Toothpick Octopus

Name: Toothpick Octopus
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 3
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 300g Hairtail; 15 pieces toothpick; 0.5g+1g salt; 2g+2g Cooking Wine; 0.5g pepper; 350g Cooking oil; 1g Cumin powder; 1g White sesame; 5g corn starch

by Snow season (from Tencent...)

4.7 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

30m

Serving

3

People usually stew or braise octopus in soy sauce. When eating, they should be careful about the thorns on the fish, especially for children or the elderly. Today, I made this kind of toothpick hairtail. Not only do we not have to worry about the bones, but we even eat the bones. The bones are rich in calcium. How can we throw away such nutrients? Because the flesh of the hairtails has no bones, The elderly and children can eat fish without worry. This method prevents hairtail from being wasted at all, and it is also a way to save money. Let’s follow along with me to learn.

Ingredients

300g Hairtail
15 pieces Toothpick
0.5g+1g Salt
2g+2g Cooking Wine
0.5g Pepper
350g Cooking Oil
1g Cumin Powder
1g White Sesame
5g Corn Starch

Toothpick Octopus

1. Ingredients: hairtail and toothpicks

2. Remove the head and internal organs of the hairtail, and use a knife to cut the fillets along the bones to obtain the flesh of the two sides.

3. Cut the fish into pieces of the same size, and chop the fish bone into pieces

4. Put the fish bones in a bowl, add 2 grams of cooking wine, 0.5 grams of salt and marinate for 10 minutes

5. Put the fish pieces in a bowl, add 2 grams of cooking wine, 1 gram of salt, and pepper to marinate for 10 minutes

6. Add cornstarch to the marinated fish segments and mix well

7. Put the fish on the toothpick

8. Dressed fish section

9. Add edible oil to the pot. When the oil is 50% hot, add the fishbone section

10. When frying golden brown, remove

11. When the oil in the pot is 50% hot, according to the size of the fish segments, first add the large fish segments and then add the small fish segments to fry. When the fish segments are shaped, remove the fish segments

12. When the oil temperature rises to 60% hot again, re-fry the fish sections and when they are golden yellow, remove them and sprinkle with cumin powder and sesame seeds.

13. Finished product

Tips:
You only need to fry the fishbone once, and take it out when it is golden brown. At this time, the fishbone section is already crispy and you can eat it with the thorn. The fish sections need to be re-fried, the re-fried fish sections are crispy and delicious, and they are crispy even if they can be eaten for a long time. If you like spicy, you can add some chili powder.