The process of making fish balls is actually not too complicated.
The first step is to steam the fish and separate it from the bones and skin, leaving only the tender white fish meat.
Then use the back of a knife to break up the separated fish meat on a chopping board. When it is finely beaten, put it in a bowl, add some flour and start kneading the dough with your hands, kneading the fish meat fully into the flour.
During the kneading process, add some warm water, egg white, and some cooking oil.
Of course, if you don’t want the fish balls to be so white, you can add egg yolks as well. Anyway, it all depends on what flavor the maker likes.
Ye Ming directly beat several eggs into the bowl. Because of the color of the egg yolk, the fish paste in the bowl turned into a yellow paste.
Although this paste is yellow, it has good viscosity.
"Sniff... this thing is a little fishy..."
Ye Mo scooped out some fish paste from the basin with a spoon, smelled it, and said with a frown.
"Then just add some cooking wine. Cooking wine removes the fishy smell. Isn't that common sense?"
Ye Ming took out cooking wine and poured some into the fish paste.
"That's true."
Ye Mo looked at the final pot of fish paste.
"This isn't some dark cuisine, is it?"
"Who knows?"
Ye Ming shrugged and washed his hands first.
"I'll be in charge of cooking, and you'll be in charge of frying. That's a good division of labor between us..."
After Ye Ming finished speaking, he took a knife and cut the bowl of yellow fish paste in half, dividing it into two large portions.
"This amount is about right..."
Ye Ming pushed the portion of fish paste he had shared to Ye Mo.
"Dad, this is yours. Go fry it. I'm going to cook it..."
“OK.”
Ye Mo heated up the oil in another pot along with his portion of fish paste.
"Should I use this to make fish cakes? Just...heat some oil in a pan, then shape it into cakes and fry them all over?"
"You can do whatever you want with it. Just use less oil, or it will be too greasy."
"Don't worry about me doing things."
Ye Mo patted his chest and promised.
"To be honest, I don't feel that reassured..."
Ye Ming looked at his father who had already started heating oil in a pan and shook his head.
Forget it, Dad should be able to rest assured, after all, this guy won’t cheat his son.
Ye Ming took another pot and placed it on the stove, then picked up a pot of hot water and poured it into the pot, filling most of the pot.
After the water boils, take a spoon and pinch the fish paste with your hands to squeeze out a round ball of the fish paste, then scoop it up with a spoon and put it into the pot.
After the fish paste entered the boiling hot water, it quickly separated from the spoon.
Under the action of hot water, the fish meat quickly solidified and turned into a fish ball.
It’s just that this fish ball looks a little yellow because it contains egg yolk.
I believe that people who are used to eating fish balls must insist on the common sense that fish balls are white and round.
But in fact, as long as you don't slip in your thinking, and add a little bit of your favorite things when making the fish balls, the fish balls will not only be white, but also yellow, with black spots. If you add some vegetable juice, you can also make them into green fish balls (this is what I have experienced. The black spots are caused by adding black sesame seeds when mixing the fish paste. The taste... is okay.).
If you change the technique a little bit before putting the fish balls into hot water, the shapes of the fish balls can be very strange.
There are many possible shapes, such as long strips, cubes, irregular shapes, horn shapes, etc., and the shape depends entirely on what the person making the fish balls likes (the first time you make fish balls, you can't get the shape right, so there are all kinds of shapes anyway).
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"Your fish balls are quite unique..."
Yi Zongjiu looked at the strange-shaped fish balls in the bowl and always felt that something was wrong.
Although they are fish balls, why are your fish balls yellow?
Aren’t fish balls usually white?
Aren't fish balls usually round? Why are yours so weird and free-form?
Yi Zeyu ate a "fish ball" with an expressionless face.
"It tastes pretty good, I think it's acceptable."
Ye Yuyan saw that Yi Zeyu's expression didn't change after he ate a fish ball, so she ate one too.
"Huh? This tastes pretty good, but it's not too salty. Is there any seasoning added?"
Ye Ming was stunned for a moment, then ate a fish ball.
After chewing for a long time, I felt a little embarrassed and touched my nose.
"I forgot to add the seasoning..."
Run to the kitchen and get some salt and other things.
"You can add as you see fit. If I were to adjust it, I might not be able to get the flavor you like. So just adjust it according to your own taste."
"My fried meatballs are ready, do you want some?"
Ye Mo came out carrying a whole bowl of freshly fried fish balls.
Ye Mo's cooking skills are much better than Ye Ming's. Anyway, the fish balls he makes are not as varied as those made by Ye Ming.
Each one looks round and plump, like a miniature fruit.
"Dad, we forgot to add salt when we were making the surimi."
Ye Ming kindly reminded him, and Ye Mo nodded. Finally, he walked into the house and rummaged through it for a while before finding a bunch of seasoning packets.
"This stuff is what this kid had left over from when he ordered takeout at home. It's not expired yet. These seasoning packets are quite fragrant. Let's just use this. It happens to be fried too."
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