Hairtail fish is rich in a variety of mineral elements and vitamins necessary for the human body. It is an ideal nourishing food for the elderly, children, and pregnant women. So do you know whether hairtail is a saltwater fish or a freshwater fish? How to make it delicious? Why are they all dead?

1. Is hairtail a sea fish or a freshwater fish?

1. Hairtail belongs to the bony fish class Perciformes, order Hairtail, in the subphylum Chordata, lower vertebrate subphylum. Also known as saury, crony, fat ribbon, oil ribbon, tooth ribbon, etc., they are fierce in nature. Qingdao and Rizhao are cities along the Yellow Sea called _鱼.

2. The body of the hairtail is flat as a band on the sides, silver-gray in color, the dorsal and pectoral fins are light gray with very small spots, and the tail is black. The head of the hairtail has a large pointed mouth, which gradually tapers to the tail, and its height It is twice as long as the head, and the total length is about 1 meter. It is ferocious in nature and feeds mainly on shrimps and squid.

3. Mainly distributed in the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean. It is distributed in China’s Yellow Sea, East China Sea, Bohai Sea and South China Sea. It is also known as China’s four seafood products along with large yellow croaker, small yellow croaker and squid.

2. How to make delicious hairtail

1. Fried hairtail

Ingredients: 500 grams of hairtail, a little pepper, 12 teaspoons of salt, 3 slices of ginger slices, 3 tablespoons of oil.

Method: (1) Wash the hairtail and cut into pieces, wipe dry, marinate with wine and pepper for 20 minutes. (2) Heat a pan, add 3 tablespoons of oil, add ginger slices and fish pieces, and fry until golden brown on both sides.

2. Steamed hairtail

Ingredients: One hairtail (about one pound), onion, ginger, cooking wine, salt, MSG, fish sauce

Method: ( 1) Cut the hairtail into pieces and wash them clean.

(2) Cut both sides of the hairtail pieces with a cross-cut knife (cut diagonally into a grid shape) and cut into half-inch sections.

(3) Place the hairtail pieces on a plate, add seasonings, and steam for 6 minutes. (Home steaming takes 10-15 minutes)

(4) Take the steamed hairtail out of the cage and drizzle with oil.

3. Crispy hairtail with salt

Ingredients: 1 hairtail, 1 tablespoon each of onion, ginger, garlic, and minced chili. Accessories: 1 tablespoon salt, 1 teaspoon pepper.

Method: (1) Remove the head and tail of the hairtail, cut into long sections 0.5 cm wide, add seasonings and mix well.

(2) Marinate the hairtail fish, stir in the starch, put it into an oil pan and fry over high heat until crispy and brown.

(3) In a separate pan, add 1 tablespoon of oil and sauté minced onions, minced ginger, minced garlic, and minced chilies. Add crispy hairtail and pepper and mix well.

4. Braised hairtail

Main ingredients: hairtail, green onion, ginger

Accessories: cooking wine, soy sauce, sugar

Method: ( 1) Wash the hairtail and cut it into sections, cut the green onion into sections, and slice the ginger;

(2) Fry it using the method mentioned above. Fry one side and then the other side. Fry both sides until golden brown, then drain and strain. Remove the oil;

(3) Leave a little oil in the pot, add onion and ginger and stir-fry until fragrant, add the fried fish, cook in cooking wine to remove the fishy smell;

(4) Add soy sauce and sugar to taste, add a little water, and cook over medium heat for 3-5 minutes.

5. Sweet and sour hairtail

Ingredients: appropriate amount of hairtail, appropriate amount of cooking wine, appropriate amount of dark soy sauce , appropriate amount of vinegar, appropriate amount of sugar, appropriate amount of onion, ginger and garlic

Method: (1) 500 grams of hairtail, wash the hairtail and cut into sections about 6 cm long

(2) Wash Add clean hairtail segments, add green onion, ginger and cooking wine and marinate for 20 minutes. The marinated hairtail is dried and evenly coated with a layer of dry starch. Do everything in sequence.

(3) Heat the wok, add oil, and add the hairtail dipped in flour. Fry until golden brown on both sides, set aside.

(4) Cut the green onions into small sections, mince the garlic, and slice the ginger and set aside. Mix a bowl of sweet and sour sauce with half a bowl of water, 4 tablespoons of vinegar, 3 tablespoons of white sugar, 2 tablespoons of dark soy sauce, and 1 tablespoon of cooking wine and set aside.

(5) Put a little oil in the wok, add onion, ginger and garlic and sauté until fragrant. Add the fried hairtail and stir-fry briefly.

(6) Pour in the prepared sweet and sour sauce, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and simmer for a while to make the hairtail more delicious.

(7) When one-third of the soup is left, change the high heat to reduce the soup until all the soup is gone.

6. Onion-flavored hairtail

Ingredients: One hairtail, appropriate amount of ginger, appropriate amount of garlic, appropriate amount of onion, appropriate amount of light soy sauce, appropriate amount of dark soy sauce, appropriate amount of cooking wine

Method: (1) The scales of the purchased hairtail are scraped off, the internal organs are removed and cut into sections, so you only need to wash the hairtail and marinate it with a small amount of salt and cooking wine for a while. Cut the ginger and garlic into small pieces, and cut the green onion into sections

(2) Drain the hairtail with kitchen paper

(3) Put an appropriate amount of oil in the pot, heat it until it is six or seven times mature, and put it in Slowly fry the hairtail, flip it carefully, fry until the hairtail changes color, then take it out, leave oil in the pan, then add onion, ginger and garlic, and slowly fry until the fragrance comes out

(4) Add the fried hairtail

(5) Add light soy sauce and dark soy sauce, and slowly turn the hairtail over

(6) Add a bowl of water just enough to cover the hairtail fish. After boiling, cover the pot. Simmer over medium-low heat for about 10 minutes

(7) Wait until the juice is almost dry

3. Why are all hairtails dead?

Because hairtails are Deep-water fish in the ocean are under infinite water pressure underwater, but their bodies also have outward expansion pressure on the water, so they will not be crushed. Once they are brought to the surface, the atmospheric pressure is much smaller than the water pressure, so there is a pressure Poor, the air pressure is small and the pressure in the hairtail's body is high, so the pressure in the hairtail's body rapidly expands outward, breaking through the internal organs, and the hairtail fish dies.

Why hairtails die when they come out of the water:

Hairtails mainly live in waters below 30 meters, and may go to 60-100 meters of water during the winter.

Only during spawning Hairtails migrate to shallow seas

The hairtails die when they come out of the water. The main reason is that the pressure changes between the deep sea and the sea surface cannot be adjusted. Therefore, the hairtails we see in the market often have broken stomachs.

Hairtail is a migratory fish and is basically caught in major fishing grounds.