【Tianjin】Yellow croaker braised tofu

Overview

Jiuhe Xiashao Tianjin Wei is very rich in both river and sea fresh food. Tianjin is also a place where foodies gather. In the past, there was a saying that eating seafood was not a bad thing, which shows that Tianjin people love seafood. Tianjin people are particularly particular about the season when eating fresh food from rivers and seas. I remember when I was a child, my grandma and grandpa always told me that they eat yellow croaker in spring, sole during the summer months, crabs are the fattest in autumn, and leeks and iron sparrows are available in winter. But when I was a child, it was already a supply system, and everything needed to be bought with a ticket. I have only heard that my grandma and grandpa used to eat good food. I heard that my grandma’s house used to fry a big pot of fried prawns and buy yellow croaker in a small wooden pot. Moreover, old Tianjin Wei people like my grandpa’s family are very keen on flat fish, sole, bighead carp and yellow croaker. When I was a kid, my mouth watered when I heard it. Although the market is very plentiful now, and fish and shrimp are not rare, they are all farmed. They were incomparable to the wild ones in the past. A reporter from the TV station interviewed the seafood market two days ago. They said that truly wild yellow croakers are rare. A wild yellow croaker weighing about one pound would cost at least 700 to 800 yuan per pound. Moreover, it is not available every day. It is rare to find. Today I will cook an old Tianjin dish. My grandma told me about the yellow croaker braised tofu, but the one I bought was not authentic yellow croaker, so let’s make it with this yellow croaker instead! When cleaning croaker, chopsticks are inserted into the fish's mouth or gills to remove the fish intestines so as not to break its shape.

Tags

• hot dishes
• home cooking
• aniseed
• chives
• cooking wine
• garlic
• onions
• tofu
• vinegar
• white sugar
• yellow croaker
• dry flour
• ginger
• salt
• soy sauce

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Main raw materials.

   

2. 2 Insert chopsticks through the gills of the fish, stir out the fish intestines, remove the scales and wash them.

   

3. 3 Prepare onions, ginger and garlic.

   

4. 4 Cut the tofu into triangles and cut the leeks into sections.

   

5. 5 Dip the croaker in dry flour and fry in oil until both sides turn brown.

   

6. 6 Add onion, ginger, garlic, aniseed, soy sauce, cooking wine, a little vinegar, sugar, a little salt, add water, and add tofu.

   

7. 7 Turn up the heat and simmer over medium-low heat for about ten minutes.

   

8. 8 Collect the thick soup and sprinkle the leek segments before serving.

   

9. 9 Croaker braised tofu.