Grass carp tastes better fed with fava beans
Grass carp tastes better fed with fava beans
2024-10-10
A fish farmer in Yunlin is known for his delicious harvest. 80-year-old Mr. Hsiao has experimented with novel, alternative fish feed, such as milk for eels and fava beans for grass carp. His method yields bigger and better-tasting fish that are quickly snapped up by discerning buyers.
A delicious smell wafts through the kitchen. It came from this simmering pot of fish stew. The grass carp used in this recipe came from an 80-year-old fish farmer in Yunlin’s Sihu Township. The farmer, Mr. Hsiao had recently harvested 400 of these grass carps that immediately got snapped up by discerning buyers. He’s known for his unconventional fish feeds: milk for eel, and fava beans for the grass carps.
The fava beans are soaked in a special brine until softened, around a whole day, then fed to the fish. Grass carps fed with these magic beans come out bigger and tastier. Word-of-mouth quickly spread among aficionados.
Mr. Hsiao
Fish farmer
The meat is chewier. Normally grass carp tastes mushy, doesn’t matter who farmed them, grass carp is mushy. Eating fava beans changes the meat texture.
Hsiao’s secret recipe is backed up by research. According to a researcher at the Fisheries Research Institute, his method is also used by grass carp farmers in China. Using fava beans as fish feed really does change the texture of the meat.
Voice of Chen Kuan-ju
Fisheries Research Institute
After feeding grass carps with fava beans, it changes how sugar and lipids are metabolized in the muscle. It makes the muscular fibers become denser quickly.
Although fava beans make grass carps more delicious, the cost is double that of conventional fish feed. It’ll take a while before this novel farming method can be scaled up.
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吃蠶豆長大的! 八旬翁養出草魚肉質Q彈
2024-10-10
雲林縣四湖鄉一名80歲蕭姓養殖業者，曾經用牛奶養出肥美鰻魚，這次再用蠶豆當飼料，飼養草魚，成功養出肉質脆又Q彈。第一批400尾，收成就被饕客秒殺。
直誇魚肉又脆又Q，熱鍋裡煮的魚湯，魚鮮讓魚湯呈現雪白，是來自雲林縣四湖鄉。一隻隻肥美的草魚，400尾收成就被饕客秒殺收購，是出自80歲的蕭先生之手。他曾用牛奶養出肥美的鰻魚，這次他又用蠶豆成功飼養出肥滋滋的草魚。
將蠶豆浸泡獨門秘方大約一天之後，豆子軟化再撒入魚塭餵養，養出口感極佳的大草魚，分享給親友後，饕客吃好逗相報。
[[草魚養殖業者 蕭先生]]
“吃起來會脆，還會彈口。一般草魚(肉質)爛爛的，我們台灣不管誰養殖的都一樣，草魚就是(肉質)爛爛的。吃蠶豆可以改變牠的肉質。”
蕭先生養出心得，水試所淡水養殖研究中心人員指出，蕭先生蠶豆養魚的方法與中國脆肉鯇的飼養方式雷同，蠶豆類當飼料，確實能改變魚的肉質。
[[聲源:水試所淡水養殖研究中心副研究員 陳冠如]]
“餵食蠶豆以後，對於草魚肌肉的一些糖代謝，或脂質的代謝會有一些變化，會讓牠的肌肉纖維快速增質。”
獨門加料泡軟蠶豆養出Q彈草魚，養殖成本比一般飼料要高出一倍，想要擴大養殖，還要再繼續研發著墨。
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