Chapter 187: Delicious arapaima
"I think the fish is still grilled and delicious, and the rest is just smoked. "Wu Yicai is almost fed up with smoked food, but he has no choice on this desert island, and if he doesn't do some measures, this delicious fish will only spoil.
There are two ways to prevent food from spoiling, one is smoking, which uses high temperatures to evaporate excess water from the meat, so that the meat can be stored for a long time.
The other is pickling, using salt to infiltrate the fish meat, and then drying, the salt in the fish meat is large enough to kill bacteria, prevent the growth of bacteria, and can effectively preserve the food.
Combining the two preservation methods, Wu Yicai chose the former, although the smoked meat is chewy and hard, at least it is not panicked.
If you use salt to pickle, if it is salty, it will definitely kill people......
Han Lingshuang was rummaging through the cassava chips, the upward side had been dried, and the downward side was a little damp.
Turn all the cassava chips on the ground over and dry them at high temperatures to make cassava flour.
The tapioca cakes are super delicious, especially when eaten with duck slices, the taste is simply wonderful.
It's a pity that I took a special look at the upper reaches of the river today, but I didn't find that group of cute ducks.
Come to think of it, how can a duck dare to swim in a small river full of piranhas, and that group of rampant guys basically eats everything, including the same kind.
At the beginning, I saw a lot of ducks at the bend of the river, where the river is fast, and piranas do not stay long in places where the current is fast.
The creek has now been completely diverted to a quiet, slow-flowing beige-green deep-water river with a large number of piranhas.
The duck can't be eaten, there is something else to eat, and this huge arapaima should be delicious.
Wu Yicai took the fish slices into long strips, put them in the smokehouse and began to smoke, while the piranha hung on a rope to dry.
Wu Yicai was cooking grilled fish, while Han Lingshuang continued to dry the seasoning on the side, fennel and peppercorns had to remove the excess water to preserve them for a long time, and their taste was also more mellow.
It didn't take long for the fragrant grilled fish to be ready, and Wu Yi only smeared the honey a few times, and the golden sweetness had already penetrated into the fish with the knife and texture.
"Well, it's so fragrant, isn't this cooked?" Han Lingshuang sat in front of the fire, looking at the golden fish and swallowing his saliva.
Wangcai also climbed over for the first time, looking directly at the fish.
And the expressions of the two and one dog are all in sync, and they are both swallowing saliva.
"Okay, it's ready to eat!" Wu Yicai sprinkled the few spices, and the light fragrance in the air suddenly turned into a rich mellow fragrance.
The meat quality of arapaima is good, it looks similar to pork, but it tastes several times better than domestic pork.
The flesh of arapaima contains a small amount of fat, and the meat is basically purple-red, and there are irregular white stripes mixed in it, which is where the fat lies.
After grilling, the arapaima meat is golden brown, the skin is crispy and shiny, and a layer of bright liquid is attached to the body.
The golden liquid is produced by the fusion of oil and honey......
Before eating the fish, be sure to suck heavily on the golden liquid of the fish** table.
Take a sip, the taste is fragrant and sweet, and a clear stream flows between the teeth, penetrating, and the taste buds are dancing.
The skin of the fish is crunchy to eat, and the tender meat inside is chewed with fat splashing, which is not just fat, but also the honey that seeps in.
The fish meat is a little dry and hard, and it tastes strong and elastic, this is the purple-red lean meat, and the white fat content in it is so much that it melts away on its own in the mouth.
This combination of fat and thinness, which is dry and elastic and hard to chew and melts in your mouth when you suck it, is really the best of the best food.
And the seasoning is quite sufficient, the honey is sweet and warm, which makes the fish more delicate, and the seasoning improves the taste of the fish by several grades.
"Hmm...... It's delicious!" Han Lingshuang held the fish meat in both hands and gnawed wildly, her mouth was full, and her speech was a little slurred, "Pervert, you really have a talent for cooking!"
"Hmph, that's nature!" Wu Yicai was very proud, he was still more confident in making food, ", Han Lingshuang's piece of fish is mine, don't grab it!"
"This is the meat of the dorsal fin of the fish, I want to eat this piece!"
In the face of food, no one can resist it, Wangcai has been swallowing, and his mouth is like a low roar like food.
Han Lingshuang doesn't have the lovely goddess fan of the past, she is simply a big foodie at the level of a female bandit.
"Ahh
These pieces of fish meat are more than 8 catties, so that these big stomachs have eaten cleanly, and several of them have eaten a lot, which is the special treatment of the injured and sick.
"There is still work to be done later, find a few big bottles and we will collect some coconut water and coconut meat, come back and make some coconut sugar and coconut milk, and see how much coconut oil we can have." Wu Yicai drank honey coconut water, the combination of these two things, the taste is very good.
At present, there are places where coconuts grow on this island, only the sandy beach in the north, which is far from the shelter, and the weight of coconuts is heavy, and it is difficult to transport them back and forth.
Prepare some tools to get coconut water and coconut meat directly under the coconut tree, and throw away the excess coconut shells.
Wu Yicai sawed off a long bamboo pole with a length of about 12 meters, which was long enough to hang a coconut on a tree.
The tool for hammering a coconut is to use a long shaft with a huge gear locked on it, and the two fit well and can be fixed with an iron pin.
The coconut shell is very thick, and you have to use an axe or something to break open it to get the white, tender and crisp coconut meat inside.
Wangcai's recovery from his foot injury was not bad, but he still had to keep him at home, and most of the road outside was covered with some sparse gravel, and stepping on it might add to the injury.
"Pervert, why is this bamboo pole so heavy!" Han Lingshuang dragged the bamboo pole with great effort, leaving a long scratch on the beach.
"It's full of some bamboo water, and it's very heavy to pull it up, so you can release the water inside, which will be a lot easier. ”
Cut a small hole in each knot of the bamboo pole, and sure enough, a lot of clear water flowed out of it, and now there is enough water resources, so there is no need to deliberately collect these bamboo water.
After bringing the gear, I headed towards the coconut grove, and before that, I took the path to check the traps, but unfortunately I didn't find anything.
None of the traps were triggered, and the boar had no path here at all, which was a bit disappointing.
Both of them returned to the coconut grove a little helplessly, began to collect the coconut, smashed the coconut open, and took the coconut water and coconut meat inside.
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After putting away the coconut water and coconut meat, I was about to rush back, and when I came to the shelter, I saw the white smoke rising from the west in the distance, and there was a strong pungent smell.