Steamed oysters are generally the most classic way to eat, but friends who can cook know that steaming is the simplest cooking method. If you want to steam out a good taste, you must pay attention to the details and master the details. So is steamed oysters. If you want to steam fresh and tender, you must learn the correct method, so that the steamed oysters are delicious, delicious and tender.
Prepare 10 oysters, and then prepare a proper amount of cooking wine, onion, ginger and pepper, which are all necessary materials for steaming oysters. After preparing the materials, we started steaming oysters step by step.
Step 1: How to choose fresh oysters?
1. Choose oysters with closed shells. Such oysters are fresh oysters (of course, they are open, and they are fresh when they are closed). When choosing oysters, you can touch the shell. The thicker the shell, the fatter the meat will be.
2. When choosing oysters, it is best to choose a round bottom, so that the meat of oysters is tender and fat.
When you buy oysters, you can put a cushion in your hand. If you have a clear sense of weight, it is fresh oysters. Fresh oysters are full of seawater and have no shells, so they are fresh oysters. You can also knock at the door when you buy it. If the sound is dull and heavy, it is fresh.
The fresher the seafood, the more delicious it is, so friends, if you want to eat fresh seafood, you must pay special attention to the selection when buying it. After learning to choose, we will carry out the second step, which is also an important step in steaming oysters, that is, cleaning.
Step 2: How to clean and treat oysters better?
1. Wash the bought oysters first, and wash off some sand and mud on the surface. Pay attention to repeated washing. If something is dirty, brush it with a small brush.
2. the image of the bought oyster, we pry open the oyster and flush it. After prying it open, the mud in the oyster was also washed clean. After washing the live oysters, the meat will still have juice, so wash the mud.
After the oysters are cleaned, do not steam them directly, but steam them in sequence.
Step 3: How to steam fresh oysters?
1. Cut the prepared garlic into fine powder, slice the ginger, cut the shallots into sections, and cut the shallots into final shapes for later use. Prepare a steamer, add a proper amount of clear water to the steamer, then add cooking wine, onion, ginger slices and pepper to the clear water, and then put the oysters into the steamer with cold water. Pay attention to the concave-convex side down and the flat side up when putting it, so that the juice will drain when steaming.
2. After putting it away, cover it, we fire, boil the water slowly and steam it slowly. After the water is boiled, we continue to steam, and arrange the steaming time according to the size of oysters, such as steaming for 5-6 minutes for large ones and about 4 minutes for small ones.
In fact, steamed oysters are not too particular. The focus is on the details, such as the steaming time and the method of removing the fishy smell, which are the details that need to affect the results. When steaming oysters, onion and ginger are used to remove the fishy smell of oysters, while pepper can effectively remove the unique fishy smell in oysters. Some people like to add garlic when steaming. If so, the garlic vermicelli needs to be fried in advance. After frying, pour it directly on the surface of oyster meat and steam it.
1. Prepare garlic (broken with a cooking machine in advance), soy sauce, peanut oil, edible salt, oyster sauce, sugar, chopped pepper and chopped green onion.
2. Heat the pot. After the pot is hot, add proper amount of peanut oil, add two-thirds of garlic, stir-fry garlic until golden brown, add chopped pepper, stir-fry until there is no water, and add soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, edible salt, etc. , stir well, and finally turn off the torch and pour the remaining one-third of the garlic into the fried garlic. Stir well, sprinkle with chopped green onion and make garlic sauce.
Pour the prepared garlic sauce directly on the oysters, and then steam it in a pot. You can eat directly on the table after steaming. Of course, if you like the original flavor, you can steam the oysters separately and dip them in garlic sauce. Good, too.
Steamed oysters, some of which like to eat the original flavor, are also good to eat directly after steaming. As long as it is handled well in the steaming process, the steamed oysters have no fishy smell at all. In addition, they are covered with garlic and have a simple mustard taste, which is also very good. In short, oysters are delicious as long as they are steamed.
Production skills:
1. Friends who like steamed scallops with garlic must remember that steamed oysters with garlic must be the crowning touch of the soul, so making garlic sauce is also very particular. Pay special attention to the ratio of fried garlic to raw garlic, so that the garlic flavor will be more fragrant after steaming.
2. oysters must be fresh, and the freshness of ingredients is often better than advanced cooking skills.
3. Steamed oysters should be eaten while they are hot, so as to enjoy the fresh feeling.