【Jiangsu】Spicy and sour salted fish with boiled peanuts

Overview

My mother knows that I like to eat salted fish from my hometown. She pickles some big fish every winter and can eat it when I go home during the Chinese New Year. This year, we used white fish from the Huaihe River to pickle and dry. This white fish is nearly 1 meter long and is really rare to see. It tastes delicious when cooked, and is full of mother's love. It's salty, spicy and refreshing, making you want to eat two more bowls of rice.

Tags

• hot dishes
• home cooking
• cooking wine
• dried red pepper
• hangzhou pepper
• old soy sauce
• onions
• peanuts
• vinegar
• ginger
• salted fish

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Have ingredients ready.

   

2. 2 Chop the salted fish into pieces.

   

3. 3 Add water and soak until soft, which will also remove some salt.

   

4. 4 Wash and cut the ingredients, and soak the peanuts in water for half an hour to make them easier to cook.

   

5. 5 Drain the water from the soaked fish pieces and fry in a pan until both sides are golden brown.

   

6. 6 Push the fish aside, add onion, ginger and chili and grill over low heat until fragrant.

   

7. 7 Add dark soy sauce, vinegar and cooking wine.

   

8. 8 Add horizontal fish pieces, bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to low heat and simmer for 10 minutes.

   

9. 9 Add soaked peanuts and cook until peanuts are cooked.

   

10. 10 Add the chili pepper, season, and it’s ready to go!

    

11. 11 It's salty, spicy and refreshing, and I can't help but eat an extra bowl of rice.

    

12. 12 So spicy! Tasty enough!

    

13. 13 The more I eat, the more I want to eat.