How to use cooking wine:

Cooking wine is a seasoning wine made from rice wine as the main raw material, with spices and seasonings added. Its main function is to remove the fishy smell. Many fish, meat, shrimps and crabs have a fishy smell. Cooking wine is a good choice to remove the fishy smell from these ingredients. But many people like to use cooking wine no matter what they cook. Sometimes the dishes they cook have an unspeakable unpleasant smell. This is the result of using the wrong cooking wine. 1. Cooking wine can be used to cook meat, seafood and other non-vegetarian dishes. Among them, these ingredients can be eaten directly after being marinated to remove the fishy smell; however, if cooking in a hot pot, the cooking wine cannot be poured directly on the surface of the ingredients. The correct way is to pour it along the edge of the pot when the temperature of the pot reaches the highest. This is conducive to the volatilization of the alcohol in the cooking wine, can take away the fishy smell of the ingredients and leave the aroma of the cooking wine. 2. When frying vegetables, cooking wine should not be used. Because the vegetables themselves have no fishy smell, there is no need to remove the fishy smell. If cooking wine is added to the food at this time, the flavor of the cooking wine will cover up the fragrance of the vegetables, which will create a strange taste in the mouth. 3. Do not add cooking wine when mixing the meat filling. Some people always think that adding some cooking wine to the meat filling can remove the fishy smell from the meat filling. In fact, this is an illusion. Because the meat stuffing needs to be wrapped into dumplings or steamed buns, it is a relatively closed environment, which is not conducive to the evaporation of the alcohol in the cooking wine, causing the dumplings or steamed buns to taste strange. To remove the fishy smell from the meat filling, it is enough to use onion ginger water or pepper water. 4. When steaming seafood, do not add cooking wine. For example, everyone usually cooks steamed fish, and what we eat is the umami flavor of the fish. At this time, if we put cooking wine to remove the fishy smell, it will also produce a strange smell, and the umami flavor of the fish will be masked and replaced. Without the delicious taste of the fish, it will be difficult to swallow. The correct way is to use shredded onions and ginger to remove the fishy smell and also add flavor.