This high-end dish, called "Xi Shi Tongue", used to go down the river to catch dozens of pounds and use it to feed ducks! When I was a child, I often watched with some friends in the river to be fished by others, and the fishing people were acquaintances in the village, and every time we closed the net, we were full of expectations, such a surprise is the most precious memory of childhood. There are still many fish in the river, in addition to fish, there are also crayfish, loach and river mussels. Fishers like to be the most small fish, small fish is actually more valuable than the big fish, especially in the summer, eat dried fish a lot of people, small fish first processed clean and then add salted, after drying can be sold, such dried fish to sell to 20 yuan a pound, but hit the river mussels, generally are not wanted, so the river mussels in the river are very much.
People don't like to eat river mussels, it is fishy, if there are chickens and ducks in the house, they will go down to the river to touch the river mussels, and you can find a sack in half a day. Then cook the mussels at home and remove the meat from them to feed the chickens or ducks. At that time, some families fed pigs, the old sow after giving birth to piglets, need to supplement nutrition, will also go to the river to find river mussels cooked after the pig to eat, pigs are omnivorous animals, like to eat river mussels, after eating can also quickly recover, grow fat and strong.
Now there are not many river mussels in the river, once in the supermarket actually saw that there are selling river mussels, a pound actually wants 20 pieces, it is really incredible, the original village people do not eat the river mussels actually sold so expensive! In fact, the river mussels are still very delicious to eat, as long as they are done well, there is no fishy taste, and they are still very fresh to eat. The ancients once compared river mussels to "Xi Shi tongue" and liked to eat this delicacy very much.
River mussels are actually the best to cook with bacon, and if you endure the fishy taste, you can also choose to cook soup is also very good. River mussels roast bacon, bacon can remove the fishy smell of the river mussels themselves, eat very fragrant and fresh. Bacon is almost every family in the countryside, many of which are pigs raised at home, and then killed during the New Year, and the bacon is marinated and enough to eat for a year in the coming year. The method is also relatively simple, the main ingredients are river mussels and bacon, as well as onions, ginger, garlic, peppers, cooking wine, salt, chicken essence and so on.
After the river mussels are fished back, they need to use a brush to brush off the impurities on them, then cook them in the pot, and then remove the meat inside. After the bacon is cleaned, cut into thin slices, pour oil into the pan, add ginger and garlic to stir-fry, then pour in the bacon, sauté the oil and add cooking wine, salt and chicken essence, add a little water, cover the pot and simmer.
Bacon needs to be cooked for a long time, because the bacon is cured, air-dried, relatively hard, more stewed will be very fragrant, and when the soup in the pot is almost gone, add the river mussel meat and stir-fry, add some soy sauce and peppers. The river mussel itself has some soup, when the pot is almost dry, add water, continue to dry, and finally the soup juice and add some chives to get out of the pot. The bacon fried river mussels are delicious, have you ever eaten them?