Generally, most of the fish touched are crucian carp, which has many thorns and thin meat, but the taste is delicious. There is a saying that the head of crucian carp and the tail of catfish are delicious, because the crucian carp were all wild at that time, and the biggest crucian carp in my memory was not more than half a catty. Unlike the current fish, the crucian carp were all more than half a catty. How does that taste compare with the wild crucian carp of that year?
Carassius auratus just caught from the river, when taken home, is usually fried or dried. No matter how it is cooked, it tastes fresh and tender, which is probably the characteristic of crucian carp. An old fisherman can catch gawk or catfish in the river.
Although such scaleless fish can't seem to slip, they can still be caught underwater. Ga fish has spikes outside its body, but it usually doesn't open at first sight at the bottom of the water. As long as you hit it when you catch it, you can't be stabbed!
Ga fish and catfish are now considered the top grade in ordinary restaurants. One thing to note is that the real catfish and catfish are still relatively expensive. There is a big, black fake catfish on the market, which is cheap, but it is not catfish, and its taste is naturally much worse. The real catfish is yellow with four whiskers.
River fish generally have earthy smell, because they all grow in ponds, rivers and lakes with more humus. Because there are many humus, it is suitable for actinomycetes to reproduce and grow. Actinomycetes invade fish blood through fish gills and secrete a brown substance with foul smell (that is, earthy smell). Freshwater fish such as carp, grass carp and silver carp are rich in protein, with high nutritional value and delicious taste, but these river fish often have earthy smell. Here are some ways to get rid of the earthy smell. ?
(1) After cleaning the river fish, put it in cold water, then pour a small amount of vinegar and pepper into the water, or put some laurel leaves. The river fish treated in this way has no earthy smell. ?
(2) When the live fish are soaked in salt water, the salt water can be dipped into the blood through two gills, and after one hour, the earthy smell can disappear. If it is a dead fish, soak it in salt water for two hours to get rid of the earthy smell. ?
(3) There are two white ribs on both sides of the carp's back, which is something that creates special fishy smell. Pay attention to removing these two white ribs when slaughtering, and there will be no fishy smell after cooking. ?
(4) When the fish is slaughtered, the blood of the fish can be washed as clean as possible, and seasonings such as onion, ginger and garlic can be added when cooking, so that the earthy smell can be basically removed. Why use cold water to thaw fish? Most of the fish we buy from the vegetable market are frozen fish taken out of the cold storage. When we get home, if we want to cook immediately, we must not scald them with hot water.