Starfish is a dish chef makes ten dishes

Speaking of which, we really rarely see starfish as a dish on the table every day, not only because starfish is cheap, but more importantly, there are many kinds of seafood in Qingdao, and starfish taste troublesome to eat. Some starfish have spikes and skin glands on their surfaces, and the glands secrete some toxic viscous fluids that are prone to diarrhea if they are not careful. For the sake of the fishermen of Hongdao Island, qingdao citizens also fought, eating more starfish to save clams. So, which part of the starfish is delicious? How to make it delicious? The reporter interviewed experts in Qingdao's catering industry to see what they said and did.

The best taste of starfish is female starfish seeds

Yang Aimin, associate professor of the Culinary College of Qingdao Hotel Management College, introduced that starfish is a marine echinoderm, the appearance is more peculiar, many people do not know how starfish should eat, and even some people do not know that starfish can be eaten. Usually, when spring comes, female starfish will be ready to lay eggs, and at this time, the starfish seeds will stick to the belly of the starfish in large areas like petals. We can break off the legs of the starfish, then break the starfish from the middle slit, take out the starfish seeds and eat them. Starfish seeds are the tastiest parts of starfish and taste a bit like sea urchins.

Liu Lixin, director of the Western Food Teaching and Research Department of the School of Culinary Science of Qingdao Hotel Management Institute, introduced that starfish are rarely served as a main dish in Western food, even as a side dish. But now that we're dealing with the new problem of starfish flooding, consider making starfish seeds into starfish sauce, starfish juice, and starfish filling as a side dish.

The Culinary Association called for the development of starfish dishes

Upon learning of the news of the proliferation of starfish in Jiaozhou Bay, the Qingdao Restaurant and Culinary Association immediately notified the backbone enterprises and called on catering enterprises to actively develop dishes related to starfish.

Xu Jian, the chairman of Qingdao Kaihai Restaurant, saw the news of the flood of starfish published in the media, and immediately assigned tasks to the company's research and development team to study a few more dishes about the starfish that families can make, and launch them in the company's stores as soon as possible. Xu Jian told reporters that Qingdao people usually rarely eat starfish, even if the method is relatively simple when eating, basically steamed and dipped in ginger vinegar to eat. Because starfish contain a bacterium called salt-loving bacteria, the reproductive ability is amazing, and starfish is slightly unnew and extremely prone to diarrhea. Because garlic, ginger and vinegar can effectively kill salt-loving bacteria, so when the public eats starfish, they must choose fresh starfish, must be sterilized at high temperature when doing, and when eating, they can not only avoid diarrhea, but also enhance the umami taste of starfish.

After receiving the company's request, Lin Zaiqing, the director of kaihai catering, immediately joined hands with Sun Fengyu, the chef of the Jiangxi Road store of Kaihai Hotel, and the two of them used a variety of techniques such as mixing, steaming, stewing, roasting, and stir-frying in the order of cold dishes, hot dishes, soup dishes and staple foods, and made ten dishes that citizens can also make at home. Originally, the name of the dish should be the main ingredient in front, but since this time it was made separately for starfish, the name of starfish was placed in the front.

Starfish mixed with spring shoots

The starfish is steamed and the starfish seeds are removed, the spring shoots are thinly sliced and blanched in water, and the leeks are only boiled with boiling water at the roots. Mix all the ingredients with salt, pepper oil and shallot oil. This dish combines spring shoots and starfish for a salty and fresh taste that accentuates the scent of spring. Starfish can also be combined with field spinach, simmered in chili oil, which is another spicy and fragrant flavor.

Steamed starfish

Bring ginger slices and water to a boil in a steamer, steam for 10 minutes with soy sauce or ginger vinegar sauce.

Spicy grilled starfish

The starfish washed and cut off the five paws. Heat the oven and cook the starfish claws, brushing the middle with oil, sprinkling sesame seeds, cumin and chili noodles. Chili noodles can also be replaced with Korean chili sauce, a dish that has a Korean barbecue flavor.

Starfish cabbage soup

Wash the cabbage and blanch the water after chopping, and then remove the starfish seeds for later use. Heat the pot and add oil, minced green onion and ginger to burst the aroma, add chopped cabbage and fry until semi-cooked, add water to boil, beat the egg whites or whole eggs, and pour sesame oil and salt when out of the pan to taste.

Starfish steamed eggs

When the starfish is steamed, remove the starfish seeds. Beat the eggs with water in a 1:1 ratio. After the steamer is boiled, add the starfish seeds and egg liquid and steam for 12 minutes. Eat it with soy sauce.

Starfish shrimp brain tofu pot

The diced meat is sautéed and the live starfish is removed from the starfish seeds. The shrimp head is sautéed red and blanched with blanched tofu, diced meat, starfish seeds and water. Take out the shrimp head without use, add salt to taste, add water starch to outline, and sprinkle with minced leeks when it comes out of the pot.

Starfish toon omelette

Blanch the toon and chop into small pieces, take out the starfish seeds and mix well with eggs, salt and minced toon, and cook in a non-stick pan.

Starfish roasted rice cake

The rice cake is cut into rectangular pieces, and the live starfish is removed from the starfish seeds. The minced green onion and ginger burst out of the aroma, add a little water, rice cake and starfish seeds and burn until the rice cake is soft and basically no water.

Starfish kidney beans beat the noodles

When the starfish is steamed, remove the starfish seeds. Dice kidney beans and diced pork belly and sauté, add starfish seeds. Bring water to a boil and cook the next strip.

Starfish dumplings

Chop the pork into purees, take out the starfish seeds, mix well according to the ratio of 1:2, add chopped green onion and ginger and salt to taste, wrap into dumplings and cook.

Guanhai News/Qingdao Evening News reporter Shan Yanchun

Author: Shan Yanchun

Source: Qingdao Evening News