In recent years, more and more people eat loach. I remember when I was a child, even though people's material living standards were poor, few people ate loach. At least a few decades ago, no one in my hometown ate loach. So loach jumps around in ponds and ditches.

Eat loach, do you want to gut it? Hotel chef: It's right to go or not.

Misgurnus anguillicaudatus drilling tofu

Now people's living standards have improved, and the concept of diet has also undergone a qualitative change. People eat novelty, nutrition, health and taste. Misgurnus anguillicaudatus, like small eels, is blue and black, covered with mucus and extremely greasy, so some people like to eat it, while others are still resisting it. But loach is rich in nutrition and high in edible value, otherwise there will be so many people raising loach.

Loach culture

Misgurnus anguillicaudatus is tender and delicious, and is known as ginseng in water. The whole body is covered with thorns (bones), and the edible part accounts for about 80% of the whole loach, which is higher than that of ordinary freshwater fish. Misgurnus anguillicaudatus contains high-quality protein, fat, vitamins, nicotinic acid, iron, phosphorus and calcium.

There are many cooking methods of loach, such as stewing, frying, braising in soy sauce, frying and so on. You can make loach dishes with excellent flavor and elegant appearance. For example, the famous loach drills tofu, ginger loach, fried loach, fried loach and so on. But the problem is that many people know that loach is delicious, but in the process of cooking, the handling of loach has tripped many people.

Braised loach

Indeed, loach is notoriously slippery and difficult to catch. If it is a live loach, it is really difficult to slaughter it smoothly. So someone raised the question whether loach can be cooked directly without killing internal organs. In fact, I was not sure whether loach should be slaughtered before, so I was not prepared to listen to the opinions of the hotel chef. Do you want to gut the loach when you cook it? The chef of the hotel said, "It's all right to withdraw or not, depending on the specific situation." .

Crispy loach

So, that is to say, it depends on the specific situation whether the loach is disembowelled or not. Ok, let's see which cases need to be exhumed and which ones can't.

First, when the cooking method is not frying, it is best to remove the internal organs of the loach.

Misgurnus anguillicaudatus is a big loach, which is convenient to catch and slaughter by hand. In addition, loach has a big body and big internal organs, and there are many bitter internal organs in it. At this time, if you don't remove the internal organs, it will be bitter, and secondly, eating a large piece of bare internal organs will make you feel dirty, disgusting, fishy and bad.

Eat loach, do you want to gut it? Hotel Chef: Go or not, Misgurnus.

Relatively speaking, if it is fried and you really don't want to kill the internal organs of the loach, then you don't have to go. After the ultra-high oil temperature, the whole loach became brittle, and the meat, bones and internal organs were fried, so it didn't feel disgusting to eat.

Then for loach, in addition to frying, it is generally slaughtered to remove internal organs.

Second, the loach can be cooked directly without eviscerating.

Because loach is small and sticky, it is difficult to control it by slaughtering and eviscerating. Inadvertently, it will break the bile of loach and produce bitterness. The most important thing is that loach is small, and the fleshy part of the whole body accounts for 80%. Therefore, the internal organs of loach are very few. As long as the dirt such as sediment is completely removed, the internal organs can be removed.

Fresh loach

The above-mentioned need to remove the internal organs of loach. But in either case, the mud and dirt on the loach must be removed. As we all know, loaches generally live in the mud at the bottom of ponds or lakes, so a lot of mud and bacteria have accumulated in their bodies. Be sure to clean up the loach before eating it.

The correct cleaning method of loach is as follows, which is also applicable to eels.

The purchased loach cannot be directly slaughtered and cooked. It should be fed with clean water for at least 12 hours. The cleaner the water, the better. Better change the water several times. The purpose of this is to let the loach move freely in the water, and the clean water will automatically spit out mud and all dirty things, which is much better than manual cleaning after direct slaughter.

Misgurnus anguillicaudatus eats sand and spits sand.

In addition, when the loach is about to be cooked, you can put it in a sealed container, sprinkle some salt, and then cover it, so that the loach will die automatically and some mucus will be removed. The treated loach is clean and easy to control, and it is a method for cleaning loach.

-Summary-

Misgurnus anguillicaudatus can be eviscerated or not. For the big loach, the internal organs should be removed. If it is fried, I really don't want to gut it, but it's best to remove it; For the little loach, if you want to save trouble, you don't have to gut it, especially the fried little loach, which is crisp and refreshing and tastes great!