How to eat in Dalian-raw pickled gaba shrimp

Overview

Spring is coming, and it’s the season to eat Gaba shrimp again. They are sold in various markets in Dalian. The Gaba shrimps were 10 yuan per catty a few days ago, which was a bit small. In the past two days, the price has increased to 20 yuan per catty, but they are big. Dalian people like to eat gaba shrimp the most, and today I also learned how to make raw pickled gaba shrimp from my friends in Dalian. I also made raw pickled gaba shrimp before, but I used the method of marinating it based on the method of my hometown in Sichuan. Although the taste is very good, it is not the local pickling method, and it is still a bit unauthentic. Today I will give you a pure Dalian pickling method, and I hope to share it with you.

Tags

• hot dishes
• cooking wine
• coriander
• dried chili pepper
• gaba shrimp
• garlic
• hangzhou pepper
• liquor
• onion white
• star anise
• white sugar
• yipin fresh soy sauce
• ginger
• peppercorns
• salt
• small red pepper

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Remove any miscellaneous fish from the gaba shrimps, rinse them, drain them and set aside.

   

2. 2 Cut the ginger into shreds. Because seafood is cold, you need to cut more ginger.

   

3. 3 Slice the ginger and garlic, cut the green onion into sections, and dice the chili pepper and small red pepper.

   

4. 4 Pick, wash and cut the coriander into sections.

   

5. 5 Pour a bowl of water into the pot, add a handful of peppercorns, a handful of dried chili peppers, sliced ginger, two star anise, two spoons of salt, two spoons of cooking wine, half a spoon of sugar, and two large spoons of fresh soy sauce, and bring to a boil over high heat. (The peppercorns are brought from my hometown and are very numb)

   

6. 6 After boiling, pour two ounces of white wine, turn off the heat and add ginger slices, garlic slices, green onion segments, Hangzhou pepper, and small red pepper. (The liquor is Jiangjin Laobaigan from my hometown)

   

7. 7 Stir all the soup ingredients evenly, put the basin into cold water, open the window and let it cool. (You can also put it in the refrigerator to cool completely.

   

8. 8 After the soup has completely cooled down, add the drained gaba shrimp and stir while letting it soak in, then wrap it with plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator. (It’s best if the soup doesn’t cover the gaba shrimp)

   

9. 9 After four or five hours, when the gaba shrimp is completely flavored, add coriander and mix well.