Is shrimp cooked in cold water or boiled in water?

Because if you cook shrimp in cold water for a long time, the shrimp meat will become old and firewood, and it will smell fishy. On the contrary, the shrimp cooked in boiling water is fresh and tender, and cooked with ginger and cooking wine, which will not smell like fish at all and is very delicious.

When cooking shrimp, put water into the pot, which can speed up the maturity of shrimp. Generally, shrimp can be cooked for 3 minutes, and it can be cooked for about 5 minutes if it is very big.

Because shrimp is easy to cook, if it is cooked in cold water, it will be cooked slowly and the fishy smell will be hard to get rid of, so the shrimp tastes very bad. Hot water is different. Fresh shrimp can be cooked in a short time after being put into the pot, which fully retains the freshness of shrimp, which is one of the reasons why the boiled shrimp in the hotel is delicious.

Method for selecte fresh shrimp

1. Look at the shape: the head and tail of the fresh shrimp are complete, and the head and tail are closely connected with the body. The shrimp body is quite hard and has certain elasticity and curvature. However, the head and body, shell and meat of aged shrimp are loosely connected, and the head and tail are easy to fall off or separate, which can not maintain its original curvature.

2. Look at the color: the skin and shell of fresh shrimp are shiny, the river shrimp is bluish green, and the shrimp is bluish white (female shrimp) or egg yellow (male shrimp).

3, touch the body surface: the fresh shrimp looks very clean and feels very dry by hand. If the shrimp shell feels sticky, it means that the shrimp has gone bad.

4. Smell: Fresh shrimp smells like normal fish. If there is an odor or stink, it means that the shrimp has gone bad.

5, peeling shrimp shells: fresh shrimp shells and shrimp meat are closely adhered. When peeling shrimps with your hands, the shrimps will stick to your hands. It takes a little effort to peel shrimp shells. If there is looseness, it means that the shrimp is not fresh.