Yulou Delicious Snake
For Yulou Delicious Snake: The live snake is slaughtered, cut into segments, and blanched. After marinating in white brine to absorb flavor, the segments are flash-fried, braised in snake stock, and thickened with a starch slurry.
Ingredients
live snake (slaughtered, cleaned, cut into 5cm segments, blanched, marinated in white brine)
1
snake broth
20 g
peanut oil (actual usage 100g, heated to 70% heat)
1000 g
MSG
to taste
wet starch
10 g
sesame oil
5 g
white brine (for boiling snake to infuse flavor)
to taste
clear broth
to taste
scallion (chopped into blossoms)
to taste
Instructions
1
Step 1
Slaughter and clean the live snake, cut into 5cm segments, blanch, then marinate in white brine to infuse flavor, remove, and chop scallion into blossoms.
2
Step 2
Add oil to the pot and heat to 70% heat, pass the snake segments through the oil, then drain.
3
Step 3
Retain some oil in the pot, add snake broth, clear broth, MSG, and snake segments, simmer briefly, thicken with starch, sprinkle chopped scallion, drizzle with sesame oil, and serve.
