"Oh? Then Chef God Ye can teach me, just like you taught Qingyin just now, hand-on-hand!"

"Ah, no, I have to prepare meals for the children." Ye Chen said sternly: "And you guys, stop playing and peel the pine nuts and corn out quickly. The speed is too slow. If I had come in person, I would have done it earlier. Just finished peeling it off!”

"Yes, I promise to complete the mission!" Jiang Xue saluted and looked back at Su Qingyin, whose face was red: "right, girl?"

Ye Chen sighed lightly, this Jiang Xue is really out of shape.

I don’t know how her boyfriend could bear it?

The shaomai is kneaded into shapes one by one. The outer skin is almost transparent, wrapping the emerald green filling inside, and dotted with some pink minced meat. The contrast between the three colors is really beautiful.

Next, place it in the steamer and wait for the high-temperature steam to gradually steam the siomai.

While the shaomai was steaming, he made a large pot of chicken soup.

This is used to make large boiled dry shreds.

Braised dry shredded noodles, a famous Huaiyang dish, is a delicacy that tests your knife skills.

First prepare the side dishes, shredded chicken, shrimp, dried shrimps, ham, bamboo shoots, and pea sprouts.

With so many fresh ingredients in the pot and paired with the thick chicken soup, you can imagine how delicious this dish must be without even eating it.

The focus of this dish is the dried tofu, which is the thin shreds of dried tofu.

For a piece of dried tofu, the more shredded tofu you cut out, the thinner it will be, and the better it will taste after being soaked in chicken soup.

This is also a dish that tests the chef’s knife skills.

A piece of dried tofu can be cut into eighteen pieces. This is called the Eighteen Arhats Fighting Wukong.

Cut into twenty-four pieces, this is called Twenty-Four Bridges on a Moonlit Night.

Cut into thirty slices, this is the level of a state banquet chef.

Shen Xue came over and said, "Chef Ye, you've finished shucking the corn. Can I help you shred the tofu?"

The corn kernels were piled high in the small bowl. After a visual inspection, it was almost enough.

Corn and pine nuts are a sweet dish, and you will get tired of them if you eat too much.

Most adults don't like sweet food. This dish is made for children and doesn't require a lot of food. "You?" Ye Chen shook his head: "You can't do this job, and you have to help me."

"Who are you looking down on? Why don't you just cut shredded tofu? I'm not a novice at cooking like Qingyin!"

"So confident?"

"Of course, my knife skills are still good!"

He believed this. Judging from the girl's expression just now, she seemed to enjoy the feeling of holding the scissors.

Ye Chen looked at Shen Xue with interest, making her take a step back and put her hands in front of her: "You, what are you staring at me for?"

"It's nothing. If you don't believe it, then give it a try."

"Who are you looking down on? Look at me!"

Shen Xue held down the dried tofu with one hand and held the knife with the other: "Slice it into thin slices, right?"

"Well, the more films you take, the better."

Press on it with your left hand, hold the knife in your right hand and slice it horizontally. After cutting one dried tofu, you will probably cut out twelve or thirteen pieces.

"How is it?" Shen Xue looked proud.

Ye Chen nodded: "It's okay. With a little practice, I should be able to reach the average level."

"???" Shen Xue's eyes widened: "You mean, I'm not even as good as average?"

"Yeah, the average person can probably cut out fifteen slices. I counted, and you cut out twelve slices, which is still some distance from the average."

"How many slices can you cut?"

"Well I haven't made this dish in a while, I should be fine cutting it twice as long as you did."

"How can you cut more than 20 slices of such thin dried tofu? Are you kidding!"

"My ultimate level should be thirty slices."

Shen Xue handed the knife to Ye Chen: "Chef Ye, let me demonstrate!"

Ye Chen smiled helplessly. This knife skill was a basic skill for a chef, but she still didn't believe it.

"Okay then, I'll just reluctantly demonstrate it."

Hold the dried tofu with your left hand and hold the knife with your right hand. The dried tofu will be quickly broken down into thin slices of even thickness.

Shen Xue counted a total of twenty-eight pieces!
  Each piece is as thin as a cicada's wing. If you hold it up and face it out the window, you can even see the sparrows outside the window through the tofu slices!

"I admire you, Chef Ye!"

Ye Chen couldn't help but shook his head, he hadn't practiced knife skills for a long time, he was regressing!
  In the past, I could cut up to thirty pieces, but this number was almost the limit of what I could cut.

Then stack the cut slices neatly, hold down the left hand, and quickly drop the kitchen knife.

dong dong dong dong!
  Thin filaments appeared on the chopping board.

The finer the cut, the better the chef's skills and the better the taste.

Shen Xue looked at the tofu shreds and opened her mouth in surprise.

It’s a bit exaggerated to say it’s as thin as a hair, but it’s not that far off!

This knife skill may not be as good as those state banquet masters!
  The cut dried shreds cannot be used immediately. Ye Chen took a large bowl and filled it with boiling water. After washing it three times, the beany smell was completely removed.

Heat oil in a pan, add ham, half a spoonful of pork, and stir-fry until fragrant.

Add chicken broth to the pot and add dried shreds.

Add sea rice, shrimps, bamboo shoots, fungus, and pea shoots in sequence. The ingredients are generous and frugal, and it doesn’t necessarily have to be so many things.

This is a very tolerant dish that can be adjusted according to the season at any time and you can choose ingredients that correspond to the season.

Even if one or two things are missing, it is still boiled dry shreds, which will not affect the deliciousness of this dish.

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