Spicy boiled fish

Overview

In fact, cooking boiled fish is not as difficult as we thought, but it requires some skills to fillet the fish. Practice makes perfect, after two or three calls you will be able to fillet the fish perfectly! I took a lot of photos of the steps of boiled fish, mainly to let everyone see how each step is done more clearly. After learning this dish, we can make spicy and satisfying boiled fish at home! Dried red peppers are divided into extra spicy, spicy, and mildly spicy. I chose slightly spicy dried red peppers. If the dried red peppers at home are extra spicy, reduce the amount of peppers. You can also add vine peppers and Sichuan peppercorns according to your own preferences!

Tags

• hot dishes
• appetizers
• home cooking
• common dishes
• meat dishes
• old man
• dinner with friends
• autumn recipes
• dinner
• cinnamon
• dried red chili pepper
• lilac
• liquor
• onion white
• rice wine
• star anise
• starch
• vine pepper
• zanthoxylum bungeanum
• fragrant leaves
• ginger
• grass carp
• vegetable oil

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 For a grass carp, the bigger the fish, the better. The bigger fish has thicker meat and the fillets will be more complete and beautiful!

   

2. 2 After slaughtering the grass carp, clean it, remove the head and tail, cut along the spine of the fish, and cut the fillets into two pieces.

   

3. 3 Then fillet the fish fillets.

   

4. 4 Filleted fish.

   

5. 5 In order to prevent the fish from sliding around and making it difficult to fillet the fish, you can place kitchen towels under the fish so that the fish does not slide back and forth, making it much easier to fillet the fish.

   

6. 6 Hold the knife in your right hand and press it on the fish meat with your left hand, and gently fillet the fish. The knife should be very sharp. Be careful not to cut your hand.

   

7. 7 The thinner the fish fillets, the better. Thinner fish fillets are tougher and will not break easily.

   

8. 8 Filled fish fillets should be washed 2-3 times with clean water to remove impurities on the fish. After the washed fish fillets are cooked, there will be less impurities in the soup.

   

9. 9 Put the washed fish fillets in a colander to drain the water, add 2 tablespoons of rice wine, 5 slices of ginger, 1 tablespoon of salt, a tablespoon of starch, and a section of green onion and marinate for 30 minutes. It is not recommended that you add egg white here. Adding egg white will make the soup turbid. Just add a spoonful of starch to tenderize the meat.

   

10. 10 Chop the fish head and fish ribs into pieces, clean them and remove any impurities.

    

11. 11 grams each of soybean sprouts and lettuce.

    

12. 12 grams of dried red pepper. Dried red peppers are divided into extra spicy, spicy, and mildly spicy. I chose slightly spicy dried red peppers. If the dried red peppers at home are extra spicy, reduce the amount of peppers. You can also add vine peppers and Sichuan peppercorns according to your own taste!

    

13. 13 grams each of Sichuan peppercorns and vine peppers. The color of Zanthoxylum bungeanum is more red, while the color of Vine pepper is more grass-green. Zanthoxylum bungeanum is fragrant and numb, and rattan pepper is slightly numb. Here, Sichuan peppercorns and vine peppers can also be added as appropriate according to personal taste.

    

14. 14 Put 700 grams of vegetable oil in a small pot. Add 15 grams of Sichuan peppercorns, 15 grams of vine pepper, 2 bay leaves, 3 star anise, a dozen cloves, and a piece of cinnamon to the cold oil. Slowly sauté over low heat for 5-8 minutes until fragrant.

    

15. 15 Then pour in 30 grams of dried red chili peppers, turn off the heat, and let the residual heat of the oil cook out the aroma and spiciness of the dried chili peppers!

    

16. 16 Turn off the heat and let the temperature of the oil drop slowly, then remove all the spices from the oil and throw them away.

    

17. 17 After cooling down, continue to add the remaining 5 grams of Sichuan peppercorns and 5 vine peppers, and sauté over low heat until fragrant.

    

18. 18 Add fish heads and fish steaks to cold water. After the water boils, add 2 and a half spoons of salt, 2 spoons of white wine, and 5 slices of ginger, cover and cook over low heat for 30 minutes.

    

19. 19 Blanch the soybean sprouts and lettuce and place them on the bottom of the bowl.

    

20. 20 Remove the cooked fish heads and fillets and place them on the dish.

    

21. 21 Add the fish fillets under the water where the fish heads and fish steaks are being cooked. Do not pour all the fish fillets into the pot at once. Turn on medium-low heat and put the fish fillets into the pot one by one. Don't turn on the fire the whole time.

    

22. 22 Take out the cooked fish fillets and put them in a large bowl. Pour some of the fish soup into the large bowl.

    

23. 23 Pour the remaining 30 grams of dried red pepper into the hot oil and turn off the heat without the pepper seeds.

    

24. 24 While hot, pour the chili pepper and Sichuan peppercorn pepper oil over the fish.