All kinds of fish and meat ingredients, can be said to be our common household table on the regular guests. Fish is not only fresh and delicious, but also rich in protein, with low fat and high protein characteristics, so by a lot of fitness and weight loss friends like. Fish is also a variety of practices that can meet the taste preferences of different eaters.
Usually go to the market to buy fish, usually saltwater fish is more popular than freshwater fish, but there is a kind of fish is the opposite, which is perch. Perch, and the Yellow River carp, Mandarin fish, Heilongjiang Xingkai Lake whitefish and known as "China's four major freshwater fish". Freshwater perch has a lighter fishy flavor, tender meat, and a better texture than saltwater perch.
When it comes to the practice of perch, I believe that steamed perch is a lot of friends of the heart, we all know that delicious, but about some details, there is a lot of confusion, such as how long to steam perch, it is difficult to defeat a lot of people.
Then today, the lazy meow will talk to you about the small knowledge of steamed sea bass, take a look.
The time needed to steam perch, and its size and weight are closely related, as follows:
Weight in 1 catty or so perch, from the steamer pot of water under the pot to steam the beginning of the counting of time, steaming 6-8 minutes or so. If it is a home-cooked steamed sea bass, buy 1 catty or so of sea bass is the most suitable, one because of the size of the moderate convenience of the pot, the second is in the fire and time is better to grasp.
If you buy a slightly larger head, the weight of the bass in about 2 pounds, the need for steaming time is naturally delayed a little. From the steamer pot boiling water under the pot steam start counting time, 2 pounds of perch generally need to steam about 8-10 minutes, in order to steam the inside of the fish meat cooked.
As for 3 pounds and above of bass, if it is home cooking, generally do not recommend that you steam, because it is more troublesome to deal with, steam the fire and time is not good to pinpoint. If you have to steam, it is recommended that you first give the fish meat sliced and then steamed, so that it is better cooked, generally steamed for about 15 minutes.
In the understanding of the time needed to steam bass, I believe that many friends will also be curious about a problem, why the previous mentioned are "boiling water in the steamer pot", that is, why hot water in the pot? The next step is to talk to you about it.
In fact, whether it is steamed bass, or steamed other fish, it is best to use hot water in the pot, which is behind the scientific principles followed. As we all know, fish meat is rich in protein, in the high temperature state will quickly solidify, so as to maximize the tender taste of the fish.
If it is cold water in the pot, one is too long to steam, the fish is easy to steam the old, eat it is not so tender; two is the fish in the fish will be locked in the meat, can not volatilize away, so eat up the fishy taste is heavier, the taste is not good.
Below to share with you 3 additional tips on steaming sea bass:
1, sea bass before the pot, you can smear a little lard on both sides of the fish, so that the steamed sea bass meat will be more tender;
2, the fish steamed, don't rush to take out, you should cover the lid of the pot and simmer for 5 minutes before removing, so that eat up a better texture;
3, steam fish. Finally drizzled with the sauce, you can also heat up a little before pouring, so that you can eat the flavor is more fresh.
From the above, we can see that the time needed to steam the sea bass, depending on its size and weight, generally ranging from 6 to 15 minutes. If it is a home-cooked steamed sea bass, it is recommended to choose about 1 pound of sea bass can be, so it is easier to control the fire and time. You can learn how to use it next time when you are steaming sea bass.