Seeing consumption before the festival ｜ Xinjiang： ＂Queen of cold water fish＂ high white salmon is put on the holiday table.

CCTV News:In Sailimu Lake, Bozhou, Xinjiang, there is a kind of high white salmon called "Queen of Cold Water Fish" by local people. It grows in a water depth of 20 to 30 meters, and its annual catch is only about 350 kilograms. Near the Spring Festival, the "one fish, three meals" of high white salmon was brought to the table of local people.

Every January, 80% of the area of Sailimu Lake is frozen and frozen. When there are fishermen on the lake, they begin to cut ice and lower the net. High whitebait is a cold-water fish, which adapts to the natural environment of Sailimu Lake and mainly eats plankton in the lake. A growth cycle usually takes three years.

In a farmhouse in Zalmute Township, Wenquan County, Xinjiang, the chef is busy, preparing to bring a table of "one fish and three meals" to tourists.

Ba Ba Yin Di Li Ge, a farmhouse chef in Wenquan County, Xinjiang:The scales of this fish are very few, and the meat is tender, so be sure to pay attention when cutting.

After cutting the fish, the next step is steaming, making soup and making sashimi in turn. Steaming high-white salmon is to cut it into fish strips one finger wide, add onion, ginger and garlic, and steam it for about 6 minutes. The high-white salmon just brought out of the steamer is bright in color and fragrant. The second way is to stew the soup. First, stir-fry the bone-chilling scraps with hot oil, then pour them into water for 7 to 8 minutes. The freshly boiled fish soup is milky white, and its nutritional value is concentrated in such a steaming soup. The third way is to sashimi sashimi, and put the sashimi evenly on the lemon slices. In this way, "one fish and three meals" will all be served.

Adina, a resident of Wenquan County, Bozhou, Xinjiang:There are steamed, sashimi and fish soup, which are all very delicious. For example, drinking fish soup in winter is also very warm.