When it comes to Sichuan cuisine, boiled fish and sauerkraut fish are definitely topics that cannot be avoided. These two mouth-watering dishes, whether they are mouth-watering boiled fish or salty and sour sauerkraut fish, are inseparable from two main fish ingredients – grass carp and black fish.
Grass carp and black fish are both representatives of freshwater fish, and their flesh is tender and firm, full of elasticity. It is because of this delicious taste that grass carp and black fish have become the preferred ingredients when making fish fillets for boiling.
Through skillful knife work, the fish fillet is thin and wide, maintaining both a soft texture and a chewy elasticity. Moreover, the prices of grass carp and black fish are relatively affordable. In restaurants, these two freshwater fish are almost standard for making boiled fish and sauerkraut fish.
Having said all this, everyone must think that grass carp and black fish must be used to make boiled fish or pickled cabbage fish. In fact, there is a kind of marine fish, which is used to make boiled fish, which is really smooth and tender.
It is mullet, although mullet is even disliked by people on the seaside, but it is used to make boiled fish, and the taste is smoother and more tender than that of black fish and grass carp.
Freshwater blackfish is also called mullet, but it is not the same as this kind of mullet in the sea. Sea mullet has a strong seay smell, so many people don't like to eat it. But the value of mullet is very high, its mullet roe is a very precious ingredient, and its gizzard is also a very delicious ingredient. But its fish is not loved, and it is usually fed to cats and dogs, which is really a waste.
However, by chance, coastal people found that it is somewhat similar to grass carp, both in terms of body shape and taste of fish, and the meat quality is more tender and delicious than grass carp. Therefore, making boiled fish and sauerkraut fish with sea mullet is more delicious and delicious than grass carp and black fish.
Sea mullet is cheap, if you come across this fish in the vegetable market, don't miss it, buy one, and go home to teach you how to make sauerkraut fish.
Here's how to make sauerkraut slices:
Prepare ingredients and seasonings: 1 mullet, green onions, ginger and garlic, dried chilies, 0 egg whites, 0 tablespoons of starch, salt, pepper, sugar, soy sauce, 0 tablespoons of Pixian bean paste, 0 tablespoons of chili noodles, cooking oil.
Method:
Handle the mullet, then slice it with a knife, wash it, drain it and set aside.
Add a spoonful of salt and pepper to the fish and grasp it well to make it sticky. Then add 1 egg whites, add 0 tablespoons of starch, grasp and coat well.
Stir-fry the oil, add the ginger and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant, and then add the sauerkraut to stir-fry until fragrant.
Then pour in boiling water, add sauerkraut seasoning packet to taste, and simmer for 2 minutes. Then remove the sauerkraut and put it in a bowl.
Finally, put in the marinated fish fillet, cook over medium-low heat, cook for three to five minutes, and then it is ready to cook.
Put it in a bowl after cooking, add some dried chilies, green onions, garlic and white sesame seeds, and then drizzle some hot oil to stimulate the fragrance.
Proofread by Zhuang Wu