Golden Fishing Village

Chapter 694 697. Fresh Juice (15)

Fortunately, Ao Muyang had many talented people under his command. He chose the electric eel to be the urban management officer of the coral area.

He went home and came back again, and placed the electric eel in the coral area.

The electric eel usually lives in a breeding pond. Although it is enough for it to move around, the space is limited after all, so it is not free enough.

Now that it has come to the sea, one sentence can describe its mood: the sky is high and the birds can fly, the sea is deep and the fish can swim! The vast world has great potential!

Ao Muyang spent time teaching it to recognize and attack starfish. This is not difficult. The appearance of starfish is quite unique. Although the IQ of the electric eel is not as good as that of tigers and dolphins, it has been transformed by the golden drop after all, so it is not very stupid.

After teaching for more than two hours, the electric eel knew how to find and electrocute starfish.

It didn't take that long to do this. After Ao Muyang showed it the starfish several times and asked it to electrocute it, it knew that it was an opponent.

But the starfish lay on the coral. When the electric eel electrocuted the starfish, it had to protect the coral polyps as much as possible. After all, the coral polyps were not very active. He was very worried that the electric eel would fire a taser and all the coral polyps would be electrocuted to death.

After spending a lot of effort to train the electric eel into a coral city manager, Ao Muyang was relieved.

Leaving the black dragon behind, he returned home.

There were a bunch of starfish drying at home. These starfish grew up eating the coral polyps he carefully cultivated. He couldn't deal with them casually. This was also a good thing.

Lu Zhizi went home and saw him tie the starfish with fishing line and hang it at the door to dry. He asked in confusion: "Hey, what is this? Is it a starfish wind chime?"

Ao Muyang fiddled with his hands twice and smiled: "No, it's delicious."

Hearing the word "eat", the generals and heads of state immediately turned green.

In fact, the reason why Ao Muyang hung up the starfish to deal with it was to guard against the head of state. The starfish had a strong fishy smell, and the head of state kept meowing after smelling it.

After Lu Zhizi came back, the head of state got excited again, circling around Lu Zhizi, looking up at the string of starfish and meowing.

Seeing this, Lu Zhizi laughed, squatted down and teased him with his finger: "What are you doing? Let's learn to meow together, meow meow meow meow, and act like a spoiled child in front of you, oh meow meow meow meow meow?"

The head of state's fat face was confused: "Meow! Meow meow meow!"

Starfish is a dish in fishermen's homes. The simplest way is to steam the starfish, break open the feet and eat the meat inside. It tastes very fresh, but also very fishy.

Lu Zhizi had eaten it this way before, and she couldn't stand the fishy smell, so this time she said: "If you want to steam the starfish, you might as well give it to the head of state and let him tear it apart and eat it, which can also consume his energy."

Ao Muyang said: "I don't steam the starfish, and I don't use it as a dish. I'm going to extract it to make juice."

In the past, when Lu Zhizi saw the seafood brought back by Ao Muyang, she would cook it directly as a dish. This time, when she heard that it was going to be used as an ingredient, she smiled and said: "It's quite rare. You have good cooking skills."

Ao Muyang stretched out a hand and said: "For the past twenty years, I have relied on it to make a living."

There are not many people who eat starfish in China, and the utilization rate of starfish is relatively low, because Chinese people can't stand the fishy smell. It's different in Japan. Japanese people have a different preference for fishy smell.

Take starfish for example. In China, at most they are steamed or made into soup with lean meat, kelp, etc., but in Japan, there are many ways to eat it, and there is even a bento called starfish bento.

Ao Muyang learned to make starfish juice from Japanese cuisine.

Japan has a professional production line to extract juice from starfish, which is more complicated. Ao Muyang uses a simple method.

He first steamed the starfish over high heat. Under high temperature, there was enough steam in the pot, and the starfish could absorb the steam. In this way, the meat would become old over time, but it didn't matter, because he didn't plan to eat meat anyway.

He took out the steamed starfish and chopped it into pieces with a sharp axe, then took it to the millstone at the entrance of the village and ground it with water.

Seeing him grinding starfish, Zhang Nan, who brought some beans over, was puzzled. She looked at it for a while and asked: "Village chief, what are you grinding? It looks sticky and disgusting."

Ao Muyang said: "What's disgusting, it's just a starfish."

Zhang Nan's face turned green immediately: "You use a millstone to grind starfish? Are you planning to stop the villagers from grinding food here?"

The fishy smell of starfish is well known.

Ao Muyang patted the millstone and said, "Don't worry, I've prepared a deodorizer and will clean it for you."

Zhang Nan smiled and said, "That's not necessary. I'm just saying that this thing will go bad after a day of drying."

While grinding the starfish, he added water. The millstone was dragged by the general, and the general put on his dog saddle again. He jumped and pulled the millstone, which squeaked.

Zhang Nan had nothing to do, so he squatted down to tease the general and gave him beans to eat.

The general didn't even look at it and continued to jump.

Zhang Nan said, "Village chief, your general is very strong."

The stone mill is very heavy. It used to make tofu. As the saying goes, there were three hardships in the old society: rowing a boat and grinding iron to make tofu. Ordinary women couldn't push this thing.

In fact, the general couldn't pull the millstone continuously, so he jumped forward, and the muscles of his four legs were tense, like a spring, with infinite explosive power.

Seeing that the general didn't eat the beans, Zhang Nan took them and ate them himself, saying, "Village chief, if tourists see you like this, will those dog fans say you are abusing dogs?"

Ao Muyang said, "I am the biggest dog fan, can they beat me? Hey, sister-in-law, are your beans fried? Come, give me a handful to eat."

The general was working hard there, and when he turned around, he saw Lao Ao crunching beans happily, which made him so angry that he wanted to pee.

Seeing this trick, Lao Ao was helpless. The general lifted his legs on the grinding wheel, and Lao Ao quickly pushed him back: "You can't pee here. If you pee here, your father, even if I am the village chief, can't protect you."

After grinding all the starfish, the dregs are thrown away and the juice is collected. This is not the end. The juice must be left to stand for a while after returning. There are still impurities in the starfish juice.

The process of making starfish juice in Japan is complicated. They use high-pressure pressing to obtain juice, and then use centrifuges and filtering devices to remove impurities, and then dry it. Finally, the powder is obtained and then mixed with soy sauce.

Ao Muyang skipped the drying step. He directly added a little ginger water, a little garlic juice and some light soy sauce. The resulting juice is rich in glycine and has little fishy smell. It can even be eaten directly with rice.

He told Lu Zhizi that, and Lu Zhizi didn't dare to eat starfish after having tasted the bitterness of starfish, so he had to use it to mix cucumbers.

Jiang Caoqi came to eat, and Ao Muyang gave him a bowl of hot rice and sprinkled a layer of starfish juice on it. He ate it with relish: "Hmm, it tastes so fresh, what kind of sauce is this?"

"How about our family's ancestral secret sauce?" Ao Muyang ate a piece of cucumber, which was crispy, fresh, and had a unique taste.

Jiang Caoqi gave a thumbs up: "No wonder Lao Du insisted on cooperating with you to build a resort. With your skills, you will make a lot of money!"