Eating shark fin is very delicate.
Shark fin is actually shark fin. After the shark's fin is taken out and dried, it is the traditional shark's fin that we see now. Shark's fin has been listed as one of the "eight famous delicacies" in ancient China, and it ranks as a precious delicacy alongside bird's nest, abalone, sea cucumber and fish maw, and it is also a leader in high-grade seafood. Shark fin is valuable not only because it is rare, but also because people think it has a good health care function. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that "shark's fin can tonify five internal organs, lengthen waist, invigorate qi, eliminate phlegm and stimulate appetite".
Eating shark's fin is actually very particular, and each ingredient has a special function. For example, the role of Zhejiang vinegar is appetizing and digestion, because shark fin glue is relatively heavy; Silver buds are used for refreshing, and coriander can add flavor. But some people like to add vinegar, mustard sauce or wine to their wings, which will destroy the original flavor of soup and shark fin and affect the taste of shark fin. In addition, before eating shark's fin, don't eat those foods with strong taste, such as garlic and mustard, which will also affect the taste of shark's fin. Some gourmets say that the best way to taste shark's fin is to gargle with clear water to improve the taste, and then eat shark's fin, so as to taste the unique flavor of shark's fin food.
Chaozhou stew: soft and smooth
Brazilian golden hook wing has good quality, golden color, soft and waxy needles and good taste. In the past, shark fin in restaurants was mostly soup, and this dish was also innovative. It is cooked by the "original stew" method in traditional Chaozhou cuisine. The chef said that the soup was not cooked separately, but the shark fin was wrapped in a cloth, put down and stewed with the old chicken for five or six hours. Just take shark's fin and soup when serving, and don't need old chicken. The shark fin made in this way has a soft and smooth taste, and the soup base is fragrant, which is also convenient for digestion and absorption.
Fried osmanthus: sweet
Can shark fin still be fried? The answer is yes. However, there is no osmanthus in this dish. "Osmanthus fragrans" is just a special way of Chaozhou cuisine. Its practice is to fry scallops, crab meat, shredded eggs and shark's fin together, and add a little pepper to highlight the fragrance of shark's fin. Fried scallops, crab meat and shredded eggs sell well, probably because they are golden in color and silky as laurel petals, hence the name.
This dish tastes very particular. It has many ingredients, such as bread, lettuce leaves, shredded onion, shredded red pepper, Shanxi mature vinegar and so on. When eating, you should wrap a lettuce leaf with a flour cake, add ingredients such as shredded onion and shredded red pepper, and then put a spoonful of chicken wings, wrap them and put them in your mouth, which is sweet and delicious. This dish tastes a bit like Chinese food cooked in the west. Be careful not to pour vinegar into shark fin, which will affect the taste of shark fin itself, but drink a spoonful of vinegar after eating shark fin to help digestion. Because this dish is dry, it can moisten your throat with a bowl of clear soup.
Stone pot barbecue: fragrant
Perhaps many people think that abalone wings and belly are expensive food, but they are not. There are more than 100 kinds of sharks in the world, so shark fin is also very expensive. Shark fin, located at the junction of two oceans in southeastern Africa, is cheap and good.
Shark's fin is gelatinous and will harden when it is cooled. Burning wings in a stone pot solved this problem. This dish is made of exquisite materials, including Jinhua ham, chicken, dried tangerine peel, mushrooms, hand-picked hooks, shark's fin and more than 20 kinds of raw materials. The practice is also very particular. More than ten kinds of materials, such as ham and chicken, should be boiled into rich ham soup first, and then the shark's fin should be wet. Then heat the Shi Qi, add the prepared ham soup, and boil the semi-finished product in Shi Qi, and serve. The vessel for holding shark's fin is specially made from volcanic rocks in the new era, and it is said that the heating effect is very good. This dish is delicious and memorable, only a few tens of dollars.
Braised abalone sauce: fragrant glutinous rice
Choose the precious golden mountain hook wing, soak it for more than ten hours, then beat the sand to remove the tendons, and then simmer it with thick soup until the hard shark fin becomes a delicious and soft dish. Braised sauce is specially made and has a unique flavor. Another kind of court yellow roasted wing is almost the same, but it uses yellow roasted juice.