Fishing in the middle of the night makes the fish bright and golden.
No more than 24 hours, from Ningde to Putian
Ningde City, located in the eastern coast of Fujian Province, has a world-class inland natural deep-water port. Cultured yellow croaker grows up eating fresh and tender fish and shrimp, which is naturally particularly delicious. More than 85% of yellow croaker in China is produced here. Ningde yellow croaker was selected as "China's geographical indication protection product", which gave the city the reputation of "the hometown of yellow croaker". Yellow croaker is naturally "local gold" because it contains a yellow pigment, which will decompose when exposed to strong light or ultraviolet rays. Therefore, fishing for yellow croaker must be carried out in the dark to keep its unique dazzling golden color. The yellow croaker after coming out of the water is particularly sensitive, just like a ripe fruit, so it needs to be handled with extra care. In order to lock the freshness of yellow croaker when it comes out of the water, the whole preservation process should be fast and orderly, weighing, refrigeration and sealing should be done in one go, and the ice coat 360 should be ensured to cover the fish body during freezing to make it fresher. Boxed yellow croaker will be transported to Putian restaurants in various cities overnight through the cold chain, and the whole journey will not exceed 24 hours. This is the delicious secret of Putian Yellow Croaker.
It only takes 100 second to steam a fish.
Except onion, ginger, Fujian old wine and Puning bean paste, everything else is gone. "Hundred seconds yellow croaker" has always been the best endorsement of "original Fujian cuisine"-good ingredients, can speak for themselves. Only the freshest small yellow croaker can stand the salty test of 100 seconds, thus presenting delicious and tender white garlic cloves. The habit of "steaming fish" in the workshop takes 6-8 minutes to steam, but the "100 second yellow croaker" developed by Fang Shu, the founder of Putian, breaks the iron law and can be made perfectly in only 100 second. This requires extremely high material selection. Only180-200g fresh yellow croaker is selected, and only onion, ginger, Fujian old wine and Puning bean paste are used for seasoning. Without too much taste intervention, the yellow croaker is steamed by the heat of the casserole, highlighting the original flavor of the yellow croaker in the most primitive way. Not only is cooking accurate to the second, but diners also eat fish once a second. When the yellow croaker is served while it is hot for a hundred seconds, the gluttonous person who knows how to eat will immediately put down his chores, immediately pick a piece of fish, put some fish soup on it, and put it in his mouth while it is hot-fresh fish and fresh fish soup are a perfect match.
Homemade sauce handmade fresh sauce with fresh fish
After three weeks of fermentation, Sanba sauce was fried with more than a dozen spices.
If "Hundred Seconds Yellow Croaker" is recognized as the goddess, then the two new dishes of this year's Yellow Croaker Festival are the fledgling boys! "Fresh and spicy yellow croaker with chopped pepper" is suitable for diners with heavy taste. Good chopped pepper is not blindly spicy, nor can it be too salty to cover up the umami taste of fish. Instead, it can awaken all the taste buds of people through appropriate "spicy" and make the taste of yellow croaker more prominent. After trying all kinds of chopped pepper sauce on the market, the Putian R&D team always felt a little inadequate, so they decided to develop a handmade chopped pepper sauce that was most suitable for Putian yellow croaker. Putian's chopped pepper sauce uses red and slightly spicy Erjing pepper, and the salt also needs dried Fujian marine salt, which is healthy and brings natural freshness. The prepared chopped peppers need to be sealed, canned, placed in a room with a constant temperature of 24, and naturally fermented for 3 weeks, so that the fragrance of peppers can be fully released. As soon as the "fresh and spicy chopped pepper yellow croaker" was served, the aroma was overflowing, and the fresh and spicy chopped pepper went deep into the tender fish, which made people appetizing.
Another dish, "Yellow croaker samba sauce", brings a different Southeast Asian flavor. The traditional recipe of Singapore was selected, samba sauce was fried by hand with more than a dozen spices, and a little tomato juice, shrimp sauce and soy sauce were added to make the sauce sweet, spicy, sour and salty, giving the yellow croaker a unique flavor.
Other dishes recommended by Yellow Croaker Festival:
Salty and crispy yellow croaker:
The fish skin is crisp and salty, and the garlic cloves unique to yellow croaker remain fresh and tender, which is a first-class side dish with wine.
Soft fried croaker:
Different from ordinary fried fish, it is fried first and then boiled, and then stewed with secret sauce, so the fish is sweet and delicious.
Casserole yellow croaker soup:
The fried yellow croaker is stewed with strong fire, and it is milky white to be a good fish soup.
Yellow croaker slippery:
Putian has a unique stewing method, wrapped in pure sweet potato powder, which retains the tender and smooth taste of fish and is more appetizing with fresh vegetables.
Salted diced fish made of yellow croaker has become the best new standard for Chinese kale, and fish oil makes Chinese kale glow differently.
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