With the fish balls and basic ingredients, the papaya fish ball seafood soup is basically ready.
The only thing you need to pay attention to is that the ingredients in this soup are very easy to cook. Once cooked, the soup is basically ruined, so it is most important to grasp the timing.
The fish balls are already semi-finished. In order to make the flavor of the fish balls more easily penetrate, Yu Yu carved a cross on the top of each fish ball and fried it slightly. After the fish balls "bloomed", he slowly poured in the white sea fish soup prepared with fish bones in advance and added pieces of peeled and chopped papaya.
The next step was to wait for the best opportunity. After the milky white fish soup in the pot was gradually dyed with the red color of papaya, Yu Yu generously sprinkled a handful of shrimps into it. After the shrimp meat quickly turned red and curled up, he lifted the pot from the fire.
Normally, at this stage, it should be done by turning to low heat and simmering for forty to fifty minutes, but Yu Yu does not have such conditions now. Instead, the experienced actor Gu came up with a compromise, which is to warm it with hot stones, which can just simulate the environment of slow simmering over low heat.
This was a good suggestion; it was simple, convenient, and labor-saving. Seeing Yu Yu already lifting the pot of fish soup, Jiang Huan and Yang Yang, still holding fried fish balls in their mouths, hurried over, pulled the hot stones from another fire, rolled them into a pile, and then covered them with something like hay to insulate. Only then did Yu Yu put the pot down steadily, leaving it to warm slowly for the rest of the time.
The papaya fish ball seafood soup is basically done at this point. Now just keep it warm until the taste becomes more neutral.
Next, is the highlight of today, four large lobsters with very nice sizes. Because they were previously kept in seawater by the sea, even though they were delayed for some time, these four large lobsters are still very lively.
Yu Yu has not cooked many lobster dishes, but he is very skilled in dissecting lobsters. He made sashimi twice and was able to remove the crystal clear lobster meat intact.
However, steaming lobster is a very easy dish and does not require any skills. Just put the lobster in the pot and steam it. However, they don’t have a steamer here, only an iron frying pan, which cannot hold such a large lobster.
Yu Yu thought about it and simply adopted a similar method to steaming fish before, which was also the most primitive and jungle method. He asked Bo Tianwang to help find some large broad leaves, wash them, pick two large lobsters, and wrap them layer by layer tightly.
However, before wrapping them up, Yu Yu soaked the two big lobsters in cooking wine for more than ten minutes, making them a little drunk. He also washed and sliced the root of a plant that looked a bit like ginger that Lin Ying had found earlier, and wrapped them together.
Next, it was Joel's turn to work. He dug up the fire that had just been burned out not long ago, dug a little deeper, and dug out a hole big enough to fit the two big lobsters that were wrapped like green mummies.
In order to prevent mud from falling in, after digging the hole, Yu Yu first folded in large and wide leaves to form the bottom. After everything was done, he put the two big lobsters in.
Finally, continue to stack layers of large and wide leaves on the surface of the lobster. When it is almost done, cover it with plastic sheeting to keep out the rain, press it down with a few stones, fill it back with a thin layer of excavated soil, and then put firewood on top to make a fire.
Yu Yu's method was to use artificially created geothermal heat to stew the two large lobsters, and the fire could be used to cook the rice to be used later.
Of course, during this time, Yu Yu had already taken out the meat of the other two large lobsters from the shells intact, and also dug out the marrow and everything else from the shrimp heads, leaving only a few empty shrimp shells.
Yu Yu also had an idea for these shrimp shells. He did not keep them intact, but cut them open and put them in boiling water to make lobster soup. After the soup was cooked, he removed the shrimp shells and filtered out the residue at the bottom of the soup, leaving only the clear soup.
However, this lobster soup is not used to make soup, but to make sauce for baked lobster. Chop the roots of ginger plants into a paste, and pour the shrimp marrow that has been taken out before into the lobster clear soup. Simmer it slowly, season it, and wait for it to slowly collect and thicken. Then the specially prepared lobster sauce is ready.
The remaining steps are easy to handle. Divide the taken-out lobster meat into even pieces and fry it lightly. It does not need to be fully cooked, just a few minutes is enough. After frying, put all of it into the hollowed-out prawn heads, filling the two prawn heads completely.
Then, it's time to "color" it. The moment the thick special lobster sauce is poured on it, it's like the most important character has finally made his shining appearance, and it instantly becomes particularly vivid. After baking it on high fire for a few minutes, the faint aroma can't wait to come out, announcing that the baked lobster is done.
I saw that the two big shrimp heads were filled with lobster meat and covered with sauce. If I took a closer look, I could see that most of the lobster meat was soaked in the sauce, which made people swallow their saliva again and again.
The pan-fried fish belly and flavored fish fillets were also quickly completed. When making these two dishes, Yu Yu paid great attention to the timing, because she always believed that fish meat is the most tender and delicious when it is just cooked, and sea fish itself is refreshing. As long as the timing is right, it is impossible for it to be bad.
At the same time, the fire where the lobster was buried finally burned out, and the rice was cooked just right. The next step was to inspect the results.
To be honest, this was Yu Yu's first time using artificial geothermal heat to cook food, and he wasn't sure if he could succeed. So when the others were busy digging up the soil, Yu Yu didn't blink, staring nervously with a red face. When he saw a corner of the top layer of large, broad leaves turned black, his heart couldn't help but sink.
