MTL - A Mouthful of Sky-high Fried Rice, Lao Tang Apprenticed on the Spot-Chapter 279 Drunken shrimp
Chapter 279 Drunken Shrimp
Hearing Wu Lei's exclamation, Li Yi glanced at the whitebait floating up, didn't pay attention, picked it up with his hands, put it on the chopping board, and explained casually: "This is Taihu whitebait, it is relatively delicate, and it will die when it leaves the water. , A lot of people died inside."
Wu Lei heard the words and looked at the whitebait on the chopping board, only to find that it was turning white at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Eh?"
This scene stunned him: "Why did it turn white all of a sudden?"
The whitebait just in the water is still translucent, with a touch of silvery white, very beautiful.
But after being fished out by Li Yi, its body quickly turned snow white, like a boiled egg.
"Normal, just denatured protein."
Li Yi didn't think so, but Wu Lei still didn't understand, and asked in a daze, "What do you mean? Protein denaturation, isn't it denatured after it's cooked? You mean, this fish is cooked?"
"no."
Li Yi explained with a smile: "It's because after it dies, the bioelectrical signal in the body disappears, the regulation mechanism in the body is disrupted, and the protein denatures.
Have you seen freshly caught squid? Live squid come in different colors, some are translucent and even change color.
But once killed, the squid often turns white immediately. That is also because after the squid dies, it can no longer control the reflexin protein in the body, causing the protein to denature and turn into the original white color.
Many aquatic creatures are like this, and the squid is the same, including the Taishan red scale fish I told you before. There is a legend that it will turn into oil after death. The same is true, protein denaturation. "
Wu Lei half understood what he heard, but he did see squid that were just caught by fishermen and slaughtered on the spot, and it did turn white instantly as Li Yi said.
While Li Yi was speaking, the whitebait on the chopping board had completely turned pure white, only two eyes were still black, and the rest of the body was white.
The camera faithfully recorded the whole process of discoloration.
The audience in the live broadcast room watched this scene and listened to Li Yi's explanation, they were also amazed.
"It's amazing! I heard that whitebait will die and turn white when it comes out of the water, but I didn't expect it to change so quickly."
"I have eaten squid sashimi. When the master butchered the squid, it really changed color instantly, which is not an exaggeration at all."
"My house also sells whitebait, but they all sell this dead whitebait, as well as dried whitebait, scrambled eggs with whitebait, and stir-fried leeks are very delicious and fresh."
In front of the camera, Li Yi didn't waste the whitebait that had just died.
He took the thinnest kitchen knife, cut the knife from the head of the whitebait, and shaved off the meat on both sides of the whitebait's body.
Seeing his operation, the audience in the live broadcast room reminded him one after another.
"Silver fish don't need to be deboned!"
"Silverfish can be eaten directly, and the bones are soft."
"It's a waste of things! The whitebait is full of treasures, but it's a waste to remove the bones!"
Li Yi could see the audience's barrage, and he kept his hands in his hands, explaining: "I know whitebait can be eaten directly, but I want to make fish flakes, so I must use clean meat.
The bones of whitebait are very soft, and you can hardly eat them, but if you smash them into puree to make petals, it will still have a grainy feel, and the eyes on its head will also affect the color, so it is better to keep only the clean meat. "
Hearing what he said, the audience felt relieved and turned their attention to his knife skills.
The whitebait in Li Yi's hands was only as thick as chopsticks, about seven centimeters long, and it was hard to hold it with hands.
But under Li Yi's blade, the whitebait's flesh was shaved off with only two left and right cuts.
Seeing this scene, the live broadcast room was full of barrage.
"Brother Yi's sword skills are really incredible, they are too strong."
"As expected of a man who can shred tofu!"
"Looking at the real decompression, is there a big guy who can record a screen and make a pure version. I will watch it as a decompression video before going to bed at night."
"With this knife method, Brother Yi's circumcision is absolutely fast and accurate."
"???"
After shaving the whitebait meat, Li Yi put it in a small clean bowl.
In the shrimp pot next to , the shrimps are jumping and splashing.
Seeing this, Li Yi brought over a bottle of Moutai, handed it to Wu Lei, and asked Wu Lei to pour half of the bottle into it.
As the high-alcohol liquor soaked, the shrimps in the basin struggled less and less, and gradually became drunk to death.
Seeing that the shrimps were no longer struggling, Wu Lei licked his lips and asked, "Brother Yi, can you eat?"
"Do you want to eat?"
Li Yi raised his eyebrows slightly.
Wu Lei was stunned for a moment, and asked in confusion: "Isn't this a drunken shrimp? Can you eat it with some sauce?"
He is from Modu, drunk shrimp is still very common in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai.
Li Yi drunk the shrimp to death for the convenience of peeling the shrimp, but since Wu Lei wanted to eat it, Li Yi didn't refuse.
"Then make your own sauce!"
Li Yi was busy shaving the meat, so he didn't have time to season the sauce for him.
no problem. "
Wu Lei took the task enthusiastically, and went to make the sauce.
After making a bowl of sauce with soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, chili oil, chopped green onion and other seasonings, he went back to the counter, picked up some drunken shrimp, put them in the sauce and soaked them.
Following, he took the chopsticks, picked up a drunk shrimp from the sauce, and put it in his mouth.
Seeing that he really ate a drunken shrimp into his mouth, Zhao Jinmai couldn't help taking a half step back with a look of horror.
"what?"
Wu Lei sipped the shrimp meat and said with a smile: "This way of eating is very fresh, you try it?"
"No no no! Do it yourself!"
Zhao Jinmai waved his hands again and again: "I can't eat it, aren't you afraid of parasites?"
"This kind of shrimp is generally fine, and it can be sterilized after being soaked in high-grade wine."
Wu Lei is still persuading: "It's really delicious, you'll know if you try it."
"Eat it yourself, I really can't eat it."
Zhao Jinmai refused to try no matter what.
She could see that some of the prawns in the bowl were not completely dead, and their whiskers and legs were still moving. It was too scary to eat them raw.
But Wu Lei didn't take it seriously: "My hometown often eats like this. When adults drink alcohol, they like to order a plate of drunken shrimp, especially with wine."
"let me try!"
Huang Xiaoming was curious, stepped forward to pick up the chopsticks, picked up a drunk shrimp, and planned to taste it.
He is from a coastal city, so he is more accepting of eating raw seafood.
But just as he was about to put the drunken shrimp into his mouth, the dead drunken shrimp bounced back like a flash of light.
Snapped!
"Ouch!"
Drunk Shrimp was covered with sauce, and it bounced towards Huang Xiaoming's face suddenly.
Huang Xiaoming was caught off guard, and the sauce was directly thrown into his eyes.
"Brother Ming, are you okay?"
Wu Lei was taken aback when he saw this, and hurried forward to ask concerned.
There is chili oil in the sauce, as well as balsamic vinegar and soy sauce, which are still irritating to the eyes.
Huang Xiaoming didn't speak, but hurried to the vegetable sink, closed one eye, fumbled for the faucet, turned on the faucet, and rinsed his eyes.
After a lot of busy work, he finally washed his eyes clean.
Returning to the desk again, looking at the drunk shrimp in the bowl, he couldn't help shivering, and didn't have the courage to try again.
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