In China, saury is generally divided into two seasons. North: One is the closed fishing season in spring, and the other is the closed fishing season in autumn. South: One is the closed fishing season in spring, and the other is the closed fishing season in winter.
However, in early spring, whether in the south or the north, saury is near the spawning period and accumulates a lot of nutrients in its body. In addition to various amino acids and other nutrients, saury is also very strong and fat, and of course, fish is also very fat.
Therefore, the saury after the spring is impeccable in both nutrition and taste. You might as well seize the opportunity and try it quickly!
However, although hairtail is delicious at this time, not every one is of the best quality. Therefore, we should be able to choose when buying hairtail. If you want to eat hairtail well, I always teach you to learn "5 bogeys", which is practical and simple.
"One bogey": Do not buy hairtail in the Yellow Sea and imported hairtail.
In China, there are many hairtail producing areas, such as Zhoushan, Bohai Bay, Yellow Sea and so on. According to the water environment, geographical conditions and climate of each producing area, the taste of these sea areas is different.
Among them, hairtail in Bohai Sea and hairtail in Zhoushan are the most delicious. However, in recent years, due to the depletion of fishery resources in Bohai Bay, the output of hairtail is very small.
Therefore, the price of hairtail in Bohai Bay has soared. It is difficult for us to eat real hairtail in Bohai Bay, and even if there is, it is very expensive. One or two hundred yuan a catty, which are very common prices.
However, hairtail in the Yellow Sea is just the opposite. Hairtail in the Yellow Sea is relatively large, and the meat is thick, and compared with hairtail in other sea areas, the meat is fatter. At the same time, its fishbone is mixed with some hard joints, which is often called "sinking stone" by knowledgeable people. Therefore, the yellow sea hairtail is the worst of these hairtail in taste.
In addition, the same is true of imported hairtail. The fishy smell of fish is very strong, but the delicious taste of fish is very weak. In short, it is not delicious.
Therefore, to eat hairtail well, it is best not to buy hairtail in the Yellow Sea and imported hairtail!
"Two bogeys": Don't buy hairtail with yellow eyes.
Hairtail can be divided into black eyes and yellow eyes according to the color of eyes. However, hairtail with black eyes is more delicious than hairtail with yellow eyes.
Hairtail with black eyes makes the fish more tender, less fishy and more delicate. In particular, the black-eyed hairtail in Zhoushan sea area is known as "the best hairtail".
The most suitable cooking methods for this swordfish are steaming and stewing. No extra seasoning is needed, just salt and onion, ginger and garlic are enough to stimulate its delicious and delicate taste.
Yellow-eyed hairtail is mostly thick skin, thick fish and thick firewood, with heavy fishy smell and light umami taste. The taste is far from that of hairtail with black eyes.
So, eat hairtail well, don't buy hairtail with yellow eyes, buy hairtail with black eyes. However, if you buy it wrong, don't throw it away. It would be more appropriate to fry it. Because its fish skin is thick, it is not easy to stick to the pan when frying and it is not easy to break the skin when frying. More importantly, frying can slightly block its fishy smell.
"Three bogeys": Don't buy hairtail with cloudy eyeball collapse.
As the saying goes, "the eyes are the windows of the soul", and looking at the eyes is the most direct way to distinguish the quality of hairtail. Besides the difference between yellow eyes and black eyes, we can also look at it this way.
Fresh hairtail, eyeball full, bright and shiny;
The stale hairtail eyeball collapsed and looked foggy and muddy.
Therefore, it is good to eat hairtail, so don't buy hairtail with sunken eyes and turbid eyes!
"Four bogeys": Don't buy hairtail with silver grease falling off.
Hairtail has silvery scales on its body, which is actually a kind of fat, also called "silver grease". The more silver grease on the surface of hairtail, the more complete it is, and the fresher it is. On the contrary, hairtail is not fresh.
So when we choose hairtail, we must not buy hairtail with silver grease!
However, many people think that this layer of silver grease is the source of the fishy smell of hairtail and will be disposed of. In fact, this is also wrong.
Because this layer of silver grease is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, even richer than hairtail. So this layer of silver grease can't be scraped off, so you should keep it when cooking.
"Five taboos": Don't buy hairtail with a completely broken stomach.
As we all know, hairtail is the freshest, with intact abdomen and no rupture. However, hairtail died immediately after it came out of the water, and some of them could not be sold immediately. Some measures should be taken to ensure its freshness.
Therefore, it is best for hairtail to have an intact abdomen and no rupture. Even slight damage is normal. However, if the hairtail's stomach is completely broken, which proves that it may be stale, don't buy it.
Especially if the fish's internal organs are also damaged, it is even more impossible to buy them. Such hairtail is definitely not fresh.