The so-called seafood pot does not mean cooking a pot of seafood with any single seafood, but mixing various seafood together and then adding easy-to-preserve vegetables such as coriander and tomatoes and cooking them together.
The vast ocean gives birth to a large number of seafood. Various marine foods are not only rich and diverse, but also mostly nutritious and delicious. Cooking various seafood together will not lose the original freshness of the seafood, but will make it blend with the flavor of other seafood, making it taste more delicious.
The seafood hotpot is not only popular among fishermen, but also loved by many people outside the circle.
Among them, seafood casserole is praised by gourmets as the best seafood pot. Many people spend a lot of money to stay in high-end hotels just to taste the delicious seafood casserole.
The casserole seafood in the hotel usually uses a special purple casserole. Xiang Yang and others cooked seafood pot for themselves, so they didn't care so much. Some people even thought that the iron pot was too small and not satisfying. He Mingde directly lifted an iron basin and placed it on the fire rack.
Xiang Yang first poured a bucket of drinking water into the iron basin, and then added an appropriate amount of chicken essence, cooking oil, star anise and other spices.
Before the water boiled, Xiang Yang put a layer of seaweed into the iron basin.
The seaweed used in seafood pot is generally used to flavor the soup instead of being eaten. In addition to its seasoning effect, the active substances contained in the seaweed can also regulate the physiological functions of the human body. Its rich sulfuric acid can not only effectively prevent the absorption of dietary fat, so that people will not gain weight no matter how much they eat, but also has the effect of lowering blood pressure and cholesterol.
After the water boiled, He Mingde removed the firewood from under the pot to make the fire under the fire rack smaller.
Next you can serve the main course.
When adding the staple food, you must be careful not to throw everything to be cooked into the pot at once. You have to put them in order, because some seafood itself has a strong fishy smell that will affect the taste of the whole seafood pot. Such seafood must be put in after other seafood is eaten. Some seafood itself tastes delicious, and the soup cooked from it is thick and delicious. Such seafood must be put into the seafood pot first.
The first thing to put into the seafood pot is undoubtedly a large, cleaned cuttlefish.
Cuttlefish is an excellent ingredient for making soup. The soup has a unique sea flavor and is not fishy.
Put the cuttlefish into the soup, and when the unique fresh aroma of cuttlefish floats above the milky white soup, you can add scallops, swimming crabs and other seafood that can be cooked easily.
Finally, there is half a basin of cleaned seafood such as lobsters, bulb sea squirts, oysters, and half a basin of vegetables. These things do not need to be cooked for too long. According to each person's taste, if you like to eat them more cooked, put them in the basin and cook them for a while longer. If you like to eat them raw, blanch them and eat them directly.
"Uncle, would you like a bowl of soup too?" Xiang Yang had just scooped a bowl of seafood soup when he saw his uncle coming in front of him.
"Xiao Yang, I want to get some small yellow croakers off the boat. Do you think it's possible?" He Mingde said, rubbing his hands.
Upon hearing this, all the crew members looked at Xiang Yang eagerly.
Xiang Yang's mouth twitched when he heard this. Eating small yellow croaker is not eating fish! It is eating gold.
"Get two smaller ones down. Don't let them be alive, freeze them." Xiang Yang said with a distressed look on his face.
"Okay." He Mingde was waiting for Xiang Yang to say this, and immediately jogged towards the rubber boat.
Small yellow croaker is a very fragile deep-sea fish. In most cases, it will die directly due to the sudden change in pressure once it leaves the water.
Even though the small yellow croakers caught by Xiang Yang were attracted to the water surface by the fish-attracting lights, many of their swim bladders burst due to the change in pressure.
He Mingde stamped his feet in pain as he watched the small yellow croakers lying dead in the water tank. Ever since the first small yellow croaker died, he had been planning to eat those small yellow croakers himself, wanting to take advantage of the fact that they were still fresh after death.
"Brother Yang, have a piece of bulb sea squirt." Fang Youqun took this opportunity to pick up a piece of bulb sea squirt and put it into Xiang Yang's bowl with a flattering look on his face.
"No, I eat tomatoes." Xiang Yang first glared at Fang Youqun, then picked up a piece of tomato from the seafood pot and put it into his bowl.
In fact, Xiang Yang was no longer angry about Fang Youqun's suicidal behavior, but Xiang Yang had to pretend to be angry. Seeking death in an ocean full of crises is really seeking death, and it is very easy to kill yourself.
Fang Youqun smiled awkwardly, put the piece of sea squirt into his mouth and started chewing, "Mm, it's delicious. Brother Yang, your cooking skills are really amazing. You can be a chef in a five-star hotel."
Xiang Yang rolled his eyes. It would be strange if the seafood hotpot made with seafood fresh out of the sea didn’t taste good.
"If it tastes good, then eat more. Come on, everyone, have a bowl of soup first, then have a swimming crab and eat more oysters. A real man can do more if he eats more. If you can't eat better than others, don't even think about doing better than others." Chen Qingsheng encouraged everyone to eat big chunks of meat, but he himself was peeling the lobster slowly.
Xiang Yang looked at a group of young crew members who were wolfing down their vegetables, taking small bites at a time, without saying a word.
"Old Zhou, Old Xu, you guys should eat more too!" Chen Qingsheng said.
Zhou Wang ate an oyster and said without even looking up: "I'm not hungry."
Xu Fang, like Xiang Yang, only eats vegetables. "You guys eat first. I don't have to do any three-dimensional work in the cab. I just need to eat some vegetables."
Chen Qingsheng's mouth twitched, and he took out a swimming crab from the seafood pot, "Captain, would you like a swimming crab?"
Xiang Yang rolled his eyes, "Why don't you eat?"
"Of course I'll eat it." Chen Qingsheng quickly broke off a crab claw.
"Then eat more. I'll wait until you're all full, and then I'll eat the small yellow croaker alone." Xiang Yang said unhappily.
Chen Qingsheng's face suddenly froze, and he pretended to be dumb and said, "Captain, what are you talking about?"
The crew members reacted one by one and glared at Chen Qingsheng.
"Okay, I was wondering why you kept asking us to eat more while you spent half a day peeling shrimps." The cheated crew member said angrily.
Zhou Wang and Xu Fang burst into laughter.
"What are you all making a fuss about?" Chen Qingsheng glared, "Is it wrong to ask you to eat more?"
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The sea, the beach, seafood, and a group of good friends, this kind of life is really enjoyable.
Xiang Yang saw that everyone had almost finished their noise, so he grabbed a swimming crab, cut it in half and shared it with Xu Fang. "The staple food will definitely be the seafood in the hotpot. There are only two small yellow croakers, which is enough for everyone to try. If you don't eat them, you will go hungry."
Xiang Yang was a bachelor and was anxious. To Xiang Yang, rare seafood like small yellow croaker was worth far more than the seafood itself. It even affected whether Xiang Yang's other seafood could be sold or not. Xiang Yang's heart was already bleeding just because he could take out two fish to share with everyone. If he took out a few more, it would be like cutting Xiang Yang's flesh.