What is Grouper? How to prepare the most delicious Grouper dish
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1. What is Grouper?
Groupers are fish of any of a number of genera in the subfamily Epinephelinae of the family Serranidae, in the order Perciformes.
Characteristics
This is an aggressive fish with a wide mouth, sharp teeth and a slanted mouth. The lower jaw of groupers often protrudes forward. Their body length is 3 to 3.5 times its height. The fish’s body is smooth, elongated towards the tail, and flat.
The fish’s skin has many different textures and patterns such as the head and body being light grey-green, or brown, or round dots of translucent brick red or dark brown extending from head to tail,…
For adult fish, they are usually about 50-75cm long and weigh about 12kg. This is a hermaphrodite species, they have the ability to change sex throughout their life cycle. They often start out as male, transitioning to female in the second half of their lives.
What is their food?
Grouper’s food is usually small sea creatures such as juvenile fish, shrimp, squid, plankton and they can even eat their own species at the juvenile stage when they are too hungry.
To hunt prey, they often ambush their prey with their large mouths. By opening their mouth wide, the prey will fit inside their mouth. They will use sharp iron teeth to hold their prey tightly but not kill the prey and swallow it alive.
Reproduction
Depending on the species and geographical region, they have different breeding times.
In Taiwan they usually breed from March to October
In China, they usually breed from April to October
In the Philippines and Vietnam, they can breed all year round
During the breeding season, they often gather in large flocks at a special location to breed. Usually, that place can be a coral reef, where there are strong currents, or they can congregate in estuaries where there is a lot of sand and mud.
Female grouper will lay large numbers of eggs in suitable places and take advantage of water currents to move the eggs to a safe place. During migration, the eggs will hatch into larvae and continue to float until they are large enough and can move in groups. Young fish can move fluently on their own when they are 3 years old.
Where do groupers live?
They are often distributed mainly in tropical and subtropical seas, especially in places with coral reefs and reefs. They also live commonly in warm waters of Asia – Pacific. In Vietnam, grouper fish are often distributed from the Gulf of Tonkin to the Gulf of Thailand, concentrated in the South Central provinces.
In the summer, they often live along the shore. In winter, they migrate to offshore areas. Groupers often live in rock holes, around beaches with coral reefs and at depths of 10-30m.
2. Delicious dishes made from grouper
Grouper porridge
This dish is very easy to eat and easy to cook. With simple ingredients such as grouper, rice, green beans, ginger… you will get a delicious, nutritious bowl of porridge. The taste of grouper porridge is delicious, fatty from green beans and warm, lightly fragrant from ginger.
This porridge often helps supplement nutrients for malnourished children, adults who have difficulty gaining weight, or people who often suffer from common diseases due to weather changes.
Grouper with Cucumber Salad and Soy-Mustard Dressing
A simple salad of julienned cucumbers and carrots tossed with a soy-mustard dressing makes this light fish dish incredibly vibrant. More Healthy Fish Recipes
Grilled grouper with lemon butter and grilled in foil
If you love rolled and wrapped dishes, don’t miss the grilled fish with lemon butter and foil. The meat of grouper is inherently sweet, baking in foil helps preserve the delicious taste of the meat.
As soon as the fish is grilled, put it on a plate and serve with raw vegetables, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers,… add a little rice paper and a cup of sweet and sour dipping sauce. Roll it up wherever you want and dip it until it’s sweet. of meat mixed with the freshness of raw vegetables, and the dipping sauce helps neutralize everything, there’s nothing better than sipping while chatting with your family.
Fresh lemon fish salad
Refresh the family menu with rare fish salad with lemon. With a method that doesn’t take too much time, the fish salad will have a beautiful color when finished.
The most important thing is the freshness of the fish meat. When you eat it, you will feel the natural sweetness. The sour lemon juice makes the fish dish no longer taste fishy.
Hopefully with the information An Tin Foods brings, you will know about Grouper.
An Tin Foods provides fresh seafood and pre-processed products, wild-caught seafood, Grouper is also on the list of wild-caught fish so it still has the nutrition and unique qualities of seafood from nature.
