What kind of fish is herring?
Black herring is one of the four major fishes in China. Black herring is mainly produced in the Yangtze River valley, but it can also be cultured artificially. However, due to the limitation of food sources, fish are rarely raised in the north. Black herring is produced all year round, but it has the most output and the best quality in autumn. Black herring is slightly cylindrical, with a large body, a wide head, a round belly without edges, a flat tail, a long upper jaw, a curved lateral line, a large round scale on the back, complete and typical fins, a blue-black back, a white belly and gray-black fins. The snakehead is thick and tender in meat, delicious in taste, rich in fat, with large but few thorns, and is the top grade of freshwater fish.
How to eat herring well? Herring can be braised, dry-roasted, stewed, smoked in sweet and sour or cut into sections, or processed into strips, slices and slices to make various dishes;
When buying herring, the gill cover is tightly closed and difficult to open. The fish gills are bright red and clear, indicating that the fish quality is fresh. Fresh fish eyes are full and prominent, the cornea is transparent, and the eye surface is shiny. If the gill cover is not tight, it is easy to open, the gill is reddish, purple or dark red, and the gill adheres, with a slight odor but no corruption, it is a poor quality fish; Fish with bad taste have flat or slightly sunken eyeball, cloudy cornea, dark color, or bleeding and redness.
The trick to clean herring is to hold the knife in your right hand and the fish head in your left. The knife forcibly scraped off the fish scales from the tail to the head, then dug out the gills of the herring with the thumb and forefinger of the right hand, cut open the abdomen from the mouth of the herring to the navel with scissors, dug up the internal organs, washed them with clear water, scraped off the black membrane of the abdomen with a knife, and washed them again.
Cleverly remove the fishy smell. After cleaning the fish by descaling and laparotomy, put some yellow wine in the basin to remove the fishy smell of the fish and make it delicious. Fresh fish can be cut open and washed, and soaked in milk for a while, which can not only remove the fishy smell, but also increase the umami flavor; After eating fish, when your mouth smells, chew three or five pieces of tea, and your breath will be fresh immediately.
A complete collection of herring practices
Steamed herring with potato chips
Ingredients: 300g herring, 200g potato chips, oil, chives, cooking wine, ginger, pepper, sugar, vegetable oil and black pepper.
Practice: (1) Peel potatoes, wash them, cut them into pieces, and spread them out on a basin.
(2) Then put the cut herring on it, add ginger and appropriate amount of pepper, pour cooking wine and vegetable oil, and add appropriate amount of sugar.
(3) Fill the pot with water and steam the pot on it.
(4) Steam in the pot for fifteen minutes, then boil the pot and sprinkle with black pepper.
(5) Sprinkle with chives.
Braised vermicelli with herring
Ingredients: 600g herring, oil, cooking wine, vermicelli, 2 tablespoons fresh soy sauce, 1 4 tablespoons sugar and vinegar, a little light soy sauce, and minced onion and ginger.
Practice: (1) Onion and ginger are ready.
(2) Pour the oil into the pot and put the washed herring when the oil is hot. Add onion and ginger and stir-fry until fragrant. Turn the herring upside down and fry it.
(3) The best sauce for fried fish is 1 tablespoon sugar, 2 tablespoons fresh soy sauce, 3 tablespoons vinegar, half a bowl of water and a little soy sauce.
(4) After the fish is fried on both sides, slowly pour the cooking wine into the pot. Add fish white. Pour in the prepared juice.
(5) Add the soaked vermicelli, turn off the fire after the vermicelli is soft and rotten, and turn off the fire, ok.
Dangshen herring soup
Raw materials: 500g of herring, 30g of codonopsis pilosula, 5g of apple, 5g of dried tangerine peel, 5g of cinnamon, and proper amount of salt, onion, ginger slices and cooked lard.
Practice: (1) First, remove impurities from Radix Codonopsis, Apple, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae and Cortex Cinnamomi Japonici, put them into gauze bags and tie their mouths;
(2) Wash the scales, gills and internal organs of the herring, put it into a pot, then inject a proper amount of water, add the medicated bag, cooked lard, ginger slices, onions and salt, and cook the fish until it is cooked.
(3) Select ginger, onion and medicine bag and season with pepper. Efficacy: Treating spleen and lung qi deficiency and mental fatigue.
Matters needing attention of herring
Applicable people: suitable for people with edema, hepatitis, nephritis, beriberi and weak beriberi; Suitable for people with spleen and stomach weakness, qi and blood deficiency and malnutrition; Suitable for people with hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia and arteriosclerosis. People with spleen and stomach deficiency and heat should not eat, and those with pruritic dermatosis, internal heat, urticaria and tinea should not eat. People with pruritic dermatosis, internal heat, urticaria and tinea should not eat. Because bile is toxic, it should not be taken indiscriminately. Excessive swallowing of herring bile can lead to poisoning. After half an hour, the mild person will have symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and watery stool. In severe cases, coma, oliguria, anuria, blurred vision and yellowing of sclera appear after diarrhea, followed by commotion, convulsion, clenched teeth, stiff limbs, foaming at the mouth, eyeball movement and deep breathing. If the treatment is not timely, it will lead to death.
Food matching
Black herring+tremella: conditioning swollen black herring and tremella together can not only ensure normal nutrition, nourish the body of consumers, but also provide reasonable care for swollen people.
Herring+leek: improving beriberi Herring contains trace elements such as nucleic acid and zinc, which can enhance physical fitness and delay aging. Boiling herring and leek together is not only nutritious, but also can relieve beriberi.
Herring+pickle: causing digestive tract cancer. Black herring nourishes liver and kidney, benefits qi and eliminates dampness, and eliminates abdominal distension and edema, which has a strong nourishing effect. However, if herring is eaten with cooked vegetables, it will lead to digestive tract cancer.
Black herring+Aloe: Aloe is harmful to health, cold and bitter, and has the effects of relaxing bowels, clearing heat and killing insects. But it is incompatible with herring, so in order to be healthy, we should pay attention to the fact that they cannot be eaten at the same time.
Note: herring should not be eaten with plums; Black herring should not be fried with beef or sheep oil; Do not eat with Schizonepeta, Atractylodes macrocephala and Atractylodes lancea.