Three key steps to easily stew crucian carp soup with thick soup, bright color and white milk.

Prepare ingredients: crucian carp 1 strip, 2 slices of ginger, and appropriate amount of salt.

Note:

1, fresh crucian carp live fish are slaughtered, the membrane in the belly of the fish is cleaned and rinsed.

2, the fish should be fried in medium and high fire, and then add water to stew.

3, stew soup before 10 minutes to keep the fire boiling, remember the fire out of thick soup, small fire stew clear soup.

Steps-

1, now kill a fresh crucian carp, the fish must be fresh, so as not to smell fishy; When buying fish, ask the boss to clean it up for you, remove scales and gills, and open your stomach and clear your intestines; When you get home, you must clean the black film in the fish belly. The store didn't have time to deal with it so carefully. Wash the fish with water several times, and then use a clean cloth or kitchen paper towel to absorb the water on the surface of the fish.

2. After the fish is dried, gently pat a layer of dry starch on the surface, and a thin layer is enough, not much; Put oil in the pan, heat the fish and fry it in the pan. When frying, use medium fire or medium fire. First, the fish will set quickly, and second, it will help the soup become thick and white.

3. After frying the fish on both sides, pour boiling water into the pot, put two pieces of ginger and open a big fire; Just put two pieces of ginger, and you don't need to put any cooking wine, star anise and other ingredients. Too much material will mask the umami taste of fish soup. You can put a little more water, taking into account the evaporation of water during the boiling of fish soup.

4, the fire makes the fish soup boil, and the crucian carp soup can be stewed in about 25 minutes. Before 10 minutes, the fire must be turned on to keep the fish soup boiling; Remember that big fire produces thick soup, and small fire stews clear soup, and big fire soup will turn milky white.

5. Cook on high fire for 10 minute, and the soup color has become as milky as milk. At this time, you can cover the pot and stew on low fire for 10 minute.

6. It can be seen that the water has evaporated a lot. Add salt to adjust the salinity and stew for another 5 minutes.

7. After cooking, you can put some parsley if you like the taste of parsley, and you can put some chopped green onion if you don't like parsley.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-crucian carp soup