How to peel shrimp tails

When the crayfish production season arrives, it is as if you can see many delicious crayfish jumping in your eyes, tempting people's taste buds. Crayfish has an excellent taste and high nutritional value. Its protein content is higher than many meat ingredients, and its fat content is only 0.02%. But many people have a headache about dealing with crayfish. So, how do you peel shrimp tails?

First, how to peel the shrimp tail ? Due to the structure of the shrimp's own shell, peeling the shrimp shell is always a troublesome task. If you are not careful, the shrimp meat will be broken. Moreover, the shell of the shrimp tail is very strong. Usually, after peeling for a long time, the shrimp meat at the tail is still broken in the shell. Twist the shrimp claws open along the joint at the end, peel off the claws, and eat the meat inside. Hold the shrimp body with one hand and the shrimp head with the other hand, and gently twist it to separate the shrimp head from the body. The shrimp roe at the shrimp head is the most valuable part of the shrimp. Just bite the position shown in the picture below and you can eat the delicious shrimp roe. After eating the roe on the shrimp head, eat the shrimp tail. Twist the shrimp tail, peel it open along the belly and pull out the shrimp meat.

Second, to judge whether the crayfish is clean or not , you should mainly look at whether the gills are white enough. Because gills are the respiratory organs of crayfish, impurities in the water must be filtered through the gills. The gills of shrimps raised in shallow waters will turn black because there are more impurities in the water, and only shrimps raised in deep lakes will have clean gills.

How to peel a shrimp tail ? In fact, if you want to peel a complete shrimp meat with a tail, you only need a simple operation to do it. That is to first break the sharp hard shell in the middle of the shrimp tail in reverse, and then pinch the other two soft wings of the tail and pull back, you can pull out the meat in the shrimp tail completely. This method is basically applicable to ordinary shrimps and crayfish, but the shell of crayfish is harder, so there are skills to peeling out the crayfish meat and removing the shell. The first step is to break the connection between the body and the shrimp head. Then press the meat inside the shrimp body to separate the meat from the shell. Then continue to twist the shrimp body forward to squeeze it and break off the shrimp head. Finally, after removing the hard shell on the shrimp tail, pull off the shell of the entire shrimp body to get the complete crayfish meat.

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