How to boil shrimp deliciously
To boil shrimp deliciously, easily peeled without being fishy, in addition to choosing fresh shrimp, you need to know some tips in processing to have an attractive shrimp dish for family meals.
Boiled/steamed shrimp is not unusual for every family meal. To have delicious boiled shrimp, you must first choose to buy fresh shrimp with firm meat and boil it properly.
How to boil shrimp deliciously
Preparing shrimp
Wash the purchased shrimp with water. Then, use a toothpick to tattoo the back of the shrimp with black thread, but do not remove the shell and head.
After removing the black thread from the back of the shrimp, you should put the shrimp in a bowl of water and add a little wine, then wash and drain. Washing shrimp with wine is a trick to help keep the shrimp from being fishy, and when boiled, it will have a more beautiful red color.
Delicious boiled shrimp
Put the pot on the stove, add water to the pot, watch so that the water covers all the shrimp you need to boil. Next, add a few slices of ginger, a few crushed lemongrass branches, half a teaspoon of salt, about 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar and 1 tablespoon of seafood seasoning powder or seasoning powder and stir well, until all the spices are mixed. soluble with water.
While waiting for the water to boil, prepare a bowl of ice water.
When the water boils, put the prepared shrimp in to boil.
You should pay attention to the time for about 3-5 minutes depending on the size of the shrimp. Do not boil the shrimp for too long because it will make the shrimp hard and tough and difficult to peel. Observe that the shrimp turn red and a few float to the surface of the water, meaning the shrimp is cooked. Quickly turn off the stove and cover the pot for another 1-2 minutes so that the shrimp is braised evenly, helping to firm up and sweeten the meat.
Then you take the shrimp out and immediately put them in the prepared ice bath. Soaking in ice water helps the shrimp become firmer and easier to peel.
After a few minutes of soaking in ice water, take the shrimp out into a basket, drain before placing on a plate, or you can peel the shrimp and then place it on a plate according to your preference.
Be careful not to boil the shrimp in cold water because it will make the shrimp fishy. After boiling the shrimp, you should not scoop the shrimp onto a plate, because hot broth will leak out, making the shrimp soft and mushy.
Make sauce for dipping boiled shrimp
Shrimp dipping sauce is simply green chili salt and lemon juice, or commercially available seafood dipping sauce. If you have more time, the sauce will taste better
The way to prepare this dipping sauce is not too complicated. You add about 2 tablespoons of salt, 4 tablespoons of sugar, 4 tablespoons of kumquat juice, 3 tablespoons of condensed milk, a few bitter cabbage leaves and half a chopped green bell pepper and green chili into a blender and puree.
Pour the mixture into a bowl and finely chop a few lemon leaves and mix in until fragrant. Do not grind lemon leaves with the mixture because it can easily become bitter.
