Greedy Frog

Overview

The gluttonous frog is a popular Sichuan dish. The frog cubs are fresh, smooth and tender, and cooked with more than 20 kinds of seasonings such as green peppercorns, dried chili peppers and green pickled peppers and pickled ginger brewed from mountain springs in Chongqing farmers. It is spicy and tender, fresh and delicious. The gluttonous frog has a spicy taste, tender meat, rich nutrition, and has the effects of diuresis, swelling and detoxification.

Tags

• hot dishes
• common dishes
• meat dishes
• old man
• dinner with friends
• autumn recipes
• winter recipes
• chongqing cuisine
• dinner
• bell pepper
• bullfrog
• cooking wine
• doubanjiang
• dried chili pepper
• ginger
• green onions
• loofah
• white sugar
• zanthoxylum bungeanum
• garlic
• salt

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Prepare materials.

   

2. 2 Kill the bullfrog, clean it, and chop it into small pieces. Set aside.

   

3. 3 Add moistened starch, salt and MSG to taste to the cut bullfrog, and marinate for 5 minutes.

   

4. 4 Prepare a pot of boiling water and blanch the marinated bullfrog.

   

5. 5 Peel the loofah and cut into strips 4 cm long, 2 cm wide and 1 cm thick.

   

6. 6 Prepare pickled peppers.

   

7. 7 Cut garlic cloves, ginger, and green onions into sections and set aside.

   

8. 8 Heat oil in a pot until it is 70% hot. Add garlic cloves, ginger and green onions and stir-fry over medium heat until fragrant.

   

9. 9 Add bean paste, pickled peppers, dried chili peppers, and Sichuan peppercorns and stir-fry over medium heat for 1 minute. Add sugar, cooking wine, and chicken essence and stir-fry over low heat for about 3 minutes.

   

10. 10 Add fresh soup and bring to a boil, add luffa and bullfrog, cook over low heat and set aside.

    

11. 11 Add oil to another pot and fry the Sichuan peppercorns and chili peppers until fragrant.

    

12. 12 Pour hot oil on the fried bullfrog.