Could it be that... the car flipped over?
As this thought flashed through his mind, Yu Yu's face became even more nervous. In addition, when the big lobsters wrapped in a large bag of broad leaves were taken out of the hole, they did not look very good. There were traces of burns on the outer layer, and a corner of one of them was even completely charred black. The only lucky thing was that the two of them did not seem to be damaged at the moment, but some lobster juice inside had leaked out.
But to be honest, Yu Yu himself was nervous about the appearance of the food. He usually wielded the knife very skillfully, but now he was trembling a little as he was just making a slit to open the package. He even failed to cut it properly after several attempts.
After taking a deep breath, Yu Yu finally gathered his spirits. He exerted a little force with his hands and cut open the extremely thick broad leaf package. With a "ripping" sound, a bright red, extremely beautiful red color flashed before his eyes.
Hey, it doesn’t look like the car has overturned!
The big lobster wrapped in the wide leaves has been fully stewed and has a very beautiful red color. With a slight twist and pull at the connection between the lobster head and the lobster body, the snow-white and tempting lobster meat can be easily pulled out.
Yu Yu tried a bite out of concern, and found that it was stewed just right. The lobster meat was exceptionally smooth and refreshing, as if it had just been steamed. The success of the first experiment made Yu Yu's face show an uncontrollable joy.
Two large steamed lobsters were simply split in half, the shrimp threads were picked out, and then two dipping sauces were simply prepared. One was a lightly cooked and seasoned ginger soy sauce, and the other was a dipping sauce made by directly digging out the edible marrow from the heads of the two large lobsters, stirring it with minced ginger to slightly remove the fishy smell.
Finally, it was seafood fried rice that Yu Yu made with the remaining seafood. Shrimp and dried scallops were mixed in it, and bird eggs were beaten into the rice and fried. At the moment when the seafood fried rice was about to be served in the bowl, Yu Yu seemed to suddenly remember something, and excitedly opened another stewing pot that had been simmering from the beginning. Inside was abalone that had been stewed and the sauce had been absorbed.
Abalone sauce was poured on half of each person's fried rice, and an abalone was placed on top. Each member got one abalone. Although the abalone was not very big, just looking at such a table of food, everyone had only one thought in their mind:
Holy crap—holy crap! This meal is on par with a five-star hotel! Is this really desert island survival? It's a world away from the previous recordings. While the ingredients may not have been that abundant before, the food they get after Joel arrives isn't too bad. They can get half the amount. But how can they create a feeling of survival on the poverty line?
"You don't understand this, right? There's only one reason: they lack a jungle chef who can treat both the jungle and the ocean as his own food source!!"
"Hahaha, I agree with that. I absolutely agree. Just looking at it makes me want to go to a deserted island. Those big lobsters and other things are free. I'm so hungry—"
This meal was simply satisfying, and every dish was a top-notch jungle delicacy.
Especially the baked lobster, the sauce made from the shrimp marrow is indescribably delicious, and paired with the lobster meat that is cooked just right, with every bite, you can feel the shrimp meat fibers breaking in your mouth. The remaining shrimp sauce is even snatched up by people, poured into the fried rice and mixed with it, which can make you eat three full bowls of rice.
Steamed lobster is a good choice for people who prefer a lighter taste. Although it is not as strong in flavor as baked lobster, it is fresh, sweet and tender enough. After taking a bite, the lobster meat is sweet and the aftertaste lingers in your mouth for a long time.
But what is even more surprising is that the two home-cooked dishes, pan-fried fish belly and flavored fish fillets, are thought to be very ordinary, but after eating them, people find that they are unexpectedly delicious. There is no special preparation method, but the timing is well grasped, so that the pan-fried fish belly is not only not tough, but quite tender, and the flavored fish fillets are even more delicious.
Finally, slurp a bowl of warm, sweet and fresh papaya fish ball seafood soup to end the meal perfectly.
That night, except for a few big eaters, everyone else was basically full. As the saying goes, when you are full, you will think about... Pah, don't get me wrong, what I think about here is not that thing, but Zhou Gong. After cleaning up the leftovers, it was just dark and everyone couldn't help but feel sleepy.
So... after a while, a group of people who were usually very reserved and wanted to maintain their public image fell asleep in a daze without knowing when.
Director Zhang, who had originally planned to film his personal thoughts, just shook his head and laughed in annoyance. Never mind, maybe they were too tense before, and everyone relaxed all of a sudden after Yu Yu returned to the team. Never mind, just let them go this time.
Thinking of this, Director Zhang silently signaled to the assistant director beside him. The assistant director immediately understood, turned around and gestured for silence to the entire program crew, indicating that they should finish work early today and everyone should have a good rest at night.
Then, the netizens who were watching the show with great interest in front of their computers were caught off guard by another black screen. Oh, no, this time it wasn’t a completely black screen, but there was a sentence floating on it:
I’m sleepy. Good night. It’s very late. Today’s survival live broadcast will end early.
“…”
It's late? How late? On the deserted island, it's only a little after 8pm! Oh, this is too much, so willful, I'm just enjoying it.
The author has something to say: I thought I could write the second update, but I think too highly of myself. I owe it to you first~
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