How to soak dried squid if it is too hard?
Clear water foam
Many dry goods can be restored to their original appearance as long as they are soaked in water, and some are even more tender and brittle than before. Therefore, many people choose to soak the squid directly in the water when they are soaked, which can really swell the squid, but when you eat it, you will find that the squid soaked in this way is not as tender as the squid soaked in the market.
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First, take a large basin, and pour in a proper amount of warm water, the water temperature should be 40 degrees. Put the dried squid in and soak it. Soak for about half a day
Take out the soaked dried squid, pour out the water in the basin and reconnect it with clear water. Clear water should not be used to dry squid, and Chencun scoop water should be added at the same time, and the ratio of Chencun scoop water to clear water is 20: 1. After 3 hours, touch the squid with your hands. By this time, the squid should have swelled and softened.
Take out the puffed squid, rinse repeatedly with flowing clean water to remove alkali, and rinse for about 10 minute. Finally, the swollen squid is soaked in clear water and can be processed and cooked.
Chencun Jianshui: Potassium carbonate, a kind of alkaline water, can be used and has the function of swelling meat. However, the meat products that run through Chencun have a slippery feeling and can be removed after washing many times.
Alkaline blister
Soak the squid in cold water for about 2 hours, then soak it in 1: 100 alkali for 8 to 12 hours, and the dried squid can be completely soaked.
Take out the fully developed squid, rinse it with clear water, and rub it by hand while washing until the squid is not greasy and has no peculiar smell.
High concentration alkali foaming
Prepare 5% soda solution according to the ratio of alkali and water 1:2. Soak dried squid in cold water for 2 hours, then take it out, soak it in soda solution for 3 hours, and then take it out and rinse it repeatedly in cold water to remove the alkali smell.
Oil bubble hair
Put dried squid, a small amount of sesame oil and a small amount of alkali into warm water at the same time, and foam until soft, so that the alkali content in the foamed squid is low, and it is easy to wash off the alkali and tastes good.
Drying method of squid
Stir-fried squid
Ingredients: 500g squid (wet weight), one green pepper, appropriate amount of onion, ginger and garlic, and one garlic seedling.
Exercise:
1, shredded squid, shredded pepper, shredded onion, ginger and garlic for later use.
2. Put a proper amount of vegetable oil in the pot, saute shallots, ginger, garlic and pepper in the pot, add squid, add salt and pepper and saute until fragrant. When the squid is cooked and fried, add oil to the pot.
Wuwei cuttlefish
raw material
1 squid, 2 cucumbers, 1 onion, 2 slices of ginger, and appropriate amount of rice wine.
Dipping sauce
6 tablespoons tomato sauce, 2 tablespoons white vinegar, 2 tablespoons sugar, 2 slices ginger, 2 cloves garlic and half pepper.
working methods
1. Wash the squid, cut it into small pieces, blanch it in boiling water with onion, ginger and rice wine, pick it up and soak it in ice water for later use.
2. Cut the cucumber into sections, soak it in ice water, and mix all the dipping materials with a blender to make dipping sauce.
3. Pour the dipping sauce on squid and cucumber and serve.
Fried pork and squid with Hakka garlic and radish
raw material
1 squid, 3 pieces of dried beancurd, 200g of pork belly, 100g of celery, half a pepper, 1 cloves of garlic, 1 tbsp of shrimp skin, and appropriate amount of oil.
condiment
2 tbsps of soy sauce, sugar 1 tbsps, chicken powder 1 tbsps, appropriate amount of pepper, 2 tbsps of tree seed juice and tree seed 1 tbsps.
working methods
1. Slice dried squid, dried tofu, shredded pork belly, sliced celery, sliced pepper and minced garlic.
2. Heat the oil in the pot. Put the dried squid strips, dried tofu strips and pork belly strips into the pot respectively, fry until the appearance is slightly golden yellow, and drain the oil.
3. Pour out the oil, leave a little oil in the pot, stir-fry the minced garlic and shrimp until fragrant, then add the fried dried squid, dried bean curd and pork belly and stir well.
4. Pour the seasoning into the pot, stir it evenly with all the raw materials, and put it on the plate.