If you find it difficult to choose, don't know what food to eat, and feel that the temperature is hot and you want to drink something catchy, then choose crab porridge directly. Fish, shrimp, crab and shellfish, Chaoshan is located by the sea, and seafood and porridge are of course delicious.
Because the former Chaoshan people paid attention to manual labor, the taste of porridge should be distinct, sticky and soft, which is completely different from the braised pigeon in Guangzhou. When the porridge bottom is perfect in July and August, various seafood and meat foods will be added to improve the taste, and the most classic is shrimp and crab. Fresh shrimp porridge in Chaoshan is very popular, and its core depends on a bowl of deep and mellow shrimp oil.
As we all know, the cooking of shrimp oil comes from shrimp brain. The shrimp paste on the shrimp head is boiled, and finally a small bowl of light brown shrimp oil is produced. It only takes a little bit to make the whole pot of fresh shrimp porridge fresh and delicious, and people can swallow it in one gulp. Careful observation of fresh shrimp porridge, a little red vegetable oil floating on the surface, this is shrimp oil, this is the secret of porridge delicious.
However, some people think that shrimp oil can't be eaten for a long time, especially for the elderly, so the older generation often says "don't eat the head when eating lobster". In this case, why does the shrimp oil boiled from the shrimp head become an essential ingredient for Chaoshan people to make fresh shrimp porridge? Can shrimp brain be eaten after all?
How is shrimp oil cooked? First, separate the shrimp brain from the shrimp, and remove the stomach inside the shrimp brain to ensure that the cooked shrimp oil is not easily mixed with the ingredients that are not fully digested and absorbed in the shrimp stomach. Pour a little oil into the cold pot, fry the shrimp brain in the pot, and then pour in the onion and garlic. In the process of cooking, you must squeeze the shrimp brain with a frying spoon and boil the shrimp yellow and shrimp oil on the shrimp head. Add a little boiling water, continue to stir, and thoroughly cook the taste of shrimp and onion and garlic. The function of onion and garlic is to remove fishy smell.
Is the shrimp brain black because of the high content of heavy metals? The content of heavy metals in shrimp brain is indeed higher than that in shrimp, which comes from the waters where shrimp live and what they eat. Generally speaking, the contents of heavy metals in the brain and head of shrimp with viscera are above the standard.
However, shrimp raised reliably can be safely drunk. Even if the tops of these shrimps look black, it is because of the problem of concentrated feed, or some melanocytes formed by osteoclasts, which has nothing to do with the excessive heavy metals.
What does the shrimp brain carry? Important human organs of shrimp are concentrated in the head of shrimp, including gill, stomach, hepatopancreas, cardiovascular system, appendages, sex hormones and other human organs. The stomach of shrimp is the main organ of human body, accounting for12 of shrimp brain, which contains undigested food. One of the components of shrimp is algae, and some algae contain endotoxin or heavy metals exceeding the standard. Wild shrimp should pay special attention to the shrimp stomach of shrimp brain.
Shrimp yellow is an incomplete egg (paste) of shrimp, only the mother shrimp can eat it, and it tastes delicious. Boiling shrimp oil means boiling shrimp yellow. A knowledgeable chef will use scissors to remove the shrimp stomach from the shrimp brain before cooking shrimp oil, leaving only the shrimp yellow. Or use scissors to cut the first section of the shrimp brain and take out the shrimp yellow, which not only retains the delicious taste of the shrimp, but also removes the internal organs of the shrimp.
It should be noted that the shrimp brain has a sharp little thorn, which is often overlooked by many people. If you don't subtract this small thorn in advance before cooking, it will be very easy to get stuck when eating lobster, so everyone should pay attention to this small thorn when eating shrimp brain lobster.
Don't eat shrimp head because there is sparganum in it? In fact, as long as your aquatic products, whether wild or cultured, will have the risk of sparganium, so you don't have to think that eating lobster will be fine. A better treatment is to cook the shrimp, and the risk can be minimized by continuous high-temperature cooking. Even if there is sparganium, it will be killed by the continuous high temperature at the next table.
Because the southern region, especially the Chaoshan region, especially likes to eat raw salty, drunken crabs or raw shrimps, although it tastes delicious, from the perspective of safety, it is recommended not to eat like that. Even if you don't eat raw shrimp, there are certain risks.