Golden Fishing Village

Chapter 1143 1150. Cured Fish Head (15)

Lao Ao temporarily suppressed the thought of meeting the mane. The New Year is coming soon, and there is no fishing season in winter. He has to wait until the spring.

This is the first time that the Big Dragon Head has returned to the new dock to unload the catch. In the past, the dock was narrow, and everyone had to line up and carefully push each other to unload the foam box.

Now it’s good, the two lanes have become six lanes, and experienced drivers can drive as fast as they want, even if they are driving a tractor, they dare to try drifting.

The crowd was hustling over. Ao Daguo squatted on the bow and waved his hands and shouted: "Don't push, don't push, there's no point in pushing. This time we have prawns and dried shrimps to bring back, and every household will have a share - I told you not to push, there's no point in pushing?!"

Some tourists wanted to take some seafood home. After seeing Ao Muyang, they recognized his identity and asked: "Village chief, how do you bring live shrimps back? Do you have any tricks?"

There were open foam boxes on the dock. The prawns inside were 20 centimeters long, and each one weighed half a pound. Even the citizens of Hongyang who came to the fishing village to play had rarely seen them, so they were naturally happy to see them.

Ao Muyang said: "You don't have to eat the prawns alive. You can keep the freshness after you put them in the ice. You can eat them at ease when you go home."

But someone said: "I want to bring live prawns back to open my friends' eyes."

Ao Muyang said: "Then you spend a little more money and pick those that are alive and kicking."

This is the only way. The prawns are iced after they are sent to the market. Whether they are alive or dead, they are all iced. Otherwise, if there are bad prawns, the impact will be huge.

He was carrying two baby breams and walking home. He saw Aunt Pigeon carrying a basket to grab fish on the dock.

Every time the Big Dragon Head returned with a full load, it would be sold to the villagers first, allowing the villagers to select first, and the rest would be sent to the dock market for sale.

When they were sold at the village dock, these catches were particularly fresh and cheap, so every household rushed to buy them. They did not sell them to fishmongers at the dock. At most, they sold them to tourists in the village - tourists received a slip after staying in the fishing house, which was equivalent to a ticket.

Aunt Pigeon greeted him, and he nodded and shouted to Ao Daguo: "Uncle Daguo, give Aunt Pigeon's family two more snappers, the bigger ones - who stepped on me?"

A group of teenagers chased to the dock to join in the fun, and the one running in front was reckless and stepped on his instep.

Ao Muyang shook his feet and said: "Whose child are you? Damn, Xiaojun? Why do you have such a hairstyle? When I saw your parents playing men's and women's doubles against you a few days ago, your hair was quite short. Was it pulled out?"

Ao Xiaojun had a non-mainstream hairstyle that was popular in his youth, with yellow hair flying in the wind, and the longest strand hanging behind his head like a dog whip.

After hearing what Ao Muyang said, he grinned and said, "Haha, are you surprised, Uncle Xiaoyang? I'm wearing a wig."

He took off a wig from his head, showed it off, and put it on again, and said proudly, "How is it, awesome?"

"Awesome," Ao Muyang shook his head. This child is really troublesome. He asked again, "Xiaojun, have you finished your winter vacation homework?"

Ao Xiaojun said, "I never do holiday homework. This holiday is supposed to be a benefit for students. It is God and the national leaders who let us rest. As a result, the school assigns homework. What is this called? This is called defying the will of heaven! This is called violating the policy!"

Ao Muyang shrugged and said, "What you said makes sense, but if you don't do your homework, you will be beaten when you go to school. The teacher beats you once, and your parents beat you once in mixed doubles."

Ao Xiaojun said proudly, "Wrong, only once. Now the teacher doesn't beat students, but my parents beat me once."

"You know you'll be beaten, but you don't write it?" Ao Muyang wondered.

Ao Xiaojun shook his hair unruly and said proudly: "Doing homework is painful for a holiday of forty days, and not doing it will be a beating for ten minutes. Uncle Xiaoyang, which deal do you think is more cost-effective?"

Ao Muyang smiled and said: "Good boy, you have brains."

He turned around and left, and then decided to tell Ao Mukang when he met him that he would beat this kid three times a day, six hours each time, and make him shout 666!

Lu Wuyi admired Ao Xiaojun very much, so he simply stayed and joined the team of teenagers, and gave them instructions: "Your hairstyle is not good, there is no feel, not hot enough, come, I will help you to tidy it up..."

Ao Muyang took the red snapper home to clean it up, and he chopped off the fish head. This time he ate the fish head.

Everyone knows that bighead carp head, silver carp head, and disc fish head are delicious, but in fact, compared with red snapper, they are far inferior. Fishermen don't like to eat freshwater fish. Of course, most people will not eat freshwater fish if they have sea fish to eat.

There is a saying among fishermen: the head of the fish is made of wax, the tail of the Spanish mackerel, the belly of the hairtail, and the mouth of the spring fish. These are the four most delicious parts of marine fish, among which the head of the cured fish is the best.

According to local fishermen, the head of the cured fish is made of fish wax, which has a particularly smooth texture, melts in the mouth, and is full of fresh and fragrant flavor.

This is scientifically based. Among marine fish, the cured fish, also known as the red sea bream, is rich in soluble collagen, and the content of the fish head is particularly high, which is why it has a good taste.

In addition to the taste, the natural collagen rich in red snapper can also delay skin aging, reduce wrinkles and spots, because this small molecule protein has extremely high cell adhesion, high moisturizing and good sensory properties, and is highly active and easy to absorb, odorless and transparent, and does not produce irritation.

The common way to cook fish heads is to braise or stew them, or to cook them with chopped peppers and spicy. There is another way in fishermen's homes, called salt-baked fish heads.

He cut off the fish head with a sharp knife, and the kittens immediately ran over, waiting to eat the fish head with bright eyes.

Ao Muyang picked up the fish head to show them and asked, "Do you want to eat the fish head?"

"Meow meow meow."

"No." Lao Ao smiled and cut the fish head in half with two more knives, then mixed cornstarch, eggs, white wine, hot sauce, salt, and oyster sauce into a paste and smeared it on.

Then he fried the fish head. When the batter was golden, he turned off the fire. He couldn't fry it over high heat because there were too many small molecular proteins in the fish head. High temperature would denature them, which would be a waste.

He sprinkled the chopped green onion, ginger, garlic, green and red peppers on the fish head and wrapped it with gauze. The next step was to salt it. He put a small iron pot on the stove, which was full of salt grains. Then he put the fish head wrapped in gauze in it and baked it using the thermal conductivity of salt.

The purpose of doing this is to maintain the nutritional value of the fish head. Salt molecules actively enter the fish head at high temperature and can maintain its stability after combining with small molecular proteins. In this way, it will not denature even if the temperature is high.

The reason why salt is not used to fry the fish head is that if it is done in this way, it will easily make the fish head too salty, which will waste the delicious taste of the fish head.