The correct way to soak fish maw: soak in clear water, soak in salt water, soak in soy sauce.

1, soak in clear water

Wash the fish maw, put it into the water to soak for a period of time, usually 20 to 30 minutes. Too long a time is easy to make the nutritional loss of fish maw, too short a time may be insufficient soaking. In the process of soaking, you can gently pat the fish maw with your hand to help it absorb water. Subsequently, the soaked fish maw removed, rinse with water can be.

2, soaked in salt water

Wash the fish maw, add the right amount of salt water to soak, in order to maintain the tender taste of fish maw. The concentration of salt water is generally 3-5% salt added to the water. The time is the same as the first method, and should not be too long. Salt water can help remove the fishy flavor in the fish maw, and the soaked fish maw is more tender and delicious.

3, soak in soy sauce

Slice the fish maw into thin slices and soak in soy sauce for more than 30 minutes. Soy sauce is rich in amino acids, which can help fish maw better absorb water, making it more flaky and delicious. The soaked fish maw can be eaten directly or used for cooking.

Fish maw identification method

1, color: fish maw to color transparent, no black blood marks for good, strong rise. Generally used is the yellow fish maw, body thick slice large, yellowish color bright, up sex is very good.

2, size and thickness: the bigger and thicker the fish belly, the better its quality; rise after the hair form, the price is high. And some small fish belly thin price is low, fish belly to shape flat, intact, the edge of the whole is good, some hitching piece although the shape is not small, is also very thick, but the rise of the hair is easy to sandwich, impermeable, quality is poor.

3, dry tide: fish maw the drier the better, to the light, should be transparent, clean texture, no blood and other things, color translucent for the best, damp fish maw gray and lusterless, quality second. Some fish maw in the drying of the center part of the failure to dry, was transparent on all sides, only the center was jade white, this fish maw is known as the poor quality of fish maw flower heart.