When making shrimp in daily life, there may be many methods, such as braising or frying. No matter how to make it, the taste is very good. Generally, the first thing to do when cooking is to remove the fishy smell to ensure that the shrimp is delicious to eat. The delicious taste of shrimp meat needs to remove a black line on the back to remove the fishy smell.

Shrimp meat is delicious, and there are many cooking methods. However, many people just rinse the shrimp with water and put it in the pot to cook after buying it home, and the shrimp cooked this way has a very strong fishy smell because the fishy line, that is, the rectum of the shrimp, is not removed. In addition, some dried shrimp also have a fishy smell after being bought. So how to remove the fishy smell from shrimp, and how to remove the fishy line from fresh shrimp? Let’s take a look below.

How to remove the fishy smell from shrimp

First, fresh shrimp

1. When marinating the shrimp before cooking or during the process, add a little lemon juice to remove the fishy smell and make the taste more delicious. (This method is often used in Western cuisine)

2. Blanch the shrimp in boiling water before cooking, and add 1 stick of cinnamon in the water, which can eliminate the fishy smell of the shrimp without affecting its freshness.

3. After washing the shrimp, blanch it in boiling water, and at the same time, add several slices of pork to cook together, which can eliminate the fishy smell of the shrimp.

4. Wash the shrimp powder clean, then soak it slightly with warm water, cooking wine, and vinegar to remove the fishy smell of the shrimp powder.

Second, dried shrimp

1. First ‘run oil’, after the meat is two-thirds cooked, add a little water and fresh ginger, more ginger is better, ‘ginger all year round, all diseases are gone’.

2. Soak the shrimp meat in cooking wine for 20 minutes, and the fishy smell can also be removed.

3. When stir-frying, add ginger, white wine, and garlic. Add some vinegar. After adding the white wine, burn it in the pot.

4. Before cooking, first blanch with boiling water. Then you can slightly wash it with a very sour orange (the ones at home in the pot plants are also okay. Or you can buy them at the mall). Also, add some ginger during the cooking process, which can remove the fishy smell and reduce the fire.

How to remove the fishy line from fresh shrimp? If the shrimp is fresh, I’ll tell you a very practical method that is not only clean but also very environmentally friendly.

1. At the junction of the shrimp head and body, open the shrimp head to 90 degrees, take out the black thing inside from the front end, be sure to do it slowly, and then pull out the black line-like thing (intestine) inside the body, OK. When you cook shrimp, all parts are very environmentally friendly. It may not be very convenient at first, but you will get used to it slowly.

2. Insert a toothpick from the center of one side of the shell segment to the other, then gently pull it out and discard it; if cooked with shrimp meat, you can remove the head and shell, and directly pick out the black line (intestine) and wash it clean.