How to cook with salted eggs

How to cook salted eggs: 10 creative ways to eat them revealed

As a traditional Chinese ingredient, salted eggs have been frequently searched in recent years due to creative ways to eat them. Combining hot topics on the Internet in the past 10 days and innovative recipes from food bloggers, we have compiled 10 salted egg cooking methods to meet the needs of different scenarios.

1. Analysis of popular methods

1.Baked pumpkin with salted egg yolk: A popular recipe with more than 2 million likes on Douyin recently. The key step is to fry the pumpkin until the surface is golden brown, then fry the crushed salted egg yolk until it becomes sandy and then wrap the pumpkin. Netizens measured the wonderful taste of the sweet and salty combination of salted egg yolk and pumpkin as the biggest highlight.

2.Quicksand Salted Egg Chicken Wings: Xiaohongshu’s popular recipe requires deboning chicken wings and stuffing them with a quicksand filling made of salted egg yolk, butter and light cream. The difficulty of cooking is to control the oil temperature to ensure that the chicken wings are crispy on the outside and tender on the inside while the quicksand filling is semi-liquid.

2. Recommended fast food dishes

To meet the needs of office workers,Salted egg tofu soupandSalted egg yolk fried riceIt has become the fastest-growing recipe collection in the kitchen app recently. Among them, the use of salted egg white instead of salt not only reduces waste but also enhances the flavor, which is in line with the current environmental protection concept of "zero waste kitchen".

3. Collection of innovative eating methods

1.Salted egg ice cream: An Internet celebrity product in dessert shops, mix salted egg yolk sauce and vanilla ice cream in a ratio of 1:5, and sprinkle with egg yolk crumbs. The Weibo topic #香天CP# has been read 120 million times.

2.Salted egg seafood pot: A new way of fusion cuisine, using salted egg yolk to fry crab roe sauce as the soup base, paired with shrimp, mussels and other seafood. The tutorial video of food blogger "Anic" ranked third on the daily list of Bilibili.

3.Salted egg glutinous rice cake: An innovative refreshment that combines salted egg yolk, meat floss, and mochi has become a standard snack in recent milk tea shop limited products.

4. Purchasing and Storage Guide

According to Taobao sales data, salted egg sales increased by 35% month-on-month in the past seven days. It is recommended to choose vacuum-packed cooked salted eggs. The unused parts after opening should be soaked in cooking oil for preservation. Salted egg yolks can be frozen for 1 month and need to be thawed before use.

The diverse applications of salted eggs are becoming a new trend in food creation. Whether it is a traditional way or a creative way of eating it, the key is to maintain the unique flavor level of salted eggs. It is recommended that first-timers start with the simple salted egg fried rice and gradually challenge more complex dishes.