Xiancao Pavilion Private Dishes (Big Fish and Big Meat)--Twelfth Lunar Month (Sweet and Sour Wuchang Fish)

Overview

On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, today’s recipe is sweet and sour Wuchang fish. Fish is a must-have dish on the New Year’s Eve dinner table. It indicates good luck and abundance every year. Dear friends, Xiancao would like to give this to everyone as a gift. I hope that everyone’s life will be full of auspiciousness and good luck~~~~~

Tags

• hot dishes
• home cooking
• aged vinegar
• cooking wine
• garlic
• old soy sauce
• wuchang fish
• zanthoxylum bungeanum
• green onion
• salad oil salad oil
• salt salt
• white sugarwhite sugar

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 After Wuchang fish is cleaned, set aside;

   

2. 2 Spread salt evenly on both sides of the fish, stuff 5 peppercorns into the guts of the fish, pour in cooking wine, and marinate for 1.5-2 hours;

   

3. 3 After the fish is marinated, wipe off the water on the skin with paper towels and set aside;

   

4. 4 Spread starch (cornstarch) on both sides of the fish;

   

5. 5 Put 15g of salad oil in the oil pan, heat it to 90% heat, add the Wuchang fish coated with starch and fry;

   

6. 6 Fry the fish on both sides until golden brown and set aside;

   

7. 7 Cut green onions into sections, slice ginger, and dice garlic and set aside;

   

8. 8 Put oil in the pot, add onion, ginger and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant;

   

9. 9 Add fried Wuchang fish

   

10. 10 Add vinegar, white sugar and light soy sauce in a ratio of 2:2:1 to highlight the sweet and sour taste;

    

11. 11 After adding the seasonings, quickly cover the pot and simmer for 1-2 minutes, then turn to medium heat;

    

12. 12 Open the lid of the pot, turn the fish over, wait for 0.5-1 minutes, turn off the heat and serve on a plate;

    

13. 13 Sweet and sour Wuchang fish, outstanding sweet and sour taste, goes well with rice, satiates cravings, and is nutritious